Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

The New Slingbox 350 and Slingbox 500 Stream Video at 1080p and Look Weird As Hell

We spotted them a week ago but the new Slingbox 350 and Slingbox 500 are finally official and they’re just as weirdly designed as we expected. Both Slingboxes can stream video to your phone, tablet or computer at 1080p, with the 500 adding built-in Wi-Fi and HDMI and both Slingboxes will spice up your living…

Television Casey Chan

These Badly Recreated Animated Film Frames Crack Me Up

Here’s something that will bring a smile to your face. This site takes a still frame from a big-time, multi-million dollar animated movie and tries to replicate it in Maya, the 3D animation software, in under 30 minutes. The results are hilarious. Some of them are closer than other but they all struggle with the…

Movies Casey Chan

Translating Steve Ballmer’s Letter to Microsoft Into Real Talk

Steve Ballmer just wrote a letter to Microsoft shareholders about the future of Microsoft and to update them on how much money they’re printing with Office and the Enterprise market. The letter is mostly a bore fest but Ballmer points Microsoft’s future towards devices. Meaning, Microsoft believes in making actual stuff. We’ve translated the entire…

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Today’s Smartphone Cameras Are Already Better Than Point-and-Shoot Cameras from 5 Years Ago

The saying is that the best camera is the one that’s with you and that’s more than often your phone. But phone cameras are getting so good that they may eventually just became the best camera period (DSLRs notwithstanding). And it might be sooner than you think. Already, phone cameras are better than a 5-year-old…

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Apple Maps Accidentally Revealed a Top Secret Military Base

Uh oh. Apple Maps, for all of its blurry, melting world faults, was actually a little too clear in one area: it revealed a top-secret, $1.23 billion ultra-high-frequency radar of Taiwan for everyone to see. Um, that’s not good. The Liberty Times, a newspaper in Taiwan, published a clear satellite picture of the top-secret, long-range…

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Here’s How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

Pandora wants you to know that Pandora is good for music because it pays artists millions and millions of dollars for their songs. Take Drake and Lil Wayne, they get nearly $3 million each a year. And Pandora wants to pay them more. According to Pandora CEO Tim Westergren, Pandora will pay over two thousand…

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A Tesla Coil Nerf Gun Might Be The Coolest Nerf Gun Ever

Two things that are always cool: Tesla coils and Nerf guns. One thing that’s cooler than those two things: a freaking Tesla coil Nerf gun. That’s right. Rob Flickenger converted a Nerf gun into a handheld Tesla coil. Freaking. Sweet. Here’s how Flickenger and Rusty Oliver of the HazardFactory made the gun Tesla coil-ready: He…

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The New Boxee TV Might Be the Set Top Box We’ve Been Waiting For: Live TV Broadcasts, DVR and More

We’ve been waiting for a set top box that could shake up the current craptastic boxes we get from our cable companies and/or do more than some of the neutered offerings available and Boxee may have figured it out. Or at least done something different than throw out the same black square puck as everybody…

Television Casey Chan

Is This the Next LG Nexus Phone?

We’ve already heard that the next Nexus phone will be made by LG and be kinda, sorta similar to the powerful LG Optimus G but this might be the first time we’re getting a good look at it. A gallery of photos of an LG Android phone that looks like the Optimus G and runs…

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A Girl’s Stomach Was Removed Because She Drank a Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail

When you’re celebrating your birthday, it’s completely normal to get a little crazy! Everybody does it. So you have to feel sorry for poor Gaby Scanlon, a British teenager, who ended her 18th birthday night with an emergency operation to remove her stomach. What? It’s because she drank a cocktail that had liquid nitrogen. As…

Health Casey Chan

What the Future Looks Like According to Movies

A lot of our imagination of the future comes from sci-fi movies—Minority Report, Blade Runner, etc.—so Eclectic Method created an awesome music video where they mixed their music with scenes from sci-fi movies that talk about the future. It’s a little bit hypnotic. The Future is a giant supercut of all your favorite sci-fi movies,…

Movies Casey Chan

How Many People Has James Bond Killed in All of His Movies?

