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Are you tired of paying the outrageous markups that camera manufacturers like Canon and Nikon are asking for their hardware? Fight back with Coralie Gourguechon’s open source Craft Camera that comes with some—actually all—assembly required. You can download the schematics here, and from there you’ll just need an Arduino and other miscellaneous hardware outlined in…
Until now, Chromebooks hadn’t been much more than glorified netbooks; underpowered curios best suited for technological novices. The 13-inch, touchscreen, retina-displayed, full-powered Chromebook Pixel, though, appears to be anything but. And it should be enough to make Apple at least a little nervous. At least until you get to the price. https://gizmodo.com/the-perfect-computer-for-people-who-fear-computers-5861502 The anodized aluminum…
Augment reality has always been cool, but it’s never been too practical for extended use. Crazy processor demands chew up battery power and deliver a workable experience, but not one that can last. Metaio aims to but an end to that with the first ever dedicated augmented-reality chip, and it’s coming as soon as the…
If the NFL ever loosens its strict equipment standards, it might one day be able to provide fans with a unique view of the game thanks to research being done at Carnegie Mellon University. Kris Kitani, a postdoctoral research fellow at the school, has developed a clever piece of software that can stabilize footage captured…
Apple’s been keeping busy rolling out small patches of iOS 6. The latest, iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 just hit developers. Importantly, 9To5Mac reports that the update fixes the gaping lock screen bug that allows access even with out a passcode. No word on whether it patches up the recent Evasi0n jailbreak. Unfortunately, it’s only a…
Supposedly a picture is worth a thousand words, but this crazy 320-gigapixel panorama of London has got to be worth a little more than that. This record-shattering shot is actually some 48,640 stitched together into one ludicrous goliath. You wish your camera was even one one-hundredth as cool. The image was shot from atop London’s…
Buying a Motorola smartphone now lands you $50 in Google Play credit—after the absurd mail-in rebate for digital goods.
Flickr’s just been updated to include some features you probably wanted. Among them are some basics—uploading is faster and it’s easier to save pics from your Photostream to the camera roll. Then the app gets to some things you’ve probably missed. It now auto-saves your original photos before you add a filter. If you @…
21 February 2013 – Getting ready for his six-month stay on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano from Italy had an important task yesterday – testing some of the best Italian cuisine that he will eat in Earth orbit, including the first lasagne to be sent to space. This is how it is…
Twitter began using DMARC earlier this month, which should hopefully stop all those fake Twitter email phishing scams.
Now that we’ve had a firsthand look at the undeniably incredible—although not all that revolutionary—graphics that the PS4’s blazing fast guts will be spewing forth, we can actually start considering if its going to be worth shelling out the (currently undisclosed amount of) money required. Granted, we still have no idea what the damn thing…
There is a 22-foot-long, 200-ton steel monster under Manhattan. Dead, resting deep somewhere under Grand Central Station and Park Avenue, this machine and her twin brother excavated the massive tunnels that you can see here, one of the largest public transportation works of our time. https://gizmodo.com/this-200-ton-earth-worm-is-now-dying-under-new-york-5825349 Here’s an impressive new look at the amazing tunnels…
It’s been a while since we’ve stumbled across an alarm clock that uses some annoying gimmick to ensure you get out of bed in the morning. But this $17 mini golf game trapped inside a plastic dome might actually be a less rage-inducing way to start your day. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-snooze-button-is-ruining-your-sleep-5949809 It has all the basic functions…
The Itisy table looks like one of these Very Hungry Caterpillar toys, and it can be configured however you like. Forget putting stuff on it; I just want to play with it. Thanks to metal ball joints installed underneath the oak top of each part, sections can be realigned to fit the circular tops together…
Taking a page from Tokyo Flash’s bewildering design playbook, Romain Jerome’s latest watch—the Spacecraft—takes an unconventional approach to displaying the time. But thankfully it’s not as difficult as deciphering the array of dials and switches on a NASA-designed craft. Looking itself like some retro spaceship that fell to earth from the heavens, the watch features…
We don’t know squat about what the PS4 will look like since it didn’t make an appearance at Sony’s two-hour long press event last night, but we’ve learned a lot about what it’ll be like when it finally shows up. And now, we know it’s going to have AMD innards. https://gizmodo.com/sony-just-had-a-two-hour-ps4-event-with-no-ps4-5985790 As expected, the PS4…
If you go out and hunt for a DJ app that lets you mix together two different tracks, you’re going to come across a lot of really, really, bad design. Even the best stuff is a hell of fake spinning turntable skeuomorphs. After playing with Native Instruments’ Traktor DJ for iPad, we’re sure there’s a…
Most of us got a little distracted from uneventful passing of near-Earth asteroid DA14 after that unrelated meteorite decided to slam into Russia. Photographer Colin Legg keep his eyes—and camera—on DA14 though, and put together this time-lapse of its flyby that makes it seem like an insignificant little dot. https://gizmodo.com/were-safe-the-asteroid-goes-away-5984606 Legg took the footage from…
Most of the post-processing done by a camera is handled by software that MIT researchers believe could be a lot smarter, faster, and user-friendly. So they’re developing a single chip that can handle these operations with remarkable efficiency. High Dynamic Range imagery, where the camera snaps multiple images to generate a final photo with perfect…
Congrats, Android users! With the newest Snapchat update, a whole new world of fleeting erotic video has just opened up.
