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News doesn’t get much worse than this for the Zunes and Sansas of the world: a whopping 0% of surveyed teens planned on buying their devices, with 100% wanting an iPod in the coming year. Piper Jaffray’s biannual Teen Survey, in its eighth year, shows a serious drop off in interest for the Zune and…
The ‘hack shows us how to fall asleep next to your computer, rip DVDs quickly and easily, skin our Xboxes and quickly find out whether or not you have Conficker. • Gradually lower your system volume so you can fall asleep to your music • Prevent bad long distance calls with Gmail time zone •…
Joel@Boingboing’s new site, Dork Yearbook, is up. I submitted a photo of myself, and Woz just submitted one I haven’t seen before: It’s a photo of a banner that he, Steve Jobs and Allan Baum were going to unfurl off a roof during graduation or something. If you look closely, you can see the word…
AT&T has announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the saboteurs that recently cut fiber optic cable in the San Jose region. https://gizmodo.com/vandals-cut-at-t-fiber-optic-lines-in-san-jose-affectin-5205620 This incident even knocked out 911, so it’s safe to say that everyone involved is pretty pissed right now. AT&T OFFERING $100,000 REWARD IN BAY AREA NETWORK VANDALISM…
A new generation of billboards displays ads suited for the individual tastes of each passerby. I can’t wait to walk by one of these and see commercials for cheeseburgers and useless Japanese gadgets. Yahoo Japan plans to install billboards equipped with cameras and facial analysis technology that identifies each person’s characteristics, such as age and…
Kaspersky Labs discovered that Conficker is charging users $49.95 in order to “remove” the virus from your system. Is it part of a larger business model where the makers intend to profit? https://gizmodo.com/confickerd-machines-are-all-doing-something-5205046 Since it showed up in November 2008, there have been variants of the virus released. Conficker has begun updating itself, which has…
Indeed, this Mickey Mouse TV mount looks like something you would have seen alongside the robot heads and Peter Pan golf carts in Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. https://gizmodo.com/gadgets-from-the-michael-jackson-auction-from-robot-he-5154579 Still, for Disney fans, this is a pretty interesting setup. Not only does the Mickey Mouse shape provide a clean mount for your TV, it also incorporates…
You are merrily surfing the web when the lights on the modem stop blinking—that’s right, your connection is down. What is your immediate reaction in this situation? Your Internet Connection Is Down: What Is Your Immediate Reaction? ( polls) Flickr” />
Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he’s got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan Myhrvold and others from the Intellectual Ventures gang—to patent a smart engine with electromagnetic pistons. https://gizmodo.com/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs-341472 The application, scooped up by our buddy Todd at TechFlash, describes a machine that would have pistons, and would even…
Ask a Ninja is getting an iPhone game REAL soon. Are you excited? You should be, unless you’re a pirate. More details soon. [Ask a Ninja]
Police in San Jose are investigating two incidents involving severed AT&T and Sprint fiber optic cable that knocked out landline, cellular and internet service to thousands of Silicon Valley residents. “We’re treating this as a crime scene,” Lopez said. Four AT&T fiber-optic cables were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along Monterey Highway north of Blossom…
Jalopnik just got shots of three Confederate motorcycles that look very, very much like the bikes in Terminator 4. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/preview/confederate-motorcycles-mototerminators-come-to-life-5205692
This Samsung camera viral ad is cool in that it’s 2 minutes of stop motion photography featuring gadgets going around a makeshift track, but it’s sending the opposite message that Samsung wants. We don’t want to spoil it for you—what little there is to spoil—but the message we get from this is that Samsung cameras…
Jagshemash, my name a Borat. In Kazakstahn, we like discounted America technology, do you like America technology? These dealz is great success. The laptop is expensive not. Cheap gadgets a very nice, very nice. Wawaweewa! Computers/Laptops and Computing Peripherals: • HP HDX16t 16” Laptop with Core 2 Duo, Blu-ray drive and Nvidia 9600M for $749.99…
Monster Cable, suer of an incredible number of companies that just happen to have the word “Monster” in their names, has turned their attention to Monster Transmission. They make transmissions. https://gizmodo.com/a-monster-list-of-things-monster-cable-will-soon-sue-393458 Their recent suit of Monster Mini Golf caused loads of backlash onto the company, making the founder Noel Lee declare that they were going…
This patent for automatically sending an audio or video reply to an iChat call has us excited, because it could point to automated replies not just on computers, but via the iPhone as well. The original iChat AV answering machine patent was filed in October 2007, and detailed ways of iChat (or the iChat server)…
It looks like Google is continuing to make friends in the UK—only this time it’s the driver of the Street View car that was outraged. https://gizmodo.com/buckinghamshire-uk-says-gtfo-to-google-street-view-via-5196359 A local photographer in the village of Wool in Dorset spotted the Google car mapping the area and decided to capture a few shots of it. The driver of…
Imagine if your netbook went from completely powered off to fully booted and ready in two seconds. It would be an entirely different gadget in your life, wouldn’t it? That’s what Intel hopes. We’ve already seen promising early builds of Moblin, their open-source project to create an Atom-optimized OS for netbooks on the platform. But…
You’re not just neat and organized, you have full blown OCD. Sure, your desktop is organized, but you also wash your hands 50 times a day and can’t sleep without checking to make sure your alarm is set a half dozen times. Your obsession with neatness has translated into a lifetime of anxiety and tension.…
You’re very organized, but not so much that you can’t work without your pens being perfectly parallel on your desk. You just don’t like clutter or disorganization, which is pretty damned admirable. You were the kind of kid who cleaned your room for fun, much to the pleasure and possibly confusion of your parents.