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Oh Best Buy, won’t you save us from the legions of mediocre Black Friday deals that have leaked so far? Please? No, not really? Well, at least there are some great video game deals. * Indicates a doorbuster item Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a – Free w/2 Year Contract * BoostMobile Motorola Clutch i465…
Would it be earlier than expected? By a lot. But given how long Google usually takes to test their products—and how long Android was public before the G1 launched—Techcrunch’s report that Chrome OS is imminent isn’t totally ridiculous. Previously, Google had set the release date had been set roughly at H2 of 2010. In their…
Here is an old Mini DV tape case—do people use these anymore?—as an iPhone stand. Sometimes the best inventions are out there in plain sight, waiting for that dohment of obvious realization. [Twitpic via LikeCool]
This probably won’t affect your day to day life (yet), but it’s an interesting development nonetheless. iTunes now allows you to window shop through your web browser. Called iTunes Preview, you can now access any iTunes music page through your browser by selecting “Copy Link” and pasting it Firefox, Safari, IE, whatever you use. At…
Mark said that the PSPgo goes nowhere you haven’t been. He wasn’t impressed, to say the least. Perhaps the fact that it has been hacked and someone added a Sega Genesis emulator will make him change his mind. But then, that’s nowhere where you haven’t been before, so probably he won’t give a damn either.…
Leaked screen grabs appear to reveal several hot prototype Sony HDTVs for 2010/2011. If they’re legit, updates to Sony’s top-end XBR series could include the XBR11 (white LED-backlit), XBR12 (local dimming LED), plus a brand-new OLED TV. UPDATE: Total BS. https://gizmodo.com/sony-says-so-called-leaked-tv-lineup-is-total-bs-5404262 The updated XBR series would scale up to 60-inches, and feature 240Hz Motionflow, W-LED-backlighting,…
Last June, the cable/sat industry announced plans for TV Everywhere, a way to bridge your subscription television content to your internet-connected devices. Comcast has just announced that their version of TV Everywhere, called On Demand Online, arrives next month. Currently in beta with 5,000 subscribers, here’s what we know: • It’s free with a subscription…
I’m psyched to see Android moving into tablets. Some of the first will be from Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), who say their Tegra-powered 7-, 11-, and 15-inch tablets will arrive through “tier one” carriers in the first half of 2010. I hadn’t heard of ICD before, either: they’re actually based in the UK and Seattle.…
There’s not much to make you storm the doors at 6am here, but saving $80 bucks or so on an Acer Aspire One (AOD250-1165) seems decent. A couple of HP laptop deals here, too. The Canon PowerShot SD780IS and TomTom Go 630GPS also caught my eye at first, but you can pretty pick them up…
The great thing about Dell is that you don’t need to leave the house if one of these deals takes your fancy. It looks like they’ll have specials across the board, but the notebook prices are most interesting. The $500 Dell Inspiron 15 laptop described below usually starts at $833, and the $1000 Studio XPS…
Before disease took his ability to move, Tony Quan was an amazing graffiti artist. Now he is completely paralyzed, save for his eyes, and still an amazing artist. Seeing how he works left me with tear-streaked cheeks. Beautiful, isn’t it? Art, whether in the form of graffiti or coffee, is an individual’s contribution to humanity.…
At first glance, I thought this is a NASA image of some sort, maybe a solar flare. I even wondered if I could get a high-res version to turn into a poster. Then I found out what it actually is. The knowledge that I was looking at a thermal image of a gentleman passing gas…
Last year, Neuronetics’ NeuroStar TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Therapy system became the first device of its kind to be cleared by the FDA for treating depression. Although, the similarity to a dentist chair was probably not a great idea. Nonetheless, trials on 164 patients with unipolar, non-psychotic major depressive disorder using the device proved that…
The citizens of Coshocton, Ohio are without their free Internet after a single download prompted the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down the town’s municipal Wi-Fi network. This is by no means the first time the MPAA has stepped on the little guy in their crusade to eradicate piracy, but it is a…
24,000 full-color, super-thin LEDs, 4,000 Swarovski crystals, and enough iPod batteries to keep everything glowing for about an hour. This picture doesn’t do the Galaxy Dress justice, but the video comes close. This gorgeous thing was designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz and they say that it’s the “the largest wearable display in the…
I was wondering what Aimee Mullins was running from, and now I suspect that it might’ve been these fellows. I’m sure they’re great people, being a part of MIT’s Wearable Computing team and all, but I would run too. https://gizmodo.com/introducing-our-guest-editor-aimee-mullins-5399767 You can click on the picture for a closer look at those six studs. Now…
I don’t know what Coca-Cola was thinking when they used these ads to promote their Grip Bottle in bus stops. They are made with velcro, so if you lean or get anywhere near them wearing woolly cloths, you’d get stuck. The ads were designed to highlight the better grip the new bottles offer. They placed…
YouTube;s Going 1080p So That You Can Watch Silly Videos In High-Def…Yet Another “Virus” Attacks Unsecured Jailbroken Phones…USB AM/FM Tuner Made By Company Who Hasn’t Heard Of Internet Radio…Pirates Decorate Their MacBooks With Crossbones… YouTube’s Going 1080p So That You Can Watch Silly Videos In High-Def Unsatisfied with simple 720p, YouTube is going to a…
Some churches in Italy are installing automatic holy water dispensers that, much like soap dispensers, squirt out an individual portion when you place your hand underneath it. To fight swine flu, of course! It’s not that people think holy water cures the dreaded pig disease (although I’m sure some do), it’s that when everyone kept…
I don’t have a clue about what is a Philco Dynamic Tester or what it did back in 1946. Quite frankly, I don’t care. I want to believe it was used to carry the navigational computers inside Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. I also don’t care because it just looks perfect as an iPod dock, using a…
