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I don’t know about this one, Howard. Will your vegetables network properly with your fish? [thanks, Edan!] https://gizmodo.com/how-the-new-sony-will-become-awesome-again-5161845
Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You’d like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know first. And that is this: Ripping Blu-ray discs sucks. Hard. It takes forever, eats up a ton of hard drive space, and…
Looks like Apple Employee #1’s old 17″, maxed-out PowerBook is for sale on eBay, remarkably devoid of Cheetos fingerprints. But who acquired it from Woz to begin with? The answer might surprise you. It’s those guys from that webcomic The Joy of Tech! But don’t let that dissuade you, because the PowerBook looks like it…
President Obama’s proposed 2010 budget goes where no Bush has gone before by including significant spending for scientific agencies, including NASA, the EPA, and Department of Energy, on top of the stimulus package. NASA will get $700 million from the budget, which isn’t all that much, but combined with the $1 billion from the stimulus…
Somebody wanted to build a water filtration center on the spot of a Bronx, NY golf-course driving range. Bad idea? It was until the architects decided to build the plant and keep the range. “Green roofs” are nothing new—one day soon all of us will have grass for a roof, especially if the economy continues…
Designed with greasy hands, soapy gloves, and cookie-dough-covered fingers in mind, the minimalistic DAB Digital Radio was created for a nitty, gritty kitchen environment. With a splash-resistant design featuring large touch-sensitive buttons, users can power on ths battery-operated radio, turn up the volume and control this gadget using their elbows and knuckles. Users also don’t…
The first two I’m a PC ads from Microsoft used little girls, and were super super cute. This latest one? Not so much. Nothing against little boys, but nobody likes them using a computer. https://gizmodo.com/latest-im-a-pc-ad-entices-new-windows-users-with-cutene-5149071
After today’s $1.40 airplane lavatory charge, the disco girl with the long legs and the lovely smile has sent us proof that Ryanair is going way too far in their demands to passengers. https://gizmodo.com/airline-wants-to-charge-you-to-use-the-lavatory-5161496 Yes, it’s a fakemodo, which means it’s fake. [Graphic by The Coast of Yemen—Thanks Addy!]
Apparently, the Acer Hornet is an Nvidia Ion-based Atom-powered small PC which can be mounted on displays. The most interesting thing: Acer wants to sell it with a Wiimote-like device for gaming and remote control. Or that’s what turkish site Donanim Haber says, posting some images of the computer, which can be mounted on the…
What you might’ve missed about Sir Howard becoming Emperor of Sony is that it means he won the war to reorganize it—meaning Sony’s stuff could become awesome again. https://gizmodo.com/sir-howard-stringer-named-supreme-leader-of-all-things-5161386 There’d been rumors of a drastic shakeup at Sony involving the slaying of “sacred cows.” This is likely it, since Sir Howard wants to drag Sony…
Apparently a shoe phone similar to this was a really big deal in some dumb movie or TV show. But now the thing actually exists, using common cellphone gear and a hollowed-out heel. Australian Paul Gardner-Stephen originally created his Gen 2 prototype shoe phone for his church group by carving out the heel of a…
Steven Holl Architects’ winning design from the “4 Tower in 1” competition calls for a quartet of towers to be built around the brand new Shenzhen Stock Exchange and its surrounding plaza. The four buildings in the complex have a variety of features typical of environmentally friendly and sustainable structures of recent, and the kind…
Which flat panel technology is the best? LCD or plasma? Get mean, get personal, because you can’t be banned for anything you say in this thread. And anecdotes are as valid as scientific study.
Making Tamagotchi virtual pets seem like a high-maintenance pain in the butt, the touchscreen Yuruppy kicks it up a notch with virtual pets that require no care and only want to be fondled. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-tamagotchi-still-exists-has-evolved-color-5056151 Manufactured by Tomy Takara, Yuruppy comes with 14 mini games that users have to complete with their puppy, kitten or chicken…
On one hand, the Epson R-D1xG is a gorgeous retro rangefinder camera that captures the style (and the compatible lenses) of Leica tradition. On the other, it’s almost as expensive as the real thing. Priced at $3000 (the Leica M8 runs about $1000 more), the D1xG is an update to Epson’s D1. It keeps the…
The most surprising thing about the LG Versa so far isn’t that the detachable keyboard isn’t the flimsy craptacular dongle I thought it’d be. It’s the OS. It’s really, really fast. https://gizmodo.com/verizons-lg-versa-officially-go-go-gadget-modular-phone-5160585 It’s markedly faster than the OS that was on the Dare, LG’s last major touch phone for Verizon. The 3D UI, which lets…
Boy Genius‘s tipsters are telling them that an upcoming BlackBerry 9630 is Verizon’s world edition phone, meaning you can travel overseas and DO STUFF WITH IT. BG says it’s going to have “CDMA 1x, EV-DO Rev. A, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and 2100MHz UMTS”. The OS might be 5.0, but might be 4.71, it won’t have…
Andrew Cheatle was hanging out on a boat when he dropped his phone in the water. He thought it was gone for good, but a week later, his old phone called his girlfriend. It turns out, a 25-pound cod ate his phone and was then caught by fishermen. They found the phone, pulled out the…
This week we’ve cast the net out a bit further to catch some gems from this month that may have escaped our attention, including a repackaged, excrement-producing pop-culture classic. And it’s no fart app. Tamagotchi: ‘Round the World: But unfortunately, it’s just as inane. Gone is the dot-matrix Tamagotchi you may remember from 1996, and…
It’s Friday so I’m jetting to the mall the second I get off today. But in the meantime, we’ve got some great deals for you if you’re just itching to shop right here, right now. Gaming: • Xbox 360 Pro 60GB Console (refurbished) for $194.99 (normally $299). • Hitman: Blood Money for $5.70 (normally $19.99).…
