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Why, it’s none other than a collection of cameras and recording devices for a guy who volunteered to go into the Yukon wilderness with as little survival equipment as possible. That man is filmmaker Ed Wardle. He’s been followed by National Geographic for about three months and all that equipment in the image is what’s…
A set of documents have leaked out this afternoon detailing release dates, names and pricing for a number of Verizon handsets, including the BlackBerry Storm 2 and Curve tandem. Also topping the list was a swiveling, twisting Nokia 7705 for $230, set for a late September release. The aforementioned BlackBerry handsets, Curve and Storm 2,…
Sure, the BEAR robot is a bit terrifying to look at, but one day, after you discover the pipe bomb your estranged wife left in the mailbox, this automaton could very well save your life. Funded by the Army, the BEAR locates victims, removes hazardous materials, and can even carry 500-lb. loads over long distances.…
It’s a tale of two phones this afternoon. First we saw Samsung’s Omnia HD i8910 doing what it does, and now a bevy of HTC Mega shots have surfaced too. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-omnia-hd-i8910-review-5343717 The Mega is based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and looks somewhat average, especially when compared to the upcoming Omnia II and its AMOLED screen…
A tipster forwarded this Bose email promotion along to us this afternoon that purportedly promises four new products over the course of four Mondays: Will they be something drastically new, or perhaps something along the lines of their conservative (but well received) update to the QuietComfort 15? The mind simply boggles (if your mind happens…
With the USB stick pretty much anywhere and everywhere these days, it’s easy to forget that there is an interesting (and automated) manufacturing process behind the device that allows companies to create tortured USB cows. It looks something like this. https://gizmodo.com/somebody-please-shoot-this-poor-usb-cow-5164947 The tour is of a Kingston manufacturing plant in Hsinchu (southern Taipei). Lots of…
Asimo, still licking its wounds after being outrun by Toyota, fired back earlier this month at Carnegie Mellon, where it learned how to navigate complex, moving obstacle courses. Seriously impressive stuff in this video—just wait until things start spinning! https://gizmodo.com/toyota-humanoid-robot-gives-asimo-a-run-for-its-money-5328227 Officially, this video shows that Carnegie Mellon researchers have given Asimo the ability to detect…
An exhaustive BlackBerry Storm 2 video hit YouTube this weekend that details how the upcoming mobile’s piezo electric screen is miles ahead of the original’s big clicky button. Oh, and that wifi thing makes another appearance too. Now, the clicky thing is still there, of course, but thanks to that aforementioned piezo electronic screen there’s…
The Zune HD’s mysterious Apps menu, which will definitely have games at launch and could very well provide something more, was poked and prodded en masse this weekend during a Best Buy preview event. Even so, the mystery remains. https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-amazon-listing-hints-at-games-apps-5276921 Indeed, while our tipster could see the Apps menu beckoning them to smudge the screen…
In the newest leaked build of Snow Leopard, 64-bit booting isn’t enabled by default on certain older (though not that old) Macs, which instead boot automatically into 32-bit. The question: Is Apple backtracking on Snow Leopard’s 64-bit capabilities? Updated: https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-whats-so-awesome-about-64-bit-5076473 As it stands right now, with the current build (10a432, which may be the final…
According to a Twitter tipster, this right here is the official Zune HD packaging. It’s pretty much the same as previous Zune boxes, but with color, because the Zune HD is the rainbow of the Zune family. [Twitter via Engadget]
If you get a package this size, reinforced with a wooden pallet, your first thought is probably that you’ve accidentally received, say, six laptops, or a fridge, or a mid-sized sedan. But you’d be wrong. The only thing that came in this monstrous package is a simple power cord that HP inexplicably shipped in a…
Design student Lee Washington, sick of tangled earbuds (as we all are), created a way to make things easier. The separated cables leading to the individual earbuds can be zipped together, much like a resealable Ziploc bag. We have seen this idea before, but only in concept form (and really more aesthetic than practical). Unfortunately,…
During last night’s Tennessee-Dallas game, a Titans punter actually hit Dallas’s massive 180-foot-long HD screen, creating a bit of a situation: The play isn’t reviewable, and there’s no provision for a replay. The solution may cost millions of dollars. https://gizmodo.com/dallas-cowboys-worlds-largest-hd-video-screen-debuts-5265050 Apparently nobody had thought to test if a punted football could reach that high, and…
If we believe this shot, and we don’t see much reason not to, a lucky Apple customer in Japan got a surprise with his Mac Mini purchase: A Snow Leopard install disc, ahead of its purported August 28th release. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-snow-leopard-hitting-shelves-next-friday-august-5341953 The install disc, which is nearly identical to the Leopard install disc that comes with…
Justin Timberlake‘s “Play” cologne (rhymes with “alone,” remember) for Givenchy tries to emulate handheld gadgets with Play/Rewind/Forward touch buttons, but it’s all a trick. You can never rewind to that less-smelly, less-desperate time before you bought this stuff. Influenced, in the most irritating way, by “mobile multimedia gadgets, those quintessential objects of modernity and style…
Usenet: Everyone’s heard of it, nobody uses it. This is ridiculous. Not only is it a fantastic way to download—it’s not that hard to use. Here’s how to drop your torrent habit once and for all, with Usenet. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-bittorrent-like-a-pro-5187630 This point of this guide is to get people acquainted with the basics of Usenet, but…
This progress bar-inspired clock design from Mintpass actually includes a great idea: Clip up to 24 rewritable tabs onto the clock to mark appointments. It’s a neat visual organizer on a clock that might otherwise be too gimmicky. Each tab sets off an alarm that is disabled by turning the tab itself 90 degrees, showing…
On first mention, video-sharing app Qik had one major flaw: video uploading could only be done over Wi-Fi. But thanks to an update of this currently free app, you can now get your video uploaded over 3G. https://gizmodo.com/qik-video-sharing-application-now-available-for-iphone-5337031 We’re wondering whether the approval of this update is in any way related to those FCC investigations…
Remember the water soluble bikini? We didn’t test it out on our Jesus after all, but we did find some videos showing just how well it works. (Don’t worry, the NSFW version is hidden behind a link.) https://gizmodo.com/water-soluble-bikini-is-one-cruel-prank-5327147 This is exactly why you should never wear bikinis given to you by strange Belgian men. (Waffles…
