The post this morning claiming the BB Torch has been discounted for low sales was incorrect. Amazon has been selling the phone at $100 since launch, and we have corrected the original story to reflect this. More »
Audio equipment maker Bose will have some new in-ear headphones available on at the end of the month: The IE2, the MIE2, and the MIE2i. The latter two headphones are designed specifically for mobile phones—in-line microphones and all. More »
Skiing has just never really translated well into gaming—SkiFree notwithstanding, of course. But developer duo Mikengreg has eschewed realism in Solipskier, their arcadey stab at the slopes, attempting instead to capture both the excitement and tranquility of skiing. More »
PZ Myers—a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris—has a thing or three to say about Ray Kurzweil's claim that we'll reverse engineer the brain by 2020. Personal attacks aside, he makes some strong points. More »
Remember Lower Merion School District, the elite Philadelphia school system that was caught spying on its students through the webcams on their mandatory, school-issued MacBooks? Federal prosecutors aren't filing criminal charges. But don't worry, the civil cases are still kicking. More »
Oh, hello HBO Go! You were a strange experiment in going it alone before, but now that you're headed to the iPad I might just give you a closer look. Especially since HBO's apparently not headed to Netflix after all. More »
Here's a simple but effective Ikea hack: take two of the popular Ikea Lack TV Units and combine them to double your media storage. More »
That right there is a picture of Rachel Stieringer's baby taking some wicked bong rips. She was arrested for posting the picture on Facebook. More »
The TOR Project provides free, distributed worldwide proxies for anonymous browsing and private downloading. TOR comes with a built-in Firefox add-on, but Chrome users can get a handy on/off button for TOR with this setup, explained by commenter brssnkl. More »
Nokia, in an effort to gather interest on their upcoming X3 touchscreen + keypad phone, just made an Apple-like promo video. Unfortunately, they got Homer "one transition" Simpson to direct it. Also, it's lens-flarey. [Business Insider] More »
If you ever send a Gizmodo link to one of your friends and they ask you what Gizmodo is, this is the video that explains everything. We are Gizmodo. You are Gizmodo. This is Gizmodo. More »
I'd love it if someone built an app that makes everything look like 1984. I'm not asking for what hipstamatic does. I want an app that makes everything I shoot to look like a 1984 PC game. Specifically, Kings Quest. More »
There are two sides to every story, but photos only contain a single image. The dual-imaged diptychs from this week's Shooting Challenge show us perspectives otherwise lost...along with a very strange trend/phenomenon. Can you spot it in the results? More »
Yet another Taiwan publication is saying that a 7-inch iPad is coming. This rumor isn't new. In fact, it was one of the first rumored sizes. It echoes the always-unreliable Digitimes and iLounge's latest reports, but is it really possible? More »
Want more space on your PS3? Install a new HDD. It's very easy. Too lazy/rich? Well, soon there will be 160GB and 320GB models for you to upgrade to, then. More »
Apple has a new toy. It's a materials company called Liquidmetal, and everybody's talking! Problem is, nobody seems too sure what they're talking about. So, Liquidmetal: What is this stuff? And what does Apple want with it? More »
Today, nearly three years after their filing, the United States Patent & Trademark Office awarded Apple a patent that covers the design of the iPhone's popping character keyboard and slide to unlock functions. More »
Apple's recent hiring of Benjamin Vigier, an expert in near field communications, led many to wonder if the next iPhone could also be our next wallet. According to TechCrunch, Apple's already testing prototypes of just such a proximity-aware iPhone. More »
