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Canon EOS 6D: The Cheapest Full-Frame HD Video DSLR Ever

At just $2100 for the body, the Canon EOS 6D it’s the cheapest full-frame camera you can buy new. It’s got one hell of a lineage, but how will it measure up to Nikon’s crazy new D600, which the same price for body alone? The Canon EOS 6D—Canon’s new entry-level full-frame DSLR—looks a whole lot…

Canon PowerShot S110: A Hot Touchscreen Is Exactly What Canon’s Best Point-and-Shoot Needed

For years we’ve bee ranting about Canon’s S-series PowerShot cameras. They’re fantastic, versatile pocket cameras. Well the PowerShot S110 is the upgrade to last year’s pretty darn great S100—now it’s got new capacitive touchscreen controls and Wi-Fi connectivity. https://gizmodo.com/canon-powershot-s100-lightning-review-one-hell-of-a-ca-5858210 The best part about the Canon S-series cameras is that they’re so easy to use. In…

For the first time since the 80s PCs no longer account for the majority of DRAM memory use. Blame the iPhone. [Reuters]

Fitbit’s New, Cheap, Anti-Lazy Gadgets Are Adorable

Remember Fitbit, makers of tiny activity-tracking gadgets for health and fitness? Well, the 2012 models are here and they’re smaller, cheaper, and better than their last thingies. After all, fitness-tracking shouldn’t be limited to big-pocketed rich people, right? https://gizmodo.com/new-fitbit-ultras-got-an-altimeter-and-an-iphone-app-to-5846026 Fitbit Zip The Zip is the new entry-level model (pictured above). It’s tiny—roughly the size of…

FujiFilm XF1: Another Very Small, Very Powerful Point-and-Shoot Wants a Home in Your Pocket

When the excellent Sony RX100 came out from hiding, we fawned over its huge one inch sensor, f/1.8 aperture, and positively tiny point-and-shoot frame. Now another has arrived in the form of the FujiFilm XF1, and while it only has a 2/3-inch sensor, it too has a f/1.8 aperture and a diminutive figure draped in…

Best of the Week: September 8-14, 2012

DIY MAGNIFICENCE | An incredible shot of the Earth from space, which 19-year-old student Adam Cudworth created using a $50 camera and a completely home-made rig, sending the camera a stunning 110,210 feet in the air. More details here. https://gizmodo.com/teenager-sends-50-camera-into-space-and-captures-these-5941932 Dalai Lama tells his Facebook friends that religion “is no longer adequate” https://gizmodo.com/dalai-lama-tells-his-facebook-friends-that-religion-is-5942616 This past…

Plan 9 From Outer Space: A Wonderful Disaster From End to End

Often hailed as the worst film ever made, Plan 9 From Outer Space is definitely an experience. If you had to pay so much as a penny to see it, the cost-proposition might be rough, considering the so-bad-it’s-good here really skirts the edge of venturing into so-bad-it’s-bad. Fortunately (?) for all of us, it is…

Cap’n Jazz: Take On Me

A lot of you are going to hate this song. Actually, most of you will probably hate this song, but if just one of you likes it half as much as I do, our collective glee will more than balance any cringing dismay. I’ll admit, the vocals here are bad, really bad. They’re so bad…

Photographs of lonely astronauts wandering the alien planet Earth

Space suits are a powerful symbol of exploration, but Graziano Panfili uses it to separate people from their surroundings. His photos turn ordinary people in ordinary places into explorers from a distant world. What’s particularly intriguing about Panfili’s Alienation series is that they appear to be portraits of people in settings familiar to them: their…

Pac-Man is a Lovecraft story as written by Franz Kafka

Zach Weiner of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has stared into the heart of Pac-Man and discovered the horror at its core. In his latest comic, he proposes a chilling backstory for the hungry video game hero, one that’s a far cry from the smiling yellow creature you see on the arcade cabinet. The…

This Is What a 20 Megawatt Solar Farm Looks Like

One of the key features of Apple’s upcoming North Carolina data center is its mammoth field of solar panels, which aim to provide the center with the majority of its power. Though the solar farm in progress is a whopping 100 acres, and aims to put out 20 megawatts, that’s only 60 percent of the…

1980 Rocky Horror spoof cast Ronald Reagan as Dr. Frank-N-Furter

On a dark and stormy night, two liberal kids named Brad and Janet seek help at a mansion after their car breaks down. But they quickly discover that the occupants want to seduce them — to become conservatives. That’s the premise behind the bizarre Rocky Horror spoof, The Ronnie Horror Picture Show. This video comes…

Re-Envisioned Modern Day Sling Launches Steel Balls Like Nobody’s Business

A weapon doesn’t have to be complex to be devastating and awesome, and this sling is a perfect example. Dubbed the “forearm hoopack” this simple frame, lets the user sling spheres with repeatable precision. There’s no doubt about it; slingshot master Joerg Sprave shows off his balls of steel with this one. [YouTube]

Doctor Who and the Downside of Turning People into Weapons

Doctor Who’s quirky time traveler has often been accused of transforming human beings into weapons — most notably, Davros made this claim in “Journey’s End.” But last night’s episode, “A Town Called Mercy,” features another alien doctor who’s literally made people into weapons — and meanwhile, it makes a strong case that the Doctor’s companions…

Bring Off-Key Screeching To Your Living Room With This Smartphone Karaoke Machine

Of course your smartphone (or tablet) can handle Karaoke, but you don’t want to have to hold a screen while you’re rocking out and driving the neighbors insane; you want a microphone, to add to the ridiculous fantasy that you’re worth listening to. Enter the AppToyz AppSing, complete with scorpion-like phone holder. While you’re busy…

Douglas Adams and Jim Henson tried to develop a TV special about the Muppet Institute of Technology

What happens when you get the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the creator of the Muppets in the same room? In the 1980s, Jim Henson met author Douglas Adams and together they tried to develop a television special starring the Muppets about the wonders of computers. Henson and Adams met almost…

Surprise! Apple Fans Turn Samsung’s iPhone 5 Attack Ad on Its Head

Samsung isn’t taking the iPhone 5 launch lying down, and it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that nobody else is taking anything lying down either, ever. Not long after Samsung released its hackle-raising iPhone-basher, the ad was being flipped on its head by ardent Apple knights in iPhone armor. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-throws-down-the-gauntlet-with-its-new-iphone-ba-5943574 Like the ad they are…

12 Zombie Movies that Root for the Zombies

Earlier this week, we shared our 13 favorite zombie movies in honor of the latest Resident Evil installment, and most of these films have us reaching for a heavy, head-bashing bat. But what about those films where you want to see the zombie survive — or at least see a few humans fall to their…

Bad Comments On Your Facebook Picture Make People Think You’re Uglier

Warning for the cripplingly self-conscious: a study from the University of Missouri has shown that crappy comments on your profile picture can negatively affect how attractive people find you not only in a physical sense, but in a social and professional one as well. At least in people who try to gauge attractiveness from nothing…

Why it’s dangerous to be a cat on Mars

Rok Predin’s Curiosity Killed the Cat is less than a minute long and exists solely in service of a really terrible pun, but it’s still funny. Give this bizarre tribute to Martian exploration a quick watch. [via Kuriositas]