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The noise your phone emits when someone’s trying to get a hold of you is a deeply personal thing. Our intern Dan likes to be shamed into answering his phone as quickly as possible—when his phone shrieked “EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!” at the office, everyone laughed and he ran into the corner to take his call,…
Yes, yes…we have heard plenty of complaints about iPhone 3G battery life, and there are already several solutions like battery packs and rechargeable hip holsters hitting the market. However, the new case from Mobile Fun has one advantage over all of these other devices-it can be charged by the sun. The case itself features a…
Mythbusters returns for a whole new season tomorrow, August 6, and they were nice enough to drop a preview of their first episode off while they were on their way to blowing shit up. One of the experiments they’re going to test is whether explosives can tenderize a steak as well as a traditional tenderizers.…
Beware the next time your ride an escalator at the mall folks. It appears that they are beginning to stage an organized revolt against their passengers. First an escalator chewed up this poor bastard, then one dished out some payback after some tool disrespected it with a joyride. But that was just a warm up…
As you may know, Bestmodo is the badge of honor our editors give to products that go above and beyond the competition, thus raising the gadgetry bar for all that come after. Now we’re expanding on this concept and letting the voice of the people also determine which gadgets are worthy of praise. The new…
The popular Nikon D80 is getting a replacement called—wait for it—the D90, and it looks like it’s living up to the line’s rep. The camera takes the D80’s feature set and adds a few more very high-end tools, like live preview on the larger LCD screen,GPS input, HDMI out, video recording with audio, and an…
If there’s a gadget that can use a new coat of paint, Colorware is almost always on the scene first (with pretty good results). But if there’s ever been a gadget just begging for color, it’s the iPhone 3G and its glossy, plastic back. For $150, Colorware will give you that burst of backside color…
The Intel platform in notebooks hitting shelves at this moment is Montevina, the first to go by the Centrino 2 moniker. Though it’s fresh out the door, Digitimes supposedly has some details on Calpella, the one that’ll follow it next summer. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-intels-centrino-2-5025969 It’s for the second generation of their upcoming Nehalem based processors (specifically Clarksfield…
Ars has decided to the release the full email Steve Jobs sent to Apple employees declaring that “MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards.” There’s actually not much you haven’t already read, other than the additional admonishment that it “was not our finest hour.” Granted, that probably means at least 20 more people were…
Epson’s got two LCD-based photo viewers in the P-6000 and P-7000 that don’t look half bad. They have 80GB and 160GB respectively, with RAW support, 35% faster image download speed compared to old models, 640×480 resolution, and a 94% reproduction of the Adobe RB color gamut. The price-$599 and $799-reflect the fact that they’re more…
Depending on your definition of “cheap,” Sharp may or may not be releasing inexpensive SB Series LCDs, but their prices aren’t so bad relative to the market. Their new line of 52, 46 and 42-inch 1080p televisions will feature a decent 6ms response time and run $2,300, $1,700 and $1,400, respectively. But since these figures…
Congrats to Kyle Lawson on winning our Made in Eureka contest with his entry “Translayferers.” We’ll just leave it to Kyle’s image to explain what it’s all about. Enjoy that new iPhone, Kyle! Larger version
There’s more than a little skepticism surrounding the new Martin Jetpack. Promising a new era of ultralight flight, many of the claims (altitude capabilities and safety, especially) sound too good to be true. Before we took our test flight, we asked Glenn Martin, inventor, some of the tougher questions that we hadn’t seen asked anywhere…
This week at TreeHugger: Lotus has developed a ‘sound simulation technology’ to make hybrids and electric cars noisier. Since the sound is simulated, you could probably hack it to put in the sound of a TIE Fighter or an old Sherman tank. Oh boy… Nissan has unveiled the ECO Pedal, a tactile feedback mechanism in…
This week’s Photoshop Contest wasn’t a Photoshop Contest at all – it was an MS Paint contest. And while I knew I was going to get a boatload of insanity in my inbox, I wasn’t quite prepared for what I got. You guys are insane. In a good way… I guess. In any case, I…
The only thing cooler than a review of the new Millennium Falcon toy? A review of the Millennium Falcon toy by geek storyteller Jesse Alexander, who has worked on Giz favorites like Heroes, Alias and Lost. P.S. I think that’s an Emmy on his desk. More of Jesse’s impressions, below: https://gizmodo.com/stunning-hasbro-millennium-falcon-jumps-out-of-hyperspa-379213/ “The new Legacy Collection…
Yeah, that’s almost $800 under Sony Style’s price. And yeah, it’s still an 11-inch screen. But one you’ll want to lick, it’s so saturated and thin. If you were already eyeing an XEL-1 for the bathroom I’m guessing the $800 isn’t a huge issue, but as Taco Bell says, “why pay more?” No word on…
Sprint’s finally pulled the trigger on their data capping policy, limiting users to 5GB a month or 300MB while on off-network roaming. Our tipster says the note after the jump appeared on his most recent bill, and will start the cappage in 30 days. They now join the Verizon and AT&T networks at 5GB, but…
That Quake game for the iPhone we wrote about a few months back has made it onto Cydia, the jailbreak application repository. Just Another iPhone Blog says it’s not too slow and it doesn’t make use of the accelerometer (so it’s probably not the version we wrote about before), but it does play fairly well.…
Admit it. At least once, during a long road trip, you’ve pulled over at a gas station, filled the tank, grabbed a $5 bottle of Desani and, just as you were leaving, inhaled a particularly saltilicious scent. Scanning through the aisle, you see its source. Hot dogs. Preservatives with a side of meat. And they…
