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CES, gadgets like this are why I love you. CES, gadgets like this are why I hate you. https://gizmodo.com/itype-keyboard-from-ion-for-your-iphone-is-full-sized-5443714 The Ion iType keyboard is pretty self-explanatory, which means you already know if you think it’s a stupid idea, or a brilliant idea. If your’e conflicted, here’s a hint: it can be both. The keyboard is…
I told you what I thought of the Dell Mini 5, but let’s face it, you really don’t care. You just want to check it out in action. So enjoy this quick look at Dell’s Android interface, which we just updated our hands on post with. https://gizmodo.com/first-hands-on-and-video-dell-mini-5-android-slate-5443837
Dell is bringing their Android cellphone to the US and calling it the Mini 3. I got to grope it for a few moments amongst other media-folk. https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-first-android-phones-five-from-motorola-dell-an-5441632 In the hand, it doesn’t feel nearly as solid as the Nexus One—it’s more like a hollow-feeling plastic than most of the smartphones on the market. Dell,…
Imagination Technologies, which was responsible for the PowerVR SGX GPU chip in the iPhone 3GS, just announced the next version in the same line. Hence, this might be the next-gen iPhone GPU. And it’s a nice chip. The PowerVR SGX545 (iPhone 3GS had the SGX535) has OpenGL 3.2 and Open CL 1.0 support, runs at…
Improvements to the iPhone’s camera are pretty much inevitable for the next iteration, and it looks like Apple may be looking for mass quantities of LED flash components to improve low-light shooting. The rumor points to Philips’ LumiLEDs line for the contract, thought to be in the tens of millions of units. The flash would…
Yesterday, we saw Dell’s Slate concept for the first time. Today, we got to actually play with it. And it’s called the Mini 5. (Btw, if you want to read yesterday’s stories on the slate, check here.) https://gizmodo.com/dells-slate-concept-looks-just-like-a-big-ipod-touch-5442718 Specs that we know: custom Android, SIM (it makes calls), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. And the 5-inch screen supports…
After looking at this FBI Cybersquad image last week, I’m not surprised to hear that crappy government software that can’t account for misspellings was the main reason why the underwear bomber was able to get on a Northwest Airlines flight. https://gizmodo.com/fox-news-to-fbi-cybersquad-get-in-front-of-some-high-t-5437166 Mr. Abdulmutallab possessed a U.S. visa, but this fact was not correlated with the…
Mercury News found that Apple’s going to kill its downtown Palo Alto store and build a crazy one one block over. Essentially, it’s the California equivalent of a transparent NY cube, which means it has trees inside. The architectural firm responsible for the skylights that will feed the trees inside is the same one that…
Samsung showed off some LTE-equipped cameras, MIDs, and photo frames which will beam your media around over Verizon’s 4G network. This could mean having images show up on your photoframe as you shoot them, and allow for plenty of humiliation. I mean, having things transferred almost instantly like that is bound to lead to some…
Kuo Design has rounded up an impressive collection of magazine covers bearing Jobs’s face. Watch him as he loses hair; puts on weight, loses weight; has a brief flirtation with a bow tie, moustache, Sheryl Crow. Poor guy. Is that…is that a bow tie Jobs is wearing there? The Full House parody. Jobs went through…
Can the most useless gadget company in the history of shopping justify their new incarnation?
Vuzix can make glasses with built in stereoscopic cameras that can seamlessly blend computer-generated imagery and your real world environment together, but they can’t make them look cool? Of course, it doesn’t seem like anyone in the business of high tech eyewear has any sense of style. Apparently, they all want us walking around looking…
February is a month of wintery misery. But also Mobile World Congress! Where, according to Microsoft Mobile Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach, we should probably expect to see Windows Mobile 7 for the first time. The slip, if you could call it that, came in two parts. First, on the invite for MWC:…
At a Dell roundtable today, they’ve revealed they “can” and they “may” sell an unlocked Mini 3 free from AT&T, and that unlocked phones was something they’d “definitely experiment with” into the future. https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-first-android-phones-five-from-motorola-dell-an-5441632
Ultraportables and netbooks with an optical drive are a rare breed. But Gateway did manage to cram a DVD drive into their 11.6-inch EC14D while keeping the overall weight at about 3.5 pounds. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-getting-an-optical-drive-5186947 Beside the optical drive, the EC14D features a 1.3GHz Intel Ultra Low Voltage processor, 320GB HDD, up to 8GB of RAM,…
I’m not just sure how practical this is, but ION has just announced details of its iType keyboard, a full-sized, battery-operated keyboard. Available in the second quarter of 2010, there’s no price as yet. Or whether it’s wireless or not. [Slashgear]
San Andreas fault fans, there’s a new TED in town. The United States Geological Survey has developed the Twitter Earthquake Detection project, in an attempt to improve its handling of those natural disasters when they hit across the U.S. The USGSted project relies firstly on an application programming interface that collates tweets with earthquake-related keywords.…
On Haier’s stand at CES they’re displaying some innovative wireless TVs. Helping breed innovation amongst the stand-goers, they’ve also got a wall asking people to “share your ideas.” Let’s hope the following ideas came from contained Vegas locals, at least. https://gizmodo.com/haiers-completely-wireless-tv-hands-on-no-cables-for-v-5443037 What, you mean like 3D TV? Did you even PAY ATTENTION when you walked…
Digital photo frames? Errrrrrrrm, MEH. Casio’s Digital Art Frame, however, I could almost write a QVC script for. It takes your own digital photos and transforms them into paintings – well, it turns them into digital images with special effects. There are, apparently, eight art form effects, including oils, pastels and watercolors, and the frame…
Chapter 8 of Arthur C. Clarke‘s 1986 book July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century describes what the year 2019 holds for popular media such as TV, music and movies. Some predictions, like a mass medium that plugs directly into the human brain, may not be a reality by 2019 (Clarke writes about demand…
