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The 510 HP 2010 Range Rover will have a dual view touchscreen, meaning the driver and passenger sees two different images based on their respective angles. https://jalopnik.com/2010-range-rover-sport-gets-510-hp-supercharged-v8-5203409 This seems like one of the first (if not the first) production vehicles to incorporate dual view, and allows the driver to use the GPS while the front…
RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye. RAID sounds like vaguely scary, like something you to do a French village if you’re a Viking or what you…
When you have more than a few documents or web pages open at once, your screen can get a little chaotic. But thanks to a special window arrangement utility on the Sony® VAIO® Lifestyle PC with Intel® Inside, you can organize them all with one simple touch. Click here to see how it works.
Remember how the “groundbreaking” game Myst for PC was clickfest 1993? It’s now going to be tapfest 2009 for your iPhone. From the video, it’s pretty much the same game. You go around a pre-rendered world solving puzzles in order to something something something—I never actually finished it. It does look like a pretty decent…
If two women were to ever lightsaber dueled for my affection, I might need to slice myself in half to accommodate the needs of them both. [Thanks Nick!]
I have a cheap hibachi on my porch—who the hell cares about stealing that? The Element grill from Fuego is another story though—this thing is a work of art. The Element comes in a variety of colors, it has a 24,000 btu dual-burner with different zones for either direct or indirect heating, and it’s small…
We don’t write about many tattoo machines here on Giz, preferring to keep our gelatinous arms free from skin-breaching contraptions. But the Neuma Hybrid has an interesting pitch. The original Neuma was the world’s first air-driven tattoo machine. Its design somehow promised a less painful tattoo (we’re confused as to how since the needle is…
This weekend, my Dell laptop caught a virus that made it inoperable less than a week after a complete reformat and reinstall. So I bought a Mac laptop. Yeah, I’ve used Windows machines for essentially my entire life, but switching turned out to be not that big a deal. Why? Because an OS isn’t that…
Wouldn’t it be nice, while waiting for the bus, to have an aquarium full of fish to look at? At least for those first few days, until they die, at which point it’d get depressing. This bus stop is a real design coming out of Brazil, dubbed “AqurioMania.” Due to the ridiculous expenses involved with…
If you’ve enjoyed the repetition of Flight of the Conchords‘ camera phone joke, you may also enjoy this $15 t-shirt that’s either a clever allusion or a blatant rip-off. [snorgtees via Fashionably Geek]
The Maersk Alabama, was captured last night off the Somali coast after a five-hour showdown with as many as three pirate skiffs. The ship was filled with relief aid for Kenya, and was headed toward the port of Mombasa. It is the sixth ship to be commandeered in recent days. Update: The American crew has…
Snowboarding season is just about over, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop! As long as you don’t mind blistering heat and falls filling your mouth with hot, hot sand, that is. The Sandviper is a board specially designed for surfing down sand dunes. Apparently, this sport is popular outside of Dubai, which makes…
This is frightening: Cyberspies from China and Russia have penetrated the US electricity grid, leaving behind software that could be triggered to mess up our infrastructure, reports the WSJ. A senior intelligence official told the Journal that “The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid,” along with the Russians. What’s…
You know the patent Cold War that’s been brewing over Apple’s claimed exclusivity over multitouch tech? It just got hotter, but the heat comes not from the Palm Pre, but lil’ Elan Microelectronics. https://gizmodo.com/dissecting-apples-multitouch-patent-can-it-stop-palm-5142445 Elan is a Taiwan-based touchpad manufacturer, best known for supplying the touchpads on several Eee PC models. And apparently they’ve got…
Mitsubishi just announced a bunch of new DLPs and LCDs. But the most interesting is, by far, an 82-inch DLP for $4200 that’s equipped with “3D-ready viewing technology.” (Sadly, Mitsubishi’s 3D tech traditionally requires glasses, and all 3D displays need 3D source video to work.) That 82-incher is part of the 737 “home theater” TV…
According to Microsoft, the global average for malware infection is 8.6 out of every 1000 systems—a number that’s lower than I’d have estimated. And apparently Ethiopia and Myanmar run a pretty tight ship! Russia and Brazil were found to be the most infected. Other interesting findings by Microsoft’s cyber security team include that, at the…
Compared to the latest smartphones, the DSi‘s hardware is pretty soft. The console does win the award for the weirdest component, though, with that wishbone thing in the mid-right corner—the double camera module. [iFixit] https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-dsi-review-5197200
Speaking to Dutch website Tweakers, a RIM sales manager said that, as rumored, a followup to the underwhelming BlackBerry Storm will be arriving at the end of this year, or the beginning of next. https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-enabled-blackberry-storm-2-coming-to-verizon-in-s-5201094 We would expect an update for the Storm after about a year anyway, but these are some of our first…
Cox Communications will create their very own cellular netw—wait, hold on. This is the third time they’ve announced this. What’s going on? Here’s the chronology: Cox, the cable and internet provider, announced plans to start a wireless network; Cox then clarified, stating that they actually meant that they were, at least for the time being,…
