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According to an internal employee email, the year-and-a-half old ad campaign from AT&T that claims they’re the network with the fewest dropped calls is reportedly over. This decision comes from JD Power giving T-Mobile the fewest dropped calls award in most markets, as well as Consumer Reports rating AT&T at the bottom of their lists…
This concept drawing by Buckminster Fuller looks to have a lot in common with the airport of the future article we looked at last week. The illustration was found in the excellent 1968 book Transportation in the World of the Future. See also: Airport of the Future (1967) Disney’s Magic Highway, U.S.A. (1958) The Most…
This might look like a normal, albeit outdated, landline phone, but it hides a whole lot more than that behind its unassuming exterior. It actually contains a motion detector that’ll give you a call and allow you to listen in on whatever’s happening in the room. It’s perfect for listening in on, uh, robbers. Yes,…
A lot of the DIY projects we feature require soldering, which unlike soldiering, doesn’t usually involve loss of life, but is still painful as crap. Instructables has a guide on soldering for beginners, which is totally useful if you didn’t spend a semester soldering your fingers together because your female lab partner didn’t know what…
Although laptop coolers are all pretty mediocre when it comes down to cooling, this cooler design from Bostjan Majcen actually looks quite nice. The fan in the middle is hidden behind an Apple logo—which pleases the Apple fans—and the body itself has four USB ports and a tilted, lifted stand so you can see your…
Nokia’s really into this new fangled Bluetooth techno-mology, shooting out Bluetooth addons like they shoot out phones—scattershot, hoping they hit something good with at least one. They’ve got the LD-4W GPS module, BH-903 Stereo Bluetooth Headset with A2DP, BH-0-2 (non-Stereo) Bluetooth headset, MD-7W Bluetooth speakers, and the DC-1 Power Pack. These are all made for…
There’s been a lot in the news lately about China’s penchant for putting cancer-causing lead paint on children’s toys that they then ship to the States. If you’re worried that the pacifier you’re about to stick into Nerd Jr’s mouth is hazardous, just grab one of these intimidating-looking X-MET3000TXR+ (now that’s a gadget name) from…
This Princeton Bluetooth adapter is probably the smallest USB adapter we’ve seen yet, being made of mostly a USB tip and a tiny little body. The USB adapter works on both PCs and Macs, has Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and sticks out only a tiny bit so you don’t accidentally snap it off. If our…
Most MP4 watches look fantastic if you’re 12 years old and really love plastic and rubber watches, but Epoq’s latest MP4 watch brings a slight bit of class to the video watch business. Made of stainless steel, this watch has a 1.5-inch LCD screen, 2GB memory, MP4 video and MP3/WMA/WAV audio. $199 isn’t cheap, but…
You saw the photos of me nerding out with Panny’s 103-inch TV and an Xbox 360, now see the video of it in action. Yeah, I’m standing way, way too close, and I did get pretty motion sick playing for more than five minutes, but it was totally worth it. The video, shot by enterprising…
It was around this time last year that Sprint raised their SMS rates to $0.15, allowing you to get out of your contract for free, since it constituted a material change. They’ve gone and raised SMS rates again, from $0.15 to $0.20, but this time they say that it DOESN’T constitute a material change. What…
We’ve gotten a bunch of new commenters lately, thanks to both our growth and the fact that more people know how to comment by reading these commenting posts. Although most of them are good, a few of them are dicks. It’s a full-time job spotting the dicks, so we want you, the commenters, to tell…
After studying the movements of women for years, finally we get scientific confirmation of what we’re seeing: Researchers at Cambridge University in the U.K. have figured out exactly what makes a perfect swivel-hipped walk with “a more angular swaying and bounce to the hips.” The mathematicians got out their slide rules, calculators, blow-up dolls and…
Beer companies have been using regular women to sell their product for a while, but when they get into robotic women, that’s when we start to pay attention. Thanks Ray!
Although the “upcoming” Zune music kiosk download feature seems obvious thanks to the player’s Wi-Fi capabilities, being able to download music onto your iPod or iPhone on the go seems less obvious. However, 22Moo has just announced a date for their iPod- and iPhone-compatible internet kiosk station that lets you download movies, videos, games and…
You’d better hurry up and get in line, because the limited-edition Young Woz and Jobs Playset is going on sale in just two days. Tomy will be cranking out this little PodBrix set made out of modified LEGO, featuring the young Steve Jobs and his Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak working in Steve’s parents’ garage to…
If all you’ve got is a handful of albums in your MP3 library, this 1GB EcoLong player should be all you need for your portable music needs. Not only does it play back over 85 hours of continuous music, it does it on one single AAA battery. Oh, and it has FM frickin’ radio! C’mon.…
Gateway to scoop up European PC vendor Packard Bell BV [PR Newswire]
This week on Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher spill the beans on Adobe’s new version of Flash. Could high-def YouTube be far behind? The duo also answers listener email and talk about the rumored Phatty Apple iPod nano. [Free Podcast on iTunes or at Coolness Roundup]
Microsoft just launched a new blog on their MSDN network (their network for developers) for hackers. Microsoft, of course, hires “white hat” hackers to come and work for them by throwing money at “talent,” and having them test Microsoft products for security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. (Something tells us they need to throw more money at…