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According to survey company Changewave, up to 16% of those buying mobile phones in the next six months are planning to buy an iPhone. [ macoworlduk]
Click to viewA Gizmodo reader underwent a vasectomy to get an Apple iPhone, following his wife’s orders after a road trip with his kids to Boise, Idaho. But fear not, dear readers-with-your-manly-parts-still-intact, because his amazing tale of heroic Apple fandom doesn’t include any Bobbit-style genital violence. Keep reading to know why and the —strange— happy…
A 15-story office block in the heart of London is being demolished backwards in order to build a skyscraper in its place. Demolishers are working up from the ground level upwards, dismantling each floor to reveal the concrete core of the P&O building. Find out why, and the new skyscraper replacing it, after the jump.…
$100 off on a Dell UltraSharp 2407WFP-HC 24-inch widescreen LCD Monitor, now $579 [Dell]
For the first time ever, Samsung has kicked Motorola out of the second position in the worldwide cellphone manufacturers ranking. Dropping its market share from 22.1% to 13%, this ends four years of Motorola being #2 behind Nokia. Comparing their handsets, the only thing that surprises us is that they didn’t overtake them at least…
This alarm clock is made up of four 1″x1.5″ cubes that can be moved around independently—if you’re running late you can just rearrange the cubes to suit. There is a separate controller to set the time and alarm, dim the LEDs and press that wonderful, please-just-10-more-minutes snooze button. It’s available now from Suck UK, at…
Nissan have announced a cunning new safety feature, aimed at pedestrians rather than drivers. In the event of an accident, the hood on the Skyline Coupe immediately pops up a few inches, creating a softer landing spot. Note the word, softer, not soft – getting hit by a Nissan is still going to sting. It…
Heliport/Railway Station Martin Kappler has scanned and uploaded a German poster from 1941 which shows Third Reich images of the paleo-future. The poster was in a book called Durch die weite Welt vol. XIX, one in a series of books for boys. Many thanks to Flickrfy for the tip, and of course, Martin Kappler for…
In a world of complex do-it-all gadgets, the T.sonic 840 might seem a little bland. It’s a fairly basic digital audio player, supporting everything you’d expect in the audio (MP3, WMA, WAV, WMA-DRM10) and visual (JPG, BMP) departments. But it is the simple yet functional approach that allows Transcend’s latest gadget to pump out tunes…
No wonder postmortem Amp’d recommends that you migrate to Prexar Mobile: they’re getting a combo payout of cash and stock for their remaining customers, plus a 25 percent stake in Prexar. [Moconews] https://gizmodo.com/ampd-handsets-die-tonight-prexar-mobile-offers-questio-284538
Is no gadget sacred anymore? Here we have an old school Ericsson rotary telephone stripped of its innards which were subsequently replaced with a home-built Atari ‘punk’ console. Did we need a new way to present the Pong box? Hit the jump for the DIY schematic on the console itself. It’s (apparently) a fairly basic…
What made these $100 headphones irresistible Apple store iPhone retail bait? If it was a sin to use white earbuds with a nano, it surely was a sin to use it with a $600 phonepod. They’re also the only headphones to launch with the iPhone that explicitly work with the recessed headphone jack. They sound…
It seems that Nokia N800 users have a bad case of you-know-what envy. First they recreated the iPhone’s virtual keyboard (sans predictive text) and now they’re after the iconic kinetic scrolling method. Written in Python, the code is due out "soonish" for N800 users. [JKOntheRun]
Walt Mossberg appears to be scooping again. This time, it’s a review of VMWare’s Fusion (Available this Monday, August 6th). The software, like Parallels, allows PC programs to run from within OS X. Mossberg compares them, simply: Parallels has more features than Fusion…But I found Fusion puts less strain on the computer overall. Jacqui at…
Shooting for the moon is a bit easier when you have one of these wacky Russian personal moon light boxes. I can’t even imagine what they’re for, but the users so far have come up with some fascinating, classic and even cryptic uses for a portable crescent. Good luck getting any sleep next to this…
The latest IRISPen portable OCR scanner is ready to scoop up all the text you can throw at it. Just slide the pen over your text source and the magical goblins inside the pen convert it and toss it right into your favorite word processor. It will recognize any of 128 languages and the upgraded…
The Creative Zen V Plus was bumped from 8GB to 16GB, making it the first to have that much Flash. Singapore only, for now. [Creative via Electronista]
Valleywag realizes that Google will not likely do phone hardware themselves. Whatever. As long as it supports the software, hopefully some shiny Mobile Google OS, we’re interested. Either way, this is what the WSJ and Reuters said today: •”Now it is drafting specifications for phones that can display all of Google’s mobile applications at their…
If you thought putting your iPod nano in an Altoids tin was impressive, check out what Greg Sanders got inside a Penguin mints tin. It’s a self-contained RPG game whose parts all fit inside the tin. All you have to do is plug in a Sega Genesis controller and a TV and you’re set. Yes,…
Arnold Kim of Macrumors.com generally sticks to the speculative evidence, usually refraining from venturing into wilder guesses. Recently he brought to light an obvious but somehow ignored pattern: 1) Apple Legal never gets involved for Images/Video of Fake Products and 2) Apple Legal always gets involved for Images/Video Real Products. Apple Legal could be the…