Kyle VanHemert, Author at Gizmodo

Microsoft’s Free OneNote App Syncs with Windows Live SkyDrive

Microsoft is crrraaaazy about the cloud these days, and they’re using OneNote Mobile, a free companion app to their popular lists and notes software, to get iPhone users on board. Naturally, it syncs seamlessly with Windows Live SkyDrive. The OneNote iPhone app, free for a limited time, lets you make lists and take notes that…

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FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Deal

Today, the FCC approved Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal, marking the first time a cable provider has controlled a major broadcast network. It’s like a media Frankenstein! Along with promising to add 1,000 hours of news and informational programming and provide cheap broadband for low-income households, Comcast has assured everyone that it will provide equal…

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An iPod Amplifier That Makes You Do the Work

This is Bongue, a music amplifier designed by Studio Toer. It certainly doesn’t look like any amp I’ve ever seen. And this video of it in all its kinetic glory isn’t doing much to clear things up. So far all I’ve gathered is that 1) My iPod is going to be dangling from this thing…

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Hackers Who Discovered AT&T iPad Security Breach Arrested and Charged

U.S. Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer, the two Goatse Security members who exposed a serious security flaw in AT&T’s iPad subscriber database last summer. Serves them right, I guess? http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed As is often the case with these sorts of things, for better or worse, the two individuals who discovered…

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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Cockroach legs inspire robot limbs, the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, a gram of bacteria stores 900 TB of data, floating bike highways, robots patrol our power lines, the Sahara Desert gets a forest, and more. E. Coli Bacteria Could Become Our Next Computer Hard Drives Researchers have figured out that data can be stored in…

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SeamlessWeb App Is Here To Feed Lazy Android Users

I’m not sure Giz’s Sam Biddle would ever eat if not for SeamlessWeb, the web-based food delivery service. He just had a sandwich delivered and it’s only like 8:45am. Sick. Anywho, SeamlessWeb is now available as a free Android app. Fire up SeamlessWeb on your Android phone and it’ll use GPS to find delivery-friendly restaurants…

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Become an Office Hero By Making One of These Time-Bending, Lunch-Lengthening Clocks

Our lunch breaks have seemed downright luxurious this week, your coworker observes. You agree. Then you explain why: this diabolical clock, which speeds up 20% at 11am and slows down 20% at 11:48, adding 12 precious minutes to your lunchtime. No matter how hard you try, you can’t change time. But you can do the…

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Benjamin Franklin’s Most Enduring Inventions

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, making today his 305th birthday. Here is a list of things you may or may not have known sprang from this impossibly talented man’s mind. Glass Armonica While it was only a redesign of an existing instrument, the crystallophone (which involved producing sound by fingering variously sized…

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Trickle for iPhone

Not everyone plows through tweets like junkers at a Monster Truck Rally. Trickle offers a more tranquil Twitter experience, pushing tweets to your iPhone as they come, in crisp white Helvetica, one at a time. What is it? Trickle for Twitter, iPhone, $1. Pretty simple: Designed for in-dock usage, Trickle shows you your Tweets one…

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Ralph Lauren’s Private Garage Is Like Classic Car Heaven

Did you know that fashion designer extraordinaire Ralph Lauren collects classic automobiles? That he owns “60 or so of the rarest, most valuable cars in the world” and drives them all himself? He does! This is where he keeps ’em. The D.A.D. Garage, an acronym derived from the names of Lauren’s children, is located outside…

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The Great Movie Sequel Debate Visualized

Which sequels were truly better than the originals? Finally! The answers! This chart graphs the Rotten Tomatoes scores of a hundred-some sequels against the scores of the originals which preceded them. Apparently the first Star Trek movie really did suck! Click to make bigger. Yup, that’s Wrath of Khan way up there above the “better-than-the-original”…

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ZDNet Blogger Disappears Mysteriously in Bulgaria

This isn’t good. Dancho Danchev, a ZDNet blogger specializing in malware and cybercrime, has been missing since August, thought to be somewhere in Bulgaria. ZDNet’s only lead? This cryptic message: “Dancho’s alive but he’s in a lot of trouble.” That note came from a “local source,” and all other attempts to contact Danchev have come…

