Full FeedOddball Tech: SIM address book works on every carrier and read the Kindle in the dark
All your contacts on a SIM card, book? SIM cards are great. Whenever you want to switch phones pop your SIM card out of your old phone, put it in another phone and all your contacts and your phone number comes with you. If you like that SIM card form… Continue Reading »
Oddball Tech: Go to Mars for free, topless nun on Facebook, and tweeting during a heist
Technology makes magical things happen. It can send people to Mars, including you, faithful Gadgetell reader. Technology can be used by jerks to put images that could hurt your future career on Facebook. Technology even has the power to make the rest of the world disappear—you could miss a bank… Continue Reading »
Oddball Tech: Self-replicating nanobots to colonize Mars, tech makes us dumb, and robot doctors
Welcome back to the oddball tech stories of the week. We all know that robots are quite good at building cars (well, some cars), vacuuming, and serving tennis balls. Did you know that they could one day help us colonize Mars? Technology is good, however sometimes it makes us do… Continue Reading »
Couple slaps Apple with lawsuit over $0.30 price increase
The latest entry in the book of frivolous lawsuits is one filed against Apple by an Illinois couple. They are accusing the company of gift card fraud and they are seeking monetary damages for what they call Apple’s “wrongful, illegal and fraudulent acts.” The charges in the suit include one… Continue Reading »
Oddball Tech: Mood bridges, fuel made out of scum, and how you can go into outer space for free
When I’m stressed, I take a minute to step back and breathe. What do bridges do when stressed? In the future, they may change color. While you’re stuck on the future bridge, your car may be using fuel created from New York scum. If you’re really stressed and want to… Continue Reading »
Oddball Tech: President to turn off the Internet, goof off to save the economy, and GPSs may be evil
That headline get your attention? A new bill may give the President the power to mess up the Internet. I wonder if this has anything to do with his BlackBerry. Also, goofing off can save the economy if done right. Plus, GPSs have warnings for a reason, so try to… Continue Reading »
Rumor: Ugly Gmail scheme broke Gmail
Google’s official explanation for the Gmail outage blames some hapless code monkey for wayward code. Somewhere, in a dark apartment in Europe, a code monkey weeps at the deception. The official line: “Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused… Continue Reading »
Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on audience
Since leaving as the head of Microsoft last year, Bill Gates seemed destined to leave a low profile life as he pursued his philanthropic interests. However, yesterday, Gates caused a media frenzy by deciding to release a swarm of mosquitoes on audience members at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference. Gates… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Palm Pre Information & Updates
Palm just introduced their next-gen smartphone, the Palm Pre, and next-gen operating system, Palm webOS. Gadgetell's got the latest Pre and webOS information and news for you right here.
