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If you are the person responsible for supplying the office with Dunkin’ Donuts products, prepare to have your mind blown. Dunkin’ Donuts new “Dunkin’ Run” iPhone app is going to change your life forever. Dunkin’ Run brings customers a completely new and unique social online group ordering experience and tools. To begin, “Runners” can initiate…
We get it, Associated Press, Paul Simon wrote a popular song with the word “Kodachrome” in it. But that’s only a tiny—if annoying catchy—part of the film’s tremendous legacy, which stretches back to 1935. On a technical level, Kodachrome—the first truly popular color film—is a dinosaur, requiring color to be added during development in a…
HP just announced their new HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web, which has a web-connected touchpanel on the front, allowing you to print out content such as maps and coupons, straight from your printer. The TouchSmart Web UI has a widescreen panel about 4″ in size which has a series of thumbnails that you flick…
We couldn’t get a word out of Sony regarding their motion controller other than it tracked light in 3D space and would not unseat the Dual Shock as the primary PS3 controller. But Sony recently told developers a bit more. https://gizmodo.com/sony-dual-shock-still-defacto-motion-control-secondar-5279079 Broken by Kotaku, Sony met with developers to better explain their motion controller follow…
According to Bloomberg, TiVo is preparing to make a push into more living rooms, including Time Warner Cable subscribers, now that a federal court ruling backs the company’s digital-recording patent. Because Dish was ordered to pay royalties to TiVo for violating their patent on technology that allows viewers to record and play back video at…
Network-over-powerline solutions have never been bad—their convenience just came at a cost of speed. That’s no longer the case with Belkin’s Gigabit Powerline HD. Reaching data rates of 1000Mbps (over the former speed of 200Mbps), Belkin’s new $150 Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit includes two Powerline adapters, allowing you to stream multiple uncompressed HD data…
Have you guys heard of this "Will It Blend?" thing? Apparently it’s all the rage on the internet! That’s why the cutting-edge minds at Olympus jumped on this new fad to make a viral video of their own. To be fair, it’s a clever appropriation of the Will It Blend meme, and it does deliver…
We’ve all underestimated the power of the recent bacon movement. Hop on this meme while it’s still hot (and crispy-smokey-delicious) with this $10 shirt from woot!. And here we always thought bacon bits were made of soy. [shirt.woot! via geekologie]
The QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS is the smallest 8-bay networked attached storage solution on the market. In fact, it’s just a hair larger than a 7-inch cube. How is it so tiny? The SS-839 uses 2.5-inch SATA drives instead of the clunky 3.5s you find in desktops (and most NAS systems). But beyond its…
Android is quickly becoming the go-to mobile OS for augmented reality apps: just days after Layar gave us a realtor’s tour of Amsterdam, IBM has released a similar—and more comprehensive—app for attendees of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. The “Seer” app serves the same purpose as any other decent event app (see: Coachella), working as a…
We’re totally over the steampunk movement. Seriously guys, give it a rest. But this moisturegoon PS3 is really something special. Outfitted with a wood veneer finish and brass detailing, this Damnation Timberclad PS3 is clearly a member of the anti-steampunk movement known in some circles as vaporhood, waterprick, condensationjerk or aquaramones. The modification leaves the…
Whether the Phone 3GS will find as much demand as the iPhone 3G over the first few months of its release is still to be seen, but as of now it’s off to a strong start. Note that it took 74 days for the first million iPhones to sell, 3 days for the first million…
Connected HDTVs—the kind that can display widgets, stream network content, browse the web or tap into other software services—haven’t gotten off to the most auspicious start, but they seem sort of inevitable, no? Anyway: LG thinks so! The company has announced a partnership with ARM to license its processor technology for the “next generation” of…
After years of feuding, Nikon sustains an injury that pulls him away from all the my lens vs your lens politics. (Complete shot after the jump.) By Flickr member Dr Cullen, the broken dSLR develops a new hobby when it discovers its penchant and for gardening. Every once in a while, the old camera remembers…
The first alleged spy pics of Motorola’s long-rumored Android phone, the T-Mobile-branded “Morrison,” have filtered their way online, and hint that the company could be taking Google’s mobile OS in a new, decidedly mainstream direction. The Morisson, if that’s what we have here, is a QWERTY slider in the tradition of the G1, though judging…
Here’s a Japanese cultural phenomenon you’ll probably have to strain to understand: small toy creatures that float around in water bottles like captured alien parasites. Odd? Definitely. Adorable? Kind of. The toys appear to be passive, in that they aren’t motorized, and rely on the micro-tides in your water bottle to propel them—along with their…
You know those videos where someone puts a rugged gadget through a battery of tests that would destroy regular hardware, but the device comes through the other side unharmed? This is not one of those videos. N97Geeks ran their unit through a harsh regime of durability tests, starting with a key’n’coin scratch test, followed by…
I’d really like this spectacular video to do most of the talking here, but here’s the rundown: the Wireless Game Gun mounts a screen on an accelerometer-enhanced toy gun, and allows you to control first person shooters, commando-style. The video doesn’t delve too deep into how the gun works, though the basic mechanics are fairly…
T-Mobile’s second Android phone, the myTouch 3G (previously known as the HTC Magic which we reviewed here), has finally been announced in an official capacity for $200. Its official official name is the “T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google”. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-google-ion-review-most-improved-5272229 It’s basically the same specs as we’ve seen in other incarnations, and it’ll work with T-Mobile’s…
The March 18, 1911 Penny Illustrated Paper (London, England) ran a piece by J.C. Bristow-Noble titled, "Woman of the Future," in which he makes predictions about the woman of 2011. Bristow-Noble writes that contrary to what Bernard Shaw says, women will not abandon the skirt or the petticoat because, "I tell you in confidence as…
