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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.
If you’ve ever wondered which languages are spoken where in NYC, here’s the map for you. This visualization shows exactly which languages are used in tweets across the city. Put together by James Cheshire, Ed Manley and Oliver O’Brien from University College London, the map builds on 8.5 million tweets, captured between January 2010 and…
By this point, it’s safe to say that Apple is at least considering the exploration of the hypothetical idea of testing a wearable iWatch-type product. So does this newly unearthed Apple patent, which shows off what amounts to a digital slap bracelet, shed new light on the company’s intentions? Nope! Not a bit, sorry, moving…
If you’re an avid traveller, you might want to think about picking up a soon-to-go-on-sale Doodad pay-as-you-go SIM card: it offers flat-rate, 3G data, around the world, and will work in any unlocked GSM device. Neat. Flat-rate doesn’t mean you get charged the same in every country, but you can at least set caps for…
We’ve probably all seen high-speed footage of soap bubbles detonating in mid-air. But footage shot at 18,000 frames per second? That brings a whole new level of awesome to this childhood pastime. Just makes sure you stop and remember the countless bubbles that had to die so The Slow Mo Guys could bring us this…
You might not know it, but the melody from Happy Birthday To You is actually copyrighted, owned by Time Warner, and won’t enter the public domain until 2030 at the earliest. That’s why the Free Music Archive set out to find an alternative—and this is officially the best choice. Along with WFMU, the Free Music…
Pi is famously calculated to trillions of digits—but how many of them do we really, really need? This video demonstrates that, actually, just 39 will do. Taking pi to 39 digits allows you to measure the circumference of the observable universe to within the width of a single hydrogen atom. Sure, you could use more,…
Back in 1988, Samsung decided that a little future gazing could help it sell its products. Looking back, though, it got a few things wrong. Samsung lauded steak as the health food of 2010, and claimed its microwave would be the ideal device for health freaks to cook it in. Wishful winking which, sadly, hasn’t…
HBO Go for Android now supports HDMI video output, so you can pipe video to a big screen. [Play]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has developed a touchscreen laptop which runs its Chrome operating system—and suggests they’ll go on sale later this year. The Journal’s sources, however, are short on extra detail: there’s no word on which hardware manufacturers are working on the devices, nor exactly when it will go on…
If Apple’s upcoming campus is a spaceship, then NVIDIA’s planned headquarters must be the alien planet that it lands on. Celebrating its 20th year birthday, NVIDIA has announced plans to build a building that looks if not completely alien than at the very least reptilian. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-high-resolution-renders-of-apples-next-campus-a-5830633 The new headquarters was designed by Hao Ko of…
Google wants to work with fashionista frames maker Warby Parker to make Google Glasses look less punchable in the face
While burlesque shows are typically reserved for only the old-timiest and classiest of strippers, “Kitty Burlesk” by Big Jim 369 drives the genre into undiscovered country. It incorporates Terry Gilliam-style animation, Internet cat memes, and middle-age boobage to create a psychedelic tops-off dance-off.
Over the last year, Nikon has replaced its two bottom DSLRs with the D3200 and D5200 refreshes. The new D7100 is the latest DX format camera bump, replacing the dated D7000 from three years ago. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d3200-lightning-review-where-were-you-two-years-5921303 The D7100 is the last APS-C sensor camera in the line before you move up to a professional full-frame…
