Maureen O'Connor, Author at Gizmodo

Hidden Camera Catches Host of To Catch a Predator Cheating on Wife

Here’s some satisfying news for disgraced pedophiles: After a robust career playing “candid camera” with sexual deviants, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen has apparently been caught making sweet extramarital deviance to a woman 21 years his junior. The National Enquirer has hidden camera footage of Hansen, 51, appearing to cheat on his wife…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Jun 30

Distracted Boy Falls on Train Tracks While Gaming

This video shows a 10-year-old boy so absorbed with his PSP that he apparently fell onto the tracks at a rail station in Italy. With no train in sight, an off-duty cop jumps in and rescues him. Hero policeman Alessandro Micalizzi describes the harrowing rescue: He was with his mother and sister, and before he…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Feb 3

How Good Is Charlie Sheen for a Porn Star’s Career?

Kacey Jordan, the porn star who smoked crack with Charlie Sheen shortly before his hospitalization, shared some good news today: Her “babe rank” just skyrocketed! How good is a Charlie Sheen scandal for a porn star’s career? A quantitative investigation. FreeOnes.com, an aggregator of adult photos and videos, quantifies (NSFW) the demand for each “babe”…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Jan 31

Vending Machine Scans Your Face and Chooses Food For You

Kraft has invented a vending machine that analyzes your face to predict what you want to eat. It combines facial recognition with other data to give you a snack, or email a recipe and shopping instructions. Creepy or cool? While you operate the touchscreen on Kraft’s “Meal Planning Solution,” a camera analyzes your face to…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Jan 21

Firefox Debuts Baby Firefox Webcam

Did you know the titular “firefox” of web browser “Mozilla Firefox” is not a pyromaniac fox, but a red panda? To clarify this, Mozilla has embarked on the cutest marketing ploy ever: adopting baby firefoxes and putting them on webcams. Firefox LIVE features six cams trained on two female red panda cubs, their parents, and…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Dec 3

The Day E-Mail Was Invented

Forty-one years ago today, a pair of computer scientists tried to send the world’s first computer-to-computer message via the internet. The message was to be the word “log.” Their connection crashed before they got to “g.” [BoingBoing, CR4, image via]

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Oct 29

Penn Jillette’s Masturbating Bathtub for Women

Awkwardly-coiffed magician Penn Jillette is an inventor. His greatest triumph: a “hydro-therapeutic stimulator” for women with jetstreams directed to “stimulation points (e.g., the clitoris) of the female user when the female user sits in the seat.” Meet the Jill-Jet. Hey ladies, I know what you’re thinking: There is nothing sexier than sitting in a giant…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Oct 22

China Blocks Web Searches for Nobel Winner

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, and China’s censorship machine is already cracking down: Search results for “Nobel Peace Prize” or “Liu Xiaobo” have been banned for those within the Great Firewall of China.

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Oct 8

Runaway Subway Blows Through Six Stations with No Driver

Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle round and hear the harrowing tale of London’s ghost train of death. The runaway train was an engineering vehicle that carried supplies for Tube workers, and its rolling…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Aug 13

Cranky Flight Attendant Was Banging His Boyfriend When the Cops Showed Up (Updated)

The tale of Steven Slater—the JetBlue flight attendant who became a folk hero by storming off the job on an inflatable slide—keeps getting better. Gay sex, happy bragging, family tragedy, HIV status, and a confused ex-wife ahead. [Updated] https://gizmodo.com/flight-attendant-uses-inflatable-slide-for-dramatic-job-5608503 Yesterday we heard how the disgruntled flight attendant’s altercation with a passenger (which was related to…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Aug 10

Flight Attendant Uses Inflatable Slide for Dramatic Job Walk-Out (Updated)

A JetBlue flight attendant argued with a passenger on the tarmac at JFK today. In a fit of rage, he activated the plane’s inflatable emergency slide, slid out, and stormed off the job. [Updated with photos and his curse-strewn rant!] Among the great disappointments of modern life is the fact that something as fun as…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Aug 9

Anna Fermanova Is America’s New Sexy Russian Outlaw

Mere weeks after America banished sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman, another may have surfaced: 24-year-old Anna Fermanova is accused of smuggling military technology to Moscow. She has a bellybutton ring and wears bikinis on Facebook. Meet America’s new sexy outlaw. The Smoking Gun reports that Fermanova is under house arrest in Texas awaiting trial for…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Jul 27

Maureen O'Connor

Hidden Camera Catches Host of To Catch a Predator Cheating on Wife

Distracted Boy Falls on Train Tracks While Gaming

How Good Is Charlie Sheen for a Porn Star’s Career?

Vending Machine Scans Your Face and Chooses Food For You

Firefox Debuts Baby Firefox Webcam

The Day E-Mail Was Invented

Penn Jillette’s Masturbating Bathtub for Women

China Blocks Web Searches for Nobel Winner

Runaway Subway Blows Through Six Stations with No Driver

Cranky Flight Attendant Was Banging His Boyfriend When the Cops Showed Up (Updated)

Flight Attendant Uses Inflatable Slide for Dramatic Job Walk-Out (Updated)

Anna Fermanova Is America’s New Sexy Russian Outlaw

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