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One look at this “Tactile MP3” player concept may have you thinking that it is a device for the blind. While, the control buttons do resemble Braille, this MP3 player is really for anyone that enjoys running their fingers across small raised bumps (and who doesn’t love that!). It also has a clean design and…
Les Machines de l’ile de Nantes are gigantic mechanical animal vehicles currently on display in the French city of Nantes. While they just look like giant models, these things are fully functioning vehicles that people can ride in. Don’t believe me? Check out the video of the elephant, full of people, lurching through town after…
Both Fortune and Marketwatch are saying that all the unlocked iPhones, which make up about a third of the total phones sold, may be costing Apple $300 million in future revenue kickbacks from cellphone providers. And if Apple doesn’t stop the unlocking madness, what’s the incentive for a provider to pony up that revenue sharing…
Flashlights are generally there to help you out in a time of need, such as when your power goes out and you need to fumble around in the dark. A flashlight that lights stuff on fire because it’s so powerful might be neat for goofing around with your pyro friends, but something tells me that…
While we’re in the De Lorean back to 1996, we might as well revisit one of my favorite controllers ever: the N64’s. (It just needs a better analog stick.) The poster does us one (two) better, tossing around a pair of real, now-rare prototype Ultra 64 controllers like a Halo 3 swag bag or something.…
We’ve told you all about H2O Audio’s Waterproof iPod cases and its improved H3 headphones , but until yesterday we never had the chance to try them out for ourselves. Team player that I am, I hopped in the tub, turned the G-Funk to 11 and took the plunge. https://gizmodo.com/h2o-audio-waterproof-ipod-video-case-180790 I could hear the tunes…
Windows Mobile has its share of desktop-esque browsers with the still experimental Deepfish, but this Skyfire browser seems to be better than what we’ve seen yet. It’s desktop-class, yes, but it also has Flash, Java, and “full audio, video” support. You can see what they mean with a video demo after the jump, but the…
As we told you early this morning in our graphic timeline, today the amazing LEGO brick has turned 50 and the company is commemorating it with the Town Plan, a $149.99 special edition of the classic set, with a 1950s gas station, town hall and cinema. And on top of that, three unique 2 x…
PMA 2008 DSLR leaks abound today. In addition to the cluster bomb of point-and-shoots dropped on us earlier this week, a Dyxum forum member turns up supposed full frontals of a pair of yet-to-officially exist Sony DSLRs, the A300 (previously peaked with its twisty, turny LCD for live view) and A350 from SonyStyle. https://gizmodo.com/nikons-new-slr-leaked-the-d60-349605 Tingling…
Google has just unveiled a handful of new experimental search result views that you can make your new default, delivering you search results in timeline or map form, with new, more robust keyboard shortcuts, with a more detailed left-hand navigation menu or a number of others views. Some of these, like the timeline or map…
1UP posted an interview from CES with Jeff Bell, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Global Marketing for Interactive Entertainment, in which he mentions that Microsoft has “been talking to Blu-ray all along.” The natural specu-reaction is that Microsoft/Blu-ray might be on. Well, it’s not. If you remember way back to the beginning of January—the same time…
We don’t have many details, but this NEC flask phone seems to be a combination of being liquid-powered and touch-screened, and is so crazy advanced that we think it’s probably a prototype. According to NEC, however, it’s going to be released sometime in 2008. We think it’s cool that the liquid inside will drain as…
Sure, Hummers are bad for the environment, but do you know what else is? Cow farts. Yep, the methane in cow farts contributes to a surprisingly-high 5% of all global warming gasses out there, with methane being 22 times more potent at capturing atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide. The good news? A couple of Japanese…
It seems the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak by Nate True we all rushed to install is throwing a handful of problems, some of which are fixable and some of which leave us wishing we had waited a little bit. Here’s what we know so far from personal experience and what we’ve read on the internet.…
Resuscitate an Ailing Format for Dummies. Step 1: Deny you’re sick. Step 2: Fire Sale! Step 3: Profit Buy a 30-second Super Bowl spot for $2.7 million. Step 4: Profit. https://gizmodo.com/heres-an-idea-for-hd-dvd-just-give-up-344977 Interestingly, the Blu-ray ballers won’t be posting their own spot since they weren’t able to cobble one together in time. Instead, they just offered…
It used to be that if you stayed at a hotel with a minibar, you could down some $8 bags of chips or whatever else was stored in there as long as you replaced them before you checked out to avoid getting ripped off. No more. Now minibars have motion sensors and scales built in,…
Leaked footage of Windows 7 may have hit the internet last week, but the rumor that it’s going to be released ahead of schedule in 2009 seems very unlikely, according to a Microsoft email. WinVistaClub, being the Windows fans that they are, asked Microsoft for clarification on Windows 7 being moved up due to poor…
While you were off—hang on. What exactly were you off doing on the weekend? We didn’t see you for dust. Well, you’ve got your own life and we respect that, but we still love you nonetheless. Here’s a roundup of everything you missed over the lazy days: • We glimpsed a supposed peek at Windows…
The XFPS adapter that lets you plug in a USB or PS2 mouse and keyboard and map it to the appropriate commands on your PlayStation 3 controller is now available. This thing made sense when it was released for the Xbox 360 (which doesn’t support a mouse and keyboard in ANY game), but why would…
OK, at first it sounds nifty: USBFever is selling a wired mouse with a built-in mono speaker and a detachable wired microphone, ostensibly for the purposes of convenient VOIP calling. But after pondering the details of this admittedly affordable contraption for a few moments, the entire scheme seems to unravel. First of all, what PC…
