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Category Archives: Futurist
Warning: iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 Is Not a Toy [Psa]
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 slipped into the iPhone Dev Center earlier, but unless you're a developer and really need to test apps, it's best to skip this extra buggy beta and just keep playing around with the first. More »
The iPad DJ [Music]
Google Buys Startup Full of Former Apple and TiVo Employees [Google]
The latest item in Google's shopping spree is Agnilux, a small and somewhat mysterious startup full of former Apple, TiVo, and P.A. Semi employees. Few details are available about the acquisition, but it looks like a good deal for Google. More »
Man Is No Match For World’s Fastest Pick-and-Place Robot [Robots]
CDMA-Based, Clamshell-Shaped BlackBerry 9670 Slips Out [BlackBerry]
Oh my! The folks at BGR have gotten their hands on a BlackBerry 9670. Apparently there'll be more details about the CDMA-based, clamshell device coming soon, but for now there are plenty of pictures to sift through. [BGR] More »
The Next iPhone, Dissected [Apple Iphone 4]
South Korea Will Make Aquatic Robots Swim to Your Rescue [Robots]
They won't be terribly fast—they'll swim 59 feet per minute and crawl 98 feet per minute—and they'll cost $18 million to develop, but aquatic robots like this might one day aid underwater search and rescue efforts. More »
Why Didn’t Anybody Ask Apple About the Lost iPhone? [IPhone]
Apple's quarterly earnings reports provide a rare opportunity for financial analysts to publicly pose questions to Apple executives. Today, no one granted an audience asked about Apple's lost iPhone. More »
HP Compaq Airlife 100 Smartbook Specs Outed [Smartbooks]
The HP Compaq Airlife 100 certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the specs, the more I'm doubting this first-wave smartbook. More »
Apple’s Single Mention of New iPhone Hardware [Blockquote]
Apple's only mention of any kind of new iPhone hardware (besides the letter they sent us), and mentions of "future product transitions" during its live earnings call: Apple COO Tim Cook made a single reference to "new hardware" for the iPhone. More »
Well, Selling the Most iPhones Ever Made Apple a Lot of Money [Apple]
Apple sold 8.75 million iPhones in the last three months. That's over double what they did a year ago—the most quarterly ever—and how Apple nearly doubled profits: Up 90 percent for their best ever non-Christmas quarter. Updated live. More »
Apple Didn’t Leak the iPhone—and Why That Matters [Apple]
A controlled leak? The lost iPhone planted by Apple? You have no idea how Apple PR works—and how, like it or not, Gizmodo finally beat them at their own game. More »
How to Keep Commenting While Our Servers Melt [Announcements]
The interest in the tale of Apple's next iPhone is melting our servers and causing some technical difficulties. As a result, we had to temporarily shut off our comments system. More »
Project Natal Appears In the Wild [Natal]
Oh hello, pretty. This appears to be Microsoft's upcoming Project Natal, complete with instructions, as seen by someone hired to test its speech recognition. More »
Devon Tread 1 Watch Keeps Your Wrist Busy At All Times [Watches]
Devon claims that their $15,000 Tread 1 watch, a motorized, belt-driven contraption, is "a big, bold sexy declaration of independence from the status quo." The status quo, in this case, being affordable, legible, sensible timepieces. But all those belts. More »
Why Apple Couldn’t Get the Lost iPhone Back [Apple Iphone 4]
It's such an obvious question: Why couldn't Apple track this phone down? As it turns out, they may have had two chances to get it back—and blown them both. More »
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 Is Here [IPhone 4.0]
The latest beta of iPhone OS 4.0 is ooout. Besides desperately needed bugfixes, wonder what else is new? [Apple] More »
The Last Word In Toilets [Toilets]
This is the Giovannoni Washlet. And while I don't recognize exactly what each component of its feature set is supposed to do, I do know what awesome sounds like. And "tornado flush" sounds awesome. More »
28 Ways Microsoft Could Market the Kin to Non-Hipster Demographics [PhotoshopContest]
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to help Microsoft take aim at some demographics other than hipsters. And while technically these entries fit that criteria, I'm not sure how many phones they'd sell. Yikes. More »

















