Eric Limer

13 Teens Bitching About Teens Bitching About Christmas Gadgets

Christmas time has come and gone, and it brought its fair share of iPhones and Xboxes and PS4s and MacBooks and gadgets galore. And of course, also some spoiled teens who weren’t too happy about the (awesome) stuff they got: But the real plague? The high-and-mighty teens who will not quit whining about spoiled teens:…

These Slo-Mo Ornament Explosions Are Like Christmas Fireworks

The 4th of July is great, but every holiday is improved by explosions. Every. Holiday. And slow motion? Even better. So here, for your Yuletide pleasure, are some Christmas baubles blowing up in festive slow-mo. The concept is simple: you put a little water in a standard globe-shaped Christmas ornament, and then you heat it…

61 Years Later, Alan Turing Finally Got a Royal Pardon

Alan Turing, father of modern computer science, destroyer of Nazi encoding, has finally been posthumously pardoned, 61 years after he was convicted for being who he was. About damn time. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-build-turing-s-universal-machine-5891399 It’s been a long time coming; 59 years have passed since Turing’s suicide by cyanide-laced apple in the face of force chemical castration after…

T-Mobile’s GoSmart brand of plans is about to get a new trick: looking at Facebook without chewing up your mobile data. Starting next month, folks on GoSmart plans will get unlimited access to anything and everything on Facebook, no data plan required. [AllThingsD]

Deafheaven: Dream House

In highschool, I took it upon myself to learn how to enjoy scream-y music. It started innocently(?) enough with slightly-abrasive-but-still-pretty-tame Linkin Park, and moved on to Refused and Underoath, and somehow, Cap’n Jazz. It was a lot of work, but tracks like Deafheaven’s Dream House make it all worth while. https://gizmodo.com/capn-jazz-take-on-me-5943711 For all the screamy-type…

An Ode to Winamp

Today’s the day. Winamp is officially kicking the bucket. Well the day it was supposed to, but maybe not? Either way, the peppy little player that really whips the llama’s ass has been fading into obscurity for years now, and on (probably) the day of its final demise, let’s reflect. I am gonna miss the…

The Gadgets We Really Want This Year

We see a lot of gadgets here at Gizmodo. And as the holidays come barreling towards us, we like to offer some of them up as ideas for gifts you can give to the special folks in your life. But this isn’t that; this is the stuff we want. Oh and we want it so…

Google Just OKed a Phone That Runs Modded Android Out of the Box

You like to mess with your phone? Unlock that bootloader and flash some ROMs? Soon there’ll be another option for would-be tinkers who want to run mods. Google just approved the first ever Android phone to run the ever-popular Cyanogenmod right out of the box. The hardware’s not new. It’s literally just the Oppo N1—a…

Qualcomm Toq Review: Still Not Time for a Smartwatch

The smartwatches are coming, and they’re coming fast. And while the big guys like Apple and Google haven’t chimed in yet, the party has definitely kicked off. Qualcomm might not be your first guess at an attendee, but it comes bearing a unique little gadget. It’s not quite what you want, but it’s at least…

Resurrect Your Wireless Mouse as a DIY Powerglove

Touchpads? Meh. Touchscreens? Bleh. Powergloves? Oh hell yes. Unfortunately/Obviously no one is in the business of making powerglove pointer devices for your computer right now, but don’t let that stop you from hacking together your own, you wonderful psycho. The folks at HouseholdHacker explain the process, which is involved, but far from impossible. And whether…

Google Now Wants To Go Christmas Caroling With You

Google is all about packing that holiday cheer into its services this year. First with its auto-snowy, auto-twinkly pictures, and now with Google Now Christmas carol karaoke. Just pull out your Android device, suggest “let’s go caroling” and you’ll be drowning in merriment before you can say “get behind me Santa.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-auto-awesome-will-make-your-photos-snow-or-twi-1477153557 Once you say—or…

The Best Reason to Join Google+ (Or Else!)

Have you signed up for Google+ yet? Have you?! Or have you been cowering in the closet, whispering empty reassurances to yourself as it slowly but surely closes in. There’s only one place this can all be headed: Enter Google Blackmail. OK so College Humor’s take on the future is (probably) not accurate, but the…

There’s an Apple Bitcoin Prank That’s Hilarious and Devastating

General piece of advice: don’t go around typing stuff into your computer’s terminal window based on some pictures you found randomly floating on the internet. You’re not very likely to unlock a hidden bitcoin miner in your Mac, and far more likely to brick the thing instead. There’s apparently a rumor going around that Apple’s…

Looks like ARM is trying to beef up its graphics offering; it just bought Geometrics, a long time partner that specializes in dynamic illumination tech, stuff that makes graphics look real, and real good. [GigaOM]

Red Hot Nickel Ball vs. Paper: 1, 2, 3, Burn

Everyone’s favorite Red Hot Nickel Ball has taken on a rogue’s gallery of adversaries in its day, with varying levels of success. Now the spherical metal “rock” is taking on its greatest challenger ever: paper. To keep things slightly interesting, the RHNB took on not only a single sheet, but 10 sheets, and 50 too.…

Watching espresso pouring in slow motion is so hypnotizing

Normally coffee gets you all hyped up, but this slow motion footage of an espresso shot being pulled is so relaxing I can hardly take my eyes off it. The silky stream of creamy, coffee goodness was shot at 120 fps by YouTuber skunkay, and it’s a almost as good as drinking some yourself. So…

Looks like SteamOS (along with the 300 some prototype Steam Boxes won by lucky beta testers) are going to be headed out into the wild this Friday. Brace yourselves though, it sounds like SteamOS is going to need some tinkering before it works. [Valve]

They Should Have Filmed The Hobbit in This 200,000 Brick Lego Rivendell

Alice Finch and David Frank clearly love the world of The Lord of the Rings as much as they love Lego, because you don’t just cruise through an incredible 200,000 block build without a heaping helping of pure passion. This insane brick Rivendell is fandom incarnate. After studiously watching The Fellowship of the Ring and…

What the World Would Look Like If You Could See Cell Phone Signals

There are thousands of invisible signals bouncing around us all the time, and the world would be a very different place if we could see them. Visualizer extraordinaire Nickolay Lamm already showed us what the Wi-Fi noise would look like, and now he’s back to illuminate the cell phone signals all around us. It’s trippy.…

Skating across this invisible frozen lake is like floating in mid-air

Ice skating is great and all, but it’s downright magical if the ice is crystal clear. Youtuber Doc Martin got lucky with a crazy invisible lake of in Swan Lake, Montana. Don’t you wish you were skating on that right now? Whether water freezes wonderfully clear or all gross and cloudy all has to do…