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Despite the high sales of the LG Chocolate*, anyone who’s actually used it knows that its touch controller is one of the worst UIs to come out in the last several years. The KF600 is LG’s new 3MP cellie with a slider keypad. It has the same electrostatic chocopad the Chocolate has, but with an…
Dubai is the Tetsuo of cities, expanding so fast it’s on the verge of creating of its own universe. And architecture that looks like it’s from the 22nd century only adds to the sheer grandeur of its growth—this bridge, envisioned by NY architecture firm Fxfowle, will be the largest and tallest arch bridge in the…
We are just a few days away from the rumored Apple event that may introduce the iPhone SDK, which basically means two things: fanboy anticipation build-up and rumor clusterfuck. The latest: Adobe Flash coming to the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/apple-event-on-february-26-launches-iphone-sdk-and-macb-354365 According to Andru Edwards from Gearlive, “Flash has not yet made it to the iPhone solely due…
Samsung’s new F480 full faced touchscreen handset meets a good competitor in LG’s KF700, their best phone released at Mobile World Congress. The phone has a 3-inch touchscreen, a slide out alphanumeric pad, and a scrollwheel on the back which pulls up a shortcut menu. Jesús liked the swiping action between widgets, which he shockingly…
Maybe it was induced by the shorthand we’d read for years off Necco Sweethearts, but according to AT&T, Valentine’s Day is the most popular holiday for text messaging. From February 13th to the 14th, there’s a 33% spike in texting traffic. Yes, you know what that means. The cellphone owning population is trying 33% harder…
Panasonic’s 32GB SDHC isn’t the first one, but at class 6 (meaning it writes at least 6MB/s) it’s the fastest 32GB card yet. [Market Wire] https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-a-32gb-sd-card-would-look-like-if-scaled-t-292055
While you could buy a big screen TV and place it near a fireplace, it doesn’t really rub your net worth in the face of your guests like buying a fireplace with a built-in television. That’s exactly what this Vok “Multimedia Fireplace” is, coming loaded up with a TV up to 52-inches in size, a…
…and she has a PhD. Here’s the adorable email I had waiting in my inbox this morning. Subject: blu-ray So, Mark, this would replace a dvd…so I would need a new player? I had heard about it at best buy yesterday and did not understand. Are there blue ray tvs? or is that a whole…
This animatronic head is sold as a kit so you can learn the fun of building a fully robotic nut that can “turn left and right,” has moving eyes, eyelids and a mouth that “changes expressions”—though presumably not into a sexy pout, sorry robo-sex fans. BotBrain even has sensors that let it react to its…
Philips has a super interesting patent floating around from late last year. It involves a game with a throwable monitor, tossed like a ball, that can be tracked in real space. And it sounds pretty neat. An external sensor tracks the ball’s trajectory as it travels through the room—information that feeds the virtual world in…
Scientists in China and Australia have developed a method of cleaning fabric using nanotechnology that avoids dunking clothes in soapy water, before scrubbing and rinsing. The titanium dioxide-based coating bonds to silk and wool and uses sunlight to automagically decompose dirt, stains and microorganisms, meaning smelly socks could be a thing of the past—something that…
Click to viewApple’s store was down this morning, and when it came back up: presto! Aperture 2. Priced at $199, Aperture 1 owners can upgrade for $99. Promised to be faster and include “over 100 new features,” here are the full details: Apple Releases Aperture 2 Major Upgrade Features Improved Interface, Faster Browsing & Enhanced…
We played a bit with the new Nokia N-Gage service, which will be one of the core services on all the new Nokia phones presented here at the Mobile World Congress 2008. As we already knew, it’s a very similar philosophy to Xbox Live, a social-oriented game service with N-Gage points, pictures, reviews, scores and…
Samsung’s F700 and F300 are joined by the F480, a pretty clear knockoff of the LG Prada (down to the fake leather case). I find its touchscreen implementation rough, even if it’s improved from Samsung’s previous handsets. Overall, I’ll pass, especially at the proposed European price of 350 to 400 Euros (~$500 to $580 USD.)…
The N95 smartphone just does fine with its video playback. But the N96’s 16GB of internal memory, slightly bigger 2.8-inch screen, DVB TV tuner, special video browsing UI and kickstand make it better than its pappy. Note: The back of the phone has a new designer texture that we like a lot more than the…
After playing with the new Modu cellphone system, I’m impressed about how well their idea works. The core module integrates very well with the jackets, even if some were not operative. It feels very much like Apple’s philosophy—allegedly one of Modu’s role models. Could this idea work in the consumer electronics jungle? After seeing it…
High-end cable fans, get your New Balances on and run! Run to the Amazon, because it’s flogging HDMI super high-resolution cable from DVI Gear for a measly $2. Yep, you heard. Two. Bucks. Our tipster Jon put it thus: “Holy Crap 2 dollar 6 foot HDMI cables,” adding that the cheapest he’d ever seen was…
This sort of premature talk will either turn out to be unfounded fear or prescience (or neither!) but we overheard this whispering outside of hall 8: Android is Dead —One nameless, faceless, exec to another
It’s hard to believe that, just a year ago, the name of the phone on everyone’s lips was LG’s collaboration with Prada, the sexy touchscreen number that let its users believe that their fingers were fashion (or something). And now, post iPhone, what of the Prada phone? Well, a silver version is now available in…
Here’s another unlocking iPhone 1.1.3 solution, this time in application form: according to its author, ZiPhone unlocks any version of the iPhone. You can download it now for Windows but we haven’t tried it yet so, like always, proceed with extreme caution. [Zibri’s Blog] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-1-1-3-firmware-unlock-available-requires-comman-354148