Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

PocketMode for iPhone

The iPhone presents a constant dilemma: do you put your ringer on loud so you can hear it or do you keep it on silent to not annoy the people around you? PocketMode makes the decision for you. What’s it do? PocketMode isn’t really an app, it’s a settings tweak available for jailbroken iPhones. It…

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Would You Eat a Burger Made from Poop?

This is a poopburger. As in, made from shit. I’m not even kidding, the Japanese extracted protein from human poop, mixed it with soya, added steak sauce and called it hamburger patties. Are you throwing up yet? Cause I did. Mitsyuki Ikeda, the mad scientist behind this foul mashup, says some people may have a…

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Microbursts Are Just As Scary As Tornadoes

Golf ball-sized hail. Intense, gusting wind smashing the ground and spreading out, pushing everything in its way. Torrential downpour making it impossible to see anything farther than an inch away. My god, microbursts are previews for the apocalypse. This was filmed in Norman, Oklahoma. I’m never going to complain about heat or snow again. Mother…

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Shazam Has a New Karaoke-like Feature

Shazam Encore and Shazam Red both have a new feature called LyricPlay. It’s pretty much like karaoke, the app will display and animate (scroll, jump or slide) the lyrics of the song you’re listening to for you to sing along. [iTunes]

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How to Watch Today’s Lunar Eclipse from Your Computer

There’s going to be a 120-minute long, total lunar eclipse today at 2:20 PM EDT and that, of course, is awesome. But what’s not so awesome is that it won’t be visible to people in North America. Selfish Moon! Good thing we have Google to live stream the whole shebang. Google has teamed with SLOOH…

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Donate $1 to Offset the CO2 of Your iPhone 4

Philanthroper has a really good donation up today: you pay a dollar and you can offset the lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions from an iPhone 4. Which means, you’ll help “suck and trap the greenhouse gas that’s driving climate change”. [Philanthroper]

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The Smallest Portable Fire Extinguisher Is No Bigger Than a Remote

J&R Fire has developed the PFE-1, a flashlight-sized (or fleshlight-sized) fire extinguisher that’s easy to use with one hand. It’s a one-time-use extinguisher that’s activated by a single button and can shoot the coolant out 10 feet. https://gizmodo.com/the-avatar-fleshlight-actually-happened-5651323 Sorta looks like a vibrator, too, but I don’t think you’d want to go there with this…

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Happy Hot Dog Man Mutates Your Hot Dog into a Little Human Weiner

You, my friend, are eating a sad hot dog. Why? Cause if you’re not using the Happy Hot Dog Man to make the perfect cuts and slices to turns your dog into a little human character, you’re doing it wrong. It’s like a toy…that you can eat! Or a weiner to play dress up with.…

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Fanhattan for iPad

Sure, you don’t get the big screen or banging sound system, but watching movies on an iPad feels more intimate. But where do you find movies to watch? Jump into the iTunes store, skip over to Netflix and dance with Hulu? Not exactly efficient. Fanhattan for iPad points you exactly where you need to go…

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A House Made from Bookshelves Is So Much Better Than a House Made from E-Books

Say what you will about the death of print and the space hogging nature of physical books, cause I know this much: I’d rather live in this bookshelf house and thumb through pages than a house with Kindle-lined walls. The homeowner wanted his house, located in Osaka, Japan, to be able to store and showcase…

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Artist Paints Tiny Pictures on Chewing Gum Spit Out on the Sidewalk

Ben Wilson, a British artist, paints tiny little paintings on the chewing gum that mar the sidewalk of London. He transforms those black and grey blobs into delightful, colorful and meaningful works of art. Wilson, who’s been doing this for six years, has a specific technique in painting the hardened gum. The NY Times details…

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How Cellphone Jammers Are Helping Us Win the Iraq War

Danger Room has an awesomely comprehensive look at all the cell phone jammers the US military used during the Iraq War. Those jammers proved incredibly important in stripping insurgents of their most powerful weapon—the IED. The US government has spent $17 billion buying 50,000 jammer units with fantastic names like Warlock Green, Warlock Red, Warlock…

