Author: Rosa Golijan

You know the drill by now: Once a week or so, I tell you that if you need a place to gossip about shiny gadgets or have some off-topic talk with fellow Gizmodo readers you should head to #whitenoise and join the conversation. More »










Gossip – People – Celebrities – Arts – Humor

Hotmail, that filthy webmail service we’d secretly use for our throwaway accounts is about to turn into something we might want to use regularly. The service is getting a thorough overhaul and plenty of new features: More »










Microsoft – Hotmail – Business – Allegedly Unethical Firms – Google

These are among the ugliest pieces of art you could possibly waste $150 on, but they’re hiding a devious little secret: Under those terrible layers of paint, there are remote-controlled cellphone jammers. More »










Art – Visual Arts – Galleries – Shopping – Virtual

We’ve seen concept videos for apps that let us try on watches, but now we’ve finally got something we can actually play with. Now we can try on watches without ever having to put on pants and leave the house. More »










Augmented reality – Watches – Shopping – Jewelry – Consumer Goods and Services

Japan is launching its first Venus probe and along with it they’re sending Ikaros, a “space yacht” also known as the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun. Yes, Japan is sending a gigantic kite into space: More »










Space – Technology – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency – Sun – Venus

Occasionally Google produces charts showing “the relative number of active devices running a given version of the Android platform.” The latest of these charts is special though: It apparently marks the first time Android 2.1 was the most used version. More »










Android Market – Android – Google – Handhelds – Apple

If only the trick worked, I’d actually learn to code this properly: More »










Image Cache – Windows – Shareware – Security – Biology

This summer, Android users will finally have their very own Kindle app. The app will allow you to access the Kindle Store, synchronize bookmarks across all your devices, and do just about everything Kindle apps on other platforms can. More »










Android – Handhelds – Shopping – Smartphone – VerizonWireless

Bryan St. Germain’s dad, Bob, must look a lot happier right now than he did in this picture. After all, Verizon has just dismissed a $18,000 phone bill racked up by the young man after a tedious four-year fight. More »










Boston Globe – Religion and Spirituality – Germain – Ascended Masters – New Age

The Twilight air purifier concept design has a slender, sheet-like OLED display which allows you to view videos or images while your air is cleaned of impurities, cooled down, and filled with a pleasant fragrance to match what you’re watching. More »










Smell-O-Vision – Shopping – Home and Garden – Climate Control – Air Cleaners

Yikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently “Google’s lobbying is half what it spends on advertising.” [BI] More »










Google – Searching – Search Engines – Lobbying – Business

Yes, there are ninja assassins after that disgusting, germ-ridden toothbrush of yours. They want to brutally annihilate 99% of the mess with their germicidal ultraviolet lights and you should probably just step back and let them do it. More »










Recreation – Toys – Shopping – Lego – Collecting

GQ’s app looks good, but it’s not exactly flying off the iTunes App Store shelves: The December 2009 issue only sold 365 iPad copies. Solution? Slap Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr on the next cover and hope for the best. More »

Well, this didn’t take long: According to the Dev Team, the iPad 3G is just as easy to jailbreak as the Wi-Fi-only iPad. And they’ve got the video to prove it. [Dev Team—Thanks, Beatrice!] More »










Apple – Jailbreak – IPad – iPhone Dev Team – IPhone

Well, hello! We knew it was coming, but it looks like an official Twitter app is now available in the Android Marketplace. It’s free and looks fantastic: More »

Just once, I wish this would happen in a movie. Just once, because more than that would be a waste of too many perfectly good buckets of popcorn. [xkcd] More »

Bought a Chumby One and aren’t sure what to do with it? Turn the device into a 3G router! It’s quick and you’ll need nothing but a Chumby One, a 3G USB modem, and these instructions. [BunnieStudios via Make] More »

With Padracer you can pretend that you’re playing a racing game on a gaming console that consists of an iPad as a display and iPhones as controllers. Heck, you can even make the obligatory vroom-vrooom-eeeeek sounds. More »

Much to my growling stomach’s dismay, the BrainWave desktop microwave is only a concept and not sitting next to my keyboard. Guess I’ll have to walk all the way to the kitchen to heat up a meal after all. More »

Apparently Apple has filed to trademark its official app icons. The trademark motions cover the standard iPhone and iPad icon library as well as the iDisk and MobileMe Gallery icons in ridiculous detail. [TUAW via The Loop] More »