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Here in Illinois, our ability to order wine from our favorite producers will soon be a thing of the past, outlawed to empower the confusing regional alcohol industry. That’s why “home brewing” wine through the Oenophile’s Personal Winery is so attractive. You order legal crushed, frozen grapes from the region of your choosing, and it…
Verizon, breaking the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, sent 10,145 unsolicited faxes to businesses in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. And while they weren’t required to pay that $1,500 per violation maximum penalty, Verizon was slapped with a fee of $625 per offense—or $6 million total for these junk faxes. So we’ve got T-Mobile firing Catherine Zeta…
“I’m on record as the first guy over two hundo (I put the extra five bucks on there just for that purpose).” [fakegene] https://gizmodo.com/gene-munster-predicts-205-for-apple-in-2008-281090
Do you like your portable speaker looking like a large, oddly shaped, Tic-Tac? Well lucky you, because Brando has just released such a device. The Angel speaker boasts nothing out of the ordinary, except making buyers simultaneously appear stupid and cheap. Available in orange or green, the Angel Speakers are powered via USB and come…
Duke University has now shifted the blame from the iPhone to Cisco, for causing the reported wireless outage. Duke ‘s chief information officer, Tracey Futhey, detailed; “Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue.” https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127 Though the specifics of the trouble…
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has moved Apple’s stock price projection for 2009 up a whole year to 2008, making Munster’s projection the highest price anyone has ever given Apple: $205 per share. Is there method to his madness? Of course. And it has something to do with our obnoxious graphic. One thing we learned…
Here’s a video showing what is supposed to be the iPod 6G user interface. The clips were originally posted by MacRumors, but they have been removed following Apple’s request. They look polished enough to be real, but that doesn’t mean they will necessarily be the UI of the next-gen iPod. Our reasons, and the clip,…
While $6,299 can buy you a boatload of Hello Kitty book bags, t-shirt and keychains, that small mountain of cash will only buy you one Hello Kitty Robot. Now up for preorder, the lovable robot can chat with a child in three different personality modes: as a close friend, with the family and as a…
Ladies, is your muff hairier than a sheepskin shagpile? Do you want to get rid of all that hairy nonsense in 60 seconds? Then say hello to the Bikini Line Genie. These disposable pads will allow you to wax or shave your Southern regions, quickly, without risk of causing those irritating cuts and scrapes. Hit…
Winners collect $25,000. As for the smug satisfaction of not being a pawn of Microsoft or Apple, no purchase necessary. [flickr]
Duke University has officially retracted any iPhone implication in wireless network outage. [CNET] https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127
The Transformers movie highlighted an important fact; we need more robots. Thankfully RC2 is working on the void with the planned release of V_Bot—a serendipitous, robotic union between RC car/robot and MP3 speakers. Transformation is controlled remotely and the V_Bot puts on quite a show in each form factor. Various lighting features are implemented throughout,…
A Gizmodo reader is claiming that his iPhone got what Apple support said “sounds like a virus.” Last night he heard a received SMS ring but there was none. Instead, the iPhone’s date was replaced by the text “Player Haters (red alert).” Since the first external app was compiled this week, it’s hard to believe.…
A startup named Nanosys claims they have found a way to double flash memory capacity. Their secret is to create metal nanocrystals to boost memory surface area like skyscrapers. And while the idea is by no means new, Nanosys has figured out how to viably bring this process into mass production—something that has thwarted research…
Gamespot just nabbed a review with the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. It’s essentially a QWERTY keyboard add-on for the 360’s controllers, offering better support for Xbox Live’s MSN Messenger update. Here are their impressions of the product, in brief. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-chatpad-pricing-and-ship-date-revealed-276942 – “…snaps on with a satisfying click…” – “The keys provide adequate, clicky feedback and…
Windows 7, Microsoft’s Vista successor, will be out in three years. [seattlepi]
Microsoft has filed a patent for a device incorporating a cell phone and trackpad based control for your PC, via WiFi. The application reads: 1. A system that facilitates navigating on a display, comprising: a mouse engine component that detects a location; and an interface component that integrates the mouse engine into a handheld communication…
Our jaded, product-hating cousins over at the Consumerist covered this story earlier in the week, but apparently one hospital has added computerized check-in kiosks to reduce wait times. Similar to offerings at most modern airports, the touch interface asks patients to choose between options like pain and numbness, following up with a human model for…
Happy Harry Potter Day, techies. But in a fight between magic’s biggest badboy and technology’s most feared, who would win? Should Harry not fight, but travel through time and reprogram a robot to do his bidding? Will he?? There’s only one way to find out. Read the book? No way. Vote and then argue in…
Some clever fellow has managed to create a version of Pong, to run on your Mac laptop, utilizing the sudden motion sensors and the microphone. The controls are semi-intuitive. Literal tilting controls the direction of the paddle. Secondly, the size of the paddle is determined via the microphone; greater dB’s equates to a larger size.…
