Win a Pair of Our Favorite Running Headphones
A few weeks ago Giz gave Sennheiser’s PMX 685i headphones four stars for helping make running actually enjoyable. They’re light, well designed, and sound incredible. And now we’re giving away a pair for free. All you have to do to potentially win is take the one-question survey located below. To enter, send your answer to…
Photographing Bikini-Clad Surfers in Paradise Is a Tough Job, but Someone’s Gotta Do It
Costa Rica isn’t just a Central American nation whose chief exports include coffee, electronic components, and utter relaxation — it’s also where we sent pro-skiier-turned-photographer Scott Rinckenberger as part of our Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge. So if you picked this land of surf and sun, you could be the big winner of our final Ultrabook™…
How to Listen to Something Besides Local Radio on Your Never-Ending Road Trip
Fall is a great time for cross-country sojourns. Nothing is better than grabbing a gaggle of friends, loading up on individually-wrapped snack foods, and hitting the open road. Unfortunately, nothing is worse than being on said open road and being forced to listen to the Bible Belt-musings of Pastor Jim on WKOR. Fortunately, if you…
Ask Our Photographer How He Shot a Hardcore Gaming Tournament in the Tiniest of Spaces
Some folks go to San Francisco for the food, the fog, or the never-ending free Wi-Fi. Photographer Ryan Russell went for the gaming. As part of Gizmodo’s Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge, Ryan dropped by Frisco’s legendary Southtown Arcade, where he used his lens and his ultra-responsive Ultrabook™ to immortalize a remarkably cordial and totally legal…
Your Beloved Technology Is Fucking Up Your Vision
Publisher’s Note: This missive is straight from the desk of GUNNAR Co-founder Jennifer Michelsen (featured authoritatively above). As you’ll read, she is very passionate about the state of your eyeballs. So much so that she’ll be in the discussion threads below to answer your questions. So let her know what you think — whether you…
A Look at the Craziest Competitive Gamers You’ve Ever Seen
San Francisco has its share of landmarks: The Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, wherever Rice-A-Roni came from. But for white-knuckle competitive gamers, the city has just one true destination: Southtown Arcade — a tiny storefront by the Stockton Tunnel that houses Frisco’s last outpost for hardcore gamers. So when game-loving photographer Ryan Russell landed out…
What Weapons Would You Use to Battle a Mutant, Face-Eating Spider?
As the commander of the titular XCOM in XCOM: Enemy Unknown — 2K’s new strategy game — you control your global defense team through a fully operational base, located in a secret underground bunker tailored to your own design. Here, your generals can organize missions, build up a customized arsenal, study captured alien technology, train…
Which of These Five Brilliant App Ideas Will Win the $50K App Challenge?
Over the past month, submissions for the App Challenge came rolling in, and the five best ideas inspired by BMW’s i concept cars have been chosen. Check them out, and check back in the coming months to find out who will win $50,000 in services from Detroit Labs to help bring it to life. Here’s…
Tell Nissan Your Brilliant Idea for a Chance to Win $50,000
The time for keeping your amazing ideas to yourself is over. All you would-be inventors and secret geniuses, step forward and submit your ideas to the Nissan Innovation Garage to win $50,000 in seed money, and turn those dreams into a reality. The Nissan Innovation Garage is inviting Edisons-in-training to share their best “everyday ideas”…
Newest Smart TV Makes Leaving the House Unnecessary
A recent study by Nielsen showed that almost 70% of tablet and smartphone users engage with their devices while watching TV. That means that the majority of hate-tweets you’re reading about Greenpoint-dwelling, funny, wunder-gurls are being posted as the show airs. And while that’s all well and good — and very developed compared to ten…
Ask a Photographer How to Shoot High-Speed Chases
After a fun and sun-filled trip to Miami, photographer Douglas Sonders is back from the Land of Lebron. The occasion: He used the Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge to shoot some of the flashiest, fastest, ultra-sleek cars he could get his lens on. And although we can only assume he’s still nursing some sort of peel-tastic…
How to Listen to Something Besides Local Radio on Your Never-Ending Road Trip
Fall is a great time for cross-country sojourns. Nothing is better than grabbing a gaggle of friends, loading up on individually-wrapped snack foods, and hitting the open road. Unfortunately, nothing is worse than being on said open road and being forced to listen to the Bible Belt-musings of Pastor Jim on WKOR. Fortunately, if you…
What It’s Like to Shoot the Fastest Cars on Earth
If Miami is good enough for LeBron and Will Smith, it’s good enough to be the answer to our latest Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge contest. So if you picked Magic City as the place where we sent photographer Douglas Sonders, you could have won an Ultrabook™ of your own. Phase One camera in hand, Douglas…
Here’s How to Raise $50,000 For Your Big Idea
You know how we keep bugging all you would-be inventors to submit your brilliant ideas to the Nissan Innovation Garage (a.k.a., your chance to fund that brilliant idea you’ve been kicking around)? Well, it’s that time again. The Nissan Innovation Garage is inviting Edisons-in-training to share their best “everyday ideas” (that means it could be…
The Latest Development in Smart TV Means There Is Finally Something Worth Watching
A recent study by Nielsen showed that almost 70% of tablet and smartphone users engage with their devices while watching TV. That means that the majority of hate-tweets you’re reading about Greenpoint-dwelling, funny, wunder-gurls are being posted as the show airs. And while that’s all well and good — and very developed compared to ten…
Five Secret Ways that Games Are Changing the World
Jane McGonigal’s 2011 best-selling book Reality is Broken inspired a young generation of game-players to think more broadly about the impact that their controller-wielding lives had on the rest of the world. But aside from games for the World Bank, how exactly are games changing the lives of people around the world? Here are five…
You Have Less Than a Month to Conceive a Brilliant Idea, Win $50,000
Remember last week when we told all you would-be inventors about the Nissan Innovation Garage, a.k.a., your chance to fund that brilliant idea you’ve been kicking around? Well, procrastinators rejoice, because you still have time to submit! The Nissan Innovation Garage is inviting Edisons-in-training to share their best “everyday ideas” (that means it could be…
Meet the Machine That Is as Alive as You Are
Some machines make light bulbs, and some machines make clothing. Some machines make our lives easier, and some make them more complicated. Some machines silently putter along, and some machines roar. As you’ll see in the video above, the Jaguar XF is one of those roaring machines. Jaguar’s full model line-up is the result of…