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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…
What more can we ask for? This September, arcade cabinet manufacturer Dream Arcades will be releasing a sit-down unit that’s pretty much every childhood and adult fantasy we’ve had rolled into one. Built upon a “high-end gaming PC” platform, the Octane 120 displays games through a 10-foot screen with its built-in projector and it will…
Palringo is a free multi-client instant messaging app for mobiles that hit the App Store over the weekend, and it’s the first to officially support Google Talk/Jabber, on top of Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, iChat and Gadu-Gadu (if you’re in Poland). You can also use it to quickly send photos from your camera or…
Click to viewLego Universe developer NetDevil has given us an exclusive peek into Lego Universe, the massive multiplayer online game where you can use bricks to collaboratively “build in real time”, having adventures through maps that span across all Lego themes: from Space to City to Pirates to Ninjas to Underwater, everything will be in…
Like the sun rising or your prostate swelling to grapefruit sizes, the HTC Touch Diamond showing up on the FCC site was an inevitability. It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming, but seeing for ourselves that it exists and has the proper US-based 3G HSDPA capabilities is always good. Now all that’s left…
Researchers at UT Austin have devised a new way to create lithium iron phosphate-the compound inside high-density Li-ion batteries being developed for cars and power tools-that uses microwaves to cut costs. The new method requires lower temperatures (300° C rather than 700°) and less time to fabricate the phosphate via the nuking process-just like throwing…
The Vortex Fountain eschews gentle, soothing streams for a powerful water funnel. The illusion of a standing block of water is created by an acrylic case hidden by transparency and water cascading down the sides, and the vortex itself is formed through the combination of strong, alternate currents of water that collide in the tank.…
Nothing says hilarity like forcing the more dim-witted of your friends to endure skidmarks and dingleberries by putting a puzzle on your toilet paper roll. Boy, you sure are a jokester! You really have an eye for when puzzles and trickery are appropriate and for when they clearly aren’t! A toast, to you! [Product Page…
One of the great joys of parenting, as I understand it, is being handed a malleable lump of proto-humanity that sees you as some kind of god, absorbing everything you do and say as a lifelong lesson. It’s a big responsibility, sure, but also an opportunity to create a really… unique individual. Which is why…
“Yo Dylan!” “Hey Kelly!” “You hear what happened to Steve and Donna?” “Who?” The great thing about the Beverly Hills 90210 iPod is that everyone will think you’re being ironic, even if you aren’t. [CBS via ChipChick] http://gizmodo.com/tag/beverly-hills-90210/
This week at TreeHugger: A Lithium Iron Phosphate breakthrough could mean better (cheaper, more powerful) batteries for electronics, hybrids and electric cars. Researchers have figured out a way to use micro-lenses to make better OLEDs, generating up to 70 lumens/watt! Google has decided to invest in a battery and an electric car company. And finally,…
Shanghai-based designers Naolab have turned their creative talents towards the universal gadget charging station, and come up with ChargerFrame. It’s designed to put your charging gadgets on display… in a chaotic, randomly wiry, Pollock-meets-cats-cradle kind of way. It has sockets built all around the frame, a single on-off switch and pegs for you to drape…
I’ve been meaning to buy a Super Talent Pico flash drive for a while-they’re 8GB, 31mm long (claiming world’s smallest) and have a metal loop that looks like it won’t break (hopefully) on my keyring. Now Brando is jumping into the ultra-tiny flash game, and surprisingly, the 8GB EKmemory Micro will run you $55-$20 more…
EA, better known to some as Electronic Arts, was the publisher behind the most recent PC-melting game on the block, Crysis. In conjunction with the upcoming Crysis Warhead, EA has mentioned that they will be selling custom branded PCs to accompany the launch. Aimed at those who might otherwise be intimidated by a gaming PC…
If you feel like you need an extra boost for your office chair races and/or ego, be prepared to pay up as much as $15,000 for one of these RaceChairs, featuring original seats from Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati cars. Leather, carbon fiber, aluminum, every single element except a cup holder? For shame. Ray Wert…
Last month the projection was 37 inches. Now a more reputable Japanese paper, Nikkei, is reporting a 40-inch target being mass-produced and ready for retail in the same time frame. As always, Panasonic/Matsushita simply confirms that they’re investing heavily into the tech and goes about their business. [AP] https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-to-have-37-inch-oled-panels-on-sale-by-2011-5019072
It shouldn’t be a surprise, really, as Asus has already whored the Eee brand strength to computer peripherals and even a television, but in a recent presentation the company revealed a sort of USDA computer pyramid prescribing an Eee for every class of buyer. And whether or not the majority of these 23 models are…
Ah the electric guitar… every time I eat at a Hard Rock Cafe, it’s these fabulous bits of rock paraphernalia that grab my attention. Fascinating: design, art, creativity in one gizmo. And yet at heart they’re very simple: a plain solid body, strings, and some pickups. So very simple in fact, that a guy called…