If you're set to hop on board AT&T's network, Amazon has a tasty deal: it's selling every AT&T phone it offers for one penny, with a new 2-year contract. Among those included: the Motorola Backflip and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. More »
I always wanted to know how a rocket engine looked right from below, peeking into its nozzles. So I got a high definition NASA photography of Discovery approaching the ISS, and passed it through Photoshop. Here's the result. More »
Here we see the first prototype of the LapDock, a laptop docking station for the iPad. How this is more convenient or practical than Apple's keyboard/dock is beyond me. Just stop, lousy iAccessory makers. Please, please, stop. [ipadlaptdock] More »
The big daddy of the Zune HD family is now available for order. Aside from the increased capacity, it's the same as the older Zune HDs, coming in 7 snazzy colors. It'll set you back $350. [Zune Originals] More »
Why is it that we're perfectly fine reusing some glass and completely refuse to reuse other glass? For $60, you can buy a six pack of tumblers, made from real beer bottles. [Windy City Glass via MAKE via boingboing] More »
Twiddling our thumbs while waiting for files to download is one of the great frustrations of our high-speed, technologically interconnected world. Computer scientists are unlikely to eliminate the waiting any time soon, but they've done the next best thing. More »
The iPad won't charge with all USB chargers. But that's because your USB chargers are weak. The reVIVE II Dual USB Charger can charge both your iPad and your other weakling gadget. The reVIVE II is not weak. More »
Mozilla's serving up a beta of Firefox Lorentz, a version of the browser that runs Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight videos as a separate processes. If plug-in-caused crashes and stuttering YouTubes have you red in the face, Lorentz offers sweet relief. More »
9to5Mac dug up references to video conferencing—hosted on Apple's own servers—as well as group chat rooms and chat moderators in iPhone OS 4. That's good news. More »
Steve Jobs, personal email replier he is these days, responded to a message from a developer regarding this week's SDK kerfuffle. His (characteristically brief) take: "intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps." More »
A great democratizing technology, the internet is supposed to let everyone fulfill their unique, individual potential. But some internet experiences are eerily universal. Like the way we forget we're not listening to music. Or the way we respond to typos. More »
Variety recently talked to Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, about the state of 3D film making. Katzenberg promptly released the Kraken on Clash of the Titans. Here's why he thinks it could spell the end of 3D. More »
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then this new interactive sign from IBM really, truly wants to get on your good side. It changes its appearance based on what you're wearing. More »
I don't know exactly what people are buying novelty spy cameras for these days, but I guess babysitter surveillance is as timeless a concern as any. Brando's newest motion-activated spy gizmo takes the shape of a small luxury automobile. More »
The iPad, like Steve Jobs himself, is confident in its vision and divisive because of it. Our friend Woody Allen Jang shot this beautiful video of the iPad and some of the formative experiences of the man who created it. More »
For many touch screen applications, fingers are your best bet. For others, the precision of a stylus is required. Microsoft shows how using both in conjunction might be the best option of all, delivering users to digital scrapbook nirvana. More »
When we see gadget concepts, they are in some sense finished products, whether they're prototypes, mock-ups, or shiny computer renders. But what comes before that? As seen in these beautiful sketches for Core 77's Invitational Design Competition: fantastic, unbridled brainstorming. More »
Apple's move to ban Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler elicited shrugs from Adobe and complaints from Adobe loyalists. Digging deeper into the OS reveals another, albeit less dramatic slight: Apple scrubbed Google's name from the new OS's Safari search button. More »
All this iPhone 4 news not doing it for you? Still got Windows Phone 7 on the brain? There's a simple—and most importantly, free—way to try it out, right now, on your PC. More »
A Bank of America worker installed malicious software on his employer's ATMs that allowed him to make thousands of dollars in fraudulent withdrawals, all without leaving a transaction record, according to federal prosecutors. More »
