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A Pulitzer Prize Winning Author’s Take On the World’s First Computer

The first computer was the ENIAC, right? Wait, no? If you’re ready to be schooled—by Pulitzer winning A Thousand Acres author Jane Smiley, no less—check out this Wired interview that gives credit where it’s due: Iowa. It may seem a little incongruous that Smiley’s current project, The Man Who Invented the Computer, is a biography…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Play DJ on Your iPad, Mixing Up To Four Songs Together With the Numark iDJ App

It may cost $10, but Numark’s reputation allows them to get away with it. Mix up to four songs for your iPad, with the app beat-matching for you. Then, create playlists of all your mixes, and dance. [iTunes via Recombu]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Another Foxconn Employee Has Jumped to Their Death Today

Today, another Foxconn employee leapt to his/her death from a Shenzhen window, despite the safety nets they erected several months ago—something our own Joel Johnson saw himself on his visit there last week. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/another-foxconn-worker-dies-despite-new-safety-nets-in-5606076

Tech News Kat Hannaford

1,000 Song Rock Band Marathon Live-Streaming for Charity Now

Bless the RSI-ridden hands of the Clan of the Gray Wolf, who are live-streaming their second annual Rock Band marathon, where they play 1,000 songs straight. 17 hours in (at time of writing) and they’ve played 205 songs. It’s going to be a loooong couple of days. They’re raising money for the Child’s Play charity,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

If Alessi Made Cellphones…

They’d look something like this. The fun homewares brand teamed up with Japanese designer iida, along with Stefano Giovannoni, Marcel Wanders and Patricia Urquiola, to reimagine the cellphone in ways not seen before. They’re quirky, but pretty cute. Shown off at the Designtide Tokyo 2010 show, Giovannoni’s cellphones and accompanying docking stations take the shape…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dell: “We’re Kicking [BlackBerry] Out

Kicking a boot into RIM’s side, Dell’s announced all 25,000 employees will be given Dell Venue Pros running WP7 in exchange for their BlackBerrys, but they’re also offering a new service to their clients for help switching from BlackBerry. Dell’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Gladden said of the change that “clearly in this decision we…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Instant Hits Android and iPhones in US

Several Android phones started showing Google Instant early, but Google’s made the addition official, writing on its blog that a beta version has hit (or is hitting) “most iPhone and Android devices in the US.” Basically, that’s Androids running Froyo, and iOS 4 devices. https://gizmodo.com/google-instant-search-trickles-out-to-android-phones-5672898 If you remember, this is when the search results actually…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Try On Those Tron Hooker Shoes at California’s Tron Pop-Up Store

For six weeks only, Disney’s opening shop for all those stripper/clubbing-type Tron accessories we laughed at the other week. There’ll even be a cafe! https://gizmodo.com/disney-is-selling-official-tron-hooker-shoes-for-795-5664657 Everything in the shop—and the shop itself—will be styled like it’s straight from the set of Tron: Legacy, with Disney promising more products will be unveiled once the store actually…

Movies Kat Hannaford

Soon, Gmail Users Won’t Be Able to Find Contacts on Facebook

After Google hired the Facebook app developer (it was “frustrating” claims Zuckerberg), their relationship has now soured even more, as Google’s changed their terms of service so Gmail users can’t import their contacts to Facebook—because Facebook doesn’t reciprocate. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-android-facebook-app-has-sucked-historically-5681956 This small change to the terms of service will mean that Facebook can no longer use…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Virus Strike Borrows Flight Control’s Mojo for Puzzle Gaming

The “connect colored blocks” subgenre isn’t exactly fresh—which is what makes Virus Strike so interesting. It has managed to put some new life into an ancient puzzler type, letting you guide each falling brick with lines you draw. The format isn’t totally novel—you’re still just trying to line up spheres with other spheres of the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Apple’s New Gaming Patent Would Allow iPhone Laser Tag

“Interactive Gaming with Co-Located, Networked Direction and Location Aware Devices,” sounds dull, but Apple’s latest patent is anything but. The tech described would use augmented reality tricks to open up whole new forms of portable gameplay—iPhone guns, anyone? The gist of the patent is its ability to take advantage of the phone’s position-sensing guts—gyroscope, accelerometer,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

ThinkGeek’s New Spy Shirt Hides an Actual Working Spy Cam

So you wanna maintain your geek chic look while you’re surreptitiously photographing people. ThinkGeek’s got just the thing: their t-shirt shows a graphic of a spy with a camera…that’s actually a real working spy camera. Yes, that’s right, the spycam is embedded right in the $40 shirt’s image of a spycam. It’s diabolical. The rig…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Rhett Reese talks Zombieland 2, Deadpool and becoming a novelist

