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Well That’s One Way to Fix the iPhone’s Crappy Reception

The iPhone’s less-than-excellent reception? Solved! By this patent for a push-button antenna. Better reception and a phone pimple, with a single touch. A cross-section of this wart antenna: [Patently Apple via 9to5Mac]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Marion Middle School (1986-2010)

This 1986 time capsule from Marion Middle School (Marion, TX) is supposed to be unearthed in 2010. Contents: Pictures of Marion, TX Picture of the school band Taped survey of questions and answers from the Marion student body and faculty The book 2010 Location: 506 South Center Street, Marion, TX 78124 Source: October 2, 1986…

Tech News Matt Novak

Google Calendar Now Available In Wall-Sized Offline Mode

Google Japan is now flogging an offline, paper Google Calendar complete with tabs, buttons and links. You can even share dates and invite guests! Sadly there are no email reminders, and it won’t sync with your phone, but… It’s awfully cool, isn’t it? [Gigazine via Inventor Spot via Technabob]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Woah, That’s a Lot of Android 1.5s and 2.0.1s

Android Developers have published a chart breaking down platform usage based on visits to the Android Market for a 14-day period beginning on December 1st. The amount of 1.5s and 2.0.1s running out there is actually quite interesting. The high 2.0.1 figure is a good indicator of how quickly the Droid has caught on, which…

Tech News Sean Fallon

How Amazon Dances Around Taxes So You Can Too

Amazon was almost founded on an Indian reservation, so it’d be immune to taxes. Fifteen years later, it’s still outmaneuvering sales taxes so we don’t have pay them either. With free shipping if you’re patient and no sales tax in most states, Amazon can undercut almost anybody by at least 5 percent—I know it’s why…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

What’s Inside the Next MacBooks?

Intel’s announcing superfast and incredibly efficient new notebook processors soon. They’re the biggest jump in notebook hardware since the Core 2 Duo. But we might not see them in MacBooks for a while. https://gizmodo.com/intels-new-superefficient-but-fast-laptop-core-i5-chips-5429145 Or, even worse than a delay: New MacBooks could have worse graphic than older MacBooks. Here’s the story: Starting with the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Apple Has Thwarted My Efforts, So I Need Your Help

My plan to continue exchanging yellow-screened iMacs until the end of time has been thwarted, but I’m not giving up. Read on for the revised plan. https://gizmodo.com/my-second-imac-is-busted-too-5435561 First, a little background. Yesterday, I posted about my second yellow-tinted iMac. And I made this threat: I basically mail back review products for a living, and the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

WinZip, You Have Underestimated the Cheapness of Man

Five years. This guy sat through five years of WinZip nagging to get this screenshot. There’s a reason companies don’t really do shareware nowadays, and I think we’ve found it. To be fair, old WinZip was never really shareware. Given that it never stopped working, it was more akin to really naggy donationware, with a…

Tech News John Herrman

Gadget Deals of the Day

It’s almost 2010 and time to get some “home office” equipment to write off next tax season: Students can score the new MacBook on the cheap, and if you still don’t have an HDTV, check out the 37″ LG. Top Deals: • 23″ Dell ST2310 LCD for $158.00 plus free next day shipping (normally $258…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Weekly World News Exclusive! First Photos of Heaven Taken with Cellphone!

A Weekly World News’ reader and accident victim used his cellphone to “record incredible views of the other side.” It may be all made in Photoshop, though. I don’t know. But wait, there’s also a full reportage of hell too. Dear Google, you may be as evil as everyone else, but it’s ok, after publishing…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

9 Reasons to Own 9

1) Cuteness. 2) You can’t get to MoMA. 3) Crispin Glover needs a royalty check. 4) 9 new friends on demand. 5) You are “budding techno and fantasy geeks [who] are likely to be intrigued and enthralled” (thanks, NYT). 6) It releases today on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download, so you will be first to…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

Transparent Goldfish Developed By Japanese To Reduce Unnecessary Dissections

From the same land that transparent frogs were created in, comes the see-through goldfish. Japanese scientists hope that due to the organs and heart being visible, it’ll eliminate the need to dissect them in schools and laboratories. To be honest, I don’t seem to recall slicing and dicing goldfish in biology class—but then, I was…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Screw Avatar, I Just Want Green Screen Grandmas

Grandma Millie and Grandma Fran + green screen roller coaster = 80 seconds of pure hilarious joyride. Please, god, let this be a series. Next stop: Grandmas in Space! [The Daily What]

