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Sling’s updated their SlingPlayer iPhone app page, saying they’re in “close contact” with Apple and are “optimistic” it’ll be approved soon. Sling submitted it over a month ago, so it’s pretty late. [Sling via 9to5Mac] https://gizmodo.com/sling-on-iphone-video-hands-on-395415
There have been rumors floating around for some time about a netbook running an Android OS, and now it seems that an official product has a name and a price: Skytone’s Alpha 680 for $250. https://gizmodo.com/asus-considering-android-based-eee-pc-5125307 Beyond that Computerworld claims the Alpha 680 is smaller and lighter than ASUS netbooks and it will run a…
Andy Clement loves Star Trek. He also loves his iPhone. And he knows that Such cool interests can only get cooler by being combined. This mod was created by taking an old Star Trek pin without the pin part and super-gluing it to the back of an iPhone case. Hey, at least he didn’t glue…
Sheinhardt Wigs GE engineers have announced a breakthrough in the formerly retardedly-expensive field of holographic storage: by making the holograms smaller, they can squeeze 500GB on standard-sized optical discs. And the even cooler part is that the base tech will be very similar to the laser systems used to read CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs…
For all of Windows 7’s niceties, it still doesn’t have an appropriately slick built-in backup system like Time Machine. Enter Seagate Replica, which Rob at BoingBoing Gadgets says works perfectly, just like Time Machine. You plug it in, agree to the Terms of Service and it copies your entire hard drive—then every so often, records…
Human legs are just so bourgeois. You’ll never catch me wearing the last millennium’s leg fashions again. These “digitigrade leg extensions” are the work of Seattle-based sculptor Kim Graham. Essentially a fancy pair of stilts, the legs mimic digitigrades (animals including horses that bear weight on their toes). Half this video demonstrates how the legs…
The most majorest problems with the Flip Mino HD are its squinty small screen and narrow lens, so seeing an HD rendition of our favorite cheap camcorder—the Flip Ultra HD—makes us happy. https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-cheap-camcorder-battlemodo-5013420 Besides going HD—bringing it up to par with our other fave, Kodak’s ZI6—the Flip Ultra HD gets HDMI, a rare rainbow unicorn…
Somewhere in Poland, there’s an unofficial PS3 bundle floating around with Ratchet & Clank, Gran Turismo Prologue, Ridge Racer 7 and…The Bible? Pismo Swiete Stary/Nowy Testament translates to “Sacred Scripture Old / New Testament.” And while The Bible would make for one hell of a brutal video game, it appears that PS3 owners will need…
The current Swine Flu pandemic headlines read like those flashing through the intro sequence of a post-apocalyptical movie. Now you can see the cases spreading in real time—as the WHO declares them—in Google Maps. Updated In case you have not been paying attention to the news during the last few days, there’s a pandemia going…
Imagine taking your first real vacation in years, only to find this beach in Xiamen, China, overrun with giant, concrete reminders of work. Still, better than a bunch of performance related acronyms. [Picasa via Engadget]
In a rather excited post on Vodaphone Spain’s blog, the company has announced that the HTC Magic, set for a May 5th release across Europe, will be “available” today. ¿Por qué? No sé. https://gizmodo.com/european-release-date-for-htc-magic-set-at-may-5th-5219381 Of course, given the ambiguous language of the post (or my poor Spanish comprehension), they could be jerking everyone around a…
Samsung hasn’t been shy about their Android ambitions, but they have been extremely vague. Well, here’s their first handset, the I7500. With a capacitive AMOLED touchscreen, clean styling, and larger-than-average battery, it looks fantastic. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/samsung-promises-more-than-three-android-handsets-by-en-5155599 Here’s the spec breakdown: HSDPA at 7.2Mbps, GPRS/EDGE on 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies, a 3.2″, 320×480 AMOLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera,…
Edge Magazine has posted a fascinating retrospective on the birth of the PlayStation, which tells the now-legendary tale with a generous helping of insider anecdotes and near-miss product concepts. Nothing major in the familiar arc of the story has changed: An ill-fated Nintendo partnership inspired a few spurned execs to push for Sony’s entry into…
LG has announced support for full 1080p DivX video in their new line of TVs, which begin shipping in May. LG has always been quick to try out new—if sometimes marginal—technologies in their TVs, like DivX playback from mass storage, which LG introduced in 2007. Similarly, this feature is great news for those of us…
Will Verizon ever wrest away iPhone exclusivity from AT&T? We don’t know for certain, but tonight we do know that the wireless carrier is working hard to make it so, possibly by 2010. The revelation comes to us by way of USA Today, where we also learned that Steve Jobs was involved in the negotiations…
IBM, not content to merely crush the spirits of chess masters like Garry Kasparov, have started working with Jeopardy! to create a supercomputer that will undoubtedly answer questions more accurately than Sean Connery. The supercomputer, dubbed simply as a “Question Answering” system, is named Watson. Designers believe it will have the speed and “understanding” necessary…
Hello totally unconfirmed Samsung Omnia Pro phone. Good evening. Let’s say you are real, and more than ethereal rumor, and might actually take up physical space someday. You would probably have features like this: – Windows Mobile 6.1, with upgrade to 6.5 available – Full sliding QWERTY keyboard – 3.5-inch WVGA touch screen – AMOLED…
The Wall Street Journal profiled Bill Gates Sr. this weekend in preparation for his upcoming book, but the juiciest bits by far involved Bill Jr. For example, there’s the “water incident”: The future software mogul was a headstrong 12-year-old and was having a particularly nasty argument with his mother at the dinner table. Fed up,…
The Age asks if today’s youth is addicted to cellphones after learning 90% of kids aged 15 have them. That was a rhetorical question, right Age? In other news, tonight’s forecast is darkness. [The Age]
It’s over. Improvisational jazz was the last, robot-free area humans had left, and now it’s tainted by the machines. Even so, you have to admit the tech driving this jazzy robot is pretty amazing. At least they’ll be able to carry a tune as we march into the slave pits, amiright? As you’ll see in…
