Brent Rose, Author at Gizmodo

The Coolest Light-Painting Device Yet

Forget you Maglite, your glowstick, and definitely your cellphone, there’s a new, cooler brush for painting with light. It’s called the LightScythe. It’s a long wand of computer controlled LED lights, and with it you can create some amazing images. Light-painting, for those unfamiliar, is essentially drawing with a light-source while a camera takes a…

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Trainspotting: Because It’s Shite Being Scottish

“Choose life, choose a career…” blah blah blah, you don’t have to do any of that tonight, just choose to watch this movie. Trainspotting is one of the best book-to-movie adaptations ever. Ev-er. The characters from Irvine Welsh’s novel are brought to life with perfection. It’s got everything. Sex, drugs, comedy, drugs, action, drugs, a…

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More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc For the First Time In 2012

According to researchers from IHS Screen Digest, 3.4 billion movies will be streamed online this year, more than double the 1.4 billion in 2011. And those are just the legal ones. Not only that, it is projected that only 2.4 billion movies will be watched on disc. So long, physical media… [Bloomberg]

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Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon Will Ménage à Trois Tonight

Ohhh baby, space is about to get real sexy tonight. Starting around 9pm EST (for North America) the Moon and Venus will be just three degrees apart in the western sky, with Jupiter joining only ten degrees below. You can even watch it on a webcam. Check out the celestial bodies on them! From 8pm…

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Deltron 3030: 3030

There is one album I listen to more than any other at Gizmodo HQ: Deltron 3030. The futuristic hip-hop journey is a collaboration between (the mind-boggling lyrics of) Del the Funkee Homosapien, (incredible, epic beats from) Dan the Automator, and (the insane disc-spinning skills of) Kid Koala. It’s a musical dream team. The album tells…

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The Fanboy and the Phone: A Love/Hate Story

In the ‘90’s, no nerd-debate was more contentious than that over the “Best” computer operating system. Were you Windows or were you Mac (or Linux)? Rifts formed in communities, hateful epithets were hurled, and friendships were destroyed. It was the geek equivalent of the abortion rights debate. This war is still being fought, but its…

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Chocolate Millennium Falcon Will Give You Diabetes in 12 Parsecs (UPDATED)

Sweet? She’s sweet enough for you, old man. I don’t know who made this geeky confection, but I want to hug them. The attention to detail, the… the chocolate! And oh my god it’s filled with even more chocolate. I wish I could tell you where you could get these, but nobody seems to know.…

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The Giant Nine-Pound Rats Are Coming

Okay, let me just get this out of the way. AHHHHH HOLY CRAP THIS RAT WEIGHS NINE POUNDS! There, I feel better, but residents of the Florida Keys don’t. Why? Because these 9-pound Gambian giant pouch rats are on the loose. Here’s how this debacle happened. Some yahoo on Grassy Key island was breeding and…

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Business Card Animation Is the Stuff of American Psycho’s Dreams

This rad little stop-motion video made by Australian design firm Messy Design is an awesome, creative use of everyday things. But really, you’re a design firm and you left the tripod legs and extension cord in the shot? Tsk tsk. Maybe they’re called Messy Design for a reason. [Laughing Squid]

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This Optical Illusion Makes Me Trip Balls

Gah! No, this isn’t an animated gif but so help me god it won’t. Stop. Moving. The full-sized, square version does it even more. If you stare hard at one point it’ll kinda quit it, but really, you know it never stops. Ever. [BuzzFeed]

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The Instagram for Android Signup Page Is Live

Android users: are you tired of your iPhone toting friends using Instagram as their go-to “You don’t have this app on Android so nany-nany poo-poo” argument? I know you are. Well, you’re one step closer to finally shutting them (the fuck) up about it. If you head on over to Instagr.am/android you’ll be greeted with…

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Booze Legends: Debunking the Myths Every Drinker Believes

The world is rife with alcoholic lore. That’s lore regarding alcohol, not told by alcoholics. Well, there’s plenty of both. But what about all those rules we learned in college? Beer before liquor, never been sicker. More bubbles, more buzz. Different kinds of drinks get you different kinds of drunk. In vino, veritas. For all…

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Pre-Order Acer’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet

