Husain Sumra, Author at Gizmodo

Man Uses iPhone 4, iPad 2 And iMovie To Get Breaking News On CNN

Robert Stephens captured a gas main explosion on his iPhone 4, edited it with iMovie on his iPad 2 and uploaded it to iReport. CNN and MSNBC picked up the footage after that. Score for citizen journalism. [YouTube via SlashGear]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 18

Video Challenge: Rewind Gallery

Video Challange: Rewind – Flowers from Will Munro on Vimeo. Shot with a Sony mini-dv camera.Inspired by the example video, here is a way to make some flowers if pressed for time! I slowly deflated three balloons in my hand and then poured some water on my clenched fist. Then reversed the entire process with…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 17

Never Squint To Read The Time Again With This Watch Concept

Analog watches can be terribly difficult to read, and can lead to squinting and adjusting your arm position to focus your eyes on those blasted dashed lines and watch hands. The Zoomin Watch concept fixes that problem. The hour and minute hands are replaced by mini magnifying glasses, which makes reading the time as easy…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 16

The iPad Makes People Ignore The Eiffel Tower And Other Historic Monuments

Is the iPad’s best medical application really as a stretcher carrying injured babies during a hospital fire? That’s what British broadcaster Charlie Brooker says about its potential to change medicine during his very funny take on Apple’s tablet. [YouTube]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 16

Shooting Challenge: Epic

This was shot today (the same day this contest was announced…I hope it qualifies!), as I was walking around downtown Chicago I came across this sculpture “Agora” by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. The sculpture is a collection of over 100 headless and armless figures seemingly mingling at the south end of Grant Park. I captured…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 15

PlayStation Suite to Be Available On Tegra-Based Android Devices

Sony will be bringing their PlayStation Suite to Tegra-based Android devices in the future, and will even be certifying hardware manufacturers for support and to deliver a “PlayStation quality experience.” Now you won’t need a Sony Ericsson phone to enjoy PlayStation games. [AndroidAndMe via Engadget via BGR]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 11

How Much Money Would You Make If You Bought Apple Stock Rather Than Their Products?

Kyle Conroy is going to have a lot of Apple customers experiencing buyer’s remorse, because he’s done some homework and figured out how much money one could make if they had invested in Apple stock instead of their fancy products. Some of the results are utterly depressing, like that if you were to invest in…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 10

Social Web Browser RockMelt Comes Out of Beta, Available to Download For All

RockMelt, the social web browser that’s built on top of the tech that powers Chrome, has finally come out of beta and is available for everyone to download and get their social browsing on. [RockMelt via TechCrunch]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 9

Shooting Challenge: UPO 2

Selecting an object I constantly see in my daily life to experiment with came easy to me, but looking at it in such a way to conceal its identity proved to be very difficult for this challenge. I used a roll of paper towels to focus in on just a tiny piece of my photographed…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 9

Shooting Challenge: UPO

I used a 5D Mark II and a 50mm f1.8 lens to take this photo. I was just walking around the house taking some interesting photos, but this actually came to me after watching some tilt-shift photography slides. I took the lens off the camera body and starting moving it around, trying to place the…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 9

Instaprint Allows You to Print Out Your Instagram Pictures Polaroid Style

Click to view Online TV Shows by UstreamThe folks behind Instaprint missed the nostalgia of Polaroids so they decided to create Instaprint. The service uses an Instagram API to print pics via hashtags and is being demoed at SXSW. [Instaprint via Engadget]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 8

Apple Clears Out Games And Accessories to Make Space For In-Store Setup Services

Apple is doing some spring cleaning at its retail stores by getting rid of shelf space for 32 games and some hardware peripherals like printers and harddrives for more space for personalized set-up services. [The Loop via CrunchGear]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 7

Netflix Makes iPad App Less Ugly With An Update

The iPad Netflix app used to be nothing more than a browser version of the service, but now the ninjas at Netflix have updated its look and disabled the DVD queue. No downloading required. [Hacking Netflix via Engadget]

