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Apple’s new iPod Shuffle features a questionable design choice that removes all buttons from the player. It’s a bold move, but I can’t help but think it’s not the boldest Apple has up its sleeves. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-shuffle-review-2009-5169174 For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to create an even more ridiculous and impractical control scheme for…
Lenovo’s IdeaPad face recognition sounds like a good idea, that is, until someone abruptly minimizes the password field. [Ads of the World via walyou]
Remember how you could just plug the original Shuffles into USB and have it act as a thumbdrive as well as sync? This $10 dongle for the new Shuffle essentially does the same thing. Ditching the dock cord, the Shu-Lip mates directly to the headphone jack on one end for immediate USB insertion. Adding yet…
Supermandolini has the ultimate badge of honor for gamers of a certain generation (mine): these sweet SNES or Genesis military-style pins. Now the question is whose pin to sport—the victor’s or the vanquished’s? To me, wearing the Genesis pin is akin to having a full Schutzstaffel Death’s Head/Sig Runes combo—you are on the side of…
They join Etymotics, Klipsch, Monster and Scoche, who announced theirs yesterday. Theirs should support the newest shuffles, plus the latest MacBooks and nanos. https://gizmodo.com/shuffle-compatible-headphones-trickle-in-from-etymotics-5168913
It must be creative pipe week here at Gizmodo, because people keep sending in their awesome creations. And this might be the best one yet: a functioning TI-83 calculator with a pipe built into it. In high school, I made a pipe out of a TI-83 Plus calculator. the calculator still works, even now, as…
When I saw the thumbnail images for the Nurian X40Kris I instantly thought: “MacBook netbook!” Then I saw it open and I thought: “Wait, no, this is a MacBook Air netbook!” We can only wish. In reality, this is not a netbook, but a quite powerful pocket dictionary—79 languages—with a 4.3-inch, QWERTY keyboard, Xvid video…
A mother is suing Apple and ten Apple Store employees after his 10-yo kid received second-degree burns: His pants caught on fire when an iPod touch exploded in his pants. The iPod was turned off inside his pants when it popped, making him feel a “burning sensation.” His pants were on fire, literally, the complaint…
What you see here is an 8.5×11 piece of paper scanned by an ordinary scanner (with the contrast bumped up). From shots like this one, researchers claim they can “fingerprint” any piece of paper. The complete method is explained in the paper Fingerprinting Blank Paper Using Commodity Scanners. Here’s the abstract: This paper presents a…
This bus ad for Fitness First in Rotterdam, The Netherlands gives you the hard sell via shame. It uses a scale in the seat to display just how fat you are to everyone around. I, for one, would be pretty pissed off if I didn’t know about this thing and sat down to wait for…
If my girl can’t appreciate sleeping in the hollowed out arc of a real Boeing 747 engine nacelle (fine Italian satin apparently included!), I don’t want her in my life. [Motoart via OhGizmo]
Even though Kindle 2 is basically same as it ever was, its shiny new aluminum iPod-y back is perfect for etching. Our friends Limor and Phil at Adafruit Epilog’d it first on video. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-2-review-sheeeyah-more-like-kindle-1-5-5163042 This is the same laser that did some fine, fine gadget tattooing at Giz Gallery. And if you’re in the NYC…
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, the lightsaber-toothed tiger was the most feared predator known to man. But he had a tough time chewing. Now you can pay homage to the legendary lightsaber-toothed tiger through this fashionable $18 t-shirt from Threadless. It’s available for both men and women, but only in…
As long as someone isn’t looking over your shoulder and your computer is free from keylogging software, what you type should be pretty safe…or it was, until researchers learned to read your keyboard’s electromagnetic radiation. While two separate teams have developed a variety of ways to sniff out your typing from a nearby area, my…
It’s not impossible to find a knock-off of a Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive), but this new version by Blaze may be the best reproduction yet. It’s all in the controllers—to the eye, they’re nearly indistinguishable from the late-generation, 6-button controllers offered by Sega. Plus this version of the Genesis should come with improved A/V…
Konami has announced that Metal Gear Solid Touch (also known as Time Crisis: The Revenge of Solid Snake) will be available for download next week for a predicable price of $10. The source only mentions a Japanese release, but Kotaku has it from Konami that there’ll be a simultaneous US release. [Akihabara] https://gizmodo.com/metal-gear-solid-touch-for-iphone-trailer-has-me-worrie-5159299
Reaching what is probably the final frontier of novelty last-gen MacBook mods, Macmods member EdsJunk has put a full-function color LCD inside the Apple logo and hooked it up as a secondary display. His post is minimal, so we don’t know how he did it, what kind of screen he used or how much it…
At first, the confusing HMX-R10 drew comparisons—a submarine, a pill, a, cyclopic alien—but we didn’t really get it. Now we know: it’s a bid to fundamentally change how we handle cameras. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-hmx-r10-camcorder-has-alien-eye-lens-5125838 The photo above shows how, by mounting the lens at a strange angle, the HMX-R10 lets users to hold the camera at an…
Every time a gadget of note comes out, one unlucky unit is indifferently plucked from the lineup, sent to iFixit and vivisected, piece by piece, for the world to gawk at. Your turn, new Shuffle! This teardown is a little different than most, mainly because of just how simple this device is; once it was…
It’s been interesting watching the CNBC’s bad habits come under fire by the mighty Jon Stewart. Gawker’s got a clip of Cramer as he appears on The Daily Show tonight, where Jim Cramer is quoted talking about manipulating Apple stock. Cramer listens, and doesn’t defend himself too much, which is admirable. Watching this is especially…
