With the dire situation in Haiti dominating the news this week, text messages emerged as a powerful resource for relief. We cleared our minds and inboxes of everything CES-releated. Now, our attention turns fully to the Tablet.
The devastation in Haiti was tough to take in, even via satellite or seismograph. Text messages proved to be a useful technology there and elsewhere as they started down the long road to recovery.
https://gizmodo.com/high-res-satellite-images-of-haiti-capital-show-devasta-5447984
Joel and Rosa put together a video entitled Booth Babe Confessions, looking at what life is really like for the non-gadget eye-candy of CES.
https://gizmodo.com/booth-babe-confessions-5444132
We wrote the Ultimate Guide To Ebook Readers We Care About. Read it quick before it becomes the ultimate guide to eBook readers we don’t care about
https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-ebook-readers-we-care-about-5445603
Mark reviewed the T-fal oil-less fryer. Its mediocre performance could not lessen his love of sweet potato fries.
https://gizmodo.com/t-fal-actifry-review-frying-without-oil-5446516
In addition to sweet potato fries, Mark also likes 3D. He describes the experience of watching it as viewing a digital diorama.
https://gizmodo.com/im-sold-on-3d-tvs-and-i-kind-of-hate-myself-for-it-5443165
Jesus, upset about Apple’s removal of the forChan image browser from the App Store, used their logic to demand the removal of Bing and Safari.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-its-time-to-delete-bing-from-the-app-store-too-5446423
How will we type on the Apple Tablet? John teamed up with a world-famous hand model to explore some of the possibilities.
https://gizmodo.com/how-will-we-type-on-the-apple-tablet-5446652
Sean, the wizard of weird news, found this tale of this jilted wife who got revenge by rewiring her husband’s power tools.
https://gizmodo.com/jilted-wife-rewires-husbands-power-tools-to-deliver-220-5446305
Wilson explained how Blu-ray players are cannibalizing set-top boxes, and why it’s a tasty prospect for consumers.
https://gizmodo.com/why-a-blu-ray-player-might-become-your-only-set-top-box-5447402
We ran a list of the 53 best iPhone games out there.
https://gizmodo.com/the-53-best-iphone-games-5447391
John scolded Microsoft for continuing to charge Xbox users for Netflix.
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-its-time-to-stop-charging-for-other-companie-5447248
Whoa. Our friends at ValleyWag offered up big, big bucks for evidence of the Apple Tablet. A few other publications pointed out that this may or may not be illegal, but as far as I’m concerned, all is fair in love and slate.
https://gizmodo.com/100-000-for-evidence-of-apple-tablet-5447249
Mark’s campaign to get Apple to own up to its faulty, yellow-screend iMacs got its first official installment.
https://gizmodo.com/the-faulty-imac-saga-chapter-1-the-beginning-5447250
Jesus gave the Lenovo Lephone some serious style points.
https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-lephone-looks-prettier-than-the-nexus-one-5445485
As if you needed any more reason to distrust Facebook, a former employee dished some very worrisome information, like the existence of a master password.
https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-universal-password-and-other-unsettling-insid-5445549
Most people have already forgotten about Avatar. One guy has spent the last few weeks perfecting his ability to Photoshop himself into a Na’vi.
https://gizmodo.com/photoshop-yourself-into-a-navi-or-just-watch-someone-e-5445380
Matt collected and compiled customers’ Genius Bar horror stories. Now he’s asking for tales from the other side of the bar.
https://gizmodo.com/genius-bar-horror-stories-i-got-screwed-by-the-genius-5448331
Speaking of geniuses, their true fear will be realized. Roaming Apple “Experts” will outrank them.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-experts-will-make-geniuses-feel-like-dunces-5447725
Our good buddy The Oatmeal explained why printers are evil. In pictures.
https://gizmodo.com/why-i-believe-printers-were-sent-from-hell-to-make-us-m-5445812
A UK company was showing off an unbreakable phone. A reporter speed-dialed Mr. Glass.
