Apple's iPad is selling about as fast as they can make the things, and it's not even completed its international roll-out yet. It stands to reason, then, that Apple's probably upped its efforts to develop the iPad's successor (given how long it takes for a design to go from concept to reality). This iPad 2 we would notionally have expected to be announced in January 2011, a year after the first device hit, and we still expect this to be the case. But now there's an increasingly real-sounding
Apple's "Apple TV" is due a refresh--you know it, I know it, and Steve Jobs knows that the time is ripe to move his experimental project from a slightly popular curio into the million-selling mainstream. The rumor mill is grinding up to top speed, for starters. And then with set-top boxes becoming more and more popular, it's a perfect moment for Apple to swoop in and redefine the nascent genre (as it's done so many times before) ... The recent batch of rumors have flown from Engadget's own rumor
Once the most popular vehicle for music promotion, MTV has just lost its access to the world's largest record label. Universal Music Group announced Friday that MTV.com will no longer be carrying its artists' music videos, a big blow for the music channel given that UMG represents 25% of the global market. Instead, the label will broadcast its videos via the online music-video site Vevo, the Hulu-for-music-videos platform that has been growing in popularity with help from partner YouTube. With
In about 72 hours from now Steve Jobs will kick off the 2010 World Wide Developers Conference--one of Apple's premiere events. Given the drama of this year's leaks, what new things can we expect to learn from Steve? ... The new iPhone for 2010 ... Whatever you think about the Gizmodo iPhone "leak" saga, it's done at least one thing for us: It's pretty much 100% confirmed that this year's revision of the iPhone is the hardware Gizmodo showed the world. And although more recent rumors have
HP's oh-so-HP-named ZR30w monitor is an S-IPS type LCD, similar to the beautiful display in Apple's iPad--but so much better. It's a 30-incher, so you already know it means business, with a 2560 x 1600 resolution (over four million pixels in all) and a 3,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. It has a DisplayPort and DVI-D input, as well as four USB inputs built right in ... Where it really shines is the color display, making it ideal for graphic artists, designers, and animators. The ZR30w can display
Airborne lasers shooting at the streets of New York. I know: Putting those phrases together in a sentence makes it sound like a plot for an Austin Powers movie, but take a chill pill--it's for your safety and convenience, New York ... From April 14th to April 30th this year, an aircraft patrolled Manhattan at a height of 3,500 feet, sinisterly tracking back and forth in the sky and firing laser beams at the city. Fricking laser beams! From space! But alas, there were no spacecraft or even sharks
PlanOn's new portable printer uses thermal technology to print without ink ... If you've ever blogged, it's probably happened to you: You're in your coffee-shop office, typing away, when you need to print something--a contract, a transcript to read over--what do you do? Abandon your post and hoof it to that tenth circle of hell, Kinkos. Well no more ... Check out this tiny, portable printer from PlanOn. The Printstik weighs about a tenth of a pound, it's battery-powered, and it prints from PCs
Thanks to a clandestine meeting with a source, I got a chance to play with and try out the Nexus One. It's basically, from my time with it, Google's Droid killer. It's thin, it's fast, it's better in every way ... My source was very firm about no photography, and I didn't want to jeopardize anything on my source's end, so there are no photos, hence these photos are ones we've already shown you. But, based on all the leaked shots this week, plus the very pretty and very clear one last week from
Americans are pledging to lead greener lives in 2010, according to a recent study by Tiller, LLC. Of the 1,000 adults polled, 53% said they would make a green New Year's resolution--and women are leading the way ... Women are more likely than men to experience "green guilt," as the poll calls it--41% versus just 27% of men. As a result, women are more focused on following through with their green resolutions (52% will "very likely" adopt green habits in 2010, as opposed to 33% of men) ... How
Electrification was named the "Greatest Engineering Achievement of the 20th Century" by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. The smart grid may soon prove to be the greatest engineering achievement of the 21st. Smart grids use information technology (sensors, communication networks, and user interfaces) to produce a wealth of data about the way electricity is consumed--in unprecedented high resolution. By applying this data and technology, we can revolutionize the way we consume electricity