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Apple has pulled BeautyMeter—the iPhone/iPod touch app that allowed users to upload naked pictures of themselves for others to rate—after a 15-yo girl published this picture showing her bare breasts and pubic hair. https://gizmodo.com/apples-nudie-app-headaches-now-involve-underage-girls-5305794 Charlie Sorrel at Wired argues correctly that Apple will be damned with 17+ apps no matter what: The problems for Apple…
Dilemma: You want to look sexy but not too sexy—and certainly not all the time. You’re busy and have errands to run, and you can’t have post office employees rubbing up in your junk like pups in heat. So do what we do: Don’t workout. Eat terribly. And only copulate with partners who promise to…
The iTunes icon is old and busted. I mean, didn’t iPods kill CDs or something? And like, 7 million of the 8 million things iTunes does have nothing to do with tunes. So let’s make a new icon! Send your best design of a new icon that really represents iTunes to me at [email protected] with…
This is the NZXT Sentry 2 fan controller. It installs into any 5.25-inch bay, and you can use its touch screen interface to set the speed of up to five fans. Note: Leather pants are not included. [NZXT via BBG]
Behold, the power of bad press! Verizon is now set to offer pre-orders of the upcoming BlackBerry Tour to existing customers in the very near future. While yesterday had Verizon reps telling us that the Tour would only be available to new customers or Verizon customers at the end of their contracts, the site has…
Advertising firm McCann Erickson has won a lucrative advertising contract with Microsoft, beating out CrispiBLAH BLAH BLAH the point is, people—Zune advertising people—are now talking on record about Microsoft’s “Pink” project, and gearing up to promote it. From Adweek: The Office shift follows a pitch for a new Microsoft mobile offering won by McCann’s T.A.G.…
While prepping for our nation’s independence, we came across this excellent explanation as to how most basic fireworks function. The clip takes about a minute of your time and will imbue you with impressive knowledge for this July 4th. [HowStuffWorks]
The Enigma Battleship Drinking Game—a classic Battleship game that makes you drink a shot of your favorite alcohol every time you take a hit—is the last thing I need now, while I’m back visiting friends in Madrid. And still, I want it so badly. It was designed by the genius of Mauricio (Tony) Harion, from…
I thought this was some kind of bird hunting device sitting on top of a massive forest. In reality it may be your next vacation destination. And you will need the largest thermal airship to get it up there. This is a canopy raft, an enormous set of nets held together with inflatable tubes that…
Ducks, don’t try to use escalators, ok? And humans, follow the same advice. Except you, you sexy spinning escalator girl you. You can use the escalator at any time. [Dark Roasted Blend—Thanks Daffy] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fall-up-an-escalator-316299 Click to view
Unwired View uncovered three new iPhone patents that promise to turn everything from calling grandma on her birthday to turning off your phone in a movie theater into gloriously mindless activities. Scheduled Communications “A communications device may be programmed to initiate a communications operation when a particular condition is met. The user may set any…
Do the Pear Post-Its require a Registry to work and get viruses? Are the Apple Post-Its snotty and obnoxious? I don’t know, I don’t care. They are both pretty and will match your monitor nicely. [D-Bros via Mocoloco]
In what is probably the most surprising non-celebrity-death story in weeks, recently bankrupt Psystar—surly maker of all things hackintosh—is now claiming to be ready for a comeback, with a new product in tow. This makes very little sense. https://gizmodo.com/psystar-files-for-bankruptcy-5270448 A superquick recap: Psystar releases the OpenMac, a $400 desktop Mac clone; people debate if this…
A three-wheeled scooter, a bike with a trunk, and the ultimate all-in-one piece of man furniture – release your inner child Jacko-style with the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We belly up to the bar with a Newcastle DraughtKeg, cook up some round chunks of goodness in the Meatball Grill Basket, and…
The new litter of thin, cheap laptops, as we’ve seen from Lenovo and Dell, is inherently charming, making the experience of using a cheap, portable laptop bearable for people put off by netbook tininess. There’s just one problem. https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-u350-is-pretty-thin-pretty-light-and-pretty-ch-5268846 CNET caught up with Doug Freedman, an analyst for AmTech who has been speaking to device…
It’s fair to say that everyone would’ve loved it if the last remote for the Sonos wireless media systems, the $400 C100, had a touchscreen. It didn’t. Years later, the CR200 does, but it might be a bit late. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-adds-zoneplayer-zp80-to-family-146281 Oddly enough, this is Sonos’ fault in every possible way. We don’t have any specs,…
ASUS’s touchscreen PC-in-a-keyboard was expected to land in June, according to rumors direct statements from company executives. That didn’t happen! Prices and specs are presumably unchanged, but the new release date is somewhere in August. [Techdigest via Slashgear] https://gizmodo.com/eee-keyboard-an-entire-touchscreen-home-theater-pc-5124985
…When It’s Not OK To Steal From a Church…Apple May Say Buh-Bye to Nvidia…Best Buy Shoppers Admit This Smartphone Thing Is Soooo Confusing…Exactly Who Is America’s Fastest Typist?… Some a-holes stole 31 monitors from a driveway as they were being transported from a hospital to a church, which was to ship them to hospitals in…
Though it looks a lot like a larger version of those little cigarette rollers, this gadget is actually used to form perfect stuffed Japanese gyozas. We like it, but Alton Brown would never approve of such a single-function device. Gyozas, like empanadas, dumplings, or knishes, consist of a stuffing (usually ground meat and spices) wrapped…
Dell Taiwan accidentally priced one 19-inch monitor, normally costing around $150, at only $15, and received a whopping 140,000 orders within the 8 hours it was live. Now, the Taiwanese government is forcing them to honor the sales. This kind of thing isn’t too uncommon, and normally a company like Dell would either honor the…
