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Blackmagic Design is now shipping Intensity Pro, a $349 PCI Express card you can install in a Mac or a PC that lets you capture uncompressed HD video via an HDMI port, and then view that video as you edit by plugging in an HDMI-equipped HDTV set. The Intensity Pro also lets you capture and…
Are you typing as fast as you can? Type faster! The faster you type, the brighter the USB Think Light will get. It has an LED inside, so it won’t sap too much energy out of your USB port, and you can turn it off when you get sick of feeling like a hamster on…
If this invention becomes a reality, the paparazzi might be out of a job. It’s called Blur, the anti-photography spray. It’s a spray full of super-reflective nanoparticles that screw with camera sensors and make wherever it’s sprayed a white flash. Sure, but wouldn’t a super-reflective spray on your face make you look like you just…
Click to view Now that all seven parts of the Gates vs. Jobs videos are available, we thought we’d give you easy one-stop access to them all right here. Above is a highlight reel of the festivities, and after the jump, starting with the first video, watch all seven of the excerpts of Gates and…
How many streams of water does it really take for you to get clean? For me, generally speaking, it’s just one, but it seems that for some people they just need more. I guess that’s the thinking behind the Kohler WaterHaven, a $3,300 shower with seven water outlets. In order to scrub the putrid stench…
Here’s another clip (part 2 of 7) from the Gates and Jobs meet-up last night at the All Things D conference, where the two talk about the competition and co-opetition between the two companies and a lot more. Cutting through all the Apple vs. Microsoft noise, Jobs reminds us that Microsoft is one of Apple’s…
Slacker fans are getting a little surprise this morning. The online radio station has just released a desktop app that lets you manage your entire music library while letting you make a few tweaks to the online version. Here’s what’s included. https://gizmodo.com/slacker-music-delivers-tunes-online-over-satellite-an-244097 One of the beta’s biggest features is the ability to run Slacker in…
We posted a teaser about the follow-up to the original G’zOne. Today, Verizon Wireless is rolling it out, the G’zOne Type-S, a shock- and weather-resistant baby with some sweet design features built by Casio. Now I can tell you how I really feel about it. Check out the gallery below, then jump for my two…
Sony’s PlayStation portable (PSP) now has a new version 3.50 firmware update available, letting you access music, pictures and videos on a Sony PlayStation 3 from a PSP wirelessly connected to the Internet. When Sony upgraded its PS3 firmware to version 1.80 last week, one of its key features was Remote Play, giving you media…
You like the Steve Jobs? You hate the Steve Jobs? We gave you the textier version yesterday, now here’s a clip of his All Things D appearance, in full technicolor moving picture, for you to comment on in your own special way. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-d-now-264586 Jobs on YouTube Weirdness, Windows Love and “Fake Steve”
When it comes to looks, most USB flash drives are cut from the same cloth, which is why we’ve taken a liking to Zip Zip’s Lego drive. The bite-sized drive is small enough to attach to your keys (via the strap) yet packs a full gig of storage space. It’s available in six colors for…
As announced in a press release yesterday, the Apple Store today offers an Apple TV with a 160GB hard drive selling for $399, $100 more than the 40GB model. Apple says it can hold “up to 200 hours of video,” but could this be a sign that 720p downloads of movies and TV shows are…
If Charlie’s take on the iTunes Plus songs wasn’t enough for you, then check out our own Wilson Rothman’s piece in the NYT about the same subject. https://gizmodo.com/listening-test-compares-itunes-plus-to-itunes-128kbps-264617 Not to spoil anything, but Wilson and his two test partners could hear a difference between 128kbps and 256kbps on his medium to medium-high end speaker setup.…
In the future, kids will be so dumb that they’ll forget the year (and spooky music will swell on cue). How does the computer know everything? I mean like how . . . I mean like, how many times to exercise and all? You can find 1999 A.D. on the DVD Yesterday’s Tomorrows Today, released…
It saddens me greatly to read about films that are forever lost to deterioration. The 1984 book Yesterday’s Tomorrows by Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan mentions a film that was released in 1908 under the title The Air-Ship or One Hundred Years Hence. The ad below advertised the film, giving it second billing to…
Click to view7:15 The show is about to start, and I’ve got major butterflies. Fingers don’t fail me. 7:19: No one’s on stage, but there’s a video on screen, of the Macintosh dating game. The year is 1983, and Microsoft needs Apple to make half its revenue. Jobs is introducing Bill, and Bill has scripted…
Bill and Steve go on stage in about 30 minutes or so. And before they start pulling each other’s hair, and before Walt starts dancing around these two with tough questions, I’d like to take this moment to remind you of Pirates of Silicon Valley, the made-for-TV, unauthorized 1999 “docudrama” of how Steve got rich…
The latest shots in the Microsoft vs. Xbox 360 console hacker war have been fired, and this time it’s Microsoft who took one in the chest. After banning a bunch of Xbox 360s with modded firmware DVD drives earlier this month, the company’s ban checks have just been defeated by a new version of the…
Click to viewToday is a big day for music downloaders, because iTunes is finally offering DRM-free music for your listening pleasure. To sweeten the deal, each also has a lighter AAC compression applied to it, 256kbps instead of iTunes’ customary 128kbps. Called iTunes Plus, it’s available now, and all it asks is an extra 30…
