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It probably went a lot like tap tap tap‘s design process here for their app Convert. At least, if the developer actually cared. An illuminating video if you’re never thought about how much goes into good design. [taptaptap]
Read this first, otherwise none of the following will make sense. – JC Dear Diary, I was on the internet with my buddy Lifehacker.com, looking for good DEALZ on laptops to post. We saw some okay DEALZ, checkin out sites like FatWallet.com Sellout.woot.com and Techbargains, but nothing stood out. On the drive home I locked…
Sure, it’s Summer now, but in a few months some of us will be dodging falling icicles again (especially Chicago come Spring). If it’s a concern at your house, this heated gutter-guard melts icicles and snow quicker than most. “IceBreaker is so efficient, that only one heat cable is needed to melt the ice in…
Forty-two. It takes forty-two Brompton folding bikes to fill a parking space. One of the world’s great mysteries is finally solved. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
For the first recipe in our MacGyver Chef series, I tackled one of the lowliest of kitchen gadgets: The coffee maker. Since it sucks at brewing coffee, I wondered if there was some other use for it… Gallery haters take note, to skip the slides and jump to a single long post, click here. https://gizmodo.com/macgyver-chef-poached-chicken-and-couscous-in-a-coffee-5344736…
No doubt weighed down by his aresenal of 10 pipe bombs, a chainsaw and a sword with a 2-foot blade, a disturbed 17-year old’s plan to wreak havoc in a San Mateo, CA high school was thwarted by a teacher. Shortly after two pipe bombs were detonated in Hillsdale High School, English language development teacher…
Windows 7’s launch is going to be a hell of a busy time for laptops. Expect a slew of higher-end Intel Core i7 mobile rigs and thin notebooks powered by new dual-core ULV processors when the OS ships. Intel’s next generation Centrino platform, codenamed Calpella, will be launched at the end of September, says MSI.…
We heard that MSI may release a touchscreen netbook with Intel’s next generation Pine Trail Atom platform, and it will. According to MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is planned to be officially launched at CES. https://gizmodo.com/touch-screen-netbooks-with-windows-7-on-the-way-from-ac-5340626 However, Intel tells us that it has not nailed down the launch of Pine Trail yet and maintains…
You can delete every other fast food app on your iPhone now. Chipotle’s new app sets the standard for deliciously unhealthy fast food convenience. Like seriously. The design is top notch. After it locates the nearest Chipotle, you can build your taco, burrito, bowl or salad exactly how you want it, easily adding in whatever…
iFixit has a teardown of the PlayStation 3 Slim. What did iFixit find? That the Blu-ray optical drive still takes up an assload of space. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-3-slim-review-the-same-for-less-5345285 Sony can shrink down the other parts, but it’s hard to shrink something that needs to work with a fixed size component (the Blu-ray discs). However, the logic board…
Maybe I’m a skeeze deep down, but some of these apps seem pretty damned useful. I mean, for purely informational purposes, of course. [YouTube]
Here’s a potentially cheap, but ugly, way to make a macro lens for your cellphone camera. Step 1: take your DVD player apart. You’ll want to use the lens in there, along with some kind of cardboard holder, and mount it onto your cellphone camera. It won’t be pretty, but the shots that come out…
Blu-ray is the format that’s replacing DVDs, but it appears that it arrived too late to be the last major optical format for computers. That title goes to the DVD. According to iSuppli, only 3.6% of PCs sold this year were shipped with a BD drive. And by 2013, that figure is only expected to…
“Hey guys, let’s take the N97, not improve or actually shrink it in any way, and call it the N97 Mini.” At least, that’s what these leaked official shots of the N97 Mini show. The N900 though, still looks decent. https://gizmodo.com/apparent-nokia-n97-mini-shrinks-by-shedding-useless-d-p-5325856 Like, I could see actually wanting this Maemo-powered slab of Finnish tablet. [BeGeek, BeGeek,…
Attention, gross chewy-edge brownie people: You’re wrong. You always have been, and you always will be. But that hasn’t stopped you from getting your very own brownie pan, to help you indulge your vice in the purest way possible. Here’s the pitch: The serpentine wall shape of the All Edges Brownie Pan conducts heat better…
The EyeWriter is an eye-tracking setup with custom software designed to let people without full use of their bodies draw with their eyes. And it looks great. The EyeWriter project is on ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. The project began in Los Angeles, Caifornia in…
Here’s Adobe’s message behind their Adobe CS4/Snow Leopard compatibility report: please buy Adobe CS4 and stop using Adobe CS3. To make a long story short, Adobe says that they’ve tested CS4 compatibility with SL and it doesn’t need any software updates to be compatible with the new OS. But CS3? Older versions of Adobe creative…
Thousands of years of clothing technology have culminated to this one moment, a critical crossroads of fabric and fapping. The Centerfold T-Shirt, available soon for $30, displays Miss April in 1/4 splendor—that is, until you undo two buttons to spew forth a tapestry of nudity fit for a king (or just a person with very…
The good news is that there were plenty of Genius Bar employees around to inform the Atlanta Apple Store that its warranty was out of date. [Thanks Jason!]
Today’s available gadgets list is all about monitors. Iiyama has a new power-sipping panel out, and Mimo’s tiny USB touchscreen display is available for you to (excuse the terrible pun) get your hands on. • The Mimo 720-S USB mini display is now shipping. The device looks a lot like it’s brother, the 710-S and…
