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We jokingly call it joining the Mile High Club, but the idea is that we’re inviting people to test out in-flight Wi-Fi speeds while taking silly pictures of themselves. The rules of the Mile High Club are simple: A goofy picture isn’t mandatory to gain membership, but you do need to run a Speed Test…
Ooh hello! Photo Rumors has come across what appear to be the specs of Panasonic’s six newest cameras along with their pictures. And they’re as lovely as can be. The line up includes the Lumix FP1, FP3, F3, FH3, and FH20—a bunch of ugly names for some pretty decent cameras—several of which boast that they’re…
I don’t know what’s going on over at Samsung, but as PMPs die, you’ve got to come up with some way to differentiate your product—and I guess a see-through screen is as good a way as any. https://gizmodo.com/the-portable-media-player-is-dead-long-live-the-por-5360197 Samsung’s PMPs are among the best out there—I love the P3—but their design has been only slightly…
My favorite books have something very special between their pages: Inscriptions and autographs. Unfortunately, that special quality can’t be replicated with ebooks or readers. Not exactly, at least, but Danie Ware has an idea that might almost work. Danie Ware, a PR gal for comic book store Forbidden Planet, describes her plan to capture the…
The MyFit is a pretty good idea taken unexpectedly to the extreme. A workout player, sure, that’s a good idea. But wait, this doesn’t just count calories, it measures your fat and forcibly tells you to drink water. The MyFit is an 8GB workout player, and while it likely won’t be cheap or durable enough…
Apparently the University of North Dakota thinks that you should spend four years in flight school and then never actually get off the ground. That’s because they’re offering a new degree in flying UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. The four-year undergraduate program already enrolled its first 12 students and there’s even talk of a graduate program…
Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 is quite the clever combination of multi-touch tablet and laptop. When you ditch everything but the screen for the slate-like tablet section, the device is to switch processors and operating systems. Oh, and it’s gorgeous, too. When both halves of the U1 are together, it runs on Windows 7 on a Intel…
Reddit commenter icallthebigspoon posted an ad on Craig’s List trying to swap his camera for a usable AT&T phone. I sincerely doubt that he expected this offer, but he’d be one cruel man if he didn’t take it. Click on the image for a bigger version. According to icallthebigspoon, he posted this simple, unremarkable Craig’s…
Designer Karim Rashid has a knack for off-the-wall designs, so I wasn’t surprised to see his name attached to the Iamo Go baby bottle concept. This somewhat phallic-shaped bottle is supposed to heat milk to body temperature without using electricity. The idea behind the Iamo Go is that it uses “a disposable capsule containing water…
Traumas the ioSafe Solo solid-state external drive can survive: Building collapse, 1550-degree fire, 30-foot submersion in salt water, and a 5,000-pound “crush force.” So you might say it’s durable. It’s pretty much the most disaster-proof external drive I’ve ever seen. It also has eSATA in addition to USB and a “no questions asked” policy with…
Just in time for Google to unveil its own Nexus One smartphone, ChangeWave Research reports the public is more excited than ever to buy an Android based handset — at the expense of Apple, Microsoft, and Palm. ChangeWave surveyed 4,068 consumers in the first weeks of December and found that 21% of people looking to…
OmniVision has made a new 14.6MB image sensor specifically for cellphones which will give them the ability to shoot 1080p video at a breezy 60 frames-per-second. Considering that we’re talking about cellphones here, that’s quite a nice upgrade. The OV14825 image sensor is designed to go easy on power consumption and will hopefully enter mass…
I would like to live in this glass house, a place in the middle of the woods that even has glass-based furniture. Why? I just want to walk around naked all day. Like I do now, but better. Sadly, it’s just a concept based on a furniture line by Santambrogiomilano. The furniture is real, however.…
I’ve never seen this Ericofon design before, because I was -30 when it was released in 1956, but it’s so stylish and cool that I’m glad someone decided to hack it into a Bluetooth receiver. The project brings a lot of the Ericofon’s charm into this century, with the ringtone replicated and even a dialtone,…
Dual microphones, capacitive volume control, a built-in six-band equalizer, and the ability to pair with eight phones make the Spracht Aura EQ bluetooth headset sound as insanely futuristic as it looks. Heck, it might make bluetooth headsets appealing again. Maybe. I’m not—and suspect that I never will be—crazy about any sort of headset, but the…
Now the WSJ is quoting people “briefed by the company” as stating that the 10 or 11-inch Apple Tablet will be shipping in March for $1000, but will be announced at the January 27 event this month. https://gizmodo.com/allthingsd-says-apple-making-major-announcement-on-janu-5439783 To familiarize yourself with the rumors so far, not including this one, head to our giant rumor…
iLuv, iPhone and iPod accessory maker extraordinaire, has a clever alarm clock dock which uses your Apple gadget and a customizable app as its interface. I doubt it’ll get me out of bed any faster, but it certainly looks great. The App Station‘s corresponding (and free) iLuv app drives the clock, allowing you to adjust…
Liquid Image, known for attaching obtrusive cameras to adventure sport eyewear, has unveiled its surprisingly streamlined 335 Snow Camera Goggles. Using the goggles’ built-in camera, you can now have certifiable video proof that you are a lousy skier. https://gizmodo.com/liquid-image-scuba-series-hd320-diving-video-mask-is-du-5124028 The 335 Snow Camera Goggles, to be officially announced this week at CES, pack a 5…
It looks like a thumb drive at first glance, but AirStash is actually a pocket-sized media server that can wirelessy expand the memory of your iPhone or iPod touch. Apparently, the files are stored on an SD card that you insert into the device—giving you the ability to expand capacity when needed. I assume AirStash…
Bonooooooorrrrlllllllll! I know you are a rock star and a defender of the planet and I really like Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum and even Zooropa, but come on, “reverse Robin Hood”? So wrong. And it gets worse: “But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble…