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Something’s fishy about this iPhone activation and sync video. Here’s a screenshot from the video, showing a suspiciously large amount of disk space on the iPhone, which has been announced as initially offered with just 4GB or 8GB of storage. https://gizmodo.com/apple-releases-video-walkthrough-of-iphone-activation-272297 Is the iPhone going to be capable of 80GB of storage? Not likely, since…
The Shower Timer, by ShowerTimer, is a big metal box that you install between your wall and the neck of your shower head as a retrofit with (hopefully) no need for a plumber. It does what the product and company name suggest: You get so much time to shower and then no more water for…
Brian Prime didn’t look very impressed with some of the New Transformers toys and I can’t blame him. Nothing beats old school Transformers and the Real Megatron. Check some of the weirdest and coolest models now for sale on eBay, including the Millenium Falcon Transformer, the Gremlin-Troll Transvestite, the X-3 BattleStation Megatron Jazz and Megatron…
Here’s Apple’s unidentified spokesJobbsian spilling the beans on iPhone activation and sync. Looks like a straightforward process that’s much like iTunes syncing. By the way, who is this dude? Anybody know? He’s good. Plus, we’re impressed with the high quality of this streaming video. Oh, there’s the infoPorn about that iPhone activation, too. Activation &…
This is the Poseidon 180, 180 feet of yacht developed by the Giancarlo Zema Design Group for Bugatti, and it looks a bit like someone has fed it through a bread slicer. Want more info—including price—and pics? Course you do! The boat can go at speeds of up to 40 knots, thanks to its Bugatti…
In the leakiest announcement since the Titanic, Dell officially announced a raft of notebooks, flat panels and desktops today, offering no surprises since we’ve been hearing about them for the past two months. Heading the list is the gorgeous XPS M1330 notebook, claiming to be the skinniest 13.3-inch notebook in the world at just .9…
How would you like to crap your pants 918 feet in the air while moving at about 100mph? If you’re planning to travel to South Africa anytime soon, you can achieve that dream. Take a peek at this video of a record-breaking zipline, which looks almost as scary as the world’s highest swing. Although to…
After you hack and slash your way through the hordes of stinking, sweating fanboys, Apple has confirmed you won’t have to soak up the aftermath while standing around to sign service contracts or the like—you’ll be able to head straight home to choose your service plan and activate your iPhone via iTunes. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-linewatch-one-600-phone-away-from-homelessness-272177 Make sure…
British biotech company Intercytex shows that its artificial skin might make painful grafts a thing of the past. Intercytex’s ICX-SKN is made out of fibrin–the same stuff your body uses to heal wounds–and fully integrates with test subjects’ skin in 28 days, leaving little behind to show for the damage. The fibrin matrix that ICX-SKN…
UPDATED The speculation is over and the iPhone service plans are on the table. There are three specifically for the iPhone: • $59.99 for 450 minutes with 5,000 night-and-weekend minutes • $79.99 for 900 minutes with unlimited night-and-weekend calling • $99.99 for 1,350 minutes with unlimited night-and-weekend calling The key here is that all plans…
OK, so, it’s a hell of a week for Sprint to launch a music phone but ta-daa, meet Muziq. Though it’s certainly not billed as an iPhone Killer—Sprint says the timing was a coincidence. We introduced you to Muziq earlier as Fusic II, an underwhelming replacement to the original Fusic. We were wrong about the…
It was only a matter of time. After being ordered to essentially spy on its users for the MPAA, the virtual shuttering of TorrentSpy was, to appropriately quote Agent Smith, “inevitable.” True, for now it’s only removing copyrighted content using a automated filtering system called FileRights, but we all know that copyrighted material is its…
The folks who long ago brought you the Zip and Jaz drives (and a few other less memorable storage solutions) now introduce the candy-apple red eGo portable drive, and its gray, workhorse cousin, the eSATA. The USB 2.0 bus-powered eGo comes with 160GB and costs, by coincidence, $160. It’s bundled with EMC’s Retrospect software for…
The Cuby is rather a chic little dock from Princeton Japan for your Second-Gen Shuffle. Compact and bijou, you can power it up via USB or with 3 AA batteries. Measuring 49 x 49x 59 mm and weighing 95 grams, it delivers sound from its 0.5W x 2Ch speakers and you can get it for…
I don’t know how you make this posing pouch, the epitome of flawless taste, actually moo – and I’m not sure I want to know either. This tasteful $13 thong is perfect bedroom attire for any man who wants to break up with his girlfriend but doesn’t want to be the dirty perp. Light the…
The 1982 book Fact or Fantasy (World of Tomorrow) by Neil Ardley contains the two-page spread below which illustrates domed cities of the future. The domes are necessary to protect humanity from the “savage cold” yet to come. What is our planet going to be like in the future? From the way in which the…
Remember the leaked iPhone dock with Bluetooth headphone charging? The one we said was different from the one Apple showed at MacWorld? Here it is. This is the image we saw in February, now finally cleared to be posted online. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-the-apple-iphone-dock-with-bluetooth-headset-ho-237050 As we noted before, there’s two cables going into that iPhone connector, though we’re…
Here he is again, Sweaty McTouchscreen, the #1 linesitter at the midtown Apple store, this time explaining himself via a strange variation of the “I’m homeless, need money for booze” sign. https://gizmodo.com/non-interview-first-iphone-campers-not-what-apple-expe-272140 Well, that’s it. We’re doomed. We’ve had a good run, but it looks like this whole humanity experiment didn’t really work out. Let’s…
Boingo WiFi, like T-Mobile hotspots, goes $40 for flat international access. [Boingboing]
The Fishpen, by outdoor gear company Coleman, is a telescoping fishing rod in a pen sized container. It’s for when you happen to pass a creek, or pond, and the mood strikes you to Fish your little heart out and hook some bass in the mouth for the pure love of the sport. The compact…