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NuForce’s Bluetooth 4.0 Speakers Could Be the Best Wireless Speakers Yet

NuForce makes fantastic audio products; ones typically targeted at the mid-range audiophile. Their latest offering, a pair of Bluetooth speakers, uses the latest and greatest compression technologies, which they say will deliver top notch wireless sound .Can these new bookshelf speakers appeal to discerning ears? So far, Bluetooth audio has failed to convince folks who…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Shooting Challenge: Scale

Canon EOS 7D Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L Lens Focal Length – 32mm Aperture – 3.5 Shutter – 0.8 ISO – 100 An hour before this contest closed I decided to participate so I rushed around the house to find something to shoot. Then I remembered my Bender action figure and I knew I had the…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

26 Scale Models You’d Swear Were Real

It’s the oldest Hollywood trick: Take a picture of something small and make it look giant. But that doesn’t mean it’s any less mind-bending when a Hot Wheels toy looks like a totally drivable, $1 million F1 racer. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-scale-effect-5950475 WINNER: You Could Sell This Car On Ebay As an avid model car collector and amateur…

Tech News Mark Wilson

With a Giant Hammock Bed, Why Would You Ever Get Up?

Hammocks can be one of the most comfortable places on Earth to rest your head. But climbing in and out of them can be a challenge—a challenge that’s made dead easy with this incredibly comfortable-looking Koala 45 bed. In lieu of a mattress, its sleeping surface is composed of fabric strips stretched taut and interwoven…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Magnetic Quick Release Mount Brings Filters To Your High-End Point-and-Shoot

If an inability to use filters has you hesitant about trading your DSLR for a fancy compact camera, consider CarrySpeed’s new MagFilter solution. It harnesses the power of magnets (and adhesives) to give your compact camera a swappable filter system without hindering the lens’ capabilities. Available in 36 and 42 millimeter sizes (priced at $25…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook Just Made It Harder for Hackers to Jack Your Account

Facebook just announced it’s partnering with seven new anti-virus companies, in addition to the ones it already worked with. They’ll be offering software in the Facebook AV Marketplace, which lets users download antivirus security software. But the real benefit might be in how they affect Facebook at large. Here’s an excerpt from the release: Our…

Social Media Kyle Wagner

The iPad Mini Is Coming October 23rd

Apple has just sent out its last round of invites for the year, and it’s as official as it gets: The iPad Mini is coming next week. Go ahead and mark off October 23rd on your calendars. It should be quite a show. As the invite above indicates, the event will be held at 10am…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Puma AE: The Special Forces Spy Drone that Lands Anywhere

When scouting enemy positions, our forces rarely have the luxury of a proper airstrip—or even a fairway—with which to land an unmanned aircraft. That’s why California’s AeroVironment corporation has designed a drone that lands just about anywhere—water hazards and sand traps be damned. The Puma AE (All Environment) is an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) designed…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Ask Our Photographer How He Shot a Hardcore Gaming Tournament in the Tiniest of Spaces

Some folks go to San Francisco for the food, the fog, or the never-ending free Wi-Fi. Photographer Ryan Russell went for the gaming. As part of Gizmodo’s Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge, Ryan dropped by Frisco’s legendary Southtown Arcade, where he used his lens and his ultra-responsive Ultrabook™ to immortalize a remarkably cordial and totally legal…

Tech News By Seth Porges

New Google Glasses Patent Gives a Shout Out to Left Eye(s)

Google has secured a patent for left-handed people that puts the Google Glasses eyepiece on the other side. Someone at Google must be a pretty huge TLC fan (RIP Lisa Left Eye Lopes). As a righty/normal person, it’s pretty easy to make fun of a special patent for southpaws. But it would be a huge…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Beats Pill: Is This The $200 Bluetooth Speaker That Slays the Jambox?

