Stream of Consequence | We’ll pay Netflix’s ransom, but they better get their shit together.
https://gizmodo.com/dear-netflix-its-time-to-get-your-shit-together-5820815
Summer Is a Walkman in Kuwait
https://gizmodo.com/summer-is-a-walkman-in-kuwait-5820126
I used to have a waterproof yellow Sony Sports Walkman. This one. I got it in the 8th grade. It was my favorite thing ever. When I think of it, I think of summer. More »
Spotify Launches Tomorrow—But You Need to Sign Up NOW
https://gizmodo.com/spotify-launches-tomorrow-but-you-need-to-sign-up-now-5821024
Spotify, the mythical streaming music service launches tomorrow, no later than 8AM eastern. There will be all sorts of free streaming goodness. But you need to get on the invite list NOW. Check it out: More »
This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 2
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-war-watch-the-libyan-revolution-explode-throug-5820762
Humphrey Cheung worked in tech journalism and IT for years. Then, this spring, he had enough. But instead of switching jobs, he strapped on a digital camera, armor, and flew to Libya. More »
Hands On with Sony’s Gorgeous New Android Tablets
These tablets, codenamed S1 and the S2, are why we need Sony—the Sony we love—in a world where almost every gadget of consequence is effectively a blank slate for software. More »
https://gizmodo.com/we-miss-sony-5484148
Sadly, the Pac-Man Swimsuit Has All the Power Pellets In the Wrong Places
https://gizmodo.com/sadly-the-pac-man-swimsuit-has-the-power-pellets-in-al-5820930
There’s no much else wrong about this $90.00 Pac-Man swimsuit, really. It makes me go all waka waka waka. More »
One-Upped Chuck! Outlier Supermarine Sneakers Use British Air Force Technology to Keep Water Out
https://gizmodo.com/one-upped-chuck-outlier-supermarine-sneakers-use-briti-5820034
Commuting to work on a bike-in the rain-sucks. With the Outlier Feit Supermarines, at least you won’t need a change of shoes. They’re built from the same technology the RAF designed to keep downed pilots alive in frigid North Atlantic waters. More »
Well Of Course This Pastafarian Wore a Pasta Strainer in His License Photo
https://gizmodo.com/well-of-course-this-pastafarian-wore-a-pasta-strainer-i-5820875
Atheists everywhere (well, in Austria) can rejoice. After three years and medical testing to prove his sanity, Niko Alm just received his driver’s license. More »
Sony Vaio Z: The Lightest Full-Horsepower 13-Inch Notebook Has a Heavy Duty Price
https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-z-the-lightest-full-horsepower-13-inch-noteb-5820961
We worried about Sony. We gnashed our teeth and pounded our fists and wondered what had happened to this titan of tech. But between this sleek 2.5-pound full-voltage speed racing laptop and this morning’s tablet wünderkinds, well, welcome back Sony. More »
Glimpses of an Old Mayan Tomb Finally Photographed With Mini-Camera
https://gizmodo.com/glimpses-of-an-old-mayan-tomb-finally-photographed-with-5820824
Hidden for 1,500 years, this funeral tomb in Palenque, Mexico, was finally glimpsed by human eyes when researchers lowered a mini camera (measuring 4 x 6cm) through a crack in the ceiling. More »
Your Last Best Hope When Your Plane Catches on Fire
https://gizmodo.com/your-last-best-hope-when-your-plane-catches-on-fire-5820451
So you’re sitting on the runway, waiting to taxi, when suddenly it hits you, “Funny, airplanes don’t normally smell like burning.” Then the panic hits. More »
A Century Old Bridge, Acrobats, Digital Cameras, and the Police
https://gizmodo.com/a-century-old-bridge-acrobats-digital-cameras-and-th-5820771
On Monday night I walked home instead of taking the train. But rather than the expected trot back, head filled with MP3s and little else, languorously drenched in sweat, I saw a woman dangling from the top of a bridge. More »
This Medal of Honor Recipient Threw a Live Grenade Back at the Enemy
https://gizmodo.com/this-medal-of-honor-recipient-threw-a-live-grenade-back-5820635
Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry is one of only two living recipients of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. And how he earned it is a story that you need to hear. Petry had holed up with his platoon in a building in Afghanistan when he and his team took on heavy insurgent gunfire. More »
