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Anyone hoping to see the Sony Ericsson X10 on T-Mobile, look away now or you’ll be sorely disappointed. Phandroid noticed that the American version of the X10 won’t support the necessary frequencies to connect to T-Mobile’s network. Yup, even though the specs page lists support for UMTS/HSPA 800/850/900/1700/1900/2100, Sony Ericsson is going to be localizing…
Just when you thought you could forget about the elusive bugger, rumors about an iPod Touch with a built-in camera start up again. The latest report points to a Spring 2010 refresh that will finally include a video camera. The latest rumor reads like it’s August all over again, but it does have one particularly…
If you really want to put video game controllers on your tree, please hang these up. They’re a much better option than dangling your filthy old Saturn controller by its cord. [Ponoko via Technabob]
The Consumerist is reporting that two Mac users were denied AppleCare coverage because the owners were smokers. Not because the computers were damaged by second hand smoke, but because of OSHA regulations. According to separate reports, Apple denied coverage for two users in 2008 based on the fact that OSHA lists cigarette smoke as a…
Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol’ fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Bootcamp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]
The new terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world’s largest earthquake-safe building. You’re looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all resting on top of giant geological roller skates. Instead of being built on top of the soil, the whole structure rests on over 300 isolators. These…
Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who’s always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click…
We’ve seen cameras do all kinds of crazy things. DIY 3D photography, augmented reality, and now this demo by Qi Pan shows how an ordinary webcam can model objects in 3D. https://gizmodo.com/shoot-3d-photos-using-two-hacked-canon-cameras-5408283 I’m in no position to discuss the amount of technical wizardry in play here, but I do think the interface is really great.…
We still don’t know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really, but this concept magazine reader from Condé Nast gives us a glimpse at what to expect from tablet apps. Turn down your volume before hitting play, loud techno music awaits. Down? OK, good. Now let’s look at…
Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the Internet nipping at his heels. Vanish, a combination of a manhunt and an experiment, began at 5:38 pm on August 14, 2009…
March, 2007: Windows Vista’s initial sales are great, “more than doubling” those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234% higher than Vista’s. Those numbers sound awfully similar… https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-sells-2520-milllion-vistas-ooh-thanks-to-n-247337 What does this all mean? To be honest, not all that much—mostly, it means that there are just…
Apple Patent Describes iPod UI “Pushed” to Other Devices…Philips Announces Very Pretty Pro LCD Line…NYTimes Columnist Proposes Boycott of “Pro-Communist China” Bing…Ooma Adds New Handsets and International Plan… Apple Patent Describes iPod UI “Pushed” to Other Devices An Apple patent filed in May 2008 describes a way of pushing whatever UI Apple wants to non-Apple…
Unlike T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock, I can’t measure life out in coffee spoons. I tend to lose the darn things. That’s exactly why this self-stirring, self-heating, USB-chargeable coffee cup is the stuff my caffeine-deprived daydreams are made of. Brando calls it the USB Whirl Wind Warmer Cup and it’s all too lovely. It keeps…
This video shows Earth’s weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA’s GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. The GEOS-5 atmospheric model was developed by NASA Goddard’s scientists. It’s based on the Earth System…
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it’s going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators’s latest statement, I’m not so sure: https://gizmodo.com/large-hadron-collider-why-you-really-wont-die-today-5047732 The LHC is a far better understood machine than it was a year ago. We’ve…
Some of NewEgg’s Black Friday offers have surfaced and while we don’t know everything yet, a few of the deals we’re seeing, such as a 2TB HDD for $150, are looking pretty good. According to Logic Buy, these deals are subject to change and there are more offers to come. We’ll be keeping an eye…
Are idiot cops with tasers in some sort of competition with one another? I think the new record for stupidity belongs to Dustin Bradshaw, the Arkansas police officer who zapped and arrested a 10-year old girl for throwing a fit. Get this: the mother called police because her child was throwing a fit about showering…
Because the original switch on this model was busted. Of course, the modification looks like it would get in the way of a close, comfortable shave. [TIFI via Boing Boing]
In this week’s charmingly tawdry app roundup: Voices, creepily modulated! Annoying trips to Kinkos, averted! Cats, artfully superimposed! Photos, easily shared! iPhone speakers, blown! Call of Duty, iPhone’d! Google Maps, humiliated! Certifiably good games, discounted! And more… To view as a single page, click here https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5409698 Voices: There are a few voice modulation apps on…
Apparently we won’t have to deal with upgrading our Microsoft-driven computers for another three years. According to a tentative roadmap, the next version of the OS, Windows 8, won’t be arriving until 2012. This release date would be consistent with the schedule Microsoft has been maintaining, but I suggest they don’t rush it. I still…
