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DirecTV is poised to take the lead in the HD battle by adding 30 extra channels starting on August 14th. That would give them 130 channels of HD in total-putting them well on their way to the 150 mark they floated around early this year. By the end of this month they also plan to…
You might’ve noticed that the ground got a little rumbly California. You also might’ve noticed that the phone lines are basically blowing up. AT&T is officially recommending to only “make emergency or urgent calls” and use text messaging instead, to keep lines open for emergency personnel. Facebook and Twitter are other options (if you’re one…
This room, located in an apartment in Hong Kong, features a central unit that can rotate 360 degrees with the push of a finger. It has different compartments on different sides, allowing you to basically rotate the walls of what should be different rooms to face different living areas. Want your TV facing the bed?…
This is a US Navy Spruance-class destroyer sinking in mere minutes after being hit by the latest version of a Mk 48: a heavyweight torpedo which, as you can see in this video, can wipe a whole ship out of the water in a single strike. This version, developed by the US and Australia, has…
Microsoft’s Surface Sphere operates a lot like the original Surface, utilizing a projector surrounded by a ring of IR cameras, which is then covered by a semi-opaque globe. The IR cameras detect when the beams are being blocked, and transmits it as contact. Using it, I found there are still a few early glitches, but…
Apparently hidden in the code of the 2.1 firmware we’re anxiously awaiting to make our iPhones less laggy and crashy (and maybe add copy and paste!) is a reference to a new iPod touch model. The current iPod touch designation is “iPod1,1” but there’s a string in the code for an “iPod2,1” which points at…
The previously DVD and HD DVD-only Ultimate Matrix Collection is headed to Blu-ray October 14, which will be pretty much the same as the HD DVD version. It’ll have 35 hours of extras, picture-in-picture commentary and a price tag of $130. If you were that big a Matrix fan to spend $130 on this, you…
Today’s the last day you have to enter our Eureka contest to win an iPhone, so get to work and you might just come out one phone richer.
There are plenty of odd USB drives out there-especially ones shaped like food. But those drives are meant for happy-go-lucky types that may or may not have an eating disorder. But what about hotheads that have a love/hate relationship with their computer? Plankon’s 1GB “Nailed” USB drive fills that void with a design that almost…
True story: we weren’t going to post that iTunes was to start selling classic Nickelodeon shows. And then a discussion started-a lively discussion in which we listed our fond memories of You Can’t Do That On Television, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts and Clarissa Explains it all. Eventually, Adam posted a picture of Alex Mack…
Remember Microsoft’s Mojave experiment? Where they took XP users who didn’t know a lot about Vista, stuck them in a room, showed them a mysterious OS that they loved, then revealed that it was Vista. Here’s the video they took of the experiment. https://gizmodo.com/windows-xp-users-actually-love-vista-if-they-think-i-5028903 What’s interesting about this experiment is that sure, people who don’t…
With the FCC’s approval, Sirius and XM had a shotgun wedding over the weekend, and is now officially Sirius XM Radio, with over 18.5 million subscribers (technically XM is a subsidiary of Sirius, making it the wife, I guess). Let the promised savings and awesomeness begin. [InfoWeek]
What if all of the cars in a parking lot were wirelessly keeping an eye on one another just in case a member of the “herd” was damaged or stolen? Sencun Zhu, an assistant professor at Penn State University, wants to make this concept a reality with his new Sensor Vehicle Anti-Theft System (SVATS). This…
Treo 800w users can finally do voice dialing over their Bluetooth headsets with this software update pack. One caveat is that you’ll need to have the TREO800w-1.03-SPNT as your current “Software Version” under your About screen, so if you don’t, you’ll have to update to that first. What’s the point of using your Bluetooth headset…
The original WiBrain B1E was relatively inexpensive for a UMPC at $699, but it definitely fell well short of greatness. However, the manufacturer has made some upgrades with the upcoming I1 model that should address some of its predecessor’s shortcomings. New features include: your choice of 1.1GHz (Z510) and 1.33GHz (Z520) Atom processors, a WWAN…
That iBuddy MSN emote guy we caw back at CES is now on sale at Brando for $20. If you don’t remember, you can set up notifications on your MSN buddies, so that when they sign on, the iBuddy goes nuts and flaps its wings. It also recognizes up to eight emotes and blinks/flaps/explodes accordingly.…
Apple, if this has all been just one particularly ambitious viral marketing campaign, know that this photo would scare even the most loyal of fanboys, forcing them to boil their poor iPods for proper sterilization from the new, intangible “ick factor.” In all seriousness, we’re sure that Steve “ex-Zunemeister” Smith is a nice guy. But…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to put modern technology in famous works of art. I’ve got to be honest, these might be the best results from a Photoshop Contest yet. The wide range of sources makes for an insanely entertaining gallery, and I had a really hard time choosing the top three.…
The previously good Voice Dial jailbreak app for iPhone has made its way onto the App Store, complete with $25 price tag. Voice Dial isn’t to be confused with iSpeak, another voice dialing app that will probably hit the App Store sometime. https://gizmodo.com/voice-dial-iphone-voice-dialing-app-costs-money-but-wo-347736 There’s another current SpeechCloud voice dialing app on the App Store, and…
Sprint and Samsung’s femtocell answer to T-Mo’s Hotspot@Home is now available everywhere after localized tests in Indy and Denver apparently went well enough to push it nationwide. The box connects to your router, allowing you to make calls over the web with any Sprint CDMA phone. It’s $100 for the box, plus $15 per month…