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Tomas Norström, the judge who sentenced the Pirate Bay Four, was recently outed as a member of two copyright advocacy organizations, prompting rumblings about a mistrial. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-four-found-guilty-5216062 Some Swedish attorneys believe that Norström’s membership of the Swedish Copyright Association and the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (where he is a board member)…
We never would’ve guessed it, but bovine audio players are apparently a genuine trend. Brando’s newest piece of gadget fluff, a cow-shaped, 4GB, screenless mp3 player, continues the fad. https://gizmodo.com/have-a-cow-with-creatives-zen-moo-moo-sic-player-5095409 Not that anybody cares about the specs on this kind of thing, but the “Moo-Cow MP3 Player” packs 4GB of storage, an LED indicator light…
The Sony Vaio P is a great-looking piece of kit, but it runs a bit pricey for a netbook. These Vaja cases let you protect the gadget while still showing it off. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-p-review-5131637 Vaja’s cases are always of stellar quality and fully customizable, and the three new Vaio P cases are no exception. They’ll let…
Sure, you expect a $1,000+ table to make a statement, but few are as complex as Rafa Garcia‘s gravity-defying table with protruding forearms, allegedly a celebration of “the male spirit.” Coming in black or white lacquer, the table can be square or rectangle, for £773 and £991 respectively. The fiber-board top and bottom are held…
That’s the slogan from Last Year’s Model. They believe if you buy gadgets that don’t suck, you’ll use them longer and not need to buy new stuff all the time—thereby going green. Seems logical. Joel has a great writeup on Boing Boing Gadgets about the non-new gadgetry he uses on a regular basis that’s a…
At first sight, this seems like a propeller about to get attached to an airplane engine. I thought the same until I looked closer. Then it blew my mind. Zoom in and discover why. https://gizmodo.com/this-thing-is-just-too-damn-huge-to-be-real-but-it-is-5223801 Can you see them? Look in the holes. There are workers inside that turbine. Not little people, but full-scale humans.…
Even the Scooter Store demographic is getting greener these days. The four-wheeled H-ergo was designed by a coalition of companies in Italy with a hydrogen fuel cell for up to 2 hours of clean running. It’s not fast: 20km/h is what, like 13mph? So, slower than most sprinters and many joggers. And its two 800-watt…
Aliph’s just gone and improved the second-generation Jawbone Bluetooth headset in both the sound quality and the looks department. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-aliphs-spankin-new-jawbone-verdict-390592 There are four fashion colors—red, yellow, orange and purple—for people who would rather accessorize than try to hide the fact that they’re using a Bluetooth headset. (Their names, “Frankly Scarlet”, “Yello!”, “Drop Me a Lime”…
The basic idea for the Weramouse V2 is good—a portable mouse for places like the living room that you hold and operate like a gun/Wii Nunchuck—but does it really need a trackball for cursor movement? Not sure about you, but moving my thumb around in such a short motion, over and over again doesn’t seem…
Let’s face it, QR Code hasn’t been very exciting. Just dots and squares. But this QR facelift, combining the designs of Louis Vuitton with Takashi Murakami, just made Kanye make a mess in his shoes. Jean Snow says the stylized QR code works like the standard, barcode-like graphics, while Dvice adds that its the first…
Move over teenage girls: two friends from Philadelphia—both men—just received a bill for $26,000 after sending 217,000 texts to each other in the month of March alone. https://gizmodo.com/girl-sent-35k-text-messages-in-a-month-twice-but-it-5132028 Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were looking to beat the highest monthly text message total they could find—182,000 sent by Deepak Sharma in 2005—so they…
Gaze upon Machine à Ecrire le Temps—so elegant, you say it in French—created by watchmaker Jaquet Droz as an homage to its robot-building 18th-century Swiss founder. Live, though, the $342,000 line-drawer ain’t so smooth. I’m not saying I could cobble together a 1,200-part machine that you wind up to write down the time in 4th-grade…
Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can’t wait for the industry to sue Google. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-four-found-guilty-5216062 Think about it: Even if they hunt all the Torrent directories and search pages down, they will keep appearing…
Lifehacker’s got a good load this week, with cable management, Windows apps, making a desk for $20 and a way to Star Trek up your desktop. • Fill out your Google profile and control what happens when people search for your name • Reduce your footprint this earth day • Update Notifier notifies you of…
Forbes uncovered a copy of Steve Jobs‘ sworn testimony taken during the Apple options backdating investigation. It’s interesting hearing Jobs speak without him trying to sell us iPods. Owen Thomas at Valleywag has a good conspiracy theory. [Forbes] http://gawker.com/5223594/did-apples-ex+cfo-rat-out-steve-jobs
Evil Mad Scientist put together a list of 17 lesser-known uses for magnets. Our favorites? Putting your computer to sleep, pulling snug AA batteries and resealing snack bags. [Evil Mad Scientist via HackaDay]
Finally, a Star Trek-themed utensil that will allow me to eat both ice cream and pasta at the same time. Thank you ThinkGeek for bringing this wonderful product into the world. If you want one for yourself, time is of the essence. The titanium Star Trek spork is a limited edition of 1701 (fittingly). Available…
With all the money he saves on clothes, the Naked Cowboy can fill his closet full of guitars thanks to this hanger. And guitars never go out of style my friend. [Guitar Hanger via BBG]
While most netbooks are settling for 3 and 6-cell batteries, the Toshiba Mini NB200 will be bundled with a 9-cell battery for a promised 9 hours of run time. UPDATE Just announced for the UK, the Mini NB200 is completely typical aside from its battery, with an Atom N270 or N280 processor, 160GB hard drive…
According to the App Store arbiters of taste that every app passes through, it’s not okay to “ridicule public figures“, fart, or stream “potentially offensive” TV shows. But it was okay to shake a baby. https://gizmodo.com/apple-now-rejects-iphone-apps-because-they-ridicule-pu-5168401 Yes, that’s right, Apple approved an app called “Baby Shaker,” before jerking it out of the store hours later.…