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Bah, forget about matte-black iPhone 3.0 backs, or MacBooks in an iPhone or Air+Touch iPhone hybrids. What in the name of all that is black, ticklish, and chrome-rimmed is this thing? https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-back-of-the-next-iphone-5152642 Actually, it’s just one of those neat Mimo 7-inch USB monitors.I know, except the first one, all the photos are stoopeed, but it’s…
After an accidental and tragic arm-lopping, Mark Lesek’s early efforts to find a suitable prosthesis didn’t really pan out. Lesek, a mechanical engineer by trade, took matters into his own hand(s). He made one. The story is actually a bit more complicated than that. Doctors’ initial advice was to give up—his amputation was so close…
Flight 3407, a commuter plane crashed into a home in upstate New York and erupted in flames earlier tonight. Authorities say the death toll is currently at 49 people. Update The airplane was a Q400 Bombardier aircraft that was flying from Newark to Buffalo Niagra. It crashed into a suburban home at around 10pm, just…
Chinese performance artist Li Wei uses mirrors, scaffolding and steel wires to create these seriously awesome gravity-defying pictures. While some are Photoshopped post-production, mostly they’re made through the magic of thoughtful planning. Li Wei was born in Hunan province and moved to Beijing in the early 90s. He has had his work exhibited all over…
Cuban officials this week announced they’ve launched their own variant of Linux. Dubbed Nova, it’s an attempt to rid their computers of U.S. hegemony, a.k.a. Microsoft. Viva la (open source) revolucion, siempre! The Cuban government feels that Windows is not only a symbol of U.S. hegemonic rule, but they think the U.S. government has access…
I met Adam Savage at the EG conference last year, and watching him give this talk, it became clear the man is obsessed with replicating things 3D things from 2D imagery. Click to view Things like a skeleton of a dodo bird or the maltese falcon. And he does all this in his spare time.…
When I discovered the LCD Clock iPhone app, I was thrilled because I have trouble getting to work on time every morning. For a $1, it wasn’t the clock I needed in my life. https://gizmodo.com/lcd-clock-iphone-app-makes-your-real-clock-seem-pitiful-5146769 I needed something that would successfully wake me up and it failed in that respect. Also, the calendar failed in…
I suppose most lamps would turn off if you snapped them in half, but unlike the rest, the On-Off lamp concept is actually designed to take such abuse. Created by Reddish Design Studio, the On-Off table lamp has a hinge/break point in the middle of its neck/stem that turns off when detatched, and comes back…
Microsoft has named a VP of Retail Stores, uh, confirming rumors that they were even doing such a thing. David Porter comes from Dreamworks, and before that spent 25 years at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart! https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-planning-to-open-most-exciting-retail-stores-378747 Porter’s first job is to figure out where the stores will be and when they’ll launch. In the past, Microsoft has…
Despite its name, this $143 MP3 Tower is only 7-inches tall, making it more convenient to stick in small places. It’s also waterproof! The waterproof Tokyo Flash MP3 Player Home Tower comes with a built-in speaker on the base, and a USB port located underneath the body for you to plug in music-filled Flash drives.…
After canceling some of the world’s best TVs, Pioneer announced they’re laying off 10,000 workers. They’re citing the reason as the trapdoor floor in the market for car stereo and TVs. [NYT] https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-officially-quits-making-tvs-5152220
For us single Gizmodians out there, a warm body may be too much hope this Saturday. That’s where the Perfect Girl app comes in—”I’ll try anything once,” it says. Now where’s that Perfect Man app? The Perfect Girl app spews out one-liners that some of you may never ever, ever hear from any self-respecting woman…
Any set of speakers that only push 2W and cost $30 probably aren’t the greatest, but you have to respect any piece of electronic gadgetry that’s made of ACTUAL FREAKING BAMBOO. According to Gadgets Alerts, the company chose bamboo because it provides a greater sound range than similarly spec’d speakers, but who knows for sure.…
And thus concludes our Charles Darwin birthday celebration. We’ll resume the party in another 100 years, pending cats have not evolved eye and/or paw lasers thereby destroying us all.
This is over the last few years, but a few of them went missing the last 12 months. Thankfully, none were carrying classified data. A blackberry was also lost “in a sensitive foreign country”. [AP]
Reader jessettrs sends in this ridiculous image taken at a Starbucks on 42nd and 9th. Yeah, it’s a guy with a Mac Mini and a 15-inch LCD. Our tipster also says that there’s a T-Mobile G1 hanging off that contraption for some reason, and the guy looks like a homeless dude. Anyone who needs to…
Technology? Amish? What does a guy with a jaw beard named Jebadiah know about technology? As bizarre as it sounds, the Amish are actually a powerful technology sales tool. An interesting article in the New York Times points out that the success of Roll-n-Glow space heaters is due, in large part, to the involvement of…
Believe it or not, IBM has filed for a patent on tech that heightens our reflexes so that we could, theoretically, dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix. This “Bionic Body Armor” would continuously scan the area for incoming projectiles. If one is detected, the system would deliver a shock to the muscles causing a…
In the second big GPS-on-Android related tidbit today, Google released My Tracks, a cool app for logging a route of any kind via GPS and saving it to Google Maps. While it’s presented in the context of a workout or hiking route, you could use the app for just about anything, including drawing fun shapes…
In the wake of the airplane crash landing in NYC’s Hudson River, CNN has an interesting article about the Seattle-Tacoma Airport spending $250,000 yearly to prevent the same bird strikes that caused last month’s incident. https://gizmodo.com/us-airways-waterlanding-close-up-image-of-inflatable-r-5132435 Seattle-Tacoma airport has a wildlife biologist on staff (and has for the last 30 years) and a team of…