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I just updated my winter outdoor gadget gift list with a number of newly tested pieces of gear. [Gifts for Outdoor Geeks Not Afraid of Sunshine or Sweat. Pictured, the Eton FR 600 Radio in our guide] https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-outdoorsy-geeks-not-averse-to-sunshine-or-swe-5401744/
First problem with this photo: That Zune-tan is way too severe, implying weeks of sedentary tanning. Second problem: Nobody keeps gadgets in their bikini bottoms (well, almost nobody). Third problem: A Zune 30? [Fubiz via Fake Steve] https://gizmodo.com/what-do-you-think-shes-listening-to-5186058
Plus: There’s a Woot! Off going on! Minus: Every time I write “Woot! Off,” with that exclamation point that doesn’t end a sentence, my proper-grammar-loving heart dies a little. [Woot!]
After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. The $5 million Mind Machine Project (MMP), a patchwork team of two dozen academics, students and researchers, intends to go back to the discipline’s beginnings, rebuilding the field from the ground up. With 20/20 hindsight,…
Today in the musty sub-basement of Gizmodo we call Remainders, Star Trek’s Simon Pegg is having AppleCare difficulties, Santa gives you GPS directions, Star Trek: TNG gets bizarrely and hilariously re-dubbed, Adult-Swim-style, and Sony renames their ebook store. Apple, Why Must You Make Simon Pegg So Sad? Twartered by Simon Pegg (star of Hot Fuzz,…
Nokia’s closing their Regent Street flagship store, due to poor foot traffic and sales. They’d invested £4 million in the location, right across the street from Apple’s Regent Street shop. Nice shop, but we saw this coming. [BusinessTimes via FSJ] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed-5308440
I liked this clever toaster design that mimics an inkjet printer. But then I realized how much I wanted a toaster that also prints on the butter and jam. Can’t have it all, I suppose. Othmar Mühlebach’s design won second prize at the Berner Design Awards, and certainly would have won first prize if it…
Seagate just announced their first line of SSDs, named Pulsar. It’s a 2.5-inch drive in slightly odd 50GB, 100GB and 200GB sizes, and it looks ready to compete with the current SSD leaders. The Pulsar drives are all 3Gb/s SATA compatible, offering top read/write speeds of 240MB/s and 220MB/s, respectively. For comparison, the current market…
Remember that Mark the Spot iPhone app for telling AT&T where they suck? Um, yeah. [Thanks Joe!] https://gizmodo.com/mark-the-spot-iphone-app-tells-at-t-where-they-suck-5420524
There’ve been some dictation apps before now, but now Nuance, makers of Dragon, the world’s most popular desktop dictation software, is invading the App Store with their own. Plus, it’s free (for a limited time)! Update: Dragon Dictation (link opens iTunes), which is based on the desktop Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, lets you do pretty much…
There aren’t many details available about the Dell Vostro V13 other than the fact that it’s an ultra-thin, ultra-light ultraportable with a seemingly very reasonable $450 price tag, but at least there are a few teasing pictures. Updated: Hello details! The V13’s puny 3.5 pounds may include eSATA, Ethernet, USB and a card reader, but…
In elementary school, I was that kid who always had to sit up front when I forgot my glasses. Think of all the time I could have spent goofing off! If only I had those notes delivered to my Kindle… Luidia’s eBeam whiteboard has been around for a while, the one that takes a snapshot…
Reality shows tend to put me to sleep, but some part of me wants to grab energy drinks and watch this entire iPhone development reality show. There has to be drama, right? https://gizmodo.com/blood-energy-potion-cures-imaginary-afflicitions-four-h-5386142 The show is being streamed live by Command Guru until December 12 and you can follow along with the development process and…
You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I’m going! Oooooh! Ooooooh! I always liked the Wicked Game Boy of the West a lot more than that stupid…
Hello, I thought that I would submit this regardless of it being late ( I thought I had an extra day or two somewhere). To take the shot I used an olympus e-510. The ISO was at 400 with at shutter of 1/13 and an Fstop of 3.5. This was taken before a massive snow…
The CGI recreation of Tiger Woods’ accident was amusing enough, but a Taiwanese news show made some more animations to retell the whole crazy dramarama through awkward shower sex scenes, strange gesturing, and plenty of bad translations. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-not-a-trailer-for-tiger-woods-2011-but-it-shou-5416508 If only Fox News started doing things like this, I think I’d finally be able to sit…
The Castoven is a microwave with an LCD screen in the door. It automatically plays a video as long as the cooking time you specify. Because god knows you can’t go two goddamned minutes without being entertained. [Castoven via CrunchGear]
I was never sure if Batgirl had a Batsignal, but it doesn’t really matter. I’m gonna build my own using Arduino, some LEDs, and these instructions anyway. And then I’ll track down a slinky costume and take down some troublemakers. You can find all the details for Batsignal projector (including stencil patterns) at Thingiverse. Fun…
Someone at DARPA’s crying over the brilliant “Find these ten red weather balloons and we’ll give you 40K” challenge he concocted ending mere nine hours in. It’s what happens when you forget about MIT geeks and their little bribes, too. https://gizmodo.com/darpas-giant-red-balloons-officially-at-large-5419589 The winning MIT went about the task in a brilliant way: They offered shares…
