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Here’s a crystal-clear video showing what happens when an airplane engine fan blade gets loose when you fire a chicken at 250 knots into a turbojet using a chicken gun. Result: (Contained) Boom. Update: Corrected. Update: Sacha, a reader expert in the matter, has wrote to me saying this is not a simulation of a…
Samsung thinks that you may be annoyed when you connect your laptop to an external display. Their reasoning: The external display is not at the same angle and height of the laptop’s screen. This 18.5-inch Samsung concept display is supposed to fix that. Just connect it to your Samsung laptop and Bob’s your uncle: Almost-perfectly…
Samsung is getting ready to try to shook your underpants at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress’09 with the new 0.5-inch-thin UltraTouch S8300 slider, this time with a 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen and 8-megapixel camera. Let’s hope it’s a lot better this time. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-omnia-isnt-going-to-kill-ianything-5043789 Samsung Sets the Style Crowd Alive With UltraTOUCH Discover the beauty of Samsung’s latest…
How wide is the hallway in this heavy machine factory outside of Edmonton, Alberta? Wide as two crazy men, according to this shot, sent by one of the show-offs. Two words, Ryan: Workers’ Comp.
Brace yourself for weirdness: Our buddy Todd at TechFlash unearthed a guitar-drenched musical extravaganza by Jim Allchin, the former Windows chief who many think mismanaged Vista into the ground. Though he looks like a young feller on the album cover, Allchin’s pushing 60—having spent 16 years at Microsoft before retiring the day Vista launched. Though…
Forget the Mayans and their silly 2012 doomsday scenario. The real end of the world will happen because of that most venerable of operating systems: UNIX. That’s because next Friday, UNIX time will read 1234567890. Scary! And, it just so happens that this event will coincide with one of the more superstitious days on our…
The latest ad in Microsoft’s retaliatory $300 million “I’m a PC” campaign is all sorts of cute. This spot, set to air during the Grammy’s, is a departure from some of their other practices. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-parks-im-a-pc-recording-kiosks-outside-appl-5072542 Now, how will the unstoppable force that is Apple and Hodgman bury this tiny tot? We await Apple’s next retaliatory-retaliatory…
Even though no one’s come out and said it, Amazon is almost certainly introducing Kindle 2 at an event in New York on Monday. And we’ll be there covering live, as usual. Tune into the Gizmodo Liveblog (live.gizmodo.com) for the complete play-by-play as Bezos drops Amazon’s newest e-book reader hardware. And could there be anything…
From cheap(er) DSLRs to cheap Dell mini-notebooks we go with this Ubuntu-equipped Inspiron Mini 9, now going for $250. That’s almost as cheap as the refurbished one we found for $177 last month. https://gizmodo.com/pentax-rebate-knocks-100-off-entry-level-k2000-dslr-ki-5148987 Better yet, there are no 3g subscriptions or any other funny business with this deal. It’s the low-end no frills Mini…
Google Maps was once again displaying its otherworldly powers today after one of its street cars tore a hole in space itself. Perhaps the ability to do so was bestowed upon it by god? Update. https://gizmodo.com/god-caught-on-google-street-view-giving-the-world-a-hug-5147824 And so the alternate universe looks like a trippy zebra. Who knew? Update: Tipster Clint is manipulating time and…
Netbook creator Psion won another battle in its war against casual use of the term “netbook” this week as Google banned the term from its lucrative ad network. Seriously now, what should we call them? https://gizmodo.com/what-do-you-think-the-new-term-for-netbook-should-be-5117783 JK on the Run was in touch with Psion recently, and let it be known that Google had completed…
The MWC show that’s going to see LG’s new mobile officially revealed could also be the place where Nokia announces an app store. It’s entirely unconfirmed, but app stores are all the rage these days. https://gizmodo.com/lg-arena-km900-combines-iphone-inspired-interface-with-5149010 The rumor was gleaned from a translated Russian mobile site, and offers little in the way of specifics. So,…
Well, you can use the directional pad anyway. Kudos for the working screen and Tetris music, but the A and B buttons on this cardboard Game Boy costume don’t appear to do anything at all. It’s a cool use of an emulator, sure, but the combination of the look at that guy’s face and the…
The embattled OLPC program, already reeling from job cuts and salary decreases, is making one final attempt to stay afloat: Open source everything and hope enough companies copy the design to make it profitable. https://gizmodo.com/negroponte-halves-olpc-staff-phases-out-sugar-linux-to-5125892 The news was delivered by OLPC frontman Nicholas Negroponte himself, during remarks at this week’s TED 2009 conference. Blogger Ethan…
We teased the LG KM900 about unabashedly copying the iPhone earlier this month, but maybe we should scale that back a bit. New info leads me to believe the interface is more SUSE than Apple. https://gizmodo.com/lg-arena-km900-is-the-most-unabashed-iphone-look-a-like-5146297 Sure, those incredibly similar menu icons are still there at the bottom, but that spinning cube is more Novell…
Samsung’s leap into the 10-inch netbook arena, represented in physical form by the glossy NC10, is receiving a “special edition” hype injection. There is some substance here, however, mostly in the area of battery life. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-nc10-leaps-aboard-the-10-inch-netbook-bandwago-5052125 The battery boost arrives courtesy of a higher capacity 6-cell battery, capable of nearly nine and a half hours…
A nice little $100 rebate and a two-year warranty boost are being applied this month to the Pentax K2000 entry-level DSLR and the K20D, respectively. This Dealzmodo expires February 22. According to a release over at TechCrunch, the rebate is applied across all three K2000 kits: The K2000 flash kit is dropping down to $600…
We didn’t know much about Dell’s XT2 convertible tablet before, but now what appears to be a full specs sheet has leaked, including a possible release date this Wednesday, February 11th. https://gizmodo.com/dell-latitude-xt2-specs-revealed-369771 Vital specs: – 1.2 or 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU – 12.1″ multitouch display (yes!) – up to 5 GB memory –…
Auto-tuning, the practice of digitally “repairing” off-key vocal tracks, is more visibly prominent than ever. But it’s even more ubiquitous than people realize, and some musicians and fans aren’t happy about it. Auto-tune really only entered public consciousness with the release of that one Cher song that’s somehow still playing in malls more than a…
Samsung teamed up with audiophiler Bang & Olufsen for the Helio Oceanesque M7600 handset. The internal B&O amplifier promises to make it a force to be reckoned with in the sound department. Specs: – 2.8″ AMOLED touchscreen (not sure if it’s capacitive or resistive, hoping for the former) – 3 MP camera – DivX support…
