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In the last few years, the world of hobby robotics has exploded. Robots are finally becoming rather commonplace – check out the latest gift guide from MAKE, robotics! Select an image or link to view more: I-Sobot – The worlds smallest humanoid robot! Herbie the Mousebot kit is a quick, easy-to-build, light-chasing robot kit, perfect…
A software engineer/landord with high-level security clearance has been charged with stealing the identity of David Welch, a former tenant, using a NASA computer at the Kennedy Space Center. Apparently, 33 year old Kevin Landivar had a dispute with Welch over $200 in back rent and decided to “harass” him by using his personal information…
You can drop practically any file onto VLC‘s orange cone, and if there is media buried somewhere within its digital crevices, VLC will find it and play it. Now, control the action via iPhone. The VLC Remote comes in two flavors-regular and free. Both version can connect to any computer running VLC on your network…
Warner Bros has been trying some pretty cool, experimental stuff with their first BD Live movie, The Dark Knight. And now, that list includes watching the movie with Christopher Nolan. https://gizmodo.com/review-the-dark-knight-blu-ray-disc-5105005 Those with The Dark Knight Blu-ray who’ve registered for Warner Bros’ free Blu-ray accounts have the opportunity to watch the film in sync with…
EA and Apple are previewing Need for Speed and SimCity at select Apple stores before the games are actually out. I could care less for Need for Speed, but SimCity on an iPhone sounds perfect to me. Dates and store locations participating in the event, below. Schedule of Events: 12/6 (NYC)- Apple Store SoHo at…
Google today rolled out a Labs feature that allows you to quickly send SMS messages via Gchat-perfect for continuing to antagonize your contacts with your witty links well after they leave their computer. Just go to the Labs area in preferences to turn it on-you can just enter any number in the Chat contacts bar,…
When I eventually decide that it’s time to manufacture or purchase my offspring, needless to say, they will be outfitted with the best tech I can force onto them, including this great day/night globe. The 8″ Celestial Globe is fairly typical during the day, spinning like any other spherical map of the Earth while providing…
Boeing’s next-gen all-composite airliner, the 787 Dreamliner, has taken another hit to its production schedule which has set the project as a whole two years behind. These delays are getting close to those Airbus saw with their A380 super jumbo—delays which nearly ruined the European consortium. The 787’s most recent troubles are due to a…
A research team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan has successfully displayed simple images produced in the human brain on a computer screen. Dream recorder anyone? In a nutshell, the device converts electrical signals sent to the visual cortex into images that can be viewed on a computer screen. In their experiment, they…
Last week we admired the technically and artistically gorgeous Gameboy Exploded shirt. This week, we see even more of our favorite retro technologies anatomically explored in t-shirt form. https://gizmodo.com/the-gameboy-explodes-all-over-this-beautiful-t-shirt-5102846 Exploded Explosion, $10, features some of the most iconic musical gadgets of the past along with a taste of the internal circuitry that made them work.…
I was a disappointed when I saw Logitech’s G13 gamepad, because I really wanted a new keyboard. Well, here it is, the G18, which looks like it has a full-blown LCD display. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-g13-keypad-will-help-up-your-pwn-factor-5106168 The form factor and key layout looks almost exactly like the current G15 keyboard, except with double the number of fast function…
Mercedes has announced plans to implement what they call a Splitview Command display in new S-Class models—a means for the passenger and driver to see different images on the same surface. The system uses side-by-side pixel placement coupled with a “filtering mask.” We’re guessing this filtering mask is essentially the technology found for ages in…
Nikon just announced the D3x, and popped out the D700 a little bit ago, so next to be updated is the D300, right? Here are the first round of supposed specs for the D400. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-nikon-planning-1080p-capable-d400-5097230 Nikon Rumors got these specs as anonymous tip—anonymous comment, actually—so the standard caveats apply, BUT they do look fairly plausible,…
Screw Dubai. Bouncing Red Ball has a a selection of some of thinnest buildings in the world, all in Japan, where land is so scarce. We’ve featured other cool ones, but these defy belief. https://gizmodo.com/alley-house-brings-luxury-living-to-cockroach-cracks-389023 And you thought your apartment was small. We have added the mountain-side house, but head to Bouncing Red Ball for…
Giz’s Xbox-fanboy Matt B. got excited watching this other fan’s Xbox 360-themed den. I just got freaked out with the green LEDs, green fur, and green heavy breath. [poetv via Offworld via Kotaku]
According to Boy Genius and Gadgetell, AT&T is now finally offering home activation for the iPhone 3G. Before, it was necessary to go into an Apple or AT&T store for activation, but no more. That means that Xmas iPhone receipts will be much more pleasant. Interestingly, home activation only appears to be working if you…
The ioDrive is a PCI Express storage card that can write at up to 368 MB/s and read at 473 MB/s to its NAND flash memory-or, for the layman: really, really damn fast. To put it into perspective, that’s nearly 2x the read speed of Intel’s already fast SSDs, and roughly 5x the write speed.…
While Xbox 360s have become increasingly capable at handling their crippling heat defects, you still want the newest, coolest 360 you can buy. Right now, that’s the “Jasper” edition, featuring a new 65nm GPU. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-xbox-360-jasper-motherboard-set-for-8-08-relea-309411 You should note, the GPU appears to be Jasper’s major relevant revision, and it keeps the same huge heatsink found…
It looks like the MacBook update released yesterday doesn’t fix everything we wanted it to. JkOnTheRun reports it still freezes and hangs with the full 4GB installed. But at least sleep seems fixed. [jkOnTheRun] https://gizmodo.com/new-macbooks-get-another-firmware-update-to-fix-problem-5107004
We got an early peek at the Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite media streamer, complete with codec support and rear inputs/outputs. Now Wired has scored some more details, including the Elite’s $400 price. https://gizmodo.com/netgear-digital-entertainer-elite-htpc-in-a-set-top-bo-5100502 Yes, that’s a tad steep if you compare it to Apple TV, Roku, or Xbox 360, but not so bad if you…