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Medion X9613: A Multitouch PC that Longs to Be Your Home Theater

If you can handle its 24-inch screen, the Medion X9613 all-in-one certainly looks the part of a perfectly contained HTPC. Loaded with Windows 7, the X9613 features a multitouch screen, Core 2 Quad Q9000 processor, Nvidia GT240M graphics, 4GB of RAM, Blu-ray drive and even a second Sideshow monitor (that box you see on the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Samsung Gets In On the App Store Action

Samsung plans to roll-out an app store for its Omnia smartphones, and has signed on the likes of Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Capcom, and TAITO to help it expand the 300 launch applications to 2000 by the end of the year. The store will initially arrive in the U.K., France, and Italy on September 14. A…

Gadgets Danny Allen

Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot

Lego Mindstorms put to nefarious deeds! While iPodLinux works with older iPods, newer models have encrypted firmware updates. That’s why the Linux4nano team has designed the button-pressing Nanotron 3000 to help with a repetitive brute-force attack. https://gizmodo.com/floydzilla-ipod-linux-134137 The team has previously cracked the 2G Nano, but exploiting a vulnerability for further models involves tracking down…

Tech News Danny Allen

Wait, Did This Bell Palm Pre Video Just Diss Americans?

Bell Canada‘s latest Pre promo video is intended to illustrate the phone’s ease of use in a tongue-in-cheek way. But its opening line certainly caught our attention: “Unlike our neighbors to the south, Canadians are an active people…” It’s a lighthearted dig for those with a sense of humor. But comes after Bell seemingly ripped…

Tech News Danny Allen

Find My iPhone Leads Cops to Robbery Suspects

Find My iPhone to the rescue again! Pittsburgh Police nabbed three robbery suspects over the weekend, after the man they allegedly robbed used the MobileMe online service to point police to their location. I’m relieved to see he called the cops and didn’t take chances like the guys that personally tracked down a swiped iPhone…

Tech News Danny Allen

Caffeine Snack Test: Who Needs Coffee When You’ve Got Cookies and Gum?

I’m lightheaded, twitchy and kinda have the runs. This was never going to end well. The mission: Test if caffeine-infused munchies like cookies, mints, chewing-gum, and lollipops pack the same punch as energy drinks and coffee. (Hint: Most do). Well, at least the snacks I tried. But almost all were a little sketchy on the…

Tech News Danny Allen

PlayStation Motion Controller: Behind the Scenes

Sony, you’re such a tease. The PlayStation motion controller wand won’t hit shops until next Spring, but SCEA research head honcho, Richard Marks, gives a pretty interesting look at its background and capabilities in this video. https://gizmodo.com/a-quick-update-on-the-playstation-motion-controller-5342292 Hearing how the technology works is cool and all, but what caught my attention was that it’ll have…

Tech News Danny Allen

My First Thoughts on Paleo-Futurism (or how I learned to stop worrying and love Disney)

This image was lost some time after publication. Me and Goofy (circa 1989)I’ve visited Walt Disney World about 20 times. Now, for an elderly woman living in Orlando, Florida, this might seem like an appropriate number. But for a 26-year-old man who’s lived his entire life in the Midwest, that number is fairly absurd. My…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Kitchen Scale, Unsung Hero of Great Cooking

Food writer and culinary expert Michael Ruhlman didn’t want us to get through a week of celebrating kitchen gadgetry without singing praise of the digital scale. Damn the cups and tablespoons, cooking by weight is the only path to awesomeness. The kitchen is a place where tools, gadgets, and gizmos—that is, the very non-human objects…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Will Someone Please Tell Me Exactly What a Personal Computer Can Do?

