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The Sirius XM iPhone app requires a $3/month subscription, but it’s missing a few notable channels. From the company: “Some select programming, including MLB® Play-by-Play, NFL Play-by-Play, SIRIUS NASCAR® Radio, and Howard Stern, will not be available on the iPhone and iPod touch. Listeners will continue to be able to access that programming through the…
An unbreakable shot glass, ’80s-style kicks, and whole heap loads of sausage – take a break from iPhone mania with a stroll through the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We grill up a feast fit for a king on the Kalamazoo Hybrid Grill, get our boozy butts clean with Beer Soap, and…
In the past, diagnosing a baby’s fever involved holding the child close while creating a maternal bond. Now, you can tell from across the room! With fashion!! Babyglow is a diagnostic onesie, constructed of heat-activated-pigment-laced cotton. Soon available in colors (pneumonia) pink, (no breathing) blue and (you’d better not really be sick because it’s going…
T-Mobile has finally confirmed what the FCC (and its own computers) already told us: the BlackBerry-Bold-inspired HTC Snap, a 3G, Windows Mobile 6.1 QWERTY+trackball followup to the original Dash, is arriving on T-Mobile as a successor to the original Dash. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-dash-3g-is-htc-snap-landing-in-may-5213513 Since we’ve played with the Snap (and liked it—warning, April Fools link), and the…
How much e-waste is the switch to digital creating? Just how do you make your own wind turbine? Will consumer electronics ever become obsolete? How might smart power outlets save lives? Your burning questions answered! Old TVs left out in the cold after the switch to digital might make for an awful e-waste mess. But…
Some things seen can never be unseen. That’s why we’re sticking one man’s NES controller—which he engraved into his flesh—after the jump. Body Modification Ezine member Metal_Games either really loves the NES or really hates himself. Because he went through an hour of barbaric scarification (in which a trained professional sliced away chunks of his…
After showing off its wares at CES this year, LG has finally announced that its first 3D LCD, the 47-inch 47LH50—will be up for purchase next month. Well, in Korea at least. The new TV is based on the 47LH50—even sharing its model number—and is functionally identical, aside from the fact that it’ll occasionally require…
It’s one of those things we take for granted: official laptop battery life claims have an extremely tenuous relationship with reality. Not surprisingly, everyone’s using the same tricks to conjure their silly estimates—and they don’t plan on stopping. AMD, as part of a some kind of PR campaign, is saying the culprit is a battery…
The Koenigsegg Quant, an impressive Batmobile-styled solar sportscar, could soon be going into production. https://gizmodo.com/koenigseggs-solar-car-is-like-an-electric-batmobile-5165678 When we first saw it earlier this year, we feared it could be just another prototype which never made in into production. But now an insider at the Swedish car manufacturer has told a newspaper they are set to start…
Someone at CNET has a theeeoooorrry! You see, Snow Leopard, Apple’s “under-the-hood” update to Mac OS X, actually has plenty of over-the-hood enhancements, most of which are suspiciously finger-friendly. I think you can guess where this is going. https://gizmodo.com/apples-tablet-the-story-so-far-5249808 The thesis flags more or less every cosmetic and UI change in Snow Leopard as a…
Not even a day has passed since its release, and yet here we are, already dishing out iffy techniques for enabling unauthorized tethering and MMSing with iPhone OS 3.0. Here are two of them: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-3-0-software-review-what-to-expect-5292789 But first! Some words from our lawyers my conscience: These are, no matter how you cut it, not sanctioned. That…
It looks like the incredibly cool new Blackberry Messenger app will be making its way to all devices running OS 5.0. Up until now the new BBM had only been seen on the BlackBerry Onyx, but BGR has been playing around with OS 5.0 on a Curve 8900, and says it came packing all the…
Vodafone seems to have let slip that Nokia are planning a “Mini” or “Lite” version of the recently released N97 smartphone. A moderator on the Vodafone forums said the carrier would not be getting the touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard wielding N97, but would instead be launching the “N97 Mini” later this year, due to its…
It’s time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean “it”—do this time around? Have a look-see… As usual, this matrix is just the tip of the molehill—if you want to really get in deep with these colorful characters, here’s where to…
While the brief maintenance-related outage didn’t result in new updates for Xbox Live or Zune, Xbox.com’s MyXbox page got a nice little aesthetic overhaul. The new design gives your avatar more prominence as well as offering faster access to stats. https://gizmodo.com/warning-xbox-live-and-zune-services-down-midnight-pst-5291742 The new, much sleeker MyXbox page offers quicker access to achievements, recently viewed friends,…
As promised, the Sirius/XM iPhone app is finally live and available to download. It’s got a 7-day free trial, but the app’ll cost $3 a month if you want to keep it any longer. [Thanks, everyone!] https://gizmodo.com/sirius-xm-iphone-app-available-tomorrow-5294526
Amidst all the great stuff in iPhone 3.0, there’s bound to be a few oddballs that just aren’t as impressive or useful as we’d like—for example, “objectionable content” warnings on such harmless apps as Shazam. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-3-0-software-review-what-to-expect-5292789 iPhone 3.0’s new parental controls allow you to specify the age of the user, from 4+ to 17+, and…
I don’t know what kind of school this kid goes to, but I doubt my shop teacher would have allowed me to build an electromagnetic coil gun that can send a round through a soda can. Aside from the electromagnetics (in a linear electric motor config) and bolt-action which supports a six-round magazine clip, this…
I mean, I don’t really see why you’d want to run over a non-rugged, Lenovo T400s laptop with a large truck. But as I was told many times as a kid, it’s a free country. Anyways, the spinnerific HDD survived. SlashGear says this 14-inch, still unofficial lappie is rumored to be only .83-inches thick. Considering…
Triggering a “why the hell didn’t I think of that?!” moment, Artmu has designed a laptop sleeve that, when unzipped and opened up completely, transforms into an effective mouse pad. Altogether now: Why didn’t I think of that? [Aving]