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We’ve just gotten a shot of the BlackBerry Storm 2 with a clearly-visible Wi-Fi option. It’s a Vodafone version, not Verizon, but it’s a good hint that Verizon may follow through and unblock Wi-Fi on the handset. Fingers crossed! [CrackBerry] https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-enabled-blackberry-storm-2-coming-to-verizon-in-s-5201094
In addition to Netflix and Amazon on Demand, Roku users will now be able to access baseball games from premium MLB.tv accounts. That means live, out-of-market games as well as on-demand games from the past week. Only problem is, you have to be a subscriber of the paid MLB.tv service, which would cost $35 for…
The Shittiest N64 Casemod Ever…AT&T Bans Class Action Suits…Surprise! Overworked Telecommuters Want Overtime…A Report Tells NASA to Get Awesome Again… “Rough around the edges” doesn’t begin to do justice to this unpostably ugly briefcase-bound N64. How about that particle-board liner? Looks like it was hacked with a butter knife. Nice translucent orange controller—I hope it…
Our chief complaints with the EyeClops Night Vision goggles were that they’re uncomfortable and allowed only one eye to be used. Thankfully the second gen is not only cheaper and better, but lets you look creepy in comfortable binocular style. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-eyeclops-night-vision-goggles-5072778 According to Ars Technica, the newest toy from JAKKS Pacific has many improvements over…
After displaying her collection of prosthetic legs at this year’s TED conference, bionic actress, athlete and model Aimee Mullins recently announced that she will speak at the TEDMED convention this fall. Mullins has been instrumental in changing the public perception of prosthetics. After setting multiple world records at the 1996 Paralympic games, she has used…
Dr. Quake of Stanford University only needed $50,000 and a month’s time to complete a genome sequencing process which previously took $300 million, over 250 people, and several years. How cheap would Windows 7 be with this guy’s cost-cutting? Dr. Stephen Quake and his team used a “commercially available, refrigerator-sized instrument called the Helicos Biosciences…
As the name suggests, the PRC (Personal Rockin’ Computer) chair is intended as a workstation…of sorts. Although, these images suggest otherwise. Seriously, the gallery reads like this is something you might purchase in a unassuming building with no windows in the bad part of town. Whatever it is, I wouldn’t mind having one. It’s kind…
Draganfly’s series of photo/video-based UAVs have always been awesome, but they’ve also been more of a pipe dream than anything else. The X4 is smaller than the X6, but the smaller size also comes with a 25% price cut. Yes! https://gizmodo.com/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-5042268 Like the X6—featured in Giz Gallery 2008—the X4 is a carbon fiber-bodied UAV with…
It looks like the Wii won’t be sensing vitalities for a while. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says they “would like to deliver the actual product not too late in the year next year.” I suggest you pick up yoga. [Joystiq]
There’s nothing much to say about the Cheetos Lip Balm, except it may be the product of the decade. If not the century. Even more so than the gargantuan Cheetos. Except that the Cheetos Lip Balm is a real product. https://gizmodo.com/i-ate-the-worlds-largest-cheeto-over-the-worlds-most-ex-5224528 It is made by Lotta Luv, a New York-based company that makes lip balm…
If you thought that Geek Squad employees were kind of dumb, well, you may be right. At least, that’s the impression I get by looking at the absolutely stupid multiple-choice answers in their CompTIA A+ preparation test: https://gizmodo.com/geek-squad-attempting-first-look-at-naked-female-gets-251738 According to our anonymous tipster: I collected some pictures from a GS Test new Agents take while…
Your shelves officially suck compared to these. They’re Donkey Kong shelves, complete with a monkey, NES, SNES and N64. Oh, and the N64 only has Goldeneye as opposed to a full collection of games. Awesome. [Sprite Stitch via TDW]
The eternal graphics war: ATI vs. Nvidia. With the rise of GPGPU computing, if you’re deciding who to fall in line with based on their graphics-accelerated platforms—Stream or CUDA, respectively—PC Perspective’s done the dirty benchmarking work for you. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-gpgpu-computing-and-why-itll-melt-your-f-5252545 It actually boils down fairly simply to a mixed bag: ATI’s Stream tends to be outright…
With consumer technology companies locked in an endless race to to make the smallest, sleekest gadgets they can, it’s easy to forget the primal joy of seeing mindblowingly huge hardware. Here are ten machines that are so enormous that they’ll screw with your sense of what’s large, what’s small, and what is truly gigantic—each handily…
Sling just submitted the 1.1 version of Slingplayer, which we reviewed here, to the App Store. It’s going to have 16×9 widescreen, better remote, a faster connection for channel changing and remote control, plus DISH integration. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-mobile-for-iphone-review-wi-fi-only-30-5250885 The DISH stuff is new, and will connect directly to the DISH receiver to “draw” the guide on…
A study published in the Journal of Bioelectromagnetics, says that children aged 11 to 14 abusing predictive texting in cellphones are turning into fast-thinking idiots. Sounds about right. Of course, lead researcher Professor Abramson doesn’t say it exactly that way: The kids who used their phones a lot were faster on some of the tests,…
It feels like we know everything about the Zune HD—except the price. Well, now we know, if Best Buy’s inventory system is right: the 16GB model will go for $220, and the 32GB model will be $290. It also backs up the previously rumored launch date, Sept. 8. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-zune-hd-comes-in-16-32gb-sizes-launches-septemb-5302077 Those prices look dirt cheap compared…
Today we’ve got some new gadgets for your home theater. Onkyo’s new receiver can do both DLNA audio and internet radio streaming, and Netgear’s latest powerline home networking kit is built for your network-enabled audio and video gear. • Onkyo has a new receiver with some really cool connectivity options, but it’s missing some features…
Here’s something you wouldn’t want pointed near your face: a rubber band gun powered by a drill that can fire tens and tens of rubber bands in a matter of seconds. The only cold comfort one can take away from this video is that once fired, it’s gotta be a huge pain to reload. I…
The Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60, used in open mines. It looks pretty huge here, sure, but how big is it? A fair bit longer than the Eiffel Tower laid flat, is how big. [DarkRoasted Blend] The Komatsu 9xx Series mining trucks look a bit like Tonka toys. No, they look exactly like Tonka toys. [MiningTopNews]…
