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Out with curly and blue; in with angular and gold. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has just received a major redesign which it’s hoped will reinvigorate the service—but is it really enough? The new logo uses the same color as one of the Windows quadrants, a stylized “b”, and a sharp Segoe font for the rest…
Today Fujifilm is formally announcing the X-A1, the small and cheap mirrorless camera that had leaked almost in full a couple of weeks ago, marking the lowest end of Fuji’s interchangeable lens cameras. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-a-fuji-mirrorless-camera-that-wont-destroy-you-1263973309 The $600 X-A1 features guts a bit less robust than Fuji’s more expensive cameras. The 16.3 megapixel APS-C sensor will retain…
Just for the record, I’m pretty sure your eye isn’t supposed to make that sound when you touch it.
So a Nexus 5 apparently got left at a bar. It happens! And when it happens, pictures get taken and we lucky folks get to see what one of the most anticipated phones of the year looks like up close. It matches up quite nicely with the leaked phone in the Android 4.4 Kit Kata…
If you want to feel like you’re tripping out on wonderful drugs and/or see all the colors of the RGB spectrum in one image, going to the allRGB website should have you covered. It’s a project that show off images that contain all 16,777,216 distinct colors inside the RGB spectrum. Each of those colors pop…
After a wonderful price cut last month, Google has now completely sold out of both the 8GB Nexus 4 and the 16GB Nexus 4 on Google Play. Impressive! https://gizmodo.com/you-can-buy-a-nexus-4-8gb-for-200-and-a-16gb-for-250-1211597361 And also a little bit sad because The Verge is reporting that Google has “no plans” to bring the Nexus 4 “back in stock in any…
That giant 6-inch Lumia 1520 that was targeted to launch this month is supposedly being delayed until late October because of the Microsoft and Nokia deal. That is, if we see it at all.
Here’s something completely awesome on a day that needs more awesome. Tim Pietrusky recreated the famous opening crawl of Star Wars from 1977 using HTML, CSS and JavaScript because he couldn’t find a web version of it. Even better, the code is all up on Codepen.io and Pietrusky detailed his process on his website for…
Kohei Jinno was evicted and got his Tokyo home destroyed when he was 30 years old. It was 1964, and they needed the space for the Olympic Stadium. Now, the unlucky man is 79 and he is going to get evicted again so the city can build the new Olympic Stadium where his new home…
Gravity forever keeps our feet flat on the ground, but it’s tough to see the “wow” factor of something we live with every day. But Shizouka-based designer Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design found a way to reveal the wonder in the ever-present force with Magnetic Field Record, a mobile artwork that offers a new way…
In a secret tape obtained by Deadspin, this college football coach said his team’s fan are “a bunch of fucking fair-weather fucking—they can all kiss my ass out the fucking door” and wanted to tell them “Fuck you, fans. Fuck all of you.” Photo by AP Images https://deadspin.com/bo-pelini-on-nebraska-fans-fuck-you-fans-fuck-all-o-1327398903
So the Slo-Mo Guys have kicked pans of gasoline, blown up paint, and played with Molotov cocktails, all in gloriously indulgent slow motion. Now, they’ve upped the ante considerably and blown up a freakin’ car. Just because. https://gizmodo.com/kicking-a-pan-of-flaming-gasoline-is-the-best-and-worst-5968751 There’s really not much more to say about it than that. Just pop it to full screen…
Is there anything more amazeballs than seeing Uma Thurman taking on the assassins who killed her fiancé and a hundred ninja dudes in between? No. There’s not. Which is why the world needs less Wolverines and more Black Widows. https://gizmodo.com/the-long-list-of-successful-action-movies-starring-wome-1298632309
Have you attempted to fax your way to full or partial disclosure of government documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) recently? Well too bad, suckers! Because the Office of the Secretary of Defense has a broken fax machine, and it ain’t getting fixed anytime soon. It all started about two weeks ago when…
Today, there’s a lot of scaremongering in the media surrounding online trolling. When people are being terrible to each other, there’s often this knee-jerk reaction to blame the technology rather than acknowledge that human beings have always been just plain horrible. Case in point: the radio trolls of 1910. An editorial in the December 1915…
This colorful tiny shirt that will impress a lot of cool tenth graders came for me in the mail today, and I had totally forgotten about it until now. Surprise! Am I alone here, or does anyone else order random things online and erase them from your memory until they arrive? We’re not talking about…
With connections for microUSB, Apple’s old Dock Connector, and its new Lightning option, the CrossLink cable by Id America can sync or charge pretty much any modern smartphone or tablet you can get your hands on. And if the Crosslink’s flat cable anti-tangle design isn’t enough, it’s also available in six different colors that will…
A company called Terra Vivos is building underground timeshare communities “built to withstand a 50-megaton nuclear blast 10 miles away, 450mph winds, a magnitude-10 earthquake, 10 days of 1,250°F surface fires, and three weeks beneath any flood.” Asteroids, nuclear war or angels with trumpets—you’ll survive them all trapped with neighbors under a mountain. Photos by…
Last week we brought you inside the kooky but wonderful Holographic Studios in New York City. While we were there, we learned a whole lot about the history of hologram technology. It’s a sprawling story with many facets—and also lasers. https://gizmodo.com/the-art-of-the-hologram-is-alive-in-this-underground-la-1277409734 Holography’s history traces all the way back to the 19th century and early color…
Despite being relatively primitive devices compared to the phones and tablets we all carry, the strength of e-ink displays have kept dedicated ereaders on the market for a lot longer than many had predicted. And at IFA, companies like Alcatel and PocketBook were demoing smartphone flip covers enhanced with an extra e-ink display complementing their…
