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Valleywag is speculating that these screenshots of the “what’s open” app are of the first app for the googlephone. Seems like nonsense since the SDK isn’t out yet, even to developers, and this app will run on any phone eventually. And oh, right, did we forget about Gmail, Google maps, and YouTube, which sources have…
We’ve toyed briefly with the Hitachi DZ-BD7HA HD camcorder, thought it handled rather well. But Camcorder info.com just got its hands on the $1600 shooter, the first one to record onto Blu-ray discs, and thought it sucked. Calling it “too difficult and too expensive,” the smackdown of the pioneering product went on for page after…
It’s been a while since Apple originally acknowledged freezing with their new aluminum iMacs. But since then, many users are still having problems. AppleInsider has started to wonder if the problem is not a software error, but a hardware issue caused by overheating. https://gizmodo.com/ati-graphics-may-be-at-the-root-of-imac-freezing-issues-307409 One specific symptom that some users have experienced is a series…
This week at Uncrate: We feed our hungry masses with the Double-Deck Pizza Oven, make room for our guests with the Zoom-Room, and find illumination in the Book of Lights. We also spice things up with the Annie Michaud Salt Container, pay tribute to lost limbs with the Farewell To Arms T-Shirt, and add a…
That adorable Asus Eee PC (pronounced “E”) has already been seen in white and black, and now it’s getting the Easter treatment with a handful of new pastel colors. Each color has its own cheesy name, too, in case that helps you decide: Pure White, Lush Green, Sky Blue, Blush Pink, or Galaxy Black are…
What better way to take pictures of yourself Spiderman hurtling through the concrete jungle than with a mini tripod that sticks to “almost anything”, from trees and poles to fences, rocks and walls? Monster Pod’s stickiness comes from a “patented viscoelastic polymer”—I love it when SkyMall talks science. As far out as it seems, this…
Jello shots got us through the first six months of college before we (quite unfortunately) learned to love beer, but the Twist ‘n Shot will solve a problem as old as time itself for the next batch of college freshmen. While most Jello shots get partially stuck in the cup and require various (drunken) improvisation…
Addi’s Inflatable Minute brings us a wild musical instrument that’s powered by a balloon and a foot pump and made out of PVC pipe and clothespins. Invented by Aaron Wendell, a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Balloon Organ makes a mournful bagpipe-like sound we found quite pleasant. Each note…
The PS3 is an extremely well-built, highly reliable machine. So we were fairly certain that when Belgian game retailer Games Mania claimed their 40GB models had a 40% failure rate, either the claim was extremely isolated or completely bogus. In short, we were right. Sony has issued an official statement to “categorically deny” the claims.…
Foot-launched sailplanes have been around for a while, but this video of a guy flying one off a cliff caught our eye. On a windy mountainside, you can see him hovering in place against the wind before he goes over the side. This gives you an idea why the Wright brothers chose a windy and…
There have been pen phone concepts before, even a few working products, but none as slim and small as this one sent us by an anonymous tipster. He told us this “design A” is not a finished product yet, and added that the undisclosed company he’s working for wants to gauge interest in such a…
Warning: you will not learn how to build a Blu-ray phaser in this video. Oh, you will see someone building one, but only in the, "look how cool I am" kind of way. Still, the prospect is just geek heaven enough to set our hearts aflutter. And when we say "aflutter," we mean providing us…
Sony’s popular Vaio FZ notebook just grew itself an enviro-conscience. If you buy a new Graphic Splash Eco Edition FZ with one of four new nature-inspired finishes, Sony will donate 1 percent of the purchase price (not just of the profits) to 1% For the Planet, “an alliance of businesses committed to creating a healthier…
If you’ve been scampering about with all kinds of jailbroken applications on your iPhone, the party will be over tomorrow when Apple releases its 1.1.2 iPhone firmware update. At first we heard it was going to be included on the new European iPhone, but now word has it that Apple has confirmed that the 1.1.2…
Billed as “promotional pricing” for the holiday season, TiVo is now offering pay-as-you-go service for $12.95 to everybody, not just people planning to keep it for three years. That’s a savings of $4 per month. Also 1-year prepay is now $129, down from $179, and 2-year prepay is $249, down from $279. Three years up…
This clip, featuring AT&T whisteblower Mark Klein, was thrown together by Senator Chris Dodd’s staff and neatly wraps up the basics of the snooping allegations the EFF’s pursuing against AT&T. He’s apparently rubbing elbows in DC this week to explain the issue to Congressional types. If his spiel gets at all technical, God help him.…
AMD’s launching “the world’s first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology,” the FireStream 9170, and the AMD FireStream SDK for Stream processors. Running a cool $2000, the 55nm chip pulls less than 150 watts of juice while pumping out 500 GFLOPS of computing power. Also packed onboard is 2GB of GDDR3 memory, which, combo’d…
Tivo’s been selling data about people’s viewing habits—what shows and commercials they watch (or skip), when they pause, fast-forward, rewind and so on—to advertisers for around a year. Now they’re adding personal info to the Chex Mix of ratings data they sell: age, income, marital status and ethnicity. https://gizmodo.com/dvrs-screw-up-nielsen-commercials-now-rated-too-308126 The sample size will be 20,000…
The sort-of awaited 2.00 firmware update for the PS3, featuring remote start, customizable themes and other fancy newness is now live. If you’d like a video demo (for whatever reason) before clicking update, click here. Or you could just go ahead and download it. [Destructoid] https://gizmodo.com/ps3-firmware-2-00-details-unveiled-coming-in-a-few-day-320027
Hewlett-Packard’s shifting the focus of its digital photo business from cameras to home printing and online photo services. Future cameras will still bear the HP branding, but they’ll be designed and manufactured by a licensed third party. The HP-but-not camera deal should be set with the ghost producer halfway into 2008—HP will keep selling their…