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T-Mobile’s next gen T1 Android phone—Samsung’s Bigfoot—looks like it features AMOLED and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and will actually be available sooner than we thought. https://gizmodo.com/next-gen-t-mobile-g1-may-have-a-slide-out-qwerty-5245914 Contrary to previous reports of the phone being released in October for $150, Boy Genius’s source is reporting that the Bigfoot will be launching “really soon”—perhaps as early as…
According to bit-tech, , Intel is planning to release a six-core Nehalem processor sometime this year. Rumor also has it that most board manufacturers have already added support, so those of you with Nehalem rigs can probably upgrade to the new chip with a BIOS update. Saving a little money is definitely a good thing…
Instead of a Photoshop Contest, this week we’re holding an MS Paint Contest. And I want you to use everyone’s favorite rudimentary image editor to design your dream iPhone apps. Work up your masterpieces and send them to me at [email protected] with “MS Paint iPhone Apps” as the subject. Don’t send me BMP files! Instead,…
Samsung has announced it’s first solar powered GSM cellphone, the Crest E1107, for eco-friendly, budget conscious types that don’t seem to be concerned with practicality. Apparently, the Crest can generate enough power for 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of exposure to the sun. Like I said, practicality flies out the window here.…
Newegg.com, premier online electronics retailer, presents the Summer Cruisin’ Sweepstakes. Sponsored by Canon. Enter to win a brand new BMW 128i, Mazda RX-8, or Volkswagen GTI. Your pick! One lucky grand prize winner will get to pick his or her dream car and get a Canon EOS Rebel T1i, Canon’s newest DSLR camera. It gets…
If you’re in need of a new laptop/computer, today’s the day to get one. From Dell netbooks to Apple iMacs, we’ve got them lined up for you. Computing and Peripherals: • HP G60t Core 2 Duo 16″ Laptop with 4GB RAM, Blu-ray, 256MB NVIDIA for $709.79 plus free shipping (normally $1,014). • Apple iMac 24″…
Want to be top nerd in the nerdly, iPhone-wanting circle you run in? Then pre-order, pre-order, pre-order my friends. The bottom line is this—AT&T stores are going to have two lines come launch day on June 19th. One that opens at 7 am, and one that opens at 8 am (Apple Stores also open at…
I really thought this “Transformers 2: CGI Megan Fox Even Hotter This Time” behind-the-scenes footage was a joke by those guys at LandlineTV. Apparently, I was very wrong: Apparently she really needed some CGI retouching. (Please, somebody please tell me this is not real.)
Didn’t hear? Dell launched a download store in January. Today they became the only third-party retailer to sell Microsoft downloads. Problem is, they sell Office Home and Student for $130, where Amazon sells it, in the box, for $95. [Dell]
Plenty of couches pull out into beds, but how many of them pull out into snooker tables? Not enough, if you ask me. Sure, your mother-in-law won’t be able to sleep on it when she comes to visit, but is that such a bad thing? I mean, how versatile a piece of furniture is this?…
If you always wanted to be engulfed by a hundred tons of shark-infested water, you really need one of these Mairine surfing jackets. It really can save your life. If this thing were real. The Mairine—University of New South Wales student Grant Humphreys’ finalist design for the Australian Design Awards—is a jacket for big wave…
The Squad Firefighter Positioning System is like Jack Bauer’s PDA, which magically shows his position in a building plan. Except that firefighters would extinguish the fire, and Jack Bauer would probably set the building on fire. Unfortunately, the Squad Firefighter Positioning System is not a real product. Designed by University of New South Wales’ student…
If you’re still using the Windows 7 beta Instead of the Windows 7 RC1, you should get on upgrading. As of July 1st, it’ll start shutting down every two hours. As of August 1st, it’s game over completely. [Windows Blog] https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-release-candidate-1-available-right-now-5240211
Casio’s latest addition to the Exilim lineup boasts 12.1 megapixels and an ultra-wide angle 24mm, 10X optical zoom lens. They also claim it’s the thinnest and lightest camera in its class. Other features include: a battery life of 1000 shots, a 3-inch LCD, CCD-shift image stabilization, max ISO 3200 sensitivity, dynamic photo function that coverts…
In Sweden they love Jesus so much that they got 30,000 bricks to build a full size 6-foot-tall Lego sculpture in toga-party costume. See what I did there? See? [Columbus Dispatch via Gearfuse]
You’d be forgiven for doubting, or at least being disappointed with, the first blurry shots of the Xperia X2, Sony Ericsson‘s rumored followup to the pricey-but-pretty X1. Today, we get a much better look. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-review-5088071 The first thing that jumps out here, aside from the phone’s tastefully designed brushed aluminum shell, is Windows Mobile 6.5‘s…
The home automation industry abandoned its original goal of making things simpler loooooong ago. Now, everyone’s just racing to design the most ostentatious devices they can—like Savant’s Virtual Control, which gives your entire house a per-room touch interface. The concept of Savant’s system is similar to the iffy Domia X10 lighting controller we saw a…
Storm chasers drive towards tornados, hoping to photograph them from up close and study them as they’re happening. But usually they just get close. Not last week, when these storm chasers went inside a twister. This happened last week in Goshen co., Wyoming, the clip taken by the TornadoVideos.net SRV Dominator. The footage is impressive…
Hubert at Ubergizmo walks us through how much more powerful the iPhone 3GS can be for graphics over the previous iPhones—he used to program for Nvidia—and it’s potentially mindblowingly better. https://gizmodo.com/will-future-iphone-games-run-on-your-iphone-3g-5286263 It’s not just that the new graphics chip is more powerful, it’s the jump from a fixed-pipeline graphics architecture to an OpenGL ES 2.0…
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