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Asus is set to release the P6X58 Premium motherboard which features two USB 3.0 “SuperSpeed” ports. The board also supports a Core i7 processor, six DDR-3 slots, 3 PCI-Express slots, and a SATA 3.0 interface capable of 6Gb/sec transfer speeds. Asus has yet to announce pricing and release date information, and no benchmarks have been…
The Cloud Project is a tricky little concept that would spray flavored condensation and liquid nitrogen into clouds, “seeding” them, and forcing flavored snow to fall from the heavens. It’s pretty much straight of of a children’s book. The whole thing is purely conceptual for now; it involves certain bacteria and ice nucleation and a…
I’ve tried in-ear headphones and I just can’t stand them. That’s why I walk around like an 80s DJ nowadays, with big over-the-ear muffs and Rick James t-shirt. That’s why Shure wasn’t on my list of potential headphones until today. Shure has always been famous for their in-ear headphones, which to me feel like they…
The Bibliosphere, an administration and student services buiding at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, is both an ecological and architectural achievement. It’s incredibly environmentally-friendly, and did we mention it’s a giant sphere? The Bibliosphere is focused on sustainability, with natural lighting, ventilation, and using only renewable energy sources, and consumes an amazing 50% less…
Rumors about Barnes & Noble’s plans to develop an eReader have been confirmed in a company statement that launches a new eBookstore and outlines a partnership with Plastic Logic to develop an eReader for an early 2010 launch. https://gizmodo.com/barnes-and-noble-may-jump-into-e-reader-market-5204267 B&N also notes that they will offer eBooks on devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and…
For every five products that claim some kind of haptic feedback support, maybe one actually puts it to good use—like the URC MX-5000 touchscreen remote, which uses the technology to guide your fingers while they guide your TV. Beyond the haptics, the MX-5000 is a fairly standard high-end universal remote, intended for system builders to…
If Sleepy Hollow was recast in 2009, it would star Flossie here. Wearing a robot motorcycle batsuit, he would stop at nothing to find his robot head. https://gizmodo.com/dark-knight-motorcycle-suit-gets-you-accepted-into-the-5317126 [Faster and Faster]
Well, we were impressed by Corsair‘s 240/170MB/s read/write speeds, but the new Crucial line tops it with a 250MB/s read and 200MB/s write. Even better, the Crucial SSDs are available right now. https://gizmodo.com/corsairs-new-extreme-ssd-line-is-blazingly-fast-5316585 The Crucial SSDs are available in the current standard of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities at price points of $170, $330 and…
Using a stylus is annoying enough without spending $30 on one shaped like Link’s sword. I mean, how uncomfortable would that be? By the looks of things…very. But if that isn’t your cup of tea there are plenty of other Shapeways designs to choose from: Wiimote, Link’s shield and Pokemon to name a few. Each…
Apparently, Japanese carriers KDDI and DoCoMo are being totally overwhelmed by porn downloaders on their 3G networks. I don’t know what they expected to happen when porn services started offering movies for wireless download. The porn aficionados, or Jason Chens as they’re known in the States, are causing the Japanese online porn industry to grow…
Augmented reality apps don’t jive with Apple’s current API policies, but that hasn’t stopped people from making Twitter apps, metro finders and Mommy finders with the new technology. https://gizmodo.com/twittaround-twitter-reality-augmentation-looks-amazing-5309274 Clearly, Apple needs to adjust their policies asap so we all know where to go when we skin our knees. [spazout]
We have great deals on TVs today, be sure to check out the 47″ LG if you’re looking to spruce up your living room ahead of football season. Special thanks to fellow intern Chris for helping with the deals today. Computing and Peripherals: • 15.6″ Toshiba Satellite L505-S5966 CoreDuo Laptop for $429.99 plus free shipping…
After years of borrowing friends’ PCs to update firmware, buying 3rd party sync apps and being generally frustrated by their technologies’ poor communication skills, BlackBerry-owning Mac users may soon stop wanting to die: BlackBerry Desktop is coming to OS X. Although there were workarounds more most BlackBerry sync/update/media needs, including a decidedly decent Media Sync…
Imagine the kind of HD magic you could film with a Canon5D MK II mounted on a helmet. The possibilities have not been lost on Hollywood apparently. Click to view Rodney Charters, the Director for Photography on 24 expressed interest in it via an email sent to planet5D. He also believes that it may have…
Apollo 11 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin are now on course to the surface of the Moon, after undocking from Columbia. I’m certainly not the great Walter Cronkite, but I’m liveblogging the historic event here. https://gizmodo.com/the-eagle-has-wings-5318721/ [Events shown in reverse chronological order. Timestamps indicate expected time for landing—obviously in July…
I love the Palm Pre. I’ve had it for just over a month, and it’s probably the best phone I’ve ever owned. But there are some nagging shortcomings and idiosyncrasies I think they could theoretically fix easily, by software. Click to viewWant to ditch this gallery format and see everything on one page? Click here.…
Question: What’s cooler than a TV with amazing picture quality? Answer: A TV with amazing picture quality and incredibly low power usage*. That’s the Samsung LED TV. So shrink your carbon footprint and find out more. *Samsung’s Energy Star-Compliant LED TVs use 40% less power than similar size 2008 Samsung LCD TVs in standard mode.
AT&T is going large with their netbook plans, offering the Dell Mini 10, Acer Aspire One and Lenovo S10 at brick/mortar stores and online. But at a slightly subsidized $200 apiece on a two-year, minimum $40/mo contract, they’re comically expensive. Let’s do some math! On this plan, your Atom-based netbook running Windows XP will set…
What will you tell disgruntled employees when you have to lay them off because you chose to spend $7 on sets of 5 iPhone icon paperclips hmmm? [Etsy via iPhone Pulse]
Every year or so, you’ll read the same line: Japanese cellphones are amazing, futuristic überhandsets, and the rest of the world is stuck in the last decade. In 2009, though, that narrative has basically collapsed. The gist of today’s NYT piece, “Why Japan’s Cellphones Haven’t Gone Global,” will sound familiar: Japanese cellphones feature impressive technology…
