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Earlier this morning, Best Buy mistakenly listed Samsung’s LN52A650 for just $10. Not any more. Some folks (including me) bought one at the cheaper price, but update 2: Best Buy is now sending out canceled order emails. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-high-end-650-series-lcds-reviewed-verdict-gr-385902 The product you ordered is no longer available and the order has been canceled. If you’d like…
iPod docks are a dime a dozen, though Logitech’s are some of the most reliable and best-sounding. They’ve got two new rechargeable docks, and we’re sure they sound nice and work well—but there’s nothing new or exciting here. The S125i, checking in at $70, is totally standard: Universal iPod/iPhone dock, 3.5mm auxiliary input for other…
A “small percentage” of Nvidia-based Vaios “may exhibit distorted video, duplicate images, or a blank screen due to failure of the Nvidia graphics chip.” If you’re affected, Sony will cover repair costs, and extend the graphics warranty to three years. Vaios at risk are Nvidia-based versions of the: VGN-AR1xx, VGN-AR2xx, VGN-AR3xx, VGN-FZ1xx, VGN-FZ2xx, VGN-FZ3xx, VGN-FZ4xx,…
Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are. This video explains how it was taken, and shows it in three dimensions. https://gizmodo.com/move-over-hubble-theres-a-new-deep-field-in-town-5081161
You gotta applaud this overclocker’s ingenuity in using a leaf blower (seemingly switched to suck) to cool a desktop PC. But the vibration you’d get makes me call shenanigans. Extra points for using a dictionary, though! [There I Fixed It]
…Google Gets Caffeinated…An Enormous Collection of Apple-Branded Crap…SpongeBob, Answer to Dell’s Increasingly Delirious Dreams…Liquid Condoms: 5X Safer, 10X Messier… As fun as Bing might be, Google still calls the shots around here. So the fact that Goog is “rewriting the foundation of some of [its] infrastructure” is interesting, though not exactly postable. Dubbed Caffeine (because…
Art Lebedev‘s concepts don’t always come to fruition, but they’re great eye candy even if they’ll never actually exist. This round-screened Navigarius GPS concept is one of their prettiest. The Navigarius would have the round touchscreen, USB, microSD, and a cigarette lighter adapter, provided spaceships have those. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a round…
I love Samsung for their odd advertisements, but this one just made me say wa-wa-wow-WOW! I do wonder how many guys would actually keep their eyes open with this trenchcoat tech though. [YouTube]
Ars Technica posted a guide showing how to make a laptop sleeve out of any fabric you happen to have lying around. It probably won’t protect your laptop from falls, but it’ll provide some style and probably reduce scratches. Unfortunately, it does seem to require some basic sewing knowledge—that’s a problem for me, since my…
With a name that sounds like it’s gone through Google Translate repeatedly, the team behind Freecom’s Hard Drive Secure must’ve put all their energy into the super-dee-duper RFID cards keeping your data safe. ‘Cause RFID is absolutely not defeatable, right? https://gizmodo.com/scary-video-rfid-passports-secretly-copied-on-a-lovely-5144548 Basically, you wave a keycard to lock and unlock the data on the drive.…
Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn’t their savior. In his interview on the fantastic podcast The Sound of Young America, Kot states that…
We got exclusive leaked shots of Zune HD’s packaging. It’s final: It will be available on September 15th. Click to view It’s a little later than we thought (we had guessed a week earlier) but we suppose we’ll wait. There’s still no official price, but we’re pretty confident in our $220/$280 for 16GB/32GB target, especially…
Today’s Onion News Network video attacks Google’s scary-if-you-think-about-it access to all our browsing habits and personal data. If you want privacy, no problem: Just relocate to a giant boxlike mountain prison, and you’ll be secure (and dead). Zing! Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village Like all the best…
Bring your music on the water this summer by building your own floating speaker. All you need is a plastic container with a wide mouth (in this case a ketchup or coffee container), and MP3 player and some compact speakers. Granted, you will have to be willing to take those speakers apart—so I wouldn’t use…
Sometimes, I wish my brain processed reality with this kind of incredible logic. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata says the fact that you think the Wii Vitality sensor is lame balls is actually a “good sign” for Nintendo: “When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I…
Here’s one more reason to go low tech, and snatch a Polaroid camera (or a clone, since the Polaroid instant format is dead): I want one room in my house like photographer Luciano Noble‘s home, covered with instant prints. https://gizmodo.com/polaroid-instant-film-killed-by-the-21st-century-354567 Obvious simple idea, but sweet and perfectly executed. [Luciano Noble and Flickr via Apartment Therapy]
Hammacher Schlemmer’s water-friendly giant mutant hamster ball looks like it could be the best water toy ever. Unfortunately, it doesn’t actually work on water. Oh, the ball floats like a champ, even with a 200lb guy inside (technically, it’s rated to 170lbers, and we tested it with those guys too). But its suction cup skin,…
Do you have an awesome home theater setup with a huge HDTV and surround sound? Show us some eye candy. Does your home theater setup consist of a CRT television and a converter box? Show us the horrible truth. In addition to the pictures, make sure to hit us with some specs in the comments.…
There are some pretty keen gadgets shipping out today, headlined by the Dell Vostro All-In-One. The desktop’s good looks will be sure to please anyone in the market for a stylish PC to spruce up the office. • The Dell Vostro all-in-one is now gracing North America after spending the last month exclusively in the…
Apparently Nokia and Microsoft are having a teleconference tomorrow to announce an “alliance” of some sort between the two tech giants. But what can this all mean? Update: Sorry, guys. This one’s a snoozer—Office on Symbian. The problem is, Nokia and Microsoft are actually competitors in Nokia’s main game. Nokia’s Symbian mobile OS competes directly…
