MPIO’s FY800 and Weird Looking FL500 Announced
In the MP3 world, boring box designs might be king, but that’s not stopping MPIO from trying to break the mold. The new wedge-shaped FL500 eschews buttons, replacing them with knobs you can mess with. There’s a knob for volume and one to switch player functions between MP3 playback, FM radio and sound recording—that third…
Alien Scottish Technology Spawns The Octopulse
Turn off all of the lights and don’t move! Brit Leissler’s Octopulse uses its "tonetacles" to detect movement and light, resulting in a lot of garbled squeaks and murmurs from its analogue synthesizer. If this is really all it takes to master music, then I might just have to dust off that old Casio keyboard…
Creepy Video of Pig’s Skull Eating Using CTX Imaging
You asked for it and here it is: exclusive videos of the CTX Imaging system we showed you yesterday. Here you can see a pig eating in slow motion, starting with the X-ray movie alone and then superimposing the 3D skull. https://gizmodo.com/ctx-imaging-shows-3d-bones-in-fast-motion-total-recall-270885 CTX Imaging is a unique method that uses computed-tomography with high-speed cinefluoroscopic video…
iLuv Dock Looks Like a Wine Glass, Has Complex, Fruity Aroma with Notes of Peach and Plastic
Things iLuv about the iLuv Wine Glass Dock: The chick in the silver bikini. Things iLuv about the iLuv Wine Glass Dock (cont.): The fact that it looks like something you’d find at a garage sale of the widow of a Palm Beach tycoon who was the Mr Big of Niterie design way back when…
Catapult Watch for Medievalists with No Taste. And Squirrels
If Adam Frucci’s squirrel catapult post from earlier this week tickled your fancy, here’s something that won’t—unless you’re a squirrel and you want your revenge. It’s a simply repulsive antique catapult watch that dates back to 2005. Cost is $49 and it comes with free artillery, having been reduced from $59. I can’t think why.…
Apple Patent to Prevent Thieves from Lifting iPhone
The brains over in Cupertino seem to have been doing some thinking vis-à-vis security for the iPhone, as an application submitted by Apple to the US patent office shows. Given that the iPod’s arrival heralded an epidemic of white-earphone muggings, it is safe to assume that the same thing will happen once people start clamping…
Canon EOS-1D Mark III Auto-focus Under Heat
Our own Photo Wizard Charlie White got his hands all over the Canon EOS-1D Mark III at PMA’07 and was blown away by this $4,500 wonder. And rightly so, because the camera is amazing… except for one little problem. https://gizmodo.com/pma-07-canon-eos-1d-mark-iii-hands-on-242573 Imagician Rob Galbraith has been field testing the machine-gun wondercamera and he has detected a…
Video Shows HPR-3 Promet Mark II Not Boozeproof
Yesterday we showed you HPR-3 Promet Mark II, hailed as the waterproof construction worker of the future. Well, I beg to differ. He’s nothing but a Disco stormtrooper who got at three bottles of whisky and a case of Olde Fortran the night before his big debut, as you can see in the three videos…
iPhone Comes in Three Sizes
…Regular, Super and Super Plus. Expect to see these on display in an Apple store near you soon. I wonder if they will make it onto eBay at a later date—as I can think of a few people who wouldn’t balk at having one of these at home. But hang on, because we already predicted…