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Forget those naff spy pens: This spy camera watch from Brando may actually be a decent spying gizmo. For example… can you see the camera in the photo of it? It’s in the whorl of the numeral 2, and the watch is pretty convincing. It only shoots 352 x 288 pixel AVIs, but it does…
A tiny mistake by online retailer Expansys has revealed two new quad-band BlackBerry clamshell phones. Some info on the 8220 has surfaced before, but the 8210 seems new. The phones are apparently very similar, with both having a 2.6-inch internal 240x 320 pixel screen, a small 160 x 128 external screen, and clamshell format. Both…
Over at a German games convention going on now, IGN has come across a new Xbox 360 controller by Microsoft. Apparently it looks pretty much identical to the old one but includes an entirely redesigned directional pad (which makes sense, because the current d-pad isn’t so good). Here’s what IGN had to say about the…
This week’s best kept secret just got official: The Palm Treo Pro is a Centro-sized Windows Mobile 6.1 phone (whither Palm OS?) with tri-band 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS with a 320×320 touchscreen, exactly like the recent Treo 800w. Powering the show is a 400MHz processor and 128MB of RAM. And yep, the proprietary Palm connector…
The woman above is not real. I mean, she was real once, when real actress Emily O’Brien provided Image Metrics (you know their work from GTAIV) with 35 facial poses in front of a pair of digital cameras. From there, O’Brien was dismissed so the animators could go to work. Apparently “ninety per cent of…
While there have been several other ultra-thin TVs to cheat on size by moving some of the set’s guts into an external box, we’re starting to see a few of the biggies taking advantage of the newly-codified WHDI spec to beam the signal from the external box to the screen wirelessly. Details are somewhat thin…
Yesterday’s images of the almost-finished Burj Dubai blew our minds with its scale and grandiosity. Today, reader David Hobcote zooms out his Canon 1Ds Mark III on board a Bell heli to show us the current state of some of Dubai’s new landmarks, including the stunning New Atlantis Hotel and the first house constructed on…
This chandelier-ish lighting design, dubbed Kurage3, allows you to change its level of illumination by changing how curved a shape it makes. Simple science really: If you make it curve past the critical angle for the 1.5-mm fiber-optic, instead of shooting through the tube of glass, the light from an LED light source leaks out…
If you’re reading the back of the HTC Diamond’s box, it doesn’t show some little child laughing with glee as he pinches in and out of webpages or draws with two fingers at once, in fact, it doesn’t even list multitouch as a feature at all. But just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean…
The International Space Station was passing at exactly the right time and angle to take this beautiful travelling shot of tropical storm Fay, which is now increasing force over Florida threatening to become a hurricane and close the Kennedy Space Center. From space, everything looks so calm and harmless. And nobody can hear you scream,…
At the Intel Developers Forum Intel itself is turning the spotlight on the upcoming Nehalem chip microarchitecture. The chips will have integrated memory controllers built directly into the processor, as we mentioned before, which will allow three-times faster memory read-write speeds than previous generations. https://gizmodo.com/intels-six-core-dunnington-and-nehalem-microarchitectur-369076 The chips also feature a “turbo mode” design that dynamically…
Speck’s See Thru Hard Shell case for the iPhone 3G is one of the few cases I’ve seen that makes me go “Oh, interesting” instead of “bah, nonsense.” Firstly because it’s simple, just snapping in two polycarbonate parts around the sides and rear of the phone, with rubberized grips so it doesn’t slip out of…
The electric-sheep lawnmower may have tickled your fancy, but this Muwi concept mower from designer Yuli Sung will have you scratching your head. The concept’s roughly the same as the sheep: It automatically assesses the grassy areas, and then cuts the lawn without supervision required. Cunningly, it grabs the grass cuttings inside where they won’t…
Last we’d heard about dual-core version of Intel’s tiny Atom processor it was delayed through supply problems… but now info on Intel’s Atom 330 dual-core has arrived. It’s a desktop chip, with a 533MHz frontside bus and based on the 45nm process, though there’s no info on its clock speeds yet. It’ll be compatible with…
At last, iPhone copy and paste between applications is here. However, it doesn’t come from Apple. Cali Lewis, the ever-smiling presenter at GeekBrief, got the scoop on his new OpenClip open-source framework, which will enable any developer to implement copy and paste between applications without violating Apple’s developer agreement. OpenClip, which is non-profit and fully…
We’d already drawn comparisons between Fujitsu’s all-in one FMV F-A50 desktop PC and the design aesthetic of the iMac, and now Fujitsu has upgraded the range and added a 19-inch version to the range. The F-B70T even features a bigger “chin” beneath the 1440 x 900 screen, alongside a Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 running…
That mystery tablet PC that appeared at the end of Intel’s presentation at IDF last night is no Classmate, or super-powered Speak&Spell either: It’s a Panasonic Toughbook-alike tablet. More specifically it’s a “Mobile Clinical Assistant” device, aimed at doctors and nurses who are under an increasing burden of digital data and imagery nowadays, though there’s…
I don’t know who’s designing Microsoft’s gaming hardware after their brief hiatus from the market, but they’re insane, in the best possible way-they’ve actually got some inspired, unique form factors, besides a huge Vader hard-on. The first SideWinder keyboard ever, the X6, has a macro/numberpad that’ll dock on either side and takes the number of…
It’s one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It’s something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind turbine out of scrap parts that could revolutionize personal power in developing nations, especially if you’re in college. Max Robinson has done just…
Exit Games has a multiplayer gaming platform, called Neutron, on PCs, mobile devices, game consoles, and BREW phones. It works across devices and hardware, so you can play someone on their PC via your handset. And now it’s ready for the iPhone. Today it was announced that the Neutron system of social network-like gaming now…
