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If you’ve really got to have that authentic panicky feeling you get due to extreme turbulence and testy wind conditions, Logitech’s new Force Feedback Flight System is probably just the controller for you. Make no mistake, this is one hardcore setup. Let’s take a look at the parts included in the system. The joystick features…
Jake Landon got it all wrong with Zips Lite, yet another useless application for iPhone that we like anyway. His app will let you unzip jeans to uncover what’s inside. https://gizmodo.com/isteam-iphone-steam-simulation-app-is-amazingly-cool-5121946 Unfortunately, he only included men underpants. How wrong is that? Wrong enough for me to do an alternative take (pictured) and hold my breath…
I’m not sure how much overlap there is between the BMX and technophile crowds, but at just $10, I like to think even the surliest curb-hopper could appreciate a QWERTY (well, QWGTSU, really) handlebar grip. $10. [Gadget Lab]
Nothing says Happy Birthday better than a bathtub full of chocolate pudding, five bottles of champagne, and Prada high heel boots. Failing that, you can always send $13 NES controller multilayered collage cards. [Etsy]
This little bunny is named Miffy, apparently a fixture of Dutch children’s books, and like our favorite American rodent has been made into an mp3 player. It’s cute and all, but it’s definitely the cartoony, grassy dock that sells it. https://gizmodo.com/iriver-mickey-mp3-player-now-with-glowing-demon-eyes-5056220 The player is made by MobiBLU, best known for their tiny cube player a…
I loved the promise of the paperless office back in the 90s. It never happened. Paper only increased around me. But I came with an easy and cool solution to classify receipts, cards, and random paper: Trash everything. If I only had NeatDesk. I like this thing. It’s probably because of the 2001: Space Odyssey…
Fujitsu’s M2010 is a 10.1-inch Windows XP netbook, based on Intel’s 1.6 GHz Atom N270 processor and 945GSE chipset, with a 160GB HDD, 1GB of RAM, a 3-cell battery, a 1.3MP webcam and an integrated multi-card reader. Familiar, no? That’s what’s so curious about the M2010—it really strikes me as just another netbook, and a…
The Xbox 360‘s updated Zune-branded video store and support for Last.fm got some folks’ hopes up: the streaming radio service would be a great fit for the upcoming Wi-Fi Zune HD, and since Microsoft has already brokered a relationship with the company, such a feature isn’t just desirable—it seems plausible. So BBG asked! And Microsoft…
Acer has become the first company to announce intentions to manufacture an Android netbook, coming by Q3 of this year. In human terms, that means it’ll ship by October, but possibly as early as this month. Their announcement is fairly vague, more of a statement of intention than a product press release. Will it be…
Sure it’s shiny, ruby red and super lightweight, holds 500GB and connects—with power—via USB 2.0, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800. But the best thing about the newest Iomega eGo is that it can move files faster than (almost) anything I’ve seen. The only downside I can see some of you noting is that the bus-powered…
Mobinnova’s élan is the first of Nvidia’s dirty dozen to show its face, and it’s a pretty one: a nine-inch, sub-two-pound fanless netbook that measures in at about .8-inches thick, and boasts the full battery of Nvidia’s exciting Tegra features. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-announces-12-tegra-products-youll-probably-never-5275262 First, let’s revisit some of Nvidia’s Tegra platform claims, filtered through an actual ODM:…
HD Flash video, which has a hearty appetite for CPU cycles, and Intel’s Atom, which doesn’t have huge surplus of said CPU cycles, have never made a great couple. So Adobe getting serious about Flash hardware acceleration on netbooks is great news! Well, for some. Eventually. The announcement comes in two parts: one from Nvidia;…
Nvidia is using Computex to herald the arrival of their system-on-a-chip Tegra platform, but it’s not the most explosive debut. They’ve announced 12 netbook and tablet products from relative unknowns, and bizarrely altered their claims about the platform’s capabilities. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-tegra-all-in-one-mobile-processors-aim-to-nuke-i-5012159 Don’t get me wrong—I’m dead excited about the Tegra—but these names don’t really get my…
Creative says their Fatal1ty Gaming Headset is professional grade gaming equipment, with 40mm neodymium drivers and 20-20,000 Hz range. Respectable specs, sure, but I’m not sure it will transform you into a headshot god. In any case, the Fatal1ty Headset has gold plated plugs, oxygen-free copper wire, sound isolating cups and a boom microphone that…
Intel unleashed a flurry of new processors at Computex, including the T9900 Core 2 Duo, which clocks in at a speedy 3.06 GHz—the first Penryn-based Core 2 Duo chip to do so. In addition, Intel announced the P9700 and P8800 Core 2 Duo desktop processors, which have speeds of 2.8 GHz and 2.66 GHz respectively,…
Looks like Sony Ericsson is admitting defeat in the flash storage war, as TrustedReviews reports SE is going with MicroSD in future phones instead of the parent company’s Memory Stick Micro format. The announcement came straight from the mouth of Sony Ericsson Global Marketing Director Fortuné Alexander, who conceded that they’re “moving in another direction”…
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Lenovo and Acer were the first, but now they’re not the only ones with cheap computers powered by Nvidia’s Ion platform—GeForce 9400M graphics paired with an Intel Atom CPU. Besides Asus’s eeetop here, there’s 20 others, though you won’t find the likes of Dell or HP here: https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-s12-is-the-first-netbook-with-nvidia-ion-costs-5268833 NVIDIA ENERGIZES COMPUTEX WITH NEW ION-BASED PC…
In the most intense doll play since Dark Helmet went plaid, photographer Ian Pool creates brilliant off-duty moments for the best and worst supers—Hulk walking dog, Spidey peeing on wall, Darth taking dump—the list goes on… [io9] https://gizmodo.com/peek-at-your-favorite-super-characters-off-duty-lives-5273425
Day -1 of E3 just ended, and along with the massive amount of Microsoft Xbox hardware announcements, there’s been lots of software as well. Here are our favorites. https://gizmodo.com/god-bless-xbox-microsofts-e3-news-roundup-5274833 • Crytek announces next-generation benchmarking software • Kojima! of Metal Gear Solid fame is taking over a Castlevania game. • Alan Wake, the Xbox survival/horror/third-person game…
