Thursday, April 3, 2008
Deals
Free Flight of the Conchords MP3 Today
11:55PM Mark Wilson | Scary factoid: on my recent vacation, I combed my hair funny as a joke. My wife freaked out a bit, saying that I looked like Murray Hewitt. She was right, so I called her “Brit” for the remainder of the trip. (Unfortunately, she looks nothing like Bret McClegnie.) On the plus side, today you can download Flight of the Conchords’ “Ladies of the World” MP3 for 100% free on CNET. You don’t remember that song from the series? Then you’re fired, reader. Hit the jump for a reminder and reapply to Gizmodo through the tips line. UPDATE: Business Time is available free as well. More »
Peripherals
Find Nemo Floating in a Four-Way USB Hub. Verdict: Fishy!
10:43PM Gizmodo US Edition | Someone, somewhere, gets to design these weird and wonderful USB hubs: and this one is perhaps the craziest we’ve seen. It’s a four-way hub with a fishbowl. With a plastic fish, a couple of shells, a splash of greenery and real water. And it illuminates, cycling through four different colours. It’s fantastic, fishtastic plastic. And it could be yours for only US$12. [Gadget4all via Pocket Lint] More »
Music
Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground
10:40PM Addy Dugdale | Using a US$115 Daisy open-source player, and a tin with a London tube map on it, Mchaceortiz made himself an MP3 player with a difference. The six way-retro switches on the tin control the volume, track selection and play and pause, and you can see another shot of it opened up after the jump. More »
Gadgets
Pioneer Sneakers Light Your Way With Built-In Headlights
9:52PM Gizmodo US Edition | Designers Feijun Chen & Bin Zhao clearly were reading Skymall when they dreamed up these “Pioneer” sneakers with built-in recharging headlights. They’ve got a battery inside which charges on each step, using some mysterious tech that doesn’t look piezoelectric. Apparently this can power the LEDs in the front for a full 12 hours. So you can, you know: run in the dark down dim-lit streets, or something. Maybe they’d be handy for doggy-do detection? Just a concept, for now. [Yanko design] More »
Gadgets
Swiss Swimming Pool Warmed by Surplus Server Heat and Alliteration
8:57PM Gizmodo US Edition | There’s clearly something going on with the Swiss and hot water: first “extreme jacuzzi-ing” on top of Mont Blanc, and now they’re going to use waste energy kicked out by servers to warm a swimming pool. It’s a simple concept: take the heat from the server room air-conditioners at a new data centre, and direct it through heat exchangers to the water in the town pool. The town, Uitikon, will get a hot pool and all they had to pay for was some of the connecting gear since the heat would otherwise have been vented. Cool! … or rather, hot! Darn eco-friendly too. [Sydney Morning Herald] More »
Gadgets
Olive OPUS Nº4, MELODY Nº2 Music Streaming Combo Pack Style With Expense
8:30PM Haroon Malik | The Olive OPUS Nº4 has quite a striking design and boasts either a 320GB or 1TB HDD, internal CD burner, 802.11g WiFi support and a 480 x 272 touchscreen display. The unit supports MP3, FLAC and WAV files, as well as having a bevy of output ports, the OPUS Nº4 also pairs up wirelessly with the MELODY Nº2, which allows you to access your content from the OPUS Nº4 and audio files stored on your PC’s hard drive or central server. The OPUS Nº4 and MELODY Nº2 will retail for US$1,799 and US$599, respectively. [Tech Digest] More »
Press
Apple Attacks NYC Over GreeNYC Logo, Steve Jobzilla to Destroy Central Park Next
8:21PM Addy Dugdale | Apple has filed a formal opposition to NYC’s GreeNYC campaign over its new logo, saying that the city’s looped apple infringes its own trademark. While Steve’s mob says the eco-logo will “seriously injure the reputation with which [Apple] has established for its goods and services.” New York’s response? “The city believes that Apple’s claims have no merit and that no consumer is likely to be confused.” More »
Peripherals
Jabra BT4010 Bluetooth Headset Has LCD Info Screen
7:26PM Gizmodo US Edition | Jabra’s new BT4010 Bluetooth headset has one feature that sets it apart from all the others: a teeny, tiny LCD screen. With that one addition, decoding what your headset is up to is no longer a game of flashing lights or R2D2-like beeps: it’ll show you when it’s connected, when there’s a call, and how full its battery is. So simple. That battery also lasts for six hours of talking, and the whole thing weighs 10 grams. No word on price or launch date. [Phonearena via Gadget lab] More »
Phones
Pwnage iPhone Unlocking and Hacking Tool Now Available, Works Great
7:21PM Jesus Diaz | After some delays, the iPhone Pwnage tool—which is used to flash your iPhone with hacked firmware that will allow you to run any application, use it unlocked in any compatible mobile phone network, and basically do whatever you want do to with it, is now available for download. I have been testing this and previous versions for a few weeks now and it works well, but you will need a 2.0 version of the iPhone firmware to try the latest and greatest. More »
Computers
