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According to an anonymous source from Compal Electronics, Dell is stepping into the low-cost UMPC market sometime before June, following in the steps of Asus and HP. The source says Compal will deliver 200,000 to 300,000 units per month initially. [CNN] https://gizmodo.com/9-takes-on-asus-eee-pc-318732
I’ve gone off foosball since I had my ass royally kicked when playing with a bunch of friends at a music festival, but Eleven may turn my opinion around. Hand crafted by GRO design and TIM modeling, because they thought foosball was “lacking serious design attention in recent years”, it’s just gorgeous. The players are…
Here are the first—alleged—pictures of the Tube, the codename for Nokia’s response to the iPhone we talked about yesterday. It seems that these images were taken at the same developers conference in California. Looking at the second photo, it seems it will have stylus support. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-to-apple-blah-blah-iphone-killer-blah-blah-you-s-377171 According to Symbian Freak, the 16:9 three-point-something-inch phone is…
Straight out from Alice’s Wonderland, this magnetic table and dinnerware are designed with four objectives: 1) store your plates, cups and cutlery, upside down, under the table, 2) arrange them neatly on top, 3) erase the data from any hard drive that comes near, and 4) cause head and eye injuries to kids and pets.…
It’s sad but true; wearing a watch phone isn’t going to make you cool, not unless your name begins in “Dick” and ends in “Tracy.” Nevertheless, the crew at Cool have put together the G108 watch phone to try and sway you. The G108 has a round face and a clamshell design; under the watch-face…
Amazon’s got a pretty damn good deal going on Blu-ray movies right now, offering a buy-two-get-one-free off any of 58 selected movies. Better yet, these movies are already at least 30% off, so you can get three movies for about $45ish. We suggest Wild Things, The 5th Element and Into the Blue for a triple-play…
This is either the best or worst iPhone review ever. Wendy Cheng is apparently the most popular blogger in Singapore. Before giving her the real iPhone, her producers tricked her into reviewing a Chinese knockoff. But she actually liked the fake, saying it’s “not bad for a shitass China phone.” The real iPhone? Only “mediocre,”…
This edition of Closer Than We Think ran in the July 23, 1961 Chicago Tribune, and illustrates the megacities and metropolises of 1975. As a St. Paulitan . . . St. Paulite . . . resident of St. Paul, I find the map’s indication of “St. Paul Metro” pretty hilarious. You see, St. Paul has…
Yep, someone spent $300 on a Keyport just to break it apart. Sadly, there’s nothing supernatural inside, like a portal to an alternate dimension that houses your keys until you need one. Just cut-down keys with some notches. But! Apparently Chen’s keys have fallen into a wormhole of sorts—he sent them in to get a…
The iPhone SDK Beta 3 has barely been out for a few hours and Zibri, maker of the ZiPhone iPhone tool, has found references to a future 3G chip inside the new firmware. The chipset is the SGOLD3, which follows up the current S-GOLD2 in today’s iPhone. Here’s what the S-GOLD3 has support for, not…
For some reason, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon decided to put the weirdest elements he could find in this airplane concept, made of white gold and fiberglass tiles for a ceramics company called Bisazza: the nose looks like a F-18 Hornet, then it has an Y-Wing cockpit, wings with propeller wings and love missiles, a B-52ish…
If you thought Merlin Mann was only good at making up ways to file all your emails into one of 43 correct folders, think again. He’s also good at comedy. And masturbating. And steampunk. What do you get when you combine the three? This pretty damn great video. If you’re lost, watch it after the…
In part three of our impromptu exploration into the world of Chinese manufacturing and disassembly of our everyday electronics, we’ve got Slate’s look into the current economic situation and why the era of super cheap goods from China could be over. Here’s why: Chinese inflation. https://gizmodo.com/a-closer-look-into-the-chinese-cities-that-make-our-bra-376863 We don’t want to get into heavy economics, but…
iPhone Devs should go grab the newest SDK release, which comes with a new tutorial and extends the beta 2.0 firmware. It also has various bug fixes and “support for the latest iPhone OS.” [Apple]
The economy sucks. Even if the government is still afraid of the “r word,” real people know we’re living in recession land. That means cutting back: Wal-Mart is even launching quasi-permanent recession sales. Usually, the first stuff to go is whatever doesn’t go in our mouth or keep us dry—like gadgets. So here’s the Q:…
A BBC News crew went to Germany to try ‘s Baggers, the robotized, fully automated restaurant in which there’s not a single waiter in sight and plates float over your head on steel rails to reach your seat, Futurama-style. And apparently, they loved it. https://gizmodo.com/robot-staffed-restaurant-launches-in-germany-295454 As we already knew, everything in this restaurant in Nuremberg…
We’re all gathered here today to award the Commenter Hall of Fame trophy to 92BuickLeSabre, who joins the ranks of homerjay, Pope John Peeps II and Strider as one of the best Giz commenters of all time. Although many of his posts are excellent, which is why we’re giving him one of these things, he…
Hahaha, “Compatibility improvements with certain titles” and “Additional support for network features.” Hahaha. [Major Nelson]
Big week for 3DConnexion, a Logitech company, as they update their twisting/rotating desktop SpaceNavigator mouse for laptops. We’re not sure what differentiates this laptop version from the desktop version (which also works with Second Life), but it’s got a “new cap design” and is smaller than the desktop version. It also looks quite nice in…
In a chat with Laptop Mag about the booming ultra-cheap, ultra-portable laptop market, blustery and beleaguered OLPC founder Nick Negroponte actually manages to keep his cool while dissing his rivals—a laudable feat—and drops a couple of interesting bits: OLPC is still on a trajectory toward a $50 laptop, and they’re planning on launching dual-boot Windows…
