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We’ve seen our share of projection clocks, but not like this futuristic bullet-shaped timepiece that tosses a clock face with Roman numerals onto your wall. Don’t worry if it’s too bright for you, you can dim that display, or even throw it out of focus if you want. Put it on the other side of…
Asleep when all the Zune news was announced last night? Here’s your chance to catch up. From Zune details to UI videos, it’s all here: • More Zune 2 Details: Lossless Support, Glass Screens, Green is the New Brown • Gates Talks Zune 2 • First Video of Zune 2 and Flash Zune • First-Gen…
As the married editors of Gizmodo can vouch for, when you ask your wife to marry you she’s not going to remember anything about the box the ring comes in, just the ring itself. However, this ring box has a 2-inch LCD that can play back 60 minutes of video or 500 photos, which means…
Self-driving cars have always fascinated me, ever since I saw a cover image of kids playing checkers in the back of an autonomous car on the cover of Boy’s Life in my elementary school library. (Checkers in a car! The future is now!) After years of waiting, the military is finally making my dreams a…
Click to viewGoing beyond the Zune 2 and Flash Zune launch details, we just got off a conference call with Microsoft and got new details on the Zune and Zune platform. https://gizmodo.com/zune-2-and-flash-zune-official-306387 • The Zune and Zune Software now supports lossless audio. Windows Media Lossless. • Microsoft claims that the Zune is now a much…
Today, the FCC leaked some info about the Sonos ZoneBridge, a wireless device with little or no practical details. But people familiar with the system understand that such a product could fill two specific needs: • Since Sonos requires one hard Ethernet connection to a router, the current system requires you to use up one…
Afraid of heights? Then you’ll probably want to stay the hell away from the Bailong Elevator, a glass elevator built onto the side of a huge cliff in Zhangjiajie, China, that takes you a whopping 1,070 feet high. This stomach-dropping ride is the highest and heaviest outdoor elevator in the world, and its future isn’t…
The news is that Toshiba plans to bring an OLED TV to market by 2009. IDG reported it, but the story got better when the Register repeated it, adding that the OLEDs would have 30″ panels. These would be larger than Sony’s white hot 11-incher; larger than the 21″ OLED TVs that Toshiba and Mitsubishi…
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany (the same people that invented MP3s) have developed an artificial cornea that can attach solidly to a patients natural cornea. It looks to be hugely promising for folks with damaged corneas, and having been successfully tested on adorable bunny rabbits, human trials are set to begin as soon…
The w580 isn’t exactly new—we fondled it earlier this year—but it’s now officially available on AT&T. The price actually depends on your region, and will be available for $79 to $129 with a two-year contract. To refresh, it’s a Walkman phone that supports FM radio, TrackID and MusicID music recognition programs, Quad-band, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth…
AIM 6.5, out today, includes the AIM Tunes plug-in: you’ll be able to listen to any music your online buddies put into playlists, provided of course that the tracks are not locked by DRM. Net radio, we hardly knew ye. [AIM]
Man, you’re going to need to have a tiny butt to use this toilet—less than a nanometer wide, to be specific. Taken with an electron microscope by nanotechnologist Kaito Takahashi, this pic not only shows the intricacies of objects that can be constructed at the nanoscale, but it also demonstrates the astonishing smallness of the…
The May-June 1986 issue of The Futurist magazine ran an article titled, “The Future of Personal Robots.” An excerpt appears below. Robots can already be used to entertain young children. Their entertainment value for older children and adults, however, is for the most part limited to the intellectual challenge of programming them. But future robots…
This ludicrous Apple corporate video was used during the Macintosh rollout in January of 1984. It played before Steve Jobs took the stage. My, how keynotes have changed! I only wish Apple still produced comedic gems/ripoffs of current chart-toppers for keynotes like this. For the full story behind this video from the man who ripped…
US scientists have finally done it: they’ve created a cloak to hide an object in the visual light spectrum. The catch? This cloak is just 10 micrometres in diameter and only works in 2D space. But were still excited about the “locker room potential.” The device works by redirecting light rays around the object and…
Nokia has invented a way to let you use a touchscreen on a cellphone or mobile device without looking at it. It’s done with this special lid that has a slot in it with slightly raised places on it that you can use as a guide. Working with the software on the screen underneath, certain…
We’re pulling out our new SuperRumor” for this news, but according to DigiTimes, Apple is considering the recently announced Intel Mooretown chips for the iPhone. Since these Intel chips won’t see the light of day until 2009, it would certainly represent (at the very least) a second iteration of iPhone hardware. But given the specs…
Looking for a place to park that new Zune? Brando suggests pulling up The Chair, a $6 gadget stand that looks like those stackable chairs you lugged outside to the church picnic back in olden times. Now when you play Bag Lady Barbie with those mini shopping carts Jason introduced you to last week, at…
We haven’t paid much attention to Beyond TV in the past, but the new 4.7 update has caught our attention with a sweet new feature: iPod and iPhone auto syncing. While competitors like TivoToGo will allow you to convert recorded shows to iPod-ready H.264 compression, it’s a tedious process that tends to pull the convenience…
So let’s hear it from the main man himself, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, introducing his new Zune babies and ticking off the new features and interface in this Microsoft-produced video. Although Gates mentions a November ship date, he’s not as specific as Amazon’s precise November 13th rollout day. The MS chief also touts wireless auto…