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Welcome to special edition of Giz Explains: Following yesterday’s rundown of the stuff you didn’t already know about iPhone’s 3G goods, today we’re tackling its finding-a-Waffle House-at-4am-in-strange-places GPS powers. Why’s the GPS gotta be assisted? Is it crippled? The answers to those q’s and more. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-what-you-didnt-know-about-the-iphones-3g-5015307 One of neato aspects of the iPhone 3G‘s engineering…
The ICON A5 is a light sport airplane (LSA) designed for everyday people (who happen to have enough money for not only a second car but a first plane). Aside from the fact that an LSA takes less training to pilot, the A5 focuses on the little things that almost make the idea of owning…
The Dallas Cowboys will be taking over the world’s largest video screen crown from that Japanese race track in 2009. Their HDTV will be a total of 11,200 square feet-actually bigger than when they were talking about this back in 2006-which beats the 8,066 sqft. Tokyo Racetrack one by quite a large margin. If 159…
Click to viewIn case you didn’t know, English comedy genius Eddie Izzard is touring the US right now. Giz reader Daniel Eggert saw him last Tuesday in Houston, a day after the WWDC08 keynote. Why mention the keynote? Well, to Daniel’s surprise—and ours—Jeff Vader talked about none other than, you guessed it, Steve Jobs and…
What’s a better keychain than a dead goldfish? I mean, sure, it’ll come as a live goldfish, but seeing that this is a sealed keychain, it won’t be alive for long. Apparently, vendors in Qingdao, China are selling these horrifying things, with the fish surviving mere hours after being placed in their death cells. Pretty…
DARPA, the Pentagon’s source for R&D (and lovers of acronyms big and small) have released a video illustrating the Damage Tolerance and Autonomous Landing Solution they developed alongside Athena Technologies. Basically, DTALS is designed to take over for a pilot in the event that the aircraft sustains heavy damage. The system automatically detects the damage…
We just got a briefing on Monster’s Wireless Digital Express HD System, a UWB system that transmits video wirelessly in the same room, If you want to send it to another room, it’ll use already-in-wall coax to transmit high-def signal. Sigma Designs, known for its Blu-ray player chips, is on board, using its Wireless HDAV…
BlackBerry’s first flip phone, the Kickstart (9100), is obviously for T-Mobile, but Boy Genius has uncovered some stuff that refers to the BlackBerry Seawolf (9110). The model number indicates it’s a version of the Kickstart with GPS for another carrier, most probably AT&T. The mystery phone is the Aurora, which is in the same series…
Electric vehicles are pretty great as it is, but ones powered by superconduction and liquid nitrogen cooling are even better. That happens to be the case with Sumitomo Electric’s car, which promises to be 10% more efficient that the typical electric vehicle. Built using an old Toyota Crown Comfort, the combination of superconducting wires and…
I’m not sure who built this jacuzzi nor do I have all the details on its construction, but I have to give credit to the people behind it. Those Heineken crates look like they make a decent framework and they ensure that a warm, possibly hot beer is never out of arms reach. Actually, it…
The Nintendo DS remake of the old Dreamcast favorite Bangai-O Spirits has one very notable feature that we haven’t seen in years. Kotaku found out that instead of using Nintendo’s local Wi-Fi or over-the-net DS codes, you share levels via audio recording. Once you’ve designed something you want your friends to see, it’ll play back…
At a loss about what to get your Dad for Father’s Day? If he likes movies you could always take advantage of the buy 2 get one free sale going on Amazon right now. There are 95 titles to choose from and you just might get them in time for Father’s Day if you hurry.…
Steve Jobs didn’t mention video features for the iPhone 3G or the new iPhone OS 2.0 but, thankfully, developers are working hard on it. Flixwagon has now created the first-ever video broadcast client for any iPhone. Just open the application, point the camera, and start transmitting video over the web. Developers in the Flixwagon lab…
Microsoft’s following up its initial retail rollout of their Surface Table at AT&T with a slightly sleazier version in Vegas. The Rio is going to get six Surface tables, which allows patrons to order drinks and play mini-games with their buddies. The most interesting is a "Flirt" application, which lets you try your luck electronically…
Eric Clough isn’t your typical architectural designer. Sure, he’ll design you a fine den or kitchen, but he’s clearly got a creative streak that goes much deeper than that. That’s why, when given the opportunity, he secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a $8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and…
We’ve seen midget-sized female robots coming out of Japan for a little while, but Sega Toys‘ Eternal, Maiden, Actualization (E.M.A.) robot seems like the most fully featured one yet. Or at least the sluttiest. The bot is 38 cm tall, has a “glamorous body,” can hand out business cards, walk “like a lady,” and even…
Who doesn’t love the intricacy of Rube Goldberg machines? A celebration of the most mechanical, complex and absurd way of performing an everyday task, there’s nothing quite like watching a cuckoo clock set off a bowling ball that rolls into a pie pan which lifts up some guy’s pants before he gets arrested for exposure-again.…
At CES, Hitachi showed off an impressive 1.5-inch-thin plasma display. Today at the CEA industry update the company has told us that the concept will become a reality when the televisions go on sale in the US sometime during 2009. They also hinted that LED-backlit LCDs could be available in as little as 6 months.…
In one of the cleverer advertisements we’ve seen of late, Leica is proposing that you “see it in more detail” with their D-Lux 3 by placing a pixelated dog in various real world scenes. It’s a strangely effective technique, but we can’t believe that someone would be so cruel to do that to a dog.…
iPods and iPhones are great for loading up with prerecorded music and everything, but no matter how large your hard drive is you’re going to run out of new stuff to listen to eventually. But now that these devices are getting powerful enough to run robust programs, you’ll soon have the ability to listen to…