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NZXT’s been making slightly expensive gaming cases for a while, but their latest full tower Khaos case looks very nice. It’s got dual power supply support, 2-3mm aluminum build, a total of 7 fan slots and a price of $399. Did we mention that it looks nice? This case alone costs more than some fully-built…
Taser International, the company behind the new delightful trend in law enforcement where using verbal communication is deemed too time-consuming and replaced with a extremely painful jolt from their patented electro-weapons, was just dealt a stinging blow in court. After winning 45 wrongful death or injury lawsuits, it just lost a $6 million wrongful death…
MobileMe, Apple’s replacement for .Mac, was announced at WWDC and something struck me (and some others) as a little odd: its logo is remarkable similar to a notorious software disaster from nearly a decade ago, Windows ME. Would a company so famous for the creation of household brand names really release MobileMe, and make it…
Bluetooth enabled pens are nothing new, but they generally require something like special dotted paper to function properly. SMK Corp claims that their new “Wireless Input Pen” is the first device of its kind to transmit characters written in mid air. Combined with Bluetooth, the pen utilizes a a built-in triaxial acceleration sensor to detect…
Last week’s post about a guy absolutely losing his shit in a becubicled office turned out to be a viral ad for Wanted, that new action film with James MacAvoy and Angelina Jolie. I guess the video could be considered a success in that it was convincing and popular, but the fact that it is…
Looking to stay relevant in the touchscreen smartphone arms race, Symbian dropped an updated S60 demo vid, complete with new shots of the interface and some interesting new features. While the original video highlighted standard, stylus based controls, this video gets finger happy. The new footage shows off a photo browser that uses finger swipes…
According to the Unofficial Sony Ericsson blog, the upcoming C905 phone will be the flagship Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot phone. Here’s why it’s so good. There’s a 8.1-megapixel camera with “auto focus, face recognition, a new feature called Smart Contrast, image stabilization, BestPic, red-eye reduction, xenon flash as well as photoflash for both photos and videos.”…
Want to know everything about the iPhone 3G? You can click here to access all our stories or access all the launch stories using this index. The event • Our complete event liveblog • Steve on video, doing his thing • iPhone 3G advertising https://gizmodo.com/apple-wwdc-liveblog-coverage-5014465 The iPhone 3G • Our iPhone 3G Hands On •…
While yesterday the world was ogling over the iPhone 3G black body, some people were just awing over black balls. 400,000 of them. Black balls everywhere, bouncing, swinging, cavorting, happily hopping down the side of the Ivanhoe Reservoir with two objectives. First, to fight bromate by stopping sunlight, which forms this carcinogenic component mixing the…
Microsoft’s just pushed out the first public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1, otherwise known as their minor update. The scheme they’ve got in mind is to do a minor update followed by a major update followed by a minor update, repeating ad infinitum every six months. This PP1 fixes that extreme data…
This week at TreeHugger: A new solar breakthrough holds the promise to reduce the cost of solar panels using titanium oxide, a non-toxic mineral often found in white paint. A battery breakthrough using manganese has been announced by Hitachi (this is breakthrough week!), and smart electricity meters are coming to your house. According to Professor…
This top-down Google Maps-based driving simulator is one step closer to our ultimate dream: simulated driving on any street, anywhere, based on data available from Google Maps/Google Earth. Geoquake’s 2D Flash version may be really simple—you only have a choice of four vehicles and there’s no actual collision detection—but it’s got the right idea. When…
Let’s say someone put a bomb on your bus and it can’t go below 50 mph or it will explode. If that were to happen on a NYC bus you would probably be incinerated because the city has installed a new GPS device in thousands of local commuter and tourist buses. If the authorities get…
At this very moment a bike is leaning against my living room wall taking up unnecessary space. A simple solution would be to replace the standard handlebars with collapsible versions so that the bike could be placed flush (more or less) to the wall. Thanks to designer Joe Wentworth, these retrofit folding handlebars would make…
Boing Boing TV got to sit down with Talking Heads’ front man David Byrne, who has created an awesome, humongoid instrument from a whole building. Basically, Byrne took an organ and wired the keys to different areas of the building where various gizmos are set up. When he strikes a key, it sends an electric…
A day after the announcement of the iPhone 3G (have you heard of this thing?), Apple has released iPhone SDK Beta 7. Macworld says it’s mostly stability and bug fixes, but they expect the 2.0 Software and final version SDK to release at the same time. [MacWorld] https://gizmodo.com/the-3g-iphone-is-official-july-11th-starting-at-199-5014675
Hey there. We’re throwing a WWDC party with our BFFs at Ars Technica tonight. So if you’re going to be at WWDC as a reader, developer, journalist or just another fanboy, I’d like to invite you to come have a beer on us. Hope you can make it. 8-11pm Harlot 46 Minna Street San Francisco,…
If you had the new Moog Guitar Paul Vo Edition you could play, go out and have a bite…in Italy, come back to the States and Waaaaaaaaa…you’d still be hearin’ that one. Moog, the company best known for their line of synthesizers, has turned their innovative eye towards the guitar and emerged with an instrument…
The NY Times has a good interview with Steve Jobs in which Apple’s CEO lets fly with very quotable, very understandable quotes about OS X 10.6. We already heard the details, but it was still hard to wrap our head around why Apple would make an operating system without many visible features and just go…
The 360 is yet another hybrid sport creation that is intended for taking riders to extremely new levels of extremeness. Like the RipStick before it, the 360 combines skateboarding and snowboarding-but then it goes full-on extreme by throwing in-line skating into the mix. Apparently, riders can insert their feet into the into the wheel openings…
