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It’s no surprise that Kobe Bryant is a huge game film addict, but the LA Times’s look at the tech Kobe uses to feed himself massive amounts of video daily is a great read. Aside from the awesome dash-mounted screen in his Range Rover here, Kobe’s primary window into getting into his opponents heads is…
And we have come full circle: Nintendo puts games into watches, the march of technology replaces watches with cellphones, developer sneaks classic Game & Watch apps onto the iPhone. Rejoice, but make it fast. The folks of Mobile 1UP have brought five G&W games to the store as separate apps for $2 each: Chef, Fire,…
While I’ve always preferred encapsulating my hot dogs in a black crust of carcinogens prior to ingestion, there are others of you who prefer a slow roasted wiener…preferably involving a spaceship in some way. From the same brilliant creators of the Roast My Weenie, the Weenie Wing Commander exploits the classic X-wing schematic to support…
In case your self-esteem has gotten too high, you should check out a small collection of work by Disney artist Stef Kardos—all of it made on the iPhone’s touchscreen. Kardos created this and other pieces in the Brushes iPhone app and has since posted them to his Flickr account. But not to be outdone, there’s…
Google has figured out that it can save money by getting product ideas from users rather than engineers. After all, you can’t pay engineers in “shout outs” on their blogs like they’re offering for users. Yes, the tanking economy is hitting the mighty Google just as hard as every other company out there, and they’re…
Making good on Google’s continued pledge to not limit Android to just phones, two guys at VentureBeat got Android up an running on their Eee PC 1000H. But a question comes to mind: why? Apparently it was a piece of cake to get Android to support everything you’d need for functional computing, including sound, graphics…
God is trying to send Rhys Millen a message: quit trying to backflip a truck, you’ll hurt yourself. The question is how many times it will it take for him to receive it. Click to viewIn 2007, he broke his spine while doing practice jumps for a planned New Years Eve jump. This NYE, he…
What can drive a man to madness? In this case, a Wii. Click to view Though the kid might have a faint “I’m totally gonna see this on YouTube” glimmer in his eye, it’s still a pretty funny clip. (Warning: Turn down those speakers.) [via Maxconsole]
Sometimes it’s easy to lose perspective amidst marketing. Case in point: Nielsen measured that gamers, on whole, spent 31% of their time on the PS2 in 2008 (more than the Xbox 360 and Wii combined). The other interesting, though not necessarily surprising finding was that the gaming population spends more time playing the 360 than…
Phones using a number of popular versions of the Symbian S60 mobile OS (the Nokia N95, E71 and N76 just to name a few) can be partially disabled by a maliciously coded text. The attack has been lamely dubbed “The Curse of Silence” and it’s pretty simple. Due to a glitch in the way that…
HP is finally joining this weird, new multiple display party with the Voodoo DNA-ed Firefly, which carries a secondary screen, an oddly-placed multitouch trackpad and guts comparable to its powerful desktop counterpart. https://gizmodo.com/fujitsu-lifebook-n7010-with-touchscreen-app-launcher-5075655 LaptopMag has a full hands-on with a prototype unit, which should be on display at CES. They’re generally impressed, as for all…
That hilarious constant-root-access bug that shipped with the G1’s Android wasn’t just a security flaw; to some, it was a valuable tool. The guys at XDA have brought it back, if you want it. https://gizmodo.com/android-bug-reboots-phone-every-time-you-type-reboot-5080688 The hack requires downgrading your firmware to either the RC27 or RC9 images and connecting to the handset with telnet.…
Did you raise a toast to William Marconi last night? How about Robert Fulton? Not even the Wright brothers? Well, this piece in the September 26, 1909 New York Times thought you would be doing just that in twenty-oh-nine. This fictionalized future editorial explores everything from the “aerovessels” we were to be flying to the…
I have almost no apps in my iPhone, only the most useful ones for NYC. But iSteam, a steam simulator, looks like a fun one to install and keep. As you can see in the video, the application adds ultra-realistic steam to your screen when you blow on the microphone. After that you can use…
Whether your camera is brand new or an aging holdover, you want to accessorize it, but you don’t want to pay. By now, you know the Dealzmodo Hack drill: Paying is for suckers. For decades, photographers have engineered little tricks to get the most out of their cameras, and most of them have carried just…
Apparently there’s a huge storm coming up in New Bedford, which will cover most of Massachusetts with a low pressure Windows software error system, and tornado watches for the western region of NBC’s weather PC. According to reader Cody, this happened live on his local NBC affiliate station. It may not be of olympic proportions…
Who says iPhones can’t replace all musical instruments by the year 2010? This handbell demonstration suggests that at least some classical instruments are dead already. I love handbell because each person in the row is responsible for just a few notes of a whole song. The Melody Bell iPhone app lets you tune your “bell”…
I promised myself I wasn’t going to do any more sex-related post in 2009. I failed. Yes, like its predecesor, this is equally as stupid, but at least it can now be unlocked. [DeviantArt—Thanks Jordan] https://gizmodo.com/icondom-perfectly-fits-your-other-turtleneck-392717
FIRST!!! In 2008, some media outlets started publishing their “best of” lists by June. For 2009, we didn’t want to come in second. So here are our predictions for the best gadgets of 2009. https://gizmodo.com/bestmodo-2008-5106165 Premium Netbooks We’ve seen the first wave of unusable netbooks with tiny screens. Then they got an upgrade to 8.9,…
The iPhone 3G unlock is now available. The unlocking software is called yellowsn0w, runs as an invisible application, and it’s very easy to install. Here’s how. Updated 3: Now works for me with 0.9.4. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-unlocked-free-software-coming-on-new-years-e-5111156 Yellowsn0w, the iPhone 3G unlock, runs as a small command line application that gets installed in any jailbroken iPhone 3G…
