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3h ago ( April 20, 2021 at 1:32 PM ) Apple today announced a redesigned range of inch-thick iMacs based upon its own M1 processors, offered in a range of bright colors (with matching TouchID keyboards, mice and trackpads) and sporting a 24", 4.5K retina display. Execs promised an 85% improvement on the last Intel-based iMacs' CPU performance, 2x faster graphics—games and video editing figured strongly in the presentation—and 3x machine learning performance. — Read the rest Tags: Post, Apple, Gadgets, Imacs143 people like this. Like
5h ago ( April 20, 2021 at 11:15 AM ) The netbook reminiscing of late had me checking out what's offered in the world of small but typeable laptops, and I'm sad to say that there's not a lot to pick from. Most of the easily available options are either too large (like the 11" Asus L210 or various 11.6" chromebooks available on Amazon), too small (like the 7" GPD Pocket), too expensive (like the otherwise bill-fitting 10" One Mix 4 or 9" GPD Max), or blatant parts-bucket junk like the Goldengulf 10" Android Laptop. — Read the rest Tags: Post, Computers, Gadgets, Netbooks139 people like this. Like
April 19, 2021 at 12:40 PM Lenovo's Thinkpad X230 came out in 2012, putting it just a few months shy of vintage in the fast-moving world of tech, where any random guy's definition of vintage can prevail for the course of a single posting. Here's an X230 upgraded with a transflective Pixel Qi display, completely legible in full sunlight. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Video, News, Hacks, Lenovo, Laptops, Pixel Qi135 people like this. Like
April 19, 2021 at 10:44 AM It's nice to see Sony still making weirdly specific high-end gadgets such as the TX800 [Sony.com; Amazon has it in white], even if $240 is a lot of sticker shock for a voice recorder. It's tiny, about 4cm-square, and comes with a corresponding remote control. — Read the rest Tags: Amazon, Gadgets, Post, News, Sony, Spy Gadgets, Field Recorders130 people like this. Like
April 17, 2021 at 10:32 AM Nilay Patel remembers the netbook, the small (9-11") power-sipping (Intel Atom) and cheap (sub-$500) devices that suddenly exploded in the late 2000s, only to vanish into the fog of tablets, ultrabooks and chromebooks. Within a few years, he figures, there were some 40 models of the popular but decidedly low-end Asus EeePC. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, History, Intel Atom, Nilay Patel, Netbooks103 people like this. Like
April 16, 2021 at 10:06 AM Stephen Hackett collects and presents the Chimes of Death, the intriguing melodies that used to herald the doom of a Mac.
My favorite is the Macintosh LC's unsettling chiptune dance over the sharps. By the mid 1990s, it was all silly and infuriating car crash noises and such. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, History, Computers, Macs, Stephen Hackett80 people like this. Like
April 16, 2021 at 9:38 AM UnAlice is a set of DSA, dye-sublimated keycaps inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The spindly Victorian type is complemented nicely by illustrated function and meta keys featuring the White Rabbit, the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar, and other usual suspects.
Unlock the door into the fantastical world of talking rabbits, mad hatters, and smiling cats. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Alice, Caterpillar, DSA, Mechanical Keyboards, Keycaps138 people like this. Like
April 12, 2021 at 1:40 PM Enjoy Markus Stark's zoomy video of the moon, shot with a Leica 400mm F2.8 lens (about $10k, used) attached to a Panasonic GH4 with 1.4x, 2x, and 2x Leica APO focus module extenders. [via Leica Rumors]
The video clips were filmed in August 2015 at only 290m above sea level (camping side in Germany). Some — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Video, Space, News, Germany, Cameras, Lenses, Leica, Leica Rumors, Markus Stark108 people like this. Like
April 12, 2021 at 7:36 AM Luke Metoki virtualized MacOS and Windows simultaneously on an 2000s-era PC, with Arch Linux as the host organism. The mad science worked, but Windows was "very sluggish" if not given the lion's share of RAM.
