Monthly Archives: February 2011

We didn’t think the previous generation of SSDs, topping out at around 280MBps read speeds, were in any way hampered by their celerity, but Intel’s bringing the future to us whether we like it or not with its new 510 … Continue reading →

If it turns out that Android 3.0 is, in fact, meant for smartphones and not just tablets, Google’s Nexus One should be among the first recipients of an OTA update. But sitting around and waiting for someone else to push … Continue reading →

We don’t really want to think about how many hours we’ve spent flinging little cartoon birds at little cartoon pigs—it’s too sad to consider all that wasted time. Instead we’re going to focus on which of those little cartoon birds … Continue reading →

Samsung, rather stealthily, has released a Video Editor for its Galaxy S and Vibrant Android 2.2 phones. The APK is available for those of us with different phones, but early reports suggest that it only works on Samsung’s flagship phones … Continue reading →

We’re big users of right-click context menus, especially in our Web browsers. We also love bookmarklets — those handy little JavaScript snippets that sit next to our normal bookmarks and provide extension-like functionality. Combine these two things, and you’ve got … Continue reading →

Yes, that’s right, I said adorable. Because Cueboy Quest really is! You play an 8-bit cowboy whose goal on each level is to get to the door (and thus to the next level), but the door is often locked. To … Continue reading →

As far-fetched as it may seem, rumors that RIM is working on some sort of Android app support for its QNX-based PlayBook tablet have persisted in various forms for months now — and they’ve turned up once again in a … Continue reading →

Remember Effing Hail? Well, Effing Meteors belongs to the same genre, but with a couple of interesting twists. You’re looking at a side-view of a planet, complete with its layers of atmosphere. Above the planet, in space, there are meteors. … Continue reading →

Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss, who if you believe them, are the true inventors of Facebook, seem like decently level headed people. They’re from the upper crust, for sure, but they respect hard work (as judged by their Olympian status) and … Continue reading →

If your ambition was to travel the world, and your job to push the buttons of three cellphones located in South Korea, you might go insane. That seems to be what happened to Mok Young Bak, at least, when he … Continue reading →

From the outside, tablets are almost all the same, especially when seen from the front. But like a pretty actor in a reality TV show, once you get under their skin you find out what really makes them tick. So … Continue reading →

Pro Tip: Fruit Roll-Ups Make Solid Flash Gels World?s First Flexible Microprocessor Made With Organic Semiconductors Clock Clock Is A Clock Of Clocks The Creditor Carbon Fiber Money Clip Knife Keeps Your Money Safe Gadg-Art: Love It, But Don?t Really … Continue reading →

Audi Carbon Skis Get Their Close-Up Pico Projectors Aren?t Far Off From Next-gen Smartphones Duke Nukem Forever ?Balls Of Steel Edition? Is Swag-Excessive Free! Super Mega Worm For iOS New Tech Reduces Production Costs Of Solar Cells By Up To … Continue reading →

Munyaradzi Gwisai, a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe’s law school, was showing internet videos about the tumult sweeping across North Africa to students and activists last Saturday, when state security agents burst into his office. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/k8-8sPB5os8/zimbabwe-prof-arrested-and-tortured-for-watching-viral-videos Jda … Continue reading →

If you have a dog, you have stood in the rain with him while he does his business. No big deal for you, if you have an umbrella, but what about Fido? If you want to avoid wet dog smell, … Continue reading →

Having already taken our first feverish steps down the path of an automated home, we figured it was time to try and integrate the home entertainment system with the household lighting. Our goal coming into this review was to sit … Continue reading →

Apple’s new in-app extortion subscription fee model hasn’t made the company many fans since it was announced last week. Apple has further vilified itself by pulling Readability — a longtime geek favorite — from the App Store for violating the … Continue reading →

HTC also brought along a Sprint-branded Arrive to our San Francisco reader meetup, and while we’re already familiar with this Windows Phone 7 slider from our time with the HTC 7 Pro it’s still nice to see a CDMA WP7 … Continue reading →

  Samsung’s dual-core, Gingerbread-powered Galaxy S II has appeared on Play.co.uk alongside a tentative SIM-free price and release date. According to Play, which is currently taking pre-orders for the phone, it’ll ship Mar. 31 for £599.99 (~$960). Pre-release prices are … Continue reading →

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Apple’s newest iteration of their desktop operating system is coming this summer, but we got a chance to play around with the developer beta to see some of the new features coming to Mac OS X. Here’s what you can … Continue reading →

NASA Scientists have tested the climate effect of what a small, regional nuclear war would do to the world and have come up with a few revealing (and quite scary) conclusions. For the purpose of the exercise, NASA termed a … Continue reading →

It’s been a slow climb since Netflix first announced it was adding closed captioning to the PC and Mac in early 2010, but today’s blog post indicates its reached 30% of the available titles. So far platforms on the second … Continue reading →

From the earliest cartoon dinosaurs to stop-motion to CGI to today’s eye-gouging 3D, Time guides us through a tour of the major milestones in over a century’s worth of special effects achievements. Even The Parent Trap gets some much-deserved love. … Continue reading →