https://gizmodo.com/reporter-easily-breaks-unbreakable-phone-5445290
We found out that Motorola’s Droid isn’t the most secure little robot.
https://gizmodo.com/droid-security-flaw-puts-your-personal-information-at-r-5445787
We wrote on the gear we used at CES.
https://gizmodo.com/the-gear-we-used-at-ces-5447428
If you asked Google, they’d say there’s about, hmm, half as many advertisements in the world as there should be. Their solution: resell ad space in Google Maps.
https://gizmodo.com/google-may-insert-real-time-ads-onto-old-billboards-in-5446271
No one likes talking to their nosy neighbors, and why should you, when you can just communicate via your Wi-Fi network name.
https://gizmodo.com/passive-aggressive-wi-fi-hotspots-let-your-networks-say-5445643
Microsoft said Android is like a puppy. The internet went “awww.”
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-compares-android-to-an-adorable-puppy-5446513
Not that it really needed confirming, but nudists aren’t too upset about the private parts-showing airport scanners.
https://gizmodo.com/nudists-fully-support-peeping-airport-scanners-5447163
This week’s update in a struggle as old as time itself: Duct tape: 1; bears: 0.
https://gizmodo.com/bear-attacks-plane-pilot-fixes-plane-with-duct-tape-p-5447738
Thanks to semiconductor suppliers—who needs ’em, I say—PC prices may be going up, up, up.
https://gizmodo.com/sorry-pc-buyers-of-the-future-prices-are-going-up-5446405
When I get mad at tech support, I curse under my breath. When musician M.I.A. gets mad at tech support, she writes a song.
https://gizmodo.com/m-i-a-writes-song-inspired-by-three-hour-verizon-tech-5445780
A few months ago we ran a story about how Steve Jobs had a really awful name for the iMac. Turns out, it might’ve been Mac Man.
https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-curdling-name-steve-jobs-wanted-for-the-ima-5447804
Adam posted a documentary on Internet trolls.
https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-reason-we-moderate-our-comments-so-carefully-5446529
A teenager got really frustrated about the prices at the Apple Store and threatened to blow the place up.
https://gizmodo.com/teenager-arrested-for-threatening-to-blow-up-an-apple-s-5449352
The criminal who was taunting police on Facebook was caught . He’ll now be sentenced to five years on MySpace.
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-taunting-criminal-caught-5447157
WiFi allergies continue to plague bozos across the nation.
https://gizmodo.com/man-sues-neighbor-becomes-homeless-over-wifi-allergie-5445632
Another from the dumb criminals file: a guy who stole an Android smartphone was revealed by an app that creates a remote back up for every photo the phone takes.
https://gizmodo.com/android-smartphone-identifies-small-town-dumbrobber-5446189
Jesus wanted to curl up for a nap in this ridiculous sleep suit.
https://gizmodo.com/sleep-suit-allows-you-to-doze-anywhere-and-be-touched-e-5447811
A robot flower girl looked pretty in pink and behaved herself very well throughout the ceremony.
https://gizmodo.com/robot-flower-girl-looks-adorable-in-pink-5447442
The Apple Tablet rumor mill kept a-churnin’. BGR got a tip that it was basically an iPhone on steroids. Those rumors got visual in a handy infographic. Also, we speculated on why just now Apple turned off the lights at Fingersworks.com
https://gizmodo.com/rumor-apple-s-tablet-is-an-iphone-on-steroids-5447218
Feeling left out by all the tablet talk, the iPhone 4 wanted to hear some rumors about itself. The most intriguing: that it could have touch-sensitive casing.
https://gizmodo.com/rumor-iphone-4-casing-will-be-touch-sensitive-like-the-5448003
A guy took a mind blowing picture with magnets. My words won’t do it justice.
https://gizmodo.com/nails-magnet-magnetism-5447850
Matt checked out the new MobileMe gallery app for the iPhone. And he liked it!
