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The prerelease of the N-Gage gaming app for Nokia cellphones is being trialled to N81 owners right now, and AllAboutSymbian has a hands on of the system, which has Xbox like Friends lists, over the air game demos, gamer points, and chat. The beta comes with three demos: Space Impact: Kappa Base, Hooked On: Creatures…
Amid rumors that Motorola may spin off the handset division into its own company, CEO Greg Brown has announced he will be taking control of the unit in an effort to remedy its poor performance. With 3GSM around the corner and all eyes on Moto, they better have something good in the pipeline. [Reuters via…
Helio’s unlimited minutes plan dropped from $145 to $99 last week. I’ve no idea how long this sale will go on for. [Phone Scoop via Gadget Review]
The Air Force’s old bunker buster, BLU-113, was a bunch of explosives crammed inside of an old howitzer barrel. Its latest instrument of boom, the BLU-122, uses a new a steel shell with a hardened nose and 780lbs of thermobaric explosive to pound through 28 feet of concrete or 120 feet of dirt like styrofoam,…
A Motorola teaser video popped up on YouTube, complete with people lugging around TVs, laptops, CDs and DVD players. The spot ends with the statement "It doesn’t have to be this hard." Word on the ‘nets is this vid is for Motorola’s Z12 phone, which is said to have significant multimedia features (mobile video, 5…
Most outdoor navs, like the Magellan Triton, just go from point A to point B when navigating off road. Current and future Magellan Triton owners are is getting Primordial’s Ground Guidance logic, which calculates routes around rivers, steep inclines and dense tree cover by analyzing aerial photography and elevation data (since no one could actually…
A couplet of bleh bits from Asus: They knocked down Eee shipment estimates to 700k from a million, and some “minor hardware issues” with the 8G’s flash-based storage has crimped its rollout a bit. [Digitimes via EeeUser] https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-pc-long-term-review-verdict-honeymoon-offici-351086
Onkyo appears to be the latest HD DVD defector, announcing they’re “suspending” support for the format. This comes on the heels of Blu-ray and Warner’s coup de grace and less than a year after Onkyo announced its lone HD DVD player, the DV-HD805. They haven’t closed the door all the way, but does anyone else…
A new material relies on millions of tiny plastic fibers that can grip solids as the fabric slides across them, then quickly release those objects when pulled away vertically. The technology is based on the anatomy of a spider’s gecko’s foot, and may be used for things like hanging art on a wall, or wrapping…
Unfortunately, it’s still a concept, but Current State is amazing—behind its glowing, sexy UI, it’s a real-time power management app that monitors consumption and lets you play with your power from anywhere. Devices are jacked in through plug-ends that bridge the plug and power socket, and after you sync everything, you can turn gear off…
Giz is fair and balanced, so here’s Mac vs. PC, Republican-style. Huckabee’s a PC (duh); Ron Paul is PC (no Linux?); Mitt Romney somehow manages to slide in both (surprise!); and McCain is a Luddite who doesn’t touch the bizarre, blinking gizmos. [Yahoo!]
Not content to let Cablevision steal all of the same-day VOD thunder today, Comcast made an announcement reiterating they do same-day movies on-demand as well, but they don’t send you a DVD. They’ve also got whole trilogies of movies! Ooooo. Sorry, like Randall said, there is but one trilogy. [Comcast] https://gizmodo.com/cablevisions-crazy-new-vod-scheme-send-you-the-dvd-too-352394 Movie debuts, television series…
Still can’t decide between Obamarama or the Billary machine? Let the NY Times break it down for you: Obama is a Mac, Hillary is a PC. Discuss. [NYT] https://gizmodo.com/super-tuesday-tech-special-democratic-edition-352137
Did you know? There’s a lot of consumer demand for this whole touchscreen/surface computing thing. Also, five years is a long time to bring out a product after announcing it, right? Well, Microsoft knows this. Steve Ballmer said today they’re “going to follow our nose” and put it to the grindstone to get a consumer…
The latest version of iPod Access—a $20 program that lets you easily copy music from an iPod to a computer or external HD—adds support for the iPod touch, a new engine for the iPhone as well, and better playlist copying. [Findley Designs via iLounge]
Motus Corporation is working on a motion-based controller for PCs and current-gen consoles not named Wii. The Darwin controller promises to offer more realistic control than the Wiimote due to its more involved use of gyroscopes and accelerometers. Motus says the Darwin always orients itself with magnetic north, and can sense which direction it is…
How do you improve on the Samsung G800, a 5-megapixel 3.5G camera phone with a 3x optical zoom lens? You add Wi-Fi, of course, and while you’re at it, you make the LCD screen 0.2″ larger, so that it’s now a spacious 2.6″. If the G810 is really going to take on Nokia’s N95 multimedia…
After paying almost twice as much as the Apple IIc’s original price for a unopened one in mint condition on eBay—$2553—Dan Budiac couldn’t just let his freshly purchased piece of vintage computing gather dust (and $$$) on a shelf as a trophy box. Nope, he had to subject it to that most time-honored of rituals:…
God, don’t you just hate pumping gas? I mean, you work so hard to be sitting down for as much of the day as possible, be it at your desk, on the couch or behind the wheel, and then you end up having to stand on your legs when you need to refuel. Gross! Well,…
A man who allegedly received an electric shock from his Zune headphones has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft. Joel Geddis received the shock in November of 2006, and since then he has suffered “blood and fluid leakage from (his) ear canal” and “incessant ringing and discomfort.” [Sorry West Coast lunchers!] This news comes days after…