Subtitle-Reading Glasses Make Cinema-Going for the Hard of Hearing Less, um, Hard
Here’s something that could be a godsend for the hard of hearing who feel they are not getting their money’s worth in the movie theater. A nifty little idea thought up by some clever people at Madrid’s Carlos III University for the Spanish Center for Subtitles and Closed Captions, this gadget fixes onto a person’s…
Scientist Declares Beer as the Source of Civilization and Technology, Nobody Is Surprised
Click to viewThis is a post that Gizmodo’s resident hops philosopher Travis should have written, but as he’s sleeping one off it’s been left up to me. Charlie Bamforth, a British academic who holds the most fabulous of titles—the University of California’s Anheuser Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science—claims that without beer, we would be…
Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 Officially Announced, MIDs and Menlow to Follow
Intel has officially presented the Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 (formerly known as McCaslin) and announced the new Menlow architecture with Silverthorn processors for 2008. They have also given us a peek and poke over Redflag’s MIDinux Linux distribution, which apparently has been designed for those mobile devices that can’t decide if they want to…
The Porsche Phone: Look Ma, No Taste
Before you get all over-excited and think that the German carmaker is about to team up with Vertu, à la Ferrari, think again, because the Porsche people are far too cool to do that, preferring to redeploy their technology to the kitchen toward sleek toasters and kettles. https://gizmodo.com/vertu-ferrari-1947-cellphone-if-you-have-to-ask-the-pr-247673 This, my friends, is a cellphone embedded…
iPod to be Mandatory Tablewear for Oyster-Slurping Diners – and What if You’re Eating Bull’s Testicles?
The Fat Duck, one of the restaurants in the celebrated UK gastronomic town of Bray, Berkshire, is to take its customers’ enjoyment of food up a notch. Diners who choose a dish called Sound of the Sea, a mixture of seafood and edible seaweed served on a sand-like tapioca mixture, will listen to the sounds…
Slaudiolab SRS-200BD: Bluetooth Audio Transmitter for your iPod
This is Slaudiolab’s SRS-200BD, an audio transmitter for the iPod. Connect it to the base of any iPod dock connector and in return you get high-quality stereo audio as if by magic thanks to Bluetooth and its SRS WOW HD audio enhancement technology. The device has been FCC-approved, so expect to see it winging its…
YouTube Leashed: “Claim Your Content” Is On Its Way
It may sound like a game show for accountants, but Claim Your Content is actually the name of YouTube’s new content monitoring tool. As near as we can figure, it’s an automated feature that accompanies every user-uploaded video. Content owners, including such publicly announced Claim Your Content charter members as the NHL and the NBA,…
Secrets on Becoming a Gizmodo Commenter
Secret 1:Look to the bottom of each post and there will be a “Login with your username and password below. New User? Here’s what to do.” Click the link. Secret 2: Type the most clever comment you can think of. Secret 3: Choose a user name & password, also if you want toss in your…