Jesus Diaz, Author at Gizmodo

iTunes Shutdown Threat Probably as Dangerous as Large Hadron Collider

Today the US Copyright Royalty Board is going to decide if they agree to increase music royalty payments as requested by the National Music Publishers Association, and for some reason the British are panicking over the idea that the Apple iTunes Music Store will shut down because of this. The reason for their hysteria is…

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Meat Gadgets Don’t Include Mustard

Oh yummy. And they probably come in boxes made of rye bread. All I want to know is where is my new MacBook Air made of bacon? Hmmmmm. Bacon. [Trend hunter via Boing Boing Gadgets]

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Volvo Wind Tunnel Has Road Simulator Minus Annoying Backseat Kids

Here’s the new Volvo in-house wind tunnel simulator, a 28 million dollar facility that is the first in its class to have a road simulator. In theory, it will allow the Swedish manufacturer to precisely test the effect of road changes and airflows all around the car to make cars more fuel efficient. Strangely enough,…

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Repliee Robot Makes Me Scream and Cry Like a Little Girl

Click to viewWith all the cute little robots that have been presented at CEATEC, it’s easy to forget why we shouldn’t be making robots in the first place. Because if they don’t kill us with their bare hands, they will kill us out of raw horror. Like the Repliee R-1, a five year-old girl developed…

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Search 2001, the Year When Google Actually Did No Evil

Ah, 2001. You and your monoliths and your psychotic computers and your awfully bad presidents taking power and your Tiananmen self-immolations and your terrorist attacks… a year with no iPods or YouTube or amazing technology blogs or Gizmodo! How much we don’t miss you. Apparently, Google does, because they have found a vintage search index…

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Motorola Confirms Android Phone, Crosses Fingers

In what it could seem like their last chance to regain some relevance in the cellphone market—and actually survive the current war—Motorola has confirmed their bet on Android in an official statement answering previous rumors: We’re excited about the innovation possibilities on Android, and [we] look forward to delivering great products in partnership with Google…

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Balsa Wood Canon DSLR Gives Us the Inevitable

This balsa wood Canon DSLR is a perfect object of desire for both photography aficionados and people who like crafts—which is not going to be any of you, judging from the zero entries in the Gizmodo Arts & Crafts contest. The steps are really simple, and the results—as you can see in the image—look great.…

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Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely

A NY laptop-theft victim finally caught the criminal thanks to the use of a remote desktop application he had installed in his computer. However, it wasn’t as easy as connecting to the notebook over the internet and locating him: His investigation lasted for almost a month, watching his laptop screen as the thief used it…

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Canon EOS 50D Arrives October 5th

If you are looking for a good prosumer Canon camera, then you will only have to wait four more days. According to a Best Buy tipster, and this leaked screenshot of their stock system, the Canon EOS 50D will arrive on October 5.

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Apple Drops NDA for iPhone Software, Apologizes Between Teeth

After much pressure, Apple has decided that they have been stupid for a long enough time and have dropped their much much-criticized Non Disclosure Agreement from released iPhone software. According to the company, the NDA was an unnecessary obstacle for developers: To our developers We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released…

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Musinaut Music Player DJs Music According to Your Brainwaves

French company Musinaut wants to make the music you listen to change according to your mood. To achieve this, they have invented a special player capable of reading your brain waves, interpreting them, and then mixing the music to match your state of mind. So if I was using one right now, I would be…

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3D Force Field Opens Door for Holodeck, Virtual Touchable Leia

Here’s the video of the Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display, one of those technologies that will probably change entertainment forever: A high-fidelity 3D force field on the air that allows you to actually touch virtual objects with your bare hands. Initially, this technology could find its way into virtual keyboards, but in the future-as the size…

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Play Wii Fit with a Japanese Maid for $25

Why Akihabara’s Refresh Club doesn’t have a New York outlet, I don’t know, but on the wake of this groundbreaking news, they better open it soon. For $25 you will be able to play Wii Fit with Japanese girls in French maid dresses. Yes, Wii Fit, that game with the balance board that often requires…

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Space Station Astronaut Challenges Planet Earth to Chess Match

Canadian astronaut Greg Chamitoff has challenged everyone on planet Earth to a game of chess. He will play from the International Space Station traveling at five miles per second, 200 miles above the Earth, while you can make your move from your living room at ground level traveling at 0.1 miles a second to your…

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Goofy’s How to Hook Up Your Home Theater Guide

I like the 1940s Disney animation shorts. They may not get to the hilarity level of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery’s work at Warner, but some of them are really good. This How to Hook Up Your Home Theater short is new, but it feels like one of them and summarizes perfectly the dangers and…

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MI6 Camera With Secret Images Bought on eBay for $30

A Nikon Coolpix camera belonging to the MI6-the British equivalent of the CIA-was sold on eBay for $30 with images of al Qaeda suspects, fingerprints, names, rocket launchers, and missiles inside. That’s bad enough, but it gets worse: the camera also contained top secret information that may compromise the security of James Bonds in the…

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Hubble Telescope Communication Breaks Down, Plot Thickens

The complicated Hubble repair and upgrade mission scheduled for October 14th just got even more complicated: Last Saturday, the Hubble’s command and data-handling system broke down, rendering it unable to capture and transmit images to Earth. And while Nasa doesn’t know what the heck has happened—I’m thinking a bunch of aliens angry with this galactic…

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Umbrella Gives the Finger to Google’s Satellites, Rain

Designer guru Art Lebedev—creator of cool keyboards, clocks and fridge magnets—says that this umbrella is saying “Fuck the Rain”, but we know that his message is addressed to the New Evil Galactic Empire. [Art Lebedev]

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iPod Touch Survives Brutal Pickup Truck Crushing

Believe it or not, this iPod touch is alive after being crushed by a pickup truck almost beyond the point of no return And I don’t mean “alive” as in a Connect-it-to-your-computer-and-see-if-it’s-still-functioning kind of way. I mean that it actually works, screen included: And it actually looks good below all that shattered glass. It will…

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RedScale Film Shows Analog Photography Is Not Dead Yet, Thankfully

Leave it to the crazy Lomography heads to keep the flame of analog photography alive and kicking in this cold digital world of ours, like an ’80s top-of-the-charts song always resisting to die: Their new RedScale Negative 100 film gives a vision of the world in intense reds, smooth oranges oranges, and mellow yellows look…

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iTunes Shutdown Threat Probably as Dangerous as Large Hadron Collider

Meat Gadgets Don’t Include Mustard

Volvo Wind Tunnel Has Road Simulator Minus Annoying Backseat Kids

Repliee Robot Makes Me Scream and Cry Like a Little Girl

Search 2001, the Year When Google Actually Did No Evil

Motorola Confirms Android Phone, Crosses Fingers

Balsa Wood Canon DSLR Gives Us the Inevitable

Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely

Canon EOS 50D Arrives October 5th

Apple Drops NDA for iPhone Software, Apologizes Between Teeth

Musinaut Music Player DJs Music According to Your Brainwaves

3D Force Field Opens Door for Holodeck, Virtual Touchable Leia

Play Wii Fit with a Japanese Maid for $25

Space Station Astronaut Challenges Planet Earth to Chess Match

Goofy’s How to Hook Up Your Home Theater Guide

MI6 Camera With Secret Images Bought on eBay for $30

Hubble Telescope Communication Breaks Down, Plot Thickens

Umbrella Gives the Finger to Google’s Satellites, Rain

iPod Touch Survives Brutal Pickup Truck Crushing

RedScale Film Shows Analog Photography Is Not Dead Yet, Thankfully

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

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‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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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