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This week, the App Store goes on a little gaming kick. Sort of like the real world. COINCIDENCE?!? Yes. It’s not that there weren’t a few cool iPhone announcements at E3—there were!—it’s just that not much from LA actually made it to the App Store this week. Luckily, a few great ones did, along with…
As you know, the Palm Pre is set to make it’s debut tomorrow. If Best Buy’s stock is any indicator, supplies will be short. With that in mind, it is a good time to revisit our tips on line camping. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-review-5277499 The list provides tips for effective line camping as well as survival gadgets—in short,…
Benjamin Reitzes of Barclays Capital drops this insightful load in a NYT piece on Apple strategy: If they start making products people don’t want, and start losing users, then Apple’s strategy will run into problems. I’m going to have to say that this is the best quote I’ve ever seen. [NYT – Thanks ponies!]
Sprint’s just made a silent change to their Palm Pre press release to take out the fact that the phone would be available on Sprint.com. Because it won’t. Here’s what the release used to say: Palm Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 in Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart stores and…
The Xbox 360 is less than halfway done, and the PS3 is a “ten year” console. But what about Wii? Satoru Iwata says new hardware could come “three years from now, five years from now or eight years from now.” https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-xbox-360-is-less-than-halfway-done-5279383 Dear lord. Eight years with no HD and a processor that won’t allow the…
It’s finally Friday, so treat yourself to a surround sound system for $60, a 42” HDTV for $650, cheap video games and movies, and free donuts, tobacco, magazine subscriptions and seven-function binoculars. Happy National Donut Day! Computing and Peripherals: • Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 14″ Core 2 Duo Laptop with 4GB DDR3, 250GB HDD for $549…
By the way, that tip we got that iTunes 8.2 not breaking the Pre sync was accurate. Music, video and photos all sync just fine. [Pre Review and Pre Faq] https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-review-5277499
Oops! A leaked Best Buy memo manages to both trash-talk Vista as well as give out the details of Best Buy’s Windows 7 upgrade plans. In short, if you buy a PC at Best Buy starting on June 26th, you’re guaranteed a free copy of Windows 7 when it comes out on October 22nd. Not…
Natal may be the latest gaming breakthrough, but it’s just one of many evolutions and revisions in controller designs over the years. Whether it was the gamepad, analog controls, or a fishing rod, there have been plenty of neat innovations. Galaxy Game: This was one of the first arcade games to ever come out. Pong’s…
Some think the button-less iPod shuffle is just okay, and others see it as near-unusable, impractical and irritating. The Scosche TapStick adds buttons and supports normal headphones, in case you hated the shuffle but for some reason bought it anyway. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-shuffle-review-2009-5169174 The TapStick is a case that moves the awkward headphone-based controls onto the front…
Apple’s WWDC 2009 liveblog is just a weekend away. On the menu: Definitely Snow Leopard, new iPhone, new iPhone OS, and maybe even a guest star appearance of Steve Jobs himself. Here are the latest updates: 1. The new iPhone The biggest announcement and biggest question mark is the new version of the iPhone. A…
By the looks of things, designer Andrey Chirkov is a big fan of Final Fantasy. His concept mouse seems to take its design cues from the FF8 Gunblade—or a hoof (I’m not really sure). At any rate, whereas the gunblade looks tough and menacing, this mouse looks as though it would snap apart with a…
At first this seems like a good idea: A tablet that runs Android in stand-alone mode. Then you connect it to an HP Mini 1000 netbook and it will run Windows XP. Then I wonder how the data—the address book, the music, calendar, etc.—will be kept synchronized between its Android and XP personalities. Did they…
If it were just a few feet wider, the Nyko Type Pad Pro could pass as a spaceship. https://gizmodo.com/nyko-type-pad-pro-brings-qwerty-to-the-wii-completely-i-5273073 The thing is, as ridiculous as the peripheral may be, it felt pretty great in my hands. The back is shaped similar to an Xbox 360 controller (complete with triggers for the Wii’s A & B…
We knew Sprint had the Pre locked up through 2009, but now Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is trying to make the period of exclusivity seem long enough to convince users to switch to Sprint rather than wait a few months. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-has-palm-pre-locked-up-in-u-s-for-entire-year-5156935 Verizon had previously noted that the Pre (along with RIM’s BlackBerry Storm 2) would…
Street View has given us a near-endless supply of shenanigans, but it’s always been awkward to actually use. Now, Google has implemented semi-3D “Smart Navigation,” which makes your virtual walking and/or stalking a lot easier, and way, way cooler. Google has overhauled the navigation system entirely, so that you don’t have to use the slow,…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take classic album covers and insert gadgets or technology where they really don’t belong. Send your best work to me at [email protected] with “Album Covers” in the subject line. Name your files FirstnameLastname.jpg with the name you want used as credit, and save your files as…
The Via Amos 3000: A monitor-mountable Pico ITX board running at 500Mhz, with 1GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet, four USB, and DVI video, in a cool metal case with no fan. It can probably grill burgers too. [BBG]
Like the beloved Nintendo Power Glove, Peregrine is essentially a glove-shaped controller, though for the PC this time. It can recognize about 30 gestures (touching a finger to thumb, or finger to palm, for example) and recognize them as hotkeys. Peregrine is manufactured by a company also named Peregrine, and their namesake USB glove was…
If you didn’t have enough with my video at the Dubai Air Show, here is another view at how huge an Antonov AN-124—one the largest mass-produced plane in the world—is. https://gizmodo.com/inside-the-biggest-mass-produced-cargo-aircraft-in-the-324741 Yes, it’s big enough to gobble not one, but two F/A-18 airplanes. TWO fighter jets, people. It happened in Mirabel, where those two aircraft…
