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Instapaper Updates to 3.0, Adds New Social Layer

Instapaper, the popular “read it later” app, has added a new social layer in version 3.0. Now you can follow other Instapaper users to see the articles they “like,” or browse through hand-picked articles instantly from Editor’s Picks. Other nifty features include a “smart rotation lock” to detect accidental rotation, and a new built-in web…

Tech News Davey Alba

Charlie Sheen Is Not Dead

Uh oh! There’s a lot of talk on Twitter and Facebook about that strange Charlie Sheen fellow dying. Could it be true? Or is this yet another hoax designed to spread malware? I suppose the headline gave away the answer to that mystery. Charlie Sheen is not dead, but someone’s posting links with captions that…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

How Much Money Would You Make If You Bought Apple Stock Rather Than Their Products?

Kyle Conroy is going to have a lot of Apple customers experiencing buyer’s remorse, because he’s done some homework and figured out how much money one could make if they had invested in Apple stock instead of their fancy products. Some of the results are utterly depressing, like that if you were to invest in…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Turns Out That an iPhone Game Full of Dinosaurs and Poop Can Be Addictive

Earlier I announced to the world that I’d developed an addiction involving jeeps, dinosaurs, and poop. I finally realized that I should probably explain what on earth I was talking about and why it’s not as disgusting as it sounds. My addiction is an iOS app called Dino Dodger. It’s one of those games that’s…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Students Create a Locksmith Robot

Some engineering students at Olin College have built a robot that can crack the combination of any MasterLock brand combination lock. The complimentary GUI gives you the combination once it’s done cracking, and offers “entertainment options” (like pictures of monkeys, and links to CNN and GrooveShark) while it’s working. [The LockCracker via BoingBoing]

Tech News Kathleen Geise

StubHub Lets You Buy Tickets from Your Android Phone

Whenever I want to see the Knicks play, I have only one routine: check StubHub. Sometimes I explore eBay or delve off in the deep end of Craigslist or even screw myself on the team website but I always, always use StubHub first to see what the prices are like. And after having their app…

Tech News Casey Chan

Smartphones Make Women Guilty and Full of Anguish, Says Science

Has a girl freaked out at you lately? Don’t blame her! Blame her BlackBerry—smartphone interruptions make the women in our lives 40% crankier than their male counterparts, says the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. [CNN via Slate] Ambrophoto/Shutterstock

Tech News Sam Biddle

Samsung’s Transparent LCD Now Runs on Ambient Light

Samsung unveiled a new rendition of its beautiful and transparent 46-inch LCD at German expo CeBIT that uses astonishingly little energy. In fact, the high-tech glass runs on ambient light that hits its solar panels but still manages to offer 1920×1080 pixel resolution and ten finger touchscreen capability. [Techtree and Physorg]

Gadgets Kathleen Geise

I Can’t Resist Having My Own Mini-Me Sculpted Figure

I’m glad I can at least be like Steve and satisfy my planetary-sized ego ordering my own mini-me figurine: 3D-printing company Sculpteo can now use your frontal and profile photo to make a full 3D-printed, hand painted figurine. They say that you only have to upload the two photos, approve the final 3D model on…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Best Stories of Today, March 10, 2011

Here are the best stories on Gizmodo today. Enjoy them! The Photograph That Became an Unintentional Cultural Icon Noam Galai took a few photos of himself in 2006 and uploaded them to his Flickr. A few people liked those photos, but he didn’t think of it. Over time, he began to see his photos popping…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How to Install iMovie on Your Original iPad

Apple doesn’t want you to use iMovie on the original iPad because they don’t think there’s enough processing power and memory for it to work well enough. But whatever! You don’t have to listen to them! There’s a way to install iMovie on your ol’ betsy iPad without even jailbreaking. Here’s how, courtesy of fscklog:…

Tech News Casey Chan

Windows Phone 7 Update Delayed, Again

Windows Phone 7 promised software updates earlier this year, including a Copy+Paste function and faster app switching. Now it looks like mid-March was too optimistic. Today Microsoft delayed the updates until late March. Ah, the waiting game. [All Things Digital]

