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Dell’s Latitude XT tablets will receive their long-awaited multi-touch firmware update Tuesday, adding multi-touch to web browsers, MS Office, Google Earth, photo viewers, and more to zoom, scroll and pinch just like you-know-who. There’s also a boss-is-coming shortcut-double-tap the screen and it goes dark instantly, hiding your unsavory dealings. Looks a little jerky in Hans…
In an interview with Extreme Tech, Apple product head Greg Joswiak explained the lack of cut and paste in the iPhone: it’s just not a priority right now. He says Apple worked its way as far down its “priority list” of features for firmware 2.0, but just not far enough to reach cut and paste.…
Microsoft dropped a bunch of awesome bombs in their keynote, but there’s more! Marc Whitten reveals that you’ll be able to copy full games and play them directly off the hard drive to shrink load times (and silence disc spinning), though you’ll still need the game inserted so they know you own it. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-e3-liveblog-5024883 Also,…
Harmonix has officially unveiled the track list for Rock Band 2. Besides being packed with rock gods like AC/DC exclusively, GNR’s Chinese Democracy’s official debut, Alice in Chains and Rage Against the Machine (I’m a child of the 90’s), and full backwards compatibility with all DLC songs, you can “export most of the Rock Band…
That’s right, it’s EXCLUSIVE to Xbox 360. Sony and Nintendo are weeping now. Final Fantasy is a game-changing franchise that can carry a console. That’s a hell of a “one more thing” to finish off Microsoft’s E3 Keynote. UPDATE: Whew, Sony can breathe a little easier. It’s not exclusive after all, we got ahead of…
Microsoft just confirmed that Lips is not just an awkward prerelease codename but the final title of the Xbox 360 karaoke game with motion-sensing, rhinestone-encrusted microphone we’ve been hearing about. Most interesting though is integration with your Zune or-gasp!-iPod for loading your own songs into the game. No more complaining that your local ‘oke joint…
Coming in the fall Xbox 360 update: Netflix! Yes, Xbox 360 owners who are also Netflix subscribers will be able to stream movies available for online streaming now straight to their consoles. You can also share your Netflix movies with friends via your Xbox Live party so you can watch stuff together, although you’ll need…
Microsoft revealed today at their E3 press conference that their dashboard will be completely redesigned in the fall, with an all new avatar system similar to that on the Wii. The fully customizable avatars, designed by Rare, can be imported into other games to be used as playable characters. New channels include the My Xbox…
The Radiohead video for “House of Cards” that used no cameras or lights, only fancy lasers, just hit the web, and it’s just as crazy and trippy as the screenshots suggested. Above, check out the video, while after the jump you’ll find another video that details just how it was made. Did I mention that…
Is this is it? The beginning of decent Blu-ray movie prices? Warner Bros. is going cut prices on a smorgasbord of Blu-ray movies for retailers in September (some as low as $11), meaning you should see the them slide at least a couple of bucks. No word on the complete list (it is lengthy though)…
We’re here in LA and livebloging the Microsoft presser today at 10:30 PDT. Mark Wilson and I will be covering the hell out of the hardware announcements, but if you’re interested in the new game announcements, Kotaku will be the place to go. What announcements will there be? A motion-controlled interface? A karaoke controller? We’ll…
Kajima’s floor-by-floor slow demolition is one of those rare things in life that leaves you truly speechless, mouth wide-open, and pinching yourself to be sure this is real while you mutter “what the frak.” After all, seeing the video of a 20-floor building submerging into the asphalt as if it was liquid is something that…
Another reason I’m glad I was never a rave kiddie whenever it was trendy in the US: Trippy lasers beamed into your eyes will blind you. A gaggle of Russian ravers at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival discovered this after tents erected to deflect heavy rains partially refracted lasers intended for skyward illumination…
I met three little pigs this weekend. One had made a house of straw, and the second a house of sticks. The last pig, from Cupertino, made his sturdy house out of bricked iPhone 3G’s. Here’s the rest of what happened here on Gizmodo over the weekend, in a convenient “best of” format: • DIY…
You know how it is: you’re camping in the wild, and your iPhone suddenly runs out of juice, just as you get bored stiff with the music selection you’ve got aboard it. Previously you’d’ve had to carry a bunch of stuff around to sort this out, but Macally’s PowerLink has come to the rescue. With…
Nintendo just announced the Wii MotionPlus, a small peripheral that plugs on to the bottom of the Wiimote to give greatly improved motion sensing, allowing for games to truly use your motion on screen for, say, a lightsaber game. Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by…
If you thought the activation servers being down on launch day made for a lousy unboxing of your shiny new iPhone 3G, you have nothing on this person. When they opened their iPhone, the screen was already on with a menacing picture of Steve Jobs on it, and the screen was scorchingly hot to the…
The Tumbler is the most badass Batmobile ever (it’s a freakin’ tank), but what if it was a Transformer? This is definitely what it would look like: A Decepticon-shredder. Bat-ingenuity, Transformer tech and sheer badassery definitely make this the beastliest ‘bot out of Cybertron. Optimus Prime had better watch his back. I want one. [Jester…
LEDs sure get put to some creative uses: here they’re built into the “world’s first anti-glare LED panel for night-drivers.” The idea is that at night your pupils naturally dilate to let more light in, but while driving this can result in dazzle and glare from other cars’ head- and tail-lights. So you just strap…
Here’s our Gizmodo iPhone 3G Review, iPhone Firmware 2.0 Review, our iPhone App Review Marathon (90 apps total), and a list of our favorite apps. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-review-5024412
