Kat Hannaford, Author at Gizmodo

Obama Watching Osama’s Downfall is Almost Flickr’s Most-Viewed Photo of all Time

It takes a fair amount of badass to become the most-viewed photo of all time on Flickr, but the photo of Obama, Hillary Clinton and other officials watching Osama bin Laden’s capture is well on its way to knocking a lame (by comparison) photo of Nohkalikai Falls, Cherraphunjee off the pedestal. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-obama-and-his-team-watching-operation-kill-bin-5797874 Uploaded on the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

ElliptiGO 3C: For When You Can’t Decide Between Cycling or Running

The world’s first elliptical bike has been updated with three speeds for even more calf-toning bike riding/jogging. I guess their thinking goes along the lines of why just cycle or jog, when you can do both at once? This new model, the ElliptiGO 3C, adds new features but is also cheaper than the first one,…

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Spotify Totally Just Added iPod Syncing to its Streaming and (New) Download Service

Woah. Spotify users—and I hope that’s most of the Europeans reading this—have no reason to continue using iTunes. They’ve just rejigged their download service so you can download tracks in the 10s, 15s, 40s and 100s, but crucially they’re also letting you sync iPods right there in Spotify, negating the need for iTunes. As Spotify…

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Would You Rather Use an Origami Laptop or a Tablet?

Considering netbooks are as dead as the dust that lines your windowsills, you’ve really got two choices when buying a portable computer: a laptop or a tablet. The teeny MacBook Air has tried inserting itself between the two, but for those of us who prefer a full-sized screen, Niels van Hoof’s Feno laptop concept could…

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Guy Takes His Love for the 3DS Too Far With the Augmented Reality Tattoo

Just one week after buying a 3DS, this guy felt compelled to get a tattoo on his wrist to commemorative his love for Nintendo’s latest plaything. Rather than a little sketch of Mario or Link, he got an augmented reality tatt that can be read by his 3DS, as you can see in the video…

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BlackBerry PlayBook Going 3D With a Future Over-the-Air Update Planned

At BlackBerry’s big conference today, they forced everyone to don 3D glasses and check out the 3D content that the Astonishing Tribe guys (remember them?) have created for their PlayBook tablet. I know, I know, here you were thinking BlackBerry had all but nixed the 3D ride. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-shows-off-the-sillier-side-of-the-playbook-t-5763859 3D widgets, games and even a—wait for…

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Seagate Ramps Up the Density of its Hard Drive Platters to Never-Seen-Before Levels

Instead of storing 3TB of five hard drive platters, Seagate has done the unthinkable and squeezed the same amount of memory on just three 3.5-inch platters, achieving the holy grail 625GB/in2 areal density. Keep an eye out for those hard drives later this year. [The Reg]

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BlackBerry Phones Will Use Bing For the Default Search Provider

What’s good for the BlackBerry PlayBook is good for BlackBerry handsets by the sounds of it, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has pumped hands with RIM boss Mike Lazaridis and declared all future BlackBerry phones as being Bing-friendly. https://kotaku.com/blackberry-playbook-review-5791814 Apparently Bing on BlackBerry isn’t just going to be a search app. Ballmer said “this goes…

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There’ll Be No New E-Ink Displays For the Kindle and Other Ereaders This Year

Ereaders are as good as they’ll get for now—at least, in regards to the displays used in them, as E Ink (the company which supplies displays to Amazon and Barnes & Noble) told CNet not to expect anything this year. Sri Peruvemba, the vice president of global sales and marketing at E Ink, told CNet…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Apple’s New iMacs Add Thunderbolt, More Graphics Muscle, and Monster Quad-Core Guts

Goodbye miniDisplay ports, and hello Thunderbolt: Apple’s latest iMacs include the faster Thunderbolt connection, but that’s not the only new addition from Intel. The computers, which come in 21.5 and 27-inch size options, also run on Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge Core procession line. The new desktops had been rumored for the last few weeks, and…

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Why Hasn’t Anyone Created an iPhone Printer?

Honestly, I’m as shocked as you are that there are 7,683,291 different iPhone cases out there today, but no iPhone cases that print photos out like a Polaroid. Why?! Instead, we have to lust after concepts, like this one from Mac Funamizu, who proposes a printer that can also geotag and add QR codes to…

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Early Chrome Build, Canary for Mac, is Now Available

After knocking around on Windows since last August, the Google Chrome Canary pre-dev build is now available for Macs. In the words of Google, “it automatically updates more frequently than the Dev channel, and does not undergo any manual testing before each release. Because we expect it to be unstable and, at times, unusable, you…

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Apple Store Down, Suggesting New iMacs Are on Their Way

