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Looks like Motorola’s phone-unlocking NFC key—”Skip”—isn’tquite as dumb as it seemed. Motorola just announced the tag will come with a limited number of customized Moto Xsfor free, which is a way better deal. It still costs $20 otherwise, though. Just steep enough to make a cool accessory stupid.
We’ve already seen some (supposed) software leaks implying that the newest iPhone will come bundled up with a biometric fingerprint sensor, but now we actually have the hardware images to back that up. Newly leaked photos from the French blog Nowhereelse.fr show what purports to be iPhone 5S internal components—ample room for fingerprint scanner and…
Tweetdeck’s got a gift for you today. No, unfortunately it’s not fixed notifications, but it’s still a step in the right direction. Meet the new, prettier tweet panel. It makes firing off 140-char screeds a little more pleasant. https://gizmodo.com/tweetdeck-just-got-worse-and-twitter-blames-google-932378381 Instead of the old, gross white box that would pop up in the middle of your…
People have said that Google Glass would be distracting since day one, not just for people looking at the Glassholes but also for the Glassholes themselves who have that tiny screen always blinking in front of their faces. We certainly don’t want to put them behind the wheel. Right?! Mercedes Benz begs to differ. https://gizmodo.com/google-glass-and-the-golden-age-of-creepshots-5990787…
This morning, Bloomberg reports that Samsung Samsung is poised to unleash and Android-powered timepiece at its Unpacked event on September 4th ahead of IFA. Are you ready to wear a gadget called Galaxy Gear? Additional details are lacking on the product, but as with Samsung’s never-ending parade of smart gadgets, Galaxy Gear, if it’s real,…
We have a feeling the new Moto X from Motorola/Google is going to be a hit. It looks great, it feels great, it’s fast, and it has added features that transcend the usual gimmickry. High on that list is Moto Maker, Motorola’s online customization suite that lets you order up a Moto X in any…
Everyone’s favorite Red Hot Nickel Ball has been on an absurd amount of adventures between boiling a jar of honey and completely demolishing the world’s largest gummy bear. Naturally, the next stop on its quest to be submerged in everything known to man is peanut butter. Why not, right? https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-you-drop-a-hot-ball-of-nickel-into-ho-5992018 It makes a pretty impressive…
It looks like SonyAlphaRumors has managed to get its hands on what it believes to be a few leaked pages of the manual for Sony’s rumored all-in-one lens cameras, designed to work alongside a smartphone. And they look even more promising than before. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-photos-of-sonys-lens-cameras-that-piggyback-on-1110344221 It was previously assumed that all of the manual controls for…
Defense industry specialists circled up in Washington this week for the three-day-long trade fair of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. In other words, a bunch of guys with a lot of money just got together for a giant drone show. It’s actually the world’s largest. And here are its wares. The show’s 600…
Stop me if you heard this before but an electric car and an electric pole walk into a bar… Okay, seriously. This is one of those ridiculous local news stories that are too perfect to be true but actually are. A Tesla Model S crashed into a utility pole in Tennessee and caused a local…
Motorola will be selling a $20 accessory for the Moto X that could very well be the smartest thing it has ever done or be the dumbest phone accessory ever. Called the Skip, it’s a clip that houses a NFC chip that’ll let you unlock your Moto X by simply tapping it. No lock screens,…
And this is why you don’t play games at the enchanted boardwalk. Did Big teach us nothing?
If somebody says that Boardwalk Empire is the best show on HBO, I immediately discount all their future opinions. If they say The Newsroom, I automatically think they like verbal flexing. If it’s True Blood, they love fleshy guilty pleasures. If they say Game of Thrones, they’re… probably right. But! I would argue with them…
The Washington Post dropped two reports that exposes the recklessness of the NSA’s spying program. The first report is insane: the NSA has “broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority” thousands of times a year and the second report explains the insanity: the FISC court that’s supposed to be in charge of government spying…
I hadn’t listened to music in months. Sure, I had heard noise from the car radio gargle through as transportation distraction and of course, I embraced the magnificently uncomfortable Yeezus and duh, I still hunted down NSFW YouTube music videos but my main gateway for listening to music, an Airplay speaker, had broken down way…
Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner nails the first Jobs biopic as a bad montage of short clips that shows the mighty Apple leader as “a sociopath who systematically ruins his and others’ lives, and is rewarded lavishly for it.” The only thing that seems good about the movie is Ashton Kutcher (at times) and the supporting cast.…
Locked-in syndrome, where a person with a fully functioning brain is trapped in a completely paralyzed body, is one of neurology’s most vexing (and terrifying) problems. Physicians and researchers have struggled for years to establish an objective way to determine level of consciousness that doesn’t require patients to express themselves through some form of muscle…
NeverWet is so 2013. The next big spray-on coating, developed by a federally-funded team working on smart windows, will use electrical currents to actually stop heat—and light—from passing through your windows. Besides being a remarkable feat of engineering, the invention could save us billions of dollars a year in energy costs. The news was announced…
Have you ever wanted to be an urban planner? How about a landscape architect? Are you an urban planner or a landscape architect or do you just really love cities? If you answered yes to any of these questions—and maybe even if you didn’t—you’ll love Streetmix. Streetmix is a free web app that lets you…
Every year is the same thing: new TV series and new seasons of the old ones. io9 has a complete guide to all the fantasy and sci-fi series that may fill the void between the last season of Breaking Bad and the new season of Game of Thrones. https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-this-falls-science-fiction-and-f-1149999892