If you want me to write more about this, contact me. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Tech, Computers, Arch Linux, Dogs and cats living together, Luke Metoki68 people like this. Like
April 9, 2021 at 10:06 AM This webcam, housed in an animatronic sculpture of a grossly disembodied human eye, was created by Marc Teyssier, Marion Koelle, Paul Strohmeier, Bruno Fruchard and Jürgen Steimle. [Human Computer Interaction Lab via The Verge] They call it the Eyecam and I lovehate it. — Read the rest Tags: Art, Gadgets, Video, News, Webcams, Surveillance, Jürgen Steimle128 people like this. Like
April 8, 2021 at 9:05 AM The Punkt MP02 (previously) is one of two or three premium-yet-minimalist phone handsets that actually work on post-2G cellular networks. And now it has Signal built-in, providing end-to-end voice encryption, free-Internet based calls and texts, group messages and voice dictation. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Signal, Dumbphones103 people like this. Like
April 2, 2021 at 10:11 AM Greg Raiz crafted an e-ink newspaper, though it might be more appropriate to describe it as an e-ink display cunningly disguised as a page of a newspaper framed and hung on a wall. Brilliant work!
I took a 32″ eInk display and turned it into a digital newspaper that updates every day. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Video, News, E-ink, Greg Raiz88 people like this. Like
April 1, 2021 at 11:39 AM Your new cyberdeck has arrived, madam. The Pro¹ X is a handsome smartphone that runs a variety of free operating systems and has a slide-out keyboard, perfect for SSHing in, NMAPping corpo headquarters, or raiding ATMs in the early 1990s. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Keyboards, Phones140 people like this. Like
March 31, 2021 at 8:11 AM Big Brother is licking you. Sweat monitors (aka scram cams) are ankle bands that monitor the wearer's sweat for alcohol, to enforce court-ordered abstinence. They're rolling them out nationwide in the UK in a bid to tackle booze-related crime. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, UK, Crime, News, Privacy, Law, Tech107 people like this. Like
March 22, 2021 at 7:36 AM I've made a Cursed USB-C 2.0 device. It behaves differently based on the orientation of the plug. pic.twitter.com/8Ko66wPuV2— Pim de Groot (@mifune) March 21, 2021
Mechanical engineer Pim de Groot created a "cursed" USB Type C device that "behaves differently based on the orientation of the plug." — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Vinyl, Usb-c, Pim de Groot47 people like this. Like
March 18, 2021 at 1:46 PM Nextbigfuture interviewed Tom Noel, ColdQuanta’s Director of Quantum Computing and Interim CEO Dan Caruso. ColdQuanta is using neutral atoms instead of trapped ions as the basis for its quantum...
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Tags: Gadgets, Science, Technology, News, Interviews, World, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Lasers, Machine Learning, Quantum Computers, Qubits, Tom Noel ColdQuanta, Quantum Computing and Interim, Dan Caruso ColdQuanta39 people like this. Like
March 18, 2021 at 10:03 AM The migration from text to video brings with it a problem for English-speaking camera geeks: how do you say Schneider Kreuznach or Voigtländer? And Zeiss rhymes with "piece", right? It's pronounced "Laker", right? Even natives have trouble avoiding Anglicisms, writes Damien Demolder, explaining why Maximillian Heinrich had to make this video:
German Maximillian Heinrich from Analog Insights was pulled up recently by a Mitdeutscher in comments on YouTube for exactly that – pronounc... Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Cameras, German, Branding, Zeiss, Schneider Kreuznach, Damien Demolder, Maximillian Heinrich71 people like this. Like
March 18, 2021 at 8:19 AM My phone is nearly useless: dozens of scam calls daily about car warranties and Microsoft hacks and my myriad of crimes, press 1 or go to jail. So all calls are silenced and I swipe through voicemail transcripts now and again to see if anything was real. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, Texas, News, Fcc, Microsoft, Scams, Robocalls, Ftc83 people like this. Like
March 17, 2021 at 4:06 PM isapplesiliconready.com and Does It Arm are nice simple sites that track whether MacOS apps have been updated to run natively on Apple's own processors, and wether they work under emulation.
