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For the Love of God, Why Does the iPad Suit Still Exist?

Another year has passed, and another iPad has surfaced from the shadowy Cupertino mist. But you know what else has resurfaced? The iPad suit. Yep, Mohan’s, the NYC tailoring outpost, is still offering to add an oversized “iPad pocket” to their suit coats, which is a perfectly good way to take the class out of…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Obama Scolds Astronauts for Not Unpacking Space Robot

When President Obama called up the crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station, he naturally exchanged some pleasantries, congratulated them on their great work, and talked about the space shuttle Discovery’s safe trip—but then he had a little bone to pick with the space dwellers. Why hadn’t these folks unpacked their visitor, Robonaut 2,…

Space & Spaceflight Rosa Golijan

The View From the Google Self-Driving Car’s Cockpit

Some lucky attendees of this week’s TED conference were given rides in Google’s self-driving car. And one in particular was kind enough to take a video of what it’s like to ride shotgun. Plenty of NSFW language, because THE CAR IS DRIVING ITSELF. [YouTube via Scobleizer]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Thrutu for Android Lets You Do More than Talk When You’re On the Phone

If you can use Thrutu on your Android phone, it’s pretty neat. When you’re on a phone call, the app gives you a sliding drawer on top of your dialer to give you easy access to send pictures, contact info, location, etc. to the person you’re talking to. It’s quick and painless—just think about how…

Tech News Casey Chan

Freed Spam King Sentenced to an Email Hell Worse than Prison

Fathers, lock up your daughters. Sysadmins, tighten your email filters. The societal menace dubbed the “Spam King” is back on the streets. A freed man, responsible for 10 trillion unwanted messages during his reign of terror. Has he reformed? Hard to say. What’s certain, however, is that Robert Soloway about to enter an existence of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

I Am Not Talking on a Human-Shaped Phone That Feels Like Skin

Japanese researchers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International seem to think that making a humanoid-looking phone and covering it in a material that feels like skin will make us feel closer to whoever we’re talking to. Judging from that photo, I’d be seriously weirded out. The phone, which is made to look like a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Panasonic Lumix FX78 Airbrushes Your Face to Make You Prettier

You’ve seen the scene before: immediately after a picture is snapped, a group of girls huddle around the camera to see how they look. More often than not, one of the girls shriek, “Ah! I don’t like it, let’s take it again!”. And they take another picture and do the same post picture routine. Lather.…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Is Not a Van Gogh Painting

Instead, photographer Anton Jankovoy spent months camping out at the foot of Mount Everest, waiting for the right moment to capture the “star trails” with his camera in a single shot. The photograph itself takes hours to capture, as the stars move slowly through the sky. [Daily Mail]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Netflix Makes iPad App Less Ugly With An Update

The iPad Netflix app used to be nothing more than a browser version of the service, but now the ninjas at Netflix have updated its look and disabled the DVD queue. No downloading required. [Hacking Netflix via Engadget]

Tech News Husain Sumra

Best Stories of Today, March 3, 2011

Here are the best stories on Gizmodo today. Enjoy them! The Popularity of Every Smartphone OS, Visualized It’s easy to throw numbers around about the relatively popularity here in the US of Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and so on. But it’s not until you see the comparison laid bare in bold, blocky colors like this that…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How the Old Spice Guy Seduces Your Lady In One Take

The Old Spice Guy’s got a pretty good life, doesn’t he? Smells great, makes us laugh, really good posture. But those amazing space-shifting commercials he stars in don’t just happen by magic. Here’s a behind the scenes look at how a go from a mountain to underwater to your fondest dreams, all in a single…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Department of Homeland Security’s Plans to Digitally Strip Search You Nearly Everywhere

This is nefarious-sounding: The Department of Homeland Security “spent millions of dollars on mobile body scanner technology that could be used at railways, stadiums, and elsewhere,” according to a trove of documents obtained via FOIA by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The documents, beginning with one titled “Rail Security Pilot Study Phase II at PATH,”…

