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Microsoft showed off a “Write in the Air” system developed in China. You can write with a gyro controller or in thin air, using a camera. Is it next for the Xbox? You can’t help but notice the giant Xbox logo there on the screen, and the researcher I talked to said that it would…
Ars rounds up iPhone apps released by a bunch of crappy bands so I don’t have to—they’re tacky trail mixes of promo clips with links to buy stuff, but point to a scary trend. The apps released by five Universal artists—All-American Rejects, SouljaBoyTellem, Pussycat Dolls, Lady Gaga and Keri Hilson—are all of this shallow breed…
If I had a pool table in my apartment (which I definitely don’t), I wouldn’t want pool cues, balls and all that other stuff constantly in plain sight. Enter the leather cue bench. This $3400 piece of furniture keeps all your pool accessories tucked away, so that when your not hustling friends and family for…
What have we here? A 32″ Sharp Aquos for $600 shipped, a Shure I2C-M headset for $36 and IHOP Pankcakes for nothing? Oh my! Audio • Shure I2C-M Stereo Mobile Headset for $36.01 (normally $119.00). Cameras • Canon Powershot SD790 10MP Digital Camera for $149.99 plus free shipping (normally $199). Computing • Lenovo 15.4″ Y530-3231U…
HELLO, LADIES. [Urban Trend via Fashionably Geek]
The Ballmeister told analysts that Office 14 won’t ship in 2k9, leaving spreadsheet enthusiasts going back to Office 2007 for their chart generating shenanigans. [ZDNet]
If you’re looking for a Dell laptop, they’re having a 4-hour laptop sale online right now. No idea what they’ll have, but it’s a sale, and we love those. Updated. It looks like Dell is offering three computers here: The 14-inch Inspiron 1420 for $500, the 13.3-inch XPS M1330 for $800 and the 15-inch Inspiron…
An omnidirectional projector with a camera inside watches your hand movements and reacts fast, like a planetarium-wide Surface table. Does it give you a Zaphod-sized ego? Hell yes it does. Check out this vid: As you can, see from the photo above, the computer is tracking hand gestures using a basic gesture language: pinching to…
Today the prosecution brought a few anti-piracy watchdogs to the stand who had “investigated” the Pirate Bay by downloading music, movies and games from the site. And then they reduced their evidence to shreds. • The court heard from Magnus Mårtensson, a lawyer for the IFPI, and policeman Magnus Nilsson of the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office,…
Happy Birthday! I hope this year will be the year you bring back your mustachio’ed look. The ladies demand it.
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you for some items that you imagine Michael Jackson selling at his “I’m desperate” auction. The results, as I predicted, are awesome. First Place — Bniel Jun Second Place — Con Seannery Third Place — Aaron Langeland
We saw them building it, and now here’s the finished product. It’s a neat ad, but I feel like seeing the zoetrope in person would be way cooler. [YouTube via Didn’t You Hear?]
The latest offering from Speck comes in the form of these colorful hard shell cases for the new unibody MacBooks. Oooh…sassy. https://lifehacker.com/recycle-old-electronics-to-any-best-buy-5159371 A dash of color is a good thing and so is the added protection from a hard case—but there are a few drawbacks. Heat buildup might be a major concern, there are no…
Best Buy has gone nationwide with the gadget recycling program they began testing back in June. It isn’t the best recycling program out there—no TVs over 32-inches, no “appliances”, and a $10 fee for recycling laptops and TV monitors that is converted into a Best Buy gift card. Still, it ranks high on convenience. [Best…
Rubbing your hands over a PlayStation controller for too long has now become a disease: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis. The first instance comes from a 12-year-old Swiss girl who had sores on her hand from playing way too much. The doctor first thought she had “idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis”, a condition that affects both the hands and…
It’s not quite as cool as the Eatmecrunchy bowl, but the Spilt Milk cereal bowl does have one advantage—it is made out of flexible silicone. https://gizmodo.com/eatmecrunchy-cereal-bowl-keeps-cereal-more-like-arnold-312154 So even though it looks like a disaster in progress, the Spilt Milk bowl is safe to use with even the clumsiest and unruliest kids. Expect it to arrive…
Think about it—an inexpensive Linux PC crammed inside a wall-wart plug. Something like this SheevaPlug could open up a whole new framework of managing and sharing data that could be accessible to the masses. Inside the SheevaPlug you will find a 1.2GHz, ARM-based Sheeva embedded processor, 512Mbytes of FLASH, 512Mbytes of DRAM, gigabit ethernet and…
The iTunes Pass is a baby-step toward the fabled iTunes all-you-can eat subscription: plonk down $18.99 to download everything new (including a new album) by a single artist for a limited time. But, Depeche Mode? https://gizmodo.com/businessweek-apple-doesnt-give-a-flying-f-about-all-370959 Apparently Depeche Mode is still making music, and Dave Gahan is still alive. And while the Mode isn’t necessarily…
Yesterday’s AT-AT Walker boombox was awesome, but a little too 80’s for my taste. I like my music digital and my gadgets gilded. This iPod-compatible walker satisfies on both counts. https://gizmodo.com/at-at-walker-boombox-is-so-awesome-i-want-to-cry-5158577 Yeah, it’s just a speaker dock slapped to the side of an AT-AT toy and spray painted gold, but hey…Star Wars! [Handsome Genius Club…
We’ve spent a little bit of time checking out Safari 4 Beta on both Windows and Mac, and here’s what we like (and don’t like) so far: https://gizmodo.com/apple-safari-4-beta-available-now-top-sites-cover-flo-5159260 Windows On Windows, if you’ve never used Safari but used Chrome or Opera, it’ll actually feel a lot like that, with the overhead tabs, Speed Dial, and…