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iPhone campers won’t be the only ones sleeping near an Apple store Thursday night, employees are there too. [Apple Insider]
While WhisperRoom warns on their site that there’s no such thing as a soundproof enclosure, they’ll help you get pretty close. The sheds are made out of heavy materials rather than lightweight foam and the like, with single or double walls of wood and steel. The reason WhisperRoom forgoes foam as a primary sound wall…
The crafty folks over at Mac Daddy World discovered that the new MacBook Pro’s have a different iSight inside. The new version, manufactured by Micron, outputs images to a much improved 1280×1024. Although iApps, like iChat, don’t yet take advantage of the increased resolution they’re still stuck in VGA. But an upgrade’s an upgrade, right?…
If you thought the Wii billiard attachment was ridiculous, check out the Wii Cooking Mama kit. It’s for the new Nintendo Wii game that lets you use the Wiimote to pretend to cook, and come with four attachments: frying pan, knife, fork and spatula. https://gizmodo.com/the-wii-billiard-accessory-272426 This won’t improve your actual or virtual cooking skills, but…
Speaking of peeing in the city (see post below), Gridskipper’s ultimate iPhone campout maps will let you find a bathroom, a Wi-Fi hotspot, eats, hotels, and other necessities while you’re waiting in line for the iPhone. Gridskipper Guides
Had to run into the city for a meeting but can’t seem to find a toilet? Enter MizPee. Either visit mizpee.com in your phone’s web browser or text your city and state (e.g. “New York, NY”), to 415-350-2290 and MizPee will give you a list of toilets near you. It even specifies a bathroom’s cleanliness…
Like we didn’t see this coming, but a new report is confirming what we feared. FireWire is slowly but surely turning into a niche port. Even its strong hold in the camcorder sector is weakening, falling from an 87% in 2005 to 77% in 2006. [PC World]
Hey non-iPhone fans! If winning Apple’s newest baby isn’t your thing, we’ve got a new contest sponsored by Eureka where you can win a TiVo Series 3. https://gizmodo.com/contest-reminder-win-an-iphone-272889 No difficult invention designs this time. We’re just doing a trivia contest, and all you have to do is answer the questions correctly and we’ll pick from…
There’s no confirmation other than some guy’s word, but Macapper says third party native (Cocoa) iPhone apps are coming soon. Apparently, during one of the WWDC evening parties, an iPhone engineer responded, “Yeah. There will be” to the question of “are there going to be third party Cocoa apps on the iPhone.” The iPhone engineer…
Firmware update 1.82 for the PS3, enabling “the playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) files”, is coming soon. [PS Blog]
Geek Sugar replicates the Nintendo 64 video with the iPhone [Geek Sugar]
Those of you playing first person shooters on the PS3 but suck at using the SIXAXIS to aim were probably looking forward to the SplitFish FragFX, the half controller, half mouse contraption. How well does it work? Pretty darn well. And it’s customizable too. https://gizmodo.com/splitfish-fragfx-mouse-controller-for-ps3-245810 You can assign the mouse to control the camera view,…
We’ve been getting great entries for our Made in Eureka contest. You guys must really want an iPhone ;). We’ve got another example of a great entry here by Sean Ross for a holographic rear vehicle display. It’s got three states, left or right turn, stop and stolen (which is triggered by the car alarm).…
I’m at Justin.TV Getting a Lifecam for iPhone Coverage. Live Unboxing? You bet. [Justin.tv]
There’ve been plenty of details on how you buy an iPhone and sign up for AT&T service if you’re not a current AT&T customer, but until now current users have been jabbing in the dark about what they have to do. Well, AT&T’s finally put up a FAQ, and what a great FAQ it is.…
This 1909 illustration of New London in the future can be found in the Library of Congress collection.
Did you think cellphone holsters were going out of style? Think again, my friend. The Japanese have taken everything that was old and made it new again, and this time their Dirty Harry-style metallic cellphone holder will keep your cellphone safe from train gropers of all ages. Best of all, it’s only $25, so you’re…
Well, this is… gross. It’s a lamp filled with fat (yes, fat), and it gets brighter as you use it. Why does it get brighter? Because the light burns through the fat. It’s some sort of social commentary or something, but I can’t help but wonder where you go for refills when you’re out of…
Following up our list of features the iPhone was finally confirmed not to have, here’s a comprehensive list based on the four reviews currently out detailing everything we know about the iPhone so far: what it has, what it doesn’t have, its known problems and what we still don’t know. https://gizmodo.com/finally-confirmed-what-the-iphone-doesnt-have-272571 What it has: •…
You think your plasma TV is impressive? It isn’t. This is an impressive display: the TWISTER 360-degree rotating 3D display. It allows you to be immersed in a fully 3D video environment without the use of special glasses, although I’m not sure if it would go that well in your living room. You have to…