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The App Store is up and firmware 2.0 has been leaked, so I’m feeling pretty content right now. Sure, 3G is awesome, but to be honest I was more excited about the App Store than anything else. So, my question is: Do you feel the same way? Are you more excited about the App Store…
Radiohead, never ones to shy away from trying new things, has shot its new video for “House of Cards” without using cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they’ve used two fancy new technologies called Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. To shoot it using lasers and stuff. Let’s break it down here. https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566 The Geometric Informatics scanning…
Though it’s not among the 522 awesome apps launching today, TeleNav will soon fill a pretty big hole by providing a turn-by-turn in-car GPS navigator app for the iPhone 3G, as we speculated. TeleNav confirmed to us today that its app will include full-color 3D moving maps and the turn-by-turn voice guidance and traffic-aware routing…
For those who’d like to relive the excitement of a Showbiz Pizza party in their own living room and now at age 25+, the Rock-Afire Explosion Band is for sale on eBay. The animatronic band is “mostly restored” and prepared to play three shows at your will. But the bidding starts at a hefty, ball-pit-dropping…
The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken. It was released just hours ago and it has already been cracked by the iPhone Dev Team. The first one took a couple of months, but this one was actually unlocked before Apple released it to the public. And you have had the proof…
I’m not sure how many of you were awake for our play-by-play of ifixit’s iPhone 3G teardown this morning—there are some really fantastic pictures if you missed it—but the big news that came out of the dissection was that the iPhone’s battery is no longer soldered in. So in other words, the battery will be…
So I told you this morning about how Iran made its missile test photos look more impressive by adding another missile using the magic of Photoshop. Whatever, we can do better than that. You want to impress us, Iran? Let’s see some serious tech power. We’ll help. Your challege, Gizmodians, is to use Photoshop to…
Those overheating Nvidia laptop graphics cards that are dying en masse? The Inquirer is reporting that “all the G84 and G86 parts are bad. Period. No exceptions,” on mobile and desktop. Those chipsets are in pretty much every GeForce 8-series graphics card below the 8800s (here’s a complete list of cards and chipsets). Notably, that…
We expected to see our share of social networking apps, sports programs and games in the iTunes App Store today, but one thing that we underestimated was the sheer amount of Bible software that would be available at launch. Really. While other faiths seem left in the dark, Christian software design firms showed up in…
Click to viewAs you can see in the video, MobileMe push mail is now active, fully operative, and perfectly armed. My iPhone is now getting all email in real time, both over a Wi-Fi connection and using a cellphone network. I even use EDGE-not 3G-and a non-official carrier on roaming. So far, not a single…
Click to viewThere are a total of 552 different apps in the iPhone App Store right now. We’re going to do live impressions of the best ones (and some really, really lousy ones if they’re interesting enough). UPDATE: It’s over! More at our iPhone App coverage.. Twitterific: Works just like the desktop version of Twitterific…
You’ve been able to sing or hum a tune into midomi.com and have it take a shot at guessing what you’re crooning for a while, but today this novel tech that uses a user-generated database of recordings for comparison has found what I think might be its perfect home on the iPhone. Instead of lobbing…
Giz has learned from a solid source that the upcoming BlackBerry is definitely being called the “Storm” and not the “Thunder” as previously reported-proving that BGR had it all wrong all along. BGR was also incorrect in stating that the release would be delayed. In fact, our source claims that “It’s on track and it…
Our ring-wielding Gizmodo brethren over in New Zealand took the iPhone’s GPS out for a spin. And after the system properly located their position, the map zoomed in and put them somewhere unrecognizable. Upon zooming our, their new location was revealed: Kansas. And how they got there, no one knows. The problem may have been…
About a year ago we brought you the first retail terabyte HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000, and now Hitachi has released the Deskstar 7K1000.B. And Hitachi’s worked quite hard on it: With a 32MB buffer and a three-disk layout, it’s apparently the “world’s most power-efficient 1TB drive” and consumes about 43% less power when idling. And…
For those of you just crawling to your computers, here’s what’s been going on this very busy AM: • First, the App Store opened its doors on iTunes 7.7 (available for download), and we did the first video walkthrough of the App Store featured on some early iPhone 2.0 firmware. • MobileMe, the service that…
The high definition wizards at RED have a new design update on their Red Scarlet HD Pocket Pro, their handy high definition camera priced under $3,000, which can shoot 3k resolution 120fps video. Looking at the new rugged exterior, it can probably shoot anti-matter beams or armor-piercing grenades too. We want. [Scarlet user] https://gizmodo.com/red-scarlet-3k-hd-pocket-pro-camera-under-3000-379530
All joking aside, there are plenty of places in the world where getting speedy medical attention is difficult. And that’s where the Jaambaaro concept from designer Benoît Angibaud comes in. It’s a two-person pedal-powered ambulance, designed to get the sick and wounded to hospital in areas where motor vehicles are rare. It would have solar…
“Application Description: The Wheel is a gestational age calculator (also known as pregnancy wheel)….The Wheel easily and accurately determines the estimated delivery date, or due date, of a pregnancy based on the first day of the woman’s last menstual period. Once the ED is determined, The Wheel simplifies the precise calculation of the gestational age…
This Dice game is by far the coolest game I’ve seen, and it’s got amazing tech inside which takes advantage of the iPhone’s sensors like no other app. Here’s how it works: You shake the iPhone and it rolls the dice inside, which you use to play poker. But instead of using some dumb random…