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No price or details were mentioned, but PlayStation’s Kaz Hirai says that a “premium level” subscription will come to the now free PlayStation Network some time in 2010. And by subscription, he means NOT free. What you will get is a kind of “service offering with premium content and services” that you can’t get in…
My name is Charlie Cho. Attached to this image is my entry for the slow shutter contest. Details are below: Nikon D2X; F9 @ 3 minutes; ISO 100; Focal Length: 12.0 mm. I was intrigued with this location and the shadows that were being created from the outside street lamps. I built and wired a…
I like these USB sofas with 14GB of storage. They are designed to be used in public spaces, to let people share videos, photos, music, and any other file. You know, like an Internet you can sit your butt on. Sure, you can use a network to do the same, but can you rest your…
As the name plainly states, this is a big USB panda speaker. Unlike his tiny iPanda cousin, this guy doesn’t look all that happy. Maybe that’s because he is an eyeless, disembodied head. https://gizmodo.com/ipanda-ipod-dock-panders-to-bear-loving-music-enthusias-5099031 At any rate, the Panda head can connect to any computer via USB, or directly to your MP3 player via a…
Geeks love cooking and there’s no mystery why: it’s science you can eat! We spent a week salivating over food gadgets, gathering tips and wisdom along the way. From that experience comes our list of best (and worst) gift ideas: BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click…
OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. PC Perspective tested one of OCZ’s 256GB Colossus drives and found “read and write speeds are about as fast…
The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world’s fifth most-popular website keeps growing. [WSJ]
This kid is the famous teen pop star Justin Bieber. Yes, I didn’t have a clue either, but apparently he sings in Microsoft store openings and malls. His other ability: If he doesn’t tweet, he gets people in jail. https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-store-in-mission-viejo-opens-oct-29-5385761 That’s what happened after his presence caused 3,000 hysteric teen girls to march into the…
What’s Paul McCartney’s doomsday scenario? Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles’ music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse. A few days ago, we found out that Apple Corps and EMI would finally release the…
Some people are ashamed of their bodies. Me? I regularly strip in questionable environments, just for the thrill that my tush may be showing up on some subscription Russian voyeur site. This spycam detector can save heartache for us both. The detector, $60, goes about camera locating in a two-pronged attack. First, you look through…
Round two of Apple’s Black Friday deals, and this set looks way more like the real thing—meaning they’re less outrageously awesome, but there’s still some good stuff inside. https://gizmodo.com/apple-black-friday-possibly-leaked-i-really-want-it-to-5406115 • $100 off MacBook Pros • $100 off iMacs • $20 off iPod touches • $20 off iPod nanos • $20 off Apple TV And assorted…
I know I’ve said that dumb cellphones must die, but what about a dumb cellphone called iPhone that looks like a white MacBook? Yeah, smash those too. https://gizmodo.com/dumb-cellphones-must-die-5279250 This 2.2-inch clamshell aberration—technically the Apple Q300 Ultra—costs around $70, which is $70 too much. [Shanzai]
Hands up if you’re taking a laptop home this weekend to escape family craziness by jumping online for a while. Me too. But if you believe these bizarre 1980s ads, computers were meant to foster an age of dazed family-togetherness. Sure, the Wii might actually have a shot at keeping awkward conversation to a minimum,…
Do you have three iPhones kicking around that you aren’t using? If so, you could make an insanely expensive ocarina out of them using some laser-cut plastic. But the real question is why you would do such a thing. [Make]
“Android and Chrome will likely converge over time,” says Google’s Sergey Brin, echoing the cryptic sentiment first mentioned by a reluctant Eric Schmidt back in July. Today, it’s exactly as confusing as it was four months ago. https://gizmodo.com/android-chrome-os-relationship-confusing-everyone-inc-5311682 Google, asked how on earth this slow-motion, oddly-planned scenario would play out, gives mixed responses. The official…
How did Crave UK ever come up with that number? Multiplication and addition, of course. 570,937,778 computers are online, with the average weight of 88 pounds, with monitors, printers, and any other peripherals. Ehhh…I’m still a bit skeptical of that number, given the popularity of laptops, but let’s keep coming because this is fun! There…
IBM’s shitcanning the Cell processor line—you know, the chip that’s in the PS3 and uh, Toshiba laptops and TVs—according to their VP of Deep Computing, making the current PowerXCell 8i the last of its ilk. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-qosmio-g55-is-first-laptop-with-cell-processor-5025238 Update: For now, IBM’s just saying that the successor to the current PowerXCell 8i is canned, not all…
What’s the ‘S’ stand for in Drobo S? Speed. Uh, more speed. And more storage. Specifically, a fifth drive bay for more redundancy, faster FireWire and a new eSATA port. As always, it’s not cheap—$800 sans drives. [Drobo]
Last Friday’s tipster was right on the money: The Omnia II lands December 2 for $200 on contract (after $100 mail-in rebate). It runs WinMo 6.5, but that sweet-looking 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen gets the 3D cube TouchWiz 2.0 UI. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-omnia-ii-hits-verizon-december-2-for-200-5409079 As we noted when we first saw the ai.rs video below, the TouchWiz 2.0 UI…
All week, Amazon’s offering new quasi-surprise deals hourly. Today, that means 63 discounts on what mostly look like DVDs at the moment. Unrelated note: 2012 is the year when Black Friday sales first start in July. [Amazon via Black Friday]