352. That’s James Bond’s number of kills in all his movies. From Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, Connery to Craig. This lovely infographic from Brendan Dawes (which was inspired by Dr. No’s title sequence) breaks down each kill from each movie. The big red circles are worth 10 kills while the smaller blue-green circles…

Movies Casey Chan

Holy Crap, Here’s a 100-Million-Year-Old Spider Eating a Wasp

100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still around, this spider had captured a wasp in his web. The wasp was going to be the spider’s dinner. The wasp was going to die watching the spider kill him. The wasp was going to—SPLAT. At that exact moment—one hundred million freaking years ago—tree resin flowed over…

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Larklife Is the Wristband to Track Your Life

Lark, the folks who made the wristband alarm clock to track your sleep, now has a wristband to track your life. Called Larklife, the wristband tracks your steps taken, calories burned and distance traveled and your diet and sleep too. https://gizmodo.com/lark-un-alarm-clock-lightning-review-the-person-youre-5830507 Think of Larklife as a slightly more ambitious take on activity measurement wristbands like…

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Quite Possibly the Most Fun Use of Emoji

Emojis are almost always fun. I mean, does it get better than throwing up hilarious characters like a hammering toilet with winged money to friends or changing Jay-Z and Kanye West lyrics to Emoji so hard? Didn’t think so. But what about those shape emojis? THOSE are useless. Until now. https://gizmodo.com/aziz-ansari-hilariously-remixes-a-jay-z-and-kanye-west-5866781 Those stupid shape Emojis…

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This Unbelievable Footage Literally Shows a Bird’s Eye View of the Entire World

Everyone has wanted to fly at some point in their life. Unfortunately for most of us, watching this unbelievable trailer about Discovery’s Winged Planet is the closest we’ll ever come to actually flying. That’s okay thought because the footage is unbelievable—cameras were mounted onto birds to see life from their point of view. Though we’ve…

Biology Casey Chan

Watch Porn on Pornhub to Donate Money to Breast Cancer Research

You’ll never feel better about watching porn (other than the last time you watched porn) on Pornhub because the site just announced that it will donate money for every porn video watched in the month of October. It’s for breast cancer research—a great, great cause. Here are the specifics: Hey, we all love boobs! So…

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Everybody Needs to Make a Pumpkin Keg to Drink Beer Out of This Month

I want to see a pumpkin keg at every Halloween party this month. Seriously, it’s the most festive, tastiest way to spice up the alcohol. Here’s how to make one. The instructions come courtesy of Celebrations.com and it’s pretty simple. You just need a pumpkin (duh), alcohol (double duh), a tap handle and a carving…

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Is There an Updated, Faster Version of the iPad 3 Coming?

This is interesting. MacRumors reports that an iOS developer found a new, unknown iPad device showing up in his app analytics. Though that usually means the next version of the iPad, the unknown iPad actually had the same footprint as the current iPad 3—but with the faster processor of the iPhone 5. Hmm… Here’s what…

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Dr. No: The Bond Movie That Started It All

As we collectively prepare ourselves for Adele’s Bond song to become insufferable and before we start wondering if Daniel Craig’s traps are CGI’d in the next Bond movie Skyfall, let’s pay homage to the original Bond movie: Dr. No. It’s been 50 years since Sean Connery first showed us who James Bond was and it’s…

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The New Slingbox 350 and Slingbox 500 Stream Video at 1080p and Look Weird As Hell

These Badly Recreated Animated Film Frames Crack Me Up

Translating Steve Ballmer’s Letter to Microsoft Into Real Talk

Today’s Smartphone Cameras Are Already Better Than Point-and-Shoot Cameras from 5 Years Ago

Apple Maps Accidentally Revealed a Top Secret Military Base

Here’s How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

A Tesla Coil Nerf Gun Might Be The Coolest Nerf Gun Ever

The New Boxee TV Might Be the Set Top Box We’ve Been Waiting For: Live TV Broadcasts, DVR and More

Is This the Next LG Nexus Phone?

A Girl’s Stomach Was Removed Because She Drank a Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail

What the Future Looks Like According to Movies

How Many People Has James Bond Killed in All of His Movies?

Holy Crap, Here’s a 100-Million-Year-Old Spider Eating a Wasp

Larklife Is the Wristband to Track Your Life

Quite Possibly the Most Fun Use of Emoji

This Unbelievable Footage Literally Shows a Bird’s Eye View of the Entire World

Watch Porn on Pornhub to Donate Money to Breast Cancer Research

Everybody Needs to Make a Pumpkin Keg to Drink Beer Out of This Month

Is There an Updated, Faster Version of the iPad 3 Coming?

Dr. No: The Bond Movie That Started It All

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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

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