Tattoos for Your Laptop: Safer Than Letting Your Mac Drink Jack and Ride a Hog
A Williamsburg tattooist, Scott Campbell, has come up with half a dozen designs that you can have lasered onto your laptop for $200. If you up the price by $100 he’ll etch your own design onto your machine, just like he did above, for Brooklyn-based artist Kaws. If these take off, perhaps Apple will change…
Touch Screen Doesn’t Need to Be Touched [verdict: WTF?]
Forget about that Apple “multi-touch” Finger-print-magnet™ mega-platform crap and welcome the touch screen that actually doesn’t even need to be touched. https://gizmodo.com/analyst-apples-multitouch-launching-a-mega-platform-244219 With this display, complete with Front Row style interface, you can manipulate things from a distance of six inches, which opens the door to all kinds of exciting possibilities. You know, manipulate things…
More LED Backlit Crazyness To Drive Apple Fanboys Crazy
While Apple rumor sites keep kicking the LED backlit MacBook and iMac horse to death, somebody else keeps delivering the actual goods beyond Fujitsu: Toshiba Matsushita Display has released seven LED backlit screens. https://gizmodo.com/fujitsu-beats-apple-and-hp-to-the-punch-with-led-backli-234126 They start with a too-small-for-a-Sub-MacBook-but-good-enough-for-a-multitouch-mega-platform-thang™ 8.9 inches, 1,280 x 768 pixel model. The range tops at 13.3 inches with 1,280 x…
Chinese Concept Phones: At Last, a Useful Place for a USB Connector
No idea whether these will ever make it into production, but Chinese phone company Huawei showed off three pretty spanky ideas at CeBit 2007. First up is a phone with a built-in USB connector that doesn’t need any additional cables to function. Made of flexible rubber, the connector bends any which way you want to…
Feel Bright Light: Light Therapy and Bad Taste All Rolled Into One
My first reaction to this was, “Ah, turquoise eye shadow—that’s so Yetro*. And she’s been brave enough to team it with a tangerine leisure top—truly, this woman should be working for Lindsay Lohan as a stylist, not as ‘Lindsay Lohan’ in a look-alikes agency.” And then the industrial-grade LSD wore off and slowly, through the…
Toshiba Gigabeat U: Is This the Zune Nano? [redux]
If Microsoft is contemplating bringing out a Nano (the Nune? The Zazo?) follow-up to their repackaged Toshiba Gigabeat, this may be it. But then again, it may not. https://gizmodo.com/first-generation-microsoft-zunes-are-toshiba-oems-seco-196720 The Toshiba Gigabeat U can charge its battery in 10 minutes to get a three-hour playback time, but only if you use the MEPUAA 10 USB…
Today in Giz: Dear Boss Man
Lam, I’m finally back from Spring break! I know you missed my intern powers while I was gone, but now I’m back fully charged (aside from a what seems to be a permanent hangover). And it looks like I got back just in time, because the gadget world is going crazy. Phillips has finally gone…