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Despite all the fanfare about the new, upgraded unibody MacBooks, the old (polybody?) MacBooks are still on sale for $999. Thankfully, Apple has updated the base specs on our sad, white friend. The upgrades aren’t trivial either—now the old-style MacBook almost matches the unibody model, spec for spec. The processor is updated to the newer…
Fujitsu’s LifeBook N7010 is an unsurprising mid-to-high-end multimedia laptop, except for one thing: the 4-inch, 480×272 secondary screen. Akihabara News got their hands on one and ran it through its paces, coming away impressed. The display performs as advertised, and has a few neat little tricks up its sleeve. There are preset launch buttons for…
There’s nothing I find more entertaining than cats using technology to amuse themselves—whether it be boxing with printers, riding roombas, or just chilling with the help of a subwoofer, like this kitty. [Neatorama] https://gizmodo.com/cat-kos-printer-in-vicious-boxing-match-5048489
Here they are: Alleged spy photos of the second generation Android cellphone, the thinner, shinier, and totally lickable T-Mobile G2 made by HTC. It has no keyboard and its back looks oh-so-soap-bar-smooth: Click to viewAs you can see, it has a 3.2 megapixel camera. According to our source, it will come in mid-May. Currently it…
Seagate’s SD1A firmware update, meant to fix problems with its Barracuda 7200.11 models, only managed to make things worse—bricking the drives of those who bothered to install it. They’ve pulled the update pending validation. https://gizmodo.com/seagate-reverses-course-offers-free-data-recovery-for-5134240 Barracuda owners who flashed their disks with the firmware found that after they rebooted, they’d receive a system disk failure…
I’ve finally found a bathtub that’ll give me the ultimate peace of mind: A tub that’s both bullet and bomb proof. The catch? It’s made out of glass, which makes it completely transparent awesome. So instead of worrying about air-strikes and assassination attempts while I bathe, all I have to worry about now is how…
One day while riding in his friend’s car, Evan Reynolds’ arm got ripped off, and he became one of the first people to score a fully functioning Luke-Skywalker-style robotic I-Limb from Touch Bionics. Click to viewHe’d been hanging his arm out the car window when his friend exited a parking lot a little too close…
In the hierarchy of memory types, RAM ranks higher (faster, closer to the processor) than hard drives, but lower than L2 cache. This Segon USB flash drive thinks it’s better than itself. It comes in 2GB and 4GB capacity for $12 and $20, and supports Windows Ready boost, as well as a lanyard for attaching…
One? Two-hoo? Threeee? Three. Sigh. [Product Page via Shiny Shiny]
Apple’s set up an online refurbished discount store in China, lowering prices by up to 22% in order to combat secondhand non-Apple-approved sales going on in the country already. The refurbs, based on the Reuters writeup, don’t seem all that great. A $44 iPod shuffle and a $2047 iMac seems like normal price to us.…
Not that an extra $9,300 really matters with a $100,000 car, but Telsa jacking up the prices on customers that have already locked in their Roadster orders is just plain shady. https://gizmodo.com/what-it-feels-like-to-drive-a-tesla-roadster-5091319 Tesla basically “unlocked” the prices of their electric vehicle options, forcing customers to re-select or lose their spot in line. All-in-all, the price…
Rumors surfaced last week about the possibility of visual voicemail coming to the BlackBerry Bold—rumors that seem to be a certainty now that BGR has screenshots of the service in action. https://gizmodo.com/visual-voicemail-shows-up-on-a-blackberry-bold-5130538 As mentioned in the previous article, this update is featured in the AT&T 4.6.0.219 OS install, but an official roll out date has…
O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! (Oh, and deals). Computing • Acer Aspire One 1.6GHz 120GB HD 1GB RAM Netbook (Refurbished) for $289.99 plus free shipping (normally $360). Home Entertainment • Digital Lifestyle 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV for $610 shipped (normally $700. Use coupon code MMCHTV50 for $50 off). Miscellaneous • Excalibur Electronics R/C Micro Zoomers [Two-Pack] for…
Much like the search for El Dorado, the quest for perfect breasts has driven man around the globe. Today, it brings us to Japan. Again. https://gizmodo.com/f-cup-cookies-promise-that-their-fat-will-go-straight-t-286386 From what we can make of the photo, this four-wheeled “Bust Roller” promises either an increase in lift and size, or a that a high pressure system will pass…
Someone, right now, is walking the streets of Highland Home, Alabama with a stolen Jaws of Life. Police there are basically waiting to see what happens next. What would you do with ’em? Open up a keg like a can of tuna and sip from the lovely nectars within? Hilariously convert your friends’ cars into…
Today has been loaded with little metaphors. Dick Cheney leaving in a wheelchair, for instance, but another amazing one is comparing the White House website today with what it looked like when Bush took office. Comparing the two makes it perfectly clear just how much has changed since 2001, and what we hope will come…
Personally, I’m not much into unboxing unless I’m the one doing the honors, but a modern day unboxing of a 25 year old Atari CX77 Touch Tablet is like opening up a time capsule. This marvel of 8-bit technology could hook up into your Atari home computer and digitally manipulate shapes and lines with the…
I dislike dealing in cash, mostly because it inevitably leads to a bunch of coins that rattle my pocket and nerves alike. But if those coins had superfluous GPS functionality, I’d reconsider my stance. Dubbed the Inbi-Out, this concept coin can be flipped to add some spontaneity to coming adventures. Where should I go next?…
CNN isn’t holding back the Inauguration Day techno-wizardry. In addition to the Photosynth-powered crowdsourced 3D photo and exclusive satellite crowd shot Wolf keeps teasing, CNN debuted its exclusive SuperQuickZoom tech, seen here. https://gizmodo.com/cnns-inauguration-day-photosynth-compiles-crowdsourced-5135625
Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching—don’t let poor hygiene keep you from getting a little action. This compact Kiss-o-Meter alerts you to bad breath 80% better than breathing into cupped hands. Now that’s progress. All you need to do is breathe into the device and the analysis will return as one of five outcomes: Kiss me,…
