Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

Video Time Machine for iPhone Takes You Back into Time with Nostalgic Videos

Video Time Machine, from the guys behind YouTube Time Machine, is an awesome app that let’s you select a year and category and then watch a relevant video. I’ve been enjoying all the videos of my youth. There’s categories like TV, Movies, Music, Ads, Video Games, Sports and others to watch, and the videos date…

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An 81-year-old Man’s Dentures Deflect a Bullet and Save His Life

I always thought that there was nothing good about dentures. Zacarias Pacheco de Moraes, an 81-year-old man, would disagree since wearing dentures is the reason he’s alive. No joke, Moraes was shot in the face but the dentures deflected the bullet. Moraes was shot while he was tending his bar in Alta Floresta, Brazil. Wait…hold…

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Swarming Decoy MALD Missiles Are a Cross Between Cruise Missiles and Drones

MALD, or Miniature Air-Launched Decoy missiles, can be deployed in cloud-like swarms that would help hide and protect real fighter planes from enemy air defenses. MALD missiles are like swarming drones. They’re an alternative to being stealth and invisible because with MALDs the goal is to distract, confuse or overwhelm the enemy. With a mass-deployment…

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Idea Flight for iPad

Imagine you have a presentation to show off but instead of using a projector and paper print outs, you’re using iPads. Why? Because with Idea Flight for iPad, you can control what everyone gets to see on their iPad. What is it? Idea Flight, Free, iPad. At the core, Idea Flight is like a screen…

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Are You Ready for a Super Hi-Vision 33 Megapixel Camera?

You know, that ridiculous 85-inch Sharp Super Hi-Vision TV with 33,177,600 pixels needs some sort of ridiculous content to fill itself out. Thankfully, Sharp made this ridiculous 33-megapixel Super Hi-Vision camera to be the perfect companion to the TV. https://gizmodo.com/are-you-ready-for-imax-caliber-super-hi-vision-tvs-5803527 The camera isn’t too big (relatively speaking) and is unique because it uses a single…

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HP TouchPad Accidentally Shown Off on Video

For some reason, Sandisk was showing off the HP TouchPad at Computex Taipei. HP probably isn’t too happy about their unreleased tablet moseying around some tradeshow but we’re liking everything we see. And it looks like HP fixed the TouchPad’s slowness problem too. Maybe. [Gadgets Magazine via CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/hps-touchpad-tablet-looks-great-but-feels-slow-5756223

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The iPad Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

Is the shine of your new iPad 2 gone yet? Hope not! An app from our list of best iPad apps should make it brand new all over again. Which apps were the best in May? Here they are. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-ipad-apps-5747915 Added: WatchESPN: If you have the right cable provider, you can stream ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3…

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The Windows Phone 7 Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

Windows Phone 7 is home to many beautiful apps but which ones are the best? We got ’em all for you right here. Added: gMaps: gMaps is a Google Maps app for Windows Phone that works as well as you’d expect. And as I don’t actually know anyone who uses Bing Maps over Google Maps,…

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The Android Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

It’s that time of the month again, which is to say it’s time to clean up our list of the absolute best Android apps. What new apps will show up? Which apps get cut? https://gizmodo.com/the-best-android-apps-5739420 Added: WatchESPN: If you have the right cable provider, you can stream ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPNU straight to your…

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The iPhone Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

The end of the month is here, and that means it’s time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Who will unceremoniously get the boot? https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-apps-5676549 Added: Shine: Shine is a beautiful weather app that doesn’t overcomplicate itself like so many others. Think of…

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This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: leafs, identified; music, voice recognized; Jackass, documented; keyboards, personalized; BBC News, Androidified; Amazon free apps, notified; food, stylized; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user’s secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It’s incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a…

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The Week’s Best iPad Apps

Jackass: Tens Years of Stupid: Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad is a behind the scenes look of the biggest Jackasses we know: Knoxville, Steve-O, Pontius, Wee-Man, etc. There’s video clips, gross photos, and essays on the entire history of Jackass. It’s awesome to re-watch some of the epic skits, look back on the…

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The Week’s Best Android Apps

BBC News: Catching up with the iOS app, the Beeb has just released an Android app for breaking news across any of the categories that could possibly attempt you. You can personalise the homescreen to your interests, too. As is par for the course with these apps, the ability to share a story via email,…

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The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user’s secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It’s incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a tree, grab a leaf, snap a picture. The app scans its outline-parsing criteria like smooth or jagged edges, single- or many-lobed-and tells you what tree it thinks it came from. It’s similar…

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A Computer Error Released 450 Prisoners with “a High Risk of Violence”

Computer system errors accidentally released more than 450 inmates with “a high risk of violence” from California prisons. What might be even worse is that no attempt has been made to return any of them back to prison. The prisoners were accidentally placed on ‘non-revocable parole’ which means they don’t have to report to any…

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Hound for iPhone, Android and iPad

Hound is an app that’s like a reverse Shazam. Made by SoundHound (a Shazam-like app), it’s a voice recognition app where you say a song title or artist and Hound will gather all the relevant details in one tidy page. What is it? Hound, Free, iPhone, Android & iPad. Say you already know a song…

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The City with the Fastest Internet in the US Is…Olympia, Washington

I’ve never actually been but I hear the Pacific Northwest is beautiful. Apparently, there’s some really fast internet there too. An FCC report says that Olympia beats every US city in download speed at 21Mbps. That’s nearly double second place. Second place would be New York City and Seattle, who are both at 11.7Mbps. So…

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Google Maps 5.5 for Android Gets New Check-ins and Updated Transit Directions

Google Maps for Android just received a slight update that includes adding ‘check in’ and review buttons to Place pages, an option to edit addresses for Latitude, and redesigned transit station pages. The new transit station pages are especially nice as it’s easier to plan your route. The page now has a list of scheduled…

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Is This Boy Magnetic? No, Just a Cute Fat Kid with Sticky Skin

Ivan Stoiljkovic, a 6-year-old boy from Croatia, might be the next Magneto. He can stick frying pans, spoons, forks, irons, dumbbells, coins and anything metallic onto his chubby stomach. Great power to have, right? Yup! Too bad he’s not magnetic. Unless science, magnetism, biology and humanismology has changed overnight, Ivan is just a fat kid…

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Watching Power Lines Explode Is a Little Bit Like Watching Fireworks

Daniel Bean, a filmmaker, captured power lines exploding like fireworks in Brazil. It’s scary because the town has been experiencing a ton of problems with their electricity and the company hasn’t stepped up to fix it. That. Shit. Ain’t. Safe. [Daniel Beam Films]

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Video Time Machine for iPhone Takes You Back into Time with Nostalgic Videos

An 81-year-old Man’s Dentures Deflect a Bullet and Save His Life

Swarming Decoy MALD Missiles Are a Cross Between Cruise Missiles and Drones

Idea Flight for iPad

Are You Ready for a Super Hi-Vision 33 Megapixel Camera?

HP TouchPad Accidentally Shown Off on Video

The iPad Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

The Windows Phone 7 Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

The Android Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

The iPhone Apps Everyone Should Have May 2011

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

A Computer Error Released 450 Prisoners with “a High Risk of Violence”

Hound for iPhone, Android and iPad

The City with the Fastest Internet in the US Is…Olympia, Washington

Google Maps 5.5 for Android Gets New Check-ins and Updated Transit Directions

Is This Boy Magnetic? No, Just a Cute Fat Kid with Sticky Skin

Watching Power Lines Explode Is a Little Bit Like Watching Fireworks

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

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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

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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

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