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Hop-On, makers of the first disposable cellphone and other low-end pieces for developing markets, has announced that their Android phone will debut at 2009’s CES. Android seems like a perfect fit, with its licensing cost of zero allowing Hop-On to drive their prices even lower. No word on availability or price other than “under $200”…
Think Geek is throwing a “Pre-Holiday R/C Flying Toys Blowout” and offering their various helicopter toys at up to 70% off. Two models, including this pictured Dueling Galactic Marines Copter Set, run just $15. That’s like the price of three McDonald’s Value Meals. Don’t eat for a day and you have no excuse not to…
One of my greatest passions in life is oil painting. I love everything about it—even the smell of turpentine (especially the smell of turpentine). However, for the novice the whole process can be quite daunting. It’s messy and mixing the paints correctly requires skill. That is why designer Yana Klimava developed Virtuo—a digital painting system…
Twitter is great for grassroots organizing—Obama and McCain both use it to relay biddings to acolytes. That same, real-time insta-blast networking quality would also make it a jee-golly-awesome organizing tool for terrorists, according to a draft Army intelligence report. Mix Twitter with cellphones and you’ve got highly mobile, connected terrorists using the same tools you…
After promising they would axe the beyond-draconian NDA preventing developers from discussing the details of their own applications, Apple has followed through and released a revise that allows the devs to share, on Apple’s new developer forums or elsewhere. It accompanies beta 2 of the version 2.2 software, and also clears the way for devs…
Internal bleeding is bad, bad news, especially if you’re on the battlefield and far away from a hospital. That’s why the military is very interested in any technology that can help stop internal bleeding that can be applied by people other than doctors. And they may have come upon a pretty amazing solution: an ultrasound…
Exclusive to Sam’s Club this November, Microsoft is releasing their quite literal biggest bundle to date. The box is huuuge and just bursting with a 60GB Xbox 360 Pro console, Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda and Guitar Hero III with the guitar. Priced at $350, that’s only $50 more than the Pro unit runs…
Voting is great and everything, but wouldn’t it be awesome if you could make your vote count more than once? Or, even better, change other people’s votes to be for your candidate of choice? Well, good news, America! Now that we’re using poorly-designed and insecure electronic voting machines, you can do just that with some…
After a short delay, Sprint has announced that the HTC Touch Pro will be available at select Sprint retailers on October 26th and online starting on November 2nd. Pricing is set at $300 with a two-year subscriber agreement, after a $100 mail-in-rebate and a $25-or-higher data add-on or Everything plan with data. Details are available…
As parents and potential parents, we want better lives for our children. If we drank high fructose corn syrup, we want our children turning back to sugar cane. If we smoked crack and flagellated the occasional trucker for money, we want our children having access to the purist ADHD pharmaceuticals that our Blue Cross coverage…
Computers have reduced tons of the bustle on the NYSE floor, but it’s still a pretty charged place. Here you can duck the telescoping trading terminals as you swoop around a full 360-degree flash panorama courtesy of the NYTimes. Can you feel the pain? [NYTimes – Thanks, Dan!]
While high HDTV prices may have made this day seem improbable, iSuppli is reporting that HDTV shipments have outpaced SDTV shipments in 2008. And iSuppli doesn’t see HDTV growth slowing any time soon, ballooning by a compound annual growth rate of 20% through 2012 when an estimated 241.2 million HDTVs will ship. By that time,…
If you don’t wanna spring for the two-year contract or wait out the 90 days ’til T-Mobile will unlock the G1 for you, getting it going without actually activating it is remarkably easy. Just snag an active T-Mobile SIM card from a friend (or foe), pop it in to get through the setup process, and…
The Mountain View Voice has sleuthed something interesting in Google Land (which the Times’s Bits blog also picked up on)-H211 LLC, the company controlled by the G’s execs that operates Larry, Sergey and the rest of the Googlers’ private jets, has recently acquired a fighter jet. A Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet, to be exact-a light attack…
Times are tough, friends. And even wealthy conservative mouthpiece Stephen Colbert has to cut back on his gadget spending habits. Needless to say, the guy is still doing alright; he continues to dial numbers that most of us haven’t even dreamed about. We also hear that he smells of peppermint and lilacs at distances closer…
While this Lego Halloween Pumpkin is not as spooky and macabre as the sectioned Lego minifig showing his skeleton and inner guts, it is a complete must in any geekabolous nerdy Halloween decorations. In fact, I would be building a whole bunch of this following these very simple instructions: https://gizmodo.com/the-anatomy-of-a-lego-minifig-is-as-fascinating-as-it-i-5063801 Is you are wondering where…
Surely these pistol stilettos adorned by Madonna at her recent directorial debut can’t be packing real guns. Then again, if we had to listen to that much pretentious bullshit coming from our own mouths at all times, we might need our personal escape plan at arm’s reach, too. [If Heels Could Talk via Violet Blue…
TV host and noted technologist Oprah Winfrey has a favorite gadget, but it’s a secret! At least until she announces it on her show, which will probably happen today. But that wasn’t soon enough for BGR, who dug and dug and scraped and view-sourced until they found their answer in a tag list, buried in…
Shoes clutter up my apartment’s hallway because both me and the wife are waaaaay too lazy to put them in the cupboard just a few feet away…but I suspect if we installed this there’d be no problem. Because kicking off your shoe to get it “stored” between the bristles of Kickit looks like fun. The…
Apparently not content with just one giant ongoing infrastructure project, Australia has committed to fully outfitting three of its biggest cities for widespread electric car use. In hardware terms, that amounts to 200,000-250,000 charging stations each for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with an additional 150 battery swap stations scattered between them. The effort will cost…