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We all laughed at that key legend-less leather keyboard the other day, didn’t we? Metadot, the makers of the new Ultimate Keyboard didn’t: it also skips all that troublesome bother of having labeled keys. Presumably it’s in the name of coolness, since the whole thing looks pretty slick and has precision-engineered, gold-plated switches that click…
Nvidia’s top end GeForce GTX 260 and 280 graphics cards-whose power borders on sorcery-launched for $399 and $650, respectively, less than a month ago. But pressure from ATI has driven Nvidia to already cut the price, hard. The GTX 280 is now only $399, while the GTX 260 is $299, the same price as ATI’s…
Last week Hasselblad was holding down the largest-sensor-available title with its 50MP H3DII-50, but now Phase One’s P65+ digital back matches the size of a standard piece of 645 film at 40.4 X 54.9mm-a first for digital sensors-for a final resolution of 65 megapixels. But if you’re guessing it’ll cost you, you guessed right. https://gizmodo.com/hasselblad-h3dii-50-has-50-megapixel-sensor-double-the-5022867…
The iPhone 3G came, it saw, it faltered quite a bit, then it conquered: the one millionth iPhone 3G was sold on Sunday, according to Apple. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve himself, and I don’t think we can really argue with that, since it took 74 days for the original iPhone…
A few months ago while talking about the rumored BlackBerry Niagara we mentioned the Javelin. And now it looks like a RIM insider has managed to sneak a few photos of a prototype copy of the phone. It’s a standard quad-band GSM/EDGE cell, with 480 x 360 LCD, GPS, wi-fi, a 3.2 megapixel camera and…
The first iPhone 3G battery test results are in, and it seems it beats the competition and Apple’s own benchmarks with an average of 5 hours and 38 minutes talking non-stop on AT&T’s 3G network. The closest competitor-only five minutes short-was the Samsung Instinct. PC World says that the result is remarkable knowing that AT&T’s…
Incredible: what more’s there to say? Incredible. Based on Judson Laipply’s "Evolution of Dance Video," but way better. We get to see a robot doing Vanilla Ice’s dance moves better than he did. A robot doing the "walk like an Egyptian" dance. The upcoming MechRC robot has been under development for three years and has…
Apple’s Bluetooth headset is already small and stylish, but designer Andi Monn has come up with a way of adding to it that also improves its utility. His headset “sleds” slide over the device and turn it into techy jewelry, of a sort. Plus they let you carry the gizmo around without wearing it in…
This Lego Concorde may not be as big as the Lego Airbus A380, the biggest Lego airplane in the world, but it’s still huge. It’s not only pretty, but this huge plane can maintain its structural integrity while being swooshed around by Ed Diment. It also allowed me to easily make bad headline puns, which…
What do you do with a C-130 cargo aircraft that has made a crash-landing in an insecure area of Iraq? If you’re the 447th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron you wire it with explosives and you blow it up. Again and again and again… until it’s in small enough bits to load onto a flatbed and…
With timepieces embedded into every electronic gizmo nowadays, the humble wristwatch is on its way out, you might think. That’s until you see this bizarrely cool prototype watch from designer Nicolas Lehotzky. Driven by a caterpillar-tread-alike drive, it turns the time-telling process inside out, from a virtual display into a sedate physical crawl around your…
Digging around in beach rock pools for crabs was always fun when I was a kid, though it brought the risk of a nip to your fingers if you weren’t careful: not a problem from these robotic crabs. Latest in the Hex Bug line from Bandai, the toys are designed to look, move and behave…
Yesterday’s Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI) ran a short piece about the Paleo-Future blog: “It’s been quite a journey,” he said. “When I first started the site, I thought I had maybe a month’s worth of material, but I dug deeper and who knew how many different versions of the future had happened during…
From the official PlayStation blog comes word this evening that the PlayStation Portable is set to receive a firmware update to version 4.05 very soon. E3, which started unofficially today and begins in earnest on Monday, is probably a safe bet for a more official Sony announcement. The folks at the PlayStation blog hinted the…
The 60GB Xbox 360 just popped up on Amazon for pre-order. They’ve got it listed for $349.99 (duh), shipping out Aug. 4. The price cut on the 20GB Xbox 360 is in full effect, too. [Amazon, Thanks Chris!] https://gizmodo.com/new-xbox-360-60gb-model-20-gig-going-for-299-5024639
Unbreakable Fighting Umbrellas have been around for a little while now, but today we know of one government that actually uses them to protect its president. That government is the Philippines, and the protected president is Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. She wouldn’t have it any other way. Further testimonials for the $180 multi-purpose weapon/rainstopper from Secret Service…
About a year ago, the Batmobile case mod lit up the internets with a design crafted from a Wal-Mart R/C Tumbler. The mod still kicks ass, but the specs were lame a year ago and are now…one year lamer. Still, it would make for a unique web surfing device and a great way to celebrate…
Design Toscano wants you to “expect the extraordinary from your home and garden,” and that includes the walking dead. Take this 13-lb. resin undead garden zombie, for example. Designed by British artist Alan Dickinson, it’s a life-sized resin sculpture that would be a terrifying addition to any lawn, garden or personal graveyard. For about $90,…
The burning question answered by these pics from CrackBerry: What does the touchscreen BlackBerry’s keyboard look like? As rumored, landscape gets you full QWERTY, while portrait mode drops you to SureType to squeeze in all the buttons. It’s straightforwardly utilitarian-taking up a massive amount of screen real estate, it definitely lacks in the glitz department.…
Oh, how I love complicated DIY projects that impress your geeky friends but make simple tasks more difficult! Case in point, this Clove 2 glove that allows users to type without a keyboard using a convoluted set of hand gestures. The glove communicates with your computer using Bluetooth and custom software that translates your finger…
