Watch That Tiny, $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 
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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Cuban officials this week announced they’ve launched their own variant of Linux. Dubbed Nova, it’s an attempt to rid their computers of U.S. hegemony, a.k.a. Microsoft. Viva la (open source) revolucion, siempre!
I met Adam Savage at the EG conference last year, and watching him give this talk, it became clear the man is obsessed with replicating things 3D things from 2D imagery.
I suppose most lamps would turn off if you snapped them in half, but unlike the rest, the On-Off lamp concept is actually designed to take such abuse.
Microsoft has named a VP of Retail Stores, uh, confirming rumours that they were even doing such a thing. David Porter comes from Dreamworks, and before that spent 25 years at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart!
Despite its name, this $US143 MP3 Tower is only 7-inches tall, making it more convenient to stick in small places. It’s also waterproof!
After cancelling some of the world’s best TVs, Pioneer announced they’re laying off 10,000 workers. They’re citing the reason as the trapdoor floor in the market for car stereo and TVs. [NYT]
For us single Gizmodians out there, a warm body may be too much hope this Saturday. That’s where the Perfect Girl app comes in—”I’ll try anything once,” it says. Now where’s that Perfect Man app?
Both the Japanese and American Space agencies, JAXA and NASA, are about to launch satellites into orbit which measure Earth’s carbon dioxide and methane levels, hoping to glean insight into global warming’s effects.
Any set of speakers that only push 2W and cost $US30 probably aren’t the greatest, but you have to respect any piece of electronic gadgetry that’s made of ACTUAL FREAKING BAMBOO.
And thus concludes our Charles Darwin birthday celebration. We’ll resume the party in another 100 years, pending cats have not evolved eye and/or paw lasers thereby destroying us all.
