Gizmodo's Posts.
May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
111 human pixels. Countless colored t-shirt changes. Weeks of planning. That, some homemade bleep bloops, and four long hours in Baden, Switzerland's Trafo cinema will get you one incredible stop-motion game of human Pac-Man.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Bloomberg Businessweek has just dropped
an incredibly up-close look at controversial Chinese electronics supplier
Foxconn and its founder,
Terry Gou. It's the most thorough look to date at one of the most powerful—and intriguing—manufacturers in the world.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Everyone knew it the moment they saw it. Hell, even Steve Jobs alluded to it when he was unveiling the thing. The
new multitouch iPod Nano was
made to be strapped to a watch band. Here it is, for $17.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
"We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don't need any more Fart apps", Steve/Apple says in its
App Guidelines. "Above all else, join us in trying to surprise and delight users," they say. Well, watch this.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
As if lasers needed a public image overhaul! They've suddenly got cooler, now that a Michigan university professor is building only a friggin' missile-blocking laser small enough to be affixed to US Army helicopters.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Google CEO Eric Schmidt let slip that YouTube has yet to achieve profitability, after over five years of sharing videos of awesome explosions and unlikely animal friendships with the world. Schmidt did say that it's "nearing profitability," which means nothing.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Enlarged fonts have saved the asses of many a panicked student at 3 in the morning. But besides padding essays, what can a bigger font do for you? Crank it up to the billions, and
you can reach the moon.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Google has introduced a new pair of Google Voice widgets that display your voicemail inbox contents and account settings. Without leaving your home screen, you'll be able to read messages, send free texts, and view your credit balance.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
It was almost a footnote. AirPlay, the audio streaming protocol once known as AirTunes, got just one minute of keynote time last week. But it might end up as the backbone of Apple's assault on the living room.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Connect with friends or family across the globe on the cheap! With today's
#Dealzmodo, you can use a
free 30 minute Skype Credit with a
Microsoft LifeCam Webcamera on a sweet
17.3" HP Pavilion.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Owners (aspiring or current) of Denon's beefy AVR-4311CI receiver may be among the first to try Apple's new AirPlay streaming. According to an updated product listing, AirPlay compatibility is landing on the deck "this Fall," mostly likely via firmware update. [
Engadget]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
So! That church that
wants to burn the Koran this weekend,
Dove World Outreach Center? While we can't make them disappear altogether, they've at least been taken off the internet by their web host, Rackspace.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
A tipster sends these photos of the WP7-running Samsung GT-i8700. There's not a whole lot to glean besides the fact that it has 8GB of storage and looks like something I want to play with right now. Here's the back:
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Apple claims that their TV work is just a hobby, but that doesn't mean they don't innovate for the living room. A newly published patent outlines an LCD TV that has separate modes for video and still photos.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
High prices are always a stumbling block to new tech adoption and with SSDs it hasn't been any different.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Learn the basics of radar detectors and radar jammers. Because anything is better than obeying the law.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Are your fingers feeling fat today? Free app
Finger Race will have them running 1 meter and 2 meter races, or even endurance runs at 5 meters in length. They'll be size zeros in no time. [
Recombu]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
We've all succumbed to the siren song of luxury—splurged on a pricey gadget we have no legitimate need or use for. Frequently, such decisions are wrapped up in authenticity. Other times all it takes is one sexy material.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Celebrities use Twitter. Politicians use Twitter. And sometimes those two worlds hilariously collide. Observe:
Snooki tweets about being stuck in traffic in Newark; the mayor of Newark immediately threatens to fine her for texting while driving. LOL. [
Twitter]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Robots help us accomplish many complex tasks, from diffusing bombs to assembling automobiles. Now, with the open source Egg-Bot, we can add "drawing on spherical surfaces" to that list. Not
that complex, you say? Well just look at this diagram:
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
All apologies to
Lady Gaga, but it turns out that your quantity of Twitter followers isn't nearly as important as their quality. At least not for news-media feeds, according to this
new ranking of the 100 most influential media Twits.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Admittedly, I was a little disappointed to discover the
G2's new Snapdragon processor is only clocked at 800MHz, but according to leaked figures from GLBenchmarks, the graphics should run at the same speed as
Motorola's Droid X and
2.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Google's new Instant search autoloads search results as you type. I'm skeptical that it'll save fifty kajillion man-hours once you add up all the milliseconds saved. Its real use cases are still on the way: local, mobile, and video search.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
The privilege of being first to market with any tech means you're the only choice for people who want what you're offering. Exogear's
iPhone 4 battery case is in this lucky position. The good news? It's actually well done.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
The new
iPod Nano certainly lives up to its name—it has a 1.54" touchscreen and very little else. IFixit blasted it open with a heat gun and found more screws (11) than parts (7) inside. [
iFixit]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Ever wonder what it's like to fall on the
third rail? Just ask Andy Morris, who was thrown onto the tracks in East
New York: "He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head." Ouch.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
If you've been using
Google Search on your phones, pat yourselves on the back—you've given Google another reason to smile this week. Their director of product management revealed the news yesterday, at the Citi Technology Conference. [
AllThingsD]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Amazon's reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices
already selling out, we can only imagine what the nation's largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear]
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May
09
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Tablets have the potential to topple stacks of textbooks, but it can't happen until publishers start cramming entire curricula into apps. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's new Algebra 1 app, which has a full year's worth of material, is the first attempt.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
In a surprising announcement—after receiving a mountain of
criticism, —Apple has announced that they "are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create apps" and "publishing app review guidelines." That's good. The bad: Arbitrary censorship stays.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
ARM is the company you can thank for your smartphone's heroic guts; their chip architecture underpins Qualcomm's
Snapdragon, Samsung's
Hummingbird, and iPhone 4. Soon, you can also thank them for making chips five-times more powerful than those with
Cortex A15.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Mere hours after
iOS 4.1 became available, an iPhone Dev-Team user Pod2g found a bootrom exploit, meaning that the new update is indeed jailbreakable. However, this one differs—and could cause Apple a lot of pain.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
"Oh, what gift to offer the bipolar six-year-old nephew this Christmas...I know! These German toys with mental illnesses would please the little tyke. Would he like the depressive turtle Dub, Kroko the water-phobic crocodile, or the personality disorder-affected sheep Dolly?
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May
09
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By the end of 2011, Sony is planning to cut most of the pure-2D models out of its 40-inch and over offering, upping the number of 3D-enabled sets. We can look forward to higher prices, then. [
AV Watch via
CrunchGear]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
With
iPhones being damaged by moisture, why not create a phone where water bubbles are the focal point of the design? Presumably that was the thinking behind Seoul designer
Bon-Seop Ku's Aqua GUI concept phone. [
Coroflot via
Core77]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Welcome to the new meme, courtesy of
Google Instant. After
Google's official Bob Dylan video, ad agency Whirled had a go with Tom Lehrer's
The Elements, to great success.
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
While it hasn't been granted approval by the almighty Apple gods, VLC's
media player for iPad will be free from next week, the devs are claiming (perhaps too hastily.) I like their confidence. Mind you,
CineXplayer is still available on the App Store... [
Mac4Ever via
Macrumors]
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May
09
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I foresee plenty more wasted hours in your future—not to mention $10 instantly disappearing from your bank accounts. The iPad version follows the
iPhone game, only with higher-res graphics and new controls layout. [
iTunes via
Redmond Pie]
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May
09
posted at: 3:21 PM by Gizmodo
Two more "fun" compact camera series has been announced today by Pentax, with my favorite being the Optio RZ10 (pictured above). For around $270, it has a 14MP sensor, and a 10x optical zoom.
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