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If you’re using a Hackintosh then you might want to hold off on the OS X 10.6.2 update, because for all its bug fixes, it lacks the Intel Atom support necessary for our beloved Hackintosh netbooks. Update. https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-10-6-2-fixes-account-nuking-bug-and-about-5400758 Update: There appears to be some confusion regarding which sort of Hackintosh set up is affected by…
OK, so they won’t really save any relationships, but the idea behind the Presence in Absence USB pendants is almost sweet. You keep digital scrapbooks on your pendants and then swap those instead of bodily fluids when you finally reunite. When you get your Presence in Absence kit, the two pendants are actually one single…
It might be quite a while before science and medicine are able to make you better, stronger and faster with bionics, but there is an easy and inexpensive way to blend man and machine that’s available today—Connect-a-Desk. Thanks to space age harness technology and alien plastics gleaned from UFO crashes, you can now seamlessly integrate…
Don’t get me wrong, the Poseidon is probably the coolest looking patio heater I have ever seen, but the media player? The unit is 6.5 feet tall, and It looks like someone duct taped an iPhone to it. The product page doesn’t mention the actual size of the screen, but you would surely burn to…
While you anxiously await AT&T to bump 3G up to 7.2Mbps in your area, keep in mind that their new USBConnect Lighting device is what your laptop will need to take advantage of it. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-bumping-its-3g-to-hspa-7-2-in-six-more-cities-5355470 It will be available on November 22nd, free with rebate after signing up for a contract. That means you customers…
In the future, the compliment to give a guy will be to say that he’s hung like a rabbit. It’ll imply that he has the super-high libido that comes with fully-functional, custom-engineered penises like those being successfully implanted in bunnies. I don’t know how the fluffy creatures lost their most precious parts in the first…
Matt told me the other day that Droid looked like Tim Burton Batman’s cellphone. “True—I replied—and I don’t want a gold latex 80s cellphone. I would like something sleek like the iPhone, running Android.” Behold, the APhone A6. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168 And then throw it away quickly, as it doesn’t seem to work well at all. At…
OS X 10.6.2 is out, and it’s a veritable bug-squashing party. That infamous glitch that was destroying user accounts a while ago has been taken care of, as have a few dozen other annoyances. But whither our sweet Hackintosh? https://gizmodo.com/reports-snow-leopard-bug-eats-user-accounts-whole-5379817 Prior builds of 10.6.2 have flip–flopped between treating Intel Atom support—vital to netbook hackintoshing—as a…
Former Disney audio experience engineer, Mr. Q, reveals how he assisted in developing a complex algorithm to arrange over 15,000 speakers around the Disney World theme park. All to achieve the ideal ambient music for “manufacturing emotion.” The last time I visited Disney World, I was a bit distracted by the nausea that followed one…
Before she was a year old, Aimee Mullins had both legs amputated below the knee. Her family doctor said she’d never learn to walk. At the age of 19, she set world records in the 100-meter dash and long jump. That was Aimee Mullins the athlete, running on early prototypes of now-commonplace carbon fiber legs.…
Tired of your lunch being stolen by your roommates and co-workers? Instead of hiding your snacks, get serious about security with the fridge locker. Essentially, it’s a polyurethane cage full of goodies that you store in the fridge and secure with a combination lock (included). Of course, there’s nothing preventing thieves from stealing the entire…
This week, we’re celebrating the human body: the ultimate machine, 4 billion years in refinement. Your heart can beat 3 billion times in your lifetime without maintenance—that’s a performance spec that no motor can match. Tens of trillions of cells inside you undergo constant death and regeneration. And your brain juggles countless autonomic and cognitive…
Hey you, with the unibody MacBook. You probably heard that your trackpad supports 11-point multitouch, but do you know what the actually means? FingerMgmt shows you. https://gizmodo.com/next-generation-macbook-ditches-plastic-becomes-macboo-5062857 Even though this free app doesn’t really do anything except display exactly what your trackpad is sensing, it’s still spectacular. Even with all ten fingers moving in different…
Firefox turns five today. Give it a new screen to stretch out on with the 23″ HP 600t multi-touch desktop or let that fiery little fox curl up on a 13.3″ HP dm3t laptop. https://lifehacker.com/happy-birthday-a-look-back-at-five-years-of-firefox-5399959 Top Deals: • 23″ HP TouchSmart 600t 1080p Multi-touch PC for $974.99 with free shipping (normally $1,249.99 – use coupon…
I’ve started to buy vinyl records again. It’s not because of the sound. It’s the touch and the pretty pictures. Obviously, vinyl is not why CDs are dying. Zoom-zoom in, digital boys and girls. https://gizmodo.com/sorry-stereo-but-beatles-in-mono-rocks-a-lot-more-5216258 What surprises me about these facts and figures—apart from iTunes skyrocketing again after the introduction of variable pricing—is the fact…
Earth to your iPod: “Single Ladies” has jumped the shark. Time for new music! We want to help. Take this survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a $150 iTunes Gift Card. [Rules]
Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, believes that it would require 10 megawatts to power a processor as smart as the human brain. His new “Neurogrid” supercomputer might be able to do it on only 20 watts. To put that in perspective, 10 megawatts is the kind of energy a small hydroelectric plant…
The uncanny Photosketch tool was not the only magic software tool debuting at Siggraph Asia 2009. These amorphous volumes can magically throw three different object shadows, all thanks to a program called Shadow Art. See it in action here: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-a-photoshop-and-it-blew-my-mind-5374890 According to developers Niloy J. Mitra and Mark Pauly, Shadow Art is a tool to…
Creative’s latest system-on-a-chip is crammed with features: 1080p playback, 24fps encoding, HD video conferencing, OpenGL ES 2.0 support, an integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration. All combined with a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8. Of course there’s a catch. https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-zii-stemcell-computing-is-media-savvy-system-5126090 We don’t know the expected price range yet. Could a company like Creative really…
My guess is that sleep isn’t the priority when you own the Expose LED line of bedroom furniture. I’m surprised there’s no waterbed option. I suppose this is the right bed for you if you prefer to pleasure partners like you’re a character in a supernatural slasher film or in an ’80s metal music video—but…
