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Poor Officer Lanham of the Lancaster PD: A day after he got his shiny new Taser he had to go through some additional training. Turns that firefighting skills are a must after tasering a guy who’d been huffing keyboard cleaner. It’s no wonder that Daniel Wood looks terrified in his mugshot. He’d just been shocked…
Las Vegas is the most horrible place on earth, so I’m almost sad it wasn’t destroyed by a 50-foot robot Michael Jackson wanted to build in his image that would stomp around the desert. No, I’m not making this up. In 2005, Jackson planned a series of shows in Las Vegas and planned, among other…
Hey Keith Richards, What’s Dangling From Your Ear?…Yahoo Tells Firefox Users to Pick “Safer” IE8…Kodak Admits It Has a Product Naming Problem…An Apple TV People Might Actually Want…Nokia, Cellular Equipment Maker to the Evil Doers… Keith Richards was spotted wearing some post-industrial ornamentation in and around the region where a douchier man might stick a…
Designed by Danny Luo, this embossing Braille labelmaker may look like a flashlight, but in reality it’s a innovative tool for the sight-impaired: speak into the wide end and the labelmaker will spit out labels with embossed Braille characters The 25mm x 50mm labels produced by this printer are intended to simplify the identification of…
Twitter’s API just got a new piece of awesome: native location data. Before, apps had to jury-rig location schemes, but now location data can be natively baked into every tweet. Twitter + true location is going to be insanely powerful and possibly take Twitter to a whole new level. The API will let developers couple…
Lifehacker’s got a hot pot full of Gmail tips, photography calculators, hacking up your smoke alarm and figuring out which caffeine supplement gives you the most calories. • Lifehacker asks: what’s your favorite video sharing site? • Display both Bing and Google results so you can see which you prefer • How to use the…
All of my iPhones are virgins. They’ve never been jailbroken nor have they been exposed to pictures of Jason shoving gadgets down his pants. But as soon as this theme is available for the 3GS, it’s cherry-popping time! The whitoken theme hasn’t been released yet, but its creator promises that it’ll be available for the…
Low light camera functionality is the most important advancement in point-and-shoots “since image stabilization came along,” says Sir David Pogue. In his latest, he takes a look the Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR and the Sony DSC-WX1‘s handling of no-flash allowed situations. https://gizmodo.com/fujifilm-busts-out-five-new-cameras-including-a-prosum-5319974 While both handle low light pretty darn well (you can check that out for…
Maybe I like this because it looks like a Leopard desktop—I hope Leopard came with the animations—but if you have to watch a science video today, let astrophysicist Janne Levin explain you what the Big Bang was. Still there? Well, then maybe you want another science video. One mindblowing one. Yes, I know. I need…
We’ve got word that the previously mentioned SlingPlayer Mobile 1.1 for the iPhone has been approved and will be available in the App Store “imminently.” There’s also clarification that this version is Wi-Fi only: https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-1-1-for-iphone-adds-improved-widescreen-sp-5334347 There has been some confusion lately regarding whether this version would have 3G in the rest of the world which…
Here’s a shocker of a survey from ChangeWave Research: iPhone owners love their phones, but they hate the network it’s chained to. Are you listening, Apple? Carton said that the latest ChangeWave survey, which polled nearly 200 owners of Apple’s newest iPhone model, the 3GS, showed a “near-perfect satisfaction rating” for the product. More than…
While designers are busy innovating with cellphones and computers, the lowly drinking fountain has been left behind. But all that could change with the Aquatio. The concept calls for a fountain that can pivot up to four inches—making it less necessary to bend over when taking a drink. Water can be dispensed in both room…
If Jayzeus appears in your house, you better have a Proton Pack, wand, and trap ready. Or you can invite him for drinks, and He’ll multiply your caipirinhas for free, all night long. [The Chive] https://gizmodo.com/ghostbusters-proton-pack-wand-and-trap-205750
Hannspree, the maker of kid-themed LCD displays, is making its own foray into the netbook market with the sleek HannsNote, which features a 10″ LED-backlit display and a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor. https://gizmodo.com/hannspree-animal-tvs-might-give-toddlers-the-wrong-idea-5317997 The HannsNote ships with a decent, but unsurprising, feature set: 160 GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Disk 1 GB RAM…
As you can hear in this audio record, a Delta pilot spotted an UFO at New York’s JFK airport this Sunday. Allegedly, the object was a “paraglider” who landed illegally, and then took off on a potential collision course: DAL164: Hey, do you see something over the… looks like a guy on a paraglider.. almost…
As if we weren’t excited enough with flexible, transparent organic LEDs—which are taking forever to reach consumers—now scientists have created flexible, transparent non-organic LEDs. Seriously, we can use a litte less teasing and a lot more action here. The new method is based on a simple concept: Traditional LEDs are extremely efficient on converting electricity…
It has been months since Lenovo announced that its IdeaPad S12 would be the first netbook (or borderline notebook) with Nvidia’s Ion, but it has since been MIA. Lenovo says, the system will now ship during the Windows 7 timeframe. https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-s12-is-the-first-netbook-with-nvidia-ion-costs-5268833 On track to ship at the end of October, the IdeaPad S12 with Intel’s…
Think you might be an internet addict? If so, I have good news. You can now get the help you need at reStart—the first internet addiction treatment center of it’s kind in the US. But do you qualify? Take reStart’s questionnaire to determine whether or not you have a problem: Signs & Symptoms of Computer…
Reasons to hack, or “root,” your Android handset: Custom OS upgrades, PC tethering, full-phone SD backups. Reason not to: It’s really scary. At least it was, until now. RyeBrye has pieced together an Android app that does all the rooting legwork, a process that used to range from mildly intimidating to headache-inducing. In either case,…
Poor Mosspuppet. He may be Stevepuppet’s best buddy in the whole kingdom of puppets, but he is losing it. (Or he just timewarped back to 1997. Fastforward to second 51 to see the cool Stevepuppet). [Secret Diary of SJ]
