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The more practical app of this personal radar project is in robot navigation systems—always a good sign when the functional side of something is robots—but it’s small enough to be mounted on a car’s bumpers to help spatially challenged drivers navigate the rollercoaster of parallel parking. (Unless they’ve got a schmancy car that does it…
Holland may soon be dotted with floating buildings as Dutch architects plan against global warming. The country is already 20 percent below sea level, and rising water levels are a concern. A flooded river is no threat to a floatable building with airtight foundations, and with slack built into electricity and water cables feeding it,…
Only one consumer desktop—the Energy Star 4.0 Inspiron 531, but still a smattering of business wares, from notebooks to servers. [Dell]
9to5 Mac is reporting that Apple will have yet another event on February 26 in order to launch the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK, which will have native apps that reportedly offer Exchange and Lotus Notes support. And the best part is that updated MacBook Pros with Penryn and possibly the MacBook Air trackpad could…
Click to viewHere is the new MacBook Pro 2008 in Photoshop mash-up wet dream form. Would we see something like this at the alleged—at least according to the usual rumorologists—special event at the end of February? It doesn’t seem far-fetched to me. MacBook Air aesthetics, with much rounded corners and sightly thinner frame, are both…
We love most everything about Timbuk2 bags except for the price tag—they’re not cheap, to say the least. But REI has Timbuk2’s Commute notebook messenger on clearance for $40, knocking 60 bucks off the retail price. The notebook pocket is 13.8 inches wide, if you’re wondering about size. [REI]
Stuart Ashen of Stuart Ashen reviews lousy gadget fame just reviewed the KenSingTon Vii, which has nothing to do with Kensington and nothing to do with the Wii. Intrigued? So are we. Watch as he shows off the Super Nintendo-esque 2D graphics as well as the surprisingly Wii-like 3D graphics. The developer actually did slightly…
This Time Warner ad taking on Verizon FiOS is so ludicrously hilarious it almost does make want to sign up with Time Warner. In the spot, Verizon is a constipated (wait for it), overly enthusiastic gay-coded dude with magic fingers shooting red lightning and flying Vs (for Verizon!), touting “THE FIBER.” It’s so ridiculous it…
We uncovered the 13.3-inch 2.5-pound Lenovo Thinkpad X300 Series a long time ago, in the middle of January, and now Best Buy has confirmed it. The $2,743.99 price looks right for the specs that we already knew about: https://gizmodo.com/ultralight-lenovo-x300-series-thinkpad-leaked-346797 Will get you: Not bad at all. [Best Buy]
Ewwww! Seriously, who would want to wrap their DS Lite in real snakeskin? I suspect the same types of people who think it’s cool to wear gigantic boots and trenchcoats in summertime. Well, to each his/her own, I suppose. $120 and and an admission of being a creepy person is all it’ll take to make…
Nobody really knows what the future of human interfaces and gaming will look like, but Andrew Fentem—who went from working on classified missile systems to developing multi-touch human interfaces, kinetic surfaces and motion sensing technologies before almost anyone else in the planet—gave us a fascinating vision on where we are headed in this exclusive interview.…
It’s been a happy day in the way that I finally met Jesús and Addy (of Gizmodo) and there was none of that meeting you for the first time but not-on-the-internet weirdness you usually get. I landed in Madrid last night and Jesús had all his coolant drop out of his sports car like its…
Evergreen’s new Genius Navigator 365 is described by the English translation of Impress as “a USB gamepad deformed laser mouse”, and we couldn’t agree more. The mouse is 1600dpi, the gamepad has eight buttons and a D-pad, and it sells for $33 (¥3,499). Be warned, of course, that you get what you pay for. [Impress]
A couple of new Blackberry patents have been unearthed that may or may not give us some hints as to what to expect in upcoming models. First up is a design for a phone with a screen that angles up, presumable for watching video when the phone is placed on a flat surface. The second…
We’ve seen the famous Star Wars credits sequence parodied on a multitude of occasions, but this shirt featuring a credits typist with better things to do amused us aplenty. For those who don’t know Threadless, they produce t-shirts of user-submitted designs. If you’re digging this shirt, make sure to vote so it goes into production.…
HOORAY! According to Disney’s Michael Eisner, the writers’ strike is over! We don’t know why, and we don’t know how. But the man assured us that this whole horrible travesty is finally coming to an end with writers returning to work soon. Wait, we just remembered something…TV kinda sucked. [CNBC]
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Researchers just finished a successful field test with a robotic submarine that can autonomously study the ocean for up to 6 months at a time. While it uses battery reserves for its more fundamental navigation and communication systems, the torpedo-like glider by Webb Research Corporation and WHOi can propel itself using the temperature differences within…
Stephan Beckert, research director at TeleGeography, studies these undersea data cables every day of his life, and has the best guesses as to what really put them out of commission. UPDATE: Yep, confirmed. •There probably isn’t a fifth cable, according to his sources and the Khaleez Times in the UAB seems to have double counted…
This “suspension” piano by Seiler brings everyone’s favorite style of bridge indoors and gives it a soundtrack beyond the typical roar of automobiles drowning out the subtle splashing of suicide jumpers. A meticulously crafted mahogany piano suspended on a cast iron frame, we’d be afraid to even touch a key lest we induce the sound…
