Tech news, analysis, culture, business, security, and more
I think NBC’s web-only Sci Fi series The Gemini Division is about an alien, or a robot, or an alien robot that somehow got Rosario Dawson to be its girlfriend. I like that. I also like the Rosario somehow got her deliciously moisturized hands on what looks like a “Windows Mobile” phone, which Screen Junkies…
Earlier today Google released the Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, boasting of a pile of API updates and a visual refresh that moves it one solid step closer to actually, you know, showing up on a phone. A long changelog and a few screenshots are great, but we’ve fired up the SDK’s emulator for a…
My guess is that most of the guys out there would love their own R/C hovercraft, but the bottom line is that not everyone can afford a fancy commercial version. Well, if you have some junk lying around the house, some time on your hands, and you don’t mind a hovercraft that is butt friggin’…
A few years ago, AMD was the king of performance per watt with its K8 architecture, while Intel kept pushing the Pentium 4 faster and hotter, until it basically had to chunk its NetBurst architecture. So this is something of a nostalgia trip for AMD fanboys: In Tom’s Hardware’s tests, a 1GHz Athlon 64 2000+…
Boy that Michael Phelps is fast. No one can argue it, he can dominate in almost any style of swim and possesses one of the best dolphin kicks in the world. That is, one of the best kicks aside from some random guy using the Lunocet monofin. Because while Phelps is able to swim at…
Click to viewThe iPhone 2.0.2 update is here and is supposed to fix a bunch of bugs that users have been seeing since iPhone 2.0 hit. Like Boy Genius said before, it’s going to be targeting iPhone 3G users, but the changelog of “bug fixes” is vague enough to imply that everyone will see some…
Every other day it seems like a new manual razor is hitting the market advertising “the closest shave ever” by throwing in extra blades or lubed comfort strips. And let’s not forget that there are plenty of electric shavers out there if you have sensitive skin or you want to save a little time. As…
Now that Intel’s brought together the world in a harmonious USB 3.0 standard, here’s a first look at the new connectors brought to us by MaximumPC. Ten times faster than the old USB spec, USB 3.0 can transfer a 27GB file in just 70 seconds. Plus, with more “lanes” of data within the connector, new…
AT&T and HTC have finally pushed out the Windows Mobile 6.1 update, which according to Softpedia, brings threaded SMS, video share calling, MS Voice Command, Remote Desktop Monitor and managed programs. Everyone with a Tilt should download this ASAP and get the benefit that fewer bugs provides. Our tipster also tells us that WM6.1 will…
The folks behind Palringo have swiftly delivered on a promise to add Push-to-Talk functionality to their multi-client IM app for the iPhone. Like their desktop version, the new update allows iPhone users to send vocal IM messages by holding down a contact button while speaking. When released, the audio recording will be delivered directly to…
File this under the new to us category, though the site technically launched in July. Mygazines allows you to read fully scanned magazines online. All of your favorites are there-Seventeen, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Brides and Oprah-that is, until the publishing industry figures out how to shut down a site registered in the Caribbean island…
The Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta represents the first formal release on the path to Android 1.0 and it is available now for download. Outside of the normal bug fixes, users will notice some major UI updates-including a new widget-enhanced home screen, a tab to pull up apps, a camera and a media player. There…
New SATA specs!! The governing body of SATA (known as SATA-IO) has announced their SATA Revision 3.0 specifications, which is important because it will dictate the transfer speeds of internal hard drives (among other things). SATA Rev 3 will hit data transfers up to 6 Gbps (the original maxed at 1.5 Gbps and sequel reached…
An insurance group in the UK just released statistics data on how their customers break their cameras, almost all of which are hilarious scenarios if you try and picture it happening. • 1/6 blame children or dogs • 3/100 run over their camera with a car • 3/4 drop their cameras onto a “hard surface”,…
After bickering between Activision and Harmonix meant you couldn’t use Guitar Hero’s guitars with Rock Band on the PS3 (’cause Activision wanted moolah for Harmonix to release the patch), Sony has grabbed them both firmly by the nuts and said “everybody’s instruments must work with everybody’s games.” This means that Guitar Hero: World Tour’s insane…
Kensington’s just released the world’s first Wireless USB universal docking station, conveniently named the Wireless USB Docking Station. The thing suppports five USB devices as well as a DVI monitor, which can then be “attached” wirelessly to your notebook whenever it comes into range. Speaker ports round out the solution, and the whole thing is…
This Wii Sqweeze demo by InterAction Labs supposedly does for your upper body what Wii Fit does for the lower body of the 10 people who actually managed to find one. The thing is essentially two squeezable grips (exactly like the kind you can get at sports stores now) that correspond to claws and bows…
This week at TreeHugger: Is there any technology more overdue than solar-powered air-conditioning? The internal combustion engine will someday be replaced by electric motors, but in the meantime, here are 5 technologies that are making it better. Day4 Energy announced a breakthrough with a solar panel that is 25% cheaper. And finally, there are an…
Hey guys. John Mayer here. I just wanted to say Apple rocks. Get it? Apple rocks! Yeah. Rocks. Ha ha. Hookai. Never mind. Reader Moe Bacon sent us these pretty painted rocks and the Gizmodo folks told me it could be good idea for a contest. Just pick your favorite gadget and do your own…
Call me crazy, but I don’t really see the point of this Stonebake Pizza Oven. I mean, what’s wrong with a regular oven? It can cook pizzas perfectly well, and when you don’t want a pizza it can cook many other things as well. Not so with this silly thing, which can make one thing…