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CubeCheater-a Rubik cube solver in 20 moves-is one of those iPhone applications that make you smile when you see it in action because it is simply pure genius. This is how it works. • First you have to tell the app the state of your Rubik’s cube. • You can do this with two methods:…
Opera Mini‘s final release addresses most of the problems we found in our beta test, and is available now in the ‘Communications’ category of the Android Market. Changes for this release: 1. added JSR-75 (File API) support which gives access to the SD card for uploading and downloading and also the possibility to save pages…
The other day we ran a story from Valleywag with a rumor that Steve Jobs was undergoing surgery. After talking to someone I trust more than I trust Owen Thomas’s source (who I admit I don’t know very much about) my take is that he wasn’t “under the knife” on Monday as rumored, but was…
Arn at Macrumors has discovered a reference to a previously unknown “iPhone 2,1” in the latest firmware, a follow up to the iPhone 1,1 and 1,2 (first gen and 3G). More info here. [Macrumors]
There’s nothing more you have to do than point and laugh at this poor woman and her Segway. You would have thought the other woman would be the one to eat it, karmically speaking. [BBG]
We’ve seen Dynamic Towers, the planned condo skyscraper in Dubai where every floor rotates independently. But according to The Economist, this Jetsons-esque way of living could become the next big thing in luxury housing. https://gizmodo.com/dynamic-tower-skyscraper-every-floor-self-rotates-pow-5019323 Companies all over the world, not only from Dubai, but also Nevada and Brazil, are beginning to develop their own…
The neat thing about this minuscule, G4-looking MP3 player is it uses motion controls, like turning it on one of its side or tapping a corner, to turn on/off, skip forward/backward, etc. Hacked Gadgets uncovered this device, which is built from scratch by an Japanese engineer calling himself ChaN. The MP3 player uses a three-axis…
Yeah, I only played the Wii to make my Mii. I was one of those people. Someone even enjoyed it so much they started making Miis offline with the these handcrafted, cute-as-a-button Mii brooches/pins. You have a choice out of the four Miis already made: Asher, Alyssa, Brianna or Brody. They are available from Etsy…
Wobble is one of those 99-cent iPhone apps: You shake your iPhone, and boobs or any other salacious body part will jiggle. Totally approved for the App Store. But Apple doesn’t like boobs. Or booty. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-store-hits-500-million-downloads-we-break-d-5133070 So, Apple has asked Wobble’s developer to remove all references to “boobs” and “booty” in its marketing, and forced…
Dave at US News tells us Charter Communications is the new home broadband to beat, offering 60Mbps downloads using Docsis 3.0 via coax cable. Is that the reigning champ? Currently, Comcast delivers 50Mbps using the same technology, at $150 a month. Verizon is clocking in at 50Mbps as well, over FiOS fiber, and may up…
Japan’s cute USB miniaturizations never fail to amaze us, as this small USB construction zone serves to prove once again. It’s about $20 from Japan, and comes with one Construction worker, one yellow sign or one white sign, combined with three traffic ones. We would set this up around our mouse and keyboard every night…
Have you ever seen a familiar face but weren’t able to link it to a name? FaceDouble can reveal which celebrity that person resembles after you’ve snapped a photo of them with your iPhone. Just like MyHeritage—a celebrity facial recognition Web site—FaceDouble is a free iPhone application that will be able to determine which celebrities…
Our favorite Lifehacker posts of the week show us how to keep our secrets, take naps and sell our gadgets for cash. We’ve got a few of our own favorite posts this week as well. • Privacy! Know how to get it and know how to hide your stuff from other people • Learn how…
Huge deficits at the USPS might mean one fewer day of mail delivery a week, says the postmaster general. In other words, another day a week you wouldn’t receive gadgets or Netflix. The postmaster general is asking Congress to remove the requirement for the post office to deliver mail six days a week, since the…
Windows 7 is shaping up to be an awesome OS. It’s everything people wanted Vista to be and more. Which is exactly why Microsoft should give it away—or offer it dirt cheap—to Vista users. Windows 7 is the solution to Microsoft’s Vista problem, which is really a nasty hydra of a problem. Let’s not pretend…
I’m sure Pandora, the DS and netbook frankenstein, will eventually reach the market. Seriously, it will. One day. At least here’s a real-world prototype. Turned off. Like everyone who has been following it. [DCEMU]
This 1983 Apple Event where Steve Jobs invites three software CEOs, including Bill Gates, into a dating game is the type of thing we want to see at the next Apple event. It’s the last time they were on stage together until recently, back in 2007. The clip doesn’t show the entire game—thankfully omitting the…
Ahhh the seductive dance of the Magi light concept. Turn the “knob” on the dial and the “shades” open in sync to reveal its glory. Oh, but be gentle. She is delicate. [Yanko]
It’s a good thing that robots have not yet mastered the ability to complain, because SAM (the Sweating Agile Mannequin) here has the worst robo-job ever. The video will explain the whole deal, but in a nutshell SAM perspires from his 125 sweat nozzles to stress test sub-zero athletic clothing. Naturally, in that environment it…
Fact: One day we’ll have mechanical super squadrons that can assemble into giant, even more super mechs motivated by the sole goal of either destroying or preserving humanity. But of course they’ll all require sponsorships. I mean, think about it. We can’t get a fairly unimpressive race car around a freaking oval without sticking 20…
