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This Apple Mini Keyboard by philipskillern isn’t just a logical progression of the hardware line, it’s fancy looking too. Download the wallpaper yourself in various sizes. [Deviantart]
Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster shows how to make a fisheye lens for his Nikon D90 for just $16, with the help of one of those wide-angle doorway peephole lenses. It looks like a pretty simple mod, both in materials required and construction method: It only needs a couple pieces of particle board, the aforementioned…
If this load of recently filed Apple patents become a reality, your iPhone may become a perfect tool for spies soon, with real world object identification, faces recognition, voice alteration, and text filtering, among other things: • Real world object identification: This function will let you point at any object and obtain information about it…
Build 10A402 of Snow Leopard just got pushed out to developers, and we’ll post what’s new in a second. Go ahead and download via Software Update now. [Thanks Chrisdazzo!] Macrumors says there are speed fixes, battery improvements, third party system pref panes, dock menu changes and expose for multiple monitor fixes.
Converting things that are out in the sun to run off solar power makes a lot of sense, like lawn ornaments, these flowers or air conditioning units. Zambonis? Less so. [OGE Gallery via Mocoloco via BBG]
Canon, as is their wont, let loose with a bunch of new all-in-ones, laser and photo printers, and this time, we’re digging two of them: The WiFi- and USB-enabled MP560, pictured, and the CP790, which comes packaged in a bucket. https://gizmodo.com/canon-launches-12-printers-only-needed-to-launch-4-291523 The Pixma MP560, that pretty guy up top, is a compact all-in-one with WiFi,…
The adorable pink counterpart to Prime-8, Penbo is supposedly the “first real robot for girls.” It uses the same locomotion tech derived from the buggy RHex robot, but cutified so it waddles: https://gizmodo.com/bossa-nova-prime-8-robot-walks-runs-on-his-hands-smash-5310979 And yes, it has a baby. Called Bebe. Cute overload, for sure. Unlike Prime-8, it’s not strictly remote-controlled—it responds to touch and…
John Herrman was pretty skeptical of the Chrome OS screenshots we saw this morning, and as it turns out, rightly so; their creator has piped up and admitted their falsity. https://gizmodo.com/are-these-the-first-chrome-os-screenshots-5310757 Here’s the creator’s explanation, in his own (poorly written) words. It was all just a prank, for some unknown reason! I am sorry if…
TechRadar reports that there will be a “range” of Vaio Ps, Sony’s super tiny and super expensive laptop coming later this year. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-p-review-5131637 We recently got a minor spec bump in the original line, making the Vaio P as fast as normal netbooks. No other details on what the new machines will have, however. [TechRadar]…
Remember the iSaw from a couple days ago? Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t real. But the cause that it was created to support is one we can definitely get behind. https://gizmodo.com/the-isaw-will-be-the-bloody-apex-of-usb-peripherals-5309114 Here’s the email people who placed “pre-orders” received: Hello. We love that you liked the i.Saw enough to pre-order. Truth is, you already own a chainsaw.…
What’s special about Bossa Nova‘s Prime-8 robot—a $100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute’s $20,000-a-pop all-terrain RHex designed for 10-year-old boys? It’s the fastest bipedal toy robot ever. Just watch. https://gizmodo.com/hrex-robot-can-conquer-any-terrain-with-manic-thrashing-321020 Prime-8 and Penbo (shown here) are the launch products for Bossa Nova Robotics, a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon‘s Robotics Institute with a…
There’s a longer story you can read elsewhere, but actress Hedy Lamarr invented and patented a system to help prevent torpedoes from being jammed by using frequency hopping. Neither Hedy or her co-patenter made money from the invention because their patent expired before it was implemented in 1962, and wasn’t really acknowledged until 1997 by…
The XCM Eye Candy case for the DSi comes in several tempting colors, but disassembling your machine to install one is only for those with a serious sweet tooth. [Divineo via Technabob via Boing Boing Gadgets]
When does a watch cost as much as a house? When it’s the gravity defying $250,000 Louis Vuitton Tambour Mysterieuse Calibre LV115 apparently. The focus of the design lies in its transparent face with a mechanism that appears to float in the center. However, the secret to this magical feature is actually quite simple—the hour…
If you are running Chrome 2.0+ or FireFox 3.5+ you will notice a dot in the upper left corner of Google Maps that should, theoretically, be able to locate your position using the W3C Geolocation API. We have been around this block before with apps like Geode and Google Gears, but it has yet to…
Click to viewHave you ever noticed that no matter which Best Buy you go into, you end up seeing the same people working there? That’s because there are seven types of people that work at every single Best Buy, with no exceptions. A little known fact about me is that I worked at Best Buy…
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For many of us, cellphone shopping really means choosing between the major smartphone brands—but for those of us looking at a broader range of devices and plans, Amazon has developed a new site to help make the process easier. Amazon Wireless offers services like: •Easy shopping for cell phones and service wireless plans without rebate…
While the iPhone 3GS got a download speed boost—to 7.2Mbps—it didn’t get any upload power-up, according to PC World: Its upstream speed is limited by its hardware to 384Kbps. But don’t get out the torches and pitchforks yet. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-review-5293388 Most GSM-based cellphones suffer the same problem: No matter how fast they are at download, they…
This super-thin booth babe display was recently spotted on the floor of the high-octane International Stationary and Office Supply Fair (slogan: “You’ll get punched in the face with excitement!”). this eye-catching digital signage system consists of a 0.3-millimeter-thick high-luminance rear-projection film (Vikuiti Rear Projection Film developed by 3M) applied to a 3-millimeter-thick glass substrate cut…
