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Livestreams are great and all, but they’re all subject to a terrible reality: the more people who want to watch, the more likely it is the stream goes down. BitTorrent’s P2P streaming service BitTorrent Live stands to change all that by actually drawing strength from the crowd, and it’s here to start shaking up the…
Have you been eagerly awaiting the arrival of txtr’s $13 ereader and rationalizing its lack of fancy features with the fact that it’ll cost next to nothing? Too bad, suckers! https://gizmodo.com/this-ereader-will-cost-less-than-15-5950457 The German company has announced that its oddly named Beagle ereader will actually be retailing in the US for a hearty $70. You’re essentially…
Unless you’re some kind of prodigy who can solve one while juggling, making pancakes, and whistling Dixie, the Rubik’s cube is already difficult enough. So why on earth would someone go and add a numbered, spinning dial to each side? That’s just sadistic. You could argue that Brando’s $80 Roulette Wheel IQ Cube is actually…
We’ve been hearing about a mythical Apple “iWatch” for a while now, to varying degrees of credibility, but this one from the April issue of MacUser magazine is probably the prettiest—and most plausibly Apple—interpretation we’ve seen. The design was cooked up by designer Martin Hajek—who’s done some spot-on renders for Gizmodo in the past—in close…
Hacker, modder, and DIYer extraordinaire Ben Heck has seemingly done the impossible with his latest project. For years a fierce battle has raged between proponents of the big three gaming consoles, but to finally bring peace and civility to gaming forums across the land, Heck created an all-in-one console that combines a PS3, an Xbox…
Gesture control might just be one of the most exciting battlegrounds in tech right now. First there was Kinect, then the awesome Leap Motion—and now German company PMD Technologies claims to be able to beat them both. https://gizmodo.com/leap-motions-sick-3d-gesture-control-hardware-will-only-5987240 PMD has been around for a decade, but this video suggests it’s coming of age. Its device,…
A British luxury car rental company is looking to make a bigger name for itself by creating what could be the world’s first Lamborghini Aventador stretch limo. For the moment Cars For Stars’ bold creation is only in the concept stages, but with a deep-pocketed sponsor the company is optimistic about making it a reality.…
There’s an outlet located under your steering wheel in your car that connects to your vehicle’s onboard diagnostic computer. You probably don’t think about unless you’re taking your ride to be serviced. But you can take advantage of a bunch of data it tracks with a new piece of hardware called Automatic. It has the…
You can snag a PS Vita 3G for $200 in selected Sony stores across the US—though you need to sign up to a contract.
As an experiment, New York Times media columnist David Carr decided to gather a bunch of geeks at SXSW and ask them to tell jokes. This video is the result. It’s left to you to decide how funny it is. [Vimeo via BoingBoing]
Chairs come in all shapes and sizes—but you probably never expected it would be possible to create an entire alphabet out of them. Designer Tim Fishlock has put together this Typeseat print based around that exact idea, where each letter is represented by an iconic 20th century chair. He explains: A lot of my work…
For almost ten years, streaming music services have come and gone. Sure, some have lasted longer than others, but so far none has ever made the business model work properly. So can it ever turn into a real, sustainable business? Verge has an interesting feature asking that very question. From the article: [W]hile streaming looks…
We’re now just two days away from Samsung’s Galaxy S IV announcement, but this video claims to show off the phone ahead of launch. Following yesterday’s alleged photographs of the phone, the same source has released this video which could—or could not!—show off the S IV in action. Grab a pinch of salt and take…
Every little piece of information you give away online can reveal something about you—but it seems your Facebook likes could reveal rather more than you bargained for. New research by the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research has been analyzing Facebook Likes to see how much information they really contain. After quietly—and, apparently, innocuously!—collecting data…
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has been called in to investigate HP’s allegations of wrong-doing by Autonomy .
This machinima-style CGI short illustrates that you can’t just float through life, even if you do have a balloon for a head. Produced by Valerio Spinelli of studio Pixel Pongo, Testaballoon follows the trials of a man whose head is far too light for his body.
Samsung is going to announce its latest and greatest Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S IV, on March 14th. We may know what it looks like already. Or we may not. Samsung is throwing all of us another bone by teasing the upcoming S IV by showing us the outline of the phone. It might…
If you’ve ever been bored as hell on a plane, which is to say every single person who has ever flown ever, you’ve definitely wondered who the heck buys anything from the totally unnecessary world of SkyMall. And if you got even more bored, shout out to cross country and international flights, you probably wondered…
What’s lovely about this alphabet made from camera parts by London graphic design student Stefan Abrahams is that it organizes a camera’s beautiful internals as carefully as one should frame a picture. Each letter has a camera part, you can see the viewfinder as ‘D’ and the shutter curtain as ‘R’. What are the other…
Those Harlem Shake where they actually aren’t doing the Harlem Shake videos sure got out of hand really fast, didn’t they? It was the Internet’s fascination at its highest manufactured peak. I disregarded it immediately when I first saw it. I didn’t want to watch any of those videos as more came trickling in. And…
