Two Gizmodo colleagues, one former and one current, are currently discussing their first Internet memories as I type out this sentence. Sam Biddle abused his father’s AOL screenname in the name of Valentine’s Day advice, while Jon Herrman rocked Hootie. More »
As you know, I’m in Billund, Denmark, right now. Tomorrow I’ll be talking with the guys who make LEGO, the ultimate geek toy, and I would be able to ask them anything I want. So what would you like to know? What would you like to see? Tell me in the comments or write to my mail directly. [LEGO]
We were talking today in Campfire—Giz’s virtual office—about Apple’s newly uncovered patent on a system that warns you about bad quality or dropping cellular or Wi-Fi connections “ahead of time.” Jason thought it could be useful to know that, so you could just avoid making the call. I thought that it wouldn’t be useful at all, because if I needed to call, I would call anyway—and if the connection dropped, I would call again. Are we missing something? Do you really want to know the quality of a call beforehand, especially if you are travelling, and said quality is constantly changing as you move? And don’t mobile phones already warn you about dropping calls?
Video glasses. They should have taken over by now. The technology is good enough and cheap enough for the entire tech-buying world to be watching movies on simulated 40-inch screens (rather than squinting at their phone’s pitiful 2.4-inch display, pretending we can really see the movie). But we’re not. For well over a decade, Man has outright refused to sport a pair of video glasses, as if He feels a revulsion for oversized electronic eyewear from deep within His DNA. But could times change?
Our memories have grown fuzzy. We can’t remember exactly what watching TV was like 10 years ago, but we’re pretty sure that it involved a 16mm projector, slide rule and a horse that walked in circles around the room (oddly enough, the horse wasn’t actually connected to anything). Now we have a slew of new viewing technologies options, like streaming media, DVRs and high definition broadcast. And today, we’re forcing you to make the Sophie’s Choice of the entertainment centre:
According to a survey by IDC and Nortel, for over a third of people, their mobile phone is the most important thing in their pocket—they’d even leave their wallet and keys at home if they could only take one thing with them for 24 hours. If I had to leave the house for a day and could only bring a single “thing” with me, it’d probably be my iPod nano (even over my wallet)—I don’t need to talk to other people, I need to ignore them. But you might be less of a misanthrope than I am—so what’s the most important gadget you carry, the one chunk of shiny plastic and metal you can’t separate yourself from, even for a single day?
Many of you have probably seen Iron Man already. Jason saw it on Wednesday and thought it was the best superhero movie this side of Batman Begins (but we all know Jason is a Bruce Wayne fanboy.) But we want your opinion: has Iron Man survived the jump from trailer to full-lenght movie, keeping its predicted status of best superhero movie ever? Your answers after the jump.
