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The way I see it, the laptop bathroom question requires… nay, demands further investigation. You may have never thought about it before, but the relationship between the bathroom and gadgets brings up a whole mess of questions about habits and etiquette that simply must be explored. I mean, who needs magazines when you have a…
There is an alternate universe where I just rented a Betamax (Casino Royale, of course) from Hollywood Video. On my way home, I pop in a MiniDisc (probably to listen to this year’s very successful, non-creepy Michael Jackson album which is, like, sooo good). But when I finally arrive at my place, I realize that…
NBC’s scheduled coverage of the 2008 Olympics is absolutely breathtaking in its scope: It’s broadcasting over 3,600 hours of the world’s greatest athletes performing feats that reveal how shapeless and amoebic the rest of humanity is-that’s 1,000 more hours than the last 12 Summer Olympics combined. The internet is a huge component of their nearly…
Fanboys, get your commenting fingers warmed up. A new study shows that, on average, the cost of a Windows PC is half that of an Apple computer. According to data collected by the NPD group, the average Windows notebook goes for $700, while the average Apple laptop costs above $1,500, dropping a mere $59 in…
If you thought Mac cloners Psystar were going to go on the Apple chopping block without a whole lot of fuss…think again. The case is about to get a lot more interesting now that their defense team seems prepared to play the antitrust card in court. As Colby Springer, one of the lawyers on Psystar’s…
At last week’s EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, aircraft startup ICON showed up with their folding-winged A5. On display, one setup showed it being towed, propped on a standard trailer and pulled by a standard vehicle. The company hopes to appeal to those who’ve always been interested in flying but have felt intimidated by all…
“Firmware update” sounds like something you’d want. Something solid, yet fresh and new. But lately deciding to update is getting more complicated. The newest firmware is no longer just a nice downloadable present from a benevolent electronics overlord; on many devices, it has been buggy or downright dangerous to install. Manufacturers like Apple, Nintendo and…
Add this one to the “ouch, ouch, ouch” Photoshop bin. Yeah, I can use the pen tool to smoothly decapitate R2 and throw a Coke can top and USB cord in too. What I can’t do, though, is build an actual USB beverage can cooler out of a shrunken R2-D2 model. Which I would want.…
Macrumors is reporting that new Cinema Displays are coming from Apple that will bring LED backlights to the whole line, which is in sync with the company’s plan to ditch fluorescent backlights entirely. The tipster is seeing Macworld in January as a likely time for them to pop up. They haven’t been updated in any…
Giz reader Peter Clute saw the impressive Hasbro Millennium Falcon and instead of just buying it to play and go all pew-pew with it, he decided to make it better, painting new wear and tear details, and adding a motion sensor and infrared sensor, and a load of extra LEDs. The results are impressive: https://gizmodo.com/stunning-hasbro-millennium-falcon-jumps-out-of-hyperspa-379213…
Radiohead’s latest music video, as you may have heard, didn’t use cameras, instead using lasers to capture data that could be presented visually. They then released all that data, allowing people to fiddle around with it. Ian Mackinnon took that 3D plotting data and created this Lego version of the House of Cards video. It’s…
T-Mobile’s finally continuing their 3G rollout with a Vegas deployment. This follows up their previous NYC 3G rollout and will offer both voice and data services, which will be great when we’re at all those conferences and trade shows they host. https://gizmodo.com/users-report-t-mobile-3g-network-has-data-386315 T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced today the continued expansion of its next-generation wireless network…
They’ve already released the CAD files for modding the case into a lobster phone (please, someone?), and now the OpenMoko folks are going all the way with their Neo Freerunner Linux smartphone, opening up the schematics for all to see and use under a Creative Commons license. This includes not only the full schematics for…
We were jealous when our own Adam Frucci loaded up Gears of War on a 103-inch plasma. But the rig we’re showing you today makes Frucci look homeless (which, little known fact, he actually happens to be). Installed in a government office and then misused for one hell of an evening of WoW and Bioshock…
Oh, Google is just so great! They have the best free email, calendar, chat, photo and document sharing services, so why not use them all? Well, here’s why: they can lock you out of your entire account without any explanation or any way to get it back, pretty much erasing your online existence. It happened…
We showed you the first footage of an OLPC booting the official Windows XP installation back in June, but now Laptop has given the XP-sporting XO a quick round of testing, and unsurprisingly, things are a bit sluggish. The XO’s hardware has gone unchanged for the XP edition, so Windows boots off of an SD…
Logitech’s diNovo edge keyboard, originally billed as “the most advanced keyboard in the world” has only been available in Windows versions, but today Logitech are releasing a version for Macs. Just like the original it’s got multimedia keys, “PerfectStroke” keys and a touchpad-like touchdisc, but this time it’s also got Mac-specific keys for launching apps…
Click to viewThis video is a feed from the Tailcam in an A380 as the aircraft takes-off. The cam feed can be shown on the seat-back displays and gives you an almost Superman-like view of the aircraft from 79-feet up at the top of the tail. It’s pretty amazing watching the behemoth aircraft surge slowly…
A group of software enthusiasts are showing off a program that loads through the Wii homebrew channel and allows you to run international Wii and Gamecube discs in spite of existing region protection. Seeing as the hack is completely software-based and Nintendo has eliminated the functionality of older Wii region protection workarounds (Freeloader, specifically), the…
If you’re in Beijing for the Olympics kick starting this weekend, don’t be spilling any beans (state secrets or otherwise) in your cab back to the hotel, because you’re being listened to. As the WSJ is reporting, on your taxi’s dash is a microphone that can be activated remotely, at any time and without the…
