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Wired’s How-To Wiki has a nice step-by-step walkthrough covering how to get the most out of your cellphone’s signal. It starts with the basics you should know, like about the general crappiness of cellular tech vs. other forms of broadcasting, and all the other things that’ll make your signal weak and your oh-so-social life miserable.…
Last year at CEDIA, Sony made a splash with a refrigerator-sized Blu-ray home server with 200-disc changer. This year it’s nowhere to be seen, but in its place, Sony is showing a 400-disc changer of a more sensible size. The company isn’t saying much, except that it’s coming in 2009, it’s going to be BD-Live…
It’s not what I would call a Bond-caliber flipping license plate, but the system that a Queens truck driver hooked up in his rig is chock-full of ghetto ingenuity. Apparently, Orlando Payano mounted his license plate on a hinged piece of metal then ran an attached cable through his cigarette lighter. When he went through…
Apple’s September 9 event is only one lazy weekend away, but we here at Giz are already preparing for our usual liveblog directly from the event. You already know the rumors—new nanos, iTunes 8 with new features and various other things—what might be coming, but what do you want to see from us? We’ll be…
It appears that at least one lucky shopper at a Fry’s in Atlanta managed to get their hands on a 120GB Zune before its official release, and there are even unboxing pics (after the break) and a receipt to prove it. If you look closely, it rang up at $250—backing up recent rumors about the…
Scientist at Caltech have discovered why oh why one of the most basic artifacts on earth, the looming swatter, fails against its winged nemesis, the fly. In fact, using high-resolution, high-speed digital imaging, they have found out what’s the secret to the fly’s 100 milliseconds evasive maneuvering. Which is why I hate them so much,…
If you’re ever pulled away from the constant spew of talking heads, meaningless statistics and rhetorical bile parading itself as election news in order to fill the gaping 24/7 news cycle—you know, to do something other than wallow in political witticisms not half as sharp as as Jon Stewart’s—the 99-cent Election ’08 iPhone app will…
Kotaku is claiming that Nintendo will debut a new Nintendo DS in April or May of 2009. According to their sources, the new DS model’s features will be similar to the next-generation DS wishlist we published last year. Kotaku says that both screens would have touch capability, which is reasonable to expect. They also point…
Before you decide to hurl yourself out of an airplane to get an adrenaline fix, take a long hard look at what happened to Hans Lange on a recent base jump in Norway. As you will see, he managed to capture the entire jump in detail using some sort of wide-angle helmet cam. I will…
While a lot of us are excited for the next Apple event on September 9th, that’s the same date Microsoft has slated for their “Say Goodbye to Laser” event which, LiveSide has revealed, will feature more than their new mouse. It will also include a new line of LifeCams with 5 times zoom, hi def…
Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise. But a friend in the industry told us that they’ve seen H.264 1080P video playing on the iPhone, quite a few times, with no problems at all. Of course, the resolution is absurd overkill for the system’s screen, but what’s this mean in light of the purported…
If you have been wondering when you will finally be able to get your hands on the BlackBerry Storm / Thunder, sources at BGR claim that it has just gone into technical acceptance and it has been delayed internally while the kinks are worked out. All-in-all we are looking at around 6-8 weeks here to…
Internally, Nintendo uses a tool called a “Waikiki adapter” to boot Nintendo Wiis in recovery mode—bricked or not. Now one modder has apparently duplicated the device, a simple flash drive that fits in the GameCube memory port of the Wii, and set a demonstration to some righteous 80s guitar riffs. If commercialized, not only could…
Rear-projection may be deader than dead as far as the biggies are concerned, but the folks at nLighten are intent to squeeze a bit more life out of these 72-inch 1080p DLP sets by sticking an infrared camera inside next to the light source that detects cursor points from an IR-tipped pen, allowing for a…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you guys to go crazy with Google’s Chrome comic. The 4chan folks have already done some stuff with it, now its your turn. Feel free to go beyond just swapping the words out. Insert photos, put panels together that don’t belong together, make it as insane as humanly…
Fans of Giz Explains know that Tru2way is the cable industry’s latest cable card scheme. Today, Sony and Panasonic are showing off their own Tru2way-enabled TVs, Pana’s PZ80Q with a built-in box, and Sony’s Bravia with a box that connects via HDMI. What’s cool is that this is the first time their showing it connected…
Taiwanese OEM Chi Lin is claiming the world’s first liquid-cooled, LED-lit 1080p projector here at CEDIA using TI’s latest DLP chipset. The liquid-cooled RGB LED light source is rated at 50,000 hours-5.7 years of continuous runtime-and spits out 128% of NTSC’s color set and a 100,000:1 contrast ratio at sizes up to 130 inches. As…
According to CNET sources, Intel’s six-core “Dunnington”processor will begin rolling out to servers on September 15th under the Xeon 7400 series. The new chip is Intel’s first foray beyond four cores as well as their first to fuse multiple cores on a single die. It also features 16MB of L3 cache to help boost performance.…
Six thousand, six hundred and sixty-two posts after I first started writing here at Gizmodo, I’m about to type the words that I never thought would ever dribble forth from my keyboard: I’m the new editor of Gizmodo. After working with Joel Johnson, John Biggs and Brian Lam all these years and absorbing all the…
Over two years at Gizmodo as editor, we’ve racked up a great deal of fast, smart work I’m proud of being a part of. But we’re going to be making some changes shortly.See, when you’re dialed into news watching, you just can’t leave your computer without having double digit brain cycles running on and on,…
