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Lady-time tracking apps are nothing new, but they’re typically packaged as fertility trackers, or something actually useful. Not iAmAMan, which shamelessly declares it “will help you with your private life planning” by tracking several girls. Just in case one of your “girlfriends” asks you to open up the app—which requires a password—each girl can be…
Stairs, big stairs, bigger stairs, you name it: Woo Moonhyung’s Panzer-like threaded Climbing UP suitcase can be dragged through every airport obstacle with ease. A winner of the Red Dot 2008, for good reason. [OhGizmo!]
I know what you’ve been thinking, Mr. Home Theater Enthusiast. “Why can’t I watched low rez Flash clips on my awesome HDTV and Blu-ray player?” Thanks to LG…Now. You. Can. LG has announced that their 2009 line of “Network Blu-ray Players” will not only include Netflix, but YouTube support along with CinemaNow downloads. They will…
OpenMoko built the first 100% open-source smartphone—hardware and software both—when Android was but a glimmer in Larry and Sergey’s eye. But now, the FreeRunner hardware is officially kissing its open-source cousin OS, Android. https://gizmodo.com/openmoko-smartphone-did-they-have-a-time-machine-or-w-229243 Whether it’s viewed as a natural move forward in the name of openness or a sign that no one in the…
A store in Moscow advertised laptops for 80% off. The catch? There were only 10 of them. The resulting ruckus makes our Black Friday clusterfucks look like tea parties. [LiveLeak via Random Good Stuff]
I’ve seen signs in office kitchens asking to clean the microwave oven after using it, but it looks like this one comes from CERN’s canteen and there is a physicist with relativity OCD there. [Dark Roasted Blend]
I’m glad that in spite of the economic apocalypse, famed French luggage maker Goyard can offer us netbook bags for only $830 (as seen in Vogue magazine.) I could say a lot of things in response to this unequivocally ridiculous item. I could live up my male stereotype, chastising the ladies at geeksugar who would…
For $10, this Wild Planet LiteFormz Transforming Flashlight—that goes from regular torch, to walking funny man, to menacing scorpion—seems like a total bargain. Too bad it’s not an actual robot. [Buzzillions via Boing Boing Gadgets]
If you’ve got a Blackberry and a Slingbox, the SlingPlayer Mobile public beta has just started. Download it free for 30 days and pay a one-time $30 fee to keep it. [Blackberry via geardiary] https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-for-blackberry-launching-in-public-beta-bef-5113022
Sometimes, old people fall and they can’t get up. It’s a fact! Designer Haishan Deng has proposed a simple, timed bathroom doorknob for folks who are prone to such accidents, living alone, or clumsy. Here’s how it works: In the initial setup, you program a time limit—say, 20 minutes—for your future bathroom. From that point…
In a classic more=betterer move, LG is planning to top their current 240Hz sets (and Sony’s wonderfully advertised 200Hz Bravias) with an otherwise mysterious 480Hz LCD television. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-enormous-bravia-zoetrope-caught-zoetroping-5102294 The display is claimed to have a 4ms response time, and uses a “scanning backlight” technology to leverage the company’s 240Hz Trumotion technology into an effective 480…
Wired’s January issue contains this origami Millennium Falcon tutorial. Even better, the creator, Philip Schulz, has a website full of origami directions almost every ship in the imperial and rebel fleet. [HappyMagPie via Wired] https://gizmodo.com/amazing-origami-star-trek-star-wars-spaceships-make-go-5069216
Sure, lots of important people weren’t too impressed with the Storm. But this slippy, Freudian Google News headline sums up the unbridled hate towards the handset much better than it does the article. Much. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-storm-review-verdict-not-quite-a-perfect-s-5093715 Issues to consider: 1) AT&T users experienced widespread outages in the upper Midwest a few days ago 2) AT&T does…
Many have said that the future of Microsoft will be in subscription-based software, cloud computing or some combination of the two. Well, let’s hope that it doesn’t turn out anything like patent application 20080319910. Much of the application is unsurprising, and even somewhat dated. The vision incorporates heavily-subsidized hardware (though not under a timed service…
There are rumors that keep coming back, like the iPhone nano. Eventually they may become reality, but seriously, is this product information form the real thing or a way to get a mailing list? https://gizmodo.com/its-back-iphone-1-1-3-copy-paste-rumor-339859 Their “iPhone nano cases” page has a form which says “sign up for the upcoming release of our iPhone nano…
LG plans to take the thinnest LCD TV crown at CES 2009 with the LH95, which supports 240Hz and a 2 million to 1 contrast ratio. So if you want THE thinnest LCD at this point in time, this 24.8mm (0.97 inch) display is it. Until, of course, the next thinnest LCD TV comes out…
Cisco doesn’t want to just cater to your IT guy anymore—they’re jumping into the consumer space at CES with three new streamy products: a video streamer, a streaming audio system, and Telepresence, a videoconferencing system. The first two—a video streamer that “more easily” gets Internet video on your TV, like million other boxes out there,…
I appreciate the originality of a chair that massages your back with the vibrations from harp music, but there are a couple glaring reasons why this thing isn’t worth $7000. First of all, getting a massage is still a two person job. You still require someone to stand behind you and strum the harp that…
Set to debut at CES 2009, Flexicord HDMI cable with its patented Memory Cord Technology is poised to help consumers solve the problem of finding the right cable length to hook up their gear. One of the downsides of coiled cable is that it can be unruly if there is too much slack, but the…
We’re not gonna have to wait until CES to see what TVs Samsung’s got up its sleeves for 2009, since AVForums has revealed everything in store: Standard new features across the entire line include a bunch of menu and and setting tweaks, expanded and improved video processing options, dual USB ports and compatibility with a…
