Ask a Photographer About the Photography Trick That Turns Your Friends Into Ghosts
She’s baaaaack: Seems like photographer Diana Levine survived her fast, loud, and mostly out-of-control hop to music Mecca Austin. Of course, she was there to participate in the latest installment of our Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge, where she shot music-makers My Jersusalem as they did their thing. So check out her cranked-up-to-11 shots in our…
Hey Fitness Freaks, We’re Giving Away a Garmin Forerunner 10
For those strange beings who are motivated by things beyond candy corn-flavored Oreos and Dr. Who reruns, today is your lucky day. “Why’s that,” you ask (as you jog in place and adjust your sweatband)? Because, we’re giving away a Garmin Forerunner 10 fitness watch. All you have to do win is take this short…
Tech In Teaching: Robot Teachers Aren’t Coming For Your Jobs
Welcome to the final installment of Tech in Teaching, a recurring series inspired by the HP ENVY 6 Sleekbook. Over the past few months I’ve been interviewing public school teachers about how technological developments have affected the education process over the years. For our final interview, I spoke with Frank McHugh, a former Wall Street…
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…
Tech In Teaching: Is YouTube Changing How Students Learn?
Welcome back to Tech in Teaching, a recurring series inspired by the HP ENVY 6 Sleekbook. Over the past few months I’ve been interviewing public school teachers about how technological developments have affected the education process over the years. Last week I interviewed (via email) Adrian Spatzer, a 29-year old Brooklynite who teaches at M.S.…
Fly Far, Far, Away for Free
In the words of a great man, “Winter is coming.” And though, given the current rate of climate change, that may or may not be true, the impending fall gloom is definitely reason enough to get out of town. Lucky for you, we’re giving away a $150 gift certificate to Jet Blue – perfect for…
Want $50,000 to Fund Your New Invention?
Do you ever mutter to yourself while puttering around in the garage that given the time and the money, you totally could have devised that hydroelectric-powered taco maker, or maybe even the Slap Chop? Well, now’s your chance to prove yourself to the skeptics. The Nissan Innovation Garage is inviting would-be inventors to share their…
Shooting Bands In America’s Live Music Capital Is as Badass as It Sounds
Austin’s the answer! The capital of Texas is also a capital of live music, and home to enough promising bands to fill its endless rows of it’s-a-miracle-the-neighbors-don’t-complain music venues on a nightly basis. It’s also where we sent photographer Diana Levine for the latest installment of our Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge. So if you tweet-guessed…
5 Ways to Mind-hack Your Boss into Letting You Work from Home
If you are lucky enough to have a job, why not take the whole “work” thing to the next level and work from home in your jammies? Inspired by all of the mobile-office-enabling features of join.me, we asked tech entrepreneur (and work-from-home pro) Seth Porges to outline some tactics you can use to move closer…
How to Look Like You Know What You’re Doing in the Great Outdoors
For those who want to pull off the whole “Grizzly Adams Wilderness He-Man” shtick, there are a few different methods available. You could cast off all of your earthly possessions, renounce corporate society, and go live in the woods (it will probably only take a few tries before you figure out which leaves should never…
Modern Architecture that Revolutionizes Everyday Life
While modern architecture is characterized by general, overarching themes like simplicity of form and the notion that form follows function, seeing these ideas come to life is something that’s unique to every building or structure. Never has there been a better time to witness this than now. Modern architecture is changing the way we work…
Ask Our Photographer How He Snapped the Best Cameraphone Shots You’ll See All Day
While we were stuck at our desks, photographer Taylor Davidson used our Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge as an excuse to barge off to Boston, where he set about shooting some sports at the city’s parks and playgrounds. Well, he’s back, and hanging out in the comments at Deadspin, ready to take your questions. So flip…
FriendsWithYou Blows Up “Happy Rainbow” in Hong Kong
FriendsWithYou has a knack for creating adorable color-loving characters, which are very often brought to life in the form of over the top vibrant inflatables. Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval, founders of FWY, just launched their first exhibition in Hong Kong titled, Happy Rainbow. The 16-piece exhibit varies from a forty-foot interactive bounce house, to…
Get Ready to Go Around the World with the Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge
What would you do with a camera, a photography assignment, an ultra-responsive, ultra-sleek Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ and a plane ticket to…somewhere? Find out what six acclaimed photographers did in this exact scenario right here at the hub of all things Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge. Go behind the scenes of every international shoot, see all of the…
All the Best Moments From Last Week’s Conversation with Eric Ackerson
Last Wednesday we were fortunate enough to have Eric Ackerson, Acer’s senior product marketing and brand manager, here to chat. Needless to say, you guys weren’t afraid to ask Eric some tough questions — which in turn gave Eric the chance to talk about some really exciting developments in Acer’s upcoming line of products. Unfortunately,…
How Your Cameraphone Can Beat a dSLR
Yeah, it was Boston. So, if you were wicked smart enough to guess Beantown as the location of the mystery photo, you could be walking away with an Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ of your own. Every summer, Boston comes out to play. Shut-ins seep into the streets, the city’s parks brim with ballers, and the town’s unmarked…
It’s Time to Pay Attention to Mobile Security for Your Android
It seems like not a day goes by without a report of some new cyber security threat. That’s why, earlier this year, researchers at ESET predicted that mobile malware and localized attacks on modem platforms were some of the most important tech trends for consumers to stay conscious of. Since Android has become the dominant…
Meet the IDGAF King of the Universe
If, like the man above, you choose to stride along a public beach wearing your basic brown banana-hammock, just do it with the same level of swag. He doesn’t care that his spare tire is gleaming in the late-summer sunshine, nor that his body hair creates a halo around his creatively toned muscles. And he’s…
How to Make Beer and Influence People
Ok, real talk. How cool are you? Like, on a scale of 1-10. A six, maybe a seven? Are you content with that? Wouldn’t you like for more people to like you more? Well, friend, it’s totally possible. “How?” you might ask. It’s easy! Give them beer! “But beer costs money,” you say. Not if…