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You are sitting in the parking lot at work with a dead battery. You obviously need a jump, but you don’t have jumper cables and your co-workers are dicks that don’t want to help. Screw them—you have the Porta Jump. There is no need for jumper cables or helpful friends, all you need to do…
Sorry, but I just can’t believe anyone’s going to buy this. Not only does it just look ridiculous, with its faux stone carving topped with a leafy pineapple, and its two submerged halogen lights. (Why not four lights, or a whole ring of them? I mean, if you’re going cheesy, go all the way.) On…
This oversized cartoon-esque pistol can be filled with your favorite condiments and fired at your food for the ultimate in BBQ fun. Naturally, the temptation to misuse this device will be overwhelming, but at least you can take solace in the fact that you will have the upper hand in any food fight you instigate.…
Remember this morning when I posted about Sony charging $50 to not install bloatware on new PCs? Looks like Sony realized how jackassy it made them look, as it’s going to be free as of tomorrow. Here’s the full quote: https://gizmodo.com/sony-has-the-balls-to-charge-you-50-to-not-install-blo-370660 “Starting March 22, Sony will offer Fresh Start free of charge. We want VAIO…
Ask someone to describe an Apple advert and I bet you they’ll say “different,” “artistic,” and maybe even “funny,” and that’s all very nice for Apple (we’ll ignore those who’d respond “irritating.”) But according to a study due for publication next month, years of seeing those funky ads may have had an unexpected psychological side…
The Myka is what many Torrent fans have been waiting for—a device that makes it easy to download torrents and play them on your living room TV. You can connect to the internet via LAN or WiFi, it has HDMI, Composite, S-Video and SPDIF ports (nice), your choice of 80, 160 or 500 gigabytes (and…
Vista’s SP1 was officially released on Tuesday. That means people have had enough time to tinker around with it, test it out, and share their opinions. The reviews are in, and here’s what the usual suspects (plus our own most eloquent commenters) had to say. https://gizmodo.com/officially-official-windows-vista-sp1-is-available-369240 PC World: “Pre-SP1, the [1.9GB] file copy averaged 384…
It’s official: the MacBook Air is going to be a roaring success no matter what we say about it: Martha Stewart loves it, and that’s it. End of the story. She loves everything about it and, according to her, it looks great on her desk. So Brian, Walter, David et al, TFSU and read her…
I finally got the brass to sign up when the Apple installer wanted me to install Safari. All I want is iTunes for my iPod, to me this is an unsightly practice that borders on spam.
If you pop open Apple Software Update in Windows, you’ll see a fresh item in there today: Safari 3.1. Even if you don’t already have it installed. This is the first time they’ve used Software Update to push Safari on Windows users that didn’t already have it. What’s up with the new, more aggressive thrust?…
Not everybody cares about OS X or Windows. Like nutbastard, who just wants a little Linux news. Here ya go: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron beta is out and about, running GNOME 2.22 and Linux Kernel 2.6.24, with Firefox 3 beta 4 thrown in for more pre-release funtimes. If you’re looking for a Mac/Windows alternative, this…
Caught for the first time on video, Segway inventor Dean Kamen presented his Vapor Compression Distiller on last night’s Colbert Report. The distiller is a chemical-, membrane-, and filter-free water purifier. Kamen claims the box draws pure drinkable water from oceans, poisons—even a 50-gallon drum of urine. He has reportedly worked on the contraption for…
If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the “first sale” doctrine. Digital books, music and movies are a different story though. Four students at Columbia Law School’s Science and Technology…
Blackberry outages send certain kinds of people into blind, feverish panics, like their arms were cut off, immolated and shoved down a garbage disposal. So that’s why RIM is updating their database in the wee hours of the morning over the weekend—tonight from 2-6AM EST, or more precisely, 6-10AM GMT. Expect no email, internets or…
Apparently, pouring a cup of coffee is too much work. That’s why these Coffee Spoons were invented. They have powdered coffee, creamer, and sugar inside, and when you pour it all into hot water you can use the container as a spoon. In addition to saving perhaps 4 seconds of your precious time, it lets…
If you can’t bring the microbial parasite to the lab, bring the lab to the microbial parasite, goes the thinking of the Berkeley researchers who invented a microscope to attach to cellphones and smartphones, using the phones’ own cameras. The higher powered of their two microscopes delivers 60X magnification, capable of capturing the detail of…
We all know that bloatware, the crappy, useless software that computer manufacturers load up their new computers with, sucks. It clogs up the pipes and makes your brand new computer run slower right out of the box. Well, Sony feels you. That’s why it’s offering a new “Fresh Start” option that wipes all the bloatware…
We know that Canon’s Digital Rebel XSi (EOS 450D to the rest of the world) has about the best feature set of any entry level DSLR. But what do the damn photos look like? DPReview already got their hands on a production model and have thrown up a gallery of sample shots. This one was…
US T-Mobile subscribers who’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of new Blackberrys (I’m sure you’re out there guys) can relax. The Blackberry 8820 will be available as soon as March 24th, and its smaller cousin 8120 hits the upgrade program on April 14th. No word on how much they’ll cost you, though. [BoyGeniusReport]
If you purchase $25 worth of stuff from ThinkGeek, right now they’re tossing in a free Micro Spy Remote, which lets you futz with the volume and channels on almost any TV—or you can turn them off altogether. Just punch in the coupon code SPORTS when you order your next case of Bawls. Oh, and…