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It’s not my beat at all, and I never went to any Free Tibet concerts for either the hipness or the music or the politics, but this BS that China is pulling over Tibet is starting to bother me. Now there’s this strange tale of Tibetans rioting with zero backlash from the Chinese, and I’m…
Electronista reminds me of a bit I missed from last week’s Palm earnings call. Palm CEO Ed Colligan said that there wouldn’t be any new Treos til late Summer. I’m not sure if that means announce or release, but I’ll take that as a sign that Palm, who hasn’t done anything new in hardware since…
An early WiMax operator has shuttered its network, and stunned an audience at a WiMAX conference by calling it a disaster. The CEO of the Australian company, Buzz Broadband, had numerous complaints, including “non-existent” line of sight performance over 2 kilometers, indoor performance “decayed at just 400m” and latency hit 1000ms. Commsday, who filed the…
The 1981 catalogue Buckminster Fuller, Inventions: Twelve Around One is a gorgeous keepsake from the Carl Solway Gallery in Cinncinnati, Ohio. Their 1981 exhibition of screenprints, derived from Buckminster Fuller drawings, must have been stunning. The catalogue reproduces thirteen screenprints which were produced under the supervision of Fuller. The edition was limited to 60 numbered…
According to PC World, the PS3’s firmware version 2.20 will allow it to send standard def copies of Blu-ray movies to PSPs. We covered news of this firmware before, happy the PS3 is getting more advanced Blu-ray support. And we covered these PS3 to PSP transfers in January. But this is the first time we’ve…
When we last saw MacroSwiss’s Spybot it only had four wheels and minimal sensors. Their new Spyrobot model adds thermal sensing, synthetic aperture radar, and two extra wheels, which help give it the ant-like ability to carry four times its own weight. MacroSwiss also added the ability to navigate back to home base autonomously, similar…
Gadget lovers beware; the technology Antichrist is among us, and it is disguised as a USB mouse with only one button and a scroll wheel. The Super Slim USB Mouse does away with everything you could expect in a traditional PC mouse, and instead incorporates the bare minimum in way of functionality. With a black…
You Steampunk fetishists are being spoiled today; first it was the Clarinet Gun Mod and now you have a freaking Steampunk motorcycle. The Whirlygig Emoto by Tom Sepe is so many awesome things in one, it really is amazing it is permitted to exist; it’s a motor biking, steam throwing, electricity utilizing, Sci-Fi bag of…
Steven Levy is a notable tech reporter because of his intimate access to new Apple gear and long history of non-tech reporting to back up his relative-to-the-world lightweight beat. He’s long been associated with Newsweek. But now, Wired, who he’s written for many many times before, just picked him up as a staff writer. Stupid…
Best Buy has always earned my disdain with their retail price mentality. But now, the NYT is reporting that the mega chain and Circuit City have both told sales associates that a little haggling to get the sale done is fine. People in the company are saying this is not new. But I’m sure many…
OK, so take this with a dashing of salt; the guys at Monster and Friends have apparently spotted the first pics of the iPhone App Store, which appeared on a user’s iPhone in place of a connection error alert. The user, Drunkenbass of Monster and Friends managed to have a look around the Genres and…
Chrysler has announced its intention to bring internet access to its vehicles. The functionality will be added to existing models this year, and will be followed by assembly line produced, internet ready automobiles. The connections will rely on mobile phone towers and a monthly subscription charge will be levied on those taking up the service.…
Last weekend, we told you news about Acer’s plans to build a games console to crush them all. Unfortunately, it was all an unfortunate misunderstanding. Acer’s official stance on the matter was this: https://gizmodo.com/acer-planning-to-build-open-platform-console-368456 That was a major misunderstanding as JT was wrongly interpreted. Acer is not going to release any game console but the…
Take a peek at this insane clarinet mod, which causes the instrument to drop its musical roots in favor of something a bit more offensive. Unfortunately, there isn’t an awful lot of information to go on, but the device clearly looks like an artwork installation, meaning it probably isn’t going to be firing rounds of…
Holy Easter YouTubes! In what many would see as an Unholy Alliance between God and Satan, a group of monks from the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, in the Wienerwald region of Austria, have signed a worldwide music album contract with Universal Music. The label executives found out about the Cistercian monks’ talent—who are the guards of a…
The Flip camcorder is about as far from a pro camera as Mario is from an actual plumber. In his (mostly fawning) review of the latest version, David Pogue says that the camera’s major “shocker” is that its low-light capabilities “trump even $1,000 camcorders.” But there’s another one buried in there: It has snagged a…
We’d be lying if we said we weren’t partial to the Telcast M26 PMP, which has a 2.6-inch WQVGA (400×240) display with capacitive touchscreen functionality and supports RMVB, RM, FLV, AVI video codecs, as well as the standard music file formats. The iPod touch-esque styling has us contemplating giving it a chance, not because it’s…
And so, the true ruler of the Dark Side was subtly revealed; Dr Robotnik, how we underestimated you. [Boing Boing]
Isn’t it adorable? Eric Burke is so sweaty, teeth-gnashingly hyped for Google’s Android that he built an Android PC. Powering the bobble head is a VIA NanoBGA C7 processor on a mini-ITX motherboard, and naturally, Ubuntu Linux pre-installed on its 74GB hard drive. You can buy it on eBay with bids hovering around $200 right…
A whole week almost elapsed without there being any rework to Meizu’s M8 MiniOne UI, which is so shocking, I almost fell of my chair. Thankfully, it was not to be, as some new images are making the rounds on the old tubes. Update: Apparently, this is just a mockup by the guys at CNMO…