Jesus Diaz, Author at Gizmodo

Dear New Layar 3.0: You Got Me at Beatles

The new big feature of Layar 3.0 is 3D objects. But what I like most is the new point of interest story-telling and guided tours. Especially the Beatles Tour in London, which leads you through 42 locations in the city. The new 3D objects play a big role in these tours: If you go to…

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Number One Contributor to Alien Search Program Fired From His Day Job

Brad Niesluchowski used to be the network systems administrator at Higley Unified School District. Until he got fired for searching for aliens using the SETI program, in which he’s the #1 contributor. Well, for that, and a lot more things. Niesluchowski was known as NEZ at the SETI volunteer program. He scored 575 million hours…

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Time’s Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is

TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld got a sneak peek at Time Inc‘s “Manhattan Project“, a digital magazine designed to run on tablet computers, including the fabled Apple tablet. And it’s going to rock because that’s exactly what people crave for: INTERACTIVE MAGAZINES!!! https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-the-wet-dream-concept-5336204 People from the 80s. All the five who survived wearing their hair spray and…

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Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms

The Government of Spain, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing, has approved a law that’ll obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money. There’s a whole bunch of greedy “artists”—represented by the SGAE, the Spanish version of the…

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Husband and Wife Update Facebook and Twitter at the Altar

You know it’s a brave new world when bride and groom update their Facebook status, and tweet about it. At the freaking altar. As they were being pronounced husband and wife. And with “brave” I really mean “f*cking dumb.” That’s what Dana Hanna—the guy in the video aka “theSoftwareJedi” aka “Ican’tbelieveit’sbutterandI’mgettingmarried”—did, without his bride knowing…

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Top 5 Assclowns Laughing at the iPhone Back in 2007

I wonder how many times Steve Ballmer laughed about the iPhone after pooping all over it in this 2007 interview. My guess: Not many. Don’t worry Steve, here’s the rest of the top 5 assclowns who dug their own grave: Click to view

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Top 5 Assclown iPhone Quotes in 2007

Assclown Number 5: Ed Zander, Motorola CEO/Chairman and amateur juggler, 10 May 2007 How do they deal with us? Click to viewYes, how would they deal with you now that Motorola is almost dead, Ed? Assclown Number 4: John C. Dvorak, tech columnist and professional assclown at large, 28 March 2007 Apple should pull the…

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Butterflies Fly in Space for the First Time to Creep the Beheyzeus Out of Me

By the Holy circumcised foreskin of baby Jesus! What in the name of all that is creepy and filmed by Roger Corman is this? Larvae hatching and butterflies flying in space? If I were an astronaut, I’d be freaking out. For the first time in history, butterfly larvae—who were only six days old at launch…

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God’s Home

This is NGC 7023. It’s also called the Iris Nebula, an immense six-light-year-across cloud of dust located in the constellation Cepheus, 1,300 light-years from planet Earth. I like to call it God’s Home. Get inside with this zoom-zoom video: I mean, if I were God, I would go live there: A well illuminated apartment, with…

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This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500

I included the $1,500 Moonfire book—Norman Mailer’s account of the Apollo 11—in our space gifts guide. The last 12 books of the 1969-unit edition are $90,500 each. Ninety-thousand-and-five-hundred United States doubloons, people. Here’s why. https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-space-explorers-who-swing-among-the-stars-5411986 A funky fancy table and a lunar rock. Just that. Sure, the lunar rock sounds worthy, but when they tell…

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Where Is My iPhone Videochat, Apple?

Dear Apple and AT&T: I have had enough of this. Tell me, why don’t we have videochat on the iPhone, you assclowns? Whatever excuse you may have, I’m here to destroy it. This morning, the latest Fring update brought videochat to the iPhone. It only works in one direction, from a computer to your iPhone.…

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Audi New MMI Touch Input System Makes Perfect Sense

At last, someone in the auto industry gets it right. Instead of using awkward wheels or joysticks, like the Mercedes’s MyCommand or the BMW iDrive, the new Audi MMI touch system just uses a touchpad for some direct finger-drawing action. https://gizmodo.com/mercedes-web-connected-mycomand-takes-on-bmw-idrive-5095486 While other systems require the driver to focus away from the road—either by selecting…

