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Hello there. We’re starting to release the details of some of the things we’ll be showing off at Gizmodo gallery, and I think for our first, we’ll show off one of the most interesting and mysterious: This Frog Design made Apple prototype which I cannot find many official details of. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-gallery-our-wonderful-world-of-gadgets-on-disp-5082811 There are photos of…
Oops. You know that pre-sale flyer that was doing the rounds to Verizon “VIPs”, the one with the BlackBerry Storm on the left hand side? Turns out that if you, a VIP, turn up at a store with that very flyer you’ll not be able to buy a Storm ahead of its launch. You won’t,…
The class-action lawsuit filed against Microsoft for allegedly lowering the requirements for a “Vista Capable” sticker to appease Intel (henceforth referred to as Stickergate) has begun to turn up some dirt. Apparently HP wasn’t exactly thrilled to find out about the artificially lowered standards after they spent $7m to bring their products up to speed,…
Blackbird’s Rider Nylon guitar is actually not made of nylon—ok its strings are—but instead it’s far more highly-tech’d and its body and neck are actually carbon fiber. It may not be bullet-proof, but Blackbird says its “nearly indestructible,” making it perfect as a travel guitar. The material has meant a few design tweaks over a…
It’s been a while since we mentioned the iDog from Tiger/Hasbro, because it was basically a dog that’d had its day: Until now that is, when Tiger have removed one of the toy’s problems by adding cuddliness. It still has a speaker and does the same LED-flashing face and wiggling in reaction to your music,…
San Francisco artist Robert Burden spent a year — a year — painting his man-sized Voltron pièce de résistance, “Defensor Mundi”, and caught the whole process in time-lapse. Sure, the floral theme doesn’t inspire much confidence in Voltron’s RoBeast-slaying abilities, but the music and painting are a treat. [BoingBoing via Make]
My WishList is, if you remember from last year, American Express’s holiday e-shop deals promotion, and we’ve just learned it’ll be launching December 1st this year. Basically American Express has this “holiday e-tail” site where they sell gadgets at crazily bargainous prices, in a kind of “get one if you’re lucky enough to click” manner.…
Some resourceful folks at the #android IRC channel and RyeBrye, after realizing that the G1’s Synaptic touch screen might be able to handle multiple inputs, say they managed to re-enable some commented-out code in the phone’s touchscreen driver and log some multitouch gestures. The lack of multitouch in the first Android phone was a minor…
The closer we get to Black Friday, the more leaks we’re getting and they are all proving to be kind of… well, mediocre. This one from Office Depot is not bucking the trend, but they do have a few good deals on smaller items. It’ll be nothing to clamor for, arms flailing and shrieking like…
In what’s bound to be embarrassing for the Chinese space program, the president of high-tech company AMAC International has pleaded guilty to giving China military data about fueling systems for space launch vehicles. Shu Quan-Sheng is a Chinese native who’s a naturalized U.S. citizen. The incident puts a black smear on the country’s otherwise extremely…
The July 24, 1968 Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, NM) ran this piece by Jack Lefler about the possibility of a cashless society that would use a single identification card. NEW YORK (AP) – Want to hunt polar bear in Alaska, entertain your mother-in-law at a Paris restaurant, rent a house-boat for a Mississippi cruise,…
High Definition Content Protection—the annoying DRM-y thing that’s supposed to stop people from copying hi-def stuff as it travels over a card-display connector— has apparently, and unfortunately, come to Apple’s MacBooks. HDCP is now included on new MacBooks to protect iTunes Store media, though it seems that only some of the content is actually HDCP-aware.…
Good news for all you non-Youtube internet video watchers who have G1s, the people of Adobe have basically confirmed that an Android-based version of Flash will be ready in coming months. Any device with at least 200MHz processors, more than 16MB RAM and a “completely capable web browser” will be able to render web-based flash…
With just a few months before the digital TV conversion renders millions of sets obsolete (well, kind of), a group called the Electronics TakeBack Coalition is trying to shame major companies into some e-waste recycling initiative by giving them report card scores. Of all the companies surveyed, the highest score (B-) went to Sony, which…
That Google Mobile for iPhone with talky talky search action is now up. Our own impressions of it are good. When you’re not in a noisy place (or another phone is ringing in the background) it can pretty much translate anything you say into a meaningful phrase. “Gizmodo” was understood, surprisingly, as was “bear market”…
These Japanese masks don’t only tighten and make your pores microscopic, they also turn it into a très romantic activity with your partner. Creepily reminscent of Jason in Friday the 13th, they provide ample anonymity for psychotic, law-breaking fun as well. Instead of running around with a chainsaw though, robbing a bank might just be…
For those whose living spaces that are too small for a barbecue pit, or for those who never know when they’ll need a barbecue on hand, the BabyQ is a small, portable grill-to-go. This 22x17x6cm device—which is small enough to fit into your girlfriend’s purse—weighs in at a little under two pounds, can feed about…
Remember those knockoff 6-1 Chargepod chargers we showed you last week? A judge just granted a temporary restraining order to get Target to stop selling the unlicensed, unauthorized duplications. Good news for Callpod and good news for consumers, who were getting fooled by the not-as-good knockoffs anyway. Here’s our original review in case you were…
Today was a very special day in pizza tech news. First, Dominos, oh boy Dominos: you’ve automated pizza ordering and delivery in a way that I never specifically thought about, but now that it’s out, have already welcomed as a new sign that humans are making progress in this world. You can now order, pay…
Johnny Henry of Laurel, Mississippi claims that the vibrating toilet seat he has concocted “is designed to stimulate,” he said. “It’s to make you feel good while you are there.” In other words, it seduces and stimulates stubborn bowels into action. Mmmm…sounds like how I would like to spend part of my morning between 8…
