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I know this comic is meant to be little more than a tongue-in-cheek look at the corporate green package movement, but I really would eat an iPhone-bundled tortilla. Con frijoles, even. [Lunchbreath via Core77]
I was really excited about the beeeuteeefuuul Olympus E-P1, thinking it was going to be more or less small. After watching these scantly dressed girls playfully groping it on video, I’m not so convinced anymore. https://gizmodo.com/olympus-e-p1-micro-four-thirds-camera-goes-legit-with-1-5292179 Maybe it looks big because they have small hands, but it doesn’t look like. And despite the nice film-emulation…
A couple months ago, a Major League Baseball spokeperson hinted that live video streaming—one of the vaunted promises of iPhone 3.0—could make its way to the league’s $10 At Bat app. Tomorrow, they’re making good on their tease. https://gizmodo.com/mlbs-incredible-web-video-plans-hd-with-mosaic-picture-5200381 Set to be updated immediately after the firmware 3.0 release, the app will stream out-of-market games…
We knew about Ahmadinejad’s crappy Photoshop skills before. This photo—cloning supporters to make a bigger crowd—is just confirmation that he and his minions are a bunch of morons. [Kheirkhah via Boing Boing] https://gizmodo.com/iran-state-media-used-photoshop-to-make-missile-tests-l-5023775
TweetDeck for iPhone does what I thought was practically impossible: perfectly replicates the powerful column experience of the desktop TweetDeck on the iPhone, and in a surprisingly usable and snappy way. In a way, performance is actually the most impressive thing about it. Running 4-5 columns, the app responds instantly as you fluidly move from…
According to Mary RunwayGirl Kirby—I call her Freckles myself—you will be able to use Panasonic’s new iPod Merge inflight entertainment system to access your digital camera photos and fully access your iPod as early as this fall. According to Panasonic, iPod merge is not just a connector for the iPod, but gives you full access…
Casio’s Super SlimLine DLP projectors have always been trim, but now the XJ-S43W gets a bit more appealing with widescreen support and a lower price. While Casio’s projectors, just 4lbs and 1.7 inches thick at their widest point, actually have decent specs, they’ve traditionally started well over $1,000 and made their way into the 2s.…
Exploring Tokyo by foot is a must-do trip, but it can’t match the experience of viewing the city in stop-motion tilt-shift photography. The streets become one huge playset. Really just advertisement for Uniqlo—sort of Japan’s Gap—you’ll quickly forget any corporate affiliation as the virtual calendar layers the hypnotic music of Fantastic Plastic Machine behind the…
Firefox has quietly seeded a Firefox 3.5 release candidate to beta users through the browser’s automatic update function, and posted it for download here. This version should be nearly identical to the final release, which Mozilla says is due ” around the end of the month.” [CNET via Pocket-Lint—Thanks, JJ!] https://gizmodo.com/firefox-3-5-beta-available-for-download-5230744
The first samples of HD video shot with the Olympus E-P1 have made it online, and it certainly looks like this camera has some skills. DPReview has posted a selection of 14 clips (not embeddable), putting the sexy rangefinder-esque camera through its paces, in a selection of shooting conditions. They used a Panasonic 14-140mm lens…
There have been some rumblings that iPhone OS 3.0, scheduled for release today, is actually coming out tomorrow. Don’t panic! It’ll still come out midday today, so long as you don’t live in East Asia. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-3-0-available-on-june-17th-5283055 The confusion can be traced to Apple’s Singapore site, which clearly sets the release for tomorrow. Thing is, Singapore…
Palm has hit back at Apple’s thinly veiled threats that the Pre’s iTunes syncing ability could go the way of the Dodo with newer versions of the software. https://gizmodo.com/apple-fine-print-warns-that-palm-pre-itunes-syncing-cou-5293219 Fanning the flames as they spoke to AllThingsDigital, a spokesperson for Palm said that if Apple disabled media sync in a future version of iTunes, it…
You’ve ordered the iPhone 3GS, Apple has shipped it, and UPS has picked it up and even taken it to your local branch… but that doesn’t mean you will be getting your hands on that 3GS goodness just yet. It looks like Apple has unsurprisingly told UPS not to jump the gun by delivering the…
10-inch, Atom-based netbooks tend to blend together in the mind, as they all have similar specs and similar designs. But when you can boast an insane 8.5 hour battery life in real-world conditions, we sit up and take notice. Laptop Mag took a gander at Toshiba’s NB205 netbook and found an awful lot to be…
If you were wondering how the Zune HD could pack in such iPod touch-beating smoothness into such a small size, we might have an answer for you: It’s packing Nvidia’s teeny, high-performance Tegra processor. https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-is-real-has-multitouch-web-browsing-oled-scre-5270945 As we explained in our Giz Explains: Low-Power Chipsets, Nvidia’s Tegra proc is designed to handle high-def video and Flash…
RF signal processors are pretty commonplace in consumer electronics. Which is exactly why it’s exciting that two MIT researchers have created a super-radio based around the function of the human ear that’s substantially faster and 100x more power efficient than today’s signal processors. The inner ear is able to take in all the noise in…
T-Mobile’s followup to the G1 has gone through more than a few name changes, but it looks like we’ll finally be seeing the American version—the T-Mobile myTouch 3G—this summer. The Wall Street Journal, which we’d say is a reasonably respectable publication, has it on good authority that the newest Android handset to hit our shores…
If you’re an insomniac like I am, the $400 Zeo Personal Sleep Coach alarm clock comes equipped with nifty gadgets that’ll help you self-diagnose. When you go to bed, you wear a wireless headband that is able to read your brainwaves, then magically transmit the data back to an SD card hidden in your clock.…
The iPhone Dev Team, jailbreakers of all things iPhone, have released a demonstration video of a version of yellowsn0w they dub “ultrasn0w” that purportedly unlocks every version of the iPhone running everything from 3.0 on down the line. Though it was announced earlier today, they still haven’t revealed too much about “ultrasn0w” yet for fear…
DC-1: Drink Caddy Robot (1979) – Android Amusement Corp The Robot Exhibit: History, Fantasy and Reality was at the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Arts and Design) from January 13, 1984 – May 11, 1984. These six robots appeared as the “manufactured working robots” of the exhibit and are featured in the book…