Tech News Brian Barrett

How 12 Hours, 2 Guys, 6 Cups of Coffee = 1 iPhone App

David Quinlan is a normal guy with day job and just a bit of coding experience. But he and a friend lived the dream and cranked out a simple iPhone app in a weekend. Here’s how they did it: “Thai, salad or ramen?” It’s lunchtime on a typical Thursday and it strikes us that millions…

Tech News David Quinlan

Android Event Scheduled for January 5th: The Google Phone Is Nigh

Invites just went out for an Android event at Google HQ, scheduled for a week from today. They don’t mention the Nexus One, but they don’t have to. The event looks like a proper announcement party, if not a full launch—demonstrations are on the itinerary, which is unsurprising given that Google has been handing out…

Tech News John Herrman

Spectacular Air Rescue of Crewman from Moving US Navy Submarine

The US Coast Guard has released their best videos from 2009, and this crewman emergency medical rescue mission—using a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter over a moving nuclear US Navy submarine—just blew me away. Check them out in the gallery. The Coast Guard evacuated the crewman from a unnamed US Navy Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine. The…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Tell Us Your Genius Bar Horror Stories (and Win Free Pizza)

The Genius Bar is considered, by some, to be the paragon of tech support. But capricious pricks just “following the rules” that happen to completely screw you work everywhere. So tell us your Genius Bar horror stories. https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-you-bring-a-22-year-old-mac-to-the-ge-5406566 Did a Genius drop your MacBook and explode it into a thousand pieces? Try to exorbitantly charge…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Coast Guard Video Gallery

Eat your heart out, Jack Ryan! In this chase, the Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 409 chases and captures suspected pirates after responding to a distress signal from a merchant vessel, off the coast of Africa. It’s not all about spectacular missions. The Coast Guard also takes care of the small anonymous people and their…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

WiiWaa: Playing With a Wiimote Crammed Down a Stuffed Doll’s Throat Isn’t as Weird as It Sounds

Check out the trailer for WiiWaa and tell me that this isn’t a really good idea. Kids would beg their parents and parents would trample each other to get their hands on one of these interactive dolls. [Wiiwaa via Joystiq]

Tech News Sean Fallon

Even Epson Has Caught The Augmented Reality Bug

Did you send Christmas cards this year? Perhaps an e-card? A text? Whatever you did, Epson has just one-upped you with its augmented reality greeting cards. On the website they’ve set up for the end of year nengajo cards, they show how easy it is to use one of the Colorio printers (which cost around…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Well That’s One Way to Fix the iPhone’s Crappy Reception

Marion Middle School (1986-2010)

Google Calendar Now Available In Wall-Sized Offline Mode

Woah, That’s a Lot of Android 1.5s and 2.0.1s

How Amazon Dances Around Taxes So You Can Too

What’s Inside the Next MacBooks?

Apple Has Thwarted My Efforts, So I Need Your Help

WinZip, You Have Underestimated the Cheapness of Man

Gadget Deals of the Day

Weekly World News Exclusive! First Photos of Heaven Taken with Cellphone!

9 Reasons to Own 9

Transparent Goldfish Developed By Japanese To Reduce Unnecessary Dissections

Screw Avatar, I Just Want Green Screen Grandmas

How 12 Hours, 2 Guys, 6 Cups of Coffee = 1 iPhone App

Android Event Scheduled for January 5th: The Google Phone Is Nigh

Spectacular Air Rescue of Crewman from Moving US Navy Submarine

Tell Us Your Genius Bar Horror Stories (and Win Free Pizza)

Coast Guard Video Gallery

WiiWaa: Playing With a Wiimote Crammed Down a Stuffed Doll’s Throat Isn’t as Weird as It Sounds

Even Epson Has Caught The Augmented Reality Bug

Forget Amazon Fire TV Soundbar, Samsung B-Series Soundbar With Built-In Subwoofer Still Under $100 for Post-Spring Sale

Apple M4 MacBook Air Is Still at Its Spring Sale Low as Amazon Moves Into Clearance Mode, No Need to Wait for Prime Day

They’re Already Trying to Baby Yoda Rocky From ‘Project Hail Mary’

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally Just Got Cheaper Again After Spring Sale, With 3 Months of Game Pass Included at No Extra Cost

Protect Your Car Without Overpaying, Batteries Plus Makes Finding the Right Battery Size Easy and Affordable

WD 5TB Portable External Hard Drive for Mac Drops to $0.03 per GB Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

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