Tech News Kathleen Geise

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BRAIN POWER | Nicole Briggs looks at a real human brain, the centerpiece of the Real Brain exhibit at the @Bristol exhibition in the U.K. Photo by Getty Images. How to make a realistic, reverent war movie…with aliens In Battle: Los Angeles, hitting theaters tomorrow, Aaron Eckhart leads a marine platoon against an all-out alien…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

If All CFLs Looked Like This Brain Bulb, I Might Actually Use Them

When it comes to Compact Fluorescent Lamps, I’m with Colbert: they take too damn long to get to full brightness, and the light it gives off is weird. But if they all looked as cool as the Insight Lamp, a brain-shaped concept CFL, I’d probably reconsider my stance. According to designers Igor and Maria Soloyov,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Explor for iPhone

The problem with Apple’s massive App Store is finding apps you actually like. Explor makes that hunt an engaging one, encouraging you to tap your way to app discovery with personalized recommendations. What is it? Explor, Free, iPhone. Explor, known in previous incarnations as Appsaurus and Appalanche, is a more active—and, better yet, more intelligent—way…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Awesome Chrome Extension That Blocked Sites You Hated Is Now an Official Google Feature

Google just announced that the previous Chrome extension that let you block terrible sites from popping up in your Google Search results will now be a real, official feature of the Google. Awesome! The feature is expected to roll out today and tomorrow for those using Chrome 9+, IE8+ and Firefox 3.5+. What sites will…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Shoggoth slaves of World War II

I recently urged my friends on Twitter to consider writing a version of H.P. Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains Of Madness” from the perspective of a shuggoth slave rebellion. Which resulted in many people reminding me of Elizabeth Bear’s incredible novelette, “Shoggoths In Bloom,” which originally appeared in Asimov’s and won the 2009 Hugo for best…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Razer Black Widow Ultimate Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Mechanical keyboards are the miniguns of gaming gear: Heavy, ostentatiously clacky, and downright murderous. They’re commensurately uncommon and expensive. Razer’s Black Widow is the latest, a surprisingly spare piece of kit from Razer, considering its typical aggro-gamer mode of existence. (What’s a mechanical keyboard, you ask? Read this.) Plusses The weight and build of the…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Studies Show Most of Us Need to Be Surrounded by Screens at All Times While Watching TV

A nice little study to prove the increasingly obvious: TV isn’t enough anymore. No, one screen is pitifully lacking—instead, we need to be in constant communication with our pals (and strangers) while tuning in. Eight out of ten respondents to a recent British survey said they use some form of social networking (Twitter, mostly) while…

Television Sam Biddle

How to make a realistic, reverent war movie…with aliens

In Battle: Los Angeles, hitting theaters tomorrow, Aaron Eckhart leads a Marine platoon against an all-out alien invasion. The film follows Eckhart’s Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz as his platoon heads into the bombed out ruins of Santa Monica to find any survivors of a devastating – and ongoing – alien invasion. As cities around the…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins

Instapaper Updates to 3.0, Adds New Social Layer

Charlie Sheen Is Not Dead

How Much Money Would You Make If You Bought Apple Stock Rather Than Their Products?

Turns Out That an iPhone Game Full of Dinosaurs and Poop Can Be Addictive

Students Create a Locksmith Robot

StubHub Lets You Buy Tickets from Your Android Phone

Smartphones Make Women Guilty and Full of Anguish, Says Science

Samsung’s Transparent LCD Now Runs on Ambient Light

I Can’t Resist Having My Own Mini-Me Sculpted Figure

Best Stories of Today, March 10, 2011

How to Install iMovie on Your Original iPad

Windows Phone 7 Update Delayed, Again

ROUNDUP

If All CFLs Looked Like This Brain Bulb, I Might Actually Use Them

Explor for iPhone

The Awesome Chrome Extension That Blocked Sites You Hated Is Now an Official Google Feature

The Shoggoth slaves of World War II

Razer Black Widow Ultimate Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Studies Show Most of Us Need to Be Surrounded by Screens at All Times While Watching TV

How to make a realistic, reverent war movie…with aliens

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