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ABC has just added an HD channel to their online streaming player, allowing you to watch episodes of shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, and The Bronx is Burning in hot, hot HD quality. It’s still in beta, and it’ll obviously require a pretty decent connection to run properly, but it’s pretty awesome that you can…
Google has its eye on you? We’re putting a few eyes right back on Google! After our tipster spotted that fleet of Google Streetview camera cars a couple of weeks ago, readers are starting to notice the cars cruising far and wide. In fact, reader Matt sent us the photo you see above that looks…
In our final match of round 2 in our iPod Bracket Battle, we have the three most expensive systems left. The Altec Lansing “boombox” IM7 faces off against the Bose Sound Dock…while battling the hi-fi slayer, the Altec Lansing IMV712. The winner of this match very well could be the winner of the entire competition.…
Somebody must be losing money on this Medison Celebrity laptop, running Fedora Linux and certainly qualifying as the cheapest notebook in the world at $150. Heck, that’s even less expensive than the OLPC (one laptop per child) that was supposed to cost $100 and has now ballooned up past $175, and which some sources are…
This Meeraboo-2007 ST-1 side table is a design concept by Victor Vetterlein, and we must admit we were more drawn to the scantily clad model with her strange-looking restraints than the table itself. Take the jump for an enlargement of this pic, and a possible explanation of her predicament. (Warning, somehow, it strikes us as…
Stanford researchers have developed a program that can, at a most basic level, learn language. In studying whether the brain is hard-wired with preset sounds or if it acquires the basics of speech dynamically, a computer program was designed to learn speech. After listening to hours of Japanese and English mother-to-baby talk, the computer was…
The Tesla electro-roadster that goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds is due to hit the streets this fall, and there are 560 orders for the $98,000 electric sports car already pending. Hey, wait a minute. We thought all the Teslas were sold out. Not so, according to a Tesla Motors spokesman, who says the Lotus…
Items such as this Pac-Man Plush-Head helmet make me realize how much life has to offer. It comes in two sizes, (Pac)Man and (Pac)Boy and does nothing but keep your ears warm. Nope, no MP3 player, no vibrating head massager, no USB, no Bluetooth—just squashy yellowness. What else do you need? The Pac-Man Plush-Head costs…
This year’s award winners tend to fall into two categories: old, at least to up-to-date gadget hounds like y’all, or not there yet, with no good way to figure out when they will arrive. That doesn’t mean they’re not the epitome of great design, though, and it doesn’t mean they’re not worth having a gander…
In order to keep up with the competition, Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC have announced a partnership to develop 32nm chips. Starting in 2010, they hope to have a joint operating plant to develop high powered chips for televisions and various home electronics. Wow, these three companies sound like one hell of a superteam, until you…
The cops won’t be the only ones with those wild car wreck videos any more, because now you can clamp this Clarion DriveEye recorder onto your car’s windshield and record some really rad video as soon as you get into your next accident. But wait, who would buy this? Someone who’s planning to have an…
Click to viewHere’s another case of the iPhone’s startup problem, getting stuck into single-user mode right after turning it on. A reader just sent this video and high resolution photo, along with a description of how it happened. But fear not, Apple fans, because there’s an easy cure for it. https://gizmodo.com/crashed-iphone-in-single-user-mode-shows-need-for-chang-281717 Here’s what reader Daft…
The Oppo Blast is one sexy PMP. At only 6.9mm thick, its waistline is identical to an iPod nano’s. But the Blast has a few tricks up its sleeve… On top of standard MP3/WMA/MP4/AVI/Lossless audio support, the Blast will play flash video, XVID and animated gifs—yes, animated gifs—the best of Web 2.0 in your hand!…
This is a neat little idea from Asuka, a 1.8-inch HDD that looks like a cellphone. Slide it into the card slot of your laptop and it can transfer data at 1056 Mbps. Neat idea, huh? Cost is $123 for 20GB and $230 for 40GB, but it’s a shame it’s only available in Japan en…
Click to viewAfter the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone. Yes, your iPhone can now be a web server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter…
Following last week’s RPG kidnapping, a 18-year-old brazilian near Sao Paulo has been hospitalized after being struck by lightning while he had one joystick in his hand and another in his mouth. I know, weird. The proof that Mother Nature can be a bitch sometimes was left in the teen’s bedroom wall, as you can…
This cellphone concept design by Peter Lau allows blind users to easily dial numbers and make calls. It doesn’t rely on Braille, but instead has differently angled keys that users can learn to recognize. So how do you send and receive an SMS then? There are no details on this, but presumably it would be…
Paleo-Future reader Mark Plus sent me a very interesting piece from the June 1981 issue of Future Life magazine. The author, F.M. Esfandiary, insisted that the Right/Left political and social dynamic was outdated. The new direction was Up. Mr. Esfandiary would later change his name to FM2030 because he was convinced that he would live…
Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s first LCD panel that uses DisplayPort. The 30-inch LCD, which goes into mass production in the second quarter of 2008, has 2560 x 1600 resolution thanks to the zippiness of the new interface that, at twice the speed of today’s interfaces, transmits graphics data at 10.8Gbps.…
These BarbieGirls MP3 players are bizarre for more than their creepy doll shape: Apparently they are designed to teach your kids about exclusion and peer pressure. When you plug the $59.99 device into the included dock, they unlock exclusive content and chat rooms that only other kids with dolls can access, making them a My-First-Country-Club…