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Consider it an IQ test for potential new friends: Those who think you’re wearing an infinity watch pass; those who just see an “8”…well, we’re sure they’re still very nice (*ahem* Matt Buchanan *ahem*). Complicated at first glance, this DOGNE watch breaks infinity into a 24-hour clock. Then minute information is displayed along the periphery.…
According to a major Light Peak provider’s plans, products with the ultrafast connectivity standard may arrive as soon as early 2010. Apple helped in its development. Apple is rumored to adopt it first. Yes, you know where this is going. https://gizmodo.com/intel-light-peak-optical-tech-achieves-insane-10gb-s-sp-5366186 Taiwanese Foci Fiber Optic Communication said to Cnet that “it will start mass producing…
Things I didn’t expect to read today, part II: Steve Ballmer saying that the Windows 7 launch could in fact resemble Vista’s very grisly debut: https://gizmodo.com/its-true-anything-is-possible-5377100 “‘The test feedback (on Windows 7) has been good, but the test feedback on Vista was good,’ Ballmer, 53, said in an interview last week. ‘I am optimistic, but…
On the list of things I believed I would never, ever read, Walt Mossberg, of the Walt Street Journal, saying this about Windows doesn’t fall very far behind a long op-ed by Glenn Beck describing Obama’s healthcare reform as “brilliant.” Walt, after all, is the basis for this. And this. Microsoft should be very proud,…
So you’ve got the FCC, to whom you’ve just made a very public concession, on your back. How do you remind the world, and your regulators, that you’re still totally over net neutrality? From AT&T’s CEO, a case study. https://gizmodo.com/apocalypse-nigh-at-t-opens-network-for-voip-over-3g-on-5375674 PCWorld caught Ralph de la Vega making a few, um, intimations at CTIA yesterday. First,…
I thought this photo was of pollen. It’s not. Really, those are the protrusions on a starfish at 66x magnification, captured on a dSLR. Nikon Rumors reviewed the Nikon-compatible Fabre Photo EX DSLR Stereoscopic Microscope, a $1,600 lens that pwns macro photography pretty hard. https://gizmodo.com/nikons-fabre-photo-ex-dslr-stereoscopic-microscope-blow-5146675 Here’s a video they captured of a millipede. So gross,…
Back in April, some pretty interesting renders of Toshiba’s upcoming mobile product line leaked out, and now seemingly near production-ready versions of the slick-looking WinMo 6.5 devices are on show at CEATEC (Japan’s version of CES). Take a look: https://gizmodo.com/leaked-toshiba-k01-k02-and-l01-ultraportables-love-fol-5211338 The K01 (shown above) is a QWERTY slider with a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, and is…
I used an Nvidia Nforce-based motherboard in the first computer I ever built, so I’m a little sad to see that Nvidia’s freezing all development on their Nforce chipset because of licensing issues with Intel, primarily over whether or not Nvidia’s license covers chipsets for Nehalem-based processors. Nvidia’s not developing new chipsets for AMD’s processors,…
Jason lurves Windows Home Server—it does automated backups over your network, streams movies, music and photos and is a general-purpose fileshare. If you don’t wanna hand HP $400, Maximum PC’s got a build-to-stream guide to rolling your own. https://gizmodo.com/hp-lx195-budget-windows-home-server-review-5270439 And, even if you’d rather buy a pre-made box—built-in Time Machine support for Macs is a…
Fujitsu says that their F-Circle concept phone—designed by Yuji Ito and shown at CEATEC in Japan—has a “timeless appearance.” Liars. I know your cellphone comes straight from the 60s, and apparently it can detect land mines. [Pink Tentacle]
At Japan’s CEATEC show, Toshiba and KDDI are demonstrating a modified Toshiba T002 phone that’s powered by a direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) and Li-Ion battery. More advanced than previous prototypes, it runs for 320 hours on a squirt of methanol. DMFCs produce electricity from a reaction of methanol, water, and air—the only by-products are a…
We heard rumors this week that Dell’s Mini 3i Android phone could come to the U.S, and now the Wall Street Journal says it’s AT&T who asked Dell to tweak the phone—and the result may arrive next year. https://gizmodo.com/dell-bringing-mini-3i-android-smartphone-to-us-5375824 The WSJ says sources “briefed on the plans” say the phone will be similar to the…
I’m a stair-taker because elevators and escalators give me nightmares, but for all those lazy folks who don’t have fear motivating them to take the steps, there are these piano stairs. How could you not want musical accompaniment like that? OK, so maybe you don’t want to hear a playful tune as you skip up…
We keep our noses clean here at Gizmodo, so we’re finding ourselves a bit surprised that someone as upstanding as Carl Sagan, astronomer extraordinaire, was a stoner. It does kinda explain the obsessions with all things shiny and starry though. https://gizmodo.com/i-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-a-vaporizer-and-pancak-5368152 In 1969, under the name of Mr. X, Sagan contributed to a book called…
Look, I get that this mini dress is a Halloween costume, but I can’t help but want to wear it right now and look like a walkin’, talkin’ pair of 3D glasses. [Etsy via Fashionably Geek via Boing Boing]
Kingston’s followup to its MobileLite, the MobileLite G2, brings a new, dual-slider design that aims to protect your SD/HC and microSD/HC cards from harm. It’s the most caring card reader on the market. https://gizmodo.com/kingston-mobilelite-9-in-1-card-reader-is-small-conven-258399 The MobileLite G2 features a dual-slider design: On one side lies the USB plug, and on the other, the card readers.…
Iomega’s on to something with the StorCenter ix2-200: built-in torrent and Time Machine support, Bluetooth-based uploads from phones, remote access, and lotsa spiffy features wrapped up in an earth-friendly green gadget. Together with the $270 price point, that’s appealing all-around. It looks kinda chubby and short, but the StorCenter ix2-200’s full of features to appeal…
It sucks that batteries are nearly bigger than the gadgets they’re powering, but thanks to University of Missouri researchers and some tiny nuclear batteries, that’ll one day be an issue of the past. Yeah, you read right. Tiny. Nuclear. Batteries. The real secret behind the size of the batteries is the use of new liquid…
An Owl in a Box…Google Finally Solves PDF Searching…Lo and Behold: Teens Prefer the Apple…Rock Band Coming to iPhone? We could try to justify this post in many ways, but it would be a stretch. We can’t even call BS and claim it’s Photoshop. The fact is, it’s just an owl in a box. And…
We’ve looked at wireless, inductive chargers in the past, but none of them had a commercial quite as fun as the Powermat. It almost tempts us to spend $100 on it along with the extra $40 per special case. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-touchcharge-wireless-charger-for-ps3-5098895 Wireless charging is still in its infancy, but the idea is great: you have a…
