Leslie Horn

New iPod Nanos Look Like Gorgeous Tiny iPhones

Brand new iPod Nanos also joined Apple’s iPhone 5 party at the Moscone Center today. The totally redesigned junior MP3 players have a larger display, and come in seven beautiful candy-hued colors. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-5-everything-you-need-to-know-5942588 The new iPods also have Bluetooth for the first time as well as the brand new lightning connector and the longest battery…

Nike Wants Displays in Your Golf Club That Tell You Exactly How Badly You Shanked It

Nike has always been like Chubbs was to Happy Gilmore, helping you improve your golf game. But now it wants to do it digitally—it just earned a patent to put data-collecting sensors in clubs that would track your swing. In one form, an analysis of your swing would be shown on a screen located on…

Amazing, Giant Nature Posters to Adorn Your Bare Walls

The amazing lifeforms that inhabit our planet are art in and of themselves. Often pictures of these wonderful living creatures and organisms speak for themselves—a little goes a long way, which makes artist Debbie Carlos’s simple black and white posters so lovely. Plus they’re huge and affordable. When you move and you have spent all…

Feed: Make Music that Moves on Your iPad

There are plenty of apps that let you record field noises and tinker with sounds on your iPad, but none as beautiful as Feed. What does it do? Records, loops, changes the pitch, and otherwise manipulates audio files or sounds taken from the iPad’s microphone. Why do we like it? While other music making apps…

The Hacker Who Isn’t Old Enough To Drive But Can Destroy Your Digital Life

Fifteen year old kids can be unpredictable. But one fifteen-year-old, a hacker who goes by the moniker Cosmo the God, is downright scary. He’s a highly-skilled social engineer who is capable of stealing your digital life right out from under you. And he doesn’t even have his drivers’ license yet. Wired has a borderline frightening…

A Treehouse Tenement For 76 Birds and One Human

Birds are awesome. From a distance. Up close they are terrifying, startling creatures that will crap on you and swoop unexpectedly into your face, making you scramble to hit the deck. Now an avian slumlord has created a bird tenement capable of containing 76 birds—and one weirdo human—at a time. Created by a designer called…

These Nipples Got the New Yorker Banned from Facebook

When Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson’s top at the end of the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII, thus exposing her nipple, old ladies fainted, and the FCC smote CBS for its moral failure. But there’s a new Nipplegate in town, and this time the transgressor is the smut rag known as…

Where to Sell Your iPhone 4S for the Most Money

Apple’s next iPhone is coming tomorrow. If you’re planning cashing in your old phone, you need to do it now. Here’s where to look for the best deal while there’s still some time left. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 ebay How much: $309-$400 How to do it: You can go one of two ways with eBay—you can either sell…

A Waffle Maker To Help You Through a Lifetime of Hangovers

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Especially after a night of drinking. And those often bleak mornings will be made better after you’ve eaten to soak up all the alcohol—like waffles. For that of course you need a waffle iron, and no shock that All-Clad has a really good offering. It comes…

Gojee: Make a Meal With the Scraps in Your Pantry

You can get stuck in a rut in the kitchen where you end up making the same boring dishes night after night. If you find yourself in this position, Gojee will save your from culinary boredom. What does it do? It offers up different recipes for drinks or food based on either what you’re craving…

Lonely Scientists Make a Robot With a Gentle Touch

A typical robot does not know that you must never shake a baby. And a typical robot just doesn’t have a tender touch. But now scientists at Harvard have developed a robotic tentacle so gentle that it can wrap around flower without breaking it. How does it do it? New Scientist explains: The tentacle is…

“Emma Watson” Is Full of Viruses

Warning: don’t search for Emma Watson online unless you want to get infected. According to an McAfee’s annual list of most dangerous online celebrities, if you’re looking for news about Hermione, specifically naked news, you have about a 12 percent chance of picking up malware. Hackers often lure us in with the promise of naked…

Samsung Will Reportedly Sue Apple Over a 4G LTE iPhone 5 (Updated)

The $1.05 billion Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple has not ended fight between the two companies. In fact, the battle might get even more complicated. According to the Korea Times, Samsung will sue Apple once again over LTE patents the iPhone 5 reportedly infringes on. https://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-damages-samsung-has-to-pay-apple-scrawled-5937808 The latest news came after a Korean…

Google has updated the Google Drive iOS and Android apps to include document editing on your device. Spreadsheet party!

Your Dumb iPad Picture Taking Is Keeping Real Photographers From Doing Their Jobs

Here’s a picture of Barack Obama campaigning in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday. Except you can’t even get a great look at the prez because of all the amateur idiots taking idiot pictures with their idiot tablets, getting in the way of the real professional photographers. This disruptive behavior has to stop. Even Amazon—which has…

The-Dream: Dope Bitch (NSFW)

This song is about girls. Girls and cocaine. Lots and lots of cocaine. Actual rivers of white running out of the noses of beautiful, scantily-clad women. But it’s so almost the weekend and we don’t judge your after hours activity. And this track is just so wonderful and so catchy, illicit activities aside. The-Dream is…

Concrete Lamp, Outdoor Bed, and More

Congrats! You made it to the weekend. And your reward is a host of lovely things to gaze upon. Among the most beautiful items of the week are an amazingly restored farmhouse, a crazy outdoor bed, and much more. 18th Century Swiss Farm House Is Reborn as Beautiful Live/Work Space https://gizmodo.com/18th-century-swiss-farm-house-is-reborn-as-beautiful-li-5941195 Dating back to 1743,…

Five Seasons of the Wire Means Five Weeks of Never Leaving Your Couch

I’m in the middle of a bit of a phase. And that phase is that I can’t stop watching The Wire. So naturally, like a dope fiend, I have to have it all on DVD. All in the game, yo. Anyway, I’ve been watching it on Amazon Instant video, but come on—it’s so much better…

Giftly, Glympse, and More

It’s Friday and what better way to celebrate than a deliciously fresh batch of the best iPhone apps of the week. We’ve got all kinds of tasty treats for you this time around, from a gift-giving tool to a trip planner, and so much more. Travel +Leisure Tripeze: Whether you want to take a weekend…

NextGuide, Net-A-Porter, and More

The week might end, but new apps do not. And we’ve got all kinds of greatness coming at you this week—a shopping app, a TV guide, and more. Basher’s Presidents: If all the U.S. presidents of history got into a massive knife fight, who would be the last left standing? That’s a very good question—one…