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Man Pierces His Back to Hook His Body onto a Hot Air Balloon

I’m totally cool with alternative piercings. Your life, your choices, whatever. But Zane Whitmore is testing my limit of accepting crazy: he pierced his back, attached the piercings to a hot air balloon and suspended his body in the air. Pain and grossness aside, what Whitmore did probably makes it feel like you’re really flying…

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Reeder for Mac

Let’s face it: RSS is a terribly nerdy wasteland of .xml feeds and weird formatting. Reeder is the shining hope that it doesn’t have to be that way. Already our favorite RSS app on iOS, it’s finally available for Mac. What is it? Reeder, $10, Mac. The beta version of Reeder for Mac has been…

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An Algorithm Can Predict Cardiac Arrest 24 Hours Before it Happens

Predictive Medical Technologies has developed a system that can mine the medical data of a patient—lab reports, monitors, nurse notes, etc.—and predict whether that patient will suffer from cardiac arrest or respiratory failure within 24 hours. It’s a system that can be integrated into hospitals that are “at a certain technological level” without any new…

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Everybody in This Plane Crash Survived

This vintage World War II B-17 bomber crashed this morning causing explosions with fireballs shooting 50 feet in the air. Amazingly, all seven people on board survived the crash without serious injury. The pictures from WGN-TV are absolutely stunning. Drew Mundsinger, a man who lived near the crash site, echoed everyone’s thoughts, saying, “when we…

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Video Shows Where The Great Pyramid’s Hidden Chamber of Secrets Is Located

3D software was used to create a virtual 3D-map of the Great Pyramid’s hidden chamber of secrets. If you remember, a robot discovered mysterious markings in that room (which had been sealed for 4500 years) only a few weeks ago. https://gizmodo.com/what-are-the-mysterious-markings-found-in-the-great-pyr-5805853 What you’ll see in the video is the chamber’s location: The chamber is located…

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HP Shows Off the TouchPad and webOS 3.0 in Video

HP has released a series of videos on YouTube showing off the TouchPad and it looks as good as we’ve ever seen it. WebOS on a tablet has a chance to be fantastic. Remember, the TouchPad launches July 1st for $500. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/hp-touchpad-accidentally-shown-off-on-video-5807326

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This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: iPhones, morphed into kaleidoscopes; Android phones, controlled by a hand wave; iPads, becoming a great blogging tool; Dinosaurs, sent to the zoo; auto correction mistakes, fixed; BBC News, available worldwide; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Kaleidacam: Kaleidacam turns your iPhone into the looking glass of a…

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The Week’s Best iPad Apps

Evernote Peek: Evernote Peek is the first app to take advantage of the iPad’s Smart Cover. Think of it as an ‘educational app’, or a modern day flash card. You fire up the app and close the smart cover, lift the cover just a bit and it’ll pose a trivia question whose answer is just…

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PocketMode for iPhone

Would You Eat a Burger Made from Poop?

Microbursts Are Just As Scary As Tornadoes

Shazam Has a New Karaoke-like Feature

How to Watch Today’s Lunar Eclipse from Your Computer

Donate $1 to Offset the CO2 of Your iPhone 4

The Smallest Portable Fire Extinguisher Is No Bigger Than a Remote

Happy Hot Dog Man Mutates Your Hot Dog into a Little Human Weiner

Fanhattan for iPad

A House Made from Bookshelves Is So Much Better Than a House Made from E-Books

Artist Paints Tiny Pictures on Chewing Gum Spit Out on the Sidewalk

How Cellphone Jammers Are Helping Us Win the Iraq War

Man Pierces His Back to Hook His Body onto a Hot Air Balloon

Reeder for Mac

An Algorithm Can Predict Cardiac Arrest 24 Hours Before it Happens

Everybody in This Plane Crash Survived

Video Shows Where The Great Pyramid’s Hidden Chamber of Secrets Is Located

HP Shows Off the TouchPad and webOS 3.0 in Video

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

Vaping Comes With a Cancer Risk, Review Finds

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