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The Skylight is part netbook, part smartphone, and I’m pretty sure I could throw it 50 yards. The real question is if that makes it a game-changer or a novelty act. The look and feel are certainly novel, if not novelty. The Skylight has an ultrathin clamshell design and weighs less than two pounds—it feels…
I wouldn’t ask, if it weren’t for Google’s Nexus One support forums overflowing with complaints. Ours are pretty patchy with 3G too—so what’s going on? The complaints center around the phone constantly switching between 3G and Edge networks in areas that should have full 3G coverage, getting poor 3G coverage in general, or more often,…
The $199 Freescale Smartbook Tablet reference design was supposed to be the tablet design that OEMs could easily use to get a product to market fast and cheap. Maybe, but that doesn’t mean it’s very usable. https://gizmodo.com/freescales-199-smartbook-tablet-design-means-tablets-f-5439215 It has all the requisite hardware to be a powerful portable device: 7-inch touchscreen (resistive, unfortunately, to keep…
We traveled to the desert wilds of Vegas, to watch ioSafe literally GO CRAZY in their thirst to prove that their Solo SSDs are tougher than Rambo. It survived being set fire to, drowned and crushed under 25t of weight. https://gizmodo.com/iosafe-solo-external-ssd-is-apocalypse-safe-5440017 Not sure our lungs will survive though, after breathing in all those toxic fumes…
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Just like the Droid before it, the Nexus One’s European version has perfect, glorious pinch-to-zoom multitouch. Why does Google hate America? We’ll never know. But seeing as how the Droid was hacked to run its Euro counterpart’s firmware in about two weeks, there’s a fair chance that you’ll be able to do the same thing…
Click to viewIn this video, shown before Ballmer took the stage at last night’s keynote, SNL head writer and Weekend Update host Seth Meyers introduced him with this little video about all the ways technology has, uh, improved our lives. [CNET] https://gizmodo.com/steve-ballmers-microsoft-ces-keynote-everything-hes-go-5442115
Falling somewhere from a division of ASUS, PEGA has created this inflatable lamp concept which uses a pump to increase the size of the light. It’s called ‘Pumplight,’ aptly nough, and the more you pump it, the larger the balloon, and the brighter the light. Opening the air valve lets the air out, and turns…
The Best Buy Geek Squad’s PC and Mac optimization services are worse than a bad deal, since they can actually make your new computer slower. Apparently Best Buy heard our heckling: bullshit optimization is on its way out. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-optimization-is-officially-a-huge-evil-scam-5439590 A tipster sent us this memo, which outlines Best Buy’s new Best Buy Installer Software, which…
It’s about as useful as this thing, but that didn’t stop a group of creative young individuals from coming up with a system that exposes fraudulent handshakes. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-build-the-worlds-most-useless-machine-5437930 We ironed on conductive fabric pads on different parts of the gloves, and read them off like a multiplexed keypad. The pads on one glove are the…
We might complain about the amount of work we do here at CES, but nothing puts life in perspective like a man forced to soberly sing karaoke in the wilds of south hall all day long. Stay strong, karaoke man.
And they want you to join the Alienware scavenger hunt. Contest starts today and ends at midnight CST on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Click here for your first clue, and you could win an Alienware M11 Gaming System. They’re here…
Wireless power has gone from lab prototype to working product in a little over 18 months, and Haier stuck MIT’s WiTricity into a TV along with WHDI wireless video for complete wirelessness. Complete. Wireless. Ness. Sure, there’s a big power unit on the wall, radiating (totally harmless) RF into the back of the TV, which…
Ford Sync-equipped cars will soon get apps, but not in the way you’d expect: instead of running on the Sync platform, they’re simply controlled by it. The actual app—like Pandora, seen here—runs on your smartphone. https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-vehicle-apps-are-you-guessed-it-on-the-ip-5432592 The forthcoming Sync development kit, then, isn’t for developers to write new apps for Sync, but to give them…
The brushed-aluminum LED-lit C9000 is not just the handsomest slender TV at the show, it comes with the most innovative Wi-Fi remote control—one that looks suspiciously like an iPhone and feels suspiciously like a Samsung phone. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-led-lcd-hdtv-lineup-the-c9000-does-3d-and-has-5441310 Why a Wi-Fi video remote? So you can watch a Blu-ray on your TV while checking out the…
The Pixi got even fewer upgrades than the Pre, if that’s possible. The Pixi Plus now has Wi-Fi—which worked well when I tried it out—but the main draw to the Plus is the super-colorful cases. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-first-hands-on-super-fast-button-remova-5442977 They’re TouchStone charging-compatible cases, which is a nice addition, but like I said with the Pre Plus it just…
The Samsung IceTouch seems odd with its AMOLED touchscreen and rubbery-looking bottom half, but it’s fun to use and designed to keep your fingers from getting stiff while handling it. Ok, and the transparent display is just plain awesome. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-icetouch-pmp-has-a-transparent-amoled-screen-w-5439351 Basically, the IceTouch is a pretty standard PMP except it has a nifty AMOLED screen…
We are in a posting frenzy so peep these deals before they’re run off the page. There’s a huge price drop for the HP Envy Core i5, a Mel Brooks classic, and an app that lets you be the Gunman. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5430014 Top Deals: • 15.6″ HP ENVY Core i5 Laptop for $1,299 with free shipping…
Jon Rubinstein dropped the news only minutes ago that the new Palm devices—the slightly-upgraded Pre Plus and Pixi Plus—would be arriving on Verizon later this month. I got some hands-on time with them, and while the Pre Plus has had the navigational button removed, little else has been touched aesthetically. The inductive TouchStone back comes…
Sources tell TechCrunch that HP’s new tablet—seen here in the proud grasp of one Steve Ballmer, with Windows—could come with Android, too. Is it wrong that I’m way, way more excited about that version? No. No it’s not. https://gizmodo.com/hps-windows-7-slate-device-revealed-by-steve-ballmer-5442200 And HP tablet with Windows seven will probably be one of two things: a raw Windows…