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Do-It-Yourself humans! Lust for the Dremel 4000—the magic rotating tool that can sand surfaces, carve wood, polish metal, scramble eggs, mix cocktails, and overstimulate naughty bits with different tips—for it’s the new king of the multifunction tool hill. It has new replaceable motor with electronic feedback control, which in theory will give you consistent speed…
Further proving that the Shroud of Turin—a linen cloth that believers say covered Jesus after the crucifixion—is a big fake, scientists have made a reproduction using inexpensive materials and easy techniques from the Middle Ages. This is how: Italian chemist Luigi Garlaschelli and his team used the same type of linen. First they aged the…
HTC’s most awesome Windows Mobile 6.5 phone isn’t coming here: The HD2 has a giganto 480×800 screen and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor inside of a 11mm-thinner-than-the-iPhone body. And, it’s the first WM phone running Sense, of Hero fame. https://gizmodo.com/htc-hero-review-ambitious-but-tragically-flawed-5318860 Update: It’s coming to the US, later. [HTC]
If the Marlboro man were enlisted in the KGB circa 1960, chances are he would have been outfitted with these lighter cuff links. Speculative legends aside, these cuff links (measuring less than an inch each way and fillable with regular lighter fluid) really were dispensed by gumball machines around 50 years ago. Today, such a…
Say what you will about Dysons, but the vacuums are a heck of a lot of fun to photograph.
Free from the planning and the scaffolding, the $1.5 million Gigantor (or Tetsujin) statue is now complete. https://gizmodo.com/japan-building-another-gigantic-robot-tetsujin-5303735 Measuring 60 feet tall and weighing in at 50 tons, just pray that a lightning bolt doesn’t strike the giant robot, lest he develop a consciousness before doing movie/TV impressions all day long. [Robot Watch via CrunchGear]
Verizon has some of the crappiest phones available, so there’s been no shortage of leaks about it getting an Android phone. Now the Verizon/Google love-affair is official: Big Red will introduce two Android-based handsets “within the next few weeks”. https://gizmodo.com/why-verizon-customers-cant-have-nice-things-5361903 Verizon plans to support Google Voice, saying you either have an open device or you…
Hard drives have become so generic and commoditized, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD’s My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock. As cool as the e-labels concept is—soon to be found on My Book Elite (USB…
A tipster has dished up a number of photos and spec details on a previously unknown Gateway Tablet PC. Likely arriving on October 22nd (alongside Windows 7), it has a convertible 11.6-inch screen, and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It’s believed the EC18T will support up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, and have Mobile…
I’m still not sure about this dual-screen laptop thing, but it’s interesting to see more concepts come out of the woodwork. The latest is Kohjinsha’s dual 10.1-inch screen netbook prototype, which is on display at the CEATEC show in Japan. Like Lenovo W700, one screen can slide behind the other if you don’t need to…
I’m not a fan of Verizon, but their newest ad made me giggle like a little girl. It’s a nice little jab at AT&T through mockery of Apple’s “There’s an app for that” tagline. [YouTube via Digital Daily]
It’s got avatars, chat, and premium songs, oh my! Soon-to-be-released Tap Tap Revenge 3 focuses on the social side of things, and it looks like it might pull it off well. Or maybe I’m just giddy about the Tiësto tracks. Avatars and chat are the key to Tap Tap Revenge 3’s social side. The game…
The App Store Finally Flashes Some Nipple…Feds Want Bloggers to Disclose Bribes—But Others Can Keep On Taking Them?…Sony’s PlayStation Motion Controller Has a Codename (Spoilers Ahead)…Apple Gets Huffy With Environment Haters OK, it’s not “pornography” (I can tell because I don’t want to pay for it, to riff on the old saying) but there’s a…
There have been mentions of odd limits on how many apps you can install on your Palm Pre. Now there are whispers that Palm is ignoring this issue entirely. What gives, Palm? Don’t want to profit from app sales? The talk began with an innocent forum inquiry: I can’t recall how many built in applications…
Intrepid Runway Girl Mary Kirby has got her hands on the new Griffin eXport In-Flight Video Cable, which will let you connect your iPhone or iPod to the in-flight entertainment system in your airplane seat, displaying content and data. The Griffin cable uses the Panasonic eXport port standard, which is approved by Apple under the…
A anonymous source told MobileCrunch that Microsoft’s Pink phone project might be in trouble. The source is anonymous, but sounds like someone who either worked for the project or somehow has a lot of insider knowledge of it. They say a good chunk of the Danger/Sidekick team that Microsoft purchased for their phone knowledge actually…
Apartment hunting sucks, so I can’t blame Bruce Townsley for just plain giving up and moving into an abandoned nuclear missile silo. Actually, after seeing more pictures of the place, I kinda wanna follow his example. It started as a 2,200 square foot fixer-upper with 6,000-pound blast doors and a “185-foot hole in the ground…
Forget the mockups of the Blackberry Essex, what may be a picture of the real thing has leaked along with news of Dakota, RIM’s first phone with a “touchscreen in a conventional shape” and a “liquid lens.” https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-essex-the-tour-plus-wi-fi-and-a-trackpad-5350386 Yeah, it’s a blurry pic and it vaguely looks like the Tour (as expected), but then again…
Only Gama-Go would be able to take a Cassette Tape and make it into a pun-based product that’s both useful and compact. Plus, it’s only $8. [Gama-Go]
PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right. Seems unbelievable but—as the video shows—it works: According to authors, their software can take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images…
