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Slava Stepanov is a photographer who shoots the far north of Russia from the air—a part of the world that few rarely see, much less in such incredible aerial detail. In this series, he documents Norilsk, the northernmost city on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-northernly-city-is-cold-dirty-but-sur-1592543678
Amongst the new Fire Phone’s most rumored and anticipated features is a “3d effect,” which Amazon calls “Dynamic Perspective.” It changes follows your face as you tilt the phone in different ways, altering the image in front of you. The potential is pretty exciting. What does it do? Before explaining how the actual technology works,…
If you had your breath held for something crazy like a Fire Phone free with Prime, you can exhale now. The new Fire Phone will be a standard $200 (for a 32GB) on contract from AT&T, which is getting the Fire Phone as an exclusive. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-fire-phone-is-here-at-last-developing-1592702508 The upside is that the phone will come with…
Amazon’s new Fire Phone had to be about getting people to buy stuff from Amazon, right? Of course. Enter Firefly, which turns the Fire Phone into a sort of universal object scanner that’ll recognize books, DVDs, or jars of Nutella, and help you buy them—from Amazon. This sounds a lot like both Amazon Flow and…
Like Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets, the new Fire Phone will get Amazon’s 24-7 video tech support, Mayday. The service works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G, and connects you with a representative in under 15 seconds, according to CEO Jeff Bezos. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-building-24-7-365-video-tech-support-into-kindle-1381717261
Jeff Bezos just unveiled Amazon’s new Fire Phone, and with it a great feature for big-time photo-snappers: free, unlimited cloud storage for the pictures you take with your Fire Phone. That’s really quite handy. Of course, there may very well be an asterisk on that—it might just be for Prime members, or what have you.…
If it hit you this weekend that maybe, possibly watching soccer isn’t really your thing, perhaps this is your way to get a piece of the World Cup action: See how two designers visualize each match in a poster created during the time it takes to play each game. The site 326490 launched last week,…
We’ve been hearing the rumors for weeks (months? years?), and the day has finally come. Amazon’s phone is here. It’s called the Fire Phone, and it’s got some fancy new tricks. Dynamic Perspective (3D Display) As rumored, the Fire phone will have a unique 3D interface called Dynamic Perspective. It can shift the image on…
Watch this 27-year-old skydiver struggling with a tangled parachute during a 14,000-foot jump near Sydney, Australia. He managed to cut the lines to open his emergency parachute with only a few seconds to spare. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Given that Brazil has spent around $14 billion getting ready to host the 2014 World Cup, you’d think they’d have sufficient funds to install staircases that weren’t made of scaffolding. I mean, just look at those steps shake under the load of hundreds of futbol fans. In this raw video from what looks like outside…
Twitter just announced support for animated GIFs on Twitter.com, as well as its iPhone and Android apps. *Cue your favorite celebration GIFS.* This means, that yes, you can view and share GIFs as they play on your app or on the full website. No clicking away to anywhere else. That’s more you can say for…
Rumor has it Google will unveil a new in-car Android interface at I/O next week. Dubbed Google Auto Link, the setup would let drivers control their Android phones via the car’s built-in controls and display screen, not unlike Apple’s CarPlay. [Auto News]
Amazingly, the humble ASUS Chromebox is Amazon’s #1 selling desktop computer, and it’s currently available at its lowest price ever. [ASUS Chromebox, $170] After years of speculation, Amazon has unveiled its fabled Fire Phone to the world, and you can preorder yours right now. For a limited time, it even comes bundled with a year…
Paraplegic athletes push their bodies to the absolute limit—and sometimes beyond. When an athlete injures a body part he or she can’t feel, that can lead to some very dangerous situations. Now, a design team at Imperial College London has an ingenious solution: an athletic suit that uses off-the-shelf pressure sensing film to show where…
Last year, Adobe took its first foray into the hardware world with two cutely named digital drawing devices, projects Mighty and Napoleon. The software giant is now ready to launch the fully-formed duo under new monikers. Meet Ink and Slide. They’re (mostly) pretty great. The idea behind Ink and Slide is to give designers a…
In a move that will probably backfire instantly thanks to the always lovely denizens of the internet, Yelp is now allowing you to send messages directly to business owners. All of your questions, comments, and trolls can now directly filter into the inbox of the restaurant or plumber or day care you would like to…
While it may have looked like someone slapped wings on a VH-71 Kestrel and flew like an ungainly Osprey, this experimental plane helped to pave the way for today’s tilt wing aircraft. https://gizmodo.com/the-13-billion-presidential-helicopters-we-scrapped-an-978480541 The Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 experimental aircraft was originally developed as both a replacement to the US military’s aging fleet of Sikorsky HR2S…
Welcome to Norilsk, Russia. With 175,365 citizens, it’s the northernmost big city in the world. The architecture is brutal, it’s highly polluted, and it’s freezing cold all year round. Yet its geometric and colorful shapes make it an oddly pleasing sight—at least as captured from the air by photographer Slava Stepanov. Norilsk has polar days…
Three new iPad-only creative apps are here from Adobe today. There are two drafting and sketching apps that are partnered with some neat hardware, and a robust photo editing app called Photoshop Mix, which borrows some of the tools and workflow from its desktop big brother. The first two apps, Line and Sketch, are two…
Adobe is announcing new release of Photoshop CC today, and with it comes one particularly cool feature: the ability to automatically select the out-of-focus areas of an image. The new tool is great for compositing or applying adjustments to only the sharp areas of your photo. It works in tandem with the existing Refine Edge…