The Apple Store has just gone down this morning (thanks for alerting us, eagle-eyed readers!), but what can we expect once it goes back up? New iMacs are the most likely addition, after retailers were caught slashing prices on the dwindling stock of old iMacs. Whatever comes next, stay tuned! https://gizmodo.com/rumors-signs-and-portents-point-to-may-3-imac-sandy-b-5797427

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Logitech’s TV Cam Lets You Skype Through Panasonic TVs

Basically, Logitech’s grabbed their 720p webcam and made it mountable and compatible with TVs—well, Panasonic’s 2011 model of Viera Connected TV that supports Skype. On sale this month, it’ll cost $150. [Logitech]

Television Kat Hannaford

The World’s First Carbon Neutral City Opens For Business

Masdar City, the world’s first carbon neutral city that’s banned cars and skyscrapers from its streets, gives us a glimpse of what other parts of the world might look like in the future. Located in Abu Dhabi and financed by the city’s ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (who has pumped between $15bn and…

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Amazon’s Tablet Said to be Shipping Later This Year

Not only is Amazon’s Taiwanese-based components manufacturer Quanta Computer rumored to be readying their mysterious tablet for later this year, they’re also said to be using touchscreen Fringe Field Switching (FFS) LCD displays from E Ink, the same company that supplies Amazon with their Kindle screens. [Digitimes via SlashGear] https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099

Commerce Kat Hannaford

It Took One Tapped Phone Call to Lead Osama’s Courier to Him

Bin Laden was hiding out in a million-dollar compound with all the security in the world, but ultimately when his house-mate/courier Sheikh Abu Ahmed picked up the phone, the US military knew they had their man. We learnt yesterday that the courier led officials to the compound, and that other signs—such as a lack of…

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Film Exposed to Booze Shows Bleary-Eyed Effects (As You’d Expect)

I was only joking last week when I said I wanted to develop some film in vodka after seeing photos developed in lake water, but photographer Casey Holford beat me to the punch, by soaking his Kodak Ultramax roll of film into some rubbing alcohol for around 10 minutes before shooting on it. https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-photos-of-lakes-exposed-using-lake-water-5796537 The…

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Silly Yet Entirely Practical Necono Cat Camera is Now on Sale in the US

I must admit, I couldn’t help buying one of these daft little cat-cameras the minute I saw they were on sale outside of Japan. If you need a refresher, the Necono camera is a dinky digital camera weighing 40g, and while it doesn’t have an LCD screen and the sensor is only 3MP, the cute…

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Send a Kiss to Your Loved One Online, and Feel Them Kiss You Back

For some people, this Kiss Transmission Device is the closest they’ll get to the real thing—so please people, try to curb your snark for a few minutes while I tell you about how the Japanese devices link up over the internet, replicating the users’ manipulation of the straw-like tool in their mouth. The person on…

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Kat Hannaford

Obama Watching Osama’s Downfall is Almost Flickr’s Most-Viewed Photo of all Time

ElliptiGO 3C: For When You Can’t Decide Between Cycling or Running

Spotify Totally Just Added iPod Syncing to its Streaming and (New) Download Service

Would You Rather Use an Origami Laptop or a Tablet?

Guy Takes His Love for the 3DS Too Far With the Augmented Reality Tattoo

BlackBerry PlayBook Going 3D With a Future Over-the-Air Update Planned

Seagate Ramps Up the Density of its Hard Drive Platters to Never-Seen-Before Levels

BlackBerry Phones Will Use Bing For the Default Search Provider

There’ll Be No New E-Ink Displays For the Kindle and Other Ereaders This Year

Apple’s New iMacs Add Thunderbolt, More Graphics Muscle, and Monster Quad-Core Guts

Why Hasn’t Anyone Created an iPhone Printer?

Early Chrome Build, Canary for Mac, is Now Available

Apple Store Down, Suggesting New iMacs Are on Their Way

Logitech’s TV Cam Lets You Skype Through Panasonic TVs

The World’s First Carbon Neutral City Opens For Business

Amazon’s Tablet Said to be Shipping Later This Year

It Took One Tapped Phone Call to Lead Osama’s Courier to Him

Film Exposed to Booze Shows Bleary-Eyed Effects (As You’d Expect)

Silly Yet Entirely Practical Necono Cat Camera is Now on Sale in the US

Send a Kiss to Your Loved One Online, and Feel Them Kiss You Back

Amazon’s 50-Inch Smart Fire TV Is Still 40% Off After the Spring Sale, Price Could Jump Back Anytime

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The ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Moment Designed for You to Gawk at Hugh Jackman’s Chiseled Body Is Now an Action Figure

Marshall Emberton III Bluetooth Speaker Isn’t Supposed to Be This Cheap, Even the New Midnight Blue at an All-Time Low

2026 MacBook Pro (M5 Pro) Breaks Into Its First Sale on Amazon, While Apple Store Still Has None on the New Laptop

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Game to Lose Online Mode After Its Server Partner Pivots to You’ll Never Guess What

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