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The new, native news widget. The native, location-aware weather widget. The app launcher is revamped so that it isn’t a drag-and-pull menu, but instead you press the button and the icons zoom into place, kind of in a scrollwheel. (Though it’s hard to tell from this shot.) Live wallpapers, which you can interact with. Every…
These Klipsch LightSpeakers may be ugly as sin, but the idea of having speakers and LED lights in the same light bulb unit should appeal to haters of wires and unnecessary gadgetry. The LED light bulb fits 5 and 6-inch light fixtures and is completely dimmable, meaning you can replace the usual bulbs you use…
Nexus One Liveblog Archive 8:22 pm ON Jan 4 2010 Jason Chen: Google’s Nexus One. The Google Phone. It’s being unveiled officially Tuesday, January 5 at 10AM Pacific (1PM Eastern). We’ll be here. You should too. Check in bright and early to see what’s coming, and see whether the leaked pricing details are really true,…
If I had $1,000,000 I would buy 10,000 of these Marvell Plug Computer 3.0, with a 2GHz Armada 300 CPU, Wi-Fi, and Linux 2.6, and build myself a supercomputer. It’s either that or cocktails. Sadly, it’s not oriented to consumers, but to the integration and development of new devices. So that’s it, fate has chosen…
Since launch, Android has descended into a confusing soup of hardware manufacturers, carriers and software versions, while Google has watched, helplessly. Starting today, they’re taking Android back: Google’s selling Android phones through a unified store, starting with the Nexus One. https://gizmodo.com/google-nexus-one-hands-on-5432678 Aside from the best-in-class hardware, the potential for newness with the Nexus One (hands-on…
Shockingly enough, analyst Maynard J. Um “expects” a new iPhone launching in mid-2010. See, this guy is so smart that we must trust him when he says that he “believes” that a CDMA-based iPhone is coming from Verizon, right? RIGHT? We believe a CDMA-iPhone is also in the works, though believe Verizon Wireless and Apple…
Sorry guys, Google’s not changing the game today: the Nexus One will be priced like any other smartphone: $180 on contract with T-Mobile, $530 unlocked, both available through Google’s online store. It’s what we’d heard, if not what we’d dreamt. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-nexus-one-documents-530-unlocked-180-with-t-5436673 Buying the phone on contract with T-Mobile is exactly like buying any other smartphone…
The Nexus One is here, and it brings gifts: Google Earth, a fantastic app that was inexplicably released for the iPhone before its parent company’s mobile OS, is coming to the App Market. So how is it better than Google Earth on the iPhone? Voice search. Just say where you want to go. And we’re…
Well now, this certainly puts my fiance’s restaurant proposal to shame. Boy Derick proposed to girl Emily using a spotlight, DSLR and three nights, creating a spectacular light writing proposal. Along with several friends, two Canon 7D cameras were used by Derick to create the proposal—one on the ground, one from a hotel room looking…
Light Blue Optics has been showing off their cool projection wares since 2004, so it’s great to hear they’re close to turning that “holographic laser projection technology” into a viable product, albeit as an OEM. https://gizmodo.com/tiny-projectors-hologram-and-lasers-not-smoke-and-mir-17049 The Light Touch pico projector throws a laser WVGA image out to the size of 10-inches, turning any available…
Hint: it’s not from space and it’s not from inside your body. But it does represent something you’re totally reliant on. It’s an electrograph of a brass wire gauge, made in 1900 to help show the wary public that electricity didn’t come in just the form of tree-felling and fire-starting lightning. Scientists needed to prove…
Google’s Nexus One: The Google Phone. It’s being unveiled officially right now. We’re here. Here’s our liveblog page. Check in bright and early to see what’s coming, and see whether the leaked pricing details are really true, and whether anything’s changed since our first hands on back in December. [Liveblog Page] https://gizmodo.com/leaked-nexus-one-documents-530-unlocked-180-with-t-5436673 Watch it live…
Nvidia’s teasing a new notebook tech called Optimus that “get[s] the performance of discrete graphics from a notebook while still delivering great battery life.” Which could solve the mystery of the next MacBook guts. https://gizmodo.com/whats-inside-the-next-macbooks-5436465 A brief recap: Intel’s new Arrandale Core i5 processors for notebooks have integrated graphics built right into the chip, but…
I can’t wait to get my nails over one of these absurdly small 64GB USB drives. They come in 8 to 64GB, and will continuously backup your files, no matter what you are doing. [Crunchgear]
iRiver’s Story eReader has taken its sweet time making a stateside appearance, and as of today, it’s still not here. But it’s coming! Sometime in January, to be “specific.” But will it be as comically expensive as its European counterpart? https://gizmodo.com/iriver-story-reviewed-nice-but-no-kindle-or-reader-5417004 Hopefully, no. But probably? Yes. The Story has reviewed fairly well, with testers citing…
The Viliv n5 touchscreen netbook looks a lot like the Vaio P, but let’s hope it’s not priced like one. Either way, I don’t see much of an advantage here over a traditional smartphone. https://gizmodo.com/the-vaio-p-is-now-as-fast-as-average-netbooks-5299875 I mean, it may not be touchscreen like the 4.8-inch Viliv display, but the 8-inch screen on the Vaio P…
Laptop speaker meets laptop fan, in the shape of Logitech’s Speaker Lapdesk. The N700 can support up to 16-inch models and is powered solely by USB. The 2-inch stereo speakers are actually positioned on the outer edges of the lapdesk so you can have a non-tinny musical experience, with the fans on the top half…
The Sony Walkman A845 is a scant 7.2mm thick and gets a reported 29 hours of audio playback on one charge. It’s perfect for the next time you want to listen to Wagner’s Ring Cycle in one sitting. Twice. The A845 also touts an impressive nine hours of video playback on its 2.8-inch OLED display,…
A recently released patent by Apple shows that they are one of several companies dabbling with the idea of a 3D mulitouch interface. In this case, a “touch screen device, method and graphical user interface for manipulating three-dimensional virtual objects.” Will we see this sort of technology on upcoming Apple products like the tablet? Probably…
The Vizio TV I’m most interested in: Their 58-inch 21×9 Cinema Wide TV with a resolution of 2560×1080. Like their other XVT sets, it’s got wireless HDMI and built-in Wi-Fi, though is only 120Hz. No price or hard ship date. 58″ Cinema Wide Display Taking a major step forward in enabling viewers to experience a…