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If they weren’t just a concept, you could spruce up that barren concrete wall with glowing stars, hearts, unicorns—pretty much everything awesome. By NOTHING dESIGN GROUP, the concrete-constructed Brick Light can be interspersed with other blocks to create that starry atmosphere that you can pretend is girly…but we know your tastes. The downfall, aside from…
While some may note the prominent placement of the NVIDIA Tegra, others will check the inside of the case. The inscription reads “For Our Princess” and serves as a tribute to a Zune team member who passed during development. [anythingbutipod] https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-packs-nvidia-tegra-better-video-and-better-bat-5293404
Don’t say we didn’t tell you. Windows 7 is bringing the multitouch laptops and Fujitsu’s T5010 is jumping in the pool too. It can’t do four way touch like the ThinkPadT400s, but it will take two fingers no problem. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-touch-and-multitouch-gesturing-pen-controls-5147307 You will have to pick up the LifeBook T5010 with its new capacitive touchscreen with…
Seagate woke up and smelled the coffee, adding a much needed 1080p HDMI output port, Ethernet connectivity, and Dolby Digital and DTS 2.0 to their FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player. The new FreeAgent Theater+ also gets new video codecs. https://gizmodo.com/seagates-freeagent-theater-hd-media-player-is-a-set-top-5157609 The list of supported formats now include MPEG-1 MPEG-2 (VOB/ISO), MPEG-4 (DivX(R)/Xvid formats), DivX HD,…
A little over-dramatic, right? Just like Sony Ericsson’s puffed-up claim to change how we listen to music…forever, on September 21st. A new Walkman-phone? Separately, Canon says its September 29 event will be “one of the most important in its history.” The events are in no way related. I mention them together simply to serve as…
If you want to stream 1080p TV shows and movies from the Zune/video store this fall, your 360 needs to be hard wired to your router, or on an 802.11n network. Knowing this, Microsoft is readying an official 802.11n adapter. https://gizmodo.com/netflix-lets-you-add-to-queue-on-xbox-video-store-gets-5274301 We also just found out that the Zune HD will soon be able to…
Have you noticed all the Zune HD unboxing galleries around the Interwebs right now? While it hits stores today, no one’s been able to completely review it yet—Microsoft has only just posted the required Zune 4.0 software online. We’re working on the full review as I type this, but while you wait: • Zune HD…
I know, another tablet rumor right? But stay with me on this one. Taiwan Economic News’ “industry sources” say it’s real, and will have a 9.6-inch touchscreen, HSPDA, a P.A SEMI processor, “long lasting battery” and cost $800 to $1000… The new report gets more specific than previous rumors by breaking down which Taiwanese component…
It looks like a MacBook Pro. It feels like a MacBook Pro—aluminum body, chiclet keys, even a buttonless trackpad. But the Envy’s got an HP logo etched onto its lid. And it might just be better. Don’t act surprised that the Envy 13 and 15 have chiclet keyboards and buttonless multitouch trackpads because HP certainly…
The previous HP EX-487 Windows Home Server was notable both because it was a good WHS, and because it had the ability to support Time Machine over the network on Macs. The EX490 and EX495 do even more. https://gizmodo.com/hp-mediasmart-ex487-server-has-remote-mp3-streaming-ma-5119452 One of the most important additions is the ability to do “bare metal recovery” on a…
The most important thing to remember about the multitouch Apple tablet is that it doesn’t exist. So how about two multitouch laptops that do, from another hardware manufacturer that people actually like? Enter Lenovo’s ThinkPad X200 tablet and T400s. The big news of these two is the 14.1-inch T400s business portable which Lenovo has turned…
This might just be the netbook we’ve been waiting for: An Nvidia Ion-powered HP Mini with an 11-inch, 1366×768 display for 400 bucks. And you can actually buy it soon! September 23. Did I mention it plays 1080p video awesomely? It ships with Windows XP initially, though if you can wait til October, you can…
Look familiar? The HP ProBook looks like their really nice Mini 5101 netbook, but it’s actually packing a full-blown Core 2 Duo, which HP says makes it the “world’s thinnest full performance notebook.” https://gizmodo.com/hp-mini-5101-when-did-netbooks-get-this-nice-5301782/ Unfortunately, that extra inch it’s packed on to be 13 inches with a full keyboard means it’s also priced like a…
NASA to create clouds with a rocket…T-Mobile looking to buy Sprint?…The worst Lamborghini bed ever…Chocolate hard drives, sort of… NASA’s going to launch the cute- and fuzzy-named Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) rocket tomorrow on, no lie, a cloud-making mission. It’ll release dust particles that simulate the formation of clouds, though it’ll make them a…
Wowza. Ivan Messer brings a new meaning to audiophile as he already spent well over five years tweaking and tuning his equipment to perfection. His $1.1 million in Richard Gray and McIntosh audio equipment that is. I doubt that the picture can even convey just how much equipment, time, love and care the guy has…
Hey dad! Look at what Samuel Seide made for his son. How about it? I’m not even asking for an Imperial Walker bed, just a father-daughter mini-arcade machine building session to sacrifice some games, a DVD player, and random electronics. There’s something awesome about this mini-arcade machine and I want to build one so badly…
An MQ-9 Reaper drone’s fail-safe programming failed and it rushed through Afghanistan’s airspace on Sunday. The US Air Force simply responded by sending a manned plane to shoot it down. Turns out this isn’t all that uncommon. Apparently the pilots of an unmanned, but armed, MQ-9 Reaper drone lost control of the UAV a few…
Hitler is not very happy with the iPod touch camera situation. I can’t blame him, actually. He makes a pretty good case, touching all the bases. https://gizmodo.com/why-there-is-no-camera-in-the-ipod-touch-and-why-that-s-5355753
Did you ever have one of those friendship lockets, where you wore one half and your friend wore the other? iTwin is like that, but it’s a USB stick, and it remotely connects your computers over the internet. Obviously, shoving the whole internet between two computers introduces the potential for lots of problems—even with the…
Underneath Woozee’s Jabba the Hutt-meets-Care Bear furry body is ToyBots, an internet-connected toy platform that plays back audio books, spouts location-aware trivia, and that you might be able to tickle online, making it laugh in the real world. Internet-driven toys are the future, sure, but like I said, still unnerving. [FastCompany]
