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Everyone may think that AT&T threw their fat around and made Apple lock down the SlingPlayer iPhone app because of AT&T’s lousy network, but a tipster tells us there’s a more nefarious reason at play. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-uses-semantics-to-justify-locking-down-slingplayer-5251464 While it is true that AT&T’s already clogged 3G pipes would burst into unusability if tons of people were…
At the BKLYN Designs show this year, designers Levent & Romme added a technological twist to their traditional techniques of craftsmanship by using lasers to cut out these illustrations on watercolor-paper lanterns. Hand drawn using paper and a pen first, the designs were then carved out of a single, thick piece of watercolor paper, and…
Part of the Emotionalize Your Light competition, the Perfekt Desk is a prototype desk-slash-lamp workstation, trimmed with LEDs that change colors in order to reflect your mood. The desk includes a ceiling fixture, made up of 16 1W standard light bulbs mounted onto a square aluminum tube, and cold cathode fluorescent lamps for the lights…
If you’ve ever lost your cellphone, but didn’t have another line to call it to make location-revealing sounds, Google Voice‘s call feature will help you find your phone by calling it for free. While making a call on Google Voice, you can select which phone number you’d like to make the call on—in this case,…
Feeds are burning up with chatter about whether or not the next iPhone will flash a grin at the Jobs-less Schiller-heavy WWDC keynote. What’s your totally uneducated—or surprisingly prescient—guess? https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-keynote-monday-june-8th-10am-as-expected-no-ste-5252095 The best post on the subject is from John Paslkdjclkjdcski (just kidding, dude—P-A-C-Z-K-O-W-S-K-I) at AllThingsD, who quotes Apple-whore analyst Gene Munster who says it’s an…
What’s better than a woman using her baby to shield herself from taser fire? A woman offering up the baby to another man to shield him from taser fire. This brilliant twenty-year-old was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. The man who was being shielded by the baby was charged with…
I shall do my best in finding it. It’s on a private forum, for now. [Thanks Goozy!]
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • Here’s Sprint’s version of an HTC phone that looks quite like their T-Mobile Dash. Finally! Sprint will get a phone that’s underpowered and not all that usable (based on its previous incarnations). [Boy Genius] • This rumor that’s not true about the PS3…
What you are seeing here is a Russian woman sticking her butt up in the air, taking a photo in the mirror with her cellphone’s camera. And for some reason, countless females are following up: According to English Russia, this meme is taking the country by storm. It all started after that blonde posted her…
For those who can’t afford an $800 wireless transmitter for your camera but need one to quickly transmit photos from your DSLR to your computer, here’s a DIY wireless tethering solution that costs under $40. Using a wireless USB tether—specifically, a Cables Unlimited Wireless Adapter Kit—Peter Tsai, a professor in photography, created an easy and…
Cordotz is a colorful three-point cord management system that consists of cordwraps, cordstraps and a cordidentifier. First, the cordidentifier matches each cord on your power strip with easily identifiable icons. The cordstraps keep cords bundled together and, finally, the cordwrap winds a cable into a tidy bundle. Sure, you could do the same thing cheaply…
Here’s something you don’t see in your local gadget store: a machine that takes a dead animal heart and keeps it beating so scientists can perform various tests on it. Gross! “Researchers can obtain pig hearts from a pork processing facility and use the system to test their prototypes or practice new surgical procedures,” says…
It’s all very wink wink, nudge nudge, hush hush, but the odor that Intel is giving off in this Fortune article about the Medfield project is that Intel’s trying to shrink x86 down to smartphones. Intel’s roadmap looks like this: Now they have Atom, which powers many of the netbooks on the market today. Next…
Using a oscilloscope for your projects is often an expensive endeavor. At the low end you are talking several hundred bucks at least—but this DIY version fits in your pocket and only costs $33. Features: •Max sample rate – 2M/s，8 bits •Sample memory depth – 256 bytes •Analog bandwidth – 1MHz •Vertical sensitivity – 100mV/Div…
Remember Txt’n’Walk, the April Fool’s Day iPhone app that lets you see where you’re going? Well, Phase2 Media just released Email ‘n Walk, for free at the iTunes App Store. https://gizmodo.com/despite-being-an-april-1-gag-txtnwalk-mobile-app-is-sw-5195440 As you can see in the top shot, it’s a beautiful email implementation of the same idea, more attractive, in fact, than the Pocket-Lint…
The X6 Simulator is one of those driving simulators with a motion unit to make you feel like you’re actually driving. That is to say, it looks awesome. The thing comes loaded with a 6-axis motion unit for shaking your chair all over the place as well as blue LED illumination just for looking cool.…
Laser tag is awesome. Laser tag using “laser gloves“? Even more awesome. I don’t know how accurate these are compared to more heavy-duty laser tag sets that include a sensor on your chest, but these appear to be cheaper than those, so, you know, deal with it. [Amazon via Shiny Shiny]
Been a crazy couple of days for Zune rumors, but this one’s more down to earth: “A source close to Microsoft” is telling Neowin the Zune HD will hit in September. Reasonable enough. [Neowin] https://gizmodo.com/zomg-phone-rumor-update-internet-punked-by-an-apple-fa-5251037
Just for fun, what is the most amusingly ridiculous iPod/Zune engraving you can think of? If the engraving is actually real that would be even better.
I’m happy to report that no amount of flares will fix the lovely campiness and amazing performances of William Shatner and Ricardo Montalbán in Star Trek. And thank the gods for that. [Thanks Genevieve]
