Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

What Did Our Earliest Presidents Really Look Like?

Before photoshop, there was painting. If you were commissioned to do art, you weren’t about to paint an ugly portrait of the guy. So chins were lifted, skin was cleared, etc. and it gets sorta hard to tell what people really looked like. Until now. Eric Altschuler, a history buff, studied the early 19th century…

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Just Clap Your Hands to Take Off This Bra

If only this bra existed when I was a young buck fumbling with those darned complicated clasps or straps or chinese finger traps or whatever they call them. For this bra, all you need to do is clap your hands. Watch. You can learn how to make your own pair (?) for your lucky Valentine…

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NBA Jam for iPhone

You know NBA Jam. It’s the classic in-your-face arcade basketball game. Now available on the iPhone, it’s just as boomshakalakastic as I remembered. Backboard breaking dunks, fire burning threes, punk-your-man defense—ah, just the way basketball games should be. What is it? NBA Jam, $5, iPhone It’s the same classic, on-fire NBA JAM from the arcades…

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There’s a Silicon Valley Fight Club for Nerds

The Silicon Valley Fight Club has been around for quite a while now, but this documentary shows the grown up nerds actually fighting. They smash keyboards on each other, use vacuums in fights, anything really. It sounds like a joke, I know, but watch the documentary, this club really exists and means a lot to…

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How the Amazing Beer That Pours From the Bottom of the Glass Works

Do you remember that jaw dropping video that showed beer being poured through the bottom of the glass? It all works because of this simple magnet attached to the bottom of the cup. The magnet raises up, to open, when being filled with the BottomsUP tap and keeps closed when you’re drinking the brewski. Smart.…

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Sonos Bringing Sonos Controller App to Android

Wireless multi-room music lovers, listen up! Sonos just announced an app for Android and it’s even better than Sonos Controller on iOS. Why? Because on Android you can use your phone’s hardware buttons (volume rocker, search, etc) to control your Sonos system and even use your phone to voice search. Only thing is you’ll have…

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This Book Has Real Hyperlinks Sewn With Thread

Maria Fischer, a German designer, created this book, “Thoughts on Dreams”. She sewed “hyperlinks” onto the book with thread so readers could follow a specific link, er, word or phrase. It was part of an art project to highlight key words amongst a bigger story and somehow visualize “the confusion and fragileness of dreams”. A…

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A Pac-Man You Have to Hand Crank to Make It Chomp

What do you get when you make the classic Pac-Man fully mechanical? A Pac-Man that chomps only when you hand crank its gears. In other words: awesomeness. Just watch. The hand-cranked, mechanical Pac-Man, called Pactuator, is actually part of a bigger, much loftier project: a playable, mechanical Pac-Man cabinet, called ‘Pac Machina.’ I can’t wait…

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There Are Tablets Better Than the iPad. They’re Just Not Out Yet

The HP TouchPad and Motorola Xoom are legitimate threats to the iPad. And if they were available now, I’d buy them over an iPad. Here’s why: Hardware It’s been over a year since the iPad was first announced and in that year, its age is starting to show. The shine is off, the wrinkles are…

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AT&T to Offer Free Unlimited Mobile to Mobile Calling to Any Carrier

Tomorrow, AT&T will offer free mobile to any mobile calling with an unlimited texting plan. That means any call you make to T-Mobile, Sprint, and all your friends who will ditch AT&T for Verizon should be free. Specific details will come out tomorrow (which coincidentally is Verizon iPhone Day). [AT&T via BGR] AT&T Introduces Unlimited…

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Watch a Young Steve Jobs Get Nervous About Being on TV

This is a clip of a young Steve Jobs appearing on a local TV show, it’s probably one of the first times he appeared on TV and it’s just awesome. But I can’t figure out what I like most about the video. Is it the lovely 70’s facial hair? The shock on his face and…

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Dell Finally Kills the Adamo Laptop

It looks like one of Dell’s most beautiful (and one of the most portable!) laptops, the Adamo, is going to be officially killed off. People don’t like paying a lot for a little it seems. [CNET]

