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Today is D-Day: Steve Jobs will announce the Second Coming of the iPhone, just 20 days before its first anniversary. Think about it. It has been less than a year, and the iPhone is in the minds of everyone, getting almost-sickening front page treatment in every newspaper, magazine, and blog all around the world. Even…
A Royal Navy veteran has been reunited with his watch, 67 years after he lost it during World War II—and, it worked perfectly. In 1941, Teddy Bacon, a lieutenant aboard HMS Repulse, was throwing a line from ship to shore when the gold Bulova watch, bought in the Azores for $55, slipped off his wrist…
This gizmo from Handlink is clearly aimed at hotels, coffee shops and other public places where you may need net access, and you can’t argue with the thinking in its design. Simply pop in some coins, grab the printout with your time-limited access codes, and then connect up your notebook, or phone to its 802.11b/g…
This hirsute-yet-handsome Iberomacho is Rui Pereira, creator of an instrument for non-musicians (no, chaps, it’s too early for such smuttiness.) The TUIST, or Tranformable Uber Interface for STardom, is basically a tube with sensors that measure finger pressure that can act as either guitar, bass or drums. Developed at NYU (Pereira is on the Interactive…
Courtesy of Joe Chiang you too can have a tiny printout-paper Steve on your desk in a matter of minutes, ready to act out this afternoon’s action— just swap out the picture of the iPhone for your fantasy iPhone 2. Check out Joe’s other creations too, from Mario to R2-D2. [Toy-a-Day via Technabob] https://gizmodo.com/apple-wwdc-liveblog-coverage-5014465
It’s not that the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional-based 3G Samsung Omnia is not a good phone. In fact, we already knew that it looks very good. It’s just that today, dear Samsung people, today is just not the right day to announce any cellphone, even if you think that telling us official details of an…
Joel gave me a preview of this song, written about Apple product launches, a few months ago. It’s even better in its final form. “Best not make any plans today. The Apple store is down, new shit is on its way.” Give it a listen! [Boing Boing Gadgets] Apple Store Is Down Best not make…
After much speculation, Sling stopped by to show us they have indeed been working on a native app for the iPhone, and gave us a quick hands-on with the proof-of-concept. The demo, which also runs on the iPod touch, offers the ability to connect to your Slingbox and control it using the iPhone’s touchscreen. https://gizmodo.com/new-windows-mobile-slingplayer-coming-soon-iphone-vers-368785…
Despite what we and other media have hinted at, despite what Sprint itself is spending a lot of money trying to convey, the Samsung Instinct is not an iPhone killer. To be sure, Samsung and Sprint borrowed liberally from the iPhone playbook when it came to look and feel. But the comparison itself isn’t fair:…
We first wrote about the Cruzin Cooler, literally a motorized cooler scooter, here on Giz way back in 2006. Frankly, we’re kind of baffled today that it took more than two years for the thing to log its first DWI arrest. First of all, yes, the Cruzin Cooler counts as a vehicle, and that is…
One day in the near future, when humanity has killed off all the fish in the sea, we’ll be able to replace every single on of them using the research of University of Washington UW assistant professor Kristi Morgansen. That’s because Morgansen, with her 10,000-gallon UW test tank, has almost perfected an autonomous robofish, which…
By way of sister site The Consumerist comes word this afternoon that big box chain Wal-Mart is “very interested” in expanding its services into Best Buy’s Geek Squad territory. “We are looking at different options,” said Gary Severson, a Wal-Mart senior vice president. Tough luck for Best Buy on that one, should it come to…
Check out this Wii controller prototype from Bauhaus-University design student Martin Lihs. The spray paint can-styled casing contains a hacked up Wii controller that’s used to manipulate virtual graffiti on a monitor. And since this is an art project, you can bet there are a wide variety of colors, spray caps, and tagging techniques built…
Usually, washing up in the toilet at a sporting event gets you a one-way ticket out of the ballpark, but that could be changing thanks to Lee Isherwood and his ODNA urinal concept. The first-and probably last-of its kind, the ODNA promotes water conservation by combining a hand washing station with a urinal. Instead of…
In an SFGate interview running today, Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president for entertainment and devices, touched on many familiar points: Zune is more than a product, it’s a platform, and because of that, we shouldn’t be surprised if pieces of it turn up on other devices. However, as for a Zune phone or any other iPhone…
The swimming pool was really the only place left on Earth where extreme pogo stick users couldn’t rip mad tricks. Until now. “The Only Underwater Pogo Stick” was designed for use in the pool, and allows you to easily “perform a variety of waterborne stunts as you bounce off walls or bottoms.” Instead of a…
What you see here was once a Commodore 64, but no longer. Now it’s a MIDIboxSID, which translates roughly into, this thing looks killer in the dark and can lay down a serious series of beeps and pew pew’s. Best thing is that, thanks to the C64’s mod-friendly SID chips, this is a synthesizer that…
We’ve already seen what Bluelounge can do with a minimalist gadget charging station, but today they’re tackling a different office obstacle with the CableBox: cords. If you haven’t gone mostly wireless yet, this is a convenient way to store them. And on a personal note, this space saver also addresses an illogical fear of sticking…
A 25-year-old man who went berserk in Tokyo—killing seven people and wounding at least 11 others—told police, “I came to Akihabara to kill people… I am tired of the world,” according to Reuters and other news stories now hitting the wires. The Akihabara district is known to gadget lovers the world over as Japan’s gizmodic…
I dare say I’ve actually been inspired by Lego blocks this morning, and, quite possibly, these classic scenes from human history could make self-described fanatic Jesus Diaz weep—just a little. There’s Jeff Widener’s 1989 photograph of “The unknown rebel” at Tiananmen square; and Joe Rosenthal’s 1945 photograph “Raising the flag on Iwo Jima”; and-especially poignant…