Privacy & Security Matt Buchanan

Twenty Years After Rodney King, Nothing Goes Unseen

Twenty years ago today, Rodney King was savagely beaten by a team of LAPD officers during a DUI arrest. The act itself was horrific—but affected only one man. What thundered across the country was, rather, amateur video footage of the act. In 1991, the act was an unspeakable sight. In 2011, it’s unthinkable that we…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Social App Ditto Lets Friends Tell You What Your Plans Should Be

Ditto is an iPhone app reminiscent of Foursquare, but instead of announcing a check-in now, the app lets you tell your friends what you plan to do—then they get to counsel you on how you should do it. The buttons for various activities let you choose “Eat out”, “Work”, “At home”, etc. Afterwards, Ditto friends…

Tech News Davey Alba

Microsoft Won’t Fight the iPad or Android Tablets Until the End of 2012. Ugh.

Unbelievable. If this is true. Businessweek reports that Microsoft “won’t release a competitor to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s tablet operating systems until the 2012 back-to- school season.” That’s the end of the 2012. 18 months from now. Months after a third iPad (or maybe even fourth, who knows). And Android 4.0 or 4.5 or…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

These Camping Lamps Can Pivot and Twist However You Need Them

Kelty, the famed backpack, sleeping bag and all around outdoor gear company, is now making some uber-versatile lamps for your next camping trip. Instead of traditional stoic camping lamps, the Kelty LumaTwist (left) and LumaPivot (right) are fully adjustable, bending and shining however you want. That’s because both lamps have two completely rotatable LED panels…

Tech News Casey Chan

Yobongo for iPhone

Why talk to a stranger when you can text them!? Yobongo, a much-ballyhooed chat app that lets you talk to strangers in the same geographic area, finally went live in the App Store. SXSW will never be the same again! What is it? Yobongo, Free, iPhone. Currently serving NYC, San Francisco, and Austin, TX (where…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Sony Gives PlayStation Move Its Own Dev Kit Too

Microsoft recently opened up Kinect to all those developers that made weird homebrew things with the advanced camera, so why shouldn’t Sony? They did! Sony’s releasing a development kit called move.me that will let people make weird ass applications with the PS3 motion sensor. Not sure what they could do that hasn’t already been done…

Tech News Jason Chen

Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny Hill

In El Super Policia 880, a down-on-his-luck cop meets some aliens, who turn him into a super-cop. Soon he’s stopping criminals, preventing professors from being zapped with their own super-weapons, and teaching all the other cops to dance. It all culminates in this fantastic scene, where the aliens bring the cop and his son aboard…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Will a Wi-Fi Xoom Only Cost $540 at Sam’s Club?

We know that a Wi-Fi-only Xoom is out there, lurking. And according to Droid Life, it’s going to be showing up soon at Sam’s Club for the entirely reasonable price of $540. Assuming it’s a 32GB model, that undercuts iPad 2 by a cool sixty bucks. There are some things in the supposed Sam’s Club…

Tech News Brian Barrett

For the Love of God, Why Does the iPad Suit Still Exist?

Obama Scolds Astronauts for Not Unpacking Space Robot

The View From the Google Self-Driving Car’s Cockpit

Thrutu for Android Lets You Do More than Talk When You’re On the Phone

Freed Spam King Sentenced to an Email Hell Worse than Prison

I Am Not Talking on a Human-Shaped Phone That Feels Like Skin

The Panasonic Lumix FX78 Airbrushes Your Face to Make You Prettier

This Is Not a Van Gogh Painting

Netflix Makes iPad App Less Ugly With An Update

Best Stories of Today, March 3, 2011

How the Old Spice Guy Seduces Your Lady In One Take

The Department of Homeland Security’s Plans to Digitally Strip Search You Nearly Everywhere

Twenty Years After Rodney King, Nothing Goes Unseen

Social App Ditto Lets Friends Tell You What Your Plans Should Be

Microsoft Won’t Fight the iPad or Android Tablets Until the End of 2012. Ugh.

These Camping Lamps Can Pivot and Twist However You Need Them

Yobongo for iPhone

Sony Gives PlayStation Move Its Own Dev Kit Too

Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny Hill

Will a Wi-Fi Xoom Only Cost $540 at Sam’s Club?

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