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Warning: This clip is a piece of Samsung marketing material. Warning 2: It’s actually pretty fracking amazing, and it might change your view of computers. Samsung techies linked 24 of the company’s 256GB SSD drives together in a RAID with the hopes of making the fast SSD drives even faster. The system actually reaches transfer…
If you thought your local government couldn’t get anything done, find out what happens when some kid introduces a digital bill of farts. Click to view[Funny or Die via I Am Bored via Neatorama]
This July, Philips will release an LED bulb that’s ready for mainstream consumption, the Master LED. Fitting in a standard bulb socket, the mercury-free Master LED bulb sips just 7W while burning up to 45,000 hours, or about 30x the length of a normal bulb. It’s actually already available in parts of Europe (we can’t…
Comcast, which most people consider the worst company on the face of the earth (well, before AIG and friends stepped up) really wants you to love them again. I mean, watch this Juno-esque commercial. Did it work? It’s part of a massive new campaign to make them not the most loathed company ever, along with…
The Cromobox LED shower door by Antonio Lupi is designed to change colors across a spectrum in order to promote relaxation. But I sense disaster here. Seriously—throw in an LED showerhead and a shower radio and you have yourself a dance club in your bathroom. And that, my friends can only lead to cleanliness with…
You had it all— house, kids, and some decent home theater equipment. Then your 401k went to shit and your home’s value halved. And to top it off, your TV stand has gone obsolete. By Onei Solutions, this 6.1 home theater stand fits a whole surround system’s worth of components into a piece of piano…
Shaun Irving takes photographs is an atypical manner. He uses a whole truck. His custom rig is a giant camera made out of the backside of a truck, fitted with a variety of military surplus lenses (one is from a submarine periscope). He parks the vehicle, aiming the rear bumper at his target, and the…
Right now, you’re probably working on a SATA-based hard drive, with a transfer speed of 150MBps (SATA) or 300MBps (SATA2). Meanwhile, Seagate just demonstrated their tentative SATA3 spec, which reaches speeds of 600Mbps. However, these numbers are all just theoretical spec. In reality, a combination of hardware and software limitations cause SATA drives run far…
If you hadn’t noticed, we wrote about Asus a lot last week. The company was showing off some interesting concepts at the tradeshow CeBIT—concepts that Asus has just announced will actually be produced. Asus’ Fold/Unfold is thin like a MacBook Air but, when unfolded, the system tilts its keyboard up for ergonomics and better computer…
Gota—a spiffy tabletop dishwasher that can recycle the water for many uses—looks like a sports car or an alien spaceship. And like alien spaceships, it’s just an idea in someone’s imagination. For now. While tabletop dishwashers aren’t new, tabletop dishwashers that actually look cool are. [Yanko]
Sony Style Hong Kong has done us the favor of spilling all the specs behind the fancy X1000 Walkman with OLED touchscreen and web browser Sony announced at CES. I almost want one. https://gizmodo.com/sony-walkman-x-series-is-surfable-touchable-and-shuts-5125117 It’s got 32GB of storage, uses the same NetFront browser as the PSP, plays all of the major audio (MP3, AAC,…
This one is creepy: The new Shapeways’ Photoshaper is the latest “printing” technology, turning any home photographs into a 3D plate which—when looked through light—will reveal the original image with a spooky ghost effect. https://gizmodo.com/shapeways-allows-you-to-materialize-any-3d-object-star-5041836 Photoshaper can be used by anyone with a digital camera and an Internet connection. Basically, the service will take any…
According to a recent IGN podcast, Nintendo is having problems in development of Wii MotionPlus. “Hiccups” need fixing. Kotaku points out that the “Spring 2009” release for Wii Sports Resort has been quietly adjusted to just “2009.” But with a few different companies bragging about their MotionPlus functionality for games hitting around June, coupled with…
According to a report by Commercial Times (passed along by DigiTimes), an Apple netbook can be expected in Q3 of this year. Yes, the rumors have returned. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-nano-or-iphone-slate-caught-online-says-nyt-5067405 Their information comes from Wintek, the company slated to provide the touch panels for the device—the netbook itself will be made by Quanta Computer. So can the…
Utilizing infrared sensors to measure contortions in your ear canals, the ‘Ear Switch‘ earbuds can guess at your facial expressions, letting you control your gadgets—iPods, cellphones, whatever—with what pretty much amount to feigned seizures. Inventor Kazuhiro Taniguchi is pretty stoked about the technology, but seems unable to come up with applications that aren’t completely hilarious.…
As pretty as HTCs are, they’re nothing without their custom skins and apps. And as with seemingly every other new Windows Mobile product, the new Diamond2 assets have been ripped and made available online. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-diamond2-and-touch-pro2-feature-bigger-screen-5154108 The haul appears to be somewhat modest, but there are definitely a few gems—namely a stupid-fast new Opera Mobile beta…
After recently buying the venerable trading cards company, Disney Michael Eisner is making a seriously cool bid to keep collecting alive, debuting 3D, augmented reality baseball cards complete with tiny players, stats and games. This kind of augmented reality tech has been seen before, most recently in a German Mini advert that placed a Mini…
Reader Sean sends in these photos taken outside his local Circuit City store in Amherst, as Best Buy’s Geek Squad pay their final respects to Circuit City. And by that, I mean they bought stuff. Sean tells us that the store was empty down to 3 carts, which meant Circuit City did the only thing…
As the journey continues to find the most inexpensive, low-tech iPhone display stand (so far, thy name be “paper clips”), we can add this fairly obvious one to the mix. Yes, it’s a bean bag. https://gizmodo.com/the-paperclip-iphone-ipod-touch-stand-5057005 But, it’s a bean bag with branding, so it’s $10. However, I can save you $9 and a serious…
Compact discs weren’t always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30. Happy birthday! 1979-2009.Thirty years. Pretty amazing that it’s been that long since those crazy Dutchmen at Philips spun the technology off…
