Google TV Boldly Tells World It Will Survive
Remember Google TV? At least one entity does: Google, who just let us in on its plans for 2012. The software is hitting TVs from Samsung and LG.
Remember Google TV? At least one entity does: Google, who just let us in on its plans for 2012. The software is hitting TVs from Samsung and LG.
So this happened. Though he wishes to remain anonymous, this unnamed editor-in-chief of Gizmodo just received his latest purchase in the mail. It's terrifying, and £50, and from Hot Topic.
AKG's new K 495 NC noise-canceling headphones don't need batteries at all—you charge them up via USB. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that they look (and, given the source, most likely sound) terrific, too.
We all know Apple is putting its support behind Thunderbolt/Light Peak as the next dominant data transfer standard. Their latest patent applications show a use for the technology beyond MacBooks and iMacs: iOS devices.
There aren't enough letters in the alphabet to classify this monstrous battery China's built. D x 1,000? Not even close. With arrays larger than a football field it can store a whopping 36 megawatt hours of power.
Oh my god! Is that a spot on my forehead? Where did that third chin come from? Why am I sweating so much? Was I that drunk? What is my boss going to think? What is my mom going to think? What do I think? I need to get rid of this photo on Facebook. NOW. Let's flag as offensive! Click. Unflattering picture, gone.
Your head does a pretty great job of keeping your brain safe most of the time. Your skull can take a lot of jostling before your thinker suffers damage.
Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light.
I drink my whiskey on the rocks. But don't call me a little girl for that. At least I can make my cold/ruined whiskey a little more aromatic with this big rolling ball of ice in a glass.
Apple has threatened to sue In Icons, the manufacturer of the 12-inch-tall freaky!/awesome!/freaky!/awesome! Steve Jobs action figure. At least that's what the Daily Telegraph is saying, specifying no sources whatsoever.
It's not often a game presents you with a treatise on medieval gender politics, but that's just one of the delights Wind-up Knight has in store. On the load-screen between levels, players are presented with Pretty Princess Primer Tips like "Popular Princesses bathe daily and apply deodorant" and "Always let men speak first – it makes them feel more important".
RIM's last great hope, the QNX-based BlackBerry 10 handsets that would pull the company out of its Playbook-inspired funk? According to the latest rumour from BGR, you'd better make that "handset." Because there's only one left. And it'd better be good.
Not much info to go off of here, but the French publication Responses Photo published some shots of what might be the Nikon D4. If this is in fact accurate, Nikon's new flagship DSLR could be right around the corner.
Canon gives "advanced amateurs" and professional photographers another reason to leave their DSLR at home with their rumoured new PowerShot G1X.
In some far-off world, maybe there is such thing as tiny little microbe geniuses that've figured out the secrets of life before their bigger, more top o' the food chain human-like counterparts. Maybe those microbes know we exist! Maybe they know if an orange red crayon is more orange or more red! Hell, maybe bacteria on our planet are that smart. That's what an artist wants to find out.
Motorola has just announced two fancy new budget Android smartphones in the form of the Motorola Motoluxe and the Defy Mini. Both phones pack Gingerbread, so no Ice Cream Sandwich on a budget I’m afraid, but are both heading to Europe in February.
