Eric Limer

Valve’s Redesigned Steam Controller Looks a Little Less Bizarre

Back at Steam Dev Days, Valve announced it was giving up on the touchpad dreams for its Steam Controller. Now, we’ve got a render that shows exactly what the new older-school design will look like. Which is to say, just a liiittle less alien. [Engadget]

Where Do You Actually Store All Your Online Stuff?

With Google dropping the cost for its Drive service to just $10 a month for an absurdly mammoth 1TB of storage, it’s a great time to think: “Wow, well I maybe I should cram all my digital crap into the same place for simplicity!” But it’s never that easy. So are you stashing old college…

The New Kind of DDoS That Could Cripple the Internet

If you’re a regular on the internet, you probably know how aDDoS can choke your favorite site with garbage traffic. Well get used to it because they’re not going away; they’re actually getting worse. Just this year, a new kind of amplified DDoS attack called a NTP DDoS has started to pop up in the…

Razer’s Righteous New Blade Might Be the Best Windows Laptop Yet

The 2013 Razer Blade was fantastic. A finally great execution on a concept that’s been appealing as hell from the very start, a Windows gaming laptop with the premium feel of a MacBook. Now it’s back again, and yes, it is even better. Everything we loved about Blades past is still here: a stellar keyboard,…

Nvidia’s New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers

Integrated graphics are getting better and better, but if you really want to game on your laptop, ain’t nothing gonna beat discrete. Nvidia’s new line of GTX mobile cards are about as good as it gets, and they’re not just bringing performance upgrades, but better battery life as well. Nvidia’s new GTX outing is a…

An LED-Covered Drone Traced This Neon Light-Graffiti Through the Sky

Light painting is awesome, whether you use your own two hands and a LED glowstick, or leave it up to a roomba-like robot. But the folks at the production studio Fiction decided to take it up a notch by bring a makeshift UFO into the mix. Like any good light painting, the photos are long…

Silently Celebrate Typewriters With This Illustrated Army of Classics

There’s no denying that typerwriters were (and are!) fantastically complex and beautiful pieces of machinery. They’re also noisy, expensive, and a pain to use. With Pop Chart’s Visual Compendium of Typewriters though, you can have the best of both worlds: antique art and a backspace key. The chart features over 60 hand-illustrations of typerwriters dating…

iOS 7.1 is now out, bearing mostly minor tweaks and bug-fixes, but also CarPlay support. At the moment there aren’t any cars to support it, but as soon there are you’ll be good to go. Well, if you’re picking up a fancy new car anyway.

13 GIFs That Will Make You Incredibly Anxious

GIFs are a blast. They can teach you how to knit or learn you some science. They can also make you incredibly anxious. How? Just check these out and you’ll see what I mean. Well, after they finish loading. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Watching Planes Land From Space Is Like a Video Game Brought to Life

Ever wanted to watch the world—in real-time HD—from space? Well prepare to experience what it’d be life if the world was your very own video game and check out a few planes landing at the Bejiing airport. It’ll be the coolest planespotting you’ve ever done. What you see here is Skybox’s SkySat-1 turning its amazing…

I Would Have Killed to Have This Open-Source Laser Tag Game as a Kid

Even when it’s just team deathmatch in a dark, smelly room inside the local roller rink, laser tag is awesome. So imagine how cool it would be if you could liberate it, and play an open-source version wherever you want with game-types you made up. It’d be like a video game in real life! Or…

Intel Just Bought Itself One of the Best Fitness Trackers Out There

Intel just bought Basis—makers of one of the best fitness trackers out there—for somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million dollars so it doesn’t horribly miss the boat on wearables the way it did on phones. For now, that means a really great wearable is off the market, but Basic’s guts are bound to rise…

Chromebooks Come in Faux-Leather Now

You know how the Galaxy Note 3 has faux-leather backing? And also a few of Samsung’s PRO tablets? It doesn’t end there. The Chromebook 2 is your first pleather Chromebook. That doesn’t make it a premium product, no. But it’s kind of a nice touch! Samsung’s new Chromebook 2 comes in two flavors—11.6 inches and…

Holy crap, this woman is flying hanging from two toy helicopters!

You’ve probably dreamt about flying. Who hasn’t? It seems awesome! But getting lifted into the air by two separate RC helicopters also seems more than a little bit scary. With one hand in each ring, attached by a cable to its own helicopter, this lady basically turns into an Olympic gymnast flying through the sky.…

Relive Jurassic Park‘s Iconic Hacking Scene Right From Your Browser

For the most part, Jurassic Park isn’t the kind of movie you’d want a chance to live out, what with the mortal danger and velociraptors and all that. But thanks to the amazing Jurassic Systems website, you can experience of of Jurassic Park’s safer thrills first-hand: getting hacked by Dennis Nedry. Thanks to this little…

A Glimpse of the Strange Sci-Fi Houses of Earth’s Alien Future

Admit it; you’ve thought about life in the far flung, alien future. Maybe you’ve thought about it today, whether it’s a skyscraping utopia or a scarred nuclear desert full of mobile monoliths. Artists and architects are thinking about it too, and their visions of what may come will really get your future fantasies cooking. https://gizmodo.com/tall-is-good-how-a-lack-of-building-up-is-keeping-our-1478168830…

FBI and Secret Service Phone Calls Intercepted by Google Maps Exploit

Yesterday, when Bryan Seely showed me his various Google Maps exploits, he showed me more than just dick jokes and fake businesses. Using these tricks, Seely was also able to set up a system that could surreptitiously record phone calls to the FBI and Secret Service. And he actually did it. https://gizmodo.com/its-ridiculously-easy-to-troll-google-maps-with-fake-l-1531646581 The premise is…

Google just released its previously Nexus 5-exclusive “Google Now Launcher” for all stock Android devices. That includes the always-listening-at-least-when-you-are-on-the-homescreen Google Now functionality. You can go grab it on the Play Store.

It’s Ridiculously Easy to Troll Google Maps With Fake Listings

Trust the listings you find on Google Maps? You shouldn’t, because it’s dumb easy to fake them. That’s what Google Maps exploiter Bryan Seely demonstrated for me this morning. And while trolling politicians with dick jokes is never not funny, there’s also a whole sub-community of scammers turning Google Map’s little bugs into cold, hard…

New iOS Security Flaw Lets Malicious Apps See All Your Keystrokes

Just days after patching a rampant security flaw in iOS, another one has popped up in its stead. According to network security company FireEye, there’s a bug in even the latest version of iOS that can let malicious apps track your every keystroke with ease. https://gizmodo.com/why-apples-huge-security-flaw-is-so-scary-1529041062 FireEye was able to push a proof-of-concept app through…