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In a giant memo to Microsoft employees laying out strategy and changes for the next fiscal year, Steve Ballmer spends a paragraph comparing their way of doing things (choice) versus Apple (end-to-end). Unexceptional, except he says that “We’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with…
Sarotech’s’ 2.5-inch ABigs player seems to be designed by an engineer with a gigantic budget. Why? Because it’s got a 2.5-inch display, H.264 and MKV support, 1080p over HDMI and 5.1-channel out, a built-in FM transmitter, a photo viewer, an e-book and both PAL and NTSC compatibility. The 160GB version is available for $278 and…
The FanWing has to be weirdest aircraft ever devised: it doesn’t use rotors or jets for propulsion, but a patented “distributed-propulsion vortex-lift” technology which is similar to the blade cylinders used in harvesting machines. In fact, that’s exactly what it looks like, a flying harvester. This prototype was presented at the recent Farnborough International Air…
A ROM update from Hong Kong for the HTC Touch Diamond released yesterday adds some fantastic functionality such as the use of the 850MHz GSM band (used by AT&T here in the US) and the improved TouchFLO 3D performance. (For the record, the performance update is great.) There are also a few bug fixes like…
Unfazed by Nintendo’s Wii Music going over like a lead balloon at E3, Yamaha is introducing its own accelerometer-based motion-controlled music interface that look oh-so familiar. The slightly more adult-looking wands use three accelerometers to feed movements to music software on a PC, and the 2.4GHz wireless receiver can accommodate up to 24 wands at…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to insert gadgets or modern technology into famous works of art, be they paintings, drawings or photographs. A pretty straightforward challenge, but I’m looking for some real quality this time around. Don’t just slap a photo of a Bluetooth headset on the Mona Lisa. Make it look…
While most of the attention has been on iPhone 3G stock at Apple Stores (rightfully so, since Apple is hoarding most of them) anyone not in driving distance of an Apple Store has to get theirs in AT&T land. So here’s the sorta good news, if you’re patient: If you do AT&T’s direct fulfillment deal-pay…
If you read what Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said about Wii shortages this holiday season and didn’t get angry, well, you’re not paying enough attention. Forbes paraphrases him as saying “demand for the device in the U.S. is unusually high in contrast to either Europe or Asia,” which is why you might not be able…
This week at Uncrate: We take a trip to the new hoglicious Harley-Davidson Museum, go green with the Brooks Trance 8 Biodegradable Running Shoe, and ditch our bulky wallets for the Money-band. We also hit the road in the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, jam out to One Day as a Lion, and find our way thanks…
A team of Welsh scientists have spent long nights camped out in a busy nightlife neighborhood of Cardiff from 11pm to 3am with one goal-studying the way Welshmen stagger when they’re shitfaced in order to build an accurate computer model of the phenomenon. They aim to use their data to help city planners design streets…
While Apple’s website updates its Apple Store iPhone 3G stock count every night after 9PM, the guys running the iPhone 3G availability tracker at Top Muffin say the data is actually updated throughout the day. So it hits the feed every 15 minutes, theoretically providing the most up-to-date stock count around. Or you could just,…
I’m not a Photoshop wizard. I know I do plenty of photobotching myself-guilty as charged, your honor-but unlike these brilliant Photoshop Disasters, I’ve got to do mine in a few minutes in order to publish news on time, and they don’t get published in ads, packages or magazines. My favorite from the gallery: the frontal…
Intel’s first Nehalem-based processor, Bloomfield, was originally set to launch in December, but Digitimes says these little demons will actually come out in September, hitting shelves in early October. Why the excitement? Nehalem is a brand new microarchitecture, replacing the Core one we’re all familiar with. (Penryn was a shrink of Core, to make it…
If you’re ever driving and you see a county fair with what appears to be three towering penises with clown makeup on them, pull over. You’ve just found the holy grail of dangerous rides. Essentially, you’re strapped in to a few bungee cords, pulled down really low and then released, flinging you flailing 25 feet…
Minneapolis native Grayson Clevenger allegedly robbed an apartment and stole a car. Police pursued him. And when detectives called Clevenger’s cellphone to negotiate his arrest, he answered, “Dude, I can’t talk, I’m being chased by the police.” And then he hung up. Clevenger eventually escaped on foot around the University of Minnesota campus and remains…
Here in Gizmodo we have this love-hate relationship with steampunk-which borders in the hate-hate most of the time. But when it comes to Star Wars redesigns, I can’t help it, I’m fascinated by them, specially the new bounty hunters from Empire Strikes Back, including an omfg-I-want-it version of Boba Fett. Yoda and the rest of…
Science lab night-time routine goes like this: the experiment concludes, equipment winds slowly down. You rub bleary eyes, stretch your stiff neck, hit “save” on the data for analysis tomorrow. Then you deal with the forest of coffee mugs, flick the light switch and bumble out of the door. But the lab’s still there: racks…
A firmware update scheduled to drop later this week will allow Sony Readers to use the .epub format, an open standard (with DRM support) that has the backing of several major book publishers. This means you’ll be able to get books from sources other than Sony’s own Connect store, which currently only has one third…
At $449, MyAccountsToGo Dynamics GP and MyAccountsToGo SAP BusinessOne are the most expensive iPhone Apps available as of right now. It’s under the Finance category and is designed for sales, marketing and finance people to access their transactions, statements, and other corporate terms that we have no clue about. Since the most we know about…
When Nintendo isn’t busy heating their offices with a money furnaces just to wipe the sweat off their brow with money, sometimes Nintendo president Satoru Iwata takes a moment to step down from his sweaty throne to lay the smackdown (generally through a stinky sock filled with golden pirate coins) on competing consumer electronics. This…