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Lifehacker’s got some interesting tips this week, from putting your club cards into iPhone form, to making a water bottle into a juicer (homeless style), and building your own outdoor theater. They also have something about knots. • Know your knots with this handy knot guide. Knots. They’re writing about knots. • Make scanner-friendly “club”…
…the new iPhone actually has a the rumored front-facing camera so I could enjoy sex videochat with Swedish girls other phones, PCs, and Macs? Yes. Leander from the Cult of Mac agrees. Except for the Swedish girls. We can only hope this long-standing rumor actually materializes, or there will be a lot of action. [Spaziocellulare…
This generation’s consoles have had their lives lengthened by new software and hardware. In fact, Microsoft’s VP of Interactive Entertainment John Schappert told us, “We got a lotta life left in Xbox 360. I think we’re less than halfway done.” https://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-needs-apps-5275233 That means the Xbox 360 will live twice as long as the original Xbox,…
Though expected to open its doors this fall, mockups of Apple’s Shanghai store have already leaked. We love architect Ben Wood’s mix of Apple’s glass-and-steel minimalism with more traditional Chinese shapes and materials. [via Cult of Mac]
During the investigation of a burglary at a home in Pinhole California, officers heard a cellphone ring. On the other end a man asks “Hey, did you find my phone?” Realizing that this might be a cellphone accidentally left at the scene by the burglar, Officer Uri Nieves played along and offered to return the…
Is this level of honesty a good thing or unnecessary? Also, would you sell your phone just because of a little pee? This posting has elicited an unexpected amount of soul-searching for me. [Craigslist via Geekologie]
Researchers have developed a lightweight, mostly transparent, and quite flexible memory chip. It sounds cool, but then I think: What possible advantages could flexible memory have? Help me out, commenters. The chip (see it in action here), of unspecified capacity, actually uses transparencies like your grampa used to use with his overhead projectors. This clear…
Oh, Bing. You’ve got a silly name, bad breeding, and scattershot marketing. It’s a damn good thing, then, that you’ve got some legitimately cool tricks up your sleeve. Here are a few of the best. https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-microsofts-new-search-engine-is-called-bing-5271981 Searching for desktop backgrounds is super easy in Bing—there’s even a special image size category for it. You can…
The team at Remote-Exploit.org are currently working on an open source hardware/software sniffer project that allows you to decode Microsoft wireless keyboards (and Logitech boards in the near future). According to the project page, Keykeriki is intended to enable “every person to verify the security level of their own keyboard transmissions, and/or demonstrate the sniffing…
After testing the Palm Pre for ourselves, it’s pretty clear that if the phone has shortcomings, they are centralized mostly in the hardware department. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-review-5277499 With that in mind, would you hold off on buying the plasticy, Palm cheese slicer Pre based on hardware alone—or are you completely sold on the software?
A RIM spokesperson has confirmed that RIM has acquired Dash Navigation—the maker of GPS Dash Express—sparking rumors that BlackBerrys may get even better connected GPS functions in the near future. [BoyGeniusReport]
When a bunch of reviews hit, it’s useful—and sometimes funny—to see how they echo each other, and how they differ. In the Palm Pre reviews, nobody used the word “iPhone” as much as WSJ’s Walt Mossberg—he was a third more likely to use it than his colleagues David Pogue (NYT) and Ed Baig (USA Today)…
Analysts are sometimes way off the mark with predictions, but that doesn’t mean that can’t invent ideas we’d actually really like to see implemented—in this case, Gene Munster’s speculation about an app store for the Apple TV. We need to specify one thing before we start: This is not a rumor. There is absolutely no…
We saw Sony’s impressive motion control demo. You may call it a gimmick, and even Sony admits that it’s not the primary direction of the PlayStation 3. The Dual Shock will still reign as king. After being asked about the motion controller‘s relevance compared to the Dual Shock and PS Eye, John Koller, Director of…
This is what you’ll see the first time you start up the Pre. Not only does it show you a little of what you can do with gestures, it takes you on a flyby of the island in Lost. [D]
It’s amazing how badly four light sensors and accelerometers can mock your terrible coordiation. Tony Hawk Ride made it painfully clear that physically inept nerds won’t be able to use games to pretend they’re faster, stronger, deadlier for much longer. https://gizmodo.com/tony-hawk-ride-along-with-its-skateboard-controller-t-5269931 The controller is a plank that curves up at both ends, like a DA…
Today’s deals feature an all-in-one desktop for $400, a 1TB hard drive for $70, a 22” monitor for $100, cheap video games, HDTVs, movies and more. Oh yeah, and the free panties deal is back! Computers and Peripherals: • Avaratec D1130EA1E-1 Intel Atom All-in-One Desktop with 18.4” LCD for $399.99 plus free shipping (normally $499).…
As long as it is not done “maliciously, or to an excessive extent, or with resulting injury,” Niagara County, NY Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza ruled that using a Taser to obtain a DNA sample is legally valid. In the case of one Ryan S. Smith, accused of shooting and a gas station robbery: Smith was…
Yesterday we got some funny answers from Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that promised to enlighten us. Today, this catalog of silly answers uncovers its true nature as a failed stand-up comedian and pop culture expert. https://gizmodo.com/ask-wolfram-alpha-are-you-skynet-5277457 It has a little thing for everyone: Skynet, HAL, African vs European swallows, the meaning of life, Bob…
Much like putting a DVR into a VHS player, Belkin’s TuneCast Auto Live utilizes really good technology to support something that isn’t all that great. More specifically, it uses GPS coordinates and the iPhone (3.0) to identify the best FM frequencies. Combining the TuneCast Auto Live transmitter and the ClearScan app for the iPhone users…