I've found that my apps run so well under emulation that it's not a problem (unlike the bad old days of the PPC-to-Intel switchover) but native comes with big performance gains. — Read the rest Tags: Apple, Gadgets, Post, News, Ppc, Intel, Computers, Emulation, Apple Silicon105 people like this. Like
March 17, 2021 at 4:06 PM isapplesiliconready.com is a nice simple site that tracks whether MacOS apps have been updated to run natively on Apple's own processors, and wether they work under emulation.
I've found that my apps run so well under emulation that it's not a problem (unlike the bad old days of the PPC-to-Intel switchover) but native comes with big performance gains. — Read the rest Tags: Apple, Gadgets, Post, News, Ppc, Intel, Computers, Emulation, Apple Silicon123 people like this. Like
March 17, 2021 at 8:18 AM On Reddit, u/liluberninjadl posted this tiny 3D-printed GPU which, on close inspection, turns out to be a thumbdrive. You won't be mining or gamering with it, but isn't it adorable? Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, 3d Printing, Reddit, Gpu, Miniatures, Components70 people like this. Like
March 12, 2021 at 9:25 AM The wildest courts of the kingdom of custom-designed gadgets are typically inaccessible through usual retail channels: to get the good stuff, you have to sign up for slow-burning group orders that might take months or even years to fulfill. So when I saw that Choam had this fabulously retro keyboard in stock, I impulse-bought it immediately. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Keyboards, Mechanical Keyboards, Choam147 people like this. Like
March 2, 2021 at 8:59 AM Phillip Caudell wanted a second high-resolution display for his iMac. Unfortunately, Apple's own model is wildly expensive and he didn't like the look of the plastic alternatives. So he did "what any normal person would do … and built my own." — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Diy, Macs, Monitors, Phillip Caudell78 people like this. Like
March 2, 2021 at 8:08 AM The lockpicking lawyer can open a fancy electronic-timed padlock in about half a second with a shim, but that's too easy. Why not open it with an electromagnetic pulse?
You don't need to be an electrical engineer to know that sensitive electronics don't like random pulses of electricity appearing out of nowhere. Tags: Gadgets, Video, News, Emp, Recreational Lockpicking77 people like this. Like
February 25, 2021 at 8:46 PM Amazon recently launched Day1 Editions where they present new product ideas and only make the ones with significant pre-orders. Of the three products they're starting with, only their Smart Sticky Note Printer, a small Alexa-connected thermal printer, has hit the order threshold to go into production. — Read the rest Tags: Amazon, Gadgets, Post, News, Printers, Alexa66 people like this. Like
February 24, 2021 at 9:05 AM Good news for hill giants in dire need of coasters: here's a giant chainsaw, powered by an eight-cylinder engine, making quick work of a 2 ft-thick tree trunk. Tags: Gadgets, Video, News, Whoa, Chainsaw66 people like this. Like
February 24, 2021 at 7:29 AM Fry's, the cool big-box gadget shop since 1985, is out of business. The chain's stores, famous for their amusing themes and gigantic sculptures, closed for good at midnight.
After nearly 36 years in business as the one-stop-shop and online resource for high-tech professionals across nine states and 31 stores, Fry's Electronics, Inc. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Fry s Electronics Inc64 people like this. Like
February 23, 2021 at 8:38 AM Rubik's Connected Cube [Amazon] is a Rubik's cube with the internet in it, so that it may connect to an app on your phone which provides tips, "lessons", and the solution. Gizmodo's Andrew Liszewski reviewed it. He's OK with it, but not the $60 price tag. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, Toys, News, Puzzles, Iot, Gizmodo, Andrew Liszewski138 people like this. Like
February 19, 2021 at 8:22 AM Good news, Texas! All you need to charge your phone is some aluminum foil, copper wire, charcoal, a charger cable you don't mind cutting, and urine.
Sure, if you're squeamish, you can use salt water instead. Tags: Gadgets, Video, News, Tech, Electricity, Howto128 people like this. Like
February 18, 2021 at 9:37 AM Eink, the creator (and generally uninspired patent-holder) of e-ink displays, has something magical on offer: an enormous 31" color e-ink panel. It's expensive—$2,300—and you'll have to make your own monitor housing, get an extra display controller, and work out your own hardware and software setup to make it do whatever you want it to do. — Read the rest Tags: Gadgets, Post, News, Tech, eInk136 people like this. Like
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