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According to Reuters, yes, and all because of some slutty-slut-slut Linux OS named Maemo, said to be the company’s new high-end handset platform. Nokia’s first Maemo indiscretion handset’s said to be landing next week, and probably looks something like this. https://gizmodo.com/more-nokia-rx-5-n900-tablet-details-first-maemo-5-scre-5341484 Nokia will try again to tackle Apple Inc’s iPhone in the top-end of the…
If—like us—you were wondering if the Mac OS X Snow Leopard you got from Torrent is the same as the retail one, wonder no more: The build number of the retail bloody cat is 10A432. [MacRumors—Thanks Bigdave] https://gizmodo.com/so-whats-the-real-final-version-of-snow-leopard-5344360
I can’t tell if these surf skis are a brilliant invention or one of the dorkiest things I’ve ever seen. Probably a little bit of both. Invented by Vermonter Jason Starr, surf skiing was invented because of “Starr’s belief that surfing and skiing share a bond as originals in the world of action sports, both…
Mi gusta chica mexicana, si. Ella es muy sweet. Mi no gusta Justin Long, porque es cojones obnoxious. Si? Claaaaaro. Los Mac-PC knock-off comerciales de television de cable company Yoo, however, es malo malo. Chingada. Tortilla. Tacos. Chimichanga. [Thanks Rodrigo]
They did it. A whooping 139.843mph. That’s 225.06km/h in the right speed units. The UK team lead by Charles Burnett III broke the world record for steam cars, as you can see in the video. https://gizmodo.com/worlds-fastest-steam-supercar-getting-ready-to-break-sp-5340661 The record—which was untouched since American Fred Marriot set it in 1906—was shattered at Edwards Air Force Base, in…
There are USB cords and there are USB cords…and there are USB cords with like 10 different adapters coming out. But rarely are such monstrosities this cheap. The $10 Octopus USB Cable has 10 different tentacles (ignore the fact that octopi usually have 8) to charge pretty much any mobile device you could own—most probably…
There are a ton of devices that support DivX playback (the PS3, DVD and Blu-ray players, etc), so news of Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros agreeing for their movies to be downloaded in DivX for the first time is actually pretty interesting. And any added competition for iTunes and Cinema Now is only going…
Feast your eyes on these latest visualizations of The Shard (aka London Bridge Tower), a 1017ft skyscraper actually under construction. When finished in 2012, it will be the tallest building in the U.K, and one of the tallest in Europe. Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the 72-story tower has several twisting glass facets…
It was only on Monday that Nokia confirmed its first laptop, but now DigiTimes suggests the Fins may use either Compal or Foxconn to build an ARM-based smartbook for 2010. If true, my guess is it’ll run Maemo 5. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-booklet-3g-netbook-packs-gps-3g-hdmi-and-wind-5344095 I say that because so-called smartbooks with ARM-based processors (like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip) don’t support…
Burqa: a robe worn by some Muslim women in public (mostly Afghanistan). But it’s not some creepy cloak that connects to your hat so you can do who-knows-what on your laptop in public. The Craigslist pitch is classic: Dont bother with those anti glare filters that do not work . Stop those pesky peekers who…
My, what a big touchscreen you have RoadMate 1700. Yet we hardly know each other. The super-size nav-unit is being listed by several retailers, including Best Buy, and though everything else looks standard (including AAA TourBook), look at that display! It’s strange that Magellan hasn’t officially talked about the 1700 yet. I mean, its screen…
But you’ll have to act fast: Submissions close August 31. Last year’s comp unearthed a bunch of cool apps (and location-based services were big), so I’m looking forward to seeing what pops up in September for public judging. https://gizmodo.com/details-on-androids-10-million-bounty-for-your-homebre-322198 Users of Android devices will be able to grab a special judging app from the Android…
When used on phones with GPS (including the Pre and MyTouch 3G, though not the iPhone), Google Maps crowdsources huge batches of data on how fast you’re travelling on a particular street, thus measuring traffic for fellow drivers. It’s pretty cool, especially since it requires “just about no effort” on our part. All we have…
Forget Megan’s Law, those Apple Geniuses are pretty darn good at catching pedophiles. A Connecticut man was arrested after an Apple Genius found pictures of naked 10- to 13-year-old girls in “explicit” poses on his G5 desktop’s hard drive. Ah, the irony that Raymond Miller went into his local Stamford Town Center Apple Store because…
The proprietary dock connector on the iPod line is nice for a wide line of accessories, but it forces you to carry a uni-purpose iPod cable. The PocketDock lets you sync and charge with miniUSB, the accepted standard, instead. SendStation’s PocketDock, available now, is incredibly tiny, having “the same footprint as Apple’s iPod plug,” and…
Why bother digesting, when the Cloaca machine can do it for you? What goes in must come out, or at least that is the case for the Cloaca (which we originally posted about last February), a machine that literally produces a good old Number Two. Designed by Belgium artist Wim Delvoye and first exhibited in…
A hungry, possibly larcenous Microsoft employee sent us this glimpse of life from the company’s Issaquah campus. I like to think of it as Windows Geniune Advantage®: Peach Parfait Edition. To be fair to Microsoft, let’s assume that pastry theft had become rampant, and that their employees really did need to be reminded not to…
I will never go hungry again. At least, as long as my iPhone’s charged. And would it kill Apple to make a separate food section in the App Store? Taste Test is our weeklong tribute to the leaps that occur when technology meets cuisine, spanning everything from the historic breakthroughs that made food tastier and…
Mario Kart, the Absolute Best Live-Action Videogame Crossover Film Never Made…Google Offers Yet Another Way to Stalk Your Favorite Demi-Celeb…LG and Nortel Practice Safe Hand-Offs…A Video of Robots Making Out Besides GoldenEye (multiplayer), one of my favorite late ’90s videogames was Mario Kart. That’s why I’m particularly bummed that this captivating trailer isn’t for a…
No matter how many of these we see, they never really seem to get old, do they? [Failblog]
