Mark Wilson, Author at Gizmodo

Shooting Challenge: Abstraction

We usually take pictures of people, places and things. But sometimes there’s value beyond the subject itself, found in the aesthetics of the photo alone. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to shoot an abstract photo. The Challenge Take a photo using the visual language of abstraction. What does that mean? More below:…

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166 Sunrises and Sunsets

For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured one of the quintessential photographs: the sunrise/sunset. And you did it extremely well. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-sunrise-sunset-5598618 Perfect Circle Canon 7D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM, AE Mode, Aperture f/2.8, Shutter hit 1/4000 Just a lake down the street from me, one that I ride by on my bike pretty…

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Farewell Gizmodo, Sort Of

After four years, thousands of posts and countless phallic puns, I’m leaving one of the world’s greatest jobs in attempt to pioneer new projects. And I’d love it if I could coax a few of you to come along. If you enjoy Shooting Challenges, then I think my first new site may be in and/or…

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The Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb to 1998

This video, by artist Isao Hashimoto, charts every nuclear detonation from the US’s tests in 1945 to the modern era. Even if you’re versed in history, it still offers a perspective that’s tough to entirely grasp in numbers alone. The pacing, mixed with an Atari-esque soundtrack is both distancing and hypnotic. As more and more…

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Finally, A Hole Punch for Beer

I think I can speak for everyone here when I say there’s nothing worse than not drinking a bottle of brewskie through a crazy straw. But this collective passion we have, a religion, if you will, dedicated to drinking cold bottles of beer through ornate and often rare straws, oft-requires the elusive bottle opener. Today,…

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Five Years of an Ant Colony Stuck In a Scanner

François Vautier built an ant farm into a scanner, then he proceeded to scan the farm every week for five years. The ensuing clip? Just as wonderful as you’d imagine, though I wish I could see it uncompressed. [Thanks OblivionVII!]

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Thermaltake Level 10 Review: The Cure For the Common iMac

My attempts to live with an iMac were met with nothing but grief. I needed a rebound relationship—a total opposite to the prudish minimalism of Apple design—a bad girl with unnervingly fast tendencies. https://gizmodo.com/the-conclusion-to-the-faulty-imac-saga-the-beginning-o-5478509 There was only one computer that could fit the bill. Her body was infamous. Designed by BMW Group DesignworksUSA, the Thermaltake…

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ATI Conquers NVIDIA (In Discrete GPU Shipments)

ATI has finally overtaken NVIDIA in the quest for dominant discrete GPU (graphics cards) marketshare. ATI: 51%. NVIDIA: 49%. Apparently the flames, dragons and race cars that have been printed on ATI-related packaging are superior to the flames, cyborgs and race cars printed on NVIDIA’s. [CNET via Fudzilla via Engadget]

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Where’s Your Pagan God Now, Magic Trackpad?

The alien autopsseurs over at iFixit pried the Magic Trackpad apart like Arthur pulling the sword from the stone. The big surprise? …there weren’t any. It does use the same touchscreen controller chip as the iPhone, however. What’s that mean? It means Apple is continuing their trend of reusing guts across multiple devices. For this…

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Shooting Challenge: Sunrise, Sunset

It’s the quintessential landscape photo: the sunset, nature’s own daily-painted masterpiece of texture, color and light. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to go out and capture the poor, workhorse of a star’s soul. UPDATE I don’t want to focus on this point any longer. But before we move on, I’d like…

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Making Toast, CLEAR!

If only this defibrillator toaster concept were real, I could scream, “I NEED 50 CCs of butter, stat,” every morning without looking like a total lunatic. [Shay Carmon via Design Taxi via that’s nerdalicious]

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Panasonic’s 3D Lens Makes Third Dimension Dabbling Painless

We’ve seen Panasonic’s 3D camcorder, but the company is also releasing a standalone lens that will allow otherwise stock still cameras to shoot 3D. It’s a lens of Micro Four Thirds proportions, built specifically for the LUMIX G line of cameras…though the nature of the Micro Four Thirds standard means that this lens may very…

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72 Ravishing Refractions

Refraction is a mind-bending idea. Light passes through a clear object, and it comes out the other side, inverted. The Shooting Challenge results that follow are must-sees, the winner is astounding and…well…we busted a cheater, too. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-spherical-refraction-5592763 Lead Shot – Horizon Evening sunset across Puget Sound. Shot was taken with a Nikon D90 and 50mm…

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Digital Slingshot Tags Buildings With SMS

I can only pray our future is this obnoxious. A media group in Berlin hacked together a sort of digital slingshot. Type in a message, aim at a building and fire. Your message splatters all over a facade. There’s video: While a projector handles the actual imagery on the building, of course, the slingshot itself…

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Play HTML 5 Pac-Man

HTML 5 is completely ready for worldwide implementation. I know, some developers might not agree, but how else could you play a game of Pac-Man coded in the stuff? Pac-Man, Quake, what else is there? [Pac-Man via HackerNews via webmonkey] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet-5461711

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Mac Pros Now Have Up to 12 Cores

The new Mac Pros fit up to two (Westmere) 4-core Xeon processors, sure, but if you’ve got the inclination, you can load up on dual 6-core Intel Xeon processors, or 12 cores of power. As for the design? That’s unchanged. In simpler-speak, the big update is that the Mac Pro shifted from 45nm Nahalem processors…

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Netflix on PS3 Adds Search Option

A small but handy update: you can now search Netflix’s database from the PS3’s Netflix app. Anyone who’s run to the computer just to add a film to their Instant Queue knows how handy this is. To the rest of you…well, we don’t care what you think. There, we said it, and frankly we feel…

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How a DSLR, Protractor and Tape Measure Filmed One Man Walking America

Have you seen this incredible Levi’s viral ad? A person walks coast-to-coast across America in stop motion. It’s basically a commercial, but the effect is genuine. A group of guys traveled across the US, grabbing one shot at a time: (That lead video is the commercial. The second video is the making-of.) Note that the…

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TRON: The Sneakers, The Rant

I was going to be big about this. I was going to just make a pithy one-liner about these TRON shoes by Adidas, due out in December. But then I felt an itching under my skin…it was…the geek inside. That geek has three-point thesis on why these TRON shoes make him want to make jokes…

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iMac iPad Stand

It’s $50. But in an age when Apple was just selling fanboys Livestrong bracelets for $30, I don’t think we can complain about that point too much. Have you tried Air Display yet? It’s wonderful. The only real flaw with the app is something you realize about 1 minute into its use: You’re gonna need…

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Shooting Challenge: Abstraction

166 Sunrises and Sunsets

Farewell Gizmodo, Sort Of

The Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb to 1998

Finally, A Hole Punch for Beer

Five Years of an Ant Colony Stuck In a Scanner

Thermaltake Level 10 Review: The Cure For the Common iMac

ATI Conquers NVIDIA (In Discrete GPU Shipments)

Where’s Your Pagan God Now, Magic Trackpad?

Shooting Challenge: Sunrise, Sunset

Making Toast, CLEAR!

Panasonic’s 3D Lens Makes Third Dimension Dabbling Painless

72 Ravishing Refractions

Digital Slingshot Tags Buildings With SMS

Play HTML 5 Pac-Man

Mac Pros Now Have Up to 12 Cores

Netflix on PS3 Adds Search Option

How a DSLR, Protractor and Tape Measure Filmed One Man Walking America

TRON: The Sneakers, The Rant

iMac iPad Stand

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?