Archive for August, 2010

Five Unsung PC Components That Made Our Lives Better

Aug 23 by Navneet Alang | 3 comments

Sitting in front of a modern, fancy laptop or blazing fast quad-core desktop, it can be easy to forget just how much technology has changed in the past few years. Your average computer is now full of incredible technology, much of which represents the refinement of ideas that began a long time ago. more »

Acer Predicts iPad Market Share Will Drop to 20%...They'd Better Have Somethin' Good

Aug 23 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Sometimes, I like to think I’ll be famous for something, some day. In fact, on a good day, I firmly believe it. I pound my fist on my desk and declare knowingly that there’s nothing but sweet life ahead. I think, sometimes, we all have that feeling of invincibility. That we’ll overcome any obstacle. more »

Addicted To Gaming? There's A Pill For That

Aug 22 by Toby Leftly | 1 comment

The current generation of children, destined for a life of rickets and obesity due to lack of sunlight or exercise, are all about computers and the interwebs, but is this addiction a treatable condition? Proving once more that there’s very few afflictions that doctors won’t prescribe something more »

Patent Shows How Apple Might Brick Your Jailbroken iPhone

Aug 22 by Toby Leftly | 4 comments

Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod or iPad might now be legal in some areas of the world, but Apple still ain’t happy about it. A new patent shows how Apple might one day be able to detect and disable compromised devices. The patent, which is elaborate and lengthy, posits that devices which are lost, stolen or hacked more »

Karma Eventually Catches Up With Gizmodo

Aug 22 by Toby Leftly | add comment

If there’s a textbook definition of karma, it might be Gizmodo Editorial Director Brian Lam leaving his phone in a bar or restaurant, and someone finding it and holding it hostage, demanding cash in exchange for the safe return of the phone. Well, that didn’t happen here. But it’s pretty close. more »

Kevin Rose Outs Apple's iTV

Aug 22 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Digg founder Kevin Rose has had varying degrees of success when it comes to Apple rumors. As a tech industry insider, it’s reasonable to assume he’ll hear the odd tidbit on the grapevine here and there. Yesterday the enigmatic entrepreneur spoke out about Apple’s much-rumored iTV project, offering some more »

From the Department of Things That Don't Need To Exist: Keyboard Shoes

Aug 21 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Yo, dawg. I heard you like Twitter, so I installed a keyboard in your shoe, so you can tweet while you walk. Seriously, not much is known about this shoe, beyond that it exists. An exercise in geek chic (oh man, exercise… pun totally not intended, but welcome), the keyboard is almost certainly non-functional, more »

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

Aug 21 by Ty Dunitz | 5 comments

Chances are, by now, you’ve taken Facebook Places for a spin. If you haven’t, Facebook really, really wants you to, having unleashed this unbelievably sappy promotional video into the internet. What amounts to Foursquare: Blue Version is touted as the most teary, sentimental thing in the universe. more »

The Internet's 5 Billionth Device Will Soon Go Live

Aug 21 by Ty Dunitz | 5 comments

You never really sit and think that there could be someone out there, actually keeping track of the internet. That there’s a man – or, more likely, collection of men, and by all rights probably some women, too – sitting around, crunching numbers and tabulating all the internets of the world. If there more »

The 3D Craze Is In Full Effect; Still Can't Find A Way In People's Homes

Aug 20 by James Mowery | 4 comments

Been to the movie theaters lately? Well then you probably have heard about Avatar, Piranha 3-D, Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, Despicable Me, Saw 3D, Titanic 3D (yeah, they are bringing back Titanic in 3D), and so on. It’s pretty clear that 3D is the movie industry’s selling point right now, and people more »

The House That Pays For Itself (Eventually) — Home for Life

Aug 20 by James Mowery | 1 comment

For years we have heard about self-sustaining homes that can take advantage of the latest technology to harness solar energy and provide the most economical usage of available resources, but we haven’t been seeing them. However, a few families in the UK are getting some eco love with the Home for more »

The Closest Thing You'll Ever Get To Driving An Actual F1 Car

Aug 20 by James Mowery | add comment

Think your car is pretty fast? Well why not try going from stopped to 100 MPH and back stopped in about four seconds? Well your car probably fails that test. But that could be a reality if you were cruising in a Formula 1 race car. Unfortunately, you probably won’t ever sit in the seat of an F1 car; however, more »

Become A Modern-Day Picasso With a Wii and uDraw

Aug 20 by James Mowery | 1 comment

Forget pen and paper, wet acrylics, coloring pencils, and all those other artsy tools — all you need today is the Wii. Well, you also need the $70 uDraw tablet by THQ, but maybe it is worth the price to put one-up the mighty Pablo Picasso himself. The uDraw tablet takes me back to the days of Mario Paint on more »

Samsung: Helping Overprotective Parents Become Even more Obsessive

Aug 19 by Kole McRae | 5 comments

This is how it works. The parent tells the kid “you must be home every day by 9pm.” The kid then says “Yes, mom.” The kid will proceed to come home at the designated time. Then he will do what all kids do. Wait until the coast is clear and sneak the hell out of there. Kids need freedom and parents more »