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Hey guys. So this is my last time doing the iPhone apps column, because it’s my last day at Gizmodo. So it’s only fitting that we enter the DANGER ZONE. That’s right, I’m moving on to other place in the internetosphere as of today (more later), and I will of course be leaving the weekly…
Practical? No, not at all. But this watch made by Fatman and Circuit Girl is nothing if not hilarious. At least no one would ever have to ask you what time it is. [Make]
To promote the release of Star Trek, Paramount has launched Experience the Enterprise, an augmented reality web application that allows you to explore the 3D ship in the palm of your hand. If you have a webcam, all you need to do is download the ActiveX control when prompted and print out the test page…
Ever wonder what the path of a Roomba looks like as it cleans your house? It’s an amazing combination of randomness and precision, as shown by this long-exposure shot. The shot was taken by shutting off all the lights in the room for 30 minutes and taking a long exposure of the path the Roomba…
Microsoft’s really pushing out the hype for their E3 announcements, getting Steve Ballmer to say that people should really pay attention to what they’re going to reveal. This makes the rumor of an Xbox 360 motion sensing accessory seem all the more real. [Dallas News via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/is-the-xbox-360-motion-sensing-tech-really-zcams-system-5240964
There were few things I wanted more as a kid than a pair of retractable, Wolverine claws. And now that said toy actually exists, I find myself deeply depressed. The Wolverine Electronic Battle Claw, $20, does get a few things right. As said above, the “blades” are retractable. And slashing produces a surely craptastic series…
Last week Lifehacker showed you the elaborate process needed to receive Comment Reply Notifications, but this week we’ll take it a littler slower with Commenter RSS Feeds. Here’s How: https://lifehacker.com/set-up-comment-reply-notifications-for-this-site-5231206 If you’ve got that special commenter that you can’t get enough of, the first step in stalking them is setting up an RSS feed that…
Don’t know what to get mom for Mother’s Day? Help her find her geek groove with some cheap gadgets, her own laptop, evil Star Trek figurines, and some freebies including lots and lots of chocolate. Computing and Peripherals: • Acer Aspire One 8.9” Netbook with WinXP for $275.99 plus free shipping (normally $345). • Lenovo…
Boy Genius says the next-gen T-Mobile G1 (Bigfoot) supposedly seems to continue the practice of having a slide-out QWERTY, but this time, won’t have that curved chin blocking your right hand. The phone will also supposedly launch in October for $150, so hold out if you want an Android phone on T-Mobile, but don’t like…
The LumoPro Hot Shoe Universal Translator is an adapter that lets you link any flash with any camera—except Sony’s. And anything that makes artificially-incompatible things mix and match is a winner for us. https://gizmodo.com/sony-product-timeline-is-a-glorious-gadget-history-less-5245132 The LumoPro Hot Shoe Universal Translator comes with a male hotshoe that connects to the camera, and a female that connects…
Elgato’s Video Capture takes in analog video—RCA or S-Video—and captures it directly to Macs via USB. It’s useful for converting VHS tapes, set-top box recordings, older camcorders and various other analog sources to H.264, which you can then transfer to iPods, iPhones and PSPs, depending on what you have. The Video Capture costs $100, but…
I find the Asus T91, spotted at CES, to be one of the most interesting netbooks coming to the market today. I mean, it’s a mini convertible touchscreen laptop with GPS and a TV tuner. It’s also under an inch thick and weighs two pounds. That’s why I’m glad to see that Asus has finally…
Geekologie’s found that if you log into facebook, type in the Konami code outside of a text box and hit enter, the site fills with Star Trek ish lens flares. [Geekologie]
EA has just released a Star Trek game for the iPhone/iPod touch. Star Trek, while pretty enough in these screens, looks to be a pretty standard shooter. You steer the Enterprise with the accelerometer, tap the screen to fire and, if you live, watch Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk embrace after, at long last, cleansing…
Stefan Strumble takes cuckoo clocks and turns them into cartoony, graffiti-inspired pieces of crazy art. I don’t quite get the “What the fuck is Heimat?” thing on all of them, but apparently it’s a joke about a German word that doesn’t translate to English. OK then! In any case, these are certainly a lot more…
It may or may not be wishful thinking on the part of a struggling company, but Sony Ericsson president Hideki Komiyama claims that a PlayStation phone, similar to the existing Walkman and Cybershot phones, “could happen”. [FT via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/the-playstation-phone-was-blocked-by-sony-5132812
You know that kid who was always inviting you over to play his new invented sport of hockey crossed with skateboarding crossed with couch cushions? Well that kid grew up and created the Springback. OK, technically, the $12 Springback is intended for Peteca, a traditional Brazilian sport that’s like badminton without the rackets. But we…
PVI, the company thought to make the big sheet of e-paper found in the Kindle DX, has revealed two interesting pieces of intel to DigiTimes. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-dx-offers-9-7-inches-of-e-ink-for-489-5242310 First, they believe Sony will release a larger format eReader to compete with the Kindle DX by the end of the year. Second, and what’s honestly the bigger piece…
Not only Microsoft is using open source technology for Kumo—their new search technology and Nth Google Killer—but they are giving back to the community: Instead of creating a proprietary copy of these pieces of infrastructure, Powerset decided instead to turn to Hadoop, a Lucene subproject that is a framework for running data-intensive applications on large…
I thought we already established this fact, but this cool video proves it again: It shows what would happen if the Enterprise arrived to an alternative San Francisco, occupied by the Evil Galactic Empire. https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-vs-star-wars-the-final-battle-5099748 Too bad the video gets ruined by the crappy explosion at the end. I’m sure JJ Abrams would approve, though.
