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In this week’s mildly paranoid iPhone app roundup: Prices, slashed for the holidays! iPhones, recklessly tilted! Amazing classic games, handily ported! A decent camera app, sold for nothing! Cheap tickets, booked! Dictations, taken! Movies trivia, two ways! And much, much more… https://gizmodo.com/in-which-a-telco-executive-makes-taking-sound-like-givi-5423771 This Week’s Apps If you hate hate hate galleries, click here to view…
The new Atom D410 and D510 processors were just given preliminary benchmarking tests, and the scores actually came out pretty disappointing. The older Nvidia Ion configuration actually beat the Pineview procs in most tests—not what we’d call encouraging. Of course you don’t go for an Atom for muscle, and the Pineview processors do beat the…
Not that I’m condoning spying on your spouse, but we did talk about ways Tiger Woods could have avoided his current situation. If you suspect foul play, Suzanne Kantra has tips on how you can do some sleuthing with gadgets. https://gizmodo.com/how-tiger-woods-should-have-used-technology-to-cheat-on-5417359/ Granted, several of these are no brainers, like checking voicemail and cellphone addresses—but you…
Windows Mobile 7‘s been nudged back a couple of times, and Microsoft UK mobile head Phil Moore now says it’s “been put back until late next year.” Hey guys, sooner is better. [Mobile News via WM Power User via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-7-epically-delayed-5342619
Nielsen’s list of the top ten “time-shifted” prime time TV shows takes stock of whose ratings benefited the most from DVR in 2009. What do they have in common? They’re all the shows you keep begging your friends to watch. 1. “Battlestar Galactica” (59.4) 2. “Mad Men” (57.7) 3. “Damages” (56.3) 4. “Rescue Me” (53.2)…
The very literally named Track Ball Mouse Numerical Keypad Hub manages to Frankenstein an array of accessories into a trackball-style mouse. It also continues the long tradition of lefty-hating trackball mice. At first glance, I thought this was an actual mouse, and that you were supposed to drag a numerical keypad and a couple USB…
Any secret door wins me over instantly, but a secret door that reveals Han Solo frozen in carbonite? Wow. Just wow. And it only cost $150 to install. Disguised as a bookcase holding the owner’s Star Wars collectibles and knick-knacks, the shelving can be pushed to reveal a hidden home cinema. On the other side…
Meet Artform No. 1. It took him six years to grow from a heap of brass and stainless steel into this ooh-la-la-hey-there-gorgeous model you see now and he’s damn proud of it. Just look at this cheeky metal man’s poses. The Artform No. 1 figurine was built by Mark Ho out of over 500 parts…
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and Director David Yates will be answering your Half-Blood Prince questions live on BD-Live Saturday at 3 PM ET (12 noon PT), and we’ll be liveblogging it. If you want to check it out yourself, you’ll have to have a copy of the movie on Blu-ray and a Blu-ray player that…
Sling this Quiver around your chest, and make like Mr. T or Rambo. No-one has to know you’re secretly packing an iPod or iPhone, and hell, for all they know you could have an app that blows shit up. Right? Exterior buttons on the stretch fabric sling mean you can control your iPod and even…
Western Digital‘s come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space. If that description doesn’t make sense, here’s what the structure looks like. The catch is that if…
So we set up a call with Randall this morning to discuss some of the profoundly stupid things his Ralph de la Vega said recently about creating incentives that would encourage people to stop using AT&T’s data network so much. Point of the talk was, when you’re lucky enough to create a smash hit product…
The Exemode SQ28m isn’t going to pose a threat to the Flip anytime soon, but I will agree with Engadget that the digital video it records has a charm about it, kind of like an old home movie. Check out the video above. It’s choc full of whimsy. Of course, I will be dammed if…
Given the intense competition in the turn-by-turn app wars, TomTom is offering an alternative to their $99 original version by ditching Canada and dropping the price to $50. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-navigation-app-telenav-vs-navigon-vs-5343981 Man, if dropping Canada cuts the price of an app in half, that says a lot about how much money we waste on international maps. They…
What if, instead of just poisoning sub-minimum wage workers in China and India, our recycled computer equipment reassembled into something beautiful? These pieces by Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator, require weekends of man hours and a massive amounts of old gear to complete (each layer of each wheel you see requires cracking the case on…
Click to view I never thought I’d call a camera strap innovative, but LumaLoop takes the idea of a camera sling and carries it a few steps further, into a totally customizable setup that makes your camera super accessible. It’s not cheap, at $60, but if you’re serious photographer in the field it might be…
From Sprint’s official Twitter feed: “Happy to announce Android 2.0 is coming to Sprint’s Hero & Moment. Date TBD, but roughly 1H 2010.” Notice the language. Not next month, not even first quarter 2010, but first half. Meaning it could take as long as June. Really guys? [Twitter]
Believe it or not, that’s what the latest data shows: The economy is bouncing back, or at least, retail spending is. The trend is clear especially in electronics, where spending has skyrocketed from a little above $160 to almost $190. That figure is the average spending per user, post-Black friday. The main winners were Best…
Labyrinth 2: Labyrinth games are the first titles any tilt-enabled gaming device gets. The earliest jailbreak games were little put-the-ball-in-the-hole gimmicks, and looking back even further, when the first accelerometer-enhanced Gameboy title shipped back in 2001, it was basically a big Kirby labyrinth game. That said, this dead-simple gameplay metaphor is really addictive, and Labyrinth…
There are two well-documented problems with 27-inch iMacs. Many are arriving on doorsteps with cracked screens and others are simply not booting. So what do you think, did mine arrive broken? Place your bets before I open up the box… https://gizmodo.com/some-core-i7-imacs-showing-up-dead-5411547 Did My iMac Arrive Broken?(answers) And now that you voted, click here for the…
