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After besting BlackBerry and the Razr, the iPhone has seized its largest parcel of the global smartphone market yet: 16.6 percent. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s actually a pretty big deal. https://gizmodo.com/apple-quarterly-earnings-6-9-million-iphones-sold-mo-5066543 You actually have to look at Nokia’s numbers, though, to understand why. The global smartphone leader by a huge margin,…
This year Gizmodo (along with Kotaku and Boing Boing Gadgets) is going to be hosting a Funde Razor event in San Francisco. What’s Funde Razor? It’s a chance of you to help raise money for the Penny Arcade Child’s Play Charity by going to an event, playing Rock Band and drinking alcohol. Sound good? You’ll…
Click to view Let it be known, Katie Couric is OK with saying you love someone over text message. Just don’t dump somebody that way. Text messaging: Adequate for love, not quite seething enough for hate. [via textually]
Just because Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over doesn’t mean there aren’t all sorts of deals out there to satisfy your impulsive seasonal shopping cravings. There’s your usual selection of cameras, TVs and computer peripherals, but we also found a deal for the first season of Three’s Company of DVD for $2.75. Now that’s…
Befitting of the homebrew crackin’ reputation recently, Nintendo figured they’d take the opportunity of the DSi’s fresh hardware to kibosh homemade code via flash carts once and for all. As you can see here, that plan didn’t last long. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-dsi-blocks-pirated-flash-cards-5072713 Acekard, makers of many fine flashcarts for the original DS and DS Lite, have done…
Kevin Tofel of jkontherun has put together a fairly comprehensive list of what’s inside the Vista SP2 update—just as the beta rolls out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Here is what users can expect: Highlights (Although the original list has since disappeared from jkontherun, ZDNet managed to snag the info): •Built-in Hyper-V hypervisor •Event logging…
While every new Apple product is scrutinized closely by an army of ambulance chasers, taking issue with Apple’s speed claims regarding the iPhone 3G is probably a somewhat reasonable position…unless you realize that Apple doesn’t expect you to trust them in the first place.After a legal complaint by 70-year-old William Gillis over the “twice as…
While some of us invest points into intelligence to become doctors, others of us pour those stats into perception and agility to take a different route… Keyhole Surgery is Operation reinvented for lockpick enthusiasts. You view a 3D schematic of the lock on the computer, then try to guide the key through the maze of…
The Yogen Max is a foot pedal laptop charger prototype that will fold up for easy travel, allowing you to run your laptop like an antique sewing machine. Of course, we all know that the human body coupled with the right balance of mechanical generators can produce electricity. But if you’re one of those people…
Previous version of Laptop Cop let you remotely delete (or retrieve) files from a stolen laptop, but the newest feature makes it genuinely worth paying for: Real-time geo-location using just Wi-Fi. It uses Skyhook, the same Wi-Fi location tech used by the iPhone to triangulate your position against Wi-Fi access points. Convenient, since we’re not…
With Apple hitting the 10,000 app milestone, they’ve just released the stats for the most downloaded apps in a number of categories. And boy, they sure do prove that you people like frivolous, stupid crap on your iPhones. Seriously, Koi Pond is the top paid app overall? No wonder we’re in a recession, all that…
The Konami code is a secret branding, a geek stigmata—all it takes is that one brief flash, and you’re immediately recognized as one of US. Is it any surprise then, that if you enter that hallowed sequence on DP’s new Pogue-o-Matic gadget finder, you get to watch him do a special trick? https://gizmodo.com/ny-times-pogue-o-matic-guides-your-gadget-shopping-set-5092723 Just type…
In the electric future, cats’ nervous systems run on USB, and we can tap into them for our needs. This four-porter (the other one is in kitty’s mouth) is available only via wholesale from Shenzhen, which is how I imagine most of the future will be delivered. [Alibaba via FFFFOUND]
The Washington Post, the BBC, Cnet, and other outlets are pointing out that Apple is, for the first time ever, “quietly” recommending anti-virus software for Mac OS X. A little research shows that this is completely false. Here’s the Apple note they point at, postulating the old theory that Apple is feeling the heat of…
MacLife has a feature on four outrageous prototypes that may not be that outrageous after all. Like this LMac, a desktop made much like the amazing Lego Mac Pro. https://gizmodo.com/the-bricked-mac-timelapse-video-5054930 It’s true that it may be a little bit too far-fetched to expect a collaboration between Lego and Apple. Or a MacBook with three displays.…
NewerTech’s Voyager is being billed as the world’s first “Quad Interface” SATA I/II Hard Drive Docking Station with support for FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA for 2.5″ or 3.5″ drives up to 2TB. Basically, that means you can enjoy plug-and-play access to match your level of performance. It is also completely hot-swappable, so users…
While they won’t do much to salvage that fancy camera, Elecom is trusting that some of us will benefit from their waterproof SDHC cards. In 4GB and 8GB sizes, the quick Class 6 (6MB/sec) memory cards promise to get wet without losing a whole vacation’s worth of shots. (Or, for those who already use waterproof…
According to our tipster, taking your G1 abroad may not be financially wise. Apparently, his data roaming bill rang up at $102.85—even though data roaming, data sync and 3G were turned off. How could this happen you ask? Well, after returning home from the UK, he called T-Mobile customer service to discuss his bill. After…
Musicians know how important it is to add a personal touch to their instruments – and really what better way to make something personal than to actually make it yourself? There are a number of very cool kits for sound-makers out there, from circuit-benders, to serious synthesizers. Here are some great gift ideas from MAKE…
When the G1 launched, there was an uproar over T-Mobile’s 1GB-a-month soft data cap that would slow your connection down to a 50kbps trickle, and they backpedaled. Guess what? The cap’s coming back. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-restricting-3g-data-usage-to-1gb-a-month-witho-5053832 The good: The new cap is 10GB, a fairly reasonably amount for mobile data (really, that’s like over 300MB a day).…
