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These baby carriages, designed by Chinese artist Shi Jinsong, will guarantee that no one ever fucks with your baby. By all means, park your stroller in the aisle of the restaurant! We don’t mind! Please don’t kill us! [DesignBoom]
Redneck Techie’s vision for a pico projector Wireless Game Gun has been realized…by Microvision. As you can see, the controller allows gamers to break free from their fixed screens and project the battle on any surface. Using the infinite focus capability of the PicoP display engine, combined with a motion sensing module, it’s now possible…
From the notebook of Steve Wozniak, on Dancing Woz: "This is a strange universe. I’d swear to anyone that it’s me in many ways. I’m in NYC now and even did a couple of dance steps…" This is a strange universe. I’d swear to anyone that it’s me in many ways. I’m in NYC now…
Via’s been on a roll lately with power-efficient products, and the VN1000 continues the trend. For those of you with lower-end desktops or all-in-one Windows 7 PCs, the VN1000’s your chance at a full HD multimedia experience that’s also a stingy power consumer. It supports Blu-ray and DX10.1, DDR3 system memory at speeds of up…
Here’s one for all my pun-loving friends out there: let’s make gadget ads that are fundamentally and irrevocably changed by adding, changing or dropping a single letter from the name of the device. Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with One Letter in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs,…
Created in collaboration with British fashion designer Gareth Pugh, this dress has been fitted with PolyPhotonix OLED lighting panels creating that very on-trend AW09/10 look. Or something. Exhibited at the UK’s Plastic Electronics Strategy event (and doesn’t that sound like a hoot!), PolyPhotonix used it to advertise its polymer-based OLED lighting panels. [OLED-info via UberGizmo]
Last October, Nokia sued Apple for a 10-patent infringement. Today, Apple has sued back while snubbing Nokia with this awesomely catty one-liner: https://gizmodo.com/nokia-suing-apple-for-10-patent-iphone-infringement-5387642 “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours.” That was the only official Apple statement we’ve yet seen on the matter, by Bruce Sewell,…
In a year, Android’s gone from shaky upstart to mobile juggernaut. And nowhere is that more apparent than the apps—the Marketplace is positively bursting, with over 14,000 apps. Here are the ones you need, the essentials. If you want them all on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/essential-android-apps-5423054 If we’ve missed anything or you’ve got a…
After Fusion Garage left Michael Arrington and his Crunchpad standing at the altar, sad a dejected, only to go to a different wedding with some hussy named JooJoo, one thing seemed obvious: Somone was going to get sued, and soon. And that’s exactly what’s happened. And with INTERSERVE doing business as TECHCRUNCH and CRUNCHPAD INC…
Amazon: Impulse shopping, made all too easy on your phone—it remember products you scan (either a photo or barcode) so you can buy them later, too. Astrid: If you suck at remembering things, Astrid is a simple task manager and to-do list. Killer feature? It syncs with the Remember the Milk. Astro: An Android task…
A real true history lesson: Before there were laptops, everyone had to carry entire desktop computers to class. Before there were desktops, they had to lug typewriters. Before that, everyone just tried real hard to remember stuff. Ask your grandparents! Click to view[Break via Reddit]
I’m sure that el Señor Bill Gates won’t agree with Mark Anderson, but his words are spot on despite being a 20th Century soothsayer aka analyst. If Microsoft doesn’t score something huge soon, they would lose the consumer market forever. https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-my-1979-memories-5321463 Anderson writes the Strategic News Service newsletter, widely followed by technology execs, venture capitalists,…
That could be a real gun mounted on those wheels, but 20 non-lethal paintballs a second honestly sound a whole lot more cruel than regulation bullets. This understated "Robotic Weapon" is a paintball gun mounted on a 4-wheel-drive E-Maxx truck. It streams POV video with night vision (through Wi-Fi, we believe) while the operator can…
It gets boring this time of year in Scotland. That’s what I assume, anyway, knowing that scientists in Aberdeen have developed software to turn a computer into a cold pun machine. Some of the jokes are funny! Most are not. The software was originally written to help children with cerebral palsy develop language skills. Somewhere…
“Happy holidays, Grandma! Ohh…well…this is awkward…but you appear to have gained too much weight in the last year to celebrate Christmas with your grandchildren.” (Don’t worry, it’s just a gag…I think.) [curiosite via noquendanblogs via gearfuse via Unplggd]
So you’ve spent a few grand on a Vertu phone, but need something else to illustrate just how much of a high roller you are. Would a matching Vertu pen, Bluetooth headset and memory card reader do the job? Sold together under the ‘V Collection‘ title, the pricing hasn’t been confirmed yet but we don’t…
Fortunately we don’t have to think too hard about what they’d look like, because French artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal has designed a series of book covers for 10 of our favourite web services. Massa-Bidal sells some of his designs on his online store, but these terrific book covers aren’t available just yet. Perhaps if we all…
If hacking your N900 to make it run Palm’s Garnet OS applications is your cup of oolong: good news! The Garnet VM Beta 5 emulator is compatible with the N900. [ACCESS via PalmInfoCenter]
Apple patents are flowing in thick and fast, with yesterday’s anti-tampering idea, and now a universal dock which can be molded to the shape of whichever iPod or iPhone you put in it. Is Apple messing with us? https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-patent-prevents-you-from-screwing-with-the-ha-5423663 First filed in June 2008 but just unearthed by AppleInsider, it’s been called the “Aesthetically pleasing…
If you use Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client, you’re in good company, as not only does the military use it, but they also contributed code to the latest Thunderbird 3. Alright, so it’s the French military… With 80,000 computers in the military using it, the French government thought it imperative to adapt it to…
