Mario Aguilar

This $200 Brute Force Bot Will Bust Your Phone’s Pin in Hours

Your Android phone is not safe. This 3D-printed robot systematically tries all of the possible lock screen PINs for your phone until it gets in. With your standard four-digit number, your phone is compromised in under a day. If only you’d had an iPhone! The Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basherwill be presented by researchers at the…

Here’s Your iHeartRadio for People Who Actually Heart Talk Radio

iHeartRadio is the free streaming audio service of choice primarily for people who love terrestrial radio, and want to be able to get these stations over the web. (Yes! Millions of these crazy people exist.) But until now, the service has lacked one of the the core components of the airwaves: babbling voices. No more!…

Nokia 1020 Review: The Best Smartphone Camera in a Pretty Great Phone

The Nokia 1020 represents something fairly remarkable: the nearly flawless melding of a smartphone and a camera. The assumption up until now was that while such a mash-up wasn’t strictly impossible, it would surely require a laundry list of unpleasant compromises. Instead, what we’ve got is an entirely new kind of gadget. One that, most…

Netflix for Giant Arcade Consoles Is So Crazy It Just Might Work

Buying an old-school arcade console is a big investment. Ms. Pac-Man bragging rights don’t just cost a lot of money—you pay the price in real estate. That whole corner of your living room gone for just one measly game. A new service called All You Can Arcade sort of makes this proposition worthwhile. For $75…

Enormous Robot Is the Most Complicated Way to Mix Salad Dressing

If you’ve got 1500 pounds of—uhhh—stuff to mix up, nothing will do the stirring faster than this huge robotic mixing system. As you can see in the video above, it really is very effective at mixing things up. Terrifyingly effective. DigInfo reports that the mixing system uses a super-flexible multi-axis, multi-directional robotic arm to stir…

Samsung’s Beautiful Curved OLED TV Comes to the USA for a Mere $15,000

Back at CES we were floored by Samsung’s crazy/beautiful 55-inch curved OLED television. They were an eyegasm of light-emitting diodes with a subtle but enticing cinematic bend. Secretly, we never thought we’d ever see one in real life since they just reek of CES flashiness that never turns into real-life anything. We were so wrong.…

New Google Earth Hack Lets You Nuke Any City in Devastating 3D

A perverse fascination with nuclear fallout and blast radii isn’t that weird. Don’t you want to know how hard you and everything you know is going to disappear from the face of the Earth in the unlikely case that some maniac drops twenty kilotons of atomic death on your front door? Now you can see…

Do you have the insatiable desire to shoot a drone out of the sky? Well, since a community in Colorado is full of people who do, the FAA has issued a firm warning: Shooting at drones could get you in trouble with the law. How outrageous.

The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work

Earlier this week, Elon Muskannounced that he would publish an alpha design for his crazy-sounding “Hyperloop” by August 12. According to Musk, the diagram above is as close as anyone has gotten to figuring out how the super-fast transit technology might work. And it seems bonkers. For those of you who have been out of…

What Are Your Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts?

At Giz, we spend our days all clickity-clackity on our keyboards, and we’re pretty sure a lot of you sit at desks all day, too. Like us, you’ve probably got some favored keyboard shortcuts that changed your life when you discovered them. We want you to share it with us. What are the best keyboard…

Investigators: London Dreamliner Fire Was Again Caused by Batteries

An international team of investigators has concluded that the battery inside the emergency locator transmitter is the likely cause of the fire aboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner parked on the tarmac at London Heathrow last week. The plot thickens. So let’s be clear here: This is a cause for concern, but not in the way…

Space Camera Tech Could Be Used to Detect Blindness Before It Happens

The advanced imaging used to peer into the darkest corners of space has been adapted to help fight blindness. Using this tech, scientists have developed a prototype device that inspects the human retina for early signs of age-related sight loss. From deep space, to deeply within ourselves, man. The technology behind the “Retinal Densitometer” was…

Six Android Launchers to Supercharge Your Smartphone

There are scores of Android launchers out there for people who don’t want to be stuck with TouchWiz (or whatever bloated skin came with your phone). But choosing among them can be a chore. With so many features to parse, which launcher should you use? Last week, we put the question to you, our fabulously…

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ70: Zoomier Than Any Point-and-Shoot Camera Ever

What you’re looking at here is the zoomiest point-and-shoot camera ever made. The Panasonic Lumix DMX-FZ70’s f/ 2.8-5.9, 20-1200mm lens offers up to 60x optical magnification. The previous top zooms only hit the 50x mark. That’s a lot of zoom. Look at that freaking lens. Optical zoom—meaning zoom that’s done in the lens and not…

After Blowjobs and Pedobear the 2020 Olympic Logos Are Playing It Safe

The 2020 Olympics will be held in either Istanbul, Madrid, or Tokyo, but no matter where they’re held, the logo will be boring. There’s a 66-percent chance the logo is going to be some stupid flower crap. How did this happen? Indecision and fear. Brand New describes the arduous bidding process, which results in countries…

Oh Flexible Stainless Steel Robot, You Are So Bendy and Shiny

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the world’s first stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom. But before I explain what that means or why it matters, kindly take a moment to watch this Kawasaki Heavy Industries bot dance. Nice moves! Impressed? Ok, now let me explain. In mechanics, “degrees of freedom” are the number…

Report: Google Wants to Make a Streaming Television Service

The Wall Street Journal reports unnamed sources that say Google has approached big media companies about licensing TV shows for a streaming television service it wants to launch. Intel and Apple have also been working on similar services. Details are pretty thin here, but it’s clear that what Google is going for here is a…

AT&T Next or T-Mobile Jump: Which Upgrade Plan Should You Choose?

Today, AT&Tintroduced “Next,” a new payment and upgrade plan that lets you pay for your phone in installments and upgrade once a year. The new plan comes less than a week after T-Mobile announced “Jump,” its own frequent upgrade plan. But what’s a trigger-happy gadget nerd to choose? We did the math for you. The…

Apple Logic Pro X: A Whole New Look for Apple’s Music-Making Machine

Apple just announced a new version of its top-end music production software. It’s been four years since Apple updated its professional editing suite, so there’s a long list of upgrades in Logic Pro X. The improvements range from an overhauled interface to an iPad controller app to a new automatic drummer feature to help fill…

How to Design Beautiful iOS App Icons, According to Apple

It’s no coincidence that the best and most popular apps frequently have striking and memorable icons. It might seem like just a colorful tile, but a good icon is critical piece of an app’s design that has a huge effect on how people think about and interact with what’s inside. Here’s a rare look at…