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That would fit with their new "stomping on Microsoft's toes" strategy...

I'm not sure what the previous versions were called, but Google's Android OS recently released Cupcake. Next up is apparently Donut, then Eclair, then Flan.

Texting is hard! http://gizmodo.com/5312623/teenager-falls-into-open-manhole-while-texting [gizmodo.com]

I love people that are so utterly self-absorbed and oblivious to their surroundings that they can do something this foolish. Wanna lay odds that when she gets her drivers license in a few years she'll be one of the asshats that flies down the road, cell phone in one hand, make-up in the other, paying absolutely no attention to the road? Then when she gets into an accident she'll say "I never saw it coming!".

I'll get yelled at for saying this but it's a pity she didn't earn herself a Darwin award. Now she's going to breed and pass on her stupidity to the next generation.

Texting is hard! http://gizmodo.com/5312623/teenager-falls-into-open-manhole-while-texting

Funny enough, apple's hardware design looks very much like 60's-70's home appliences...

http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future

From Google: http://gizmodo.com/5053051/boob+centric-mouse-and-mouse-pad-let-your-co+workers-know-your-true-passions

AT&T doesn't touch my bandwidth. They don't cap it, they don't filter it - they aren't keeping a database of my URL lookups.

While I doubt that's true even today, it's only a matter of time before they implement bandwidth caps. I don't think any major ISP is not at least trying them out. AT&T started trials last November. http://gizmodo.com/5075831/att-monthly-bandwidth-caps-are-here

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/09/gizmondo-chief-finally-arrested-for-being-too-shady/
http://gizmodo.com/tag/ferrari-enzo/

I own a DX - my mom and wife went in together on a Kindle 2 for my birthday, several days later Amazon announced the DX. Returned the K2 and got the DX a couple of weeks back. I have used it every day since receiving it, and have thoroughly enjoyed using it. Excellent reading device and experience. The DX simply allows me to read, without getting in the way.

Loading PDFs using USB is trivially easy; once, too rushed to plug the DX into my work laptop, I emailed a work-related PDF document to my kindle email address; $0.15 saved me a few minutes. Amazon will convert some documents to Kindle format via email if you cannot convert to PDF on your own. One downside on PDFs: have not figured out how to magnify other than rotating the DX. I cannot testify to complicated graphics, as I have not loaded any technical PDFs on my DX.

A few technical reviews I've found that you may find helpful:

http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/2009/06/12/technical-document-pdfs-on-the-kindle-dx/

CNET Review

Gizmodo Review

Hope this helps. There are other reviews out there.

No problem. We're geeks, and probably have the tools to muck about with our skin-embedded RFID chips.

Sincerely,

Elvis Presley

It seems hardware manufacturers have a hard time learning that electronics cause heat and that this heat needs to be led away from the device.

Fixed that for you.

It has nothing to do with Apple - all hardware manufacturers seem to have problems. A quick look at google for "laptop battery catches fire" turns up this story about a Dell battery catching fire, this story about an IBM catching fire, and this story about a Toshiba catching fire. And we know those three stories aren't rare - those were just quick search results to prove a point.

If you're going to pick on a manufacturer for a faulty battery issue, make sure you don't portray it to be something unique to that manufacturer when it's actually something that occurs pretty much across the board.

http://gizmodo.com/373779/linux-last-man-standing-in-pwn-2-own-thunderdome

The rumor is that Sony might be test the waters with an Android based Walkman as well.

Okay, i'll look like some troll already mods, but give me a second.

I just feel that this is just another promo ad that gets sent to tech sites from some publicists to get the title of the technology spread with their name on it.

this article, (06/29/2009)
Brain controlled wheelchair developed at University of South Florida (02/11/2009)
from European scientists, Brain Controlled Wheelchair (05/11/2008)
Ambient Tech creates brain controlled wheelchair (09/06/2007)
Brain controlled wheelchair from spanish inventor (01/29/2007)
University of Electro Communications in Japan develop brain controlled wheelchair (08/11/2006)

Yeah I'll stop. Mod me down. I just think it's odd that this stuff gets press like it's something brand new. Perhaps sell us by saying its much better? Something. Please.

To be completely fair the G1 is capable of multitouch. The Jesus Freak mods include a couple of test applications and a 'pinchable' browser.

I have a couple of articles that I might suggest you read:

Neil Tyson on exploring space

10 Everyday Gadgets With Ties To The Space Program

And actually, I could continue copying links for a long time. This is just barely scraping the surface. The space program has paid for itself many times over (one conservative estimate is 3 times) with advances to technology and industry.

There is also supposedly a way to get the upgrade at half the cost initially.

So for upgrades:
Home Premium: $50
Pro: $100

http://gizmodo.com/5302371/windows-7-pricing-good-news-mostly

That would be nice for me, but we'll see.

Canon also doesn't try and install a direct pipeline to your bank account with printer ink cartridges either.

