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At just 1.4 pounds, a 1.33 ghz processor, 2gb of RAM and more, this notebook is powerful enough to get us excited and small enough to keep us that way. Read more of our coverage here.
According to an ars technica source (who has no track record with insider knowledge), Windows 7 pricing will start at $200 and grow from there. UDPATE: ars has retracted this story. • Windows 7 Starter: $199 • Windows 7 Home Premium: $259 • Windows 7 Professional: $299 • Windows 7 Ultimate: $319 Our gut response…
Who said whiny bloggers can’t get anything done? Microsoft admits they screwed up with the User Account Control security hole, and how they responded to it. It’ll be patched in the next Windows 7 release. https://gizmodo.com/huge-security-flaw-in-windows-7-user-account-control-5142837 Here’s what that patch entails: First, the UAC control panel will run in a high integrity process, which requires…
Google just optimized their Books site for both the iPhone and G1, and it’s great. But more exciting is news that Amazon may be bringing Kindle apps to mobile phones. The new mobile Books site is great (it’s at books.google.com/m): it offers access to the full catalog of free works, downloadable in fast chunks for…
According to one of Mary-Jo Foley’s sources, Microsoft is not building a Zune phone. Instead, they’re crafting sample chassis to inspire manufacturers as to what will excite the market. In this way, Microsoft is able to have their cake and eat it too. They build the bar high through a concept, then they pit manufacturers…
Remember this? The blinking lights, the working train, the little pedestrians, bobbing up and down in place, just waiting to be eaten by a still-unseen Godzilla-this thing is so fantastic. [Akihabara News]
Gmail’s latest Labs creation is one of the best yet: panes that let you create separate inboxes using filters and labels. Anal-retentive over-organizers of the world, rejoice! Want to have a pane just for emails from your family? Or from a particular mailing list? You can easily split up threads from different people or groups…
With the price of gas, it’s tough to imagine the migrant RV lifestyle as being sustainable through retirement or even just a reprise of MTV’s classic Road Rules. Here is the RV of tomorrow. Well, it’s the RV of tomorrow as designed by Christian Susana. With its injection molded design, the vehicle is essentially a…
Dell’s announcements at CES this year were extremely light on the details, but the Mini 10, with its 720p 16:9 screen and potential built-in TV tuner caught our eye. Now, more details have leaked. https://gizmodo.com/dell-mini-10-has-a-10-inch-720p-screen-tv-tuner-5127591 If this Dell presentation slide is to be believed, the 720p display and TV tuner will both come as options,…
If there’s any guy who knows a thing or two about eating, it’s Pac-Man. Starting this April, the 80s digital superhero can assist you in the kitchen via this $15 silicone glove by Fred (makers of all sorts of cutesy Hotheads animal pot holders). Just steer clear of my cookies and my pet ghosts, Mr.…
I don’t know about you, but this image-which apparently was uploaded to Facebook-scares me. Maybe it is because I always thought that I was a robot when I was a kid, in the early 80s. Seriously. When I was around eleven years old, for some reason I spent a lot of time thinking that me…
We first told you about the Logitech’s flagship Harmony 1100 touchscreen universal remote last month at CES, and now it’s available at retailers right on schedule. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-harmony-1100-touch-remote-brings-new-look-cus-5124438 The big upgrades over the $300 Harmony 1000 are a new black anodized aluminum body and a now-customizable touchscreen. (Read about it more here.) Remember when silver was…
We’d never heard of “Qwerty Cards” before today, but LG’s LBA-C300—discovered in a recent FCC filing—claims to be just that. Essentially a credit cardesque Bluetooth keyboard, we’re not sure that we’d use it to type on our coordinating LG phone, but it’d be fantastic for text entry on the PS3, or just navigating a simple…
The future is here: This water-based Imperial Star Destroyer is really the spectacular Swedish Visby-Class corvette, the first operational stealth ship in the world, powered with silent waterjets and made with non-magnetic composite materials. According to the experts, the corvettes are “electronically undetectable at more than 8 miles in rough seas and at more than…
We’d heard that Amazon VOD was coming to the otherwise Netflix-wielding Roku streamer. And according to Roku forums, the Amazon functions have entered private beta. Also of note, according to some promotional materials from Roku, YouTube could be the next service to be supported. (You can see the logo in this story’s lead image.) I…
According to readers, the T-Mobile G1 Android firmware update version 1.1 we told you about is now starting to roll out. https://gizmodo.com/significant-android-update-rolling-out-to-g1-users-inc-5145117 I woke up this morning to find that I didn’t receive the push for the update yet. I jumped onto my phone and spoke to T-Mobile and I was told that the update…
Whoever created these $22 polymer clay Millennium Falcon cufflinks forgot a simple fact: People who buy Star Wars merchandise rarely wear anything else but t-shirts or fake Imperial Stormtrooper plastic armors. [Etsy via Geeky Gadget]
It looks like Street View caught God on camera. Apparently, El Goderino is on a road trip to LA and he stopped at Hartsburg, Illinois, to give the world a much-needed hug. [Google-Thanks Rob]
Sure Whac-a-Butt may be a great conversation piece at your frat house, but some of us prefer the classic version. Luckily, that’s out now too. USB Whac-a-Mole is $17, but only in Korea. [Hallyutech] https://gizmodo.com/whac-a-butt-our-job-here-is-done-5100794
This camouflage treehouse is actually a two level modern abode with a deck, livingroom, kitchen and sleeping quarters. [Designboom]