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We’re not sure what drives one to put a PC in a cheese wheel, but we’re glad that such outlets exist for those who are so inclined. For what would man have done, say, 100 years ago if he wanted to run TurboTax from a pile of aging dairy product? He would have lived a…
Created for this year’s Burning Man festival, the Flamethrower Shooting Gallery looks like one hell of a stress-relieving sideshow amusement. It was created by Matisse and Roxie and recently debuted at the Oakland The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival… presumably to a warm reception. Check out the short video to see it in action—though you might…
In the world of USB gizmos there’s the useful, the strange and now the totally and utterly useless. Brando’s “Fidget” toys are designed to replace doodling as a time-wasting activity in the office, or something like that anyway. They’re mini USB devices in the shape of different sports balls, that come with a desktop mini-game…
Samsung has kept developing its LG Prada knock-off F480 full-touchscreen phone and turned it into the D980. This is a dual-SIM version of the phone, hitting China first in a D988 version and then apparently the rest of the world as the D980 DuoS. It’s a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device, with 2.6-inch QVGA screen and 5-megapixel…
Forget the improbable promises of the Falx tiltrotor: Bell aircraft has rolled out its 609 civilian tiltrotor for real. Looking and flying like a smaller cousin of the military V22 Osprey, also a Bell vehicle, the 609 will undoubtedly please millionaire business people since it can perform all the rooftop-landing duties of a normal helicopter,…
Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba JVC, Kodak, Hitachi and a bunch more companies have today announced that they’re forming the Transferjet consortium to develop an “interoperable wireless transfer technology.” Sounding like a challenge to Bluetooth, Transferjet will apparently operate at a theoretical 560 Mbps rate. Plus it could allow pairing as simply as touching two devices…
Scientists in Japan have worked out a new technique for improving the lifespan of flash memory devices from around a decade currently to hundreds of years. The new ferroelectric NAND flash technology can do rewrites 100 million times, versus the 10,000 or so of existing tech, and can be scaled down to 10nm—one third the…
Once we learned that the Fisker Karma hybrid sports car would produce fake engine sounds we knew plans to produce the beast had to be underway. And Fisker today has announced a letter of intent with producer Valmet Automotive to actually build the luxury hybrid sports car. First vehicle roll-off the production line will be…
It looks like the Sony-Ericsson W350a is coming to AT&T later this year. One of the handsets has appeared mysteriously on eBay with AT&T branding. It’s not a super-new phone, but the fact that it’s got the AT&T logo is something interesting. Was this a demo phone? A loaner from SE? Will AT&T carry the…
TiVo’s YouTube player that was announced back in March is finally going live today and will allow streaming, yes streaming, of all H.264 YouTube videos. It’s a major part of the 9.4 Summer Update that is hitting all boxes by the end of this month. Even though all boxes are receiving this update only Series…
Joel Johnson over at BoingBoing Gadgets/BoingBoing TV has a great interview with futurist/artist/genius, Syd Mead. See also:Syd Mead Art for U.S. Steel (1960s)Syd Mead
Boy Genius has word that T-Mobile’s Sidekick 2008 is coming out on July 30th. The phone has Sidekick like features, and a 2.6-inch WQVGA screen, A2DP stereo Bluetooth streaming and those interchangeable faceplates we’ve been hearing about. The phone’s OS should feel appropriately aged but at the right price, as the Sidekick’s always been a…
Much like those involving shaving razors and social networks, the Processor Wars are escalating. That’s good for us, especially gamers, but maybe things are getting ridiculous considering how hard multicore programming still is. Take, for example, the recently unveiled 12-core processor (code-named Mangy-Cours) AMD’s got planned for 2010. Not only that is it updating its…
There are basically two camps on the year’s most anticipated phone: iPhone 3G or BlackBerry Bold. They are different phones with different core audiences, which largely comes down to keyboard preferences. But Boy Genius gives us a lot to chew on anyway in the first live head-to-head (and not just the photos). The shockers are…
Mocha is a VNC client that supports full QWERTY and Safari-like zooming as well as landscape mode. Double click works, but right click doesn’t, but there is no official App store equivalent so this is your desktop remote client of choice. [iPhone App Marathon via LH] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924
Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it’s more powerful than the DS, and now Sega-the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform-is saying that it’s just as powerful as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast! Do you remember…
Where will we be going to enjoy our sporting events in the future? What kind of amenities and features will the stadiums have to cater to our needs as fans? PopSci has investigated some of the up-and-coming technologies that we can expect to find in the stadium of tomorrow and compiled all of these innovations…
The quest to protect ourselves and our property from thieves has given rise to some of the most bizarre and deadly devices ever conceived by man. OObject has compiled 10 burglar alarms that fit neatly in this category with devices that range from a mousetrap alarm that managed to capture a couple of schoolyard criminals…
Outside of the TL34HD, Samsung released 3 other second-tier point-and-shoots: the TL9, SL310W and SL201. However, the most notable of these is definitely the 10 megapixel TL9 with its dual analog gauges that keep track of remaining battery life and memory capacity. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-tl34hd-a-14-7-mp-point-and-shoot-5025985 Besides that unique design feature, it also has a 2.7 inch LCD,…
Over at the still-going Apps review marathon, we’ve touched on three Twitter apps that bring the service to iPhone 2.0, with varying degrees of success. Twitterific’s version for the iPhone is as good as their OS X desktop client with a beautiful interface, and it’s free if you don’t mind the ads ($10 to make…
