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With Best Buy opening in the UK soon, could Amazon be planning a walk-in store too? Sounds pretty crazy to us, considering its doing so well already without the massive overheads a central London store would bring. UPDATE The Sunday Times has reported that Amazon’s currently looking for “bricks-and-mortar stores” to open up in, hopefully…
Our dreams of an HTC-shaped Android 2.0 device launching before Christmas now lie in tatters, with Digitimes reporting that the oft-leaked, much-hyped Passion has been delayed by several months to an early 2010 on-sale date. It must be pretty embarrassing for HTC, with Motorola beating them to the Android 2.0 finish line with its Droid…
Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a “standalone discrete product,” and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/intels-high-end-larrabee-graphics-card-wont-be-released-5419399
The folks at Android and Me have what is purportedly the product roadmap for HTC going into the new year. The eight phones are divided into four product categories: Design/Lifestyle, Performance, Productivity and Social. Let’s dive in, shall we? In design/Lifestyle there’s the Legend and the Salsa, due out in March and June 2010, respectively.…
It’s ability to play tunes long gone, this 1951 Zenith H664 Cobra-matic phonograph was born anew thanks to modder Alvin “Mach” Barber. That’s the DVD player, modded to look like it’s spinning one of the original LPs. More DVD player, now with more lights! And more lights… And the internals. Inside is a Core 2…
These recycled circuit board guitar picks aren’t cheap, as far as picks go, but if you’re serious about your alt-rock IT garage band’s image they may be a necessity. Just don’t go tossing them willy-nilly to your screaming fan. Because at $7 to $8 per pick, that just wouldn’t be wise. Unless your fan is…
To be bigger but slower, or speedy yet spotty? This is the ridiculous question indirectly posed to us today by AT&T spokesman Luke Wilson. Here’s my question: When do these commercials go away? https://gizmodo.com/luke-wilsons-droppin-post-cards-on-verizon-wireless-5410354 I mean, wasn’t the original Verizon ad that started this off about the size of the 3G network? Now AT&T is…
Not since the treasure bath have two amazing things coalesced so perfectly to form something even more amazing. I present the Trolley Scooter. Air travel just got competitive. The piece is a collaboration between Samsonite and Micro Mobility, and will certainly improve your Terminal A travel time thanks to the three wheels housed below. Not…
Say I told you I have a commercial with Quentin Tarantino selling Softbank products as Uncle Tara-chan while a talking dog opines and a woman answers a dog phone. Would you believe me? This is Japan. Of course you would. With these two ads, Tarantino joins a long line of U.S. celebrities who have flown…
Is Amazon prepping the U.K. for a British retail chain invasion? Possibly, says a report in the Times today. Indeed, says the source, as part of a move that goes against the shrinking retail space, Amazon would open a number of branded retail stores there, and soon. It’s not entirely crazy. As we reported earlier…
Word to the wise: The WallDock iPhone charger sits low, but allows for access to the touchscreen. When typing with your feet, avoid sticking an errant toe into the socket. Better yet, get a charger that sits on your desk. Of course, this might make a bit more sense plugged into a countertop socket, but…
Sadly, it’s not bank accounts. It’s Shazam. The iPhone app that listens to tunes and tells you what they are. Schiller and I list it as our favorite. Emboldened, I feel as though I could deliver an Apple keynote tomorrow. Of course I couldn’t, not really, not with my penchant for socially awkward faux pas…
Though commercial aviation has become a tedious exercise in repeatedly proving that your shampoo is not actually made of C-4, it’s easy to forget that air travel used to be too expensive for the average American. Flying was an event, something you dressed up for. It wasn’t so easy to book a relatively inexpensive flight…
The Scandinavians have arrived, data in tow, and those communication devices we press to our ears hundreds of times per week are safe again. I say safe “again” because I honestly don’t know where we stand in the back and forth debate between cellphone manufacturers, Chicken Littles and these-are-bad-for-you studies from legitimate scientists. Were cellphones…
Meow! Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is on the warpath against Barnes & Noble’s Nook, specifically its eBook lending feature. In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, he pulled no punches with some masterful hyperbole: Updated. “The current thing being talked about is extremely limited. You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t…
Creative’s Zii Trinity handset, which we profiled with a quick video just a few days ago, was spotted again this weekend playing Wall-E in glorious HD, using nothing but its diminutive, generic little frame. Short, but impressive. The playback is smooth, the sound apt. Iron out some of the interface quirks we spotted last week…
The boys at BGR got a hold of a mysterious Motorola phone called the Opus One this morning. Details are sparse, but the source (described as “new”) says the phone is the company’s first Android iDEN handset. Images are about all that’s offered up here. No specs, no dates, no explanation. Just pics and some…
So you know that $1,100 off deal Best Buy and Sony teamed up to deliver that packages a PlayStation 3 with games and a Bravia HDTV? Somewhat misleading, according to analysis from our friend Gary over at HD Guru. You see, the televisions in a few of these bundles never really sold for as much…
The Terminator Salvation Blu-ray disc can be watched with live director commentary tonight. It’s starting. Update: McG is making a Terminator 5. No! 6:05: Logging into the Warner Bros. BD-Live account now. 6:08: There’s a Harry Potter one on December 12, apparently. 6:12: Trying to figure out how to log into this commentary. 6:12: Sorry,…
The Crunchpad is dead and the Apple Tablet is MIA. Luckily Camangi is here to fulfill our tablet needs. Preorders for the 7″ Android tablet are up, and should ship before the end of the month. [Camangi via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/the-crunchpad-is-dead-5415292
