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I’m still shaking after watching this. I’m not joking. Can someone make me a happier version, so I can resume normal daily functions? Thanks. [YouTube via BBG] https://gizmodo.com/our-palm-pre-ad-remix-makes-more-sense-5320633
The sad thing is, if Apple did release the iPhone 3GI and claim only the truly worthy could see it, I’m sure it would go down exactly like The Onion says it would. “Oh my God, I can’t believe how much faster you can get online with this,” said Delaney, who exited the store holding…
Adding to an already impressive list of services available on their web-connected HDTVs, LG has yanked Vudu into the fold. What this means: instant 1080p movie streaming. Also, that standalone set-top streaming boxes might finally die, as they should. So what gets this? It’s a decent spread of 42-inch-and-up plasma and LCD TVs, including the…
Even though Microsoft won’t be so specific, we’re all pretty sure that Natal is coming at the end of next year. Now even the boss of THQ (a major game publisher) has grown tired of the elephant in the holiday of 2010, going on record that Natal would be released “late next year.” So why…
The ritual lives on: Sprint lost $384 million and 257,000 customers. Which looks grim, but remember, six months ago they lost a billion dollars and over a million customers. Sadly, their forecast for 2009 is simply “improved losses.” [Sprint] https://gizmodo.com/sprint-loses-another-million-subscribers-1-6-billion-5156418
It’s not just you, AT&T was having “data issues” that borked the internet in areas on the East Coast from Richmond up through New York. Supposedly, it should be coming back, if it’s not already. [Thanks tipsters!]
Why would you hack your MSI Wind‘s battery to add a USB port when you can just connect your iPhone or any other device to the netbook’s USB port? Well, just because you can. According to the author of the hack, the iPhone 3G took 2 hours and 22 minutes to fully recharge, leaving 50%…
Geotagging photos sounds good, but it can become a laborious process to mark the source of every photo in your photo library. Now the Eye-Fi Geo will bring automatic geotagging to every photo you take. Essentially an SD card with GPS Wi-Fi triangulation, the 2GB Eye-Fi Geo (like Eye-Fis of yore) fits into any SD…
T-Mobile’s releasing the Touch Pro2, a Windows Mobile 6.1 affair from HTC, on August 12. It’s got the same old stuff: 802.11 b/g, 3.6-inch screen, slide-out keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera, blah blah TouchFlo. Even HTC’s moving away from Windows Mobile now. https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobiles-biggest-booster-htc-going-to-android-fo-5320444
Shep Smith can get 140 characters down with his BlackBerry without taking his eyes off the road, but he can’t eat a Big Mac without crashing. Surprising since it shouldn’t take more than one bite with that mouth.
Kodak’s almost-glimpsed product tease was indeed a new pocket cam, potentially their best yet. Launching with an MSRP of $180, it will overpower the Flip Ultra HD with 1080p recording, an electronic image stabilizer, SDHC card slot and other enhancements. https://gizmodo.com/kodaks-obscene-teaser-for-their-new-product-5320611 The list of improvements continues: The Zi8 has an external mic jack, and it’ll…
Today I met Matt, Wilson, Adam, and John for dinner at Momofuku Noodle Bar, here in NY. As I got into the subway, I saw these two really cool blonde girls playing Gameboy together in the weirdest and funniest way. Sitting tight together, head to head, one was frantically rubbing her thumb against the Gameboy…
Scientists at the FLASH free-electron, high intensity laser facility in Hamburg, Germany, have created a completely new state of matter, transforming aluminum into something “that nobody has seen before,” an exotic material which is transparent to ultraviolet radiation. According to Professor Justin Wark—from the Oxford University’s Department of Physics—the discovery is “almost as surprising as…
Augmented reality will soon be coming to games with Sony’s EyePet for PS3. Kotaku took the game for a spin and were pretty impressed with how all the elements came together. Players interact with their virtual pet using a bundled card and camera. The card is used to bring up menus when placed in front…
The X-Power 1 USB cord has a built-in rechargeable battery to give you a bit of backup power on the go (assuming you remember to take the cord with you). Their ad seems to imply more than that though. The benefit of the X-Power 1 is that it’s both a backup battery and a charger…
While most DARPA projects never materialize, the Underwater Express mini-submarine project is entering the test phase. If successful, the Underwater Express will be capable of going 100 knots—far faster than the 30 knots today’s subs can muster. https://gizmodo.com/underwater-express-submarine-utilizes-bubbles-for-speed-240121 To achieve the amazing speeds, the sub utilizes a hydrodynamic effect known as supercavitation. When the Underwater…
Some solid unofficial Facebook apps have cropped up for Android lately, but it looks like they’re going to be displaced by an official app as soon as this week. It’s going to be different than the iPhone one. It’s going to be more limited, for one, according to TechCrunch’s source. But it’s apparently going to…
Expected in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Vcast application store isn’t meant to compete with Apple’s app store, according to Verizon. It just happens to be an over-the-air marketplace for application developers to distribute their apps on. The basic model resembles Apple’s app store except that rather than requiring users to set up accounts…
The engine room of the next Enterprise? A glimpse at the heart of some new particle accelerator? The lens of a new US military laser? Actually, it’s the multifunctional hall of the BMW Welt energy-efficient factory, designed as “a solar-heated, naturally ventilated sub-climatic area.” The air flow is generated by thermal currents and turbulences that…
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