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Hey Chen, did you see this post Joel wrote on BBG about the behind the scenes of Giz’s first Bill Gates interview? We’ve met with Gates a few more times since then, but I don’t think anyone here expresses the anxiety attached to such a meeting as well as Joel does. Dogs are freaking out…
It’s Adama! No, it’s Roslin! Adama! Roslin! And she’s pissed off! Oh January 16, you are not coming fast enough. That’s when you will see the end of the epic journey of the humans and the cylons, the final episodes of the last season of Battlestar Galactica, which will answer the most important question of…
The Drop Light is just a concept, but there’s nothing going on here that’s outside the realm of real world engineering. A normal light fixture at first glance, each bulb actually houses a rechargeable battery and a cool-burning LED, allowing, say, little Mary and Patrick to remove the fixture’s globes and take them around the…
It’s just a demo right now, but Ryo Shimizu’s ZeptoPad 2.0 whiteboard app looks pretty promising. We already love collaborative drawing apps like Netsketch, but Ryo’s whiteboard adds a couple of interesting tweaks—the ability to watch the whiteboard live via a web interface or on what looks like a local client, and then save everything…
In a clever bit of green marketing, the non-profit Electronics TakeBack Coalition ran the above ad warning of “toxic waste” on Panasonic’s own proud Times Square display. The coalition promotes manufacturers accepting their own products back for recycling. Unfortunately, clever ads and even manufacturer support are only half the battle. [via Treehugger]
The latest iPhone 2.2 operating system fixes many things, but something is still missing: Push notification services. Once again, Apple has missed the opportunity to enable push notification in a new update, which is specially bad after they failed to meet their self-imposed September deadline. That makes it almost two months late now. So what’s…
Some gadgets are a work of art right out of the box, but for many people it is not enough to have the same beautiful piece of technology that everyone else has. So, they spend a little extra money to customize the product to their specific tastes. There are several ways to go about this,…
Greetings Makers, hackers and wannabe builders! – We know holiday gift budgets are shrinking – a lot of us will have more time than money next year. It’s not all bad news – it’s good for building things and learning new skills – if you’re going to spend your hard earned cash consider spending it…
Why not shop for holiday gifts at home and bypass the Black Friday chaos altogether? I wouldn’t worry to much about missing out on all the good deals because there are plenty to be had at this very moment. Deals like a GH World Tour bundle for $60, a Sharp Aquos 46” 1080p LCD HDTV…
Those rainbow warriors/whiners/heroes/charlatans (pick whatever makes you tick) from Greenpeace have released their new Guide to Greener Electronics. There have been plenty of changes compared to last year, with many manufacturers going up, but others going down. Nokia is now at the top, near the 7 over 10 mark, but Nintendo keeps crashing at 1…
We were pretty pissed when we found out that the Wii Speak mic comes with a one-time code to download the “Wii Speak” channel that’ll let you use it, since a single use, irreplaceable code meant you couldn’t trade it in, because it would be a useless bundle of plastic of wires. Nintendo is backpedaling…
It’s a sad state of affairs when Sony loses the hearts and minds behind Japan’s unofficial national past time: Anime. From the show Kannagi, we won’t ruin all the fun…but we will say, “It’s a Sony!!” [Thanks Tyler!]
For this week’s Photoshop Contest I asked you to create Black Friday ads that were more honest than the ones we’ve been seeing. You know, ones that come out and admit to the dire straights retailers are in this year. We got some pretty great results here, all showing off just how screwed big box…
In the ultimate Nazi-inspired exercise of destruction of the most basic human rights, Indonesian politicians are planning to tag all HIV/AIDS patients with radio frequency identification chips. Their objective is to monitor people who had shown “actively sexual behavior”. John Manangsang-one of the the Indonesian Himmler-wannabes proposing the law-has no qualms in explaining it: It’s…
To curb the adrenaline rush that is the PS3 firmware update, we wanted to let you know ahead of time that version 2.53 will be released tomorrow and it’s not a huge deal. All it will add is full screen Adobe Flash support to the PS3 web browser—which would be a fantastic update if we…
Here’s a pretty pretty watch: The new Botta Uno 24, a german time machine that has a 24 hour dial and one single hand, which rotates at half the speed of a normal hour hand. Made of stainless steel and capable of resisting three atmospheres of pressure, the manufacturer says that each of the marks…
We played with Opera Mini 4.2 on Android yesterday, but it’s got one other new platform up its sleeve: the Sprint Instinct. Opera is something we’ve been waiting for ever since the Instinct’s browser totally blew on an otherwise great feature phone (though it’s gotten better with the recent 1.1 update). Opera Mini should add…
The big piece, out of 30+ devices, in our show is supposed to be a 103-inch Plasma from Panasonic, which we weren’t sure would fit in the door. We found out it DOES fit, only a few days ago, but lo, we also found out that we are in deep doo doo when it comes…
Stuntman, jet pack pilot, and Evel Knievel-wannabe without the Elvis suit Eric Scott has broke a world record by flying 1,500 feet in 21 seconds over the Royal Gorge in Colorado, 1,025 feet over the Arkansas River. Pardon my French, but it has to take some balls to do this jump. Some balls and a…
Listen up, fanboy modders. There’s absolutely no reason to strap an NES gamepad to your bike. None.We get it, you love Nintendo. But it’s OK. You can take a break everyone once in a while. Having fond memories of a system that launched over two decades ago doesn’t mean you have to hot glue a…
