When the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report saying that worldwide GPS performance is likely to degrade in the next few years, lot of people, public and private, kinda flipped. Cue the inevitable about-face, right about…now.
Forget about the pathetic Wii Fit exercises if you want to lose weight while gaming. EA’s Sports Active looks like it might actually do something to help you shed your geek fat.
As Matt explained last year, batteries are holding up laptops, mobile phones and PMPs from lasting long enough and running fast enough to get things done properly on the go. What’s my solution? Portable battery packs.
U.K. security firm Sophos has re-released their Threat Detection Test software, but with a slight tweak to use the new Star Trek’s popularity to its advantage: The software has been translated entirely into the Klingon language.
Google’s developed an algorithm that tells them which employees are most likely to quit. That’s creepy.
Transformers: Life-size Bumblebee, Cannes Now that my hopes and dreams for an awesome Terminator movie have been pretty much shattered by negative reviews, I guess I have to turn my attention to the next big blockbuster on my Entertainment Geekly radar: Transformers 2. If you can tolerate the annoying music from this clip, you can check out the awesome life-sized Bumblebee statue set up in Cannes for this year’s film festival.
newVideoPlayer("/SkypeSub_gizmodo.flv", 475, 376,""); That Oprah, always using product tie-ins in new and different ways, this time jiving with the commander of the USS Louisville “The Slugger” submarine—which is 60 feet underwater off the coast of Hawaii—via Skype.
By adjusting its posture and wiggling its eyes and lips, this plucky android conveys several emotions. From the looks of it, they run the gamut from joy to absolute disgust. More pics after the jump.
This timepiece oozes with the same classiness found in 1930′s era lighters and watches. The caliber-582 movement is so sensitive that small changes in temperature are enough to power the clock for days. [Acquire Mag]