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The Vitamin is a tiny MP3 player that combines our hobbies of music, gadgets and prescription-strength home pharmaceuticals into one. Measuring 2.7 inches long and about an inch in diameter, you pull the pill apart to unlock the controls, then twist forward and back to toggle tracks. We’re a little confused how volume and 30…
“They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their ______ hurt.” Hint: Not syphilis. Text messaging. Yep, really. Thanks for that cutting edge reporting, New…
The NYT just visited the Impossible Project, a group of Polaroid lovers (which include Dutch scientists), who dedicate their time in bringing back Polaroid film. https://gizmodo.com/crazy-polaroid-zealots-making-film-themselves-5134845 Last time we saw these people, they leased a Polaroid factory and are trying to not just re-invent Polaroid film, but something slightly better. What’s interesting is that the…
Ubuntu’s upcoming Android execution environment that’ll let you run Android apps isn’t just interesting, it’s smart, given the buzz over Android on netbooks—stick with Ubuntu and you can run Android apps alongside real Linux programs. [Ars]
Terminator Salvation may have been a letdown, but our week of celebrating the violence within every gadget—armed and sentient or ordinary and household, they’re all bloodthirsty—was a hit. Here’s a recap of the finer moments: https://gizmodo.com/terminator-salvation-review-better-than-t3-but-not-by-5260359 Adam took us through some of the worst manglings and murders committed by appliances, from pitching machines to prison…
Want to go to the Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco tomorrow? You’ll get to actually talk to Google engineers who will help you get to know technology. Here’s how. Send an email to [email protected] with the subject “Google I/O Tickets“. We’ll pick five emails at random (you + 1) and send you a…
I’ve never looked at a pair of chopsticks and thought to myself, “…if I could only use these as napkin holder rings.” Then again, I am not a designer. Designer Jacky Wu Tung Chi, on the other hand, had such a vision. That vision fleshed itself out in some sort of 3D imaging program to…
If you’re not ready for the long weekend to be over, dig in to some retail therapy and treat yourself to a 63” Samsung 1080p HDTV for under $3k. Broke? Grab some free golf tees and a beer bottle opener to help you relax on the green. Computers & Peripherals • Dell Vostro 220 Core…
Mark F. from MAKE mag goes on Martha Stewart to show her how to make stuff. Stuff you can’t eat or wear or put on your walls, that is. [Martha via Boing Boing]
Go into the heart of Africa with four renowned explorers as they attempt to follow the historic journey of Henry Morton Stanley and his search for the “lost” Dr. David Livingstone. The explorers face dehydration, deadly animals, disease and each other, knowing that any step could be their last. Don’t miss the premiere of EXPEDITION…
Amazon just added access to your Kindle notes and highlights—the ones you make on your Kindle—from your web browser. Just sign in at kindle.amazon.com and you’ll see them.
Supposedly discovered through a Twitterfon ad, these are screens of an iTunes video store for the iPhone, which would let you download movies and TV shows directly to your iPhone or iTouch. AllThingsD found actual links to the skeleton store, suggesting it’s indeed legit, and presumably Wi-Fi only. [AppleInsider, AllThingsD]
Adam and his friends at College Humor got a big scoop on the new Kindle 3: It will feature a completely new hardware interface that will allow you to read books like The Lord of the Rings in under nine hours. Click to view At last, Jeff Bezos will conquer America with this one. [College…
Psystar—those guys who were pilfering software from the Hackintosh project to run Mac OS X in blah PC hardware—has filed for Chapter 11. Good riddance, is all I can say. Although this may be a shady legal strategy on their part. https://gizmodo.com/unboxed-psystar-open-3-looks-like-any-other-hackintosh-5215300 Under Federal bankruptcy protection laws, all cases against the company should be put…
If I could pay $1000 to never pick up a dog’s feces, I might spend that money. Alas, the PowerLoo does not prevent that egobreaking act. Despite connecting to your outdoor plumbing lines, the PowerLoo is not a backyard doggie toilet. The PowerLoo is a backyard crap flusher (read: you pick up dog crap then…
If you are wondering how the Palm Pre stacks up against your iPhone smartphone, check out these walkthroughs. My favorite thing by far is how the universal search works, just by typing in the home at any time. And, of course, bloody copy and paste: Copy and Paste Browser Google Maps Contacts Settings Text messaging…
Remember the Boeing 787 Dreamliner? You know, the eternally-delayed wonderplane? Well, rejoice because it has started the engines in a huge puff of smoke. All on its own, which is a first according to Boing: https://gizmodo.com/787-dreamliner-doesnt-have-seats-yet-kicks-airbus-nuts-276153 The occasion marks the first all-electric start of a commercial jetliner engine on a twin-aisle commercial jetliner; the engines…
JVC has taken a curious marketing strategy for their Xiview LT-42WX70, touting it as the first HDTV that “targets digital imaging professionals.” The TV can display 96% of the Adobe RGB color space, and boasts an absurd number of color adjustment parameters. (55!) JVC even goes so far as to occasionally refer to it as…
And now, an ingenious solution to a problem that you didn’t know existed: the Dice-o-Matic can make over a million dice rolls a day, supplying genuinely random results for an email-based card and strategy gaming service. The Dice-o-Matic is basically a seven-foot-tall vertical conveyor belt, which rolls and cycles its dice by carrying them to…
We’d been hearing things about digital cameras in the next-gen iPods, but we thought it’d be in the touch. iLounge has mocked up the next-gen iPod nano using details from a source they say “has a perfect track record for accuracy.” It’s got a camera in its butt. According to their mockup, it’s almost exactly…
