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Just like grandpa, teapots have long suffered from a dribbling problem. No longer. You see, teapots have this annoying habit of dribbling a bit, especially during low rates of flow. A team of French scientists deemed this unacceptable, and since there’s no Flomax for teapots, they set out to identify the underlying problem and eliminate…
Gadget patents are a strange lot. Is that dual-handed interface for an iTablet, or something else? Will my remote really Tweet someday? Probably not, but this patent from Nokia had me thinking of a touch- and, more importantly, pressure-sensitive future: https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-may-have-two-handed-multitouch-input-5372507 Now, touch screens are nothing new, obviously. The iPhone’s an obvious example, as are…
According to documents procured by the folks at Fone Frenzy, T-Mobile’s incredibly appealing Project Dark pricing plans begin today. Long story short, those leaked plans we brought you earlier this week are completely, totally true. Also, Catherine Zeta-Jones: Updated. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-details-on-t-mobile-project-dark-5386951 The new T-Mobile Unlimited plans match Sprint’s all-you-can eat $99 deal with its unlimited $99…
I’ve seen plenty of nerdy geeky freaky cakes in my life, mostly Star Wars-related: R2-D2, the Death Star, the Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader, and pregnant Darth Vader. This dead tauntaun wedding cake, however, is just sick. And I love it. https://gizmodo.com/r2-d2-cake-brings-balance-to-the-force-dorkiness-to-we-389413 Look at that detail! This is so gross, yet so damn cool. If I…
If you have $3700 handy, you can buy this 6-foot tall, 110-pound, 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan, and 175 hours over 16 days to build. You don’t have to feel like a dorky geek for buying it, because the money will go to charity. So you can…
What didn’t happen this week? We saw the Windows 7 release, new Apple hardware, Barnes & Noble’s ereader, the beginnings of major net neutrality legislation and more. It was so crazy, we thought we’d round up all the highlights. Microsoft: • Windows 7: A Weekend Install Guide and More • You Guys Had Some Wild…
The July 15, 1955 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) ran a special section devoted to the Disneyland park, which was to be opened just three days later. A short piece devoted to Tomorrowland is featured below. For those who’d like to read the entire 16-page special section, I’ve uploaded that as well. This post originally…
If you’ve been eyeing the downloadable student edition upgrade of Windows 7 with that sweet, sweet $29 price, you might want to hold off. Microsoft has acknowledged that downloads from Digital River, the provider of student edition upgrades, are experiencing problems. Apparently Microsoft decided to release the upgrade as an installer instead of an ISO…
Sure, Windows 7 Media Center is included with the OS, but if you can’t give up your TiVo interface, here’s a cheap way to roll your own, HTPC style—$60 for Nero Liquid TV software and a tuner card. Crave posted a pretty good $70 price, a far cry from the $199 retail and $132 it…
The Windows 7 burger is region-locked to Japan. Fortunately one amazing hacker found a way to reverse engineer the sandwich for region-free consumption. You’re looking at the results: the world’s first unlocked cheeseburger. https://gizmodo.com/japan-welcomes-windows-7-with-seven-layer-whopper-burge-5387448 This hacker also accomplished what may be the world’s first burger jailbreak. There’s a ton of functionality added in like cheese…
The Times ran a story today about people they (somewhat oddly) call “Refuseniks”: Those who refuse to get cellphones not due to price but to a moral stance. Unsurprisingly, it’s not necessarily the most practical choice, even for them. These Refuseniks (which have nothing to do with the Soviet Jews to whom this term is…
In yesterday’s earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed that streaming would soon arrive on a mystery device with a “material installed base.” Hey, Reed, could you do me a favor? Please make it the PS3. Normally I wouldn’t ask, but you and I have a connection. No, not in a weird way. We’re alumni…
Here’s the pitch: a 10-inch, almost-pocketable computer running Snow Leopard, the latest, greatest version of OS X. It costs just $300. Sound good? Here’s how to make your own. Why You Should Do This Last time we threw together a guide like this, things were different. Snow Leopard was but a glint in Steve Jobs’…
After two years of dignified service on consumer handsets, the United States Military is now looking to send the plucky mobile OS into battle packing a new app from Raytheon. Updated Raytheon’s new Android application, appropriately named the Raytheon Android Tactical System, lets soldiers set up buddy lists that can track the location of other…
On this week’s 30 Rock, we found out Jack’s (or Jack’s designer’s) choice of computer, and it’s a weird one: It’s a prop model of a forcefully-branded Windows computer, yet 30 Rock has historically been in love with Apple products. Warning: Clip is US-only. U-S-A! U-S-A! At first glance I thought it was a black…
Think about how hot your car gets on a sunny day. Dell decided to harvest all that wasted energy by installing these solar panels in their parking lot. Now they’re keeping cars cool and putting that sunlight to good use. The structure generates 130 kilowatts of solar power, enough to offset 145,000 lbs of greenhouse…
Storm owners—head here tomorrow for the latest OS update. No OTA option, you’ll have to go through the website or Desktop Manager. Expect some new features on top of the kicker: better text input. [Erictric via Unwired View]
Don’t hold your breath for the ZFS filesystem to appear in any future Snow Leopard updates. A message yesterday on the project’s homepage very clearly acknowledges that development has stopped completely. A message on MacOS Forge tersely states, The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. There…
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