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Update: After finally hitting the app store, the fully-licensed C64 emulator has been yanked after a user workaround made Apple realize that Manomio didn’t completely ditch the old-skool BASIC 2.0 interpreter it objected to. https://gizmodo.com/fully-licensed-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-by-apple-5298675 Tsk Tsk. Manomio has this to say: Unfortunately, Apple has pulled the C64 Application from their store as it was…
Yeah, they’ve got 240Hz “Flow Motion”, but the draw of the 46- and 52-inch ZX5s is their super-slim 15.8mm and 16.6mm frames. That’s partly due to their edge-mounted LED-backlighting, but also because they receive 1080p video via a wireless receiver. Though the existing 40-inch ZX1 is just 9.9mm thin, it only supports 1080i wireless video…
Previously leaked as the “Click“, HTC’s Tattoo has replaceable covers that you can also design yourself. It runs Android with HTC’s Sense interface (like the Hero), and has a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen (eek), 3.2-megapixel camera, MicroSD storage, and 3.5mm headphone-jack. Update: Other key specs include 240×320 on screen resolution (QVGA), 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM, quad-band…
So about that Asus e-book reader expected by Christmas: The Times suggests that not only could it have dual color touchscreens like the prototype Asus showed at CeBIT (pictured), but it might even undercut Sony and Amazon on price. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-e-book-reader-could-arrive-by-christmas-5346698 Asus pretty much kick-started the whole netbook craze, so it’ll be interesting to see if…
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In this week’s leisurely, labor-friendly app roundup: Watchmen grows up, and grows large; you avoid getting sick; lots of TV gets watched; and Robocop’s got a few things to say to you. Outbreak: An app that aggregates disease outbreak information into either a list or a map overlay, giving you just enough information to be…
At first I thought it was the map for some game level. Or the plans for a new secret underground station of the Dharma Initiative. The answer is a lot more bizarre than that, as the video shows: Click to view Believe it or not, those are the plans for an 8-bit processor which actually…
$130,000. That’s how much Waldo—an autonomous underwater robot from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida—costs. Now they have to find it, and the bloody thing doesn’t even wear a white and red striped sweater. I bet Mote’s scientist Gary Kirkpatrick doesn’t find the irony funny, however: Waldo was making reports every two hours, Then,…
According to Chinese TV, Chinese scientists at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing are claiming that they have recorded clear UFO footage while observing total solar eclipse on July 22. Observatory director Ji Hai-sheng says they need to study it: Purple Mountain Observatory and Chinese Academy of Sciences said that during the July 22 total…
We’ve explained a lot at Giz: Everything from the real key to stunning photos to how to actually make delicious coffee. So catch up with the best of Giz Explains, feel smarter and impress people at your barbecue this weekend. How to Actually Make Coffee Odds are, you’re doin’ it wrong. Here’s most of the…
School is back in session, and if you want to pass this class and become a savvy tech shopper I strongly suggest that you read over the following material. It could save you a lot of money one day. •Why You Should Buy a Refurbished Laptop: Just because a laptop isn’t brand new doesn’t mean…
Microsoft’s “Ultimate Gameroom Giveaway” is charity turned into a gimmick as voters decide which Children’s hospitals receive prize packages. I’m all for charity, but was it really necessary to guarantee a let down for kids in the 167 “losing” hospitals? The three hospitals to receive an Ultimate Gameroom through Microsoft’s partnership with the Children’s Miracle…
The Black Diamond Sprinter is designed with the adventurous night runner in mind, but I can just as easily see this headgear transitioning into a lightweight spelunking role… and, yes, there it is—I think I just invented cave running. However, as has been noted, this rechargeable $80 gadget may have been designed with the best…
I generally weep when modders take classic video game consoles like this Game Boy here and gut it to produce something less important, like a hard drive. I’m taking solace in the fact that this mod might be used to store Game Boy ROMs for an emulator. I hope. And no, it no longer plays…
Aw, grandpa! Could you please take my $85,000 speaker out of your ear? For the last time my Aesthesis speakers are not your old timer’s hearing aid horn! But seriously, earwax additions aside, these extremely limited edition (only 100 are being made) speakers are made from many of the same components as a supercar from…
If Google really is preparing to take over the world, as critics suggest, it certainly won’t be through our kitchens. Case in point: Their executive chef, Preeti Mistry, was summarily dismissed from Top Chef for being, of all things, completely bland. [CNET]
Siemens discControl knobs are perfect for the iPod generation in that they’re completely touch based sliders, as the product’s name suggests. But beyond that they hide a very cool, very safe little feature for households with small children. The childproofing is really pretty simple: When you’re done cooking, or when the stove top is not…
I know this girl who is made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. But the rest of us are made out of things like oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, germanium, cobalt, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, yttrium, or scandium. Not kidding. I’m so getting this human ingredients t-shirt. Or, as I call it, the reality check…
What is it with everyday Chinese folks building extraordinary things? Last month farmer Wu Zhongyuan built a helicopter from wood and metal. This month Tao Xiangl is scooting around the waters near Beijing in a hand-built submarine. https://gizmodo.com/fearless-chinese-farmer-builds-dubious-working-helico-5333293 Meanwhile, I just created charcoal while trying to make a bagel. The rig cost Tao 30,000 yuan…
Things you could do with the Fujitsu Esprimo Mini PC if you didn’t really care all that much about the data contained inside: Play hockey, rest a cold drink on a warm day; balance a wobbly table. You see, the Esprimo is tiny. Almost hockey puck tiny. Get it? But in that tight little form…
