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After closing Thursday night, we had a bit of spare time and so ended up just hanging out and running a few tests on the Volcano Vaporizer and the Chefstack pancake machine. They passed. Gizmodo Gallery 2009 Details Groupe 267 Elizabeth Street New York, NY 10012 The Gallery is open now through this Sunday, September…
A-Holes Make $4,000 Per Day on Viagra Spam…Fungus-Treated Violin Sounds Better Than Stradivarius…Chinese iPhone Pricing: The Opposite of AT&T…Heating and Air Conditioning via Window Panes? I learned a scary thing today: Pharmaceutical spam can generate over $4,000 per day, says Ars, calculated by the commission the referring spammers get from sales at online pharmacies. In…
Picking gadgets is hard enough when you know about all the gadgets that are more or less in the ballpark you’re looking for, but what if you’re starting naked? Measy may make the process easier by asking you questions. All you have to do (eventually, when the site’s launched) is fill in details like brand…
Some people use their Kindles to read books. Others get Kindles to spend hours practicing crazy moves with them, like this reader today at the Gizmodo Gallery. Watch him spin the Kindle like a Michael Jordan would spin a basketball. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-gallery-2009-the-details-5360008 Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see…
Ramp Champ, a $2 iPhone game by the Iconfactory guys, is guaranteed to look good—and it does. But does it play well? Yeah, it does. Combine the addictiveness of skeeball with the iPhone-ness of flicking something with your finger and you get Ramp Champ. Various icons (it’s Iconfactory, after all) pop up, move around and…
Oh, those smart rascals at Microsoft are on a roll. I love their Courier tablet concept, and now they may have found the way to make on-screen multitouch keyboards actually work great—even for touch typists like me. https://gizmodo.com/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet-5365299 The problem with screen keyboards is that you actually have to look at the screen to hit…
Think about how many times you use gimmicky apps—fart generators, zit poppers—past the first few days after you downloaded them. Now think about news and social networking ones. Big difference, right? This study by Flurry Inc. shows that news apps are used and retained the most past a 90 day period after purchase, followed up…
Tokyo Game Show, new Halo, Metal Gear and Call of Duty games, more on Project Natal…it’s been a huge week in gaming, even beyond all the stuff that we reported. Here’s the stuff you should be sure to read. Playing Space Invaders, Katamari Damacy on Natal Nataaaaaaaaaaallll!!!! Halo 3: ODST Review: The More Vulnerable Edition…
Let’s take a second to reflect upon how far we’ve come, from phone owners without the near-decade-old service that people don’t really use that much, to people with it. That far! In other, slightly more scheduled iPhone news: some apps! https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-iphone-mms-carrier-update-is-live-5367894 12Mail: MMS has only been working on the iPhone for what, four hours? So,…
Like with the jump from DirectX 9 to DirectX 10, you’ll have to really concentrate hard to see what’s changed between the two versions. If you can even really tell which version is which. https://gizmodo.com/directx-9-vs-directx-10-worth-upgrading-to-vista-for-243099 In that first shot with the swine flu guy, it seems the one on the right is a bit nicer…
This AT&T/Google/Apple catfight over Google Voice gets stranger as AT&T asks the FCC to investigate Google Voice for not adhering to federally mandated call-blocking regulations. As in Google Voice is blocking some calls. AT&T claims that FCC regulations enforce net neutrality on all phone carriers, forcing all calls to be connected no matter where the…
That’s Windows 7, not a mini-Linux OS like Splashtop. It’s also from a powered-off state, not sleep mode. Pretty impressive. And much of that speed comes from turning on a laptop’s devices (hard disk, ports, etc) in just 1 second. Phoenix’s Instant Boot BIOS is UEFI based, which means it can turn on those devices…
Livestream has created an, uh, livestream for us that aggregates six 3G cards and two WiFi cards to get a 1-2mbit stream going. We’ll use it to transmit the show tonight at 8pm EST and the rest of Gizmodo Gallery. Click to view Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter…
Here’s your chance to find out my friends. Oobject has complied 14 examples of Steve Ballmer selling Microsoft with a side order of crazy. Check it out—if you dare. [Oobject]
iPhone MMS just went live, and already there’s crazy stuff to do with it: Send a photo to a custom email address at Yfrog via MMS, and it’ll be tweeted automatically. Plus, you can use more than 140 characters. [
In case you forgot, we’re hosting a Giz Gallery Arc Attack concert today at 8pm. We have space for the first 100 people who show up, and you’ll have a chance to play with the new PSPGo. At 8 PM we’ll be clearing out the gallery briefly so that we can setup for the meetup.…
Gizmodo Gallery ’09 is in full swing in NYC, open daily now through Sunday. If you haven’t swung by—or just can’t because it’s too far away—here are some of the attractions and interactions that you’re missing: One of a kind Thriller themed headphones. https://gizmodo.com/michael-jackson-thriller-headphones-have-dual-meanings-5305574/ Amazing geek gadget and console themed iPhone cases! Classic arcade games!…
Much to my dismay, I’ll be spending a lot of time in airports this weekend—so I’ve dug up some products that might make life a little easier on the layover. It seems like economy seats on airplanes are made for Hobbits. If only I was riding first class on a Swiss International flight. The new…
It’s a little odd, but this keyboard key-shaped card reader is actually pretty functional. It’s compact and supports SDHC 2.0, SD, micro SDHC, microSD/T-flash, Sony M2, Memory Stick and MS Duo for only $12. [USB Geek via TechFresh]
There is a buy two get one free deal on 23″ Samsung monitors today, perfect for realizing all your multi-display setup fantasies. Muse’s Absolution is going for $2.99, be sure to check that out along with their great new album. Top Deals: • Timbuk2 H.A.L Backpack, reviewed here, for $59.99 plus free shipping (normally $99).…
