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One of Boy Genius Report’s “most trusted Best Buy moles” snapped a shot of Best Buy’s plans for August 23rd. Looks like it’ll be a big day in the cellphone world, with a number of anticipated featurephones hitting the shelves. Mostly new Verizon and AT&T featurephone offerings, Best Buy will also have a new shipment…
This is the Portable Tap Dispenser, a backpack with a dispensing tap for your brew of choice. The Portable Tap Dispenser also has a cupholder so you can more fully cement your reputation as the Beer God of the Party. We’re not sure exactly what the bag’s capacity is, but it looks plenty big enough…
This image was lost some time after publication. Remember the film 1999 A.D. we looked at a of couple years ago? (I really can’t believe I’ve been doing the Paleo-Future blog that long. That’s like 14 in blog-years.) Well, the October 16, 1967 Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) ran a piece by Desa C. Belyea about…
It’s a competitive category, trust me. We’ve seen some pretty ridiculous abuses of packaging and shipping in our day. But this one’s great, especially since the box is upside-down and sort of crushed-looking. Congratulations to the winner loser. [Geekologie] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sends-teeny-ear-clips-in-huge-cardboard-box-5177651
Cellpassion found the UA Profile (kind of a spec list for phones) for the upcoming HTC Fiesta, an Android-based smartphone we know very little about. But an internal link indicates that this could very well be AT&T’s first Android phone. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-sig-filing-drops-clues-about-htcs-next-androi-5209627 There are a couple interesting tidbits here: The phone is slated to have a…
With all the talk about augmented reality and 3D lately, it’s only natural that the advertising folks jump the bandwagon. While among the first to take advantage of this tech, Best Buy’s advertising team really missed the point. https://gizmodo.com/apple-will-let-iphone-apps-augment-our-sad-little-reali-5322448 I’m the sort who gets excited about 3D, augmented reality, and holograph technology really quickly (I…
From the wilds of the Indonesian jungle message boards come these new shots of a mysterious Nokia tablet (or MID, or large phone) with a sliding QWERTY, labeled RX-5. The RX-5 is packing a 5MP Carl Zeiss camera, a full QWERTY in the style of the N97 or Sony’s XPERIA series, and a bunch of…
Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in Skyfall this November. MI6 is under attack and the only man who can locate and destroy the threat is 007. Javier Bardem enters the Bond saga as a villain in this highly-anticipated return to the world of British Intelligence. Check out this teaser trailer now and go see…
One of Boy Genius Report’s sources, which he says is reliable, hinted at a few of the new features to be found in the upcoming release of Apple iTunes 9. Let’s take a look. The biggest new feature would have to be the addition of Blu-Ray support, supposedly to go along with the Blu-Ray integration…
My dear friend Zac Bir had a great idea: Photograph his son Alexander every single day since he was born, creating this beautiful one-year time-lapse calendar. Watching him grow so happy makes me happy too. Look for the special days. https://gizmodo.com/best-video-ive-seen-today-will-make-you-smile-5231112 Click to view
Floridian Keith Griffin most certainly didn’t download over a thousand images containing child pornography. No siree. It must’ve been his dear puddy-tat who downloaded pictures of those oh-so-illegal birds. According to a sheriff’s report Friday, Griffin told investigators his cat jumped on the keyboard while he was downloading music. He said he had left the…
Justin Quinnell left his homemade pinhole camera continuously exposed for a whopping six months to capture this incredible photo of Saint Mary Redcliffe Church in the UK. Those individual lines are images of the sun trailing across the sky: The lowest one is the winter solstice, captured on December 22nd, and the highest one is…
These fuzzy-wuzzy, kitten-tastic headphones might not get you much action in general, but they’re sure to attract plenty of underage Japanese girls while giving you an excuse to take your furry fetish public. [Thanko via BoingBoing]
So the screen on your PowerBook died. Do you a) grab a hammer, b) foul mouth Apple as your hot wife stands by, or c) demand a &%$# Snapple? If you’re Ice-T, the answer is all of the above. There’s no word on how Ice-T’s trip to the Apple store went, though I think it…
At 17x17x30 inches, this huge lightbulb would have been absolutely amazing. But since it’s not made of glass and metal, but paper, it’s just cute. So cute that I still would like to have one, though. [Kyouei via Likecool]
Wondering what’s up for grabs today? We’ve got you covered. If you’re on the hunt for a new monitor check out Dell’s trio of affordable LCDs. Also, if you mean business, Nextel has just released a rugged handset for you. • Dell didn’t make much noise about the release of their three LCD monitors today,…
There are stud finders and then there is the Milwaukee Sub-Scanner M12. Oh, it can find studs alright—but it can also find the location and depth of rebar, PVC, wood, PEX, metal and live wires under 6″ of concrete. Actually, it can tell you the exact position and composition of just about anything under concrete,…
The best part is, I don’t even know to whom. Future camera buyers? Other cameras? To Sony’s own Exmor-equipped point-and-shoots, which got this instead of a respectable marketing campaign? In any case, this is dumb. Let us count the ways! https://gizmodo.com/cyber-shot-dsc-wx1-packs-sony-g-lens-and-low-light-shoo-5331161/ 1. It’s a “simulated image” 2. The “conventional sensor” side of this scene looks…
Two ways to win with this Buffalo card reader. It holds 16GB, plus whatever microSD cards you shove inside. The 16GB version costs $160, but 4GB is just $35. Available end of August. [Geekstuff4u via OhGizmo]
Microsoft’s upcoming retail location looks just about what you’d expect from a mall shop under construction. Right around the corner would be Lane Bryant and Ladies Foot Locker, two stores who have very little clientele in common. [Twitpic]
