Monday, June 15, 2009
Business
Google Doesn’t Want To Pay Artists For Making Custom Chrome Skins
11:40PM Adam Frucci | Google is currently working on getting artists to make skins for its Chrome Browser, which is pretty cool. Much less cool, however, is that one of the biggest companies in the world refuses to pay the artists. More »
Peripherals
The Loop Controls Your TV Like The Wii For $US100
11:10PM Mark Wilson | The Loop really impressed us back at CES…2007. A circular remote that functioned a lot like the Wiimote, the promising Loop turned heads before disappearing into the bowels of the tech world. (Until now.) More »
Hardware
Nvidia GeForce 200M Graphics Cards Makes Notebook Old, Busted
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | A year after Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce 200 series graphics cards first stomped onto the scene (literally the biggest GPUs ever), Nvidia’s finished making them mobile, delivering double the performance of current 9M series using half the power. More »
Games
Carbon Fibre Joystick: For No Reason Other Than General Effect
10:40PM Gizmodo US Edition | Why do we reserve the glory of carbon fibre for lightweight performance items? You know, other than durability and expense? More »
Phones
Confirmed: Samsung ‘Louvre’ Is The Omnia Pro
9:40PM John Herrman | Samsung “revealed” a few handsets today at an event in Singapore, first and foremost confirming that the OLED, WXGA, Windows Mobile Louvre B7610 is, in fact, the rumoured Omnia Pro, pictured second from the right. Also present were the already-announced I7500 Android phone, the megapixel-obsessed Pixon 12 and the Jackie B7320, an Epix-like candybar. More »
Phones
Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack – Because Sprint Won’t Like It
9:20PM Simon Crisp | Palm have “politely” warned the Pre homebrewers behind the Pre Dev Wiki not to talk about hacking the handset for internet tethering on their site … because Sprint might complain. More »
Cameras
Olympus E-P1 Gets A Face-Forward Reveal; Announcement Tomorrow
8:48PM John Herrman | The Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds rangefinder-style camera (and Gizmodo lust object) has revealed itself in an official, full-frontal shot. The styling is a bit more retro-sexy than expected, thankfully, and an official (Japanese) announcement is due tomorrow. [43Rumors, Akihabara] More »
Games
Theremin-Controlled Mario Offers Into Glimpse Of A Bizarre Alternate History Of Motion Gaming
8:03PM John Herrman
Now, there are officially three things you can do with a theremin: you can score a low-budget sci-fi film; you can join a prog rock cover band; and, as of today, you can play Super Mario Bros, awkwardly. More »
Phones
Is Dell Working On An Android Smartphone?
7:20PM Simon Crisp | Is this Dell’s first mobile phone? That is at least what one man and his blurry camera seem to think. More »
Phones
