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Legendary sea planes, glasses made of concrete, and Chewbacca on a bicycle – spend your lunch break perusing the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We hone up on one of our favorite sports with The Book of Beer Pong, draw confused looks with the Star Wars-meets-Paperboy goodness of the Chewbika T-Shirt, and…
You thought that you had to choose between your pirated games homebrew and Facebook? Nope, the DSi already appears to have been cracked again. While the latest DSi firmware 1.4 tempted users with social networking on Facebook, it also blocked infamous R4 cartridges, a popular way to load pirated software on the DS/DSi. But according…
We’ve been waiting for the supposed Summer launch of TomTom’s turn-by-turn iPhone app and car kit ever since we saw it at WWDC. Now one UK retailer looks to be taking pre-orders for £113.85 (about $195). https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-2009-iphone-3-0-app-roundup-5283376 I wouldn’t take Handtec’s pricing as gospel—they seem to have jumped the gun after all—but it does give…
Choosing which aspect of the Samsung Sprint Reclaim is most important will depend heavily on your worldview. Is it that the handset is made from environmentally-friendly bioplastics? That it’s Sprint’s first 3G QWERTY phone to touch $50 on contract? Take your pick, ruthless capitalist/unpleasant hippie! On the green front, 80% of its building materials are…
The premise of a realistic hologram is no longer so far-fetched, but what about actually touching the thing? Researchers from The University of Tokyo have found a way. The clip explains things better than we can, but researchers have essentially combined motion tracking, like you see in the Wii, with holograms, like you see on…
The G500 succeeds the popular G5 Laser Mouse with greater accuracy (up to 5700dpi, adjustable on the fly), and a broader thumb rest. Logitech also has a new budget noise-cancelling headset called the G330. The Gaming Mouse G500 has a “battle worn finish” and dual-mode scroll wheel that either can click through weapon selection, or…
But with Sony’s 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV priced over $2000, how much will the damn thing cost? Then there are those rumors that LG may supply Apple with OLED screens for its future products… https://gizmodo.com/sony-xel-1-oled-tv-review-verdict-small-on-size-larg-372072 Take it with a grain of salt, but a SmartHouse Australia report from April claims to answer both those questions.…
And saves you needlessly wasting calories on, you know, cooking for yourself, or hitting up a cafe. Clearly aimed at coffee shops and shut-ins, the $3500 device (yeah, you read that right) spits out perfectly formed four-inch pancakes at a rate of 200 per hour. ChefStack says its pancake mix is also 97% fat free,…
First J.Stern, now Walt Mossberg is charmed by the Toshiba—yes, Toshiba—netbook, the NB205. It lasts long, has a roomy keyboard. Seems like the one to get, hackintoshing aside. Always good when mainstreamers get surprise recommendations. [AllThingsD] https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-nb205-netbook-gets-8-and-a-half-hours-of-real-t-5293421
The $350 WX1 features the same Sony G Lens, low-light optimized Exmor R CMOS sensor, and Sweep Panaroma mode as Sony’s $500 DSC-XH1 mega zoom camera. The optically stabilized Sony G Lens (in this case, with 5x optical zoom) has only otherwise been seen in digital SLRs and high-end camcorders. But the 10.2-megapixel WX1 has…
The new 10.2Mp DSC-TX1 squeezes advanced low-light shooting features and a gorgeous touchscreen (responsive to both stylus and finger gestures) into a body just 0.66 inches thick. The 10.2Mp TX1 doesn’t have the Sony G Lens of the DSC-WX1, but does share its low-light optimized Exmor R CMOS Sensor and Twilight mode (a series of…
And this is actually a good thing. Why? Because it means a major Symbian UI redesign is on the way. TamsS60 spoke with Symbian Foundation rep David Wood, who explained that theyre killing the Avkon UI engine, in favor of Qt, meaning there will be a binary break when it comes to S60 apps. The…
Nikon’s sensor protector…8GB iPhone 3GS appears in Canada?…43nm Solid State Drives…The “world’s largest organ” made from stalactites… The headline seems so sexy and interesting: “Nikon patents mirrorless camera!” But then we realize that DSLRs are the only cameras with mirrors to begin with, so we look at the source more closely. Turns out this story…
SSDs might be catching up to the trusty HDD in capacity, but this first-of-its-kind, 2-terabyte, 7200 RPM drive from Hitachi serves as a reminder that for speedy mass storage people can still afford, the old standby still remains king. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000, is a 3.5-inch drive that fits inside any compatible computer or enclosure.…
Ever experience something so EXTREME that you think everyone else should see it from your perspective? Yeah, there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think that. Luckily for us, there’s Tachyon’s 2010 XC Helmet Cam System. Tachyon’s XC system is shock/waterproof and records onto SDHC cards, meaning you can get anywhere between…
I have no feezing clue what staging a massive airshow in San Francisco has to do with the myTouch 3G or how T-Mobile expected people to connect the two — oh wait, because now I’m writing about it! https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-google-ion-review-most-improved-5272229 I’m also sure the giant party they threw in the Embarcadero, complete with T-Mobile and myTouch…
A new Vaio P model making its way through the FCC seems to confirm last months’ Mark 2 refresh rumor. Little else of interest is known, except that it’s the same size as the original. [Sony Insider via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/sonys-planning-a-vaio-p-mark-2-super-portable-in-octobe-5311268
The Obama administration has dumped an electric truckload of money on car and battery companies, with hopes they’ll develop technology that’ll make plug-powered cars suitable for the mainstream. As you can imagine, this is way bigger than just cars. Batteries have been a bottleneck in consumer electronics for years now, and it’s getting ridiculous. Think…
For today’s round up of available gadgets, we’ve got two new phones and a sleek netbook. T-Mobile hits us twice with the highly anticipated MyTouch and a trackball-less Blackberry, while Asus began shipping out a new large screen Seashell. • To many people’s delight, T-Mobile launched their MyTouch 3G into stores today. If you got…
Instead of creating the usual steel turnstile, the Watergate’s designers used the primordial liquid as a psychological barrier. Their logic: People won’t like to get their clothes wet. Obviously, they don’t live in NY summer and they wear pants. Or in other words: If they install this on the NYC subway, I would not spend…
