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Samsung has just announced its new Wallet mobile payment app at the Mobile World Congress and… and it looks a hell of a lot like Apple’s Passbook. By now you know the drill: the app lets users store things like event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards, and coupons in one central location on their phone.…
Apple has announced that Passbook ticketing will be available in 13 Major League Baseball stadiums this coming season.
Forget auto-exposure, or even light meters. Back in the day this booklet and some mental arithmetic was all that was required to achieve the perfect exposure when taking photographs. The Exposure Time Tables pocket reference book by Zeiss Ikon was the go-to guide for working out how to snap your shot. As Peta Pixel explains:…
The Pentagon has decided to allow employees to use Apple and Google devices from 2014. Bad news, BlackBerry!
Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicon claims to be the world’s smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2 x 2 x 0.5 millimeters, it’s so small that it will likely end up inside… you. It packs a modest 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, paired with 32KB of flash memory and 4KB of RAM. That might…
The six strikes anti-piracy scheme has kicked off: torrenters, brace yourselves for strongly worded letters. https://gizmodo.com/that-six-strikes-anti-piracy-plan-could-be-rolling-out-5986511
Because digital clocks are way easier to tell time but analog clocks are way classier, design studio Humans Since 1982 decided to combine the best of both worlds and make a digital clock from 288 different analog clocks. It’s brain meltingly delicious to see each analog clock turn its hands to form a digital clock.…
If you’ve been waiting the cold long year to get Photoshop on your iPhone or Android Phone, the wait is finally over. Photoshop Touch for iPhone and Android is now available for $5. The phone version of Photoshop Touch has pretty much the same features as the tablet version that launched last year—it’s just been…
Why the chicken crossed the road is of no importance. The real question is how did it find the money for a suit and train ticket? Find out in this intriguing animated short from Jelena Oroz. Update: Yes, in retrospect, embedding the correct video would probably have helped the narrative. To be fair though, New…
I don’t remember the last time I saw a cassette tape in real life. Seriously, it’s been years. But when I see these cassette tapes refashioned as pieces of art, I’m happy. I love seeing old media being used in a way it was never meant to be (and the only way it could be…
What happens when one of the biggest names in dance music teams up with the elder statesman of emo punk? A psychedelic, foot-stomper is born. Earthquakey People delves into our communal sense of personal failure—you know, that “oh, fuck me” memory that seems to surface daily in the shower—to reveal that everybody, in fact, feels…
Though most of us find Spider-Man to be infinitely more relatable than other comic book heroes, the truth is if Spider-Man was actually scientifically accurate, it’d be a much different story. He’d be totally gross because well, spider are totally gross. They’re hairy, they’re freakish looking and their dicks fall off. Comic books need to…
If you live in New Jersey, consider yourself lucky for once. The Garden State just legalized online gambling.
Tucked amidst the Mont Blanc Mountain Range, the picturesque Aosta Valley is among the most pristine places on Earth. But rather than trek all the way to the Italian Alps, you can gaze upon the region’s natural beauty through this 1:2193 scale stainless steel serving tray from Alessi. Dubbed the Liconi by its designer, Pierfrancesco…
We’ve all seen some amazing scenes while looking out the window on long flights. Filmmaker Tim Sessler has! And rather than popping another Ambien and dozing off on his flight from San Francisco to Salt Lake City to Philadlphia, he decided to capture some footage and go to town. Tim created Drift with a 5D…
Need a vacation? Orbitz has a new iPad app that lets you compare fares side by side to find the best deal. What does it do? Finds you deals on flights, hotels, and rental cars ala your iPad. Why do we like it? Rather than flipping between several different windows, you can look at the…
If knowing you’re going to wake up on time for work helps you sleep better, then slap two rounds of AAA batteries in this pistol-shaped alarm clock and stash it under your pillow. When it’s time to wake from your slumber it gently vibrates you back to reality, and a built-in projector lets you pull…
It’s over, my friends. This is the end. Today—today I want to talk to you about Tamago Egg, the app that ends all apps. After you download it, there will be no need for you to download any other app ever again. It’s game over. Tamago Egg’s premise is deceptively simple: tap on this egg…
This sleek pair of cufflinks has a butterfly knife hidden inside. They might as well be paraphernalia from an old 007 movie. They’re not, though. You can buy them from CoolMaterial for $70 a pair. They’re an inch long and the mini-blade is just half an inch. And you’d never expect it was there. Just…
It can’t just be the United States Postal Service that’s having a hard time staying afloat. Email and social networking is available all around the world, but maybe the USPS should take a hint from the clever Belgians who’ve created a collection of stamps that celebrate—and actually smell and taste like—chocolate. https://gizmodo.com/five-days-of-mail-a-week-is-still-too-much-5982093 The collection is…
