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Microsoft’s getting some competition for its Surface device. Panasonic is showing off a very Surface-like product it’s calling Digital Wall, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. While at this point it doesn’t appear to offer all the the features of Surface it could also come in much cheaper that the Microsoft version, and for…
Laptop and Maximum PC have gotten their hands on Voodoo/HP’s Envy 133 thinnest-of-the-thin power notebooks and had some light hands on time. Nothing too shocking has been uncovered—it looks as good in person as it does in pictures, is almost as light as the Macbook Air, and all the rest, but Laptop was able to…
If you are simply not satisfied with the battery life of your new iPhone 3G, you do have a few options. You could try and maximize it, or you could pick up some battery packs like the iPhoneck. Sure it extends your iPhone 3G by a whopping 2-inches, but it can also fully charge your…
It’s essentially just a marketing tool for the Dark Knight movie, but hot damn if we don’t like this. Just run the app, take a picture of yourself, then add Joker elements to your face. Works on iPhone (use the camera) or iPod touch (use a saved picture). The only downside is that there’s no…
Why would the noble locksmith have a bone to pick with geeks? Because they are beating them at their own game, that’s why. A growing number of amateur lock picking enthusiasts are intimidating the professionals with their skill-a group comprised mainly of computer geeks who draw parallels between network hacking and lock busting. According to…
The 1979 book The Micro Millennium heralded the arrival of the microprocessor as a revolution that would forever change our lives. From the back cover of the 1981 paperback edition: By the year 2,000 – 17 years from now – you will live in a world transformed by one tiny, cheap computer chip – the…
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is out the door. While he drove their burly competition with Intel, he’s also responsible for AMD’s poor acquisition of ATI and its struggles of late, like losing money for seven straight quarters, leading them to dump their handheld and DTV businesses. Taking over is Dirk Meyers, who’s more chip geek…
I don’t know about you, but I receive far too many emails to be messing around with push email. Those emails constantly chiming in annoy me, which is why I have everything set to manual update. However, that is certainly not the case with everyone. Some people really need to be on top of every…
I have been keeping up with the Zumobi browser platform since it was launched last year, but up until now the tile-based UI was only available on Windows Mobile devices. However, the Microsoft-backed company announced today that it will deliver the application for 81xx, 83xx, or 88xx Blackberry devices with OS 4.2 or later. The…
Dave Eggers’ temporally advanced Time Travel Mart in LA (“whenever you are, we’re already then!”) just released a fantastic poster set that takes on the look and feel of old Pan Am travel ads to hype several of the historical eras we’ll all be hitting in our future DeLoreans-Pangaea to run with the dinos, Tokyo…
The guys at Tasty Booze may think whoever owns this guy is a gigantic douche, but we know better. This guy is a gigantic Gizmodo fan. You can’t fit “Gigantic Gizmodo Fan” on a license plate, so he shortened it to “BIG GIZ”. Here’s to you, Giz fan—you Pontiac driver you. [TastyBooze – Thanks Blakeley!]
If you’ve been reading all about the Mobile Me rollout with scorn for its Apple-ness, Microsoft just opened up more preview slots for its Live Mesh service that similarly syncs files and info across all of your devices in the cloud (including Macs-later). While the service can be a bit hard to parse at times,…
Here it is, my friends: the first trailer for one of the most highly-anticipated comic book film adaptations ever. Yep, it’s the trailer for Watchmen that’s debuting before The Dark Knight. Directed by Zack Snyder of 300 fame, it’s sure to be the biggest fanboy magnet of the decade. The trailer is due to hit…
The scientific community has been praising graphene as some sort of miracle material for years now-even going so far as to say that it could eventually replace silicon. Well, graphene can now add another statistic to its impressive resume now that researchers have confirmed it as the strongest material ever tested. https://gizmodo.com/silicon-out-graphene-in-371658 Two engineering professors…
This week at Uncrate: We race across the Northeast in the Rental Car Rally, perfect our dugout spitting techniques with Zotes Sunflower Seeds, and protect our guitars with the Belkin BreakFree. We also go green with the Lotus Eco Elise, hit the rapids in the Trak Kayak, and keep our facial hair in check with…
Sony’s mantra of not writing checks for exclusives-or much of anything-seems to be biting them in the ass a couple times this week. There are at least four cases where the PlayStation 3 has suffered because of Sony’s lack of willingness to open up the purse strings. We knew two of these before-backward compatibility and…
In a quarterly conference call today, Intel CEO Paul Otellini dropped the aforementioned diss of the low-cost, low-power 45nm Atom chipset that can be found in a few current and many future netbooks, redirecting attention to the just-updated Centrino 2 and somehow-still-alive Celeron platforms as more viable for most consumers, and more profitable evidently for…
Sure, the Tesla Roadster is a pretty fast electric car, I guess. But the Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero EV? Well, that’s going to be the fastest electric car in the world. I mean, just look at that thing! It’s still in the design phase, but we do know that SSC has at least one 500-HP…
Nikon has been sending out press invites for an event on September 3rd. What could they possibly want to talk about just a few weeks before Germany’s Photokina expo? It could be Nikon’s sequel to their D80, the D90. Or, it could be the 24.4-megapixel D3x that was spotted in Nikon firmware. Or, in a…
We’re doing our best to shield ourselves from whatever surprises are left in The Dark Knight before we stay up too late to see it, but that doesn’t mean you should miss out on this story from Popular Mechanics on the new Batpod. We only skimmed the intro, but it looks to have interesting real-life…