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BGR scored what appear to be renders of Motorola’s 2009 product lineup. And it’s looking…decent. There are almost no details on these pictures for the time being, but BGR does promise that they are all destined for Verizon Wireless in 2009. Pictured above, we have the codenamed Flash—what looks to be Motorola’s thick response to…
Sprint’s partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-and-clearwire-marriage-official-wimax-network-b-5100394 The modem, called the U300, will be first available to customers of the Sprint/Clearwire “Clear” WiMax network in Baltimore, where their pilot program is under way. The…
Netbooks are pathetically weak machines. So Nvidia is infusing Intel’s Atom with its GeForce 9400M to make netbooks suck less. Or at the very least, let you play Call of Duty 4. On a netbook. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-does-the-new-macbook-pro-have-two-gra-5063832 Nvidia calls its new platform—Atom + GeForce 9400M (the same chipset as the aluminum MacBooks—Ion. Performance-wise, Nvidia is promising…
Tilt-shift photography, the popular but fashionable method of making big objects look like tiny models, is now on the iPhone. That’s good for pretty much everyone who isn’t planning their innovative tilt-shift art show. https://gizmodo.com/tilt-shift-video-makes-demolition-derby-look-even-silli-5099535 The application is aptly called TiltShift. It costs $2, and while it doesn’t use traditional tilt-shift lenses, the software adds…
We’ve long been jealous of all the cute (and often functional) Nintendo swag that Club Nintendo members get overseas. Now the rewards club has launched in the US. http://kotaku.com/380774/club-nintendo-snes-controller-unboxed You can sign up for free over at the Club Nintendo site, and we warn you, while we signed up for an account without a hitch,…
IE 8 has been marinating for some time, and press info and betas had provided a solid picture of its features. Now TGDaily has taken a good look at a near-complete version of the browser. This IE 8 release candidate is said to be feauture complete, which is to say that we should expect anything…
Brando’s latest puts its last tiny keyboard effort to (very mild) shame with wireless connectivity and full backlighting. As ridiculous as this thing is, the new features almost make it practical. https://gizmodo.com/this-brando-super-tiny-keyboard-could-be-smaller-in-my-5053467 Measuring up at 170x81x15mm, the 56-key unit isn’t going to do you much good for banging out more than a few short emails…
Pictures are convincing, but a video, as it goes, seals the deal: Blackberry apps appear to be running on WinMo. But how? And more importantly, why? It turns out that this is probably a leak of an official RIM project, called BlackBerry Application Suite. CrackBerry dug up a year-and-a-half-old presser from the company describing its…
Who could have guessed that the most prescient technologist of our day would be a relatively unknown British sketch comedian? Peter Serafinowicz, of the possibly acclaimed Peter Serafinowicz Show, has put together a couple videos in the style of Apple’s stodgy online product demonstration videos, imagining two new products from the company. The iToilet, below,…
Sometimes, we so take for granted our shiny devices that we forget they could very well kill us. Need pictures to illustrate that macabre thought? Here are 30, brought to you by 1930s Vienna. The 30 illustrations are from the book Elektroshutz, found in Vienna’s Technisches Museum. These frightening fables are great reminders to not…
What better place to save your yen than this adorable bank in the shape of Japan’s iconic Yamanote subway train? Each deposit triggers the bank to play a melody from a randomly chosen Yamanote station. The Yamanote line carries an estimated daily ridership of 3~5 million passengers. That’s comparable to the number of people that…
Who doesn’t dream of wandering the fields of ancient Japan, wielding a katana for truth and justice? Though the samurai age is long over, you can still ennoble your privates with awesome samurai underpants. Samurai-themed underwear have become something of a runaway hit in Japan. Each piece is made to resemble the armor of famous…
Not happy with cancelling MacWorld and the Stevenote, Phil Schiller and Santa Claus appeared in a joint press conference today at the North Pole announcing the cancellation of Christmas after 2008’s. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-skipping-final-macworld-apple-keynote-5111773 Apple Announces Last Year of Christmas CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this is the last year for Christmas. Philip Schiller, Apple’s…
After a heated argument over who ought to get dibs on the remote control, a Minneapolis woman decided to drive her point home by stabbing her boyfriend in the gut. Oprah would not approve. Brittney Love Venton of St. Paul is now charged with second-degree assault and is being held on $50,000 bail. Her boyfriend,…
ModMyGphone has some great shots of the China-only, Lenovo OPhone—which runs the Android OS. Originally surfacing last week, a few more details have also popped up, revealing that it has a 5 MP camera, microSD support, English/Chinese virtual keyboard, Bluetooth and video recording capability. And after seeing these pics, all I can think is how…
Apple bowing out of MacWorld after January 2009 comes as a shock to many. But, really, according to a source at Apple, they’ve been planning to get off MacWorld for a long, long time. They are not lying in their press release. NAB, MacWorld Tokyo, AppleExpo in Paris, and Summer MacWorld at New York/Boston were…
Hertz is jumping into Zipcar’s territory with its new Connect service, offering short-term rentals via membership for young urban folk to load up on gourmet groceries or Swedish particle board furniture. Zipcar users will be familiar with the process: book any available car at any time, get its location via text or email, wave your…
Valleywag has the backstory of how a not-exactly-right headline at BusinessWeek forced Apple to reveal the news that Steve Jobs would not present at the Macworld 2009 Keynote. [Valleywag]
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Seeing Apple pull out of Macworld and hearing talk of poor turnout at CES make us speculate on the future of trade shows—like automakers and newspapers, are they another institution on the endangered-species list? Apple’s cited reason for the withdrawal of Steve Jobs from the Macworld keynote, and the subsequent withdrawal of Apple from Macworld…
