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The March 10, 1918 Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA) ran this illustration of the motor car of the future. If so inclined, one can read the entire article here. But let’s face it, you’re just here for the pretty pictures. The new car will be all glass-enclosed and controlled entirely by a set of push buttons.…
Windows Mobile 6.5 rolls-out tomorrow, so expect to hear about a bunch of new handsets this week. Getting in early, AT&T has gotten official with its versions of HTC’s TouchPro 2 (Tilt 2; shown left) and Touch Diamond2 (Pure). Both phones use an enhanced TouchFLO 3D interface on top of WinMo 6.5, and here’s how…
A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. and it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? Nothing for the iPhone. “Still a closed device and not much progress there,” Adobe told…
As part of a legal maneuver worthy of Monster Cable, Apple has set its lawyers on Australia’s largest supermarket chain because their new logo is (they say) a tad too similar to their own. Exhibit A, Woolworths newly redesigned logo, is on the left. Apple’s iconic apple logo is on the right. Not that similar…
The Elekit EK Amp—a vacuum tube hybrid stereo amplifier—was designed by Koichi Futatsumata, but it could have been designed by Jon Ive or Dieter Rams himself. Simple, pure lines, and most probably out of my price range. https://gizmodo.com/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future-343641 The amplifier is made by a Japanese audio equipment manufacturer that usually sells do-it-yourself kits. The EK…
If Tom Hanks’ character had had this steamer trunk in Joe Versus the Volcano, he could have probably Googled “brain cloud,” discovered it was bullshit, and saved himself—and us—from having to sit through that movie. That’s because this steamer trunk has a secret—it doubles as a portable office worthy of the Titanic. That said, don’t…
WebOS 1.2(.1) is here, and yes: It broke homebrew. Amazingly, it only took devs about two days to bounce back. Here’s how to bring hundreds of free apps, tweaks and themes to your Pre, without flashing your firmware. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pres-webos-1-2-goes-live-5369604 Why Homebrew? Paid apps are due in the official App Catalog any day now—actually they’re running…
Cellphone recycling services are ubiquitous today, but this is the first time I’ve seen the process automated and presented in a convenient ATM-like package. Updated. Supposedly, the ecoATM went live on Friday, in an Omaha furniture store, of all places. Update: It’s not a store, it’s a mart! Nebraska Furniture Mart. And it’s huge! The…
Seemingly right out of the Flight of the Navigator, this “Power Boat” sculpture is one Paul Reubens robot voice short of taking flight and time traveling around Lake Michigan. The “boat” is meant to inspire, says creator/product designer Joey Ruiter. Power Boat: For very small people or no place to sit. You decide. The Power…
Apparently, every T-Mobile Sidekick user from sea to shining sea has been without data access on their mobiles this weekend. Unfortunately, word on the wire is access should have returned yesterday (but it didn’t). How do we know this outage is serious business? Because it’s a trending topic on Twitter right now, that’s how. Celebrity…
As a child, learning to ride a bike vexed me to no end. While my friends zipped around the neighborhood on two wheels, I plodded along on four, thanks to an embarrassing set of “training wheels.” Good news: They’re doomed. And it’s all thanks to this ingenious gyro-equipped bike wheel. Like the Seqway before it,…
The 3G capable BlackBerry 9700, rumored to have a completely unconfirmed November 11 launch date on T-Mobile, was recently spotted lounging around on some bloke’s floor. https://gizmodo.com/remainders-things-we-didnt-post-5362192/ And that’s pretty much it for now. Last we reported on this phone the release date was unconfirmed but realistic (November 11), the touch-based track pad was interesting,…
The Bellings Media Chef digitally displays recipe videos while you cook. Now, I’m not saying you could do this with your laptop and save money, but I am totally telling you could do this with your laptop and save money. Or better yet, do what I do: Forget this thing and take out one of…
The Google gods have spoken this weekend, and the message is “thin”—at least when it comes to a few MacBook and iMac ads that popped up in the Netherlands anyway. Of course, we kind of knew this to be the case already, thanks to the FCC, but this little bit of info helps solidify exactly…
Today’s Best Buy leak takes the form of a who’s who of holiday hardware releases for the retailer’s mobile department: Nokia Booklet netbook – October 25th launch (AT&T activation) Sprint HTC Hero – October 11th Sprint Palm Pixi – launch date TBD Verizon Storm II – launch date TBD Verizon Android device – launch date…
One intrepid PSPGo owner—no doubt frustrated, like Mark was, with the portable’s strange pricing structure and continued lack of dual thumb sticks—has attempted to spruce it up with a bit of color. https://gizmodo.com/pspgo-review-psp-goes-nowhere-you-havent-been-5367059 LED color, to be precise, and I must say the clean, new design is almost good enough to distract me from the…
You saw the 3D images more than a year ago, and here’s the real thing: The all new, amazing, and near-supersonic Gulfstream 650. https://gizmodo.com/near-supersonic-gulfstream-650-unveiled-steve-jobs-get-367924 The new Gulfstream 650 can take you anywhere in a 8,000 miles radius at Mach 0.925 and 41,000 feet. It is powered by dual Dual Rolls-Roice BR725 engines, which makes it…
I once had a crush for a Swedish girl named Lisa. Now I wish it worked out, just to be able to wear this “In Love with Lisa” t-shirt and don’t feel like a total Apple dork. [iPhoneSavior via Etsy]
The February, 1985 issue of The Futurist magazine featured a piece about a permanent settlement on the moon by 2007. NASA envisions the completion of a permanent settlement on the moon by the year 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the space age. The final design of the base should be completed by the early 1990s,…
If you like astronomy, here’s a very simple event that you can see without special instruments, even if you are in a city: The harvest moon. In fact, if you are in a city, it will look even more spectacular. The Harvest Moon is the full moon after the fall equinox, which this year was…
