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Tribute Video to Steve Jobs

Rather than writing his obituary , I thought it would be better to pay tribute to Steve Jobs by stealing one of his ideas. That’s why I made this last Think Different video, in memoriam. I’m sure he would have hated it, but whatever. You’re dead now, Steve, you crazy round peg in the square…

X-Men: First Class writers turning Lev Grossman’s The Magicians into a TV series

Great news! Lev Grossman’s acclaimed novel about a magical boarding school, The Magicians, is being adapted into a television series on Fox. And Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz, whose credits include Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Thor and X-Men: First Class, are adapting it into a pilot. The Magicians revolves around the secret boarding…

Steve Jobs Is Dead

Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We’re going to miss him. Deeply, and personally. Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We…

F-18 Pulls Up at the Last Minute to Avoid Smashing Sailors

Aside from a bad can of beans, an F/A-18E jet about to land on top of you is the easiest way to shit your pants in the Navy. Last month these clueless sailors were almost vaporized. Luckily, DefenseTech explains, the pilot was informed that there were dudes in his path and was able to abort…

Mini Monkey Lights Turn Bike Wheels into Spinning 8-Bit Art

Front and rear lights are essential for night rides (unless you enjoy getting hit by cars) but they do very little to warn cross-traffic of your presence. The Mini Monkey Light not only makes you more visible, it’s likely stop traffic outright. The Mini Monkey light employs 10 super-bright, full-color LED’s that attach to the…

This Dog Food Commercial Has Sounds Only a Dog Can Hear

Commercials have become so effective at focusing on what us human people want that we can’t stop watching them. Oh scantily clad women. Oh short attention spans. Dogs can join in the braindead fun now too, there’s a commercial made with sounds only a dog can hear. A Nestlé Purina PetCare commercial airing in Europe…

6 Tools to Make a Cinematic Masterpiece with a DSLR

Filmmaking is an exorbitant, costly hobby. But with the advent of DSLR video recording, it’s become much cheaper. Maybe not cheap but cheaper. And there are plenty of accessories that will help transform you into a savant. Here are 6: Canon 5D Mk II If you’re serious about video, this is the camera you want.…

RIP Steve Jobs, who made the world more science fictional

Today Steve Jobs’ death has us all reflecting on how a technology entrepreneur could have changed our lives so much, leaving us a world where we can’t imagine daily life without Apple products. Partly that was because Jobs was never just a technologist. He always seemed to start with a social or cultural question, and…

The F-35 Makes Its First Vertical Landing Ever at Sea

The only sight more impressive than the F-35B in the air (when it’s working) is the F-35 hovering in the sky and plopping down onto the ground. Watch it for the first time, ever. Sure, the Harrier jet’s been making vertical maneuvers for decades, but not with this kind of grace—and not with this kind…

Back in Time for iPad: See the History of the Universe in 24 Hours

I’ve said many time before that the best iPad apps are those that combine coffee-table styled books with the fluid nature of the iPad’s interface. Back in Time is just that, it’s the story of the entire history of our universe made interactive on the iPad. What’s it do? The app takes you back in…

These Brand New Portable Speakers Look Broken

The speaker cones on a brand new set of speakers—even cheap ones like these—shouldn’t look like that. Nope that’s definitely wrong. I hope it’s fixable. Someone at Brando Workshop is going to get fired. These little USB speakers come with suction cups on the back so that you can stick them to your tablet. It…

Sarah Jane Smith tries to explain life and death to an alien child

It’s almost impossible to watch the final episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures without feeling overcome with sadness. Knowing that Elisabeth Sladen died soon after filming these episodes, and they’re the last we’ll ever see of her. So it’s a good thing that we’re seeing her at her best: full of compassion and moral outrage…

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Watch Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan on MSNBC’s The Ed Show

Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan joined MSNBC’s The Ed Show on October 5, 2011 to talk about the death of Steve Jobs. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

5 Things We Can’t Wait to Say to Siri, Apple’s Virtual Assistant

Never mind the haters; Apple’s iPhone 4S offers plenty of new stuff, including a much-faster processor called A5, and a virtual assistant named Siri. Her processing demands are such that Siri will only be found on the iPhone 4S, which has that faster processor, and not the new iPod Touch. (We’re waiting for Apple’s confirmation…

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on October 5, 2011 to talk about the death of Steve Jobs. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

The Sticky Boom Clings with the Power of Static

Grabbing objects in space has always been a challenge and has generally relied on mechanical claws to do the gripping. The problem is that these claws are limited in what they can grapple. That’s why Altius Space Machines’ gripper uses electroadhesion. The Sticky Boom’s electroadhesion technology uses static electricity to clamp onto any object by…

Bob Orci, Seth Green and Jon Favreau are trying to make X-Files meets The West Wing

The secret Hollywood geek brain trust has produced an interesting new TV idea — and it sounds like a mashup of The X-Files with The West Wing. Jon Favreau, Roberto Orci, Seth Green and Michael Dougherty have penned a pilot, that could be the greatest thing ever created, or The Event season two. Deadline is…

Good Sound You Can Measure Versus Good Sound You Can Hear

People who care about what audio products sound like can be divided into those who need to KNOW—scientifically—something sounds good and those who abide by the old Duke Ellington adage, “If it sounds good it IS good.” When it comes to evaluating audio products not even professional reviewers agree on whether there should be an…

Leaked Roadmap Flaunts T-Mobile’s Upcoming Goodies

Well, looky here. TmoNews has got their hands on what seems to be T-Mobile product launch roadmap for October and November. Take it with a grain of salt, but if half of this is right, there’s cool stuff a-plenty coming. The roadmap shows 12 upcoming devices, all under their code-names. Let’s get this out of…