Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

A Man Built a Car from 1906 Using Google Books

That beautiful car is a brand new 1906 Oldsmobile Model B Runabout. Yep, Bob Ferry used Googles Books to find old magazines that described mechanics, showed pictures and gave descriptions of the Oldsmobile so he could build it a 100 years later. There’s like a gazillion books (over 3 million) on Google Books, making it…

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Aelios Weather for iPad

Aelios for iPad re-imagines how you search for weather. It uses a clever ring dial that smartly pinpoints cities on a map and gives you the necessary data. I haven’t had this much fun cruising around a map since I discovered Google Maps. What is it? Aelios, $3, iPad. It’s an impressive weather app that’s…

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Watch a Guy Make Music with a 1000 Pairs of Jeans

I wear jeans. You wear jeans. They’re comfortable, easy and extremely versatile. Hell, they’re SO versatile that you can use them to create a hip hop beat. Seriously, this guy made a 1000 pair of jeans sing. It’s a banger! [YouTube]

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There’s No Crying in Space Because Tears Just Stay on Your Eye

Andrew Feustel, an astronaut, got soap in his eye and started tearing up. In his words, “my right eye is stinging like crazy” which really sucks because in space, tears “don’t fall off of your eye…they kind of stay there.” Feustel was spacewalking when the incident occurred and almost had to retreat back to the…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

How Gmail Found a Stolen Car

Avrohom Eliezer Friedman got his car stolen the other day. Which is pretty damn terrible. But! Police found the carjacker on the road thanks to Gmail. Well, kinda. It’s not exactly the Gmail we love and use. The thing is Friedman’s car (which he admitted to be a piece of shit) had a customized license…

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A Candle That Doubles As an Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

Smoking is terrible, we all know that. But it’s terribly addictive and…disgustingly stinky. Your fingers reek, your clothes are tainted and the air, oh the air. This candle ashtray tries to make it a wee less smelly. The wick of the candle is shifted off to the side of the depressed center, so as the…

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The World’s First 64GB MicroSD

MicroSDs are cute and so incredibly useful. Kingmax, a Taiwanese company, is making them even more useful by bumping the size up to 64GB. It’s the world’s first 64GB microSD card. The 64GB MicroSD comes with a Class 6 rating meaning transfer speeds of 6MB/s. Kingmax didn’t announce any pricing or release date yet, so…

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Hide Your MacBook Air Inside a Leather Bound Book

The BookBook for the MacBook Air—like the MacBook version before it—is a beautiful leather-bound, hand-distressed hardcover case for your laptop. You’ll feel like you’re carrying a book again. https://gizmodo.com/bookbook-case-puts-your-hardware-in-hardcover-5453980 The MacBook Air BookBook has a ’rounded spine’, which really means that damn computer is so thin they had to make a super small version just…

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Here Are the First Cities That Will Get AT&T’s 4G LTE

AT&T just announced that they’ll be rolling out LTE—as in that real 4G goodness—to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio this summer. No more fake 4G for you lucky people! AT&T also said that they plan to add another 10 or so markets by the end of the year. Here’s to hoping you live…

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Large Hadron Collider Creates Densest Matter in the Universe Outside of Black Holes

The Large Hadron Collider, the baddest monster machine around, recently made a matter known as quark-gluon plasma. It’s a hundred thousand times hotter than the inside of the sun and denser than anything in the universe, except black holes. Quark-gluon plasma—other than sounding cool as hell—is what scientists believe the entire universe was like immediately…

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Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad Is Infinite Years of Fun

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. I love it. They’ve released a book by the same name but the iPad app is more interactive…

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Wired and GQ iPad Subscriptions Are Available Today, Will Cost You 20 Bucks a Year (Updated)

Like we expected, Wired’s iPad subscription is 20 bucks a year (or 2 bucks an issue). The subscriptions are available today. If you already subscribe to Wired, you get access to the iPad version for free. [iTunes] https://gizmodo.com/wired-gq-and-new-yorker-subscriptions-are-coming-to-th-5799505 Updated: GQ rolled out their iPad subs too and it’s the same deal: $20/year, $2/issue, current subscribers…

