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Brits Show Their Love of Booze With iPint Being Most-Downloaded iPhone App in UK

Over in Europe, the most downloaded iPhone app is the music-detecting Shazam. In the US, it’s the Facebook app. And those soggy Brits…? In the UK, the Carling branded iPint has snagged the crown of most downloaded app, according to ComScore’s Alistair Hill’s presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London. Hic! [Mobile-Ent] Image Credit:…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Samsung Drops Five New TL, SL and HZ Cameras Gallery

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Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Samsung HZ35W Slim Camera: 15x Zoom in a Slimmer Cam and GeoTagging

The HZ35W is a rare compact camera with 15x optical zoom. The wide-angle 24mm Schneider lenses are coupled with 12mp sensors, and the HZ35W has a 3-inch AMOLED screen along with GPS for geo-tagging. The HZ30W on the other hand has a 3.0-inch TFT LCD, so won’t offer a battery life quite as long as…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

A World Of Fail On Heroes

In this slightly timeshifted liveblog, you may witness my instant impressions of Heroes’ latest episode, Pass/Fail, as it unfolds. Think of it as a tragic record of brain melt occurring in real time! Without the aid of carnie powers! Claire has to figure out the carnies “by herself,” or so she tells Gretchen while picking…

Television Annalee Newitz Jan 19

TIE Fighter Helmet Will Reduce Your Enemies to Smithereens on Mere Sight

I’m about to depart to my wedding in a place far far away, and I’m considering my costume for the occasion. I wonder if my vows would sound to menacing if I’m wearing this. [StarWarsBlog via Great White Snark]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 19

Heartless Gallery

Some pictures from Jim Sturgess online fan site.

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 19

11-Year-Old’s Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity

Proving once again that there are no qualifications needed to be a middle-school vice-principal besides being kind of a dick, a San Diego veepee called the bomb squad to investigate an 11-year-old’s Gatorade-bottle-based science experiment. Stay classy, San Diego. Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jan 19

The Best Hamster Wheel Sand Printer I’ve Ever Seen

This is a tough category, but I’m very proud to announce that the award for Best Hamster Wheel Sand Printer goes to…this one! The wheel was created by Barcelona designer Tomás Silva Alonso, for his Zanadesign firm, and going by some of the expression on these kids’ faces, it’s the most fun anyone’s ever had…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jan 19

A Little $18,000 Espresso Machine Called Slayer

The hand-built Slayer espresso machine is not brandspankinew, but it is still exceedingly uncommon—fewer than 20 exist in coffee shops—and this one, residing at freshly opened RBC NYC, is the first east of Michigan. It costs $18,000. The reason coffee nerds are hyped about the Slayer isn’t just because it’s obscenely expensive, or because of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 19

DIY Lady Gaga Glasses Make You Look as Ridiculous (and Blind) as She

At least with those Kanye West Venetian blind glasses, you could kinda see. These things are just two screens on your face, blocking your entire field of vision. Get ready to run into walls, just like Lady Gaga probably does. DIY Lady GaGa Video Glasses from Angela M. Sheehan on Vimeo. So this hack is…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jan 19

Super-Budget Lens-Mounted Ring Flash for DSLRs

Lens-mounted LED flash rings are a great resource for properly lit macro shots, but they’re usually pretty expensive (think $150). Enter Brando’s budget version. It’s almost certainly crappier than the full-priced models, as is Brando’s wont, but hey, at $58 I’m perfectly willing to accept a few deficiencies. It can light up in either the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jan 19

AT&T Fixes Mobile Facebook Problems

AT&T has fixed several problems that caused some AT&T customers to log into the wrong Facebook account when using their mobile phones, an AT&T spokesman said on Monday: “In a limited number of instances, a server software connectivity error resulted in some AT&T wireless customers being logged in to the wrong Facebook account when they…

Social Media CNET Jan 18

The Ultimate Cellphone Plans Comparison Chart

Unlimited cellphone plans are trendy now and many are starting to offer them, but how do those plans fare against the old mix of 450 or 900 minutes and your choices of data and texting? Let’s go to the chart. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-matches-verizon-with-unlimited-talky-for-70-a-mon-5449398 Click on the image for a closer look. Geez. Still a bit confusing, isn’t…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 18

Look At This Broken Nexus One

Poor reader Paul ordered a Nexus One and only had it for five days before this happened. No finger pointing—he said he dropped it—so just cry at the sad, broken gadget. Paul does say that the touchscreen still works and there’s no change in the display. It just, well, looks like that. And even worse,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 18

Why Does Science Fiction Invent New Religions?

Though many say ninja monk flick Book of Eli is about Christianity, it’s actually about rebooting the old church for a new world. Like many SF stories about the emergence of a new faith, Eli questions religion while defending it. In the pantheon of science fiction tales, Book of Eli is just one of many…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 18

Nokia Files Patent For a Bendy Phone With Many Functions

Images of the Nokia Morph, a flexible concept phone with a transparent screen, cropped up nearly two years ago. The company’s recently-filed patent for a device with a bendy screen suggests that the Gumbyphone may still have legs. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-morph-cellphone-rolls-up-stretches-cleans-itsel-360260 Nokia recently filed a patent for a device with a flexible screen that takes on different…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 18

One Tree Branch, Dozens of Jars, No Explanations

Sometimes, instead of asking “why,” it’s better just to say “woah.” This piece by New York artist Naoko Ito is one of those times. The project, entitled Ubiquitous, dissects a single six-foot wide tree branch into about two dozen pieces, the meticulously places them in jars to create this optical illusion. A comment on the…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 18

Alice’s iPhone App Lets You Shop From the Lil’ Girls Room

Thanks for making an iPhone app, Alice. Now I can finally excuse my bathroom iPhone usage with “Uh, I’m just ordering toilet paper. It should ship by tomorrow.” Whether the associated service is decent or not, the app is awesome. The Alice app is basically a repackaging of online shopping service Alice. The basic concept…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 18

William Shatner’s Dance Of Death, Against An Army Of Deadly Spiders!

William Shatner. He’s faced down interplantary tyrants and talked countless computers into self-destructing. But what does he do against a horde of rampaging spiders? He dances, baby, he dances! His 1977 classic Kingdom Of The Spiders is out on DVD. In Kingdom Of The Spiders, an army of giant spiders descends on an Arizona town,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 18

Strings? Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Strings

Strings? Nope. Frets? Not really. The Misa Digital Guitar, an open source, Linux-powered MIDI controller, brings shredding to the 21st century by dumping traditional guitar strings for buttons and a futuristic touch screen. Before you wooden-guitar purists get all bent out of shape, the Misa’s creator wants to make this perfectly clear: the digital guitar…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 18

Brits Show Their Love of Booze With iPint Being Most-Downloaded iPhone App in UK

Samsung Drops Five New TL, SL and HZ Cameras Gallery

Samsung HZ35W Slim Camera: 15x Zoom in a Slimmer Cam and GeoTagging

A World Of Fail On Heroes

TIE Fighter Helmet Will Reduce Your Enemies to Smithereens on Mere Sight

Heartless Gallery

11-Year-Old’s Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity

The Best Hamster Wheel Sand Printer I’ve Ever Seen

A Little $18,000 Espresso Machine Called Slayer

DIY Lady Gaga Glasses Make You Look as Ridiculous (and Blind) as She

Super-Budget Lens-Mounted Ring Flash for DSLRs

AT&T Fixes Mobile Facebook Problems

The Ultimate Cellphone Plans Comparison Chart

Look At This Broken Nexus One

Why Does Science Fiction Invent New Religions?

Nokia Files Patent For a Bendy Phone With Many Functions

One Tree Branch, Dozens of Jars, No Explanations

Alice’s iPhone App Lets You Shop From the Lil’ Girls Room

William Shatner’s Dance Of Death, Against An Army Of Deadly Spiders!

Strings? Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Strings

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