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The new gigantastic Airbus A380 will not only include a toilet with a view, but now Singapore Airlines has announced their new “super-first-class” private suites will include full-sized double bed with a real mattress and—apparently—tacky rose petals. [Daily Mail] https://gizmodo.com/airbus-380-has-bathroom-window-insert-joke-here-297496
The Pyxis GPS watch is a versatile gadget for exercise freaks — which also, judging by its looks, doubles as a blunt instrument that the CIA might use against their enemies when everything else has failed. With a gazillion functions, including time, speed, distance and even calorie consumption measurement, you can programme your goals into…
Samsung’s new 52-inch LCD, the LN-52F91BD, has got an LED backlight to give you a brighter picture, along with USB port, 3 HDMI 1.3 port and Infolink function for your stock and news updates from MSN. Sadly it’s only available in Korea, and even more sadly, if you want one, you’re going to have to…
NPD Group has released a report that shows Palm, T-Mobile and Motorola as the biggest losers to the AT&T/Apple iPhone axis. According to NPD, their 13,000-consumer study shows that early iPhone buyers were “ten times more likely to previously own a Treo and three times more likely to previously own T-Mobile’s Sidekick.” Motorola Q was…
Twentieth Century Fox is expected to announce today that the DVD of Live Free or Die Hard will include a special version for computers and select media players so consumers can enjoy Bruce every which way they choose. It’s out November 20. [i4u]
Forget personal jet packs, where’s my sky toboggan? The April, 1935 issue of Science and Mechanics featured this wonderful “Sky Sled” on its cover. See also: Cyclonic Rocket (circa 1930) ‘Flying Saucer’ Buses (1950) New York in 1960 (1935) Amphibian Monorail (Popular Science, 1934)
The Paleo-Future blog made PC Magazine’s list of their 100 Favorite Blogs. It’s truly an honor and I’d like to thank everyone for reading. Pretty soon, all this attention is going to go to my head. When starting a blog, the simplest ideas are sometimes the best. High-concept sites are often better left in the…
We just discovered this the hard way: The Nike+iPod peripheral that tracks your distance doesn’t let you play music on the new nanos. It’s a small, surely fixable bug, but it’s very annoying on top of the other issues we’ve had with this generational jump. Whether it’s the Cover Flow interface lagging (which has thankfully…
I have to buy a radar detector before snow season starts and the Tahoe PD start crawling all over my ass. For a long time, I’d wanted a Valentine One. I knew it was supposed to be the best a few years ago, but was shocked to see that was still the case today when…
In the case of this Oppo PMP, the moniker “Super” certainly applies. The Super Five can handle just about any format you can throw at it including: RM, RMVB, FLV, DAT, MPG, MPEG, AVI, 3GP in video and OGG, MP3, WMA and WAV and dual-APE, FLAC Lossless audio. Plus, photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF and…
Jacqui from Ars got news on the iTunes Music Store’s DRM-Free iTunes Plus tracks: according to her sources “Apple plans to expand iTunes Plus to include certain indie music labels starting tomorrow.” [Apparently, she says now that it’s going to be on Wednesday] The big news, however, is that she says that Apple will drop…
Japan is set to launch its first building-mounted free-fall ride in an exterior wall of Osaka’s $157 million 12-story namBa H!PS entertainment complex set to open this December. The ride will provide guests with a beautiful view of the city right before it drops them 200 feet down the side of the building at 50…
A lot of designers have taken a minimalist approach when it comes to wall clocks these days, and China’s Yiran Qian certainly fits into that category with his “Vice Versa” clock. However, being gadget geeks, we do appreciate the inclusion of a digital interface on the hands. It’s a truly unique way to blend the…
Alex Roy was just recognized as the record holder for driving from NY to Santa Monica pier in 31 hours and 4 minutes, besting the time set by David Diem and Doug Turner, who were clocked in a Ferrari 308 during the 1983 US Express run of 32 hours and seven minutes. That’s a sustained…
Lightning. It just goes about it’s business—mocking us. We have always known there is potential there for an alternative energy source, but harnessing that power has proven difficult. However, an inventor names Steve LeRoy may be on the brink of changing all that with a device that generates lightning then harvests the resulting energy. The…
Instead of paying hundreds to thousands on a custom adapter to fit a 35mm lens onto a camcorder, you can now build your own for relatively little cash. Although the end result looks weird and will give your camera a horribly messed up weight distribution, your videos that come out of it will look great—as…
MP3 player alarm clocks are nothing new—but MP3 alarm clocks that allow you to use the player as a joystick toggle control definitely are. If this concept design titled YOM by Philipp Goeder ever sees the light of day, you would be able to do just that. When the MP3 player is inserted into the…
The folks from Skydeck just received a written notice from Verizon Wireless for an opt-out system for sharing your call records to third-party advertisers. Unless you call them and opt-out, Verizon will sell what numbers you called, how often you called, and your call length with “authorized companies,” which includes their “affiliates, agents, and parent…
Click to viewPear Cable, makers of the $7250 audio cables we showed you a couple of weeks ago, has accepted debunker James Randi’s (pictured at left) challenge, where the former magician’s JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation) promised $1 million if anyone could prove the difference between Pear cables and their Monster Cable equivalent. Today we…
Greenpeace has slammed Apple once again on environmental issues, claiming that scientific tests they arranged uncovered hazardous chemicals in the iPhone. I’m sorry, but I have a hard time believing that Apple is the only phone maker that has these toxic chems, considering that the plants that iPhones are built in also make Nokias and…