Contrast this with HP who gives you "starter" ink cartridges for their $50 printer then gouges you for 30-80% the cost of the printer for ink (30% for black, 82% for color). HP is also the company behind the infamous printer ink costing more than human blood fiasco.

So Canon is being the good guy in two separate markets. Go Canon!

I'm sure Intel would like all of that pie and unfortunately for us, they are willing to do anything to get it. Including strong arming Asus when they showed an Arm based chipset running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform (running Android no less). A quick intervention from Intel and Microsoft and Asus was saying that 'the project is on hold' while sharing a stage with a VP from each of Intel and Microsoft.. Story on slashdot a couple days back.

Oh and these arm based devices can run all-day(apparently), nevermind 8 hours.

http://gizmodo.com/5273723/asus-demos-snapdragon+based-eee-pc-with-android

In fact... I've just looked around for kicks.

"Microsoft's 'compatibility list' of sites that don't render correctly in Internet Exploder 8 RC1 — requiring some non-standards mojo from the browser to look right — numbers some 2,400. They're off-the-beaten-path sites like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and YouTube." Gizmodo Blog

The link to this article was in the first five Bing results given the keywords "internet exploder." I sure am glad Microsoft has decided to attack that "search overload" problem we've all been complaining about.

Just trying to spread a little Friday cheer...

Correction:

iPhone + iPod touch: 40+ million.

Source? WWDC 2009.

Why is it a revolutionary gaming console, when my 5 year old treo (which at least has a dpad and buttons) is a mere phone?

Seriously? You're not being sarcastic?

Why don't you compare the following to your "5-year-old Treo":

The new iPhone 3GS introduces OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible hardware. Its 3D chip--reportedly a PowerVR SGX GPU core integrated in a Samsung chip--is more powerful than the previous generation...The new graphic processing unit provides the iPhone with a modern GPU core with 5th-generation shader-driven tile-based deferred rendering. The current 3D graphics unit is 4th-generation tile-based deferred rendering, compatible with OpenGL ES 1.1, but not 2.0.

from Will Future iPhone Games Run on Your iPhone 3G?

*cough* http://gizmodo.com/5291473/how-to-enable-palm-pre-tethering *cough*

You can get a MIPS-based desktop system with 72 processors that consumes 300 Watts, from SyCortex. They call it their Deskside Development System for their bigger parallel computers, and they say it does have a fast backbone bus.

It does run Linux, but at $23,695.00 (48 GB RAM) it's not, I suspect, what you were asking for. I would also like some cheap barebones I could just go on populating with CPUs as I wanted.

The GP might like SGI's Molecule better though, it being Atom-based: 5000 chips, that's 10000 cores, in 3U size. But this one is only a concept computer.

I can't think of an instance where any iPhone talks to another iPhone.

What about the new Send and Receive Files app in 3.0?
http://gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know

"Send and receive files. A dedicated application to exchange files between iPhones or iPods touch."

Or the new Peer-to-peer Bluetooth connectivity?

"A new API will allow for two iPhones to connect directly peer-to-peer via Bluetooth. They will be able to discover each other using Bluetooth, and then start a connection transparently. This opens a lot of possibilities. I doubt they will allow you to pass music, but you would probably be able to pass any other information, as well as directly communicating between applications in the two devices. One example: A pets game that allows two dogs to play with each other. This feature could be combined with push notification, so your iPhone may receive a note from another iPhone, inviting you to play a game one-on-one."

The Microsoft definition is driven by Intel. It's dumb of both of them, as it defines "premium netbook" as one that doesn't have either of their products in it but which has a bigger screen, more memory, more storage or a faster processor. It's a "loser mentality" that tries to protect the notebook market that's already in "race to the bottom" mode.

Since neither of them can prevent other manufacturers from innovating outside of this specification, that just make it easier for an up-an-coming manufacturer to create a new market without them, and enjoy the benefit of not having to compete with them in that market.

So of course after that happens the restrictions will go away and it will be a free-for-all again.

Those data centers are too organized. I prefer mine to like this: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/01/cable_mess.jpg

Perhaps they are creating a super duper distributed 'puter to control their very own RowwwBahhht kung-fu warrior.

And as The Sony Mylo with gaming. To be honest, I'd never even heard of the Mylo until I read that article...

Also know as the PSP Cartman.

no prob:
http://gizmodo.com/372994/earliest-audio-recording-resurrected-scares-the-genitals-off-us

150 year old technology.

The 3G was released July 11, 2008 (so less than 1 year is as old as it could possibly be) linky:http://gizmodo.com/391960/iphone-3g-launch-date-confirmed/

Your warranty is for 1 year. link:http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/service/faq/#warranty1/

Maybe you should just get it repaired under warranty?

