Kyle VanHemert, Author at Gizmodo

iPad Apps November 12

Aweditorium: An incredibly beautiful app for finding new music with a wealth of content. It’s free, so you should really just give it a spin. Magic Fiddle: Rosa’s the fiddler on the roof: https://gizmodo.com/the-magic-fiddle-ipad-app-will-have-you-making-sweet-mu-5686049 Smule, the maker of the popular Magic Piano iPad app, has just shared its new Magic Fiddle app with us. It’s…

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Interactive People Watching

Oh this is fun. Multimedia artist Rune Madsen took the usually-passive act of people watching and made it, well, a lot less passive. Watch how the stream of pedestrian traffic adapts as his buddy rearranges some sidewalk barricades. Madsen worked on the project with Scott Wayne Indiana, the mischievous fellow who’s seen moving the barricades…

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iPhone Apps November 12

Time Flies: Jesus says: https://gizmodo.com/when-was-the-last-time-you-gave-flowers-to-your-girlfri-5687683 Time flies, which is why Absent Design made this application called Time Flies.. It’s quite simple: You can quickly record the things you do, look at the list chronologically and bookmark the most important ones. Brilliant. $1 Kik: Tell it, Rosa: https://gizmodo.com/kik-messenger-a-simple-no-frills-way-to-keep-in-touch-5685873 Kik Messenger’s a no-frills app, but it could…

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Apple Products Get Chopped, Shot, Smashed, and Burned

What does Michael Tompert have against Apple? Probably nothing! He’s just an artist who happens to have spectacularly destroyed a whole bunch of their products for his new exhibit. Above: a sledgehammered iPhone 4 and a neatly sliced Magic Mouse. Tompert’s show, 12LVE, opens tonight at San Francisco’s Live Worms Gallery. It’s a collaboration with…

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Scientists Discover How Cats Drink, After 4 Years of Research and High-Speed Photography

Click to viewFor the last several years, four professors from prestigious institutions have been looking for the answer to a simple question: how does a cat drink? This high-speed footage helped them figure it out. Dogs use their tongues like ladles, sloppily carrying water up from the bowl to their mouths and often getting their…

Biology Kyle VanHemert

Minority Report, Courtesy of Kinect

Hackers have wasted no time bending Kinect to their will, and this proof of concept video for a Minority Report-esque multitouch UI is probably the most exciting mod yet. Stretch to zoom, here we come! https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kinect-hacked-to-run-on-mac-os-x-5687874 As modder floemuc explains, “I thought I’d get the mandatory picture-browsing stuff done so it’s out of the way…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

The Magicians of Industrial Light & Magic

The Industrial Light & Magic team has been responsible for some of the most iconic scenes in modern movie history. Their magic has graced Star Wars, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark and more. Here’s a peek behind the curtain. VanityFair.com has an incredible set of shots showing the ILM team at work on various…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

Fiskars Cuts+More Will Make Your Other Scissors Look So, So Lame

Here’s something that should’ve happened way sooner: a pair of scissors that doesn’t just pathetically snip snip snip at things but opens bottles, cuts through wire, shreds boxes, pierces holes and does a bunch of other rad stuff. Diagram, please: Ah yes. I told you your old scissors would look wimpy by comparison. You can…

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How Two Gay Men Used Skype To Have a Legal Wedding In Texas

Mark Reed and Dante Walkup had been together for 10 years when they decided to get hitched. There was one problem: they wanted to be wed at home, in Texas, where gay marriage is illegal. So they fired up Skype. Determined to marry amongst friends and family in Dallas, Reed and Walkup turned to technology…

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Teenage Girl Claims Investigative Reporter Stole Her Sex Diary And Posted It On Facebook

A teenage girl is claiming that her father’s ex-girlfriend (now ex), a reporter, took photos of her diary (which she kept in her bedroom) and posted them on a “Gossip Girl”-style fake Facebook page. The reporter is Teri Buhl, an investigative reporter based out of New Canaan, CT, who usually writes about hedge funds. Buhl…

Social Media Kyle VanHemert

FlavorPill 2.0 Tells You What Cool Stuff’s Going on in Your City

FlavorPill, the excellent cultural programming guide New York, San Fran, Chicago, and others, just released version 2.0 of its iPhone app, polishing up navigation and adding restaurant and venue listings. Now there’s really no excuse to be sitting at home. Flavorpill’s iPhone app is a handy way to check out what’s happening in your city…

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Russian Assassin Hunting the Double Agent Who Betrayed Anna Chapman

According to an official quoted in a Russian newspaper, the Kremlin has likely sent an assassin to kill Colonel Shcherbakov, the man who betrayed Anna Chapman and nine other spies living in the U.S. Wait, what year is this again? https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-russian-spy-undercover-in-the-u-s-5575588 An unnamed, high-ranking government official suggested to Moscow’s Kommersant paper that a “Mercader” had…

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Holy Crap I’m in One of Those Taiwanese Animations About That Crazy Lightsaber Laser

GOD, weird. So a while back I called WickedLasers’ Spyder III a “real life lightsaber.” (It wasn’t quite that cool in practice). LucasFilm took issue and threw a fit. Here’s the whole saga (and ME) immortalized in Taiwanese CGI. https://gizmodo.com/the-spyder-iii-the-worlds-most-powerful-portable-laser-5560206 What an honor! (Though I’m not the first Gizmodo duder to get this very special…

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‘Nexus S’ Coming to T-Mobile Holiday Season?

