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You could freeze ice cream with about 10-cents of liquid nitrogen and a bowl. Or, you could use the luxurious $35,000 NitroCream N2-G4. On one hand, the NitroCream N2-G4 needs no freezers or water lines. It’s incredibly simple, just mixing liquid nitrogen in with your sugar cream base. On the other, it’s pretty much a…
If I had a dime for every brilliant powerstrip solution like Jeff Carter’s modular “Movable Power” idea that has yet to reach production, I’d be slightly richer than I am now. [Yanko Design]
Battery “breakthroughs” are a dime a dozen, so excuse me for sounding a bit jaded here. But a battery that can charge in seconds? Without fatigue? If this wasn’t published in Nature, I’d probably laugh. Scientists at MIT claim to have discovered a new technique for manufacturing the lithium-ion batteries, using a unique mix of…
Have you heard? The new shuffle speaks! Which reminds me of the 1984 Mac launch, where the computer became the first talking Apple device, ever. https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946 The accent, that of a robot that actually dislikes you, like it does all fleshbags, is not all that different. Both of the voices are synthesized from your computer,…
Google really took their time on this one, leaving GrandCentral sitting dormant ever since they purchased it in 2007. But nonetheless, it’s back, and now it’s called—wait for it— Google Voice. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, GrandCentral/Google Voice is an online phone consolidation service. Basically, you pick a single phone number…
What’s that feeling you get when a beautiful, generously specced, 19″ multitouch all-in-one PC from a major manufacturer is reported to be available only in Japan? Ahh, right. Disappointment. UPDATED. This is the Dell Studio One 19, Dell’s powerful answer to the iMac, and semi-successor to the AIO XPS One. Some quick specs: a 2.93GHz…
If you want to be safe against the potential attacks by aliens, enemy robots, and miscellaneous evil forces, move to Tokyo. There, a 59-feet Gundam will be guarding the city starting from this July. Of course, if you are worried about alien invasions and enemy robots, maybe we will need the Gundam to protect us…
Completely disregard what Apple is trying to tell you: buttons are awesome, knobs are rad, and they make gadgets fun. If anything, we need more of ’em in our daily lives. Case in point? This gallery of knobs and buttons in all their glory. https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946 Anyone who tells you otherwise is a HUGE fan of…
With the iTunes 8.1 update, you can now sync with the new iPod shuffle, take iTunes DJ requests from friends, rip CDs at iTunes Plus quality and use Genius with movies and TV shows. There are other features, like bugfixes and stability updates, but you can read up on that yourself. [Apple via MacRumors] iTunes…
The full version of Torrent Droid will be out in a month, but this video shows you what you ned to know already. Scan a UPC bar code and the app will search BitTorrent automatically. At least one of the major sites (Pirate Bay, Minonova, Demonoid, etc) should return results, and you can then pick…
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a robot performing behind Kanye at the Grammys? iDaft gets you closer to that answer with a virtual sample pad of phrases from “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.” This may have arrived about a year too late, but it’s better than never, I suppose. To live out your fantasies…
Did you think there would only be one image of that Japanese train girl on the internet? Then you haven’t been on the internet long. There are more. https://gizmodo.com/image-of-the-day-why-japan-why-5159074 Once again, Japan, why? [Digg]
Deviantart user petercui comes up with this solution to the absolute blankness of the new iPod shuffle: lasering. [DeviantArt] https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946
Using a big grip footprint and comic book-esque font, this $14 Amazing Doorstop will be your sidekick in helping you fight slamming doors across the globe. Or at least in your home. [Product Page via NerdApproved]
The idea behind these segmented, eight-part wheels is that your car can take a turn while maintaining speed and traction by having the wheels lean like the Tower of Pisa. Yanko says the Dynamic Augmented Wheel System are guided by a magnetic guide rail on the inside that hold’s the wheel in place while driving…
Hitachi has agreed to pay a $31 million fine after admitting to fixing prices on LCD screens sold to Dell from 2001 to 2004. Last year, LG Display, Sharp and Chungwa Picture Tubes also admitted to LCD price-fixing and ended up paying similar fines, totaling more than $600 million to the United States government. [NYTimes]
So using the new iPod Shuffle revolves around clicking the headphone remote in Morse Code-like combinations.There must be an easier way, guys. What is this, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly? [Apple via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946
Boo hoo…a Yale student had his Xbox 360 pilfered out of his luggage during a US Airways flight. That, combined with the emotional toll involved in the recovery effort should be worth $1 million right? According to the student, his Xbox “had a specialized hard drive and components he said cost more than $1,000.” Yeah…
Reader spectralogue tells us that this Chuck Norris joke generator app was just rejected by Apple because it “ridicules public figures.” Wait, what? The Apple submission feedback person says that it violates Section 3.3.12 of the iPhone SDK Agreement, specifically where it says: Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or…
While you will never see a trillion dollars in person (nature’s way of protecting your sanity amidst the bailout), computers can do the job without breaking a sweat—or worrying about retirement. This particular rendering was made through Google SketchUp, Google’s 3D modeling software. Measurements were taken of a $10,000 stack of $100 bills (just half…
