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HandBrake has always been the go-to app for ripping your DVDs into MPEG video files for playing back on an iPod or archiving on your network, and now in the 0.9.3 release, the multiplatform app will take any video file as an input source, not just DVDs. That means if you have a tricky video…
As we’ve been waiting for, the Dell Mini 9 is now available with an HSDPA/EDGE 3G upgrade option. Priced at $125 ($120 of which is refundable with a 2-year AT&T agreement starting at $60/month), XP versions of new Mini 9s (not Mini 12s) can include the Dell Wireless 5530 HSDPA Internal Mini-card by Ericsson. We’ll…
The “many worlds interpretation”, parallel universes, the Trousers of Time: call it what you will, but quantum theory has some surprising ideas about what happens after a quantum event, which artist Jonathan Keats is exploring in this new “toy”. It’s a ball of uranium-doped glass (no, really—it’s uranium!) next to a scintillation detector crystal inside…
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of laser etching all my tech gear, and it looks like I would finally be able to do it at the Gizmodo Gallery. Thanks to Make’s Phil Torrone and his laser machine, anyone walking in the Gizmodo Gallery would be able to tattoo their metal gadgets with Phil’s…
Two things set this Sega Hitokara karaoke machine apart from the rest: it’s connected to a cloud-based database of 43,000 songs via cellphone and it’s got a whirling, light-up mirrored disco ball. Ohboyyes. Granted you’d have to be a fan of both karaoke (you strange person) and cheezy disco lighting, but what the heck—it’s a…
Tis the season to be artsy: Four Google people worked simultaneously on a Google spreadsheet to create a large 100 row x 186 column mosaic. Each of the 18,600 cells was filled with color out of a 18 hue palette. It may not be as avant-garde as David Byrne’s PowerPoint art, but the time-lapse video…
We may take the system for granted now, but your inner 10-year-old is simply amazed by the Yobo FC3 Plus. A console that’s fully compatible with NES, SNES and Sega Genesis titles, you can finally put those old cartridges to use without filling your home theater setup with unsustainable levels of boxes and wires. Including…
Can’t get enough of Bruce Lee secret training videos, even if they happen to just be viral ads for Nokia’s Lee-themed N95? Me neither! Following last week’s awesome ping pong battle, here’s a new clip where a dude playing the Master of Jeet Kune Do lights freakin’ matches with his nunchucks! [Youtube]
OLED technology keeps getting cooler: first there was the “true blue” invention, and now there’s news that BASF and Osram have broken the brightness record. For the first time a white OLED has achieved an efficiency of over 60 lumens per Watt, plus the device’s light output falls within the international Energy Star SSL Standard…
We’d probably opt for a generic blue or silver credit card and rack up the sky miles or cash back rewards. But in case you wanted to show your PlayStation allegiance to every waitress, store clerk, and webcam companion that you secretly suspect to prefer Microsoft or Nintendo brands, this PlayStation Visa is ready to…
It’s not a special Black Friday deal, but DS fans may think it’s a bit special all the same: Nintendo’s launching a limited edition Mario Red DS bearing the M logo this Friday. It’ll also come with a bundled copy of New Super Mario Bros, and it’ll set you back $150. There’s another limited edition…
As of right now, the Aspire One netbook includes an 8.9-inch screen. But Acer has announced plans to release a 10-inch version by either February or March 2009. Yes, that’s right in time for everyone to have purchased the original Aspire One for the holidays. It’s still unclear as to whether or not the upcoming…
RED CEO Jim Jannard, who generally manages to construct all sentences using only intensifiers and superlatives, is getting really excited on the RedUser forums again: New announcement on Dec. 3rd. Everything has changed… just as we promised. 🙂 :-)? :-)? What do your cryptic smilies mean, Jim?He goes on to say that the new announcement…
Granted, there aren’t that many original ways to sue Apple anymore, but this one is just peculiar. Elliot Gottfurcht, a successful commercial real estate developer, is suing the company because he claims to hold a patent for “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet.” He was indeed granted an internet-ish patent in late October, but…
We’ve talked a lot about hydrogen and fuel cells here on Giz, mainly because it’s the wonder fuel of the near future, but storing dangerous H2 is tricky: something a team at the University of Crete thinks it’s solved. The US Department of Energy reckons a tank should store 6% H2 by mass, and current…
Cityscope is a new sculpture by Marco Hemmerling, designed to deal “with the fragmented perception of urban spaces” or something: To me, it’s better to imagine it as a meteor that just managed to soft-land in a city square. Or, better still than artistic mumbojumbo: perhaps as a particularly odd-looking alien spacecraft. This works even…
TechCrunch reports that the previously spied Kindle 2, or Kindle II, or Second-le, or whatever it’s going to be, isn’t really going to be anything before Q1 of 2009. Apparently, the device was on track for a pre-holiday release until Jeff Bezos himself demanded last-minute software changes. Although it’s impossible to know if TechCrunch’s source…
Porsche has kicked out cellphones before: but none so capable as the upcoming P’9522. It’s a butch but sweetly-minimal design flip phone, with a rotating screen, and it’s just got its FCC pass so it should be on the way here soon. Among its many features, it sadly lacks 3G connectivity, but the rest—including on-board…
In the next couple months Lenovo will be rolling out a BIOS update for its Montevina laptop users which enables remote shutdown and subsequent encryption via text message. The tech relies on the laptop having a WWAN connection and activates when a custom string, defined by the user and sent from a single, paired phone,…
Not so long a go a couple of pictures leaked out of Nokia’s upcoming E75 (alongside its E72 cousin) and now there’s a little more to show you. Someone’s got hold of one, and taken photos which demonstrate its screen in action for the first time: it’s a 2.4-inch job. The camera with flash is…
