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The guys at kontraband have proven that geeks do more than hide behind avatars and forum handles to bitch and argue. Sometimes they do it by defacing buildings under the cover of darkness. Hit up kontraband to check out the rest of the list. [kontraband via Digg]
Sure, your PC may be packing a quad core processor, dual monitors and a second mortgage worth of RAM. But can you sleep on it? Let me rephrase that. Should you sleep on it? The Athena Sofa is one-part luxury sofa that you will likely stain, one-part PC. We weren’t able to find any specs…
So, is the age of 10 becoming the new benchmark for career success? We already have an 8-year old Microsoft Certified Professional and now we can add a 9-year old iPhone developer to the list. https://gizmodo.com/8-year-old-macedonian-boy-becomes-youngest-microsoft-ce-5134468 The 9-year old I am speaking of is Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, and the app he developed is…
Samsung seems to be the first major LCD-maker to honor the public’s apparently unquenchable demand for mini 7-inch USB-driven monitors. Samsung snuck out the U70 in Europe during CES, where it’s available for around €99 ($127). Just like similar offerings from Buffalo, D-Link,Mimo and the rest, the display is 800 x 480, swivel-able and draws…
Last week, I got to play Xbox 360 on the world’s largest, highest resolution screen. At 11 feet tall and 120 feet long, it was ridiculous. It made Panasonic’s 150-inch plasma look like a toy. https://gizmodo.com/150-inch-tv-in-action-itll-melt-brains-and-empty-walle-5056828 I was lucky enough to be invited on as a guest on CollegeHumor’s video game show, Bleep Bloop. Apparently,…
The Hopside Down glass is an optical illusion you drink beer out of: a glass with a bottle inside. The only downside is that it screws you out of a full pint. [ProductPage via NerdApproved]
Look at you, Mr. Bamboo drive. You’re so eco-forward, abandoning plastic for a renewable resource. But wait, is that paper I see? You’re not going to write on that, are you?? This Bamboo USB drive with built-in Post-its is, maybe, the absolute cutest little flash drive we’ve ever seen—in spite of its somewhat confusing stance…
Tests of a somewhat-more-draconian-than-normal 40GB monthly download cap in poor little Beaumont, Texas must have gone well for TWC, because they’re bringing bandwidth caps to more cities this year. Could your town be next? No one knows yet; all we do know is that TWC COO Landel Hobbs announced intentions to expand the caps to…
Remember how the first gen iPhone (and similar non-GPS devices) use Wi-Fi nodes to guesstimate the user’s position? Snow Leopard will do that, too. According to developers working with pre-release builds of Snow Leopard, the OS contains the same CoreLocation (Wi-Fi triangulation) framework found in the iPhone SDK, which should allow third party programmers to…
Fujitsu just updated their LifeBook T5010, T1010, P1630, and T2020 with AT&T BroadbandConnect (HSUPA) support. And better still, some models will support EVDO in a few months (Sprint or Verizon’s 3G technology, carrier unannounced). [Yahoo]
OK people, I know we were the ones who promoted this idea, and then laughed and applauded when you followed up. But now the authorities are getting serious, according to reader Dan Mowchan: https://gizmodo.com/hacking-road-signs-is-frightningly-easy-and-funny-and-5136970 Heard a warning on the radio this morning not to hack signs. LMAO. In CT. “Hacking signs is also a misdemeanor.”…
The prospect of Sega releasing a portable system is a promising one, given Sega’s historically broad library of fun vintage titles. But alas, the Sega Vision doesn’t play games. About the size of a chunky iPod, the Vision is an MP4/MP3 player, radio/TV tuner, voice recorder, eBook reader and camera. OK, not games, but not…
Rapid Repair has got back to us on the final price for their 240GB upgrade for the iPod video. Price is a lower than the $320 quoted elsewhere: $295, according to their spokeswoman. https://gizmodo.com/upgrade-your-ipod-video-to-240-gigabytes-5146324 $295 is planned price. Drives should be available in 2-3 weeks, but customers can currently sign up for wait list. The…
Ah l’amour! I love being in love as much as I hate this USB Plasma Heart, which of course comes from the good/evil genius of Brando just in time for Valentines, my darlings. https://gizmodo.com/meeting-brando-hong-kongs-usb-willy-wonka-5136739 Like everything Brando, it’s USB powered, and on/off switch, and measures 5.5 x 3.93 x 3.93 inches. Actually, it doesn’t look…
After their dreadful Omnia, Samsung is following up with the Samsung Acme i8910, a smartphone that-according to these allegedly leaked pictures-seems to be quite slim. I comes loaded with a ton of features too: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-omnia-isnt-going-to-kill-ianything-5043789 • 8 megapixel camera (yes!) • 8 or 16GB storage. • Front videoconferencing camera. • GPS. • HDMI output. •…
I predict the Maestro, which uses laser lights to show you what frets to press, will teach me guitar as well as a self-playing piano helped me learn the keyboard: not too well. Strap the Maestro onto any guitar, load a music file with the songs you need to learn, and then little laser lights…
Sure, they might sometimes fall asleep on your couch (or your bed), but Comcast guys aren’t all bad. Two Cape Cod Comcast repairmen ran into a burning house and saved an 88-year-old woman. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-tech-falls-asleep-on-guys-couch-182440 Jim MacConnell and Tom Masciulli had been installing a phone line at a neighboring house, when an old man ran onto…
The Samsung Memoir could easily be mistaken for a real camera. On one side is a full touch-screen, and on the other is an 8-megapixel camera, 16x digital zoom, and Xenon flash. The phone, which we first saw hints of in December, will run on T-Mobile’s 3G network. Besides the 8-megapixel camera, it also has…
Swarming with bugs and flowers, this piece was created by 3D scanning real flowers, insects and music, that were then “digitally sampled, cut, mixed, scaled and rearranged.” Even cooler: It’s a speaker. The speaker, which is made out of stainless steel, is fully functional and was designed by Tord Boontje as part of the “Digital…
“What if we could manipulate the earth’s own magnetic field and thus program data into the natural energy curtains of the planet?” What if “the earth itself is already encoded with someone else’s data, and that, down there in crustal formations of rock, crystalline archives shimmer”? I like alien conspiracy, and the idea of seeding…
