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There is no doubt about it, Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” ads are far better than those miserably bad Gates and Seinfeld spots. The newer ads try to dispel the stereotype of the Windows user as a glasses-wearing, buttoned-up super nerd by throwing popular actors, personalities, astronauts and everyday people into the mix. But I have…
Palm gets lost in the midst of all the iPhone and Android hype, but if you still love your good old Palm OS, Dmitry Grinberg has finally released an SDHC driver that allows for card support. The program is available for devices like the Tungsten T|C, Tungsten E|2, Tungsten T|5, LifeDrive, Palm TX, Zire 31…
Last weekend OSX users got their first taste of QuickPwn 2.1. Now a version is out for all the PC users in the audience. Happy hacking. [iphone-dev]
We know it is going to be officially announced on Tuesday, but it appears that T-Mobile couldn’t wait to get their brand new G1/Dream/Whatever Android-powered baby up on their website. The screenshot above highlights a pre-registration link (not working) inside the my.t-mobile.com portal. [T-Mobile]
If you liked our awesome computer rig contest, you will like Mitch Haile’s clean but sensory overload workplace, with a total of eight displays. To me it’s not as good as my favorite, the Death Star battle station, but that may be because I imagine it is a lot more comfortable to do visual work.…
Do you want to know a little more about Sean Siler, Microsoft’s version of Apple’s PC parody John Hodgman? Of course you do! Luckily, the latest Microsoft commercial had his email address right inside, and you can email “him” at [email protected]. But we saved you the 10 seconds and sent the email ourselves. Here’s his…
If you love R/C toys, this Wi-Fi router monster truck is definitely a project worth tackling. In a nutshell, a guy named Jonathan Bennet managed to rig a very hackable Linksys WRT54GL router to a $5 R/C monster truck so that it could be driven via the internet from up to 500 meters (1640 feet)…
The one thing Google Chrome was missing that kept a lot of the Firefox faithful from making the switch was the browser’s lack of add-on support. Well, that’s set to change, according to Google engineer Ojan Vafai. Both add-ons and user scripts (á la Greasemonkey) will be supported in the near future. Currently, they’re working…
DWV, the same guys responsible for designing products under the Ferrari brand, are attempting to reinvent the tired old iPod dock with their new Art. Suono Wireless Music Transmission System. Billed as a luxury item (get ready for sticker shock), the Art. Suono allows users to transmit audio from just about any source to a…
Trying to buy something from the Staples website? I hope you’re using the latest and greatest internet technologies to do so, because it is cutting edge. In fact, you need Internet Explorer 4.0 to handle its incredible shopping-related features. Namely, their super-futuristic custom envelope creator, which gives you the above error message if you try…
Sometimes you sign up for a magazine subscription but then you realize that, no, you’re never going to need 40 new ab exercises a month because that beer can that balances on your stomach strengthens your core just fine. Maghound offers Netflix-style subscriptions that allow you to dynamically change your magazines on the fly. Say…
Stephen Hawking has made his way back to Cambridge after participating in the launch of the LHC to unveil an unbelievable new clock at Corpus Christi College. Designer John Taylor intended the clock to be “terrifying,” saying that he views time as “as not on your side.” In his words, time will “eat up every…
So you’ve seen Microsoft’s “phase 2” ads featuring all sorts of people saying that they are PCs, not this damned dirty John Hodgman stereotype that Apple is tossing around. It’s all well and good, but I’d like to see what kinds of people who claim to be PCs we have reading Gizmodo. Sounds like a…
For serious connoisseurs, the preservation of wine is far more important that the stigma surrounding bottle caps or, in this case, dispensing your wine like a condiment at a restaurant. The Skybar features a precise temperature control and vacuum system to keep your wine tasting its best for up to 10 days. The pouring spout…
The next thing in fast mobile internet is the 4G standard LTE. While we’ve seen an LTE demo before, it wasn’t quite as ridiculous as the LTE demo T-Mobile and Nortel just wrapped up: While driving 67kph on a highway in Bonn, Germany, they were able to hit download speeds 170Mbps and upload at 50Mbps.…
Click to viewA year ago, MIT student Star Simpson arrived at an airport wearing an LED sweatshirt. And while this sweatshirt was not much different than LED apparel we’ve featured on Gizmodo before, Simpson was tackled by security before going through months of media attacks and court processes to clear her name. In an absolutely…
If you haven’t been creeped out yet today, this crazy morbid story from the scene of the recent Metrolink train disaster should do the trick. Apparently, family members of passenger Chuck Peck received 35 calls from his cellphone throughout the night of the crash. There was nothing but static on the other end of the…
Our first shots of HTC’s Dream (or G1, whatever the hell it’s called) being fondled out in the real world are perhaps not coincidentally the first ones that make the phone look like it’s something you can carry in the open. They look fairly real to us, and match up with what we’ve seen before,…
Capitalism is an evil, wretched establishment…except when it supports these glorious companies: 1800 Tequila, Becks, Blackberry Curve, Casio, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Dell, Gilda’s Club Worldwide, Gyration, Hotflops, HP TouchSmart, IE8, Lenovo, LiveScribe, Mike’s Election Guide, Panasonic, Rovio, Sharp Aquos, Sprint, Starwood Aloft Hotels, Symantec, T-Mobile, TiVo, Toshiba Gaming, Unscrew America, Verizon. Please waste away more…
At first sight, this looked like a perfect working reproduction of a Mac Pro made of Lego, so I was ready to call it the best Lego computer in the history of best Lego computers. Then, when I learnt that it houses one full PC running Mac OS X and a Mac Mini, I felt…