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 3

Shooting Challenge: Upside Down

I took several interesting upside-down shots of ceiling lights in my house that ended up looking like gazebos on a frozen lake or alien spaceships. Then I opened the garage door and saw these bikes hanging from the ceiling and thought “duh”. Panasonic DMC-LZ7: F2.8, 1/30 sec, ISO 640, flash on – Bruce Wenner Shot…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 1

Shooting Challenge: Upside Down 2

This is my first submission to a shooting challenge, and was taken with my Canon PowerShot S95 at f/4, 1/1600 sec, ISO-100. When I first saw the icicles in front of my house I was thinking stalagmites for this upside down challenge, but then I got bored and started trying to capture droplets. When I…

Tech News Husain Sumra Mar 1

Arcade Repair Man Arrested for Intentionally Corrupting Whac-A-Mole Machines

Marvin Walter Wimberly Jr. wrote a virus for Whac-a-Mole machines that would disable them after a certain number of plays. He wanted to stay employed, but now he’s been hit with the soft mallet of the law. Police say he wrote the virus in 2008 and sold modules with the virus installed for $51,000. Once…

Tech News Husain Sumra Feb 24

You’ll Have To Send Your Xoom Away For A Week To Upgrade To LTE

The Xoom’s 4G LTE upgrade will come 90 days after launch and take about 6 days to complete, according to an apparent leaked Verizon document procured by Droid-Life. Xoom users will have to ship their tablets to Motorola to receive the upgrade, but they won’t have to change their plan to take advantage of 4G.…

Tech News Husain Sumra Feb 23

Gmail Android App Update Brings Copy Text To Gingerbread Users

Google has updated its Gmail Android app to enable long press to copy text for Android 2.3 users. If you’re not using Gingerbread, there’s still an update for you: It now syncs custom label colors. [Android Market via Ubergizmo]

Tech News Husain Sumra Feb 23

Scientists Name New Dinosaur Thunder Thighs

Scientists discovered a new dinosaur with enormous leg muscles and named it Brontomerus, which translates to thunder thighs in Greek. Scientists, trying to turn an insult into a positive, say it could deliver strong kicks to predators. [BBC via Neatorama]

Tech News Husain Sumra Feb 23

Southwest Airlines To Better In-Flight Entertainment With iTunes Content

Southwest is partnering with Apple to create a new in-flight service called InAirtainment that allows passengers to purchase iTunes content via the airline’s website. They’re also going to offer special deals like 20 free songs. [Variety via SlashGear]

Tech News Husain Sumra Feb 23

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Man Uses iPhone 4, iPad 2 And iMovie To Get Breaking News On CNN

Video Challenge: Rewind Gallery

Never Squint To Read The Time Again With This Watch Concept

The iPad Makes People Ignore The Eiffel Tower And Other Historic Monuments

Shooting Challenge: Epic

PlayStation Suite to Be Available On Tegra-Based Android Devices

How Much Money Would You Make If You Bought Apple Stock Rather Than Their Products?

Social Web Browser RockMelt Comes Out of Beta, Available to Download For All

Shooting Challenge: UPO 2

Shooting Challenge: UPO

Instaprint Allows You to Print Out Your Instagram Pictures Polaroid Style

Apple Clears Out Games And Accessories to Make Space For In-Store Setup Services

Netflix Makes iPad App Less Ugly With An Update

Shooting Challenge: Upside Down

Shooting Challenge: Upside Down 2

Arcade Repair Man Arrested for Intentionally Corrupting Whac-A-Mole Machines

You’ll Have To Send Your Xoom Away For A Week To Upgrade To LTE

Gmail Android App Update Brings Copy Text To Gingerbread Users

Scientists Name New Dinosaur Thunder Thighs

Southwest Airlines To Better In-Flight Entertainment With iTunes Content

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

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