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Fortune Magazine is saying that the Palm Pre syncs flawlessly with iTunes, except for DRM songs: It works exactly like the iPhone/iPod, which I guess means you get all your playlists and album art. If it works like they claim, it’ll be quite a clever and bold move for Palm. One of the main pilars…
I liked the iPhone application that allow you to get Suicide Girls naked at the flick of a wrist. But I like this one even more, because it actually works like the old stripper pens. And even while I want more girls, it has something for everyone. [iTunes App Store] https://gizmodo.com/get-girls-half-naked-in-your-iphone-5270671
According to the Inquirer, Comcast will be releasing a 100Mbps service “any day now.” But it will be super expensive. Right now, Comcast’s top tier plan allows 50Mbps downloading for $189/month. Theoretically, as great as 100Mbps would be, it would run $380/month (no, the price probably won’t scale that way). Still, if $380 were the…
It’s a plane! It’s a boat! No, it’s a car! Wait… a dog? A desktop plane? A windmill? Actually, it’s a solar powered toy that doesn’t need any screws or tools to transform. Not too shabby for $20. Not shabby at all, actually. And the best thing is that it’s not attached to any stupid…
Ars Technica has it from a “very well-informed mole” that the rumored flash-based PSP Go! will be announced at E3, and later sold alongside the current model. As for that PS3 Slim, it’s real too, but don’t expect an announcement next week. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-new-umd-less-psp-hardware-to-launch-at-e3-chris-5232000 Ars seems pretty confident about these reports, but they’re suspiciously close to…
Remember when ridiculously massive, fully loaded “desktop replacement” laptops from Alienware and the like were all the rage? Well, they never really went away; in fact, they’re reaching new heights of, eh, that thing that they strive for, whatever it is. OEMs like AVADirect and Eurocom—who both must know that Intel will eventually release a…
Because unless you can do that, the Solidalliance Ninja 2G Shuriken flash drive is just a tacky, difficult to carry, 2GB poking hazard. It’s available now for just over $100, plus shipping from Japan. [Akihabara]
Ok, this trend is really growing some legs. Dell has just announced and made available their Studio 14z, a $649 optical-driveless budget ultrathin kindathin with a 16:9 HD display, Nvidia 9400m graphics and a 14-inch footprint. https://gizmodo.com/intel-kinda-thin-kinda-cheap-laptops-are-the-next-big-5262332 Like Lenovo’s recently announced (but not available until July) u350, the 14z sacrifices something in the way of…
That camera looks a little precarious, and I’m not sure how much I want to depend on my pants to hold something up, but I can see how a DSLR belt holster might be useful. As far as design goes, it’s simple and smart: the holster fastens to your belt like any other dad-clip, and…
Steve Chamberlin’s “Big Mess of Wires” processor took “18 months, about $1,000 and 1,253 pieces of wire” to build, measures roughly one square foot and, amazingly, computes at about the level of a Commodore 64. [Gadget Lab]
These little speakers are made from real eggshells, meticulously cut to allow for one Hi-Vi B1S driver per egg. Creator Gomhi says they sound a little “narrow,” but what can you expect from such an adorably tiny “cabinet”? [Flickr via DVICE]
The Odin 99 phone, available only in China, includes such run-of-the-mill features as an mp3 player and both front- and rear-facing cameras. But it’s also a gold-painted, portable, virtual Buddhist altar that’s triggered with the press of a lotus-emblazoned button. The phone’s “portable altar” features are designed to provide a prayer space anywhere, including simulated…
Haptic technology has the possibility to make touchscreens so much better, improving accuracy and adding a whole new range of sensory feedback. Immersion, primary developers of haptic technology, presented both a refined onscreen keyboard and an incredibly cheesy “Immersive Messaging” protocol at this year’s All Things D conference. The new soft keyboard improvement, called TouchSense,…
Pull up Safari on your iDevice, punch in menu.apple.com, and you’ll get a beautiful web app explaining what’s cooking at the Caffè Macs at five different Apple campuses. Tonight at Infinite Loop: grilled snapper and pork carnitas, plus vegetarian pizza for the Jobs wannabes. [Thanks Tom!]
This week Lifehacker makes us hungry with steaks, shows us which movies have stuff after the credits, and tell us the best ways to grill those steaks. • Separate your data partition from your Windows partition. That way, when you have to reinstall Windows, you’ll keep your data intact. • MovieStinger tells you which movies…
Intended for nurseries, hospitals and Angelina Jolie, the BabyScatt Evacuation Device is a cart that can safely hold six infants or four toddlers in case of an emergency. Metal bars surrounding all sides of the cart work to protect the babies as one adult maneuvers them down stairs, over rough terrain and out of harm’s…
The Hand In Hand clock is a fully functional software creation, where the minute hand rotates on the end of the hour hand, and the second hand rotates on the end of the minute hand. It’s hard to read at first, but soon makes sense. The catch? If my careful calculations are correct, the thing…
Wholesaler China Ontrade.com has posted parts from the next-generation iPhone 3G 2009: The LCD screen and the middle internal bezel. They even have pictures comparing the new parts to the old ones: The wholesaler says the following in their site: This is great honor for China Ontrade (HK) chinaontrade.com to be the 1st started to…
Plastic Logic’s device is big, over 10 inches across the screen and 7mm thin. It’s touchscreen driven. What’s surprising is that they’ll have a store, 3G/WiFi and are coming out in Jan 2010. https://gizmodo.com/plastic-logics-e-reader-shown-on-video-more-details-em-5048316 The prototype I saw was definitely nice, but also sluggish to refresh its screen. (They have time to improve it as…
Here is one of the first photos ever taken by a Palm Pre: a blonde coed riding a stallion. A coin-operated one. Zooming in, I’m not impressed. And the photo quality is not that good either. But there is a lot more. The 1520 x 2032 pixel image looks very videoish, just like the iPhone.…
