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Mothers hide their children from you on the rare occasions that you’re seen outside of your house. Face it: you’re a monster. Maybe it’s time for a life change, because shit just isn’t working out for you so far. This might mean taking a break from the internet for a day or two a week,…
The apocalyptical road sign hacking continues after zombies attacked Austin a few days ago. Now, fossil raptors have been revived in Indiana and they are attacking motorists. At least, that’s what some of them think. https://gizmodo.com/hacking-road-signs-is-frightningly-easy-and-funny-and-5136970 One of the drivers interviewed by The Indy Channel in Hamilton County said: “it’s kind of crazy. I’m totally…
To help lighten the mood a bit after revealing their fourth-quarter $3.6 billion bloodbath, Motoroloa CEO Sanjay Jha revealed that we likely won’t see Windows Mobile 7 until 2010 at the earliest. We’ve seen lots of Win-Mo 7 dates floated; most recently, the “early 2009” projection was more realistically hedged to the “second half” of…
Something significant has obviously delayed the original September launch of push notifications, Apple’s solution to not allowing apps to run in the background. MacRumors hears that Apple is considering allowing real background processes instead. https://gizmodo.com/why-is-apple-iphone-push-notification-still-missing-5098887 Android and especially the Pre have made background apps and the true multitasking they allow look a lot sexier, and…
Since the 10-inch Aspire One is poised to be the new standard, it’s a good time to pick up the 8.9-inch model on the cheap. https://gizmodo.com/a-quick-look-at-the-10-inch-aspire-one-103-5134230 Buy.com has a “sapphire blue” Aspire One available for $260. The system is configured with an Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 8.9″ screen, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD, Webcam, Wi-Fi, and…
Using a cyclopean webcam mounted on a telescoping neck and two solenoid fingers, this robot will dutifully and adorably Pong you into oblivion. Built by Dutch designer Ivo Vos in 2006, this is one of the coolest robots I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing in its simplicity, and its ability to stare at a screen and…
PC perspective took an Nvidia Ion reference platform—all the guts crammed in a box—for a test drive and found the performance very much lives up to the hype: It blows away every other netbook. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-ion-supercharges-netbooks-with-5x-faster-graphic-5111999 But that incredible performance (for a netbook), with smooth HD video playback and Left4Dead running at an average of 20FPS,…
Amazon has long offered music and movies for download and/or streaming. And now they’ve stepped into the wild world of video game downloads. Amazon Game Downloads, still technically in beta (though open to the public), currently offers 600 titles priced at $10 and less. For any title in the store, you can download the full…
Sometimes it’s not enough to be a somewhat indifferent fan of an 80s arcade phenomenon. Sometimes you need to share your blasé passion with others by making them ingest it. Ice Invaders is a silicone tray that’s prepared to either freeze or bake your very own retro alien invasion. Available this spring (I know, an…
Western Digital may have announced the world’s first 2TB 3.5″ hard drive last week, but this week, Seagate fired back with a 2TB model of their own. https://gizmodo.com/western-digital-wd20weads-is-the-first-2tb-internal-dri-5139958 Seagate’s 2TB constellation drive, expected this September, is mainly exciting because it runs at a full 7200RPM while Western Digital’s model operates at an eco-friendly, undisclosed speed.…
There may not be a Zune Phone, but Toshiba’s—the original Zune manufacturer—new Windows Mobile 6-based TG01 smartphone is close enough. And with a 4.1-inch screen and 9.9mm thickness, it looks extremely good. And for those who hate the Windows Mobile interface (guilty as charged), the new Toshiba TG01 has a revamped interface that, on the…
We all know that Japan is nuts about cellphones, having browsed the internet via mobiles since we were but gleams in 3G’s eye. But the phenomenon is about more than the web—it’s about email. NPR recently aired an interesting program exploring Japan’s use of the cellphone. In it, Satoshi Tanaka, a cellphone content/portal guru, mentioned…
In case anybody is keeping the count in this dumb bragging race, here’s an image of Mac OS X running two hundred apps at once, breaking the previous 150-app record. https://gizmodo.com/vista-running-108-apps-bites-mac-os-x-back-377255 The new silly mark was set on a 20-inch 2007 iMac, with a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo and 4 Gigabytes of RAM. It took…
LED light bulbs come in all sorts of strange sizes and shapes, but this offering from Chinavision is unabashed in its design. Featuring an aluminum, curvilinear design, a series of diecast cooling fins dissipate heat from the internal circuitry. Meanwhile, LEDs put out 400 lumens for 50,000 hours while sipping on just 7W. If you’re…
Oh. So. Pretty. It needs some small aesthetic fixes here and there, but boy I would like to see something along these lines coming from Apple. And I like the fantasy specs too. (Click on the image for a 1,600-pixel version) • Titanium and Glass. • OLED screen • 3G • GPS • Front camera…
What in the name of all that is sugar frosted and cinnamon-flavored is this cake from hell? Is Darth Vader going to eat your baby? Is the Dark Lord your child’s father too? Answer us! Apparently, it’s just a way to welcome a newborn girl into this world. Because nothing says “Have a wonderful life”…
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The iPhone 3G is finally arriving to Etisalat-the censoring dreadful cellphone provider in the United Arab Emirates-but the interesting part is that they are hinting at a June release for the next version. Update: Rumor smashed. https://gizmodo.com/next-generation-iphone-3gs-june-release-rumor-doubtful-5146076 The latest 3G model will become available on February 15 according to Dow Jones, and etisalat will be…
I would kill for something like this: An extensible OLED display that could be physically expanded to fit different aspect ratios. Bonus amazing detail, a mini-projector to display small images and icons on the desk: I know that having an extensible display won’t mean a thing for many people. If you can have a 30″…
ClearCam is the latest iPhone app to go live on Cydia, home for the jailbreak apps, and turns your 2MP photos into 4MP ones by stitching 6 normal photos into one super photo. Similar to the manner in which Gigapan created the 1474MP image of the inauguration, Occipital’s ClearCam works its magic by creating a…