Ashley Feinberg, Author at Gizmodo

Photoshop Contest: Put Bizarre Crap in This News Anchor’s Hands

As you may remember, yesterday the internet happened upon this befuddled newscaster who spent an entire live broadcast clutching a stack of paper instead of his usual iPad. Naturally, hilarity ensued, and oh, how everyone laughed and laughed. But let’s be honest, it could have been much worse! Why, take any of these potential scenarios…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 19 '13

How to Trick iOS 7 Into Letting You Hide Apple’s Annoying Default Apps

Be honest: when was the last time you opened your iPhone’s Stocks app? Yeah, us neither. Everyone has their own habits when it comes to iOS apps, and fortunately, YouTube user macmixing has posted a wonderful little hack that lets you get rid of any offending stock apps from your home screen—without actually deleting them…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 19 '13

18-Wheeler Crashes, Spills Hundreds of Bottles of Champagne on Highway

Take a look around you—because you will never forget where you were the day you heard about the Champagne Massacre of ’13. Yesterday, Wednesday September 18 at around 2:30 pm, a truck filled to the brim with bubbly fell over, split open, and got I-395 in Connecticut absolutely wasted. The incident happened after the truck…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 19 '13

33 Everyday Objects If They Were Covered in Apple’s Awful 5C Case

Happy iOS 7 day! There’s so much 5S and 5C goodness floating around that something inevitably is going to need to balance it out. And that’s where the 5C case comes in. It’s certainly one of the more unattractive things Apple’s produced in recent years, so we asked you to incorporate into as many real-world…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 18 '13

How Different Your Favorite Apps Look in iOS 7 (Updating)

All that chatter about the death of skeuomorphism and the rise of flat design, iOS 7 is finally here. It’s got a new look, which means your apps do, too. We’re compiling all of your favorite apps in both their old and updated forms so you can see exactly what’s changed and what’s pretty much…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 18 '13

News Anchor Mistakes Stack of Paper for iPad During Entire Broadcast

Have you had the sneaking suspicious recently that your iPad has quadrupled in size? Do you find yourself frustrated by a perpetually-frozen screen? Good news! It’s because you’re holding printer paper. But no need to be embarrassed; it happens to the best of us—just ask our avant-garde newscaster friend from the other side of the…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 18 '13

NASA Probe Found Han Solo on Mercury’s Surface

Not at all long ago, in our galaxy just two planets away, NASA’s Messenger probe discovered what appears to be a raised human shape in the surface of Mercury—and it bears a striking resemblance to Star Wars’ Han Solo. The photo was actually captured back in July of 2011, although it hadn’t seen public eyes…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 18 '13

Rdio-Exclusive Doc Goes Behind the Scenes of Felix’s Space Jump

We’ve heard some about how Red Bull’s chief engineer (with the help of NASA) managed to drop daredevil extraordinaire Felix Baumgartener from the edge of space and see him back down in one piece. But now a new documentary is going to give us—or Rdio subscribers, rather—a behind the scenes peek at what it takes…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 17 '13

The DOD Can’t Read Your FOIA Form Because Its Only Fax Machine Broke

Have you attempted to fax your way to full or partial disclosure of government documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) recently? Well too bad, suckers! Because the Office of the Secretary of Defense has a broken fax machine, and it ain’t getting fixed anytime soon. It all started about two weeks ago when…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 16 '13

This Rotating Moon Mosaic Is the Most Accurate You’ve Ever Seen

You’ve seen the moon more times than you can count in your lifetime. But you’ve never seen it like this. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has shown us someprettyamazing stuff in its time circling the moon. But there is one little problem when it comes to reconstructing lunar colors—because of the field-of-view of the…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg Sep 16 '13

Report: Twitter iOS 7 Overhaul Has Dedicated Feed for TV-Related Tweets

Even with all the changes iOS 7 brings in and of itself, it seems Twitter is taking the opportunity to not only get an exterior makeover—it wants to completely overhaul the way you—and more importantly, new users—interact with it. One of the first things you might notice (as pointed out by The New Yorker) is…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 16 '13

Flies See the World in Matrix-Style Slow Motion

If you’ve ever sat puzzling over a fly’s ability to outmaneuver your swift slap of death almost every. single. time—puzzle no more. According to science, you’re just measly Agent Smith to the bug’s Neo; new research shows that a creature’s perception of time is directly related to its size, meaning flies live in a world…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 16 '13

A Goldpagne iPad Mini Would Actually Look Really Nice

Now that a gold iPhone has actually manifested itself and made (a select few people’s) dreams come true, it’s time to move on to the next logical question—what would goldpagne look like on an iPad Mini? https://gizmodo.com/the-gold-iphone-5s-is-an-actual-thing-and-it-looks-like-1281717480 Our good friend Martin Hajek had that very same question, and he’s provided the world with these lovely…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 16 '13

What We Used to Think the Earth Looked Like From Space

It’s nearly impossible for us to imagine how the Earth might look to someone who’s only ever seen it from a local’s vantage point. But thanks to the Library of Congress, we don’t have to imagine—newly posted images of 19th century drawings show us exactly what humans thought the Earth looked like far before we…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg Sep 13 '13

