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Hey Apple. Microsoft’s seen those Get a Mac ads with J. Long and J. Hodgman. They’re tired of that shit. So tired, in fact, that they’re going to spend some $300 million in their own advertising campaign with Crispin Porter + Bogusky telling consumers how much Vista doesn’t suck. Corporate VP of Windows Consumer Product…
Guys, isn’t capital punishment hilarious? I mean, there’s nothing funnier than the state putting someone to death for a crime they’re pretty sure they committed even though there’s always a margin of error and it’s 100% certain that innocent people have been executed! LOL! For my next party, I’m getting the Shocker Chair, the only…
You’re all set to get an iPhone 3G-you’ve done the research, you’ve picked a plan and you’ve even convinced the office you’ve got an 8AM uh, sales call. Here’s everything you need to know for launch day: Where to go, what to bring, the final word on in store-activation (you’re not gonna like it), why…
The BlackBerry’s keyboard is an object of worship, and RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis has publicly said the iPhone’s touch keyboard sucks. So, the BlackBerry Thunder‘s touch keyboard had better be the best one you’ve ever smeared your fingerprints on. According to Crackberry, it has two big tricks: The screen itself is “sort of like a…
A leaked email sent out to buyers at GameStop and Blockbuster shows three things that Microsoft will announce before or around E3 next week. One, there’s a 60GB Pro console package coming. Two, there’s a $99 60GB hard drive pack for Arcade and Core owners, which comes also with 3 months of Xbox Live, a…
Hooray! If you preordered an MSI Wind and suffered through a few delays, know that the mini-notebooks are shipping now. Remember they’re only coming with a 3-cell battery, and apparently the $499 6-cell and $399 Linux versions aren’t hitting until September. The $479 Wind should be available at popular retailers somewhere between now and soon.…
Although you can pull out a pen and paper and do the math yourself, BillShrink is an easy web-based way to calculate how much that iPhone 3G family plan is going to cost you over two years. Just move the sliders around, choose how many lines you want and pick the amount of text messages…
This specially-created one-off steampunk gas mask was made from leather, brass, and a Soviet-era gas mask. What’s special about this isn’t that it looks incredibly creepy and incredibly cool, it’s that it looks kinda similar to that Nazi villain from the first Hellboy movie. Maybe it’s just us and our excitement for Hellboy II that…
The idea of a compact, folding bicycle is nothing new, but designer Chang Ting Jen is hoping to take the concept even further with his Backpack bike. According to the specs, a production version would weigh around 12 pounds and fold into a backpack that measured just under 2 feet in length. Naturally, that means…
Asus just released their Eee 901 for sale in the US and all is well with the world…except for one thing. They built a bunch of Eee 900s that they have to get rid of. Remember the Eee 900? That was the original 8.9-inch Eee that used a Celeron processor instead of a shiny new…
Japanese Performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a crawling Japanese businessman robot and took it to the streets of Australia to creep out little kids and turn on weird dudes with camcorders. The bot is her critique on the Japanese salaryman lifestyle and the apparent upcoming Asian economic crash. All we know is that dressing up…
Named for microbiology pioneer Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Anton is currently being built with 512 highly specialized processors. These are clocked at just 400MHz, and the machine has modest memory, but its architecture lets it process problems in a massively-parallel way. Ultimately, that’ll offer a performance boost of 1000x over current complex molecular simulations. And that’s…
Why be tethered to your Wii when the rest of your controllers are free to swing about and fly around your living room? Logic 3’s 32-key wireless keyboard lets you enter in names, messages and Wii Friend Codes like an expert, not a spastic ten-year-old swatting at invisible flies. It’s £13.99 ($27) when it’s released…
Click to viewLast week I asked you to send me napkin sketches of your brilliant gadget ideas. The sketches I received ranged from good ideas to bad ideas to flat-out horrible ideas. It’s safe to say that no time machines or gadgets that’ll make you attractive to ladies are suddenly feasible because you did a…
Apparently the Centro is going to be stupid cheap on AT&T starting July 11, and it’ll come in “electric blue.” Palm is being coy about exactly how much cheaper, but we figure it’ll be a decent discount-maybe down to $49, like the BlackBerry Kickstart will be. We’re sure it’ll have people lining up at AT&T…
Hey guys, you can still win a year’s worth of free movies from Netflix or Blockbuster (your pick), but today is your last chance to enter. It’s ridiculously easy. Here’s how. Click here, answer some little questions. Then, email [email protected] and tell them what the last question was. Congrats, you’re officially in the contest. (Which…
Nvidia has been pretty tight with Via, the scrappy maker of low-power chips for tiny laptops and mobile internet devices, to the point of sparking rumors Nvidia wanted to buy ’em. But Taiwanese rag Digitimes says their buddy-buddy relationship is just leverage for Nvidia to muscle its way into Intel’s Atom platform. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-under-the-hood-of-the-newest-laptops-and-5012918 Supposedly, if…
Apple’s apparently so fed up with the high pricing that Rogers is shoving into Canadian iPhone owners’ faces that there will be no iPhone 3Gs sold at Apple Stores in Canada this Friday. This follows up Apple’s previous action of diverting stock from Canada to Europe, and really sets the tone that they’re unhappy with…
Fighting tumors with nanomachines isn’t super new, but scientists just made a new discovery when using the nanoparticles loaded with doxorubicin in mice: the cancer didn’t spread. “Patients often don’t die from primary tumors, which you can recognize and detect and develop a therapy for,” said Cheresh. “They die from metastatic disease — when, for…
There have been a few blurry screenshots floating around the web that promise a $299 Xbox 360—a $50 reduction on the current 20GB model. But these latest pictures from a Gamestop employee are by far the most conclusive. The first is of an internal document that’s not to be opened until 7/13 (the Sunday before…
