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Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon, just lays this captain obvious quote on Charlie Rose on the possibility of a Verizon iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/great-moments-in-apple-analysis-5280530 …the decision to put an iPhone on our network is Apple’s… Reeeeeeeaaaaaaallly? You don’t say. Apple’s decision to make a phone that would work on a different technology than their current…
Reader Alex points us to this video where you can get that fancy iPhone 3GS battery indicator on any iPhone. Spoiler: your phone needs to be jailbroken. We haven’t tested it ourselves, but it looks like he’s just using SSH to transfer some files over and create a new item to enable the battery gauge.…
The Windows Blog just started to show off Windows 7’s reduced-waste easy-open disc packaging. At a distance, it looks like it couldn’t be more plain-Jane, but when you look closely, you can see it’s got some wacky touches. OK, remember that crazy Windows 7 desktop art? If you look around the white rippling window, you…
O.M.G.I.G.P or “Oh My God I’m Gonna Puke” is a serious problem for those living with the sick and perverted. Fortunately Dean Cain and IE8’s InPrivate mode can help. Warning: video is NSFL and reading Cain’s lips is very NSFW. https://gizmodo.com/dean-cain-helps-us-overcome-s-h-y-n-e-s-s-with-internet-5284583
If you are the kind of person that used a calculator to spell out “BOOBIES”, you will love rearranging the icons on your OS X dock in creative an immature ways. https://gizmodo.com/boobies-calculator-shirt-to-make-all-other-shirts-obsol-5137807 Hit Mike Giepert’s website for more examples—then ask yourself, what other words are possible? [Mike Giepert via Neatorama via Coolbuzz]
I love Gundam. Seriously, I really love love love it. But this pink hellokittyzed Gundam makes me have doubts about my sexuality. https://gizmodo.com/pictures-of-full-scale-59-foot-gundam-robot-kicks-optim-279774 It’s ok, I want to have it anyway. [ForevergeekTechnabob]
Pentax’s Optio W80 is its most rugged and waterproof point-and-shoot yet: it goes 16 feet underwater, survives drops from 3.3 feet and works in 14 degree weather. It also has a smudge resistant screen. $300. PENTAX ANNOUNCES ITS MOST SHOCK AND WATERPROOF DIGITAL COMPACT CAMERA EVER: THE OPTIO W80 GOLDEN, CO (June 24, 2009)…The manufacturer…
As you know from childhood, Mississippi time is the most accurate way to distinguish the passing of a second. Therefore, it is safe to assume that this clock is the greatest timepiece ever constructed by man. Amazingly enough, this marvel of modern engineering can be had for only $100 on Amazon. [Amazon via The Awesomer…
I’m not sure why anyone would buy into this crazy French online snail mail service (especially if they are stealing laptops by turning them into jets…tricky bastards), but their viral ad is interesting at least. [Laposte / Thanks Ravi!]
Here’s something Palm execs can’t like to see: a listing for a Palm Pre holster on BestBuy.com that says “iPod sold separately” on its image. At least the picture is of a Pre, right? [BestBuy.com; Thanks, Rob!]
The US International Trade Commission has ruled that some Sharp LCD displays violate a patent owned by Samsung and should be banned from being imported into the US. Although, it is probably nothing to get overly excited about. While the ruling would effect a large segment of Sharp’s product line—including Aquos. Sharp will no doubt…
Be happy, bicyclists of the world, because the lasertastic LightLane personal bike path is going to be a reality soon. It’s already in the production engineering phase, as this demonstration video shows: https://gizmodo.com/lightlane-ensures-cyclists-a-bike-lane-wherever-they-go-5133817 As you remember, Lightlane was just a very clever concept in a design competition. Apparently the response was so overwhelming from bicyclists…
Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan, of the Discovery Channel’s Pitchmen as well as countless infomercials, went on Conan last night to show off some of their products. Conan was mercilessly hilarious. Basically, Conan said what we’re all thinking: why do we need this stuff? He even got in a stab at Mays for his rivalry…
We have great deals on TVs today (perhaps for your very own Man Wall). For those not television inclined, the free subscription of O magazine is just for you. https://gizmodo.com/the-man-wall-5295926 Computing and Peripherals: • 16″ HP Pavilion G60t Core2Duo Laptop (250GB HDD, Blu-ray ROM) for $709.79 plus free shipping (normally $1014 – use coupon code…
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This is Puddle of Life, a multitouch game which allows four players to control species battling to dominate a pond. The game is designed to show how that preposterous idea called “theory of natural selection” works. Each player controls one species, with cute creatures that have three different physical characteristics: Vision, Locomotion, and Fur. They…
Exclusive: Bill Nye the Science Guy was gracious enough to elbow Matt out of the way and write a Giz Explains column, in which he tackles the science of “oleophobia,” and its relation to the new iPhone screen. The new 3GS iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly any, prints–-fingerprints. The…
The cerveza mogul himself Señor Bill Gates is listed on a new patent for a “thermally sealed container.” And yes, one of its potential functions is to hold beer. https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-invests-392-million-in-mexican-beer-336644 Gates is one of many names on the patent from Searete LLC, the company you may recognize behind another recent Gates-signed work, an electromagnetic engine.…
A tipster just dropped off a few internal Microsoft docs that point to a September 8 launch of the Zune HD. In addition to that, the tipster says it’s coming in 16GB and 32GB versions. All pretty logical. We already knew that the HD has Nvidia’s Tegra inside, which makes it a high powered, high…
An R/C glider with no engine can reach speeds of 392MPH in the right conditions by using a principle called dynamic soaring, as you can see in this clip. Anyone who’s ever rafted or kayaked will probably recognize the fundamentals at play. Air moving along a mountainside causes an eddy right below the ridge on…