Google Street View Driver Rams 2 Buses, 1 Truck in Failed Hit-and-Run

It’s not a good year to be a Google Street View driver—or rather, in this case, to be anywhere in the vicinity of one. In Bogor, Indonesia, one ill-fated Google Street View car got itself into a bit of trouble when the driver’s failed attempt at a hit-and-run involved him ramming into two large public…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 13 '13

Photoshop Contest: Make All the Things Out of Apple’s Horrible 5C Case

For the most part, the one thing the internet has been able to agree on this week is that Apple’s new iPhone 5C case is an affront to the eyes and all that is decent. But for whatever reason, Apple wants you to stick it on your phone! Fine, your iPhone’s inconspicuous enough, but what…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 12 '13

This Insect Grows Its Own Microscopic Gears to Move Absurdly Fast

When you think of the fastest accelerators in the animal kingdom, large, muscular mammals will probably be the first that come to mind. But steady among them is the inconspicuous adolescent issus, who can hit an acceleration of 400 gs in 2 milliseconds flat (humans lose consciousness over 5 gs)—all thanks to what scientists have…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 12 '13

New FCC Filing May Reveal Fully-Assembled Nexus 5

Thanks to newly released regulatory documents by the FCC, we seem to have confirmation that a “Nexus 5” will, in fact, be coming to us from LG sometime relatively soon. The documents, first uncovered by Phonescoop, come bearing loads of photos that reveal both the internal and external workings of the device—a device that looks…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 12 '13

A Frog Got Too Close to a NASA Launch and, Well, This Happened

Some of you may remember the heroic death of our dearly departed Spacebat. Some of you may still be grieving. NASA, however, has moved on to a new tragedy. Its latest victim? The most powerful goddamn jumping frog the Wallops/Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport has ever seen. RIP Spacetoad. You flew too high. https://gizmodo.com/shuttle-riding-bat-dies-the-most-glorious-death-imagina-5173385 Last Friday, September…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 12 '13

71 Iconic Moments in History Being Debased With Galaxy Gears

Following the announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, we asked you to insert these tiny wearable computers into the most iconic and absurd scenes in history you could think of. The results are spectacular. In the end, though, there can only be one winner, so congratulations ejhman—your pro job on Napoleon took the cake. Not only…

Gadgets Ashley Feinberg Sep 11 '13

Ashley Feinberg

Photoshop Contest: Put Bizarre Crap in This News Anchor’s Hands

How to Trick iOS 7 Into Letting You Hide Apple’s Annoying Default Apps

18-Wheeler Crashes, Spills Hundreds of Bottles of Champagne on Highway

33 Everyday Objects If They Were Covered in Apple’s Awful 5C Case

How Different Your Favorite Apps Look in iOS 7 (Updating)

News Anchor Mistakes Stack of Paper for iPad During Entire Broadcast

NASA Probe Found Han Solo on Mercury’s Surface

Rdio-Exclusive Doc Goes Behind the Scenes of Felix’s Space Jump

The DOD Can’t Read Your FOIA Form Because Its Only Fax Machine Broke

This Rotating Moon Mosaic Is the Most Accurate You’ve Ever Seen

Report: Twitter iOS 7 Overhaul Has Dedicated Feed for TV-Related Tweets

Flies See the World in Matrix-Style Slow Motion

A Goldpagne iPad Mini Would Actually Look Really Nice

What We Used to Think the Earth Looked Like From Space

Google Street View Driver Rams 2 Buses, 1 Truck in Failed Hit-and-Run

Photoshop Contest: Make All the Things Out of Apple’s Horrible 5C Case

This Insect Grows Its Own Microscopic Gears to Move Absurdly Fast

New FCC Filing May Reveal Fully-Assembled Nexus 5

A Frog Got Too Close to a NASA Launch and, Well, This Happened

71 Iconic Moments in History Being Debased With Galaxy Gears

‘Macross Plus’ Is an Ultra-Romantic Classic That Refuses to Age

Stick It to Jeff Bezos by Turning Your Defunct Kindle Into the World’s Worst Typewriter

‘De-extinction’ Startup Wants to Revive Antelope Killed Off by South African Colonists

The Best Toys of April 2026

Dreame L60 Ultra Robot Vacuum and Mop With 35,000Pa Suction Is Now Over $400 Off as a Launch Exclusive Deal

Under-Oath Elon Musk Seems to Run a Different Company Than Public-Figure Elon Musk

Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

Here’s the Very Normal Reason the ‘Lanterns’ Trailer Disappeared

California Cops Can Finally Give Robotaxis Tickets

Andy Serkis Says Viggo Mortensen Was ‘Thrilled’ by Jamie Dornan Being Cast as Aragorn

Steam Controller Review: Trackpads Change Everything for PC Gaming

Soundcore Space 2 Review: A Shockingly Stellar Value for Budget ANC Wireless Headphones

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages