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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…

Jonathan Nolan tells us why Person of Interest embraces the surveillance technology Batman rejected

We had a chance to talk today with Jonathan Nolan, writer of Dark Knight and the forthcoming Dark Knight Rises, as well as creator of one of the fall’s most promising new TV series, Person of Interest. He told us about how his fascination with surveillance technology inspired Person of Interest — and why Batman…

How World Phones Like the iPhone 4S Could Suck Your Bank Account Dry

The new iPhone 4S is a world phone. Sounds pretty awesome right? You and your iPhone 4S circumnavigating the globe. Calls from tiny cafes in Pairs. Texts from the mighty mountains of Macchu Picchu. It’s going to be beautiful right? Sure, if you can afford it. That new iPhone 4S world phone is gonna bleed…

Post-apocalyptic sex is the very best kind, in the XXX movie Horizon

If you’ve ever wanted to see a post-apocalyptic porn film, you’re in luck. Sam Hain, creator of other fine science fictional porn flicks, has just released Horizon, a tale of sex at the end of the world. Fleshbot’s Gram Ponante has the story: It’s 2097, and Earth has been de-loused of most of its population…

Kindle 4 Lightning Review: It’s Just Not That Into You

The Kindle 3 was like the girl next-door: Maybe not the prettiest, but comfortable, smart, and simple. The new non-touch Kindle’s the bitchy cheerleader; absolutely gorgeous but totally unaccommodating and uninterested in whether you’re enjoying yourself. Like For the first time, picking up a Kindle doesn’t feel like I’m firing up the ol’ Book Reading…

Joel Schumacher wanted Nic Cage to play the Scarecrow in his third Batman movie

Sweet Batman on a Unicorn, how amazingly horrific would the third Schumacher Batman film have been? After the disaster that was Batman & Robin, Joel Schumacher wanted to hire Nic Cage to play the Scarecrow and bring back Jack Nicholson as the Joker, alongside Harley Quinn. Before Batman & Robin was released, crushing the dreams…