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Opera Mini 6 Is Available on the iPad

Opera Mini, the fast-ish browser previously available for the iPhone, has finally made its way to the iPad. The speed dial, ‘tabbed browsing’ and trademark zippiness of Opera Mini is all there. The official release, Opera Mini 6.0, has also been updated for the iPhone 4 and both versions (iPad and iPhone) have received a…

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I Wish This Kobo Touchscreen E-Ink eReader Was the Next Kindle

Amazon. I know you guys are working on tablets or something but you should think about stealing this Kobo eReader Touch and using it as your next Kindle. Dude, it’s a touchscreen e-ink display. We’ve been wanting that forever ago. https://gizmodo.com/not-one-but-two-amazon-tablets-coming-this-year-5802462 But alas, it’s not going to be the next Amazon Kindle. It’s a Kobo.…

Commerce Casey Chan

Watch Iceland’s Volcano Explode from Space

The world didn’t break out in earthquakes but Grímsvötn, a volcano in Iceland, exploded over the weekend. The volcano sent a plume of ash and smoke nearly 8 miles high. Um, that’s so huge you can see it from space. The pictures were captured with the Metreosat-9 satellite by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

An Air Purifier Made for Sheiks

When you live big, there’s just a certain amount of excessiveness you need to hit with every purchase. Like these air purifiers, which are adorned with 20,000 Swarovski crystals and takes a team of three people 10 days to make. It’s called the S-Exclusiv and the air purifiers are part of a collaboration between Airfree…

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An Obscenely Stinky Waste Facility Is Destroying a California Town

I’m pretty sure everybody in this world hates foul smelling things. So I can’t for the life of me imagine what life is like at Mecca, CA, a small, dusty town that’s been decimated by the stench of a waste facility. Even worse, no one knows what’s going on. It’s like the stink manifested out…

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This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: weather, beautified; pandas, nanosized; Portal 2, documented; documentaries, streamed; outdoor activities, easily found; Delivery.com, appified; Friday, not Rebecca Blacked; phones, found by clapping and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Shine: It’s a weather app that doesn’t suck and is really pretty. Seriously! Shine is a beaut, when…

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The Week’s Best iPad Apps

NYPL Biblion: The New York Public Library has a stunning new app that lets you see a ton of essays, pictures, people, etc and information about the 1939-40 World’s Fair. It’s like a time traveling machine that brings you back to that era. The app is great too (though occasionally over the top), and easy…

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The Week’s Best Android Apps

Friday: Basically, every single thing you’ve done on your phone since you bought it can be recalled. It’s the sort of trickery which should not be shown to your partner, but if you can’t remember if you phoned your Mom last Mother’s Day, or if you sent that email to your boss last week, it…

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A Man Built a Car from 1906 Using Google Books

Aelios Weather for iPad

Watch a Guy Make Music with a 1000 Pairs of Jeans

There’s No Crying in Space Because Tears Just Stay on Your Eye

How Gmail Found a Stolen Car

A Candle That Doubles As an Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

The World’s First 64GB MicroSD

Hide Your MacBook Air Inside a Leather Bound Book

Here Are the First Cities That Will Get AT&T’s 4G LTE

Large Hadron Collider Creates Densest Matter in the Universe Outside of Black Holes

Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad Is Infinite Years of Fun

Wired and GQ iPad Subscriptions Are Available Today, Will Cost You 20 Bucks a Year (Updated)

Opera Mini 6 Is Available on the iPad

I Wish This Kobo Touchscreen E-Ink eReader Was the Next Kindle

Watch Iceland’s Volcano Explode from Space

An Air Purifier Made for Sheiks

An Obscenely Stinky Waste Facility Is Destroying a California Town

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

The Week’s Best Android Apps

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The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

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

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

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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