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Woman Disarms Terrorist With Ax, Then Shoots Him With His Own AK-47…Windows 7 XP Mode Is Ready For Realsies…Skype Rumored To Become Lenovo Crapware…Windows Mobile, Symbian To Dominate World Smartphone Biz in 5 Years??? A 21-year-old woman who lives with her brother and parents on the India side of the disputed India-Pakistani border was in…
Why use two lenses when one is better? Sony’s announced that they’re developing a single lens 3D camera with a frame rate of 240fps and none (ok, ok: less) of those freaky misalignments 3D cameras can have. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-camcorder-packs-two-lenses-for-full-hd-in-3d-5220145 The emphasis is on smooth and speedy. 240fps 3D filming would be great to begin with, but…
We’re certainly excited about how we’ll view digital media in the future, but this particular concept design is my favorite. The Infinite Book is a funky reader with a hinge for endless folding of pages to vaguely mimic newspaper reading. https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-maga-5370252 Designed by Ewald Neuhofer, the Infinite Book really does look more like a brochure…
Utah’s getting harsh on texting while driving, but it looks like Florida may be among the first states to issue some serious punishment: A 17 year old man is facing a second degree felony and seven first-degree misdemeanor charges. https://gizmodo.com/utah-now-punishes-texting-while-driving-with-up-to-15-y-5348572 According to subpoenaed cell phone records “Riccardo Blas Rivas II had been sending text messages…
The kid who sued Amazon for eating his homework just won in court, to the tune of $150,000. Yep, remember the kid who had his notes from George Orwell’s 1984 deleted along with Amazon’s mass eradication of the work from all Kindles? That little mofo just won in court, splitting a $150,000 settlement with a…
Boy Genius has word from an anonymous source that the Palm Pixi should be hitting all Sprint and Best Buy locations on October 20. Few other details are offered up on Palm’s second WebOS phone, but if it’s going to come out before the end of the year, the date seems logical. [BGR] https://gizmodo.com/palm-pixi-hands-on-the-smaller-pre-with-a-better-keybo-5355112
Directed by Niko Tziopanos, and azzparently starring a wholalotlot of Harry Potter’s Death Eater wannabes, this advertising for Central China Television has me completely mesmerized today. I just can’t have enough of that ink-in-water effect. [Likecool]
Pity poor Bill Gates! In this terrible economy, he lost $7 billion last year, bringing his net worth down to… $50 Billion. Don’t worry! He’s still the richest man on the planet, but he’s less richer than everybody else than last year. Other losers on this year’s Forbes 400 include Paul Allen, who lost $4.5…
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Lower pricing hasn’t made the Apple TV set-top box a smash hit. Last month, Apple gave its digital living room gadget more bang for the buck, knocking $100 off its 160 GB Apple TV, to $229, and killing off its smaller version. That has not made it a must-have gadget. At Amazon, it’s ranked the…
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac is landing tomorrow. Good news? It works and it’s fast. And since it syncs your info and media in the same app, I think it’s actually better than dealing with BlackBerry on Windows. Crazy. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-desktop-manager-for-mac-lands-october-2nd-5371152 It doesn’t look or feel particularly Mac-like, but it is easy to figure out and…
Because that’s how E-Ink works, get it!? Well, it was either that or a joke about Amazon remote–deleting these folks’ legitimately conceived future children. https://gizmodo.com/big-brother-amazon-remotely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-5317180 This is a found photo from a Facebook album, without context, which leaves some nagging questions: Is it a Kindle, or a Kindle 2? (The coloration up top screams Kindle…
This is the Punch Camera by designer Matty Martin, which was featured at the Intel University Design Expo. And I want it. Instead of using ink, it actually punches images on blank paper. And that’s just the beginning of it. After converting the image into a half-tone, the puncturing mechanism moves dot by dot. When…
Nielsen’s mobile web statics show that, from July 2008 to July 2009, the demographic groups of 65+, female and 13-17 showed the most usage growth. The least? 18-24 year olds, who are all up in this mobile web already. Also equally interesting: we have a higher percentage of male readers than the NFL, the NBA…
Yesterday, while touring a new building on Microsoft’s campus, I came across an anechoic chamber: A room designed to eliminate all noise from outside—and in. I spent about 5 minutes locked inside, and man is it freaky. The chamber is actually its own “box-in-box” building, like the Time Warner Center’s Rose Theater. It rests on…
App concepts don’t get much simpler than this, or much cooler: Cyclopedia takes Wikipedia’s tens of thousands of geotagged entries, and overlays them onto a live, compass-oriented view of your surroundings. If this sounds an awful lot like Wikitude, the AR Android app that just can’t seem to eek its way into the App Store,…
Unless my Google skills are failing me, this Panasonic 360-Degree iron is the first iron to have the pointed tip at both sides of the iron. It’s been staring us in the face for 100 years, and Panasonic’s is first? By making the back of the iron pointed instead of flat, like every single other…
The I am T-Pain iPhone app just got the song you were waiting for: On a Boat. https://gizmodo.com/i-am-t-pain-iphone-app-is-auto-tuning-genius-5352299 Not only can you sing your own version of On a Boat now, with your own lyrics describing how you are on a [plane, train, toilet, supermarket kiddie ride], Smule is having a contest that you can…
Alas, not for everyone: Having sent the update to Ion developer phones just a few days ago, T-Mobile is commencing a gradual rollout that should finish up in the next few days. Here’s what you’ll get, with this Donut: • Universal-ish search with an updated “Quick Search” box • Much fast camera performance, with a…
Or gets a blue screen of death. Or has a red trackpoint that gets dirty and gets worn down. Yep, the precursor to the original IBM ThinkPad was just a pad, with the word “Think” imprinted on its leather binding. Apparently this pen and paper ThinkPad was what inspired an IBM researcher to name the…