The Acer Iconia A510 is coming. We got some hands-on time with it at CES and we were impressed. A 10.1-inch 1080p screen, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and Ice Cream Sandwich sounds mighty good, and now you can pre-order one. https://gizmodo.com/acer-iconia-tab-hands-on-one-tasty-ice-cream-sandwich-5874128 In addition to the banner features mentioned above, the whole thing starts at…

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The Ultimate Speaker for Headphone-Free Music at Work

Parametric speakers aren’t exactly new, but this Kickstarter idea is tiny and practical. The Soundlazer delivers a focused beam of audio in a single direction. Theoretically, you could point it at yourself, and nobody around you would hear your embarrassing music at all. Roughly the size of a large (um, very large) smartphone, the Soundlazer…

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Car Bomb Jello Shots Blow Up Your Liver for St. Patrick’s Day

For some reason, we humans love to make solid foods liquid, and liquid foods solid. Key Lime Pie Martini? White Russian Ice Cream? I rest my case. Today, in honor of St. Paddy’s Day, we’re taking three Irish liquids, and making them into one awesome solid. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-make-alcoholic-ice-cream-the-greatest-dessert-o-5860835 The result? The best jello shot you’ll ever…

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iPad Test Notes: Which LTE iPad Is Faster?

In addition to our crowd-sourced National Speed Test, we thought we’d do a little testing of our own. We love LTE, but which iPad (and network) gives the best LTE? Let’s have a look see. https://gizmodo.com/the-great-new-ipad-national-network-speed-test-5892382 Methodology We headed up to the roof of Gizmodo with new iPads from Verizon and AT&T, plus a Galaxy…

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iPad Test Notes: Speed (Versus Tegra 3) – UPDATED

Apple made some bold claims about its new A5X chip, claiming it would give a 4x graphical boost over Nvidia’s Tegra 3. At the same time, the Tegra 3 is a powerhouse of computational processing. So lets put ’em to the test. First, the usual caveat: benchmarks only mean so much. There are a lot…

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Sony Tablet P Review: A Whole Lotta Terrible in Your Pocket

Wouldn’t it be great if your full-sized tablet could fit in your pocket? It would! You’d have that big-screened wonder with you everywhere. Cool, so to accomplish that, we’re going to cut that tablet in half and leave a fat bezel in the middle. Wait, what? Why It Matters The Tablet P is Sony’s first…

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The New iPad Comparison: How It Stacks Up to Other Leading Tablets

Well, it’s finally here, Apple’s new hotness. But how does it compare to the new hotness from Asus, Samsung, Amazon, BlackBerry, or heck, the iPad 2? We’ve got you covered with this head-to-head spec sheet. Clearly the toughest competitor in this chart is the Asus Transformer Infinity. The new iPad has it beaten on pixels…

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Is It Really This Easy to Fool a TSA Body Scanner? (UPDATED)

It’s not every day that we see something as scary as this. Those fancy, expensive, TSA body scanners that blast you with radiation and can see you naked in the name of security? It would seem it’s easier to slip things past them than metal detectors. The blog TSA Out of Our Pants! has just…

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The Coolest Light-Painting Device Yet

Trainspotting: Because It’s Shite Being Scottish

More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc For the First Time In 2012

Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon Will Ménage à Trois Tonight

Deltron 3030: 3030

The Fanboy and the Phone: A Love/Hate Story

Chocolate Millennium Falcon Will Give You Diabetes in 12 Parsecs (UPDATED)

The Giant Nine-Pound Rats Are Coming

Business Card Animation Is the Stuff of American Psycho’s Dreams

This Optical Illusion Makes Me Trip Balls

The Instagram for Android Signup Page Is Live

Booze Legends: Debunking the Myths Every Drinker Believes

Pre-Order Acer’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet

The Ultimate Speaker for Headphone-Free Music at Work

Car Bomb Jello Shots Blow Up Your Liver for St. Patrick’s Day

iPad Test Notes: Which LTE iPad Is Faster?

iPad Test Notes: Speed (Versus Tegra 3) – UPDATED

Sony Tablet P Review: A Whole Lotta Terrible in Your Pocket

The New iPad Comparison: How It Stacks Up to Other Leading Tablets

Is It Really This Easy to Fool a TSA Body Scanner? (UPDATED)

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets