Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: Netflix, droided; Instant Messages, beautified; data caps, eliminated; Super 8 Cameras, re-introduced; music, sent to space; Photoshop, appified; trending topics, explained; Pictures, tagged and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Onavo: If you use a capped data plan, you might have to seriously consider using Onavo. It compresses…

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The Week’s Best iPad Apps

Planetary: Planetary is an iPad-only music player that renders your collection as a stunning universe of stars (artist), planets (albums), and moons (songs). Each successive level is fluidly interactive: tap on the name of a song to play it, give the display a gentle nudge to set the solar system spinning in motion, and expand…

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The Week’s Best Android Apps

Netflix: We’ve been waiting for Netflix to come to Android for a very long time. And it’s finally here! Well, kind of. At the moment, you can only use Netflix on Android if you have a Samsung Nexus S, Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, T-Mobile G2 or Nexus One. It’s still Netflix, dude. Free. WatchESPN: WatchESPN,…

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The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Onavo: If you use a capped data plan, you might have to seriously consider using Onavo. It compresses emails, apps or web suring to as much as 90 percent! Sounds too good to be true, right? Onavo promises you could pretty much double or triple the data plan you’re on, with it working on anything…

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Sheex Performance Bed Sheets

You know those workout shirts that keep you cool and dry? Like from Under Armour and Nike? These Sheex “performance” bedsheets are made out of the same material. And they’re pretty much perfect for any type of activity you do in bed. PLUSSES Holy baby bottoms, these sheets are soft. You definitely feel the roots…

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A Bra Gun Holster Makes Me Excited

Called the Flashbang Bra Holster, it’s a gun holster tucked into a woman’s bra. The video shows a pretty girl (who supposedly doesn’t have any experience totin’ guns) pulling out her weapon in less than a second and a half. The holster costs $40 on eBay and fits a variety of guns. Women, I’m not…

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What Can You Do With a Screen Made from 480 Shoes? Play Video Games, Turn It into a Mirror and More

Converse has created a 13 foot by 16 foot wall (4x5m) with 480 Chuck Taylors as its pixels. It’s amazing. The wall, or screen o’ Chucks, can be used to play video games, be a virtual mirror or just be awesome. I was never a Chucks guy. I appreciated its classicness and pioneerism but they…

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This Chubby Guy Dressed As Batman Got Arrested for Dangling from a Building

Mark Wayne Williams, a 31-year old man, was caught by police as he dangled off the side of a building. The dude was decked out in full Batman costume, and carrying a baton, Freeze Plus P and lead-lined gloves. Police pulled Williams up from the side of a 30-foot building and arrested him. Public safety…

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How Osama bin Laden Sent E-Mail

As more details come to light about bin Laden’s life of the past few years, we’re learning how the leader of Al-Qaeda communicated to his underlings through e-mail—even though he didn’t have an internet connection in his compound. A counterterrorism official briefed the Associated Press on bin Laden’s methods and turns out, it was a…

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I’ll Always Be Scared of a Lightning Bolt Striking a Plane

What is it about lightning bolts that make them so goddamn scary? Oh yeah, that crazy electrocution thing. Now imagine being in a plane—in the freaking air—and getting struck by lightning. That’s what happened here. An Airbus A380 was flying into London’s Heathrow Airport and as the plane touched down, was struck by a lightning…

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Netflix Is Finally Available on Android (Sort Of)

We’ve been waiting for Netflix to come to Android for a very long time. And it’s finally here! Well, kind of. At the moment, you can only use Netflix on Android if you have a Samsung Nexus S, Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, T-Mobile G2 or Nexus One. Remember, the LG Revolution was supposed to be…

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You Can’t Upgrade the Hard Drive in the New iMacs

The new iMacs have the super fast Thunderbolt port and Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge Core processors which makes them, well, pretty awesome. What’s not awesome? Apple has made upgrading the hard drive on the new iMacs damn near impossible. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-add-thunderbolt-more-graphics-muscle-5798012 Other World Computing is reporting that “the Apple-branded main hard drive cannot be moved, removed…

