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If you have a knackered old SLR lying around, are game for a project and fancy adding a little quirk to your front door, why not think about creating a photography themed peephole? Demonstrated here by Jared Polin of Fro Knows Photo, the install seems pretty easy: you just need an old SLR and lens,…
UK cable provider Virgin Media will become the first ever to partner up with Netflix and provide its streaming services. A sign of things to come in the US?
Roku has updated its Android app with an awesome new feature: you can now stream video from your Android handset to the media box. https://gizmodo.com/roku-3-review-the-new-best-streaming-box-5991159 All you need is the Roku Remote app, which is available from the Google Play store. Then you’re able to sling video to your TV in much the same way…
Ahead of today’s big Apple event, the Wall Street Journal is reaffirming rumors that the more expensive of the two phones to be announced will feature fingerprint scanning technology. https://gizmodo.com/our-iphone-event-liveblog-starts-right-here-on-9-10-at-1277167537 It’s by no means a new rumor—having been suggested by French site Nowhereelse.fr, Reuters, and the WSJ before. But clearly the Journal is confident that…
Anyone who has ever scrolled a page on a website or clicked a link on the Internet or watched a video on YouTube or enjoys the practicality of living with electricity should know what Reddit is. But could you explain it to someone who’s never heard of it? Is it the front page of the…
If only one’s collective life experiences really were this tangible as they are in this touching animated short by Gobelins animation school student, Helene LaRoux with original music by Mathieu Alvado. And while the influence of the Pixar’s Up is clear, this story easily stands on its own merits.
The interchangeable-lens OM-D E-M1 is so much camera you won’t believe it’s mirroress. The E-M1 is the successor to 2010’s E-5, the last Olympus camera with a mirror box and an optical viewfinder. I just shot with one of the first units in the world at the Oly launch event in New York, and I’m…
Aging is a fierce b-word that deepens the lines on your face, sags the skin on your body and grays the hair on your head. All in the name of accruing wisdom! The thing with aging though is that it literally takes years to see its effect. Well, this incredible time lapse fast forwards the…
GoPro, the Q-Tips of action cameras, recognized a problem. People are shooting tons of footage with their cameras, but are then letting it languish away on a dusty old hard drive, unseen and unedited. The California company is hoping to help correct that with new mobile apps and desktop editing software. We recently got a…
The trick to make a paper airplane fly forever isn’t in the quality of the paper or the intricacy of the folding, it’s in using an electric stove to keep the paper airplane afloat in constant motion. Just watch the video above, the paper airplane keeps going in circles and circles and circles over the…
After an spectacular match—and recovering from a knee injury that was supposed to take him out of the competition forever—Rafael Nadal has won the the U.S. Open in New York against Novak Djokovic. An incredible comeback. https://deadspin.com/heres-that-insane-54-shot-rally-in-the-djokovic-nadal-1280482243
The trailer for MGMT’s forthcoming self-titled record isn’t the first piece of culture that’s inspired by this summer’s NSA revelations, but the nearly 7-minute video is probably the most ambitious yet. The concept is simple: A band rehearses while a the NSA monitors their every move. It’s absolutely silly, and sadly, it’s absolutely relevant, too.…
For two brief days last month, you could find any hand-crafted bike you’ve ever wanted at the Warsaw Concert Hall in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Inside the antique Polish dive bar, reps from Horse, Rosko, Coast, Ceremony, and more all came to display their finest crop of custom frames. For cyclists, it was pure magic. The Bike…
Tokyo got the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, and they are readying these beautiful space age remakes for their old 1964 olympic stadiums. It’s easy to imagine drones and robots floating around these fantastic structures. https://gizmodo.com/tokyos-clever-plan-to-retrofit-1964-olympic-stadia-for-1277311713
Many an armchair futurist seems absolutely convinced that Google Glass might soon render street crime obsolete. The thinking goes that when everyone is under the watchful eye of a web-connected faceputer, your common street hoodlum will no longer be able to rob with impunity. We’ve been down this road before. Virtually every shiny new future-pushing…
It’s no secret that finding yourself outside and exposed during a thunderstorm greatly enhances your risk of being struck by lightning. But it turns out there are some simple tricks you can use to increase your chances of survival if the clouds do decide to strike you from above. It turns out that a metal…
Like computers, videogame consoles are slowly dying. They may not entirely disappear, but this data shows a clear trend towards their extinction, replaced by phones and tablets. Is it Game Over for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft? https://kotaku.com/yikes-sales-chart-predicts-gaming-doom-for-sony-and-ni-1279441081
Tomorrow, Apple will introduce the world to two new iPhones. One will look almost exactly like the current iPhone, the other will look slightly different. Apple will sell millions of each type. And both will hardly matter at all compared to iOS 7. There’s going to be a lot written about the iPhone 5S and…
They’re undeniably fun, but all remote control toys—particularly those that fly—have one very unfortunate downside in common: they all run out of power too quickly. Whether it’s gas or batteries, they’ll all be grounded before you’re done having fun. But not this tiny flying propeller. Made with a carbon fiber shaft so it’s strong but…