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The New Monopoly Will Be Controlled by an All Powerful, All Seeing Tower

This fall, there’ll be a new version of Monopoly called Monopoly Live that places a 10-inch tower right in the middle of the board. Why? Because that tower controls every aspect of the game: it rolls the dice, it calculates rent, it knows whose turn it is and where your piece is on the board,…

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That NYU Professor With a Camera Surgically Attached to His Head? Yeah, His Body’s Rejecting It

I’ll tell you this much: Waffa Bilal, the dude who attached a camera to the back of his head, is pretty dedicated to this ridiculous art project of his. Surgeons recently needed to remove some pieces in his head because his body rejected one of the three titanium posts implanted there. He’s still planning on…

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The Wheelchair of the Future Is Like a Bicycle Rowboat

The problem with current wheelchairs? They’re not versatile enough for developing countries’ unpaved roads, steep hillsides and generally handicap unfriendly buildings. Enter the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a more powerful wheelchair controlled by levers that moves like a mountain bike. The LFC is made entirely from bike parts and works similarly to a mountain bike. The…

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How Far in Space Can Radio Broadcasts Reach?

Apparently our radio broadcasts can be listened to in a “space bubble” 200 light years in diameter. That’s huge! But when you compare it to the rest of the Milky Way, um, not really. So just know when you’re hoping an E.T. will find you through your radio broadcasts, he has to be within that…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

The Adorable Kid Behind the VW Darth Vader Commercial Has a Pacemaker

The Volkswagen Darth Vader commercial was one of the Super Bowl’s best and a lot of it had to do with the adorable kid dressed up as the Sith Lord. The cute kid behind it, Max Page, is now a healthy 6-year-old but at 4-months old he was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital…

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This Power Plant Blows O’s and Doubles As a Ski Slope

The only times I’ve noticed power plants are when they blow an obnoxious amount of smoke in the air. If I lived in Copenhagen though, I think I would hang out at their power plant. The waste-to-energy plant is called the Big Vortex and the roof of the plant will be used as a ski…

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How Twitter Made This the Most Fun Super Bowl Yet

I mean, the game was pretty good too. But the commercials could’ve been better and the halftime show almost destroyed my faith in humanity. But did you know why I had the most fun this Super Bowl? Twitter. I had a few friends over watching the Super Bowl but aside from the usual party favors…

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How Long It Takes Hackers to Crack Your Password

BusinessWeek says a 6 character password (just letters) can be cracked in just 10 minutes while a 9 character password complete with letters, uppercase, numbers and symbols will take 44,530 years to crack. Take a look at the image to see other comparisons, the first column describes your password, the other columns show you how…

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What Did Our Earliest Presidents Really Look Like?

Just Clap Your Hands to Take Off This Bra

NBA Jam for iPhone

There’s a Silicon Valley Fight Club for Nerds

How the Amazing Beer That Pours From the Bottom of the Glass Works

Sonos Bringing Sonos Controller App to Android

This Book Has Real Hyperlinks Sewn With Thread

A Pac-Man You Have to Hand Crank to Make It Chomp

There Are Tablets Better Than the iPad. They’re Just Not Out Yet

AT&T to Offer Free Unlimited Mobile to Mobile Calling to Any Carrier

Watch a Young Steve Jobs Get Nervous About Being on TV

Dell Finally Kills the Adamo Laptop

The New Monopoly Will Be Controlled by an All Powerful, All Seeing Tower

That NYU Professor With a Camera Surgically Attached to His Head? Yeah, His Body’s Rejecting It

The Wheelchair of the Future Is Like a Bicycle Rowboat

How Far in Space Can Radio Broadcasts Reach?

The Adorable Kid Behind the VW Darth Vader Commercial Has a Pacemaker

This Power Plant Blows O’s and Doubles As a Ski Slope

How Twitter Made This the Most Fun Super Bowl Yet

How Long It Takes Hackers to Crack Your Password

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