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You can spend up to $100 a month for various cable and satellite services to watch the new season of programming that began this week. Or, if you’ve got an internet connection and are willing to be a little more creative than buying episodes for $2 off Amazon Unbox or iTunes, you can view most…
BSoDs have been plaguing NIN on their current tour. In fact, one has been popping up on the giant display behind them at just about every concert. So what’s the deal? Will Trent be forced to fire his tech guy? Hardly. The truth is that it is all part of the act. The BSoD pops…
We’d heard rumors that the Gizmondo 2 would be running Google’s Android OS, and the company has now confirmed it to be true (Windows CE is the other optional OS). Available this winter, the Gizmondo 2 is a lot like the original Gizmondo but has a better battery and newer Nvidia chips inside. You like…
BlackBerry manufacturer RIM and TiVo manufacturer TiVo have teamed up to offer what sounds like SlingBoxesque mobile entertainment on RIM phones. There aren’t many details now, but the press release explains: Initially, BlackBerry smartphone users will gain the convenience of being able to discover what shows are on and schedule television recordings while away from…
This week at Uncrate: We warn others of impending zombie/robotic invasion with Prepare T-Shirts, and kick our liver destruction into high gear with the gargantuan XL Beer Glass. We also get our game on with the Diamond Plate Foosball Table, take a trip to Gillette Stadium’s CBS Scene restaurant and bar, and LOL to Do…
Apple wants to take Nike+ to a different new level to perform precise, real-time tracking of runners’ performance and-shiver-offer location-based information and advertising. Their latest patent not only details how they will get rid of the current RFID sensor and add a series of force sensors instead-as well as GPS support-but also how they are…
We’ve seen turntables designed especially for digitizing your crusty old vinyl for years, but ION’s LP 2 Flash deck one-ups all that I’ve seen by recording straight to an SD card or USB thumb drive for quick transferring to a computer or recording straight to your PMP. And if you get tired of being so…
You’re special, no really. You have a unique view of the world. It’s so unique, in fact, that you need at least 32GB to capture your Vision (sometimes it comes out blurry, but not like cool artsy blurry)—and you need speed, because you never know how many unique world views will collide on a millisecond…
Click to viewHere’s the Short Take-Off Vertical Landing version of one of Giz’s classics: the squirrel catapult. Somehow, I think this one is less cruel than the original one, as the squirrel is more used to these kind of jumps and landings than horizontal launches. But yes, I can’t stop watching this time either. Sosumi.
When the original Rock Band released, there was a huge distribution hiccup and standalone instruments (like an extra guitar or set of drums) just wasn’t something you could buy right away. But it appears that involved parties have learned from their mistakes and the new Rock Band 2 instruments will be available individually with the…
After being voluntarily retired from the iTunes App Store, following a call by THQ Wireless, the most useless yet completely obligatory iPhone app-PhoneSaber-is returning to the store as LightSaber Unleashed. The lightsaber simulator will tie in with the new LucasArts’s game, including completely new graphics, “dueling music,” and characters from the game: THQ Wireless has…
We’ve been bringing you news on Sony’s Bravia Internet Video Link for ages (it’s that net-connected, wired, Bravia-TV compatible movie-player device) and now Sony’s announcing official support for Amazon‘s Video on Demand service. So you’ll have “tens of thousands of premium movies and TV shows” for the device, and more importantly “streaming high-definition content” from…
Since they can’t avoid hacked iPhones no matter how hard they try, Apple seems to have prepared iTunes 8 to avoid pwning, disabling this ability in mint iPod touch and iPhone devices. But don’t fret, because the iPhone Dev Team has already launched a counterattack: The nice thing about iTunes decisions is that we can…
This Remote Controlled Hovering Space Surfer has to be the best toy among the ongoing barrage of RC flying apparatuses: a nine-inch Cylon-Silver Surfer-Bender-bred astronaut who one day got all the Beach Boys albums and decided to surf on a 11-inch board capable of hovering, spinning 360 degrees, and moving straight in all directions with…
We mentioned the Velocity 103 back in April, giving it a Q2 launch date. It looks like there’ve been a few delays to Velocity Mobile’s entry to the smartphone market though, since the device is only now on pre-sale, with availability at the end of this month. It’s a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device, featuring…
We’ve been following Plastic Logic’s potential Kindle-killing e-reader device this week, and the guys over at TGDaily are adding to the intrigue with video of it. Speaking with a company rep, they found out that the device is less than 7mm thin and charges/connects to PCs with a miniUSB connector.Meanwhile its Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections,…
Garmin’s had a tiny stylistic brain-fart with some new Nuvi GPSs. Imagine a cheesy glimmering gadget suckered-on to your windshield, sending glittering—and distracting—shafts of light into your car… that’s kind of what you’ve got in the “light rose” and “black diamond” editions of the Nuvi 250 and 760. They’re covered in colored faux-diamonds. Yuck. The…
Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera is the killer iPhone application I was looking for: just point your camera anywhere around you to have instant feedback about whatever is on your screen. Directions, reviews, messages, offers, and any tag you can imagine will appear floating in front of you, adding a graphic overlay to the world. Tonchidot defines…
Hitachi became the latest company to enter the online search arena, unveiling a “similar image search” engine called GazoPa at TechCrunch50. Unlike regular image search services, GazoPa relies on characteristics such as similar colors and shapes rather than traditional metadata. We’re not sure why Hitachi, better known as a hardware company, would dabble in something…
Samsung’s Highnote slider phone is another Sprint exclusive with a hidden speaker that reveals itself when you slide the phone face down. Even in the middle of a press event, you could hear the speaker at work, and for what it was, it didn’t sound excessively tinny or distorted. https://gizmodo.com/sprints-lg-lotus-and-samsung-highnote-fat-flip-vs-sli-5048104 Aside from the speaker, the…
