Like a shotgun in the face of dumbphone owners everywhere, Samsung has blasted its new Icon range of smartphones onto the Australian market. The highlight? The Android powered Galaxy. More »
Maybe I’m a cynic, but this seems like the laziest stab at making a “viral” video yet. Samsung wants to promote their new Jet phone, so they pretended they pulled a crazy stunt in London. More »
Many of our Gizmodo ’79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009′s ass: The Concorde Jet. More »
The Omnia 2 sounds pretty good, but the Jet sounds slightly more interesting—proprietary OS aside. It’s got an 800MHz processor (obviously they’re not afraid of touting what’s inside like Apple), a surely funky six-sided Cube interface, and a WebKit browser Samsung calls Dolfin which will come to other Samsung phones in the future (okay, that’s what I’m most excited about). No carrier in the US yet, but it’s UTMS, so probably AT&T, if it comes here at all. More »
This crazy, crazy “Flatmobile” is going to enter the Guinness books as the flattest vehicle ever. How flat is it? Nineteen inches. I think that’s about how flat we’d be if we laid on our backs (depending on what’s on our minds and what we ate for lunch). Not only is this Batmobile-like contraption dangerous, it’s extremely dangerous—creator Perry Watkins shoved a gas turbine jet engine on the butt. It’s also supposedly street legal, but we wouldn’t want to be in it during a rollover. Or when the jet turbine catches fire because the AFTERBURNER FAILED. See that video after the jump. [Flatmobile via Nexus 404]
Well, Flame Grill my Whopper and call it Professor Caractacus Potts! Is there nothing sacred any more? Not even those precious moments when a man wants a little peace in the world so that he can go about his daily business without being disturbed? It seems not, but then the British always were a little strange. This is, apparently, the world’s fastest toilet. Powered by a Boeing Jet engine, the $10,000 vehicle’s top speed is in excess of 70mph, and it farts flames from its tailpipe – rather like, I would imagine, a man forced to eat ten vindaloos one after another.
There’s a video, as well another pic of the flaming khazi in action and its inventor, Paul Stender, all after the jump.