That took 30 seconds of google and I don't even own an iPhone. (I might be feeding a troll here)

Well, it's better than, uh, squirting their junk. Bleah!!!!!! Suddenly I don't feel so well.

They already did: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/11/20071108-bsod-DSC_3386.jpg

Oh hey. Another one. http://gizmodo.com/5280184/palm-pre-wont-be-coming-to-verizon-or-att-within-six-months So really, it's up in the air, and only Palm knows for sure.

A quick google search seems to prove you wrong, although CEOs do have a tendency to bluff sometimes. http://gizmodo.com/5272022/verizon-ceo-were-getting-the-palm-pre-storm-2-within-6-months

... with a block of cheese?

On a serious note, I'd like to hear from some really picky (but sane) people about how the browser compares to Safari. Does it support iPhone optimizations (viewport) and handle CSS/JS well? If you go to facebook or google do you automatically get the iPhone version? How is the speed?

The pre-recorded trailer was indeed totally made-up - as it said in the beginning, that represented only MS' "vision" of what it would be like.

The stage show was real and live. I could see noticeable lag, around 200-500ms, but it was kinda hard to judge from that setup. I'd put more weight on an independent hands-on impression - and those guys certainly liked it. "Ever so slight control delay" sounds more encouraging, as does "Holy shit" and "it worked remarkably, incredibly well". If an experienced Burnout player liked Burnout Natal-style that much, it bodes well. And I do like the face- and voice-recognition too, adds a new dimension.

I liked the Sony demo too - plenty of gaming potential there, no question. Very precise-looking (a standard-sized glowing ball makes tracking with depth nice & easy), though I rather doubt their "sub-millimetre precision" tracking claims from a 720p camera. Gamers get an accurate free-form control method, Sony gets to sell plenty of ball-on-a-stick controllers, everyone's happy.

Seriously, once you notice the resemblance it's impossible to see it as anything else.

http://gizmodo.com/5273445/psp-go-a-dead-ringer-for-south-parks-eric-cartman

Isn't trying to beat their competition precisely what corporations should be doing? This isn't a special olympics race where everyone ends up winning regardless of how you badly you do.

And yet the XBox 360 lives on... I suppose it helps when you don't mind blowing $1 billion to make sure little Timmy wins.

Unfortunately that's not a phone. The only open phone (openmoko) has 2 buttons : power and aux. Not quite enough for a good game experience.

I keep wondering why this is so hard. Nokia's 5500 and 6820 have such useful and quick keyboards. Nokia Ngage is a freaking game console (didn't sell all that well though), and has lots of phones supporting it.

Nothing open source though. An ngage-style-controls phone with a few emulators, and a large screen ebook reader (perhaps simply by combining a pico projector and a screen flipping up or something*). Something that can run nes, snes, sega megadrive, and n64 would certainly cover all I want (psp games and the necessary controls for those would be a great bonus). And, of course, a pdf reader and some storage slot that isn't limited to 2 gigabyte.

* yes it wouldn't work well in direct sunlight. You don't get much of that up here though, besides you won't find me outside all that much either.

The answer is "capecitabine". To quote Gizmodo (who quoted ABC News):

http://gizmodo.com/5272243/cancer-meds-wiped-off-mans-fingerprints

A 62 year old man had this very problem recently when he tried to enter the US - he had no more fingerprints, a side-effect of taking the post-chemo drug mentioned above for two years...

tom

No current hard disk or even SSD can do 3Gb/sec so what is the point?

Oh yeah?

Playstation 3 Converted Into George Foreman Grill

How appropriate that the Jesus Phone would have such a feature.

Notice I said, Can be added. The Wii does have Flash but not the latest version which does suck. Nintendo should update it.
From what I hear the Pre will have Flash,
But for Android.. http://gizmodo.com/5091778/flash-10-on-the-android-g1-its-getting-there
Flash on the iPhone.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/31/adobe_apple_working_together_on_flash_for_iphone.html
Flash for Windows Mobile http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/wm.html
Flash for the S60 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/nokia_s60.html

I know how much revenue Apple makes from the App Store ($95 million of $25 billion for the last three quarters, last time I checked)... I read Gizmodo' RSS feed daily, and there was story just last week - Jesus Diaz did a nice info graphic to represent it. In my opinion, the app store makes much more than that, since it makes the iPhone that much more desirable. Having the most apps makes your platform very successful, just look at Microsoft. Anyway, I stand by my point. Taking on Amazon and getting into the eBook market through through the iTunes store would be a great move for Apple.

If USB flash drives aren't patent encumbered, can we please have our Linux installers readymade for them?

USB is patented, as is high-density NAND flash. And SanDisk took other USB flash drive makers to court in 2007.

It's got to be a hoax ...

Joke probably, but hoax?

Google "studyball" and you'll see dozens of links like http://gizmodo.com/5252291/the-study-ball-enslaves-your-lazy-kids
If it's a hoax, it's a damn good one.