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Ecomodo – The Best of Treehugger

On TreeHugger, it’s all about POWER! Off-grid charging is a multi-billion dollar industry, battery chargers to buy, hack, or dream about, universal cell phone charger gets the green light, and a wooden buggy that is really an EV? Off-Grid Charging for Cell Phones Is a $2.3 Billion Industry (Video) Solar and wind powered gadget chargers…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Hey Microsoft: We Need Aliases for Xbox Live Gamertags

I love Xbox Live, I really do. But man, how am I supposed to keep track of what usernames my friends are using? We need aliases, and we’ve needed them for a while. On Adium, the AIM client I use, I put in aliases for everyone on my buddy list. How the hell am I…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Beijing Expansion Looks Like High Tech Eden

They may have some of the dirtiest city skies in the planet, but at least the Chinese authorities are doing something about it. Check out the green, beautiful urban planning for the future of Beijing Central Business District: I don’t know if the lush gardens, the green public transportation, and the pedestrian and bike-friendly road…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

In Addition to Making You Look Like a Douche, Cellphone Holsters May Also Reduce Bone Density

Bad news, people who carry their phones on your belts: according to Turkish researchers, you may be at risk for reduced hip bone density. Yes, the study, published in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, suggests that “electromagnetic fields emitted by cell phones may have a harmful effect on bone density.” And you’ve already suffered with…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Xerox Develops Ink To Print Circuits On Nearly Anything

Wearable electronics aren’t news, but being able to make them cheaply and easily is. Xerox has developed an ink with which you can print circuits onto plastic, film, fabric, and nearly anything you can think of. From more durable, flexible electronics to nifty, wearable gear to cheap, throw away gadgets, the possible applications will be…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes From Outer Space Is 99-Cent B-Movie Brilliance

Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space. It’s a 99 cent iPhone game. That pretty much says it all. Well, if it doesn’t, imagine a Zombies Ate My Neighbors kind of schlock, except you’re in the boots of a redneck armed with dual slingshots, firing rocks and raccoons at undead chicks in bikinis…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Self-Parking Car Works Perfectly, Except For That Whole Running People Over Thing

Volkswagen is onto something great with this concept demo. You just step out of this car and it parks itself. Great, now they just need to iron out those details about detecting obstacles like lil’ ol’ grannies crossing parking lots. Self-parking cars aren’t really a new idea, but with the design the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Future of Charging Gadgets? Toshiba’s Methanol Fuel Cell Is Promising, Flawed

As mentioned last week, Toshiba’s first batch of 3,000 direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) chargers—the first from a major manufacturer—hit Japan on Thursday. The IDG News Service has been testing one, and here are their first impressions: https://gizmodo.com/toshibas-dynario-hybrid-fuel-cell-li-ion-finally-makes-5387351 Some quick background: DMFCs produce electricity from a reaction of methanol, water, and air—the only by products are…

Tech News Danny Allen

I Want to Have Twins Just to Get Them These Awesome T-Shirts

So cute, those two and their t-shirts. Mine would say cmd + c and cmd + v, however. [The Daily What]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Build Your Own Life HUD With a Smartphone and Some Cardboard

A cardboard box, sliced to pieces, taped together, fastened to a pair of work goggles, and capped off with an HTC Magic: this is what DIY augmented reality looks like, right now. Which isn’t to say I won’t totally do this when I have a few spare minutes, because when you get to thinking about…

Tech News John Herrman

FAA Mildly Concerned About Flight Attendants Carrying Handheld Bombs

They’re on pretty much every flight now: Handheld credit card readers to buy snackies and soda. None have exploded, yet, but the FAA just issued special advisories to airlines, since they’re powered by explode-y lithium ion batteries. Now, the FAA says the airlines need approval from the FAA’s hazardous materials division, and has asked them…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Plastic Logic Que Is Going to Nuzzle Nook in Barnes & Noble Stores (And Why You Care)

I asked at the announcement if the Nook would get exclusive perks over other Barnes & Noble readers, like Plastic Logic’s Que. Shelf space ain’t one of them, since Que will cozy up with Nook in B&N stores next year. https://gizmodo.com/que-plastic-logics-capacitive-touch-ebook-reader-5384563 Barnes & Noble’s going to display the Que and Nook together, with displays pointing…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars

