newVideoPlayer("/slacker_gizmodo.flv", 494, 297,""); With only a few weeks to go until Election Day, director/showman/clown–strike out words depending on your political preferences–Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising is now available in the internet. Created to promote vote among young people, Moore is saying that this is the first full feature film to be released for free on the web, using Blip.tv, Amazon Video on Demand, iTunes, DivX, MPEG4, and Lycos VOD.
Nokia’s a little late to the touchscreen game–and they’ve been parading the “Tube” around for a while (“we promise, it’s coming!”). Now details are starting to build for a rumoured October 2 announcement of the Tube (known more stodgily as the 5800 XpressMusic), fanned by the leaked pic above spotted by Mobile.cz. The date also coincides nicely with the expected timeframe of Nokia’s “Comes With Music” launch, since this is primarily a music phone. Expected specs includes A-GPS and wi-fi, a 640×360 touchscreen, Symbian S60 and an included 8GB SD card for music. [Mobile.cz via Unwired View, BGR]
We’ve all picked up the Covenant Energy Sword in a multiplayer match of Halo, grinning with childlike glee…only to be combo sniped and teabagged into oblivion. Now you can settle the score in real life with this Halo energy sword replica. Cast in stainless steel finished with the reflective “spectrum treatment,” the 27-inch sword will mirror the red blood of your enemies, the blue flashes of police lights and the dark consequences of your actions as you spend life in jail…oh so far from your precious sword. You were an Arbiter once, long ago. And for a moment, it was wonderful. [Trueswords via Kotaku]
Made by Ryan Cashman, this movie shows you that with a chunk of ingenuity and a huge bucket-load of patience you can make movies with any old DSLR. Ryan’s clip of an LED pianist was made with nothing more sophisticated than a green keychain LED and a Canon digital Rebel. He took a sequence of 20-30 second exposures, and strung them together later into an animated movie with original music. HD-video DSLRs? Pah… this is real art. [Vimeo via Wired]
This 32-inch Wi-Fi picture frame may look like a TV, but as your guests will quickly (sadly) discover, it’s just a frame to show off your family photos. Easily paired to a wireless router, the display is compatible with Windows Live Photo Gallery as well as proprietary image software that can wirelessly copy photos from your computer to an inserted SD, MS or Compact Flash card. And while the (1,366×768) Smartpants SP3200WF can display PowerPoint, RSS and PDFs, it seems to miss the more tempting media extender and Hulu opportunities. No word on price or availability. [via Luxury Launches]
Movea’s Gyration Motionsense Air Mouse adds to the ranks of new mice with gyros and accelerometers inside so you can control your computer just by waving them mid-air. It’s an ambidextrous mouse using 2.4GHz wireless tech with 100-foot range and it’s got both customizable buttons and gesture recognition. Inside there are two rotational gyro axes and three linear accelerometer axes to detect your movements with greater precision, and it’s got a mere 20ms start-up time. As if that’s not enough, it’s also got a standard laser mouse option in case your arm gets tired. Available early October for $US100. Press release below. galleryPost('gyrationairmouse', 3, '');
Tim Goddard is at it again with his Star Wars mini-fighters. This time he has built the mother of all Lego Star Wars battles, with thousands of pieces and hundreds of spaceships, Imperial walkers, Rebel hovercrafts and even a movable turbolaser train. The level of detail and complexity is mindblowing:
When the much-hyped Esquire E-Ink cover finally shipped to newsstands a few weeks ago, we were kind of underwhelmed. Using conventional methods, the sectioned panel isn’t really hackable in any meaningful way, so Phone Losers took a more proactive approach: violence.
BoyGeniusReports has got hold of some imagery and specs for an upcoming LG slider phone, the Xenon. It’s a side-slider with QWERTY keypad, quad-band GSM and UMTS/HSPDA. It’s only got a 3-megapixel cam, so it’s no Viewty or KC910 but it does pack in AGPS, an accelerometer and proximity detector.
Jalopnik spotted the new Peapod–Chrysler’s GEM electric car for neighbourhoods–in the wild. Even while it feels like a glorified golf cart for “gated communities”, it looks great down to the iPod/iPhone dock in the middle of the dashboard. The design makes us smile for obvious reasons–although it’s also a little bit scary because it reminds me of the evil Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters.