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This Super Tiny Apartment Is an Amazing Transformer

And here I thought my New York apartment was small! Christian Schallert lives in a 258 square foot space and maximizes the hell out it by hiding everything behind walls, cabinets and clever design. Seriously, watch this. It’s freaking amazing. Schallert said he was inspired by boat living and I’d say he did a pretty…

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A Time Lapse Accidentally Captures a Man Proposing to His Future Wife

Michael Justin Porco was enjoying a beautiful Spring Day in New York City and decided to make a time lapse in Central Park. When he looked back at the time lapse he spotted a man proposing to his future wife. Aww. It’s a pretty awesome story. He only managed to capture 12 pictures (one picture…

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Google Has Hired Danger, the Makers of Sidekick, to Work on ‘Android Hardware’

Fortune is reporting that Joe Britt and Matt Hershenson, co-founders of Danger, have joined Google and Andy Rubin, the other Danger co-founder, to work on a new wing within Android called ‘Android Hardware’. That means Danger, the company that made the uber-popular, original Sidekick, is back together at Google. So does that mean the Danger…

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You’re Gonna Be Able to Pay for Stuff with Your Phone this Fall

We’ve been waiting forever and a half for NFC technology to take over our lives and rid ourselves of silly wallets and credit cards. Visa is creating a digital wallet service that’ll make all that real this fall. https://gizmodo.com/fourteen-ways-nfc-will-let-your-phone-replace-your-wall-5768471 Visa’s idea is to let you store your Visa accounts, non-Visa accounts and even online payment…

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Don’t Swallow a Stolen Diamond Cause They’ll Come After You with a Colonoscopy

What would you do if you were caught stealing a diamond? Drop it? Hide it? Swallow it? That’s what this diamond thief did. And when he got caught, the police waited for the diamond to come out, em, naturally. But it wasn’t coming out! io9 says that even though the man was under surveillance and…

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The Reason Why Publishers Started Putting Their Magazines on the iPad

When Apple announced their digital subscription rules and locked down the iPad, publishers weren’t exactly rushing to bring their subscriptions over. And then all of a sudden Conde Nast, Hearst, and Time Inc brought their magazines to the iPad. What changed? https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-subscription-model-is-evil-5761383 According to Forbes, the biggest hurdle for publishers wasn’t the 30% cut that…

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New Panasonic G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked?

According to 4/3 Rumors, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 is going to be announced tomorrow. The G3 is Micro Four Thirds camera that’s a successor to the pretty sweet G2 and is supposed to be 25% smaller than the original. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-g2-and-g10-micro-four-thirds-camera-5487406 Also, 4/3 Rumors is saying that the camera is expected to pack a 15.8 megapixel…

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Verbs for iPhone

You probably have an Instant Messaging app you use already. Beejive, Meebo, eBuddy, Trillian, IM+, etc are all decently serviceable but none of them are as pretty as Verbs. Verbs is the only IM app that looks and feels like it was made for iOS. What is it? Verbs, $3, iPhone. It’s an IM app.…

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This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Sheex Performance Bed Sheets

A Bra Gun Holster Makes Me Excited

What Can You Do With a Screen Made from 480 Shoes? Play Video Games, Turn It into a Mirror and More

This Chubby Guy Dressed As Batman Got Arrested for Dangling from a Building

How Osama bin Laden Sent E-Mail

I’ll Always Be Scared of a Lightning Bolt Striking a Plane

Netflix Is Finally Available on Android (Sort Of)

You Can’t Upgrade the Hard Drive in the New iMacs

This Super Tiny Apartment Is an Amazing Transformer

A Time Lapse Accidentally Captures a Man Proposing to His Future Wife

Google Has Hired Danger, the Makers of Sidekick, to Work on ‘Android Hardware’

You’re Gonna Be Able to Pay for Stuff with Your Phone this Fall

Don’t Swallow a Stolen Diamond Cause They’ll Come After You with a Colonoscopy

The Reason Why Publishers Started Putting Their Magazines on the iPad

New Panasonic G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked?

Verbs for iPhone

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

Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

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