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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
As someone who’s been nearsighted since I was a kid, I’m loving the new developments in intraocular lenses. There’s a new procedure gaining popularity that could give me super vision, without the irreversibility of LASIK. IOLs have been around since the late ‘40s, but recent developments have made them pretty amazing. The newest procedure involves…
Western Digital support forums are filled with comments on the latest WDTV Live firmware update, few of them good. Many users are reporting that firmwares from 1.0.11 up are giving them trouble, at least, and in many cases outright bricking their hardware. If you’ve got one, hold off on updating for a while. Check out…
Invisibility cloaks don’t even exist (unless you’re Liu Bolin), yet scientists keep trying to ruin the fun. C’mon, guys. Wouldn’t it be more enjoyable to figure out the awesome uses for one instead of trying to get us all caught? https://gizmodo.com/liu-bolin-creates-slowest-least-practical-invisibility-5397102 This latest bummer involves two parts. The first is pretty simple. An invisibility cloak…
Does your significant other always yell at you for busting out your smartphone too much when you’re together? Follow this flowchart to determine if now really is a good time to fire that brick up: Click the image to view a larger version. Based in New York City, Shane Snow is a graduate student in…
Hey, you, your gadgets are disgusting. And wiping them with your greasy shirt sleeve isn’t making things any better. Here’s how to clean your gadgets, the right way. HDTVs and Monitors This is the number one cleaning question I get from friends and family, and it’s one of the simplest to answer. HDTVs and monitors…
A normal night at the office got interesting when neighbors spotted a man with what appeared to be a pistol. The SWAT team was called in, only to find out it was a pistol built from Lego bricks. According to an account on Jeremy Bells’ blog, he was hanging out at the office playing Call…
Check back tonight at 9PM Eastern (6PM Pacific) for our liveblog of the Terminator Salvation Blu-ray director’s commentary session. Yeah, McG is going to be narrating along with the movie, just like Chris Nolan with the Dark Knight. https://gizmodo.com/dark-knights-chris-nolan-event-shows-bd-live-is-not-qui-5114320 It’s going to be the first audio commentary that’s live streamed from off the disc, so…
These goggles pack a display that projects info like jump hang-time, vertical gain/loss, and speed. Perfect, I’ve been looking for a way to tell how much faster that little kid who just shot by was going. There are even plans to build in resort trail maps, which would make it super easy for me to…
This image was lost some time after publication. Reading about robots as envisioned in the 1920s and 30s, it is always a question of when robots would replace humans in every facet of life, rather than if. This article from the October 17, 1937 San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) paints a pretty bleak picture…
Particle colliding is the new dog racing. Stephen Hawking bet against the LHC discovering the Higgs-Boson, and now you can get in on the action too. https://gizmodo.com/stephen-hawking-bets-against-large-hadron-colliders-suc-5047152 Alexander Unzicker set up an options market for the LHC, where you can bet on the discovery of the Higgs Boson within a certain time frame. If you…
Japan is a land of gadgets that are both marvelous and mystifying. If you can’t go to the home of weird gadgets, why not bring some of the weird gadgets home to you? Here is a list of Japanese gadget gifts that will give you culture shock worse than Bill Murray in a Tokyo karaoke…
Remember that DARPA balloon challenge, where the first team to find ten weather balloons wins $40,000? Well, the balloons are up in the air. If you don’t have a team yet, here are some places to report a sighting. UPDATED: https://gizmodo.com/darpa-network-challenge-win-40-000-by-finding-10-red-5393457 Update: Well, that went fast. Took the MIT team 9 hours to find all…
A comment on graphics cards and overcompensating: ATI’s new Radeon 5970 HD is a staggering 13.3 12.16 inches long. [Anandtech]
Well, I’m not really sure what this installation, from Tokujin Yoshioka for Hermes, is selling, but I’ll tell you what: I’ll totally buy it. It’s at the Tokyo Hermes store until January 19th. Video after the jump. [Core77]
In today’s forgotten corner of Gizmodo that is Remainders, we’ve got OK Go‘s new tech-courting music video, ever more info on the Apple-Lala acquisition, a super (Mario) cross-stitch project, and Ellen Degeneres‘s gadgety Christmas giveaway. Buckle up, you guys. OK Go’s New Music Video Reminds Me of My First Computer OK Go, masters of both…
You know that the world has changed when a classic fashion magazine like Vogue Italia includes a spread that follows the layout of Twitpic. Well, actually, that’s a lie, but I needed some excuse to publish this, ok? https://gizmodo.com/im-so-passe-that-i-dont-know-95-of-these-social-networ-5419105 Wait, wait, wait. WAIT. Is that girl actually doing her thing on the pooper? [Fashioncopious via…
I love symbolic gestures as much as the next guy, but is flying the olympic flame from Greece to Canada in a bunch of miner’s lanterns spread across six airplane seats really necessary? [The Big Picture]
The Pompeii ruins are one of the most tourist-visited sites in the world, which is one reason to stay home, sit on your couch with no pants on and enjoy the ruins on Street View. It’s pretty gorgeous. [Google]
This is a Real Girlfriend. She’s supposed to be attractive, sexy even. But running on a PC that can’t handle the rendering, things go a bit Terminator 2. Other great gaming stories from this week: Real Girlfriend Gallery of Horrors Serves those pervs right. https://kotaku.com/real-girlfriend-gallery-of-horrors-5415853 What’s In The Star Trek Online Collector’s Edition? If there’s…
