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The upcoming Smart Memory Bra by Lisca lingerie senses a woman’s arousal through her body’s heat, then squeezes her boobs together accordingly. We ask, does a pushup bra really need an off switch? The integrated memory foam bra reshapes under the influence of heat to enhance cleavage, making a woman more desirable when she’d like…
There was some question about whether or not Windows Mobile 7 may get those gestures we first saw a long, long time ago, but Mary-J has some slides that point to good news. https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-7-details-leaked-multi-touch-motion-g-341287 Although the slides are two years old, the info in them coincide with recent reveals, such as Zune HD mockups and…
Hey there. Have you ever had a gadget fail you at an inopportune time, leading to bodily or at least harm to your life? Ever hear a story like that? For example, the GPSs that route people into flooded roads/lakes, phones that won’t call 911, people crashing into you texting while walking/driving to…well, whatever. A…
Team Xbox claims to have sources inside Microsoft who are working on a new device that “sits somewhere in-between the Xbox and Zune platforms.” Whether or not this device is the fabled “Pink” Zune Phone is unclear, but Team Xbox is pretty sure that the device they’ve heard about lacks a phone. https://gizmodo.com/rumored-hardware-specs-for-microsoft-zune-phone-5251020 Codenamed the…
OK, game makers. That’s enough. We have enough garbage cluttering our living rooms that we don’t need any more boards, guitars, drum sets or motion-sensing devices. That includes this skateboard controller for Tony Hawk Ride. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-ps3-and-pc-to-get-balance-boards-5016718 Look, I’m sure that Tony Hawk Ride is a great game and is only made better by a skateboard-shaped…
My cat discovers yet another of life’s simple pleasures: The sensation of $500 warming one’s butt. https://gizmodo.com/cat-vs-washing-machine-my-poor-cat-part-ii-5019633 (Steve Jobs’ disdain for the whirring of cooling fans is pretty good at creating devices that felines enjoy parking themselves on.)
You might default to a brand like Canon when it comes to point and shoots, but our own Brian Lam swears by Pentax’s reputation for building pocketable, waterproof cameras. https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-250-camera-shoot-out-5101649 Their new Optio E75, not quite announced for US release, promises 10.2MP stills, 3x optical zoom, 1600 ISO and face detection on top of its…
Minuscule sensors and crappy fixed lenses are only partly responsible for cellphone cameras taking such terrible photos; that they tend not to have proper shutters is a huge factor. Samsung wants to fix this. Most phone cameras don’t have shutters for the simple reason that there isn’t any room. Instead of relying on a traditional…
Canon has issued a partial recall for its top-line 1D and 1Ds Mk III cameras. Apparently, Canon slopped a little too much oil into the cameras’ mirror boxes, which can result in photo-ruining lubricant splatters on their low-pass filters. SEND’EM BACK. [Canon via Gadget Lab]
The Asus 1008HA “Seashell” (their newest, hottest Eee) isn’t even out yet, but the company has already announced two new models based up on the similar tapered formfactor, the 1005HA-M and 1005HA-H. https://gizmodo.com/asuss-super-skinny-eee-pc-1008ha-seashell-is-429-stil-5253728 This handy chart will distinguish all of the precise discrepancies between the models, but the biggest shift looks to be that while…
The Kindle 2‘s text-to-speech option is controversial, but publishers can opt out of the function if they’d like. Now, Random House, a major publisher of writers like Stephen King, has flipped the kill switch on 40 of its ebooks on Amazon. Remember when Stephen King was pretty much the face of the Kindle? It’s like…
Wolfram Alpha will launch tonight with a special video webcast, three days earlier than originally expected. Everyone get your esoteric computational data queries ready, quick! Until then, check out this in-depth demo. [Wolfram Alpha] https://gizmodo.com/wolfram-alpha-opens-for-searching-on-may-18th-5248781
Continuing their near-monopoly on the reportage of Asian display component rumors, Digitimes is now saying that Nokia has ordered capacitive touchscreens—the type that actually work well—from Wintek for an as-of-yet unannounced handset. This is significant for two reasons: first, capacitive touchscreens are much, much more finger-friendly than their resistive counterparts, and could help improve the…
This strapping, pixelated young gentleman—seen here posing with a similarly strapping, less pixelated Palm Pre—says he took these pictures in the back room of a Sprint store. Is the Pre launch imminent? https://gizmodo.com/palm-launch-lunch-memo-hints-at-early-june-pre-releas-5244292 First, some lightweight forensics: With faintly recognizable Sprint logos scattered around the room, the photos do look like they were taken in…
Olympus’s rangefinder-esque, DSLR-sensored Micro Four Thirds camera still hasn’t been spec’d or priced, but now we now know it’s coming in “early July”. A formal announcement, with numbers’n’stuff, is expected on June 15th. [AVING]
The Woot! Off continues into Friday. Wootophiles will keep hammering F5 in the hopes of snagging a Bag of Crap, and the uninformed will have no idea what that means. Too bad for them. [Woot!]
They appear to be taken by the same person, at the same time, as the last shots we found, though now we’ve got a little peek under the battery lid and a few more angles. https://gizmodo.com/the-blackberry-storm-2-5255143 But we’re still mostly in the dark about the Storm 2; we’re not sure what improvements RIM’s made to…
Reader Jason Whitney spotted a Google-branded, camera-equipped tricycle in his local San Diego, CA bike shop. But it’s packing a generator and about eight cameras—what kind of muscle-bound man-monster can pedal this thing? The trike features a number-pad in the center of the handlebars, presumably to control the cameras (dangerous while riding!). We’re not really…
The Dyson DC28 is weighty—weightier than their previous release, the agile Ball vacuums— and continues the Animal line tradition of being super powerful suction devices. What’s new about the DC28 is the “Airmuscle” tech, which does this: • “Powered Cam” – Only lowers and raises the brush bar instead of the whole head for different…
If you want to make sure your baby will turn out to be a super cool geek, just wallpaper the nursery with this keyboard decal. [Zek via Unplggd] https://gizmodo.com/here-is-the-future-of-technology-5255041