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Microsoft’s set a date, laid out their prices and started taking orders, but cheapskates: don’t fret! You’ve still got until the 20th to get a near-finished version of the OS for free. Which you should, for all kinds of reasons. The obvious ones: Microsoft is still using this to test for bugs, so you using…
By 2013, San Francisco is planning to construct 360 new Muni bus stops that’ll further the causes of both solar power and blanketed Wi-Fi at the same time. The stops, which should cost around $30,000, may seem expensive, but they’ll be pretty energy-efficient. The energy not used by the stops will be fed into the…
Technically, it’s not a laser, but something called spaser. Instead of photons, it uses plasmons, a particle only 44 nanometers across. It could push CPUs’ speeds to hundreds of terahertz, according to Mark Stockman, professor of physics at Georgia State: The spaser works about a thousand times faster than the fastest transistor, while having the…
In the years that Post-its have existed alongside laptops, there hasn’t been a single alternative to pasting the sticky papers around screen bezels. Right? Not quite, but no one told that to this contestant on ABC’s Shark Tank. Leading us to believe that she has never used a Mac OS or Vista computer, which have…
Despite all of them being counted as a single model, this fact is still impressive: The iPhone is now the number one camera in Flickr, the most popular image network. It’s also the only cellphone in the top 5. I’ve to admit that I used to tote my DSLR or a point-n-shoot everywhere, and now…
Surely you have heard rumors about cellphones wreaking havoc around electronics and flammables, but this guy claims that calls to his Sony Ericsson PDA (P910 perhaps?) light up his Maytag Magic Chef oven—and he has video to prove it. When Andrei Melnikov’s Sony Ericsson PDA is within about two feet of the stove, an incoming…
Today’s available gadgets features the debut of Sprint’s green phone. That’s green as in eco-friendly, you can have it in blue if you want. • Sprint’s eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim went up for sale yesterday. In essence, it’s a dumbphone that’s made out of corn. That may not sound like much, but if you’re looking for…
OK, I admit it. Watching a baby getting knocked down by a camera flash makes me laugh, but seriously: Moms and dads everywhere, pointblank flash shooting on your baby’s eyes is not a good idea. Click to view No kidding. Babies’ eyes are not good targets for intense lights at close range. Heck, I’m not…
Dr. Dre’s attempt to reconstruct the “entire digital music ecosystem” has me thinking about the discerning group of consumers that drink sound in like a connoisseur with a fine wine. In other words, audiophiles. https://gizmodo.com/hp-and-dr-dre-attempting-to-fix-digital-music-with-lin-5339137 Of course, like a fine wine, what constitutes quality for an audiophile is largely a matter of personal opinion. Dr.…
I came today to Gawker’s office—under 95º heat and 95% humidity—to find Julia, our brilliant office assistant, typing inside a Slanket, hiding her shorter-than-short shorts. My first reaction: “What the hell are you doing?” Her explanation was good. https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-battle-the-snuggie-vs-slanket-vs-freedom-bl-5190557 “Listen,” she said, “I have to come to the office in the subway, with this horrible…
The iPhone is no stranger to gaping security flaws, but this one’s a doozy: You know how when you delete emails, you expect them to be, well, deleted? On iPhone 3.0, that’s just not how things work. This is bad. https://gizmodo.com/huge-iphone-security-flaw-puts-all-private-information-5042332 You can watch the whole insincere deletion process play out above, but here’s a…
Modern consumer cameras can manage almost anything you throw at them, but sometimes even the swankest DSLR just won’t do. In photography, when the conditions get crazy, the cameras get crazier. Here are ten cameras designed to capture the kinds of images that humans by all means shouldn’t be able to see, and that you…
We know almost nothing about this device of any substance. It could be a prototype. It could be on an assembly line now. But it’s a tiny, touchscreen MID that runs Android. And it’s pretty much distilled hotness. Estimated to be about 4.5-inches long and 3-inches wide (while still managing a very slim profile), Pocketables…
We’ve been all about the air lately, but sometimes we just forget what some do to give us our future areo technology. The inventor of the Jetpod flying taxi, Michael Robert Dacre, died yesterday while testing his latest twin-engine aircraft. https://gizmodo.com/the-boeing-dreamliner-787-could-be-the-next-spruce-goos-5338674 Crashing in Taiping, Dacre died on his fourth run. According to a witness, the…
Dealzmodo kicks off the week with great bargains on storage. There’s an amazing deal on a trio of Sandisk SD cards, and check out one of the best prices we’ve ever seen on a 1TB external hard drive. Computing and Peripherals: • 15.6″ Dell Inspiron Dual Core Laptop for $449 plus free shipping (normally $559).…
Young Nicholi makes web videos. Not so unique! But he shoots and uploads all of them in the 5th Ave Apple Store in NYC. OK, that’s a bit more original. Nicholi has made boatloads of lip sync videos at the store, and it’s funny to see people milling around behind him and wondering just what…
According to Digital Daily, Palm’s next WebOS phone, the Eos (aka “Pixie”), will probably drop sometime in 2010—refuting earlier rumors that it would launch before the holidays. However, it does support grumblings flying around this past June regarding Palm putting the Eos on ice because of Pre sales concerns. Unless the hardware isn’t there, it…
Steve Jobs is a private man, so only those very close to him ever get a look inside his home. Privacy shmivacy! Here’s our exclusive look inside, revealing some downright surprising aspects of the bearded one’s personal life. Words by Adam Frucci, illustrations by the illustrious Dan Meth, the artist behind The Seven Types of…
Lot of pressure on this blocky guy: NASA excitedly sent modified Hasselblad 500ELs to the moon along with the Apollo 11 astronauts, only to find out, through those bulky custom Carl Zeiss lenses, that nobody was home. BOOOORRIIINNNGG. So surely, all these years later, NASA’s got some slick little super-cams that make their 1960’s relics…
Just a taste of Japan’s still-fantastical cellphone market can be seen in the Sharp Mirumo 934SH. It’s a waterproof clamshell that’s pretty ordinary, until you realize its display is dual-sided. Flip it open, and you have an ordinary, full color clamshell. But closed, its “memory” LCD takes advantage of a low-power backside that’s black and…
