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More than a year after launch, there are 74,031 apps in the iPhone App store. Most of them are crap. Some of them aren’t. Here are the 50 iPhone apps you actually need, all in one place. Well, OK, if you count the overlapping apps—paid and free Twitter clients, neck-and-neck navigation apps, the jailbreakers—it’s more…
Say it’s true. That I could finally be watching Hulu on a laptop with an OLED screen by next year. Companies have announced plans and showed concepts, but Samsung says we could see a commercial OLED notebook in 2010. https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-considering-thinkpads-with-multitouch-and-oled-5300913 After introducing its X Series laptops yesterday the company told reporters that it would release…
This angry black man put out a video last fall threatening my life, and I have to tell you, it kind of scared me. He even has a Web site called “I want to smack Steve Jobs in the face. [Fake Steve Jobs]
Please disregard the Fox News anchors’ babbling, and focus on the amazing video of the 747 firefighting supertanker in real action over California. Excuse my French, but those pilots are fucking crazy, flying such beast so close to the fires. https://gizmodo.com/20-500-gallon-firefighting-boeing-747-supertanker-in-ac-5292855 Needless to say, the Boeing 747 was not made to be loaded with tons…
In case you’re one of those people who can’t stand conforming to society, holding a DSi decorated in spartan, matte black, these “WaSaBi” cases from Gametech can dress up your system while adding a bit of extra protection. Priced at $27 and available now, we know you’ve seen Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa a…
I had essentially taken this for granted, since Best Buy‘s instant rebate policy is storewide, but hey, just in case: Whittling the HTC Hero‘s price down to the advertised $180 will take the redemption of a $50 “instant savings” (don’t worry about this) as well as a $100 mail-in rebate, which Best Buy has confirmed…
I can’t wait to feel the motion sickness and intense migraines that I will get from playing Wipeout in a 3D television. According to Sony at IFA2009, a firmware update will bring stereoscopic display support to the PS3 in 2010. Click to view The good news is that you won’t need a Sony 3D Bravia…
The N900 is up for preorder, and Nokia is throwing in its BH-703 Bluetooth headset to sweeten the deal. That’s beats €500 ($710) in Europe. The N900 packs some hot specs, but remember it needs T-Mobile’s network for 3G. [Nokia] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-mini-gets-official-450-640-in-october-5350649
The PlayStation 3‘s Firmware 3.00 improves the XMB interface, and seems to help the Slim model load games and Blu-ray discs faster, but some users are reporting that their third-party controllers have stopped working since they installed the update. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-3s-3-0-firmware-upgrade-is-now-live-5349913 The complaints are coming in via a big thread over at the official PlayStation 3…
Wait, is NASA making weather balloons shaped like a giant Rubik’s Cube now? Nah, it’s one of the many art installations sprinkled over the dusty playa at Burning Man 2009. This year’s theme is Evolution: A Tangled Bank. Safe travels if you’re a weekend burner headed to the Blackrock Desert, and don’t forget the distilled…
As pretty much everyone expected, the U.S. Court of Appeals has granted Microsoft’s request to keep selling Word while it appeals i4i’s XML patent win. In mid-August, a federal jury had ordered Redmond to stop selling Word within 60 days. The alternative: cough up more than $290 million in damages. https://gizmodo.com/judge-orders-permanent-stop-of-microsoft-word-sales-wit-5335715 Yeah, I don’t see…
Smule, the guys who made Leaf Trombone and Ocarina, just ported Auto-Tune—the software T-Pain and Auto-Tune the news uses to make music gold—onto the iPhone. Holy crap is it awesome. Here is my sample recording. I never heard the original, obviously, so I did my best at freestyling. What’s cool about this is that all…
Remember Amazon’s remote deletion of all Kindle copies of 1984? Big bro’ Amazon is trying to make nice by offering affected users some pretty words along with either $30 checks or redelivery of 1984 (with your original annotations). https://gizmodo.com/big-brother-amazon-remotely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-5317180 Reader Shinobiwan wrote in with an e-mail received from “[email protected]”: Hello, On July 23, 2009, Jeff…
Part centipede, part flamingo, Nunnmps is a research studio designed by Cheunvogl and to be located in Chicago. It looks like the perfect place to scheme a coup d’état or work on whatever mysterious projects it is intended for. Supposedly Nunnmps is elevated on stilt-like construction in order to preserve the secrecy of the research…
iPod Eats Tokyo Dust: Walkman Back On Top In Japan…Why Hollywood Science Is Better Than Regular Science…Snow Leopard Patch Imminent…Sony Really Excited About This 3D Thing… Today a lot of people covered the fact that, last week, iPod sales were finally trounced by Sony Walkman sales in Japan for the first time. As many pointed…
Android 1.6 Donut will also see an update to Android Market, and while it’s not a major change, it’s certainly a welcome one. The most important change: Developers will soon be allowed to upload screenshots for their apps. The other changes noted by Google include new app sub-categories and support for Italian. Google’s post follows.…
Electronic Arts knows that we can’t wait to get our Tetris fix on the Palm Pre, so instead of making us wait until the October release of Tetris Mania, they’ve released a thirty second demo. A thirty-freakin’-second demo. Some of us managed to survive boring high school math lessons by playing Tetris on TI-89 calculators,…
Today we learn that you can get a frigid girl to not only put out, but to do it on film by playing the Large Hadron Collider card. (Baby! No one will see that video since the world is ending!) A bunch of students at a Brisbane high school filmed a dirty porno in a…
You can now follow Giz Gallery on Twitter to get a sneak peek into this year’s Gizmodo Gallery. Also, we’re looking to recruit people to help us work the event. Full staff details below: Giz Gallery on Twitter Why follow @gizgallery on Twitter? We’ll be dropping hints about the crazy stuff that will be showing…
These 25mph speed limit signs are equipped with a speed radar and a number display. Nothing strange about that, really. Until you notice that the billboard displays horrible figures—like days in hospital or crash bills—based on your speed. I don’t know how it calculates the numbers. Maybe it’s just a speed display, maybe it uses…
