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I don’t care about Rock Band. Or Beatles Rock Band. Not even Lego Rock Band. But I do care about The Beatles, and the game’s opening cinematic is just a perfect, beautiful summary of their history. [Thanks Omar] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-e3-keynote-archive-5273957
Palm may have warned against hacking the Pre for tethering, but instructions on how to accomplish the task have already made their way onto the internet. Attempt at your own risk. [isyougeekedup via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/palm-warns-about-pre-tethering-hack-because-sprint-wo-5290871
If you’ve been looking to get a Blu-ray player but still haven’t taken the plunge, here’s a brand new $130 Insignia. And in the epic battle between which one’s better: Cake or pie? I must say, “Let them eat cake!” Computing and Peripherals: • Dell Inspiron 15 Dual Core Laptop with 3GB RAM for $449…
British cable operator Virgin Media is set to offer up an unlimited music download subscription program with Universal that would give you access to DRM-free MP3s as long as you pay a set monthly fee. The service is set to cost £10-15, or about $16-$25, per month, and it would allow users to either stream…
The Sunday Times Magazine took a look at data centers, detailing the gear behind the “cloud.” Here’s the emergency shut-down button at Microsoft’s 500,000-square-foot center in Washington. You would infuriate a boatload of people if you pushed it. [NYTimes]
Bing is so good at finding porn and displaying it that Microsoft will serve all the adult-oriented content from an specific domain. That way it will be a lot easier to filter: First, potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end…
The Eee Keyboard PC was pretty amazing before, but now that we’re seeing it running Intel’s Moblin OS, we want one even more. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-keyboard-with-pc-and-touchscreen-caught-lookin-5279630 We’ve only seen Windows XP versions of the computer-inside-a-keyboard before, but sticking Intel’s Linux-based Moblin on there actually makes sense. I’ve always pictured the Eee keyboard as something you’d have hooked…
Speaking at the Wired Business Conference in NYC, Shai Agassi, the founder of green transportation company Better Place, made a bold statement about near-future electric cars: From WiredBiz’s twitter feed: A sub $10,000, zero-emissions car will be the most desirable consumer electronics device in history. Apparently, the quote came up while discussing Tesla with founder…
Rejoice, Microsoft Office and iPhone users, because now you can edit, create, and view Microsoft Word files. Dataviz Documents To Go doesn’t bring Excel editing as promised, but at least is here now for $5. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-office-documents-editing-coming-to-the-iphone-5069995 The Excel creation and editing will be a free upgrade if you buy now. Like the rest of the…
With gun laws being a little stricter in the UK, the weapon of choice for day to day murdering can often be found in the kitchen. That’s why the first anti-stab knife is now ready for sale there. As the designer notes: Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but…
The stripped-down, reduced-cost Windows 7 Starter Edition has already done its part to squander the public’s recent good will for the new OS, but an ultra-low price could turn things around. Unfortunately, early signs aren’t overly promising. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-confirms-windows-7-starter-wont-have-3-app-li-5273055 Starter Edition will serve two primary purposes for Microsoft: it’ll provide a low cost, serviceable OS for…
If you put in an iPhone 3GS preorder, chances are that this won’t be news to you. But several readers have reported receiving UPS tracking numbers for their new iPhone 3GSes. Hooray for them! In the meantime, we’re going to just tell people we have an iPhone 3GS while shying away from requests to see…
This may not be the most attractive USB hub, but it’s only $20 and it uses the power of the sun to charge your mobile phone and USB gadgetry. Brando say the USB Solar Charging 4-Port Hub (catchy name I think you will agree) can be used either as a traditional USB hub, or as…
I like to assemble audio and video components, so I don’t get these all-in-one systems, specially when they try to do it all, like this Akai AISS010. There’s nothing left out of this unit: – Docks and charges iPod – Compatible with CD/ DVD/CD-R/CD-RW/MP3/WMA/VCD/JPEG/DIVX/MPEG4 – AM/FM radio with digital readout – HDMI 1080P – Supports…
The evolution of the computer desk seemed to stop somewhere in the mid 90s. But this bar-style desk made (entirely?) from IKEA components is a refreshing way to hide a hefty tower PC. Anyone who speaks un-English is welcome to pillage Ikea’s Swedish forum for more details than we could excavate with the assistance of…
My job here is done. OK, it’s not. This is the Pūrleve, described by the manufacturer as a hygienic door handle. As someone who has mastered the art of opening and closing toilet doors without touching the doorknob, I’ve to admit that the idea of the Pūrleve is a good one: Every time someone uses…
Here’s the Samsung Jet—it’s got an 800MHz processor (obviously they want you to know what’s inside, unlike Apple), a pure Samsung six-sided Cube interface, and a WebKit browser. Samsung calls the browser Dolfin, and it’ll come to other Samsung phones in the future (okay, that’s what I’m most excited about). No carrier in the US…
Samsung’s dropping a whole lotta Omnia, if you haven’t noticed. Verizon’s getting the Omnia II (Sammy’s leaving when and for how much for Verizon to announce), which has the biggest AMOLED display yet in in a phone—3.7 inches at WVGA resolution. It’s going to have TouchWiz 2.0 as well, meaning it’s got more widget power,…
Over the weekend, we got a number of reports that Apple has downgraded the SATA controller in the latest MacBook Pro 13-inch and 15-inch update, capping potential drive speeds. Going over the evidence, it looks like they were right. UPDATED The issue has been examined at length in the MacRumors forums, where dozens of users…
Google is having artists make custom skins for its Chrome Browser, which is pretty cool. Much less cool, however, is that one of the biggest companies in the world refuses to pay the artists. Many of the established artists are refusing to hand over their work to Google for no cash based on promises of…