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Alfred for Mac

Application launchers are one of the simplest ways to speed up your computing—and certainly faster than hunting for icons in your dock. For ages, Quicksilver set the launch bar bar on Macs. Alfred leaves it in the dust. What is it? Alfred, Mac OS X, Free. A super snappy application launcher—like Quicksilver or Google Quick…

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Watching the Net Users

When I think of professional net surfers—present company excluded, of course—I think of elastic-ankled sweatpants and copious amounts of Cheeto dust. So why are all subjects in Gabriela Herman’s Bloggers series so damn good looking? Good photography, of course! Herman, who shot a handful of bloggers in their natural habitats—in the dark, bathed in their…

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Linguists Foolishly Place Apps Above Cookies

After what must have been a passionate debate, the American Dialect Society has deemed “app” the 2010 Word of the Year, beating out Cookie Monster’s “nom.” It sounds like we need to get our consumption priorities straight. Yes, according to the experts, 2010 was the year of the “app,” which I guess doesn’t seem altogether…

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Seas0nPass Is the Simplest Apple TV Jailbreak Yet

Seas0nPass, a new Apple TV jailbreak, makes the process easier than ever. And what can a jailbroken Apple TV actually do? Not a whole lot! You can install the media streamer Plex, though, which is a start. For now, the potential of a jailbroken Apple TV is more exciting than the reality of a jailbroken…

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Hey Brainiac Kids, You Can Win $50,000 In Google’s Global Science Fair

The science fair! I don’t think any of my schools ever had one, but according to the movies they are a bonafide rite of passage for young nerds everywhere. Now, Google’s hosting one with a $50,000 grand prize. The Google Global Science Fair 2011, a competition for kids aged 13 to 18, hopes to find…

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Google Places for iPhone

Google’s library of data is immense, sometimes dauntingly so. The new Google Places iPhone app is an elegant entry point into one particularly dark and disorganized fold of Google’s mega-brain: their restaurant, bar, and venue listings. What is it? Google Places, iPhone, Free. Once upon a time, Google tried to buy the restaurant-rating site Yelp.…

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Can a Single 21st Century Man Build a Toaster?

Click to view Remember Thomas Thwaites’s self-made toaster? In this TED talk, he overviews the incredibly laborious process of creating it. You’re gonna want your Eggos after the industrial capitalist system is overthrown, aren’t you? Sure you are. So pay attention! [TED] https://gizmodo.com/5-homemade-toaster-teaches-the-value-of-walmart-5538964

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How Three College Kids Illegally Captured the Nation’s First X-Ray Photograph

On the evening of January 12, 1896, three Davidson College juniors bribed a janitor and sneaked into a physics laboratory, carrying with them a cadaver’s finger and other strange items. They didn’t realize that they were about to make history. Dr. Henry Louis Smith, the students’ physics professor, had just caught wind of the discovery…

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Microsoft’s Free OneNote App Syncs with Windows Live SkyDrive

FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Deal

An iPod Amplifier That Makes You Do the Work

Hackers Who Discovered AT&T iPad Security Breach Arrested and Charged

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

SeamlessWeb App Is Here To Feed Lazy Android Users

Become an Office Hero By Making One of These Time-Bending, Lunch-Lengthening Clocks

Benjamin Franklin’s Most Enduring Inventions

Trickle for iPhone

Ralph Lauren’s Private Garage Is Like Classic Car Heaven

The Great Movie Sequel Debate Visualized

ZDNet Blogger Disappears Mysteriously in Bulgaria

Alfred for Mac

Watching the Net Users

Linguists Foolishly Place Apps Above Cookies

Seas0nPass Is the Simplest Apple TV Jailbreak Yet

Hey Brainiac Kids, You Can Win $50,000 In Google’s Global Science Fair

Google Places for iPhone

Can a Single 21st Century Man Build a Toaster?

How Three College Kids Illegally Captured the Nation’s First X-Ray Photograph

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

Artemis 2 Day 2: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

China Is Trying to Grow New Forests in This Notorious Mega-Desert. It’s Working

RAM Prices Are Threatening the Viability of the Raspberry Pi and Single-Board Computing

Michael B. Jordan’s First Post-Oscars Film Looks Way Cuter Than ‘Sinners’

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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?