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At least that’s what the CrackBerry folks who got their hands on the latest Storm OS seem to think anyway. Install at your own risk (unofficial update), but the changes appear to be pretty solid. Just to be clear again: Update OS 4.7.0.85 is unofficial at this point, so proceed with caution. That said, sources…
Britain is not only getting a whole lotta lot of F-35B STOVL fighters, but two new 60,000-ton state-of-the-art aircraft carriers. Apparently, according to Dr Lee Willett, it’s all part of a new World arms race: https://gizmodo.com/awesome-f-35b-video-shows-us-marines-already-have-trans-5062451 All the major navies in the world are now building them. The Russians have one of their big carriers,…
Looks like our favorite bricks can help you do more than building giant spaceships, fly away in planes, or get you married: Researchers have discovered Lego can help autistic children to develop social skills. https://gizmodo.com/lego-colonial-space-ship-is-big-enough-to-terraform-rea-5102362
This passive multitouch controller designed and built by Randy Jones requires no electric circuits to operate. All it needs it a little 80s synth and the party starts itself. Cool trivia: Jones created the input device for his thesis at the University of Victoria: Physical modeling synthesis has proven to be a successful method of…
Have a laser cutting device handy? Then you too can recreate real life landmarks using gingerbread. Most impressive to me are the laser-etched bricks that adorn the sides of this gingerbread bridge, based on the Oberbaum Bridge in Berlin. And, as everyone knows, laser etched gingerbread tastes best. Instructables member rstraugh, we salute you and…
Fall asleep at the wheel of the new Mercedes E-class and the car will attempt to wake you up. Then, like a good $50,000 vehicle, it will suggest you pause for coffee. Called Attention Assist, the program is the result of some meticulous study by the fine folks at Mercedes. By studying the brainwaves of…
Not everything is pretty in Apple land. This custom clear replacement case bares your iPhone 3G’s naughty bits completely naked. Some people hate it, some people love it, we just ogle. Obviously, it’s is missing some of those naughty bits, like the camera and other parts, but the case is being manufactured by a company…
This bell rig, called a carillon by we cultured folk, is a late post-Christmas creation that puts and nice bookend to the holiday. Just ignore the crazy, twitching tambourine-playing doll. The rig was created and programmed by Sarah Angliss. It plays many tunes, but in this video we are hearing a rendition of Troika, from…
What a sad sack I was in grade school. My Radio Flyer wagon had a busted wheel and rust. This concept, dubbed Cloud 9, has an MP3 player and more. So all that means I’m feeling pretty inadequate right now. And why shouldn’t I? As CNN notes in their report on the latest invention out…
Just a gentle reminder for you folks who buy the lion’s share of your electronics at Wal-Mart: The iPhone will be at the big box store chain with a tiny discount, starting… today! According to Yahoo, Wal-Mart will offer the 8GB iPhone 3G for $197, and the 16GB black or white model for $297. Dealzmodo…
I love my parents. My dad is tech savvy, my mom isn’t, but both are equally bedazzled by technology and their reaction to certain gadgets is funny. Some parents, however, are not so impressed. Like Giz reader Brian, who had this sweet post-xmas story to tell us about his dad: I went back to MI…
The Windows 7 Beta 1 that was public-bound in mid-January has been leaked now, and you can get a copy on BitTorrent. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-beta-1-will-debut-on-january-13th-5101372 The beta expires July 1, 2009, and from what we read, it’s a bit more stable than the versions people have been playing with for a few months. Hit the links below…
YouTube superstar Tom Dickson gained massive fame when he turned an iPhone into dust, mocking all of us who don’t have one. Now, he brings his videos to the App Store, with a twist! The app, surprisingly called “Will It Blend?”, contains 20 of the most popular blending videos, including the iPhone (so meta!), glowsticks,…
Sevenmac Magazin got themselves some screenshots of Apple’s new OS X update, Snow Leopard, and it looks like apps with 32-bit modules will need to run in 32-bit mode even if they are 64-bit. We know that Snow Leopard isn’t going to be any kind of massive overhaul, but more of a refinement of the…
One of the G1’s biggest oversights is the lack of a proper headphone jack, and a couple of enterprising tinkerers took it upon themselves to force the G1 to play nice with an iPod dock. The hack is outlined very precisely but looks pretty delicate, so if you’ve got clumsy fingers like me, this might…
Two French tourists were rescued today in the Swiss mountains after getting lost on a ski trip. They managed to contact authorities, but their phone died shortly thereafter. Thank God somebody brought an iPod. The tourists, a skier and snowboarder, were lost in the mountains of Southeast Switzerland, with temperatures reaching -15 degrees Celsius. They…
Cygnus Systems Inc, a small Michigan company, was recently awarded a patent for thumbnail previews of a file, and celebrated by immediately suing the biggest names in town. Cygnus has named Microsoft’s Vista, Apple’s OSX and Cover Flow, and Google’s Chrome as infringing on their thumbnail preview patent filed back in 2001. Plenty of other…
My attempt: “Here’s what I think of your portraiture abilities!” Please, please let there be a better one than that. [Akihabara News]
Sure, it’s after Christmas, but the deals keep coming and you guys have a right to know what and where they are. Today we’ve got a solid crop, with deep discounts at PCMall and Steam. Gaming • Valve Complete Pack (includes Left 4 Dead, CounterStrike, and Team Fortress) for $74.99 (normally $100). • Call of…
This week on the Pentagon Channel (?), a soldier demonstrates the Army’s cutting-edge new translation tool: an iPod touch. The demo iPod looks to have the stock Apple OS, running a custom translation application. It allows the user to select a language, then a situation, and finally a command or question, like “Get down!” in…