I don’t know what I like more about this 1981 4-page ad for the Apple III: The naive list of 100 things a computer can do, or the fact that precognitive designers created Mac OS X’s aqua look back then. Most probably, the thing I like more is that the copy reads a lot like…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Apple III Ad Gallery

Look at that water with the Aqua look, next to #96.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Ask a Pro: How to Shoot (and Not Get Shot) In a War Zone

Ever wonder how war photographers survive out there? We’ve enlisted Teru Kuwayama—a photographer who has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hotspots for Time, Newsweek and Outside—to explain the perils of working in a war zone. Among military planners, there’s an aphorism that states: “Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.” The daily mechanics of…

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Ask a Pro – War Zone Gallery

Falluja, Iraq 2004 Kabul, Afghanistan 2002 Siachen Glacier, Kashmir, 2002 04. Tribal Areas, Pakistan 2008 Back to the post https://gizmodo.com/ask-a-pro-how-to-shoot-and-not-get-shot-in-a-war-zon-5330715 Hilla, Iraq 2003 Back to the post Peshawar, Pakistan 2008 Back to the post Baghdad, Iraq 2003 Back to the post Kandahar, Afghanistan 2007 Back to the post Siachen Glacier, Kashmir 2002 Back to the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Kodak’s Flexible OLED Display Swims With the Fishes

Because even aquatic life needs to experience the hype surrounding flexible OLED displays, Kodak dunked one of theirs into a tank of water, turned it on, and recorded what happened next with a few pictures: Long story short, the display turned on just fine and displayed a—wait for it—fish image. While a bit quirky, the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Portable Telephones (1976)

The 1976 book Future Facts is filled with predictions of artificial life, underwater cities and traveling from New York to Los Angeles in 21 minutes. Though the last excerpted line is pretty hilarious, this prediction of the “portaphone” of the future is surprisingly accurate. A hand-held, completely portable telephone will make it possible to place…

Tech News Matt Novak

Altoids: Curiously Strong, Curiously Hacked

Let’s get that Taste Test taste out of your mouths with a little after dinner mint, shall we? Then, when we’ve exhausted our supply of Altoids, we can be good little geeks and make zany things from the tins! I’m thinking of 15 things, in fact, all of which are listed over at oobject in…

Tech News Jack Loftus

GR8 Sees Grado Moving From Outside to Inside the Ear

Hey look, Grado decided there might be something to this in-ear headphone business, and subsequently dropped a pair of GR8’s on the masses for a steep $300. From what we’ve read today, the early reviews/indications seem positive, but that price—oh, the price! The trendy box includes some replacement buds and that’s it. [Sound Earphones, Grado…

Tech News Jack Loftus

What Is This?

Is this a huge version of Darth Vader’s lightsaber, as someone said in the comments? It actually does look like one. Looking at the scale—compared to the tiny humans on the ground—and the strange external machinery attached to it, I thought this was part of some kind of huge experimental rocket. I was wrong, but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Bring On the Replicator Already

A gadget site Taste Test week wouldn’t be complete without a hat tip to that fictional food-creating staple of the Star Trek universe, the replicator. A replicator was a device that used transporter technology to dematerialize quantities of matter and then rematerialize that matter in another form. It was also capable of inverting its function,…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The PS3 Slim Might Be a Bit Slow

A slew of videos out this weekend have revealed the unthinkable: PlayStation 3 slim owners could be wasting valuable seconds of their lives as their new console boots up slower than the original PS3! Now, these videos are in no way conclusive evidence that the PS3 slim is a slow poke compared to its fatter…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Medion X9613: A Multitouch PC that Longs to Be Your Home Theater

Samsung Gets In On the App Store Action

Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot

Wait, Did This Bell Palm Pre Video Just Diss Americans?

Find My iPhone Leads Cops to Robbery Suspects

Caffeine Snack Test: Who Needs Coffee When You’ve Got Cookies and Gum?

PlayStation Motion Controller: Behind the Scenes

My First Thoughts on Paleo-Futurism (or how I learned to stop worrying and love Disney)

The Kitchen Scale, Unsung Hero of Great Cooking

Will Someone Please Tell Me Exactly What a Personal Computer Can Do?

Apple III Ad Gallery

Ask a Pro: How to Shoot (and Not Get Shot) In a War Zone

Ask a Pro – War Zone Gallery

Kodak’s Flexible OLED Display Swims With the Fishes

Portable Telephones (1976)

Altoids: Curiously Strong, Curiously Hacked

GR8 Sees Grado Moving From Outside to Inside the Ear

What Is This?

Bring On the Replicator Already

The PS3 Slim Might Be a Bit Slow

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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