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Periscope now has a map view to help you find broadcasters based on location, which might make it easier to find content that you’re actually, y’know, interested in.

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week is the big annual tech holiday for Android fans (with Google Photos as a present), and Apple enthusiasts big day isn’t far behind, but we still got some great apps to talk about amidst the big headlines concerning new OS features and the like. Android gets completely caught up in the world of…

You can now sign up to Periscope using just your cell number—no need for a Twitter account if you’re not that way inclined.

Where to Find the Best Live Streams on Meerkat and Periscope

Meerkat and Periscope are two apps with a similar purpose: To let you broadcast live video over the web for anyone who wants to tune in. But what if your circle of friends aren’t live streaming enthusiasts? Here’s how you can find some streams of note on both networks. In the apps Inside the apps…

All the Ways That Your Livefeed Is a Lie

There’s nothing new about streaming video from your phone, or posting live news updates from important events. But now companies are trying to make the experience of streaming your life more real than ever before — and they’re doing it by telling us very dangerous white lies. Image by Alexander Supertramp via Shutterstock Livestreaming started…

Meerkat and Periscope Can Really Chew Through Your Precious Data

New livestreaming apps Meerkat and Periscope help people share snippets of their lives—but they also gobble down data. Enough data that you might blow past your data cap. If you’re serious about streaming, you might need a bigger data plan! When we put both apps to the test, we measured usage of over 250 megabytes…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to a new week with plenty of new apps, and we’ve got all the best right here. Part of me wants to call this week’s app roundup a special “music” edition because an odd amount of great music streaming and discovery apps came out this week—but let’s not forget the huge app drops from…

You Can Now Install Twitter’s Answer to Meerkat, Periscope

Since Meerkat hit the App Store in early March, Twitter’s own version, known as Periscope, has been hotly anticipated. From today, the live video streaming app is available on iOS. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-meerkat-and-should-you-even-bother-1690285057 Just like Meerkat, Periscope allows you to broadcast what you’re doing through live video. Where Meerkat feels utilitarian, though, Periscope appears to have been…

1950s San Francisco, as seen through a submarine periscope

In 1951, the U.S.S. Catfish, a WWII-era diesel submarine, cruised into San Francisco Bay. The crew snapped a handful of pictures through the periscope, showing what the city and Alcatraz looked like from the submariners’ perspective. It’s a bit eerie to see the city through the periscope’s reticles, almost as if it were a target.…

How to Shoot Underwater Photos Using a Vintage Film Camera

Just because that awesomely-retro film camera you bought on eBay or at the junk shop uses film that’s no longer in production (case in point: 126 film) doesn’t mean you can’t get any photos out of it. Through-the-viewfinder photography can be pretty effective when done well, by pointing a digital camera’s lens through the viewfinder…

Is the Boss Coming? Up Periscope!

Working from home, the post-man’s the only person I have to watch out for, so cubicle-dwellers will have greater need for a boss-watching periscope than I do. Using a few supplies you’ll be closing the Gizmodo tab well within time. You’ll need to attach a couple of binder clips to a mirror at the top…

Now Kindle 2 Has a Folio With a Booklight

Periscope’s updated their Folio booklight case to fit the Kindle 2, which still houses a little memo pad, a pen, and a retractable light for covert reading. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-goes-all-old-fashioned-with-periscope-booklight-5081834 At $50 it’s not cheap, but since Amazon charges $30 for a book cover already, you’re only really paying $20 more to be able to write things…

Kindle Goes All Old-Fashioned, With Periscope Booklight Case

Maybe I’m wrong, but a big part of the goodness of the Kindle e-reader is it’s easy-to-carryness, and its whizzy digital modernity: That’s where this Periscope Lighted Folio for Kindle gizmo has me confused. Because at one stroke it seems to take the Kindle soaring back 20 years, with a faux-leather case with built-in notepad…

SeeEye2Eye Webcam Eye-Contact Gadget Hands-On

The idea of the SeeEye2Eye is sound. Who wouldn’t want to be able to look someone in the eye instead of looking down when you’re in a Skype or iChat conference? Although the SeeEye2Eye teleprompter/periscope does work the way it’s intended—letting you look directly at the webcam instead of at the screen when you’re video-chatting…