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We knew it was coming, and now it appears that NVIDIA’s acquisition of PhysX maker Ageia is about to pay off. NVIDIA has told analysts that that the conversion of Ageia’s physics application interface to CUDA is nearly complete—so if you are running GeForce 8000+ you will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of…
Desktop-like browsing is already headed to Windows Mobile in version 6.1, but can you use your finger with it? Like on the iPhone? Not exactly. For that, you’ll have to install TouchBrowser. Along with being able to pan around a page to get your Britney Spears news with your finger, there’s even a proprietary onscreen…
Thanks to a first grade teacher who had a boot camp approach to handwriting, my cursive remains elegant despite the fact that I haven’t written as much as a letter in at least 5 years. However, it has come to my attention that in an age of email, text messages and electronic documents, handwriting skill…
The infamous Kalashnikov has a long and illustrious history of murder and mayhem, which makes it the perfect centerpiece for a contraption developed by unemployed Afghan electrical engineer Hanif Molavizadeh. With only a small movement outside his window, the device will trigger a “song like warning.” It will then call Molavizadeh’s cellphone which can be…
While some people mod PC parts into devices that look like Apple products, Ben Heck has chosen to throw Apple IIgs parts into a laptop mod that looks more like a PC. The Apple IIgs laptop has a 15-inch screen, RAM expansion, compact flash reader for storage, stereo speakers. He also included ports for a…
Touch Tunes and LocaModa are linking up 30,000 Jukeboxes that can be controlled via cellphone, meaning you don’t have to drunkenly stumble through hoards of people at a bar just to get some decent tunes. The juke boxes are all linked to media servers, that have the ability to export data into social networks such…
Here’s why we’re excited about Red’s announcements of their 3K Scarlet and 5K Epic digital cameras. Their insane resolution. It’s one thing to talk about resolution as an abstract number, but Red has a fantastic chart comparing these resolutions to things you’re actually familiar with, like your HDTV or your old SDTV. Even the Scarlet,…
According to Korean news outlet Electronic Times, an LG offical has been quoted on record as saying the LG Voyager will be coming to AT&T and Sprint sometime this year. The phone has sold 1.1 million units as a Verizon exclusive with its touchscreen front and flip-open keyboard. IntoMobile questions the success the Voyager would…
In Sony’s new “Foam City” ad, Miami becomes a soapy free-for-all when 120 million gallons of bubbles are unleashed in the streets. The world’s largest foam machine was custom-built for the shoot, and pumped out over 500,000 gallons of foam per minute. The commercial is for Sony’s cameras, and locals got Alpha DSLRs, Cyber-shots, and…
It’s really, really tough to like Monster Cable as a company. Everyone knows how they mark up their prices and how a coat hanger may even be as good as their cables under short distances, but their business practices aren’t much better either. They’re following up up their last legal maneuver against a clothing company…
Reader John from the Cambridge University Press blog tips us off to these crazy East German police (Stasi) gadgets used during the cold war. Lots of these gadgets are what you’d expect cold war gadgets to be—spy gear covertly inserted into everyday objects—but others are for surveillance. One of them, a spy camera shoved inside…
Rob Beschizza and John Brownlee, two of my favorite bloggers of all time, are joining Joel Johnson over at Boing Boing Gadgets. That’s some good cross over action if I’ve ever seen it. [BBG]
Forget about the Constellation missions to Mars, because the first Earthlings set to arrive to the Red Planet may be monkeys: macaques from the Sochi Institute of Medical Primatology, who may get back as fully grown primate overlords, or just prove that humans would be able to resist the 17-month trip in weightlessness and isolation,…
We told you that the new Pwnage—the iPhone Dev Team tool to automatically hack legal Apple firmwares to free iPhone by making them fully customizable, open and unlocked—version was imminent and here it is. Gizmodo got early access to the software and it works great. But there is bad news brewing up: Apple is gearing…
A 13-year-old kid in Virginia has backtalked to his mom for the last time. When he was told to do his chores instead of play Xbox 360, he went and intentionally broke the vacuum cleaner to get out of it. What’d his mom do? Well, she’s selling his Xbox and all his games on eBay.…
Reader Matt heard my pleas when I saw the Mr. Burns webcam and decided to take it upon himself to create a one of a kind Bender webcam from scratch. Well, not exactly from scratch—he used a pre-made Bender and a pre-made Creative Live! Video cam—but he did somehow shove the two together to make…
A German modder under the alias Phyro-Mane took an old laptop and hacked it together to resemble a scaled down iMac, in fact calling it the iMacmini. But ironically, it runs Windows XP skinned to look like OS X. The mod features a 14-inch screen, AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor, 20 GB HDD and 512…
Not only does Japan have a fetish for giant war robots and robots that can take care of its elderly so they don’t have to, they’ve got a place for stupid robots as well. Meiwa Electronics’ annual Stupid Robot Contest is a place for inventors to showcase their stupidest inventions, as long as it follows…
As if this Zune Tattoo guy couldn’t get any crazier, he’s actually starting the process of legally changing his name to “Microsoft Zune.” As you’d suspect, Microsoft might have a problem with that, so Mr. Zune Tat called up tech support to ask their permission on whether it was OK. And for all of our…
Even though Amazon swears Canon’s Digital Rebel XSi (450D) isn’t coming out til June 15 (up from April 27), Circuit City’s already selling it online and touting in-store availability. Anyone picked one up yet? [Circuit City, Thanks Rick!] https://gizmodo.com/first-canon-eos-digital-rebel-xsi-hands-on-your-xti-is-350944