While chatting with Rhett Reese about his latest addition to the terminally-panicked collection of antiheroes in Anxiety, we also touched base about his upcoming Hollywood projects. Find out what’s happening with Deadpool, G.I. Joe 2 and Zombieland 2. https://gizmodo.com/read-an-excerpt-from-deadpool-and-zombieland-writer-rhe-5682050 In the last year Reese, and his writing partner Paul Werneck, have written three major Hollywood…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How Google Maps Led to An Accidental Invasion

Recently a Nicaraguan military commander invaded a Costa Rican territory and ordered troops to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua’s. He went through all this trouble because of an error on Google Maps. A Nicaraguan military commander recently invaded Costa Rican territory, and ordered troops to take down a Costa…

Tech News Austin Carr - FastCompany

Canada Will Not Be Denied Its Combat-Jet-Loud SunChips Bags

Hearing loss be damned! Our rugged northern neighbors are defiantly standing behind the Frito-Lay bag that’s louder than a combat jet cockpit, a month after we namby-pamby Americans had them yanked from our shelves. Oh, Canada! https://gizmodo.com/sunchips-new-100-compostable-bag-is-hilariously-ear-d-5616427 As Frito-Lay sustainability/LOUDNOISES hero Helmi Ansari explains above, in Canada it’s more important to have a compost-compatible SunChip…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Damn You, Auto Correct!

I’m typing these sentences on my iPhone and the ducking auto correct feature is getting in the way so much that that I want to hump up and down in frustration. Damn you, auto correct! Damn you to ducking he’ll! My nerves may be pretty frayed after this little post, but I can’t really complain…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Students Develop Fully Recyclable Laptop That Can Be Disassembled With No Tools

I’m dutiful about recycling cans and plastic and paper, but I wouldn’t have a clue where to start with my computer. But the Bloom laptop, developed by Stanford students, is made to be recycled—it comes apart without tools. The Bloom laptop, developed as a class project by a team of Stanford students, was designed to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Spoonachos Are The Holy Grail of Chips

The Tostitos Scoop was a momentous moment in the history of dipping. But it has one glaring flaw: your thumb takes up half the scoop. Spoonachos, however, have a handle. Brilliant. My salsa to chip ratio just got WAY better. I’m saddened to say Spoonachos are only a concept at the moment, designed by Denis…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Read an excerpt from Deadpool and Zombieland writer Rhett Reese’s new novel Anxiety

We’ve got an exclusive look at the first 20 pages of Zombieland and Deadpool co-writer Rhett Reese’s horror novel Anxiety. Flop sweat shut-ins, meet your new hero. Josh Redding, 26, is afflicted by severe, debilitating panic attacks. Once an accomplished student with a sharp wit and a bright future, Josh has retreated from the world…

Books & Comics Rhett Reese

Want to Up Those Math SAT Scores? Try Electricity

If you’re not among the mathematically gifted, there’s hope for you yet—and doesn’t involve any studying. Instead, researches have found that a little electric stimulation may add up to better math skills. Participants in the study were given a one milliamp electrical stimulus across the parietal lobe for 20 minutes a day. It doesn’t amount…

Tech News Brian Barrett

A Pulitzer Prize Winning Author’s Take On the World’s First Computer

Play DJ on Your iPad, Mixing Up To Four Songs Together With the Numark iDJ App

Another Foxconn Employee Has Jumped to Their Death Today

1,000 Song Rock Band Marathon Live-Streaming for Charity Now

If Alessi Made Cellphones…

Dell: “We’re Kicking [BlackBerry] Out

Google Instant Hits Android and iPhones in US

Try On Those Tron Hooker Shoes at California’s Tron Pop-Up Store

Soon, Gmail Users Won’t Be Able to Find Contacts on Facebook

Virus Strike Borrows Flight Control’s Mojo for Puzzle Gaming

Apple’s New Gaming Patent Would Allow iPhone Laser Tag

ThinkGeek’s New Spy Shirt Hides an Actual Working Spy Cam

Rhett Reese talks Zombieland 2, Deadpool and becoming a novelist

How Google Maps Led to An Accidental Invasion

Canada Will Not Be Denied Its Combat-Jet-Loud SunChips Bags

Damn You, Auto Correct!

Students Develop Fully Recyclable Laptop That Can Be Disassembled With No Tools

Spoonachos Are The Holy Grail of Chips

Read an excerpt from Deadpool and Zombieland writer Rhett Reese’s new novel Anxiety

Want to Up Those Math SAT Scores? Try Electricity

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