Saturday, November 22, 2008
Gadgets
The Insane Hardware Driving the World’s Biggest LED Billboard
12:30PM Benny Goldman | In a dusty supply closet at 1 Times Square, a computer terminal hooked up to hordes of ethernet servers, RAID arrays and monitors humbly runs the largest LED sign in the world. The sign, a 3-sided, 17,000-square-foot Goliath, debuted last night at the opening of a Walgreens in New York City. Today, I got to see what makes it tick. galleryPost('walgreenssign', 3, ''); More »
Peripherals
At Gizmodo Gallery: Weird Japanese USB Gadgets!
12:20PM Brian Lam | The Gizmodo Gallery lineup isn’t just mega gadgets like the Red One Camera and prototypes like the Ancient Apple phone concepts from Frog Design. On a recent trip to Tokyo I raided Thanko HQ for the latest and weirdest USB gadgets I could find, including this USB Tie with a fan in it and a USB heated gloves. I mean, I don’t know how anyone gets through winter in NY without USB heated mittens. More »
Phones
BlackBerry Storm Lines Not iPhone Lines, But Still Feisty
12:15PM Wilson Rothman | In spite of its mixed reviews concerning software bugs and the controversial click-screen, the BlackBerry Storm drew a heckuva lot of Crack(Berry)heads to Verizon Wireless stores today demanding to get a piece of that action, including some who got uppity when things didn’t work out like Christmas morning. More »
Computers
Lightning Review: Sony Vaio LV All-In-One PC
11:30AM Adrian Covert | The Gadget: Sony’s Vaio LV All-in-One PC is the followup to the beautiful (and powerful) Vaio LT that came out earlier this year. This time around, they gave the LV an improved mounting base, slimmer bezel, integrated TV tuner and most importantly, HDMI-in. Has the LV one-upped the LT? galleryPost('sonyvaiolvreview', 3, ''); More »
Design
Music Flow Music-As-Water Concept Stretches My Brain
10:30AM Wilson Rothman | Do you think of your MP3 player as the well from whence music springs forth like so much cool, pure H2O? Neither do I, but that didn’t stop some brainy (that is, totally insaney) designers from coming up with a painfully elaborate music-player concept based on just such an analogy. More »
Science
Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein’s e=mc2 After 103 Years
9:56AM Jesus Diaz | Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world’s top supercomputers to prove Eintein’s biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Centre for Theoretical Physics in France, and has finally answered a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass! More »
Software
The Week in iPhone Apps: Back to the Grind
9:20AM John Mahoney | Back to the usual review this week, after our 20 Essential Apps list last Friday. Thankfully, it’s been a pretty good week in the store, with lots of actually useful apps–including a full-fledged four-track recorder and a couple of utilities that actually add some usable core features that I wish would have made it into the 2.2 software update today. Oh, and of course, something Japanese and crazy. Onward!
Vehicles
PoleRider is Part Rickshaw, Part Strip Club
9:00AM Sean Fallon | Why go out to the strip club when the strip club can come to you? That’s right, for $US300 an hour ($US200 each additional), you can rent out a rickshaw in NYC from the entrepreneurs at PoleRider. It is your all-inclusive mobile exotic dancing solution complete with a pole and tacky lights. Ahh…pole dancing. It’s everywhere you want to be. Thanks PoleRiders—by the way, do you need any extra rickshaw operators? [PoleRiders (slightly NSFW) via CraziestGadgets]
Vehicles
$US1 Billion Electric Car Charging Grid Planned For San Francisco
8:40AM Sean Fallon | In keeping with its progressive reputation, San Francisco is looking to pave the way for widespread electric vehicle adoption in the US. A Palo-Alto start-up called “Better Place” has received the green light from all three of the Bay Area’s big city mayors to begin carrying out an ambitious plan to build a network of 250,000 charging ports, 200 battery-exchange stations and a control centre that keeps the system running smoothly. And if that wasn’t enough, they hope to have the entire thing up and running by 2012. More »
Design