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Video Calls Now Available On the iPhone

Be happy, because video calls are now legally available on the iPhone. Be sad, because it’s one way only, so you won’t be able to flash your naughty bits. Fring—a free chat client for the iPhone that supports most standards—has been updated to support video conferencing on the iPhone, using Wi-Fi. It works on Fring…

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US Secret Plane Uncovered

Remember the secret plane spotted in Kandahar? The one that looked like a Nazi stealth plane? Well, it’s been spotted again, but this time the picture is crystal clear, and it doesn’t look like anything in the US arsenal. https://gizmodo.com/the-nazi-planes-that-could-have-dropped-a-nuclear-bomb-5305249 Click to viewThere’s a possibility that it may have a canopy above the nose, which…

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Fossil Palindrome Too Watch Is One Suspicious Character

The ultra-thin $150 Fossil Palindrome Too—created by Starck—seems like a nice watch for design lovers. It also seems like the face of a monster or a Homestar Runner character, which is probably why I like it. https://gizmodo.com/the-silver-surfer-probably-uses-these-touch-sensitive-l-5375396 It has two dials inside a 8mm-thick stainless steel case, with a grey polyurethane strap. [Fossil via DesignBoom]

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I Don’t Like LHC Scientist’s Quotes That Start With “If It Does Destroy the World…”

It’s good to know that quotes like this—by Dr Paul Jackson, a particle physicist looking for the Higgs boson on the LHC Atlas experiment—come with a context: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-looking-for-the-force-finally-put-cerns-larg-359532 For me, it’s nonsense to say that there are forces coming back from the future to stop the machine from working. It really is just ridiculous to…

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NASA’s New Altair Lunar Lander Simulation In Action

The Constellation program may be in trouble, but that doesn’t mean NASA’s boffins are sitting around playing Asteroids, and flying rocket models. They are still planning to get back to the Moon, and they built a cool simulator for it: This is the Altair moon lander simulator, the newest, most exciting toy for astronauts planning…

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Thinkpad Bus Seats Inaugurate New Buttputing Era

First question: How tough are Thinkpad notebooks? Tough enough to be installed in buses and tram shuttles as seats and keep working just fine. Second question: Are the trackpads scrotumsensitive? I like to think they are. The notebooks—part of a campaign created by Ogilvy Frankfurt—were installed in buses and tram shuttles that lead prospective buyers…

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A Very Personal Message to the Buyer of the iPhone 3GS Supreme

Dear anonymous buyer of the $3,164,000 iPhone 3GS Supreme, the most expensive and tacky cellphone in the world: You are a tasteless assclown. Sincerely, Me. P.S. I don’t care that you are a rich Australian business man in the gold mining industry. I don’t care that you are so rich that paying $3,164,000 for this…

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Hey You, Let’s Move Here

Best plan: A two-mast schooner to go live around the world. Second best plan: A house like Universe, in Roca Blanca, Mexico. And neoprene suits, surf boards, and diving gear. OK, and a two-mast schooner too. Come in and chill: https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-design-lovers-and-jon-ive-wannabees-5412408 We always feature the most amazinglytastic and awesomerest architecture, packed with high-tech materials and…

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Dear New Layar 3.0: You Got Me at Beatles

Number One Contributor to Alien Search Program Fired From His Day Job

Time’s Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is

Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms

Husband and Wife Update Facebook and Twitter at the Altar

Top 5 Assclowns Laughing at the iPhone Back in 2007

Top 5 Assclown iPhone Quotes in 2007

Butterflies Fly in Space for the First Time to Creep the Beheyzeus Out of Me

God’s Home

This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500

Where Is My iPhone Videochat, Apple?

Audi New MMI Touch Input System Makes Perfect Sense

Video Calls Now Available On the iPhone

US Secret Plane Uncovered

Fossil Palindrome Too Watch Is One Suspicious Character

I Don’t Like LHC Scientist’s Quotes That Start With “If It Does Destroy the World…”

NASA’s New Altair Lunar Lander Simulation In Action

Thinkpad Bus Seats Inaugurate New Buttputing Era

A Very Personal Message to the Buyer of the iPhone 3GS Supreme

Hey You, Let’s Move Here

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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

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