https://gizmodo.com/mobileme-gallery-iphone-app-makes-you-feel-more-like-yo-5448582
Google gave early Nexus One adopters a $100 discount. It’s the least they could do after they forgot about, you know, that whole customer support thing.
https://gizmodo.com/google-cuts-nexus-one-upgrade-price-by-100-and-refund-5448687
First player Tetris is also the first Tetris to make you throw up your lunch.
https://gizmodo.com/this-tetris-will-make-you-vomit-5448603
Apple wiz Woz oogled Google’s Phone.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniaks-favorite-gadget-the-go-5448641
Sean showed us 10 gadgets that help you conquer the snow.
https://gizmodo.com/10-gadgets-that-terminate-snow-and-ice-5449052/
Pierre Petry gave a first hand account of the technical problems faced by relief workers in Haiti.
https://gizmodo.com/an-aid-workers-first-hand-account-of-haitis-enormous-te-5449313
Sean loves Nerf guns, and he really loved this collection of 12 awesome Nerf mods.
https://gizmodo.com/12-hacked-nerf-superweapons-5448291
We looked at this map of China, rendered with websites that are blocked there. Gizmodo is good to go. Gayromeo is not.
https://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-china-5448275
Long exposure film making got its masterpiece in the Magic Forest stop-motion video.
https://gizmodo.com/long-exposure-animation-brings-magic-forest-to-rhapso-5447257
Paris partied really hard with a 7.5 meter disco ball, the world’s largest.
https://gizmodo.com/paris-gets-cest-chic-with-worlds-largest-disco-ball-5448198
Jesus wants to ride his bike through the sky with the Kolelinia system. And in some parallel Universe, he probably does.
https://gizmodo.com/kolelinia-lets-you-ride-your-bicycle-over-the-air-5447279
In said Universe, supplies are launched to the International Space Station via underwater canon.
https://gizmodo.com/jules-verne-was-almost-right-5449133
A PS3 went up in a mysterious blaze. We got photos.
https://gizmodo.com/ps3-gets-fried-in-mysterious-hdmi-blaze-5446606
We found out that some people can’t even see 3D. Huh!
https://gizmodo.com/tv-industry-turns-blind-eye-to-non-3d-viewers-5449198
This DIY Star Trek Phaser is probably the closest you’ll ever get to wielding one of sci-fi’s most famous weapons. Borg may still be safe but balloons beware.
https://gizmodo.com/no-seriously-a-working-star-trek-phaser-with-diy-inst-5448955
The bowline, the double carrick bend, the lariat loop: your favorite knots tied with earbuds.
https://gizmodo.com/famous-knots-of-the-world-illustrated-in-earbuds-5449025
We heard that Windows Mobile 7 is, for reals, coming in February. And it will have gestures!
https://gizmodo.com/rumor-windows-mobile-7-will-have-gestures-really-debu-5449137
It’s looking like Apple is going to overhaul mobile ads the same way they did digital music.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-wants-to-do-the-same-thing-for-mobile-ads-it-did-5449130
Google got hacked. And then they did some of their own hacking.
https://gizmodo.com/google-hacked-the-chinese-hackers-right-back-5449037
What lies beneath Las Vegas? A lot of dirt—literal and figurative—and these weirdos.
https://gizmodo.com/life-beneath-the-epitome-of-sin-5448757
A composer took Nokia’s famous ringtone and made it into a bit of classical music that will quickly fade to obscurity.
https://gizmodo.com/a-beautiful-song-built-around-nokias-classic-tone-5446597
How’d they make big ass zeppelins back in the day? If you said big ass ladders, you are correct!.
https://gizmodo.com/how-did-they-make-zeppelins-5446749
We learned about some of the technology behind the amazing shots in BBC’s Life.
https://gizmodo.com/the-amazing-macro-shots-of-bbcs-life-5446586
This $30 Ikea camera dolly hack is too cheap not to be useful.
https://gizmodo.com/30-camera-dolly-is-the-quickest-most-useful-ikea-hack-5448749
