Mario Aguilar, Author at Gizmodo

Silicon Valley Dopes and LOLCats Get Reality TV Shows Because…Ugh, Why, Please No

Bravo’s embracing technology trends, and you should be very worried. Amongst the cable channel’s newly greenlit shows are Huh?, a reality show about Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh, and Silicon Valley, a series about future “techie superstars” produced by Randi Zuckerberg. Groan. You can’t blame people for being interested in the people behind the technologies…

Television Mario Aguilar Apr 4 '12

Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?

We first heard rumors about Google’s augmented reality glasses a few months ago, and now in a post on Google Plus, the company revealed “Project Glass” along with some early concepts and prototype designs. These specs look like the freaky science fiction concept they are. Would you wear them, though? https://gizmodo.com/googles-mystery-hud-glasses-could-be-on-sale-by-the-hol-5887152 Watch this video of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 4 '12

Ikea’s “Experimental” LED Lamps Are Perfect For “Experimental” Lying On the Floor Staring at the Ceiling

For its new lighting line, “Experiments in LED,” Ikea tapped different designers to create lights that change the ambiance of a room into something trippy. And yes, they’ve all got wonderful names we don’t know how to pronounce. Designed by Ehlen Johansson the Solullen pendant lamp (blue, left) is made out of paper with a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

Shooting Challenge: Spring Gallery 1

My boyfriend and I wanted to enjoy the first real day of spring in Seattle so we went to the Woodland Park Zoo where the white wolves were enjoying the sun too. Shot with a Nikon D80 and Nikkor 55-200mm. f/5.6 1/500 sec. – Allison Koseki Been curious about attempting to compose HDR photos for…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

Shooting Challenge: Spring Gallery 2

I recently found a bunch of lenses for scientific lab photography scattered around a dumpster at the university where I work. I scrounged all the ones that looked worth keeping and have been playing with them ever since. None of them will actually attach to my camera lenses so I have to hold them in…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

Shooting Challenge: Spring Gallery 3

We’ve had really nice weather all week in the UK and come the weekend… its dull and miserable! I wanted to capture some blossom but the tree outside my house hadn’t quite got there yet. I went round to my friends and took my camera in case I saw something I could use for the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

This Condom-Stashing iPhone Case Will Not Get You Laid

From the outside, the Playa Case could be a case for the non-sex-having masses. But when things start to get hot and heavy, the back panel slides away to reveal a hidden condom compartment. Finally, an iPhone case that recognizes the real problems winners like us and Australian James Dean here experience every day: too…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

$4000 Crane Lamp Is a 1:50 Scale Model of the Real Thing

Standing nearly seven feet tall, the Crane Lamp by former Lego designer Charlie Davidson is supposedly a scale model of the largest crawler crane in the world. The huge crane portion of the lamp sits by the wall and hoists up a glass-tube light sculpture over the center of the room. No word on how…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

Find the Best iOS Text Editor For You With This Insanely Detailed Chart

Not all iOS text editors are created equal, but this maddeningly comprehensive chart comparing just about every feature of more than 30 of the top apps will help you find the right one for you. Compiled by Brett Terpstra, the chart is so huge that it won’t fit on a 15-inch laptop screen. Features compared…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

Plantronics BackBeat Go: The Tiny, Cheap Bluetooth Headset-Buds You’ve Been Waiting For

For $100, the new Plantronics BackBeat Go Bluetooth headset isn’t just super-cheap—it’s probably the best-designed, most-convenient set we’ve ever seen. This is a headset that thinks it’s a set of earbuds. The Plantronics BackBeat Go consists of two buds connected by a short cable with an inline mic and volume control. It would be easy,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 3 '12

Will the Buff, Shirtless Crossing Guards of the Future Wear High-Tech Glowing Safety Vests?

The visionary fashion designers at LumiGram have done it again. Their new safety vests are a modern spin on the gear crossing guards wear as they protect street-crossing children on the way to school. The battery-powered fabrics are made of super-thin optical fibers woven in with other synthetics. The fibers are connected to LEDs, which…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 2 '12

Nikon D800 Review: A Major HD Upgrade, But Is It the Best DSLR For the Money?

The Nikon D700 was the last great pre-video DSLR. It was an excellent and very boring camera. Nikon’s newest, a $3,000 body called the D800, introduces two major features: HD video and a 36-megapixel sensor. That sensor is what’s on everybody’s mind. Studio photographers will love its rich details, and for the hack on the…

Reviews Mario Aguilar Apr 2 '12

Toilet Freezes Your Poop To Keep It From Stinking

Composting your poops is one of those things you might actually consider were it not for all the gross, decomposing feces you’d need to store and transport about your property. Biolan’s got an idea that might help ameliorate some of that vile mess by freezing the smell in its tracks. Treehugger reports on one of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 2 '12

It Makes Total Sense That the Bankers Who Destroyed Our Economy Are Now Trading Bitcoin

At its core, Bitcoin is worthless. That people continue to trade the invented digital currency is understandable because it’s possible to turn a quick, risky buck. It’s more gambling than economics. So of course the financial professionals who leveled the global economy love it. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-yorker-tries-to-flush-out-bitcoin-creator-5846604 Here’s an interesting trend within the world’s Bitcoin exchanges. People…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 2 '12