If this super slim monitor looks familiar, it’s for a good reason — AOC’s new Aire Black LED monitors are nearly identical to their white counterparts, save a couple exceptions. As the name suggests, the new monitors are an all … Continue reading →

Introducing the Kork for iPad, a slick case with a great look and feel. With it’s light weight and ergonomic design you’ll find it’s one of the most comfortable iPad cases available. Get a Grip: Comfortable & Convenient Those of … Continue reading →

Until Watson can pull out answers as good as Teen Jeopardy contestants, I want no part of this new robotic trivia movement. [Gawker TV] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/F5GokxybV9U/can-watson-answer-jeopardy-questions-like-this Sybase Sun Microsystems Standard Microsystems Sra International

An interesting consumer spending stat: People upgrade their phones once every 18 months now, up from 16. That’s a curious number, possibly averaging out people who upgrade yearly with people who only upgrade when their cellphone contract runs out. Otherwise, … Continue reading →

All is right with the world, as genius (and Googler!) Thomas Steiner has made this beautiful Chrome extension that corrects Twitter’s subject/object discrepancy on its “Who to Follow” feature. Grammar snobs  (I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU COMMENT), … Continue reading →

Oscar Backstage Pass: This is a great idea: An application that allows you to view the Oscars exactly how you want. Just click where you want to be in a map, and it will show real time video from that … Continue reading →

A new twist on the "find my phone" genera of apps comes out today from Lookout Labs called Plan B.  If the name didn’t give it away, it’s an application that tracks your phone that is installed remotely via the … Continue reading →

One click; just one single well-aimed click. That’s all you get in Boomshine. That single click triggers a chain reaction; circles start exploding, and other circles colliding with the shockwaves explode as well, creating their own shockwaves, which then catch … Continue reading →

Just shy of 40 successful space journeys, the NASA shuttle Discovery headed to the International Space Station Thursday on a final mission that followed repair problems and bad weather. Known as “STS-133,” Discovery’s last voyage will take 11 days. The … Continue reading →

And you thought it would never happen. It’s been about six months since our exclusive hands-on with the HTC Merge, and we’d hardly seen or heard a peep from it since. But it’s official, folks — the HTC Merge lives, and it’s … Continue reading →

Waiting sucks, doesn’t it? Yes, yes it does — which is why we’re delighted to see that direct links to the official, final updates to Android 2.3.3 for the Nexus One and Nexus S have both been turned loose. This … Continue reading →

As is usually the case with new Android SDK releases, various bits and pieces have been ripped out and shared with the world thanks to an enthusiastic and ambitious dev community. Over at the Android Central forums, Alex Dobie has … Continue reading →

Sprint just launched their WP7 device, but rumor has it Verizon is going to officially talk about the HTC Trophy next week. Not sure anyone cares, with so many other Android and iPhone devices on Verizon that are better. You … Continue reading →

We just got our new 15-inch MacBook Pro review unit, and although it looks almost exactly the same as the previous MBP, it has that fancy new Thunderbolt icon on the side, which ought to make I/O nerd hearts flutter … Continue reading →

Certain extensions—like Gmail notifiers, for example—are great when your browser is running, but can’t run when it’s closed. Chrome’s added a new feature that will let extensions stay open, even if you don’t have any open browser windows. More » Source: … Continue reading →

So it’s perhaps not the most original moniker that Apple and Intel could have chosen, but it’s here just the same. After years of waiting Apple has launched its implementation of Intel’s Light Peak standard and it’s called Thunderbolt. It’s … Continue reading →

We reported on Ossur’s robotic prosthetic back in 2009, and now amputees in Europe and the United States have become the first official recipients of the Power Knee. According to the company, “the world’s first and only motor-powered prosthetic knee” … Continue reading →

In the grand scheme of things, $10 million isn’t a ton of money for a big company like Yahoo! to spend acquiring another company. Still, for an embattled Yahoo!, shutting down MyBlogLog is another sad trombone in its symphony of … Continue reading →

Need a bit more evidence that there’s some big changes coming to MobileMe? Then you don’t need to look much further than Apple’s own stores, both online and off. The company has apparently now discontinued the boxed version of the … Continue reading →

Microsoft has “identified a a technical issue with the Windows Phone update process” and summarily blocked Samsung WP7 phones from receiving the new patch. As we reported yesterday, the new update, which was meant to streamline future updates, bricked some … Continue reading →

The technilogically-savvy bunch over at the XDA Developers forums have uncovered and made available the Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 update for Nexus One and Nexus S phones. That means if you have either of those devices, you don’t have to wait … Continue reading →

In California, some impressionable, young Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento river are heading down the wrong path. A path leading towards death and destruction. A path otherwise known as the San Francisco Bay. To get these disenfranchised fish on the … Continue reading →

Just as our MacBook Pro Thunderbolt high is starting to fade, we get a fresh syringe of anticipation straight to the neck: Nikon’s impending D4 might offer support for Intel’s superduperfast connection. And this would be a huge lifesaver. More » … Continue reading →