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Since the original JBL Creature speakers were released seven years ago, Apple’s designs have (d)evolved into metal bricks. But that doesn’t top JBL from selling the sci-fi-inspired Creature III exclusively through Apple channels. The same, fluid 2.1 setup we’ve remember from the original Creature speakers are recaptured in the $130 Creature IIIs, though the latest…
After being derided since, oh, 2004, the UMD is set to return to the PSPgo, albeit thanks to the peripheral guys Logitech. https://gizmodo.com/pspgo-review-psp-goes-nowhere-you-havent-been-5367059 Sure, we can see why some people may want to play their old UMD games on their new PSPgo, which lacks the drive and plays solely downloaded titles, but they should’ve really…
It’s not the most energy efficient design on the market, but the “Cache-Cache” (hidden) lamp by designer Victor Boeda makes every flip of the switch as sensual as unzipping a lamp’s clothing can be. [VictorBoeda via freshome via Unplggd]
The Chinese site Mobile Android China has turned up a few dusty-looking photos of the Motorola Sholes, which we haven’t seen since the Droid got official. https://gizmodo.com/motorolas-verizon-android-phone-looks-like-we-thought-5327291 It’s believed the Sholes will be part of the Droid line, and while the two devices look fairly similar, the Sholes “tablet,” as it’s being referred to despite…
DARPA’s created what it’s calling the Iron Curtain, which is a system that mounts on top of a Humvee and takes out any rockets shot in its direction. It’s pretty nuts. They’ve been working on these Active Protection Systems for a while now, but this is the first that works on a moving vehicle. As…
Someone or something out there doesn’t want the Large Hadron Collider to spin up to full speed. Either that, or it’s the most complex piece of machinery ever built so kinks are expected. But that’s a less fun explanation. The current snafu involves a power failure so serious that not only was the LHC itself…
According to a note we just received from AT&T, “Verizon and AT&T have dismissed the litigation between them in Georgia and New York.” Here’s the full legal text on the voluntary dismissal in NY: UPDATE IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendant Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (“Verizon Wireless”) and Defendant/Counterclaim…
It’s like someone actually thought the adult-sized vehicles in Wall-E were a good idea. Thankfully, like with most things on Yanko Design, this individual baby confinement torture-device is just a concept, but it’s also a scary insight into someone’s mind. That someone being designer Pouyan Mokhtarani, whose baby buggy contains a LED screen so you…
If the Griffin Simplifi is too expensive for you, this $15 generic iPhone/iPod 3-port USB hub will allow you to sync an Apple product while accommodating up to three other devices that resent your favoritism. [USBFever] https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-griffin-simplifi-ipod-iphone-dock-car-5068952
Love it, hate it, or occasionally vomit because of it, you have to admit that Mirror’s Edge was one of the more interesting games of the last few years. And now it’s coming to the iPhone. https://kotaku.com/mirrors-edge-motion-sickness-5026052 If you don’t have any idea what I’m talking about, here’s Mirror’s Edge in a nutshell: Parkour, with…
The Government of Spain, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing, has approved a law that’ll obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money. There’s a whole bunch of greedy “artists”—represented by the SGAE, the Spanish version of the…
HardwareZone got the scoop on this upcoming Seashell 2 netbook designed by Karim Rashid. It has a 1.8GHz Pineview Atom N450 CPU, Windows 7, and a new slide-out battery…but its other specs are boringly normal—no Nvidia Ion graphics. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-intels-entire-confusing-armada-of-chips-5381760 Actually, the slide-out battery isn’t the only change compared to the original Seashell 1008HA (which had…
Symbian’s problem isn’t that it lacks capabilities, it’s with the user experience: namely the clunky, awkward, and occasionally terrible S60 interface. Enter Maemo, to save the day! And also, apparently, a newer, friendlier Symbian. Nokia wants to get better, please. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed-5308440 The latest of Nokia’s reliably rousing Capital Markets Day reports points to two goals,…
You know it’s a brave new world when bride and groom update their Facebook status, and tweet about it. At the freaking altar. As they were being pronounced husband and wife. And with “brave” I really mean “f*cking dumb.” That’s what Dana Hanna—the guy in the video aka “theSoftwareJedi” aka “Ican’tbelieveit’sbutterandI’mgettingmarried”—did, without his bride knowing…
We’ve seen plenty of those tiny lens add-on kits for cellphones, but never before have we seen the equal of the Phone-O-Scope: 18-55mm glass attached to the iPhone. And it’s no wonder, because the process was anything but simple. ILM Research Engineer Bhautik Joshi disassembled his iPhone only to stuff in part of his DVD…
Like a big, black, bitumen electric blanket, “self-heating” roads are being worked on at the University of Houston, Texas, which will hopefully eliminate the need for salting trucks or ploughs during heavy snowstorms in the US. Electric heating elements could be inserted into roads or inside the structure of bridges, warming the roads enough so…
PC Pro reviewed the iRiver Story. And to no one’s surprise, it’s not a bad eBook/PDF reader, but it’s too expensive compared to more established competitors. While PC Pro praises the use of ePub format (it’s not tied so closely to one store like the Kindle), they put its build and display quality below the…
I wonder how many times Steve Ballmer laughed about the iPhone after pooping all over it in this 2007 interview. My guess: Not many. Don’t worry Steve, here’s the rest of the top 5 assclowns who dug their own grave: Click to view
Assclown Number 5: Ed Zander, Motorola CEO/Chairman and amateur juggler, 10 May 2007 How do they deal with us? Click to viewYes, how would they deal with you now that Motorola is almost dead, Ed? Assclown Number 4: John C. Dvorak, tech columnist and professional assclown at large, 28 March 2007 Apple should pull the…
A new exploit allows PDFs attached to emails opened on a BlackBerry to take over Blackberry servers. Luckily, a fix is already out for Enterprise Server and Professional software, available here. [RIM via The Register]
