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Lots of good news this week at Kotaku, with Star Trek Online, BioShock 2, Guild Wars, Champions Online and Batman news. Plus, the awesome art of Hyung-Tae Kim. • GTA IV may get its own 360 bundle • $10 gets you Orange Box on PC this weekend • I am so excited for these Star…
I felt kinda bad about calling Dell’s Consumer Design chief a massive dingus. So here’s Dell’s Lead Industrial Designer explaining the Studio One. It’s inspired by home decor. Compare to his Apple counterpart, Jonathan Ive: https://gizmodo.com/words-can-explain-dell-design-only-so-well-5215485 Actually, well, I guess that does still pretty much explain everything. Maybe it’s just the way he says “aluminum.”…
Comparable to Snake’s suit in Metal Gear Solid, the Photo Veil is an exterior wrap that is able to create site-specific, high-resolution camouflage for vehicles and soldiers out on the battlefield. Designed by Military Wraps, Photo Veil gathers images from cameras on drones, satellites and lidar to create an almost identical duplicate of the object’s…
Our talented and handsome friend Chris Hardwick did a test for Wired where he took three snake oil gadgets and saw if they actually worked. The result? It’s pretty impossible to tell either way. [Wired]
If these newly discovered photos are confirmed, what you are seeing here is the first ever electric car, built in 1884 by British inventor Thomas Parker. 1884, people. Parker also electrified the London Underground, built trams in Birmingham and Liverpool, and invented a smokeless fuel called coalite. But his car didn’t catch on because of…
Businessmen are picky bastards, which is why Lenovo working on a ThinkPad-branded netbook is good news for everyone. Their “Worldwide Competitive Analyst” says that they’re exploring the area (of course), and that people should “watch this space”, meaning that they’re going to be making one. There’s no other reason for him to say “watch this…
Rumor no more: Microsoft says you’ll be able to get your hands on the legit Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 bits you see here on May 5. [Windows Team Blog] https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-featur-5226696
According to Universal Remote Control, the PSX-2 iPod dock offers UI functions other A/V docks don’t, letting you use your universal remote for things like alphabetical search and EQ adjustments. Plus, the UI looks nice. URC says the distinct advantage to their “PSX-2 Personal Server” UI is that they don’t mimic the menu structure of…
Got lights thundering under your car/rice rocket? Here are matching ones for your furniture. Set the perfect street racing mood via remote control with 16 color options. [Product Page via Unplggd]
Daito Manabe, my favorite Japanese weirdo ever, is at it again. This time the party is in his mouth, thanks to a custom LED/sound based device programmed by him and Motoi Ishibashi. [Thanks Enjuto Mojamuto]
Can you believe it? If this weekly column didn’t exist, Apple would only be at about 999,999,233. I can now die happy: I’ve made a difference in this world. And so have you! Now, on with your regularly scheduled roundup: Flick NBA Basketball: It hasn’t hit the store yet, but developers Freeverse gave us an…
A hot official copy of Windows 7 RC1 is on our desktop and we’re poking around. But here are the three best new new things in Windows 7 Build 7100. This crazy background? Baked in. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-release-candidate-changes-increase-productivi-5169801 Stream Your Library Over the Internet With Windows Media Player This is hot—it’d be hotter if it was easier…
Surface is a triumph of Microsoft usability and design. It’s a multitouch table computer. Minority Report! And so on. Setting it up, however? Ominous foreshadowing: It comes with a keyboard and mouse. Gordon recounts the entire painful process in excruciating detail. Like, I got a headache reading it. It took 30 minutes to figure out…
OQO’s pre-order cancellation and recent trouble lead us to believe that the company’s not doing so well, which SVP Bob Rosin confirms by saying that their Model 2+ production is “unlikely”. [BuildYourUMPC via BBG] https://gizmodo.com/oqo-cancels-all-pre-orders-we-come-to-an-obvious-concl-5224192
Small touch, but maybe the coolest thing I’ve seen in Android’s Cupcake: Live Folders are home screen widgets that let you peek at email, playlists, RSS feeds and more without opening the full app. [Cnet] https://gizmodo.com/android-1-5-early-look-sdk-now-available-adds-soft-k-5210852
When does taking a self-portrait look like suicide? When the camera is shaped like a gun that’s when. The photos even have that pinhole, James Bond vibe to them. The only problem is that there isn’t a viewfinder—so you are unlikely to get the shot you were going for. More like pinhole images of areas…
The suspense is over—Connor Mulcahey, age 13 downloaded Bump to become the one billionth App Store customer. Natually, he will be going home with a sweet Apple prize pack. Lucky punk. [iLounge] https://gizmodo.com/apple-hits-one-billion-apps-5225101
True story: As a child, if my taco fell apart mid-meal, I would start crying. In case you hadn’t pieced it together by now, I was a fat child. If only I’d had this set of taco plates then (just $8 for 6!), I could have made a serious run for juvenile diabetes. Instead, I’m…
The Jalopnik question “What Do You Call Your Car” got me thinking. We have already talked about harassing neighbors with Wi-Fi names, so I thought I would ask: what did you name your Wi-Fi connection? https://jalopnik.com/what-do-you-call-your-car-5226132 What Did You Name Your Wi-Fi Connection?(online surveys) This image was lost some time after publication. HSV" />
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