Mario Aguilar

Starting today, you’ll be able to order from GrubHub and Seamless restaurants directly from Foursquare. In addition to the usual info you see when you look up a restaurant, you’ll also see the option to order from participating joints. Which is kind of weird because Foursquare is about going places and delivery is about sitting…

Report: Samsung Will Stop Screwing Up Android

Samsung’s super Android phones, and its Android devices in general, have long been hindered by the terribleness of the proprietary UI and apps the company insists on bundling with its hardware. Re/Code reports that Samsung’s gonna cut it out. Let’s hope so. According to the report, Google is fed up with Samsung’s meddling, and has…

Help Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus Find a Gaming PC For His Kid

Suggestions? He’s deciding between Razer and Alienware:

Sony’s QX Lens Cameras Gets a Funny Tablet Mount

Sony’s QX100 and QX10 “lens cameras” are a weird experiment in trying to build a consumer imaging technology built around smartphones, such that it might replace the dying point-and-shoot. And it might even be working! https://gizmodo.com/sony-qx100-glorious-photos-painful-package-1404930987 According to Sony, it’s moving units of the QX cameras, so the company just added a new larger mount…

Olympus OM-D E-M10: The Sub-$1000 Compact Camera We’ve Been Waiting For

Olympus first introduced the OM-D E-M5 a few years ago to photographers that were eager for a compact interchangeable-lens camera that felt as powerful as they knew these cameras could be. Two years later we’re getting a great OM-D at a price we can actually afford. https://gizmodo.com/olympus-om-d-e-m5-the-first-micro-four-thirds-camera-a-5883224 Meet the Olympus OM-D E-M10. It’s got the…

OLYMPUS SP-100 Is a 50X Superzoom Camera With a Red Dot Sight Like a Gun

If point-and-shoot cameras have a future it’s all about zoom, and Olympus just innovated the super long super zooms with a badly needed addition we didn’t even know they needed: A red dot zoom like a sniper rifle. That sounds horrible and murderous, but it’s really just good for killing photos. Here’s the problem: Really…

The Oculus Rift Put Me In Game of Thrones and It Made My Stomach Drop

Game of Thrones might be fantasy, but the characters are so deep and the betrayals so gripping that it feels real. And thanks to Oculus Rift, I just experienced a brief slice of life in the Seven Kingdoms. It was awesome—but I’m glad to be back in our reality. For the second year in a…

Orbitz “Labs” Tools Help You Figure Out When and How to Book Travel

The internet has made shopping for tickets and the like infinitely easier than before. But it certainly hasn’t totally killed the uncertainty that comes with booking. How do you know when to book so that you get the best deal? Is this the best you’re going to do? Orbitz is launching a series of tools…

Fujifilm X-T1: Retro Style Camera Design Meets Future Features You Want

Fujifilm has been amongst the most important camera manufacturers pushing the retro-styled camera trend with its X-series bodies, and in the years since first introducing the line, the company has been bringing the tech inside the flashy bodies up to speed with their sharp looks. With the new X-T1, Fujifilm might’ve finally created the perfect…

Whoa, the Raptor Cage From Jurassic Park is on Ebay Right Now

Jurassic Park is probably the greatest movie ever made, so the possibility of owning even the tiniest fragment from its history makes me excited. But if tiny fragments aren’t enough for you, here’s a huge prop that’s up on Ebay’s block this week: The velociraptor crate cage used in the film. Fake raptor prop included…

China’s Lunar Rover Only Lasted a Month

China’s Yutu Lunar Rover landed on the moon just over a month ago, and promptly started sending back photos. Unfortunately, it looks like China’s triumph could be short-lived; the Xinhua news agency reported that the rover stalled in its tracks while shutting down for the evening. Space is hard! https://gizmodo.com/chinas-rover-has-reportedly-landed-on-the-moon-1483252000 The WSJ reports that the…

13 Industrious GIFs of Machines Making, Breaking, and Moving Stuff

Machines: They make stuff. Lots of it. Hundreds of millions and billions and hundreds of billions of things over and over again forever. Watching them work is positively hypnotic. And we’ve got the GIFs to prove it. Note: Many (most) of these GIFs were found using the Giphy search engine, so props to the fine…

Beatstep Is a MIDI Controller and Step Sequencer in One Tiny Package

Inexpensive, portable hardware for electronic music usually comes short on the features. A beginner 25-key MIDI keyboard, for example, isn’t going to get you very far towards making big music, even if it does fit in your backpack. Arturia’s new Beatstep is remarkable because manages to put both a software controller and an versatile sequencer…

All the Crazy Stuff People Tried to Bring on Airplanes Last Year

TSA screened 638,705,790 passengers in 2013, and as we learned last year, if you look deeply within the possessions of that many people, you’re gonna find some weird stuff. Tons of weird stuff. Here’s a rundown of the craziest objects TSA found in 2013. https://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-crazy-things-the-tsa-has-found-in-2012-ga-5934847 1,813 firearms (1,477 loaded) Various containers holding “black powder” A…

Moog’s Theremini Makes It Impossible to Play the Wrong Note

Originally invented in the 1920s, the theremin is the weird instrument responsible for spooky science fiction soundtracks for a half-century. Its woozy sound is unmistakeable, but it is also notoriously difficult to play. Bob Moog started selling theremins in the 1950’s, and today, his company announced a new version, the Theremini, which uses pitch control…

A Guitar Amp That’s Going to Piss Analog Purists Off

Line 6, the well-regarded guitar gear manufacturer that just sold to Yamaha, has a new guitar amp that’s going to give tube traditionalists—like me!—a migraine. Bluetooth?! iOS app? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. OK, but let’s not be luddites for the hell of it. What’s Line 6’s new Amplifi got to offer? Line 6 isn’t exactly new to making…

Vimeo is experimenting with animated thumbnails for videos, which actually sounds like a pretty wonderful idea. It’s currently only live on two videos, and the service will be adding to some of its “Staff Picks” going forward. Here’s hoping for a wider roll out.

Build a Classic Korg MS-20 Synth With This Kit–Plus a New Keytar!

Announced exactly a year ago, the Korg MS-20 Mini analog synth is a lovely reboot of the classic 1970’s instrument that inspired it. More than just a fun nostalgic throwback, it was a gnarly synth with an almost endlessly versatile sound. If buying an MS-20 Mini feels a little to contemporary—or the 1/8th patch cables…

EMA: Satellites

EMA’s droney, esoteric music doesn’t fit easily in boxes, but her latest fuzzed out abstraction, “Satellites,” lends itself quite well to the batshit video she made for it. It’s totally DIY, and features some queasy eyeball closeups. Also, is that an Oculus Rift? Yes it is. EMA posted a little behind the scenes information about…

Dying grandmother’s mystery code cracked by the internet after 20 years

Ask MetaFilter member JannaK presented the community with a puzzle that had been troubling her family for nearly 20 years. Her grandmother died in 1996 from cancer and in her last days she scribbled down a seemingly non-sensical string of characters on index cards. Nobody knew what it all meant. Then the Metafilter community solved…