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Given their long and storied feud, you would think Captain Ahab would have a better chance than Apple of being accepted by Greenpeace. Believe it or not, the impossible has actually happened. Indeed, Greenpeace has ranked Apple highest on the list of eco-conscious tech companies. In fact, they got a perfect score thanks to their…
So MSI apparently has no plans to actually release this dual-screen, Windows 7 tablet, but I stopped by the booth to play around with it anyway. It’s pretty impractical, but hey! Two screens! Update: It’s now in development. https://gizmodo.com/msi-prepping-dual-screen-nvidia-powered-ereader-and-a-5439654 Click to view It’s clearly not meant for actual release—the touchscreen was very temperamental, the device…
Biosphere 2 (the biosphere, not the non-existent movie sequel) was the largest sealed environment ever created. It cost $200 million to build and included a million-gallon fake ocean. Now, its wild interior has taken over. The Biosphere was a bit of a disaster, as detailed by the New York Times back in 1992: Scientists ridiculed…
Thanks, Geek Squad, for basically writing the headline for our next story on your borderline fraudulent “optimization” scams! Spotted in in the CES Press room, of all places. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-mac-optimization-makes-its-normal-optimizatio-5440510
The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus can hook up five Wi-Fi devices to the net, over 3G, after using the Mobile HotSpot app. That means you can use the two phones as a MiFi hotspot.
The Palm Pre plus removed the navigation button, has 2x internal RAM, 16GB storage, and a built-in inductive back cover for Touchstone inductive charging. The Pixi Plus is still “thin and lightweight”, but now has Wi-Fi, more colors for back covers (all Touchstone enabled). And both these phones are only for Verizon. A new mobile…
Like Android, which is still waiting for Flash 10 to arrive, Palm’s showing off Flash 10 right now. It’s a bit chunky and fuzzy demoed with a Yahoo movie trailer, but they say the plugin download is coming “soon”.
PopSci got an exclusive look into how Microsoft is creating a learning brain inside Project Natal to figure out just where your body is in front of your TV. It’s impressive, to say the least. Rather than programming by hand a way for the built-in computer in Natal to detect the thousands of ways the…
My first thought watching Skype be demonstrated on a 55″ Panasonic Viera Cast TV was that it’s going to be incredibly useful—though a bit laggy—way to keep in touch with family and friends. My second: Ac-TING! Skype 4.2 on TV really is a natural fit, even if the Panasonic Repertory Company using it are a…
It’s coming to both the Pre and Pixi in February, over software update. No new hardware is required. It also has an upload-to-YouTube feature.
We’re not sure, but it looks like the Pre, but it has no front button, and has different stuff on the side. It could just be a developer version of the Pre, though. Update: Confirmed, yes. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-and-palm-pixi-plus-are-coming-to-verizon-5442913
The PDK is being released in March at the Game Developer Conference, and they’ve been working with gameloft, EA mobile, Glu and some more game companies. They’re available starting today, in the Palm store. Updating Now EA is demoing Sims 3 on screen. It looks exactly like the Sims 3 game on the iPhone, and…
Ask any Polaroid fan about their mood swings in the past 12 months, and I bet it’d go something like this: oh no, Polaroid is doomed. Oh yay, it got bought. Oh no, that fell through. And so on. Thankfully all looks good again—except for the fact that Lady Gaga has been hired as their…
Here’s a sight to behold: two gigantic, 2x HD screens in the Intel booth showing hundreds of realtime web stories in undulating 3D. The entire setup is apparently powered by a single i7 processor, and it’s easy to see how you could shrink an application like this down for use on oh, say, a tablet…
In an ongoing quest to bring you news about the guts of your next gadgets, here’s some riveting stuff about accelerometers. Remember when they first burst onto the scene? How much fun we had tilting out phones? Yeah, that. Anyway, STMicroelectronics is one of the big suppliers, and has just shed some details on a…
It’s a left-field product: a touchscreen smartphone with totally new software, which will have to fend for itself among well-established giants. Conventional wisdom would say it’s doomed, and conventional wisdom may be right. But damnit, I really like the Emblaze. https://gizmodo.com/else-intuition-the-surprisingly-not-sad-fate-of-palm-o-5388566 The software’s the star here, but here’s a quick refresher on the hardware, built…
Here are some Palm stats. 85,000 SDK Downloads, 108 countries, and 20,000 registrations for Project Aries online development environment. But yes, they’re opening it up to the public today. Updating Every developer can submit their app to Palm for distribution in Palm’s 7 markets. Today, Palm has 1000 applications. Palm’s also making a system where…
Going to be posting lots of news in a second. Like a Verizon webOS phone, probably. https://gizmodo.com/palms-about-to-announce-a-verizon-webos-phone-probably-5442797
The Wind Top AE2420 is the first all-in-one to house Intel’s new Core i3/i5 series processor. Combine that with the 23.6-inch 1080p monitor, 5.1 audio, multitouch screen, and Radeon HD 5000 series graphics controller and you’ve got yourself a warhorse. The Wind Top is a serious machine. You want ports? It’s got six USB 2.0,…
Now you can capture your reaction to that hilarious stunt you plan to post on YouTube with the handheld Twin Video camera from Ion Audio. That’s right, it has two lenses—one of which brings the filmmaker into the action. The cameras can be independently controlled in picture swapping, picture in picture and split screen modes.…
