You can forget the teasers, promotional videos, and info leaks, because this is the real thing: a live, in-the-flesh shot of LG’s Chocolate BL40 phone. We knew it was long, but this handset looks like it’s been literally stretched.
The only type of cricket I really care about are the cyborg ones that will rescue me in an earthquake, but this Aussie-designed Virtual Cricket iPhone app offers such comprehensive coverage of the sport that it had to get a run on Giz.
Wired’s new issue, featuring guest writer Brad Pitt promoting the newest Brad Pitt movie starring Brad Pitt, goes deep into social technology etiquette. Can you answer your phone while peeing? Is it okay to lie on Facebook? All is revealed.
In 1976, Sony went to the National Stadium in Tokyo and lined up every single gadget they offered to photograph them. All were analogue, mostly in radio, audio and TV. This is a photo of that.
Holy Crap! You know that promotion we told you about last month where Samsung were giving away a smaller 22-inch LCD if you picked up a 40-inch or above model? Well, they’ve exhausted that allotment. They’ve sold 15,000 TVs and most of the bonus 22-inch bonus sets have been redeemed. Who said we were in a recession?
I don’t know what that person on the balcony is thinking, but I need a change of underpants. And no, it’s not a photoshop, it’s a real, untouched photo by Steve Perez for the Associated Press.
The Electric Horseman is a minor 1979 Robert Redford movie directed by Sydney Pollack. It’s not the best movie in the world, but it did feature Redford in a light-up cowboy outfit.
With iPhone 3.0, websites can snag your location in Safari. Now if you search for something in Google and let it see your location, it’ll show you stuff nearby that matches, like coffeeshops here. It’s just the beginning, surely. [Google]
This table top stereo by famed Frog founder, Hartmut Esslinger, has a turntable, tape player and tuner. It was huge—speakers were separate—but gorgeous. From 1976.
