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You can always use more memory cards. Whether you’re a weekend warrior with your DSLR or a music hoarder on your smartphone, these bite-size bits of storage tend to fill up quickly, and they’re easy to lose at that. So take the chance while you’ve got it, and stock up on Sony memory cards at…
It’s about as far from a Nintendo 3DS or PS Vita as you can get when it comes to the latest in handheld gaming consoles, but the DIY Gamer Kit from Technology Will Save Us comes with one features those devices don’t: The satisfaction that you built it yourself. And not only do you have…
Photographer Laurie Brown documents the edges of cities, where streets uncoil into the drought in the distance and pieces of suburban infrastructure reveal themselves like unnamed monuments on the periphery. For more than two decades, Brown has been working in Las Vegas, peering back in from the outskirts to show, in these gorgeously cinematic panoramas,…
Microsoft’s second attempt at the Surface Pro has brought plenty of improvements, even if is still on shaky ground. But tearing the thing apart reveals that its shortcomings still extend to its engineering, too. https://gizmodo.com/surface-pro-2-review-a-little-bit-better-but-so-much-1447991217 iFixit has torn the new tablet apart and found that little has changed mechanically for this iteration—and that’s not such…
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the others once seemed to have our interests at heart; now that’s looking a little more questionable; in the future, who knows where it’ll end? Problem is, subtle privacy changes creep up on us in such a way that we’re practically oblivious to them. Today’s Doghouse Diaries comic sums that…
Aereo is now available for Android! At least, it is if you’re running 4.2 and live in New York City, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, or Salt Lake City.
If the iPad Mini’s new Retina display isn’t enough for you, how d’you fancy a 4K, 12-inch tablet display instead, hmm? Because that’s exactly what Japan Display—a unified team of manufacturers including Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi—has just announced. They claim to have shrunk 4K resolution—3,840 x 2,160 pixels—into a 12.1-inch TFT panel suitable for tablets.…
Samsung’s new Android 4.3 update will bring Galaxy Gear compatibility to the S3, S4 and Note 2, instead of just the Note 3. Good news if you enjoy looking like Inspector Gadget.
Since their introduction in 1978, Lego’s Minifigs have, um, reproduced at a rapid rate. In fact, the toymaker has been making the little fellas at such a pace that they’ll outnumber humans by 2019. As of 2006, there were 4 billion Minifigs in the world; projecting forward both human and Lego populations suggests that tiny…
Here’s a closer look at LG’s upcoming curved banana phone, known as the G Flex. You can see the curved OLED display curl up like the Galaxy Nexus once did but at an angle that’s slightly more dramatic. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-lgs-new-curved-phone-1444678491 The pictures, were given to The Verge by journalist Federico Ini, and they supposedly show off…
Take your favorite TV spot. Cut out all of the post-production effects, professional actors, props, CGI, and anything even resembling a budget. What do you have? This collection of unintentionally hilarious clips from director Tony Benna.
Spitfire spits fire. Beautiful image of a Spitfire TE311 performing a hot start, taken by RAF Senior Aircraftman Graham Taylor, from the 2013 RAF Photographic Competition Awards.
Two new iPads! Better MacBook Pros! The finishing touches on the cylindrical Mac Pro. OS X Mavericks for free. iLife. iWork. Apple announced a ton of stuff during its iPad event. Stuff that’ll dent your wallet. Stuff that’ll make your life better. Stuff that’ll keep you happy. But what about all the stuff Apple didn’t…
A new iPad Air. It’s significantly lighter, skinnier, easier to hold and faster all the way around. The iPad mini now finally comes with a retina display. And it has the same A7 processor that powers the iPhone 5S and iPad Air. Aside from screen size, their guts are practically identical. What do you guys…
After flipping to ban brutal, gruesome decapitation videos six months ago and then flopping to allow such videos to appear in the ‘book yesterday, Facebook has flipped again (or is it re-flopped?) in less than 24 hours and will reinstate its previous ban on such decapitation videos. It’s an ugly tug of war between free…
That suspiciously cheap apartment you just moved into? Turns out to be right next to a deafening hourly commuter train—and since you signed a one year lease, you’re looking at either twelve months wearing noise cancelling headphones. Or desperately hoping Rudolf Stefanich’s Sono noise cancelling window device comes to fruition. We’ve probably all seen those…
This extraordinary image shows something never seen before: a proto-galaxy feeding on the first stuff ever, violently making stars from the pristine hydrogen produced by the Big Bang itself, shortly after the Universe began to exist. It’s like having a glimpse into the beginning of everything. Discovered by Dr Neil Crighton and his colleagues from…
Charging off-grid street lamps with solar power is a positive step towards reducing energy consumption. But what if our sun-baked public walkways also glowed in the dark? https://gizmodo.com/self-contained-solar-powered-streetlights-stay-complete-1446549431 A UK-based company has patented a spray-on substance that gives plain old pavement an after-hours glimmer. Pro-Teq developed the product, Starpath, as a way to reduce energy…
Photographer Louis Helbig is archiving aerial views of Canadian villages drowned by the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway on his website Sunken Villages. The photos are haunting and gorgeous, almost emerald-like, but often difficult to read. Outlines of houses and roads barely emerge from the silt like scenes from a dream by J.G. Ballard,…
Camera makers have been extremely stubborn about adding Wifi to their DSLR’s, but you add your own wireless capability to your photo rig with the Toshiba Flash Air 8GB SD Memory Card. It’s about as elegant as a third-party solution to a first-party problem gets, and it’s cheap. I always keep one in my memory…
