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Readers, you may have seen that I was infected with a virus this weekend. It is better now, but to say that is misleading because it was never bad so there is no better state. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-cranky-windows-guys-day-ruined-by-really-nas-5188584 You see the virus was actually quite beneficial. I did not need to worry about what it wanted because…
Hey you jailkeepers, you know how the inmates been asking about keeping harmless little pigeons around? Well, it’s a con: They’re using them to smuggle in cellphones. The AP reports that at the Danilio Pinheiro prison in Sorocaba, Brazil, inmates were raising pigeons, having them smuggled out, strapped with packs on their legs containing cellphone…
Spoilers Ahead! After long weeks of dancing his heart out, propped up on his busted up legs by only his resolve, courage and legions of SMS-voting geeks, Steve “ThunderToes” Wozniac is booted from Dancing With the Stars. For some, he was hard to watch dancing. OK, maybe for most. But not to me. To me…
Whoever thought the future wouldn’t be filled with humming radio-connected spheres is just plain dumb, but Moixa’s mesmerizing Sphere i/o interface device seems to buck the current trend of natural interaction. It’s not totally clear whether Moixa’s device—whose patent was just revealed—is a standalone system or a display-equipped gyroscopic mouse for computers. What is clear…
Samsung’s Mondi is a WiMax and Wi-Fi MID that uses Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform. The device has 4.3-inch screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and comes with Opera 9.5. Looks OQO-ey! The Mondi has 4-gigabytes of internal storage, GPS, Push email, a 3-megapixel camera (w/ video support), Bluetooth 2.1 and HDMI…
If you’ve ever wanted to see a flatscreen TV’s innards and how all its gizzards fit into the TV’s supermodel-thin body—but you’ve never had the guts to do it yourself—Samsung has dissected it for you. With a LCD flat panel from its 6000 series, Samsung reveals, layer by layer, everything from its LED backlight—which is…
Samsung just formally introduced the heavily leaked Instinct S30, the followup to Sprint’s hot-selling 2008 feature phone. This one supports up to 32GB of SDHC memory, and has improved Calendar functionality. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-s30-mini-is-just-the-new-instinct-isnt-mini-at-5191766 The phone will be available on April 19 for $130 (according to Gadget Review), and seems eerily similar to its predecessor. But Samsung…
BlackBerry users can get loss slightly less frequently starting tomorrow as its first turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for their app store hits for an unspecified amount of dollars. Check back tomorrow for more details.
Afraid you’ve got the evil Conficker worm that’s already begun snaking its way around the world? Thanks to herculean efforts by researchers, the detection and fix is pretty easy. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-a-brainy-worm-might-jack-the-worlds-p-5183751 Symantec’s got a pretty simple (and free) tool specifically for Conficker: Download this file on an uninfected computer, follow the steps, and you should be…
Ulysses Nardin‘s Planet Earth clock is a jaw-dropping timepiece. How can you not feel like a criminal mastermind with an intricate mini universe perched on a pretty mahogany box sitting atop your desk? The outer transparent, crystal globe represents Earth, bearing outlines of the continents and oceans. The inner sphere shows at all times the…
Even if it’s this creepy, pulsating rig assembled from gutted Bravias, Walkmen and VAIO for a British football commercial. But where is all the blood? [via Electric Pig]
Audiophiles across the world have their minds blown as McIntosh upgrades two classic home audio components in the “Classic Systems” limited release. I’d be more excited if I had $15,000 to blow on audio equipment. For its 60th anniversary yesterday, McIntosh Labs released the new MC75 tube amplifier (modeled after the original 1961 version) and…
On the train today, Cyndi Lauper’s “All Through the Night” came on my iPod, and it shot me back in one of those quick, brain-stem-memory moments, to pre-internet times. The ’80s. I found this card. This has a decidedly ’40s-’50s aesthetic, but still, I can imagine even as a kid in the Reagan years, it…
I’d like to kiss whoever at Apple decided to do this: today’s free iTunes “discovery download” is the first movement of avant-garde composer John Cage‘s 4’33”, which is to say, it’s 1:46 of nothing. More performance art/zen seance than actual music, 4’33” is intended to emphasize those critical moments of nothingness in music by being…
Organic garbage, like banana peels and coffee grounds, stink. Sitting in your garbage can all day at room temperature guarantees that your place will smell like a dump. Not if it’s frozen, however. The Minus Frozen Garbage Container is a concept device designed to keep the sink down by holding your garbage at below-freezing temperatures.…
The WSJ says HP has been running tests for Android in netbooks, leading us to believe that there’s some kind of low-priced, 3G-connected HP netbook in development. But, just because it’s in development doesn’t mean it’s actually going to be released, so don’t get too excited there netbook cheapos. [Marketwatch]
If you think Microsoft should use $11 million in stimulus money—your tax money—to build a bridge connecting its West campus to its East campus, raise your hand. Banned. $11 million of the $36 million bridge is going to be paid for by federal stimulus, whereas the other 17.5 will be paid by Microsoft. In Microsoft’s…
The second iPhone 3.0 Beta is now available, and developers can go download it immediately from Apple’s iPhone dev page. Updated. No idea what bugs it fixes or if it improves speed and stability at all, but it’s new, and you like new things. [iPhone via Gear Live] Update: A developer reader tells us that…
The sad thing for Microsoft is that there’s some guy with a Lamborghini who really wanted this plate. Still, it’s a fantastic shout-out to the clever campaign. [Spotted in NY by a guy named Toofy!] https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-im-a-pc-ad-beats-seinfeld-but-not-hodgman-5052051
This digital cloud skyscraper was a finalist in Singapore’s recent contest to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. And it’s nothing short of wondrous. By Singapore-based Design Act, “My Dream, Our Vision” is constructed from 3866 cubes of varying opacity, and serves as a physical manifestation of the intangible: digital information floating above…