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While the tricycle/Big Wheel are both throwbacks to our past, one designer believes that three wheels are the future. Felipe Tolomei designed this three-wheeled Rabbit bike with a clever idea-put two small electric motors on each back tire. Now if we would only widen each of those motorized wheels to dragster dimensions and stick in…
Many portable media players have audio recorders built in so you can record audio directly to them. The iPod does not. Interested in adding that feature? Say hello to Belkin’s crazy, $120 solution to this problem: the GoStudio (initially announced as the Podcast Studio. Essentially, it adds an audio-in to your iPod, but it also…
Monday’s leak of info about Garmin’s upcoming Oregon touchscreen GPS line has now been followed by some images and screenshots. And though the mapping functions pretty much follow the earlier Colorado line, the units look very different—apparently being pretty buttonless indeed. For walkers, the 200 is a simple basemap unit, the 300 has worldwide maps…
When you see a guy dressed up like Spock at a Star Trek convention, it’s actually pretty normal. But as the excellent documentary Trekkies pointed out, it’s a lot more odd when these fans wear the clothes home…and don’t take them off. Photographer Steve Schofield has an amazing gallery of British science fiction fans dressed…
Click to viewOne of the first apps I downloaded while doing the App Store video walkthrough today was the new iPhone Remote for iTunes. There’s only one word to describe it: perfectomfgthisissocool. As you can see in the video, it just works, giving you full control of all the music, video, podcasts, and movies stored…
The Wall Street Journal today is reporting that the Justice Department has concluded its criminal investigation into Apple’s stock backdating shenanigans once and for all. Everything’s coming up Jobs! Even though Steve was pretty much off the hook as of November of last year, the Feds kept the case under official criminal investigation until now.…
It’s App Store launch day, so there’s bound to be a few bits of fun… check out To Do versus Todo in the image there, spotted over at BoingBoing. Different logos. Different spacing. And … different pricing? Wonder if item #1 on both developer’s list is “Fight!”? Updated: We’ve spotted some more amusingly duped apps.…
Gizmodo readers aren’t the only people who love digitally altering photos using Photoshop – so does Iranian state media! You may have seen the above photo yesterday, which features four scary missiles being fired off as a test/example of the size of Iran’s dick. Guess what? One of those missiles is a fake. Here’s what…
Those lads over at ifixit promised us that they’d be the first to crack open the iPhone 3G. And pending any stories coming out about absurdly bad gadget-dropping experiences from outside Vodafone, it seems they’ve delivered. We’ll be following ifixit this morning to get the first look. Read on to behold the inside of your…
The iPhone 2.0 update, which will let you install those fancy apps, is live right now, but you have to install it on your iPhone manually. It’s easy though. Click here to download the iPhone 2.0 firmware. Then in iTunes, hold down the option key while clicking “Check for Update”, but don’t forget to make…
Today and tomorrow are going to be crazy in the Apple and iPhone departments, and Giz is going to be up to our armpits in it, covering the news. For some of you out there, that might not be what you’re after. So, to avoid Apple and iPhone-related posts here on Giz, there’s an escape…
Clever: Taking novels in the public domain, re-boxing them, and selling them in the iTunes App Store for a buck a pop. It’s mostly stuff you had to read in high school, like Dickens and Edith Wharton, but there’s also a whole mess of Tarzan novels in there too. The text looks crisp and readable,…
There are already a ton of free apps in the store (134 to be exact), but ad startup Medialets is hoping to increase that number by providing a platform-wide ad network so developers can easily launch ad-supported free apps. Revenue will be split between devs and Medialets, with none apparently going to Apple (MobileBurn is…
Congrats Jonny (aka New Zealand’s Greg Packer). You got your iPhone. You were first. You win. You rule the world for, like, the next two minutes or so. Just remember, my mother buys an iPhone tomorrow. And not that she isn’t cool or anything, but don’t expect that phone to be a special VIP pass…
Apple TV 2.1 is out via Software Update. It adds two things: Support for the Remote app for the iPhone and iPod touch (awesome), and support for MobileMe. Hoo. Ray. [iLounge] https://gizmodo.com/apple-remote-iphone-app-controls-your-itunes-over-wi-fi-5023715
The Sidekick that had been known as Gekko shall henceforth be called Sidekick 2008. Yes, it may be the first time since the year 2000 that we’re sticking the date in a product name, but it’s a trend we’ve so missed. Other than that, we just have a few more blurry-and-therefore-trustworthy leaked shots of the…
Sketches is a simple drawing tool for the iPhone. What’s cool is that you can now use it to draw boogers, mustaches, and devil horns on your friends. There are line tools, but no text tools, comic bubbles, gadgets (iPod, iMac and iPhone) and you can use maps, photos, camera shots, and solid colors as…
The iPhone 3G just went on sale in New Zealand, so Johnny Gladwell should be caressing his iPhone in mere moments. https://gizmodo.com/this-may-be-the-first-man-on-the-planet-to-get-an-iphon-5022869
Apple’s MobileMe, the bigger/better/more version of .Mac, just went live, sort of. We logged in and poked around, but then the site went dead and the server started redirecting us back to the old “coming soon” page. Here’s what we saw before things went away: https://gizmodo.com/apple-mobileme-official-sync-for-the-rest-of-us-5014669 As promised, all of the .Mac galleries are there,…
The App store went live a few minutes ago and the remote app we saw last week went live as well. It controls your iTunes through a screen that looks just like the regular iPhone/iPod touch player, and it only works through Wi-Fi. You can control AppleTVs, too, and you can also control speaker output.…