Digital Dice Will Keep You From Cheating On Your Virtual Board Games

Board games will eventually all be played on tablets. Say goodbye to the thrill of rolling dice, say hello to a random number generator. Developed by GIC, DICE+ are Bluetooth cubes that bring the tactile joy back to tablet board games. The concept is pretty simple: the dice talk to your tablet and tell it…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 30 '12

Google Makes Four Times More Money From iOS Than Android

Back in October, Larry Page proudly declared that Google’s mobile products would generate $2.5 billion in 2011. The Guardian reports, reports that Android accounts for a just a tiny fraction of that number. Google’s iOS products contribute way more to Google’s bottom line. According to court papers filed in an upcoming legal battle with Oracle,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 29 '12

Jeff Bezos’ Exploration Team Just Found the Apollo 11 Rockets at the Bottom of The Ocean

A Jeff Bezos-funded team of sea explorers has located the Apollo 11 rockets that helped get man get to the moon. On July 16th, 1969, five F-1 rockets powered Apollo 11 off the ground with one and a half million pounds of thrust, and 32 million horsepower. A few minutes later, the first stage rockets…

Space & Spaceflight Mario Aguilar Mar 28 '12

Is Your Online Dating Profile For Sale?

For $35 anyone can buy a bundle of 1000 American online dating profiles. If you think yours isn’t one of them, here’s a question: What service are you using and how carefully did you read those terms of service? Betabeat reports that businesses like SaleDatingProfiles.com are unloading the details of unwitting users wholesale. The facts…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 28 '12

AKG K495 NC Lightning Review: Hot-Sounding, Road-Ready, Noise-Canceling Headphones

Toting headphones back and forth across the country (or the city) is one of the best ways to expose their design flaws. Can the new AKG K495 NC noise-canceling headphones, with their burly build and audiophile pedigree, stand up that kind of punishment while delivering dulcet tones? Is this finally the ideal traveler’s kit? What…

Reviews Mario Aguilar Mar 27 '12

Did Harry Potter Demand Just Take Down the Amazon Kindle Store? (Updated)

Just hours after all of the Harry Potter books were finally made available on the Kinde, the Amazon Kindle Store is experiencing some difficulties. Did fanatical Harry Potter fans rushing to download ebooks cause the outage? It seems plausible. Though you can navigate the Kindle Store, most titles are unavailable for purchase. Interestingly, several of…

Commerce Mario Aguilar Mar 27 '12

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Silicon Valley Dopes and LOLCats Get Reality TV Shows Because…Ugh, Why, Please No

Google Glasses First Look: Would You Wear These Augmented Reality Specs?

Ikea’s “Experimental” LED Lamps Are Perfect For “Experimental” Lying On the Floor Staring at the Ceiling

Shooting Challenge: Spring Gallery 1

Shooting Challenge: Spring Gallery 2

Shooting Challenge: Spring Gallery 3

This Condom-Stashing iPhone Case Will Not Get You Laid

$4000 Crane Lamp Is a 1:50 Scale Model of the Real Thing

Find the Best iOS Text Editor For You With This Insanely Detailed Chart

Plantronics BackBeat Go: The Tiny, Cheap Bluetooth Headset-Buds You’ve Been Waiting For

Will the Buff, Shirtless Crossing Guards of the Future Wear High-Tech Glowing Safety Vests?

Nikon D800 Review: A Major HD Upgrade, But Is It the Best DSLR For the Money?

Toilet Freezes Your Poop To Keep It From Stinking

It Makes Total Sense That the Bankers Who Destroyed Our Economy Are Now Trading Bitcoin

Digital Dice Will Keep You From Cheating On Your Virtual Board Games

Google Makes Four Times More Money From iOS Than Android

Jeff Bezos’ Exploration Team Just Found the Apollo 11 Rockets at the Bottom of The Ocean

Is Your Online Dating Profile For Sale?

AKG K495 NC Lightning Review: Hot-Sounding, Road-Ready, Noise-Canceling Headphones

Did Harry Potter Demand Just Take Down the Amazon Kindle Store? (Updated)

Watch the Lego ‘Project Hail Mary’ Set (Almost) Go to Space

Shark Glam Ceramic Multi-Styler Is Nearly Half the Price of Dyson Airwrap at an All-Time Low on Amazon

OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator to Usher in an AI Slop ‘Renaissance’

Xbox Game Pass Now Costs Less, but That Doesn’t Mean It’s a Good Deal

The Trailer for ‘Affection’ Teases a Medical Mystery From Hell

So How Did Artemis 2’s Heat Shield Hold Up? The First Results Are In

Watch a Guy Fabricate Functioning Micron-Scale RAM Cells in His Garden Shed

Scientists Probed the Rings Around Uranus to Find Out How They Got There

I Fear What Baby Rotta Could Mean For ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’

Framework’s New Ultra-Repairable ‘Pro’ Laptop Lets You Ditch Windows Entirely

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go