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Click to viewAndy Rooney was my weekly lesson in crotchetiness growing up, but I increasingly get the sense he’s a corpse animated by secret government technology to keep senior citizens in line. He loves computers. And taxes. [The Awl]
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure, it’s not quite edible yet, but they predict you’ll be eating labmeat in a mere five years. What they made this time is what they’re calling “soggy pork,” which is fake pig muscle that’s pretty gross because…
I dislike capital letters. I dislike exceptional capital letters even more. The iPhone, and indeed most Apple products, suffer from “camel case,” as the NYT’s On Language calls it. “Steep is the descent into orthographic antinomianism.” He’s right. There’s a historical reason in tech for products with camel case, like QuickTime or WordPerfect, as Crain,…
As far as phones go, the Droid is an olympian. A supermodel. A movie star. But without multitouch, it’s a movie star with rickets, and awkward inflection. That is: mildly disappointing! That’s where the Dolphin browser comes in. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168 At first glance the browser is a bit of a mess: its Android Market listing is…
Belkin’s Flywire 1080p HD streamer was canceled, so if you want a device to stream 1080p from one side of the room to another side of the room (up to 33 feet away), Rocketfish has one today. But, no. https://gizmodo.com/belkin-flywire-wireless-video-cable-does-1080p-across-n-339838 Here are a few reasons why you shouldn’t spend $600 on this now. One, it’s…
If you’re going to have a door as elaborate and beautiful as this, you’d better have a damned impressive house for it to open into. Otherwise, it’s all disappointment once you cross the threshold. This door, created by Matharoo Associates for a diamond merchant in India, is flat-out crazy. It’s 17 feet tall, five and…
Put a small speaker on a crazy looking modern sculpture and bam! That will be $263,000 please. I’m not sure whether or not the sound quality of the Opere Sonore speakers justify such a price tag, but it does bring back priceless memories of reading comic books in the early ’90s for some reason. [W3sh…
Before you confirm that Cyber Monday HDTV purchase, make sure to check out HD Guru’s list of the best deals going. According to the list, if you are looking for a 1080p HDTV over 40-inches, you definitely have some options: like a 42-inch Panasonic VIERA plasma for $712 (with coupon code and price protection adjustment,…
Progress bars aren’t always accurate, but at least they’re there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn’t done. And soon, they will invade the meatspace. We already crane our necks to see the perpendicular streets’ lights cycles through, so the Eko stoplight…
Nikon’s Coolpix S70 promised to be a point and shoot built with a love reserved for high end smartphones—very thin, and packing a 3.5-inch OLED multitouch screen. Alas, Nikon forgot about one, tiny detail, the photography itself. According to Photography Blog’s early review, the $300ish S70’s somewhat low resolution OLED wasn’t found to be much…
Sure, the LG Expo is the first 1GHz phone in the US, but what really matters is that it has an optional pico projector you can slap onto the back with an 8-foot projection distance. The projector adds another 1.8 ounces, and as you can see, a bit of an ass to it. Besides the…
Still wish the iPhone had physical letter keys like Blackberries or WinMo phones? First there was that butt-ugly iTwinge keyboard holster, now there’s 4iThumbs: a clear plastic overlay with nubs located over the on screen keyboard. https://gizmodo.com/itwinge-iphone-keyboard-video-makes-me-cringe-a-little-5362350 On the upside, the covers only cost $15 (portrait), $17 (landscape), or $20 for both. Problem is, you’re…
if you were Tiger Woods, the Car Cam Dually would have captured you slamming into a tree and your wife smashing the windows with a golf club, while simultaneously recording how you managed to injure your face. Of course, it would have also proven whether or not your wife was using the golf club on…
Michael Arrington’s ambitious project to create a super-simple web tablet is dead, drowned in a bathtub half-full of greed and selfishness. This isn’t a happy story. It wasn’t because of high costs, as previously rumored. Essentially, Arrington got screwed. Badly. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-crunchpad-dead-5397085 But the email went on. Bizarrely, we were being notified that we were no…
You know that clock Mrs. Weasley used to track members of her family at all times? Well, some guy actually built it using an arduino board that parses a few Twitter feeds. No wand or incantations (beyond expletives) required. [HackedGadgets]
If you think about it—really think about it—or even half-assedly think about it—this Void VO2 Retrograde watch isn’t so different from an iMac. But whereas an iMac* focuses on its glass screen accented by a tiny strip of aluminum, this Void centerpieces its brushed stainless steel—the informationless void of the watch, if you will—as much…
According to a breathless press release, the Kindle ereader is the “#1 bestselling product across all product categories on Amazon.” That means it sold more than the iPod Touch. More than the Wii. More than Going Rogue. How? It’s easy! Step 1: Market a device for two whole years Step 2: Issue a price drop…
Whether or not the success of 3D TV hinges on the popularity of 3D films like Avatar, or just our willingness to give in and wear stupid glasses, one thing is clear: TV makers are all about 3D right now. Sony for instance, has 3D laptops, TVs, and Blu-ray players (plus 3D PlayStation games) planned…
According to a trusted source who’s seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone “is a certainty.” https://gizmodo.com/the-true-google-phone-may-be-coming-soon-5407245 And by “Google Phone” we don’t simply mean another Android handset. We’re talking about Google-branded hardware running a version of Android we haven’t yet seen. Over the next few weeks, Google Phones (most probably in early,…
I’m convinced Barnes & Noble has no idea what the hell they’re doing. After looking like they were gonna be late, then “oops, we sold out,” now Barnes & Noble says that at minimum, they won’t have Nooks—even to demo—in actual retail stores until Dec. 7 at the earliest, in order to fill pre-order demand.…
