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Sure, a Motorola Droid-style glowing red eye sounds cool, but the iDroid app would not have actually replicated any Droid features. In fact, it would have been little more than an ad spewing marketing propaganda once you tapped on it. The Motorola Droid is a great handset—it doesn’t need crapware advertising to sell itself. Apple…
Congratulations, America: We didn’t trample anyone to death over slightly discounted HDTVs this Black Friday, probably! And God knows, we tried. A merry, chairbound Cyber Monday to all. [BusinessInsider]
One day, there will be a camera in every object you see. In essence, each object you look at will be looking back at you. Until then, we just have this bulky HD watch. The JTT WACAHD8GB is a somewhat ordinary timepiece that, when not telling the time, is shooting 1280×960 video at 30fps, or…
We haven’t heard from HTC after its promise to update the Hero to Android 2.0, but maybe that’s because it’s updating the Sense UI for Android 2.1 (expected by year’s end) instead. Click to zoom in on the screens: https://gizmodo.com/htc-hero-among-first-to-get-android-2-0-update-5392237 You’ll notice that one of the shots is in landscape mode. Be Geek, who scored…
The 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201HA just landed at Best Buy for $330, but that model’s 1.33GHz Atom Z520 CPU and integrated graphics won’t match the upcoming Nvidia Ion-powered 1201N version, or the AMD Congo-based 1201T. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-pc-1201n-500-seems-like-a-great-deal-but-h-5408356 As mentioned, the 1201N will be the first Eee PC with Nvidia Ion graphics when it arrives in December…
Missed the Black Friday dealzmodo rush, or nothing really catch your eye? You might still be in luck. Cyber Monday is when online retailers are supposed to shine. Here’s a linktastic list of big-brand deal pages. Updated! I’ve noted some of the more interesting deals that caught my eye, but it’s by no means a…
Apparently the Department of Defense believes that PS3s are a better value when it comes to supercomputers than IBM products specifically designed for the purpose. Granted recent price drops probably didn’t hurt in justifying a 2,200 console order either. This isn’t the first time that the DoD is using PS3 consoles for supercomputing. In fact,…
Far be it from me, a blogger with only the most perfunctory grasp of the English language to criticize a legitimate artist, but $30,000 for a tea pot? The Earl Grey within better literally send me to the stars. Price aside, this thing really is sleek, sexy and functional. In addition to the long, flat…
Dear anonymous buyer of the $3,164,000 iPhone 3GS Supreme, the most expensive and tacky cellphone in the world: You are a tasteless assclown. Sincerely, Me. P.S. I don’t care that you are a rich Australian business man in the gold mining industry. I don’t care that you are so rich that paying $3,164,000 for this…
Most people of the 20th century imagined humanoid robots as the domestic servants of the future. But one curious article from the March 1, 1974 Record-Eagle (Traverse City, MI) described the year 2000 as a world of cyborg Fidos awaiting your next command; be it closing the window, or bombing an insurgent hideout. LONDON (UPI)…
From the eccentric brainiacs at Skymall comes the Invisible Bluetooth Headset. I can see it causing permanent deafness, but not because of a volume level issue. https://gizmodo.com/the-enhanced-human-skymall-style-5404864/ More like it’s the size of a matchstick head and I can definitely picture it hammering an eardrum the moment someone drops it into the ear canal. And,…
The T-Pain app we love so much got an important update today: Singing over your iTunes library. Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to croon with the Auto-Tune over Miley Cyrus and Party In the U.S.A. https://gizmodo.com/on-a-boat-comes-to-i-am-t-pain-iphone-app-5372382 [iTunes App Store – Thanks, Andrew]
Best plan: A two-mast schooner to go live around the world. Second best plan: A house like Universe, in Roca Blanca, Mexico. And neoprene suits, surf boards, and diving gear. OK, and a two-mast schooner too. Come in and chill: https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-design-lovers-and-jon-ive-wannabees-5412408 We always feature the most amazinglytastic and awesomerest architecture, packed with high-tech materials and…
Ready for Cyber Monday? Yeah, me neither. But at least HP has some decent offers for those of us who prefer to skip the Black Friday craze and just plain shop online. Laptops HP G60t 15.6-inch Laptop $369.99 ($160 off) HP Compaq Presario CQ61z $299.99 ($100 off) HP dv4t 14-inch Laptop $549.99 (save $469 in…
For those of you who get hot and bothered by leaked Intel product roadmaps, please sit down. We have one here for desktops that runs the gamut from budget Core i3 and a low-power i5 marked with an “S.” Is the S for Savings? Who knows, but we do know that this Core i5 offering…
Could be something, could be nothing, but an “iPhone3,1” mysteriously popped up in the usage records of a Bay Area App Store developer. If you’ll remember, the “iPhone2,1” turned out to be the 3GS. The 3,1 phone was spotted in an analytics report from November for the iPhone app iBART. This isn’t the first time…
The setup looked ingenious. Using a series of photos and the projectors on a bunch of those quirky Nikon Coolpix S1000pj projector cameras, these two tots looked to be recreating a Daft Punk music video. Then they started dancing. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-s1000pj-projector-camera-review-screw-you-all-i-5402528 It was awkward to say the least, but as I said the ingenuity was there.…
Snitch and Langford are about to find out whether they’ve got what it takes to survive the Robot apocalypse. The answer might surprise you! Brian Hogg is a puppeteer and a writer. He builds puppets for money at Hoggworks Studios—including the Mosspuppet and Ask Palpatine—and likes to make fun of people.
If I may, I’d like to borrow a bit from comedian Bill Maher. New Rule: If you’re going to ask $1,000 for a steampunk device, it must actually do something worthwhile, preferably related to steam power. And something in this case cannot be “Kingston USB drive,” which is what this is, and $1,000 is exactly…
We told you the deals, now tell us how it all went down. Find any sweet deals? Have any horror stories? Reevaluating your plan to flip copies of Paul Blart: Mall Cop on eBay? Let’s hear it. I wasn’t really in the market for anything, and had no desire to go wait outside in the…
