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A lot of the hype around Windows 7 is predicated on how well it’ll run on modest hardware, especially SSD-equipped netbooks. It certainly feels faster than Vista, but HotHardware’s battery of disk benchmarks confirms: it really, really is. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-runs-so-much-better-than-vista-on-a-netbook-5133092 Their conclusion: Platter based hard drives and high-end solid state drives, all run faster on Windows…
I’m glad this dumb—and fake—car controlling iPhone applications are not real, but this one is particularly well done and it’s fun to watch. [Thanks Michael]
They’re all like “it’s about the quality of the sound, not the size!” and then you catch then at the Beatlemania exhibition in Hamburg and they break your heart. A journalist tries out giant headphones during a press preview of the ‘Beatlemania’ exhibition on May 28, 2009 in Hamburg, northern Germany. The exhibition on the…
If you wanted to get a real world version of the slide-to-unlock iPanties concept, today is your lucky day. For $12 will be able to slide and unlock all you want. [iPanties—Thanks David] https://gizmodo.com/ipanties-slide-to-unlock-lingerie-may-require-jailbrea-5241432
Another MacBook Pro firmware update to adjust the behavior of the system’s fans when it’s under a heavy workload. Normally, this would be too minor to warrant a post, but given the MacBook Pro’s rocky history with graphics cards and heat issues, it’s worth noting Apple’s still churning out fan-related fixes. It’s for unspecified 15…
Part of a gigantic Lego train display to be shown at the 2009 Australian Model Railway Expo, this 46-feet self-supporting bridge will attempt to break a world record. It has already broke my world record for Lego awesomeness. Click to view[Perth Lego via Brothers Brick]
You can almost hear Sprint PR’s James Fisher teeth grind as responds to Verizon blabbing they’ll have the Pre in 6 months: “We have the Pre through 2009.” Meaning Verizon’s totally getting the Pre in January. Update: Blurb from Sprint spokesman, not CEO. [SmartMoney via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-ceo-were-getting-the-palm-pre-storm-2-within-5272022
While the Hubble repair eventually took place in space, the microgravity environment of a pool is where astronauts practiced repairs and IMAX scored some footage for the upcoming film Hubble 3D. This 3D underwater housing is rated to shoot in depths up to 125 feet of seawater. But despite having hundreds of pounds of camera…
Olivia Munn, geek goddess of Attack of the Show, posted an interesting tweet last night. “Just finished promos for hulu/microsoft event I’m doing on june 8!” Just what hulu/Microsoft event could she be referring to? UPDATE To us, it seems likely that this event is supporting a Hulu on Xbox 360 announcement coming at E3.…
The mystery of the Alienware ‘allpowerful’ has been pierced a few days before E3—a brand new m17x stuffed with so much power it might just cause cancer: Dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards and a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core CPU for starters. https://gizmodo.com/alienware-teases-us-with-allpowerful-laptop-riddle-5271970 You can also stuff it with up to 8GB…
We’ve seen a Disney artist draw some technically proficient images on the iPhone, but for some reason—maybe it’s the hardware, maybe it’s the content—we just weren’t as captivated. https://gizmodo.com/a-disney-artist-draws-way-better-than-us-on-his-iphon-5122183 “99 Dodgy Slips” is the lovechild of Weta artists Greg Broadmore and Christian Pearce. Using a Nintendo DS homebrew app called Colors, they depicted 99 nudes…
If an atomic zombie is molesting you, get this coil gun, aim with its built-in laser gun sight and pew-pew a metal projectile at 110km/h into his rotting cranium, with a total energy of 18 joules. Don’t count on holding an invasion of them, though. The coil gun—which uses electromagnetic coils configured as a synchronous…
Everyone in tech is taking an economic beating right now, but Dell is doing particularly badly. Why? Turns out their business customers—which make up about three quarters of total sales—are buying even fewer computers than regulars folks. Michael Dell says “We are preparing for what we believe will be a powerful replacement cycle,” which approximately…
“DVD Jon” Johansen, a guy who knows a thing or five about iTunes syncing, breaks down how the Pre must pull it off: by reporting itself as an iPod. It’s brazen, and possibly brilliant. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-doubletwist-dvd-jon-s-file-swapping-media-pl-5161477 Yesterday at AllThingsD, we saw a sync demo in which iTunes reported the Pre as an iPod. Johansen says the…
So says Wired, the first folks to literally run it through its paces. Waterproofing and sleeker styling compared to its fatty fat fat predecessors are both noted pluses, but the clincher is that the 310XT does, well, ev-er-y-thing. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-405cx-and-310xt-forerunner-watches-with-gps-have-5195521 Really! A partial feature list: it’s got an automatic triathlon mode, so you can switch from…
Android 1.5, otherwise known as Cupcake, has caused way, way more grief than any incremental cellphone OS update has a right to, is finally, truly pushing OTA—not just developers, not just Brits, but to regular American G1’s. This, I promise you hope, will be the last we ever have to speak of it. —Thanks NiGHTS,…
Mary Lou Jepsen has posted a few early pictures of her low-cost everything-killer 3Qi screen, which can seamlessly operate as sunlight-readable e-paper, a backlit LCD or a full-motion, low-power transflective display. And, she says, 10.1-inch models are shipping by Fall. Jepsen also designed the OLPC’s reflective screen, and posits this, which essentially adds an e-book…
Just think of the possibilities. 49 beer-filled USB drives. 49 humping dogs. 49 tiny, disturbing, plastic strippers. And, for you lonely types, 49 robot vaginas. It’s like Brando‘s wet dream come to life. https://gizmodo.com/beer-filled-usb-drive-raises-disturbing-questions-5059100 We’re not really sure where this 49-port powered USB hub came from, only that it’s designed not for robot vagina overload…
We think the perfect e-reader would require a color screen, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said today that not only is a color version of the Kindle not imminent, but that “I know it’s multiple years. I don’t know how many years but it’s years.” Lame. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-there-isnt-a-perfect-ebook-reader-5152092 Bezos also noted, as we had kind of…
Fox Business Channel: First place in the race to cluelessness. [via Reddit]
