Mario Aguilar

Pandora Ditches PS3 and Xbox 360 Apps For a Special HTML5 TV Interface

Starting today, you don’t need to use a standalone application to access Pandora through your Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. The company has built a new HTML5 home for its services that’s specially tailored for your TV. Simply point your console’s browser to tv.pandora.com, login, and you’ll be good to go. The move on Pandora’s…

Bose QuietComfort 20: Noise-Canceling Engineered to Fit Your Ear Holes

Today, Bose introduced the in-ear evolution of the awesome noise-canceling headphones that have been hanging on the heads of weary travelers for years. I just listened to the QuietComfort 20 buds, and I can’t believe how much tech—and powerful sound—Bose crammed into my ears. The headphones will be available “this summer” for $300 in an…

Cameras in the Future Might Not Need Lenses

Every camera you’ve ever used in your life has a lens that focuses incoming photons on to a light-sensitive surface. But in the future, cameras might not need lenses at all, and this Bell Labs prototype illustrates how this could be done for cheap. Technology Review reports the Bell Labs concept, which relies on a…

Vine for Android Is Finally Here, Huzzah (Updated)

Vine, the very popular way to splice together six-second video vignettes, is now available for Android. Here’s the Google Play link, which is live for your video-sharing enjoyment right now—after some initial delays, it looks like the download link is finally operational. Twitter purchased Vine when it was still just a nothing startup late last…

Sex on a Pile of Cash Sounds Great Until Your Online Date Robs You

Imagine this: You set up the perfect kinky hook-up on the Internet. You found a hot partner who wants to have sex with you, provided this sex happens on top of a pile of cash. So you find the pile of cash, you show up at the appointed time to get lucky, only to find…

Navy Work Uniforms Burn Like Paper, So Sailors Will Get New Garb

Even in non-combat situations, sailors in the US Navy are exposed to lots of heavy equipment, which can be very dangerous. Like ships and stuff. Too bad the current Navy Working Uniform (NWU) will burn like a Duraflame if exposed to fire. The good news: they’re getting new gear. Nope, the standard issue NWU isn’t…

The FBI Has to Give Kim Dotcom His Hard Drives Back

The High Court of New Zealand just ruled that the FBI has to give slews of Kim Dotcom’s digital property back to him. The agency—along with officials in New Zealand—screwed up pretty bad, indeed. When New Zealand authorities brutally sacked Kim Dotcom’s mansion back in January 2012 at the behest of the US government, they…

Fan TV Is a Hot Set-Top-Box Organized Around Content Instead of Apps

A few years back we told you about Fanhattan, an iPad app, which, a bit like a TV guide, helps you find out which service—say Hulu or Netflix—has the content you want to watch. Genius! Now the company is porting that experience to a set-top-box called Fan TV that helps you sift through madness with…

HTC One Google Edition Brings Stock Android to the Best Android Phone

On Stage at the D11 conference, Google’s Android chief Sundar Pichai confirmed rumors that an HTC One Google Edition running vanilla Android will be available on June 26th for $600. That means the best Android phone in the world will be available unlocked and without the often clunky HTCSense skin. Heck yeah. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-review-the-beauty-is-a-beast-updated-5990716 Today’s announcement…

After getting hacked earlier this year, Evernote is finally implementing new security features on accounts including two-step verification. Unfortunately, it’s only available to Evernote Premium and Evernote Business customers right now, but a full roll out is coming soon. https://gizmodo.com/evernote-was-hacked-and-your-encrypted-passwords-got-5988057

Google’s Rad Skee-Ball Game Turns Your Phone Into a Wii Remote

God bless the whimsical programmers over at Google who are forever finding fun ways for us to waste our days. Click this link to check out the Chrome team’s latest experiment, which pairs your computer and your phone so that you can play an awesome game of Skee-Ball. It’s called Roll It, and it’s wonderful.…

The Golden Gate Bridge Looked Even More Stunning Before It Had a Road

The Golden Gate Bridge is almost certainly the world’s most iconic bridge, and one of the country’s most-photographed landmarks. But here, you see it in a state only a handful of people ever witnessed: reaching across the San Francisco Bay for the very first time. When this photo was taken from the San Francisco side…

Gmail’s Getting a Neat Freak Overhaul for Web and Mobile

Google just announced a new interface for you Gmail based around customizable tabs. The goal? To you help manage your goliath of an inbox. It looks pretty incredible. The new inbox design is coming to both web and mobile. It’s based around tabs that function much the way labels did before—except that they’ll actually work…

Analog Camera for iPhone: When Is Simple Actually Too Simple?

A little over a year ago, Realmac Software released Clear, an iOS to-do list app that made the task of keeping track of tasks easy with a beautifully simple design. Starting right now, you can check out the developer’s crack at replicating that success-by-simplicity formula with a $1 camera app. https://gizmodo.com/clear-app-cross-chores-off-your-to-do-list-with-a-swip-5885307 For the most part,…

20,000 Classic Arcade Games Deserve a Beautiful Wooden Console System

Swedish designer Love Hultén is freaking obsessed with classic arcade games. You’d have to be, to craft a beautiful wooden console with matching controllers just to house a massive collection of them. Awesome. At first, Hultén’s R Kaid-42 (“arcade for two”, get it?) looks like an old, hand-crafted box. It’s made of dark walnut with…

What Do You Think of Arrested Development Season 4 So Far?

If you’re like us, you probably spent a good part of your weekend plowing through at least some of Arrested Development season 4 on Netflix. Were you able to restrain yourself, or did you binge and watch all 15 episodes? What do you think so far? We’re also interested to know how many folks signed…

The Best Streaming Radio

Turning an online music service into a powerful automated DJ isn’t easy. You can give an algorithm millions of songs and millions of data points, but it’s still not going to have any style. So of all your options—including Google’s new All Access—what’s the streaming radio most worth your time? We found out. A decade…

Google Play Music All Access Hands-On: All You Want (Minus Friends)

Today at its I/O developer’s conference, Google launched Google Play All Access, its long-anticipated subscription music service. I just spent some time exploring the on-demand catalog as well as its radio and music discovery features. The service’s UI is impressively fast and fluid. Indeed, it’s minimal in all the right ways. If only it wasn’t…

Completely Redesigned Google+ Adds a Whopping 41 New Features

Google is overhauling Google+ with 41—yes, forty-one—new features. They’re based around three areas of the Chrome experience: Stream, Hangouts, and Photos. The new design is rolling out today, and it looks beautiful enough to actually use. Your Stream is getting a beautiful-looking redesign based on cards. There’s a three column view that looks as though…

Google Play Music All Access Is a Subscription Like Spotify Only Better

You can now buy a music subscription from Google. Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s crack at rocketing to the top of the charts. Get ready for Google Play Access. Google Play All Access launches in the US today. It costs $10 per month. Everybody gets a 30-day free trial, and if you…