Best Buy slipped up and posted a teaser for a “Pure Google” “Nexus S” handset coming to T-Mobile this holiday season. Could that be Nexus S-as-in-Samsung, like the one we heard all about a few weeks ago? https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-the-nexus-two-by-samsung-5676008 Though our friend referred to it as the Nexus Two, here’s how he described the device: It’s…

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My Little Soldering Unicorn

Hats off to Matt Pinner and Sean Bonner at LA’s CRASHSpace, who took an ordinary My Little Pony and turned it into a majestic unicorn with a soldering iron horn. Now where’s my Cabbage Patch Ball Peen… It seems like a decent a way to get your little daughter into the workshop, at least. [CRASHSpace…

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‘Hulu For Magazines’ Coming Early 2011, Only For Android

Next Issue Media, the tablet magazine storefront from the superfriends of publishing (Conde Nast, Time Inc, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp) will launch in early 2011 according to CEO Morgan Guenther, but it will only be available on Android devices at the outset. “We’re ready to support Apple as well,” Guenther says, but presumably Apple hasn’t…

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WD-40: Because Robots Get It On Too

Yeah, OK, it’s a water dispersant not a lubricant. And sure, true enough, you probably don’t want to put WD-40 anywhere near your lovemaking parts. But besides all that, I see what you did there, Spanish-language ad agency. [Reddit]

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We Did It! Adorable Kid Reunited With Stolen Superhero Backpack and PSP!

Remember that totally adorable kid who had his superhero backpack (and his Halloween candy and PSP) stolen last week? Remember how you saw him and hoped that somehow, someway he’d be happy again? Well he IS, thanks to the internet! https://gizmodo.com/lets-help-this-cute-kid-find-his-stolen-backpack-5681889 Thanks to the internet and Jimmy Kimmel, that is. According to Kai’s Dad, the…

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The New Amazon Patent That Guarantees Perfect Holiday Gifts For All

Amazon was just granted a weird patent for a “gift conversion” system, basically a means to ensure that you’ll always end up with whatever gift you want, no matter how bad your batty aunt wants to give you a turtleneck. The patent, awarded to Colin Bryar and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, lets potential gift recipients…

Commerce Kyle VanHemert

How Kinect Got an Autistic Kid Gaming

GamingNexus editor John Yan has a four-year-old son with a mild form of autism. The little guy’s tried to play 360 and PS3 but has trouble getting a hold on the controllers. With Kinect, though, he was an instant pro. In a heartwarming post entitled “I think Kinect is OK, but it’s the best $150…

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Kyle VanHemert

iPad Apps November 12

Interactive People Watching

iPhone Apps November 12

Apple Products Get Chopped, Shot, Smashed, and Burned

Scientists Discover How Cats Drink, After 4 Years of Research and High-Speed Photography

Minority Report, Courtesy of Kinect

The Magicians of Industrial Light & Magic

Fiskars Cuts+More Will Make Your Other Scissors Look So, So Lame

How Two Gay Men Used Skype To Have a Legal Wedding In Texas

Teenage Girl Claims Investigative Reporter Stole Her Sex Diary And Posted It On Facebook

FlavorPill 2.0 Tells You What Cool Stuff’s Going on in Your City

Russian Assassin Hunting the Double Agent Who Betrayed Anna Chapman

Holy Crap I’m in One of Those Taiwanese Animations About That Crazy Lightsaber Laser

‘Nexus S’ Coming to T-Mobile Holiday Season?

My Little Soldering Unicorn

‘Hulu For Magazines’ Coming Early 2011, Only For Android

WD-40: Because Robots Get It On Too

We Did It! Adorable Kid Reunited With Stolen Superhero Backpack and PSP!

The New Amazon Patent That Guarantees Perfect Holiday Gifts For All

How Kinect Got an Autistic Kid Gaming

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

Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta Glasses Now on GlassesUSA With 50% Off Lens Upgrades, Get Vision AI Glasses for Less

This Windows 11 Pro Mini PC Shows Up at a Record Low on Amazon After the Spring Sale, No Need for a Tower Desktop

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

Don’t Hold Your Breath for a ‘Super Smash Bros.’ Movie

What’s Actually the Best Way to Get a Good Night’s Sleep? We Asked Scientists

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