Mario Aguilar

There Are Easier Ways to Stack Chairs, But Come On: These Are Awesome

These new chairs by designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance disassemble for storage. No, this isn’t the most efficient way to stow furniture away, but it’s a neat idea. Instead of folding up, the “Market” chair’s curtain of slats rolls up like a blanket, leaving the frame bare so that it’ll fit neatly together with another. If you…

How To Get on the Waiting List For Facebook Graph Search Right Now

Facebook’s Graph Search landing page is live now at Facebook.com/graphsearch. Unfortunately, this is not actually the live product but just an explainer. To get on the waiting list, head over to the page, scroll all the way to the bottom and click the “Join Waiting List” button. Facebook will notify you when it’s your turn.…

The Clearest Shots Yet of BlackBerry’s Great QWERTY Hope

Blackberry Empire claims these are shots of RIM’s N-Series BB10 handset that have leaked ahead of the official BB10 launch on January 30th. And if these are real shots, we’re intrigued to actually hold the phone to see how it handles. The shots show the phone running RIM’s surprisingly functional new OS. From what we…

FAA Wants Pilots to Stop Playing With Gadgets in the Cockpit

The FAA wants to put a rule on the books that would prohibit pilots from playing with personal electronics in the cockpit. Wait, that wasn’t a rule already? Apparently not. USA Today reports that the 19-page proposal that will published in the Federal Register today. If approved, the the rule will prohibit the use of…

The Plan to Catch Drugstore Cowboys With GPS Chips Hidden in Prescription Bottles

Addictive prescription drugs are flying off the shelves—And not in the hands of paying customers. Pill robberies are becoming such a problem that the NYPD wants to start planting fake prescription drug bottles with embedded GPS chips in pharmacies to help the cops bust thieves after heists. The plan will be announced by New York…

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2012 in 365 One-Second Video Clips

Here’s a look at videographer James Bernal’s 2012 in 365 seconds. Bernal captured one-second of video a day using a Canon 5D MKII, a GoPro, and an iPhone, and assembled the clips into a stirring montage. It’s funny how epic real life can seem when you slice it into particles. Here’s to a 2013 full…

It’s Time for the Great Floridian Python Hunt

Nearly 800 snake hunters are signed up for the 2013 Python Challenge in Florida. For the next month, the hunters will be scouring the Everglades for the invasive Burmese pythons that are destroying the fragile ecosystem. This is a real thing. Under the rules of the contest, which is sponsored by the Florida Fish and…

Gasp! Microsoft’s Former Windows Chief Uses an iPhone

Just a few short months after leaving Microsoft, the former head of Windows Steven Sinofsky has been busted for firing off some of his tweets from—HOLD THE HANDSET—an iPhone. Traitor! https://gizmodo.com/the-president-of-windows-steven-sinofsky-is-leaving-mic-5959997 Or maybe this isn’t such a big deal? As @stevesi quite reasonably responded to inquiring Twitter user Albert Jelica, it’s not odd for a…

I Watched LG’s Incredible 3D Video Wall Too Long, and Now I Can’t Enjoy Real LIfe

Over the last few days, I’ve spent hours churning out posts in front of the “world’s largest 3D video wall” at the back of LG’s CES booth. Every neuron in my body is exhausted. I may never feel emotion again. At CES, writers who don’t have access to fancy trailers need to find a cozy…

Stream TV Glasses-Free 3D 4K Hands-On: OMG This Works! But…

CES 2013: The year Ultra HD turned into the pipe dream of the future to the present reality you can’t afford. Now that UHD TVs are about to hit the market, manufacturers are, of course, showing off 4K concepts like this glasses-free 3D 4K panel from Stream TV Networks, which you will be able to…

The Coolest Cameras at CES 2013

Camera manufcaturers announced so many awesome cameras this fall. We honestly weren’t expecting much from them at CES this year. But some big manufacturers delivered the gear anyway. Here are four dope new shooters that all surprised the megapixels out of us. Fujifilm X100 and Fujifilm X20 https://gizmodo.com/fujifilm-x100-and-x20-get-new-faster-guts-to-match-thei-5973868 Been following the saga of the fancy…

Beats Electronics Is Getting Its Own Streaming Music Service Called Project Daisy

Beats Electronics got control of a lot of digital music rights and technology when it acquired the streaming music service MOG last year. Now, Beats is launching a new service—Project Daisy—to sell you beats by every artist you can think of. According to the release, the project was developed under the direction of Trent Reznor.…

Toshiba’s OLED Computer Watch Concept Is Stuck In Dick Tracy Time

Smart gadgets you can wear are all the rage, but Toshiba’s Computer Graphics Watch prototype kind of misses the point. The hulking watch has a watch 320 x 100 OLED and is powered by an ARM processor and is designed to pair with your smartphone via Bluetooth. It’s huge, like fancy rich guy watch except…

LG Smart Activity Tracker: This FuelBand Clone Is a Mashup of Every Wearable Gadget

LG’s Smart Activity Tracker is FuelBand look-alike—there’s no denying it. And, yes, there are already a lot of new wearable fitness trackers. But with this gadget, LG crams the features of all of its competitors into one. And by the time it comes out this summer, the wrist-worn device might add something everybody wants: A…

Hisense Transparent 3D: An Incredible Spectacle Even if it’s Pointless

Hisense’s “Transparent 3D” display technology creates the crazy effect of incorporating real-life objects into a video image. The 40-inch demo unit, in the image above, could be how you window-shop in the future. It’s so cool looking. I only wish there was something better to do with it. The panel works a lot like the…

Lenovo K900 Hands-On: This Tall, Skinny Hottie Needs to Get In My Pants

The Lenovo K900 is a big phone, yes, but it’s a designy big phone. It’s handsome, skinny, and slick like the finest smartphones ever made. We never thought we would be into a 5.5-inch phone until the K900’s brushed metal back landed in our hands. This phone is all about the hardware. The unibody construction…

LG Curved 3D OLED Hands-On: An Imax For Your House

LG just made the first curved 3D OLED screen. I just saw a crazy setup of three of these 55-inch beauties aligned side-by-side into a perfect cinematic curve. The effect is very dramatic. This could be the whole reason 3D and curved OLED exist. As we saw with the huge curved OLED that Samsung showed…

Netflix 4K Streaming Video Doesn’t Look Very Good Yet

Samsung and Netflix have been working together on a 4K video solution for the Ultra HD world we’re entering. I just saw a demo of some of the 4K streaming content, and it’s horrifying. They’re going to have to work harder to not suck the life out of the video. The 4K streaming video demo…

Harman Wants to Put an Augmented Reality Display in Your Car’s Windshield

Harman has developed an augmented reality display technology that give you real-time information in your windshield while you drive. It’s like Google Glasses for your ar except that the product is actually about to launch it (or so they say…). And Harman promises you won’t crash while using it. The idea is to provide you…