Now this is cool. Using a standard electromyograph attached to the forearm, the geeks at Microsoft’s Muscle-Computer Interface group set up Guitar Hero to react to the position and pressure of all five fingers. How badass is this? In all honesty, overpriced toy instruments cluttering up my living room is one of the big reasons…

Tech News Adam Frucci

VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power

VMWare’s Fusion 3—with full support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7—is out today. Besides being natively 64-bit in Snow Leopard, it lets you migrate a PC to your virtual machine, launches Windows apps like native apps, and more. It now supports OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.0, giving you some more graphics powah…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nifty Elecom Card Reader Sticks to Metal Surfaces

With a magnet backing, this clever multi-card reader frees up desk space by sticking to most metallic surfaces like PCs, or a filing cabinet. It costs ¥2520 (about $27), and will likely be available from GeekStuff4U. [Elecom via Akihabara News]

Tech News Danny Allen

Apple’s Tablet Pitch To Media: It’s Small Enough For A Handbag, Too Big For A Pocket

There’s excitement that Apple’s in talks with Australian media companies to get content for a touchscreen reader-style product. It’s not news to us, but at least there’s a laugh in the size details given for the mystery device: https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-maga-5370252 The device was described as a larger iPhone, “small enough to carry in a handbag but…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Nokia N97 Firmware 2.0 Valiantly Attempts to Make It Less Godawful

Hello, Nokia N97 owners who ignored our heartfelt advice to look elsewhere for a smartphone. (You couldn’t go with the vastly superior E71?) Firmware 2.0 is out, and it supposedly—hopefully—makes life better. Kinetic scrolling! [DailyMobile via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed-5308440

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Why We Haven’t Seen Much of Android 2.0

The last Android releases were pretty out there for months before actually getting “released.” Here we are, weeks from the Droid running Android 2.0, and besides BGR’s preview, nothing. Well, it looks like Google’s playing it close to the chest. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-probably-going-on-sale-november-9th-5386954 Privileged developers, apparently, are getting early access to the 2.0 SDK, and test hardware,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nissan’s Idea Of A Personal Mobility Device Is A Pair Of Skis on Stilts

I thought the Honda U3-X was weird, but this personal mobility device prototype by Nissan and AIST actually separates into a whacked out pair of motorized skis on stilts. With its unstable seeming controls, I think I’ll stick to walking. https://gizmodo.com/honda-u3-x-an-omnidirectional-segway-style-unicycle-th-5366452 When the the device is in one piece, you can control turns by shifting…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Roku HD-XR Hands On: Where’s Roku Going With This?

Roku updated the lineup today with two new models bookending the current Roku HD: The $80 standard-def SD and the $130 HD-XR, which I tested. It’s solid, but still needs a firmware upgrade (coming soon) before it feels truly next-gen. Before we get into the HD-XR, there’s the other new model to introduce. The low-end…

Commerce Dan Nosowitz

Ecomodo – The Best of Treehugger

Hey Microsoft: We Need Aliases for Xbox Live Gamertags

Beijing Expansion Looks Like High Tech Eden

In Addition to Making You Look Like a Douche, Cellphone Holsters May Also Reduce Bone Density

Xerox Develops Ink To Print Circuits On Nearly Anything

Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes From Outer Space Is 99-Cent B-Movie Brilliance

Self-Parking Car Works Perfectly, Except For That Whole Running People Over Thing

The Future of Charging Gadgets? Toshiba’s Methanol Fuel Cell Is Promising, Flawed

I Want to Have Twins Just to Get Them These Awesome T-Shirts

Build Your Own Life HUD With a Smartphone and Some Cardboard

FAA Mildly Concerned About Flight Attendants Carrying Handheld Bombs

Plastic Logic Que Is Going to Nuzzle Nook in Barnes & Noble Stores (And Why You Care)

Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars

VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power

Nifty Elecom Card Reader Sticks to Metal Surfaces

Apple’s Tablet Pitch To Media: It’s Small Enough For A Handbag, Too Big For A Pocket

Nokia N97 Firmware 2.0 Valiantly Attempts to Make It Less Godawful

Why We Haven’t Seen Much of Android 2.0

Nissan’s Idea Of A Personal Mobility Device Is A Pair Of Skis on Stilts

Roku HD-XR Hands On: Where’s Roku Going With This?

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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