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Remember AT&T’s hilariously ironic request for the FCC to investigate Google Voice for not following net neutrality rules? The FCC is all over it, and has sent a letter to Google asking why and how Google Voice blocks certain calls. https://gizmodo.com/now-at-t-wants-the-fcc-to-investigate-google-voice-5368114 The FCC’s interested in part because some lawmakers jumped on its ass, but also…
Archos 5 tablet models starts trickling out, Garmin’s latest GPS is shipping, and best Buy rewards Zone members can get an HTC Hero on Sprint two days early. • The 160GB Archos 5 tablet is leaving Amazon’s warehouses now, but you’ll have to wait if you want to pick up other capacities. The guys at…
I’m no warmonger, but I can think of no finer way to waste Friday afternoon than spending 10 minutes of the company’s time watching bullets striking various objects at one million frames per second. The footage is just totally unbelievable. To reach far beyond typical high speed photography (keep in mind, we’re talking over 41,000…
A worth a read, if only for the anecdote of electric car criticism from a century ago. [NYTimes]
Maybe I jumped the gun too fast yesterday, slamming Microsoft for including advertising in the free Microsoft Office Starter 2010, to be included with many new PCs next year. This is how they look, on the bottom right corner. https://gizmodo.com/bloatfest-microsoft-office-starter-2010-edition-to-hav-5377481 We missed these yesterday in the snoozing promotional videos in the Office page. They are…
It’s unclear how well Command & Conquer Red Alert is going to translate, control-wise, to the iPhone’s touchscreen, but the graphics in these screenshots aren’t half bad. They’re not up to par in today’s console or PC graphics, but they do look about the same as what I remember in the first few C&C games…
Adam’s disturbing adventure with the Fleshlight (NSFW) this week got me thinking about the flipside of sex with machines. What about our emotional needs? https://gizmodo.com/i-had-sex-with-furniture-the-shameful-nsfw-fleshligh-5375323 German designer Stefan Ulrich’s Funktionide is like a body pillow best friend (or lover as this video suggests). https://gizmodo.com/funktionide-substitutes-human-contact-if-you-are-a-big-5375376 Based on EAP-technology “Funktionide” is a concept for an emotional robot…
I don’t really have to explain this one, do I? It’s called iPew and it’s 99 cents and it’s got rockets and lasers and fire and bullets and it’s awesome. [iTunes, Thanks Kevin!]
Of course Microsoft is behind this government inquiry into IBM over antitrust issues. Ballmer is going nuts because he wants to own the glass house and for years he’s tried and failed to pry customers away from those fugly old mainframes. [FakeSteveJobs]
Boy Genius hears T-Mobile’s Project Dark (aka Black) contains two things: a bunch of phones launch, like the Cliq and BlackBerry 9700, and more importantly, a “very, very rapid expansion” of T-Mobile 3G network—the 21Mbps HSPA one. Update: https://gizmodo.com/expectations-of-t-mobiles-mysterious-project-black-ar-5377678 There’s actually more to it, possibly: A new “Everything Unlimited” plan that’ll be $50 for all-you-can-eat…
Police has arrested a 32-yo physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, linking him to an Al Qaeda terrorist group. Just fraking great. As if we didn’t have enough with the morons predicting Apocalypse and the thing failing on its own. https://gizmodo.com/spammer-keeps-whining-about-large-hadron-collider-asspl-392324 Click for artistic impression of terrorist at CERN According to French newspaper Le Figaro,…
Get that weekend redecorating project started with a quart of Glidden paint. Hopefully the job is small enough that a quart is all you’ll need. Thanks Don for helping out with the list. Have a great weekend everyone! Top Deals: • 12.1″ Dell Vostro 1220 Core2Duo Laptop for $698 plus shipping (normally $1040 – use…
What We’ll Miss Boomboxes Boomboxes forced social interaction. Yes, they may have sometimes been disruptive, but at least they were egalitarian: anyone could whip out a so-called “ghetto blaster” if they wanted to determine which song everyone else would hear. Today’s public places are flooded with people living in their own little aural universes. Personal…
Windows Mobile 6.5‘s dirtiest secret is that all the good bits—the Marketplace, My Phone—work on all 6.x phones. Marketplace for 6.0 and 6.1 is officially slated for December, but with a dead-simple trick, you can download it now. Members at XDA, a cloistered online pit of despair where thousands of obsessed individuals diligently find, execute…
This t-shirt visualizes what we’ve all known for a long time: He who merges with the caffeine merges with the power. $20. [Glennz Tees via Fashionably Geek]
Sony unveiled their promising touchscreen all-in-one PC earlier this week, but we had little idea how it really worked. A new video walks us through the entire $1300, 24-inch system, and it looks pretty nice: https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-l-all-in-one-the-high-def-living-room-touchs-5376704 Click to view However, the most notable feature compared to its competition —and one not necessarily new to the…
Yep, Photoshop on the iPhone. At first glance, it’s not much different from other light iPhone photo editing apps, except it’s tied to their online service, but the effects and interface look above average. And, uh, freeness. The tools are basic—you can crop, adjust exposure, saturation, and tint, among others, with some standard special effects…
Here’s a fantastic idea for a product: A coffee maker that responds to voice commands…just not a voice command to “make me some freaking coffee!” Offered by Hammacher Schlemmer: This is the first voice-interactive coffee maker that asks, “Would you like to set the clock or set the coffee brewing time?” and operates in response…
I’m not sure how much we can weight we can put in the prognostications of Eric Schmidt, since he doesn’t even know when the company he’s theoretically in charge of buys entire other companies for millions of dollars, BUT if you’re just looking for some hope, he says that Chrome for Mac will be done…
Researcher Mohd Abubakr says that his circular periodic table is better than Mendeleev’s. I’d have given him the Nobel in chemistry—if Obama hadn’t got it first for mixing himself a whiskey with Red Bull onboard Air Force One. Abubakr—who works at Microsoft Research in Hyderabad—says that if you arrange the table in circular form it…