The Jawbone Jambox was a pretty good bluetooth speaker, if not entirely perfect. But it had the benefit of being one of the first portable bluetooth speakers to combine design, affordability and ease of use along with quality. But in the Bluetooth market there’s always room for improvement and though we’ve seen a couple of…

Tech News Adrian Covert

12 New iPad Minis Plus Updated iMacs Allegedly Coming Out Next Week

Like iPhone 5, the leaks have now overflown Apple’s secrecy bucket. The iPad mini launch seems imminent. AppleInsider claims to have new exclusive information: there will be 12 models, they say. And updated iMacs too. https://gizmodo.com/this-looks-like-the-first-photo-of-a-fully-working-ipad-5944173 They claim there are 12 models, each in black and white, making up for 24 options. Four storage capacities…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

New Cause Found for the Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

According to the National Institutes of Health, a second tainted steroid has been linked to the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak that’s infected 214 people and killed 15. It’s from the same company responsible for the first. The New England Compounding Center Inc, in Framingham, MA, was known to be responsible for the 52,848 vials of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Inside Surface: Microsoft’s Insane Quest for Gadget Perfection

Surface, the sorta-tablet-sorta-laptop that shouts the future, goes on sale today. We got to peek (and touch, a little bit!) behind the scenes, with access to Microsoft’s secret labs never granted to anyone else before. So, should you buy a Surface? Very possibly—the thing seems pretty fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-rt-tablet-500-for-32gb-of-windows-8-5952106 At least, that’s what Microsoft is screaming…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Logitech’s Wi-Fi Webcam Turns Your MacBook Into a Broadcast Studio

Built-in webcams have been a standard option on Macs for the past six or seven years. So it seems a bit odd for Logitech to release an external webcam that’s designed exclusively for Apple hardware. But if you’re tired of your camera being stuck above your display, the Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam will give you a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Foxconn Admits Violating Child Labor Laws

Just a week after riots broke out at Foxconn over working conditions at the Chinese plant that manufactures Apple’s glorious new iPhone 5, the company is mixed up in another labor imbroglio. This time, it’s over the admitted use of child labor. But sheath thy pichforks because Foxconn’s not entirely to blame. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-impossible-design-comes-at-a-very-real-pr-5949429 CNET reports…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

iPod Nano Teardown: Try Not to Break It

iFixit has taken apart the seventh-gen iPod nano to get a look at its innards, and found that this guy—like most Apple products of late—is pretty difficult to repair. https://gizmodo.com/why-you-really-really-really-need-applecare-on-that-r-5932881 Basically all the important parts have been soldered to the logic board—the battery, the lightning connector, the button cable, and the headphone jack. The battery—which…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Electric Bike Tech Makes Power-Assisted Wheelchairs Way More Affordable

Not surprisingly, those fancy electric wheelchairs that let people with limited mobility cruise about with the push of a joystick are incredibly expensive. So adapting technology that powers modern electric bikes, Yamaha’s JWX-2 electric assist gives that same mobility for less—and can be retrofitted to almost any manually driven wheelchair. What’s unique about the system…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Microsoft Surface RT Tablet: $500 for 32GB of Windows 8’s Best Hope

It’s been since pulled, but a listing on the Microsoft Store earlier this morning showed that Surface RT, the company’s self-made, keyboard-covered Windows RT tablet, will be available for preorder today, starting at $500 for a 32GB model. That price seems right to make a major impact. That pricing puts the entry-level Surface at a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

WSJ: Microsoft Building 5 Million Surface Tablets This Quarter

Ahead of its launch, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is building between 3 and 5 million Surface tablets to sell on the run-up to the holiday season. Clearly, it means business. The newspaper cites component suppliers in Asia, who have stated that up to 5 million Surfaces could be churned out before…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

NuForce’s Bluetooth 4.0 Speakers Could Be the Best Wireless Speakers Yet

Shooting Challenge: Scale

26 Scale Models You’d Swear Were Real

With a Giant Hammock Bed, Why Would You Ever Get Up?

Magnetic Quick Release Mount Brings Filters To Your High-End Point-and-Shoot

Facebook Just Made It Harder for Hackers to Jack Your Account

The iPad Mini Is Coming October 23rd

Puma AE: The Special Forces Spy Drone that Lands Anywhere

Ask Our Photographer How He Shot a Hardcore Gaming Tournament in the Tiniest of Spaces

New Google Glasses Patent Gives a Shout Out to Left Eye(s)

Beats Pill: Is This The $200 Bluetooth Speaker That Slays the Jambox?

12 New iPad Minis Plus Updated iMacs Allegedly Coming Out Next Week

New Cause Found for the Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

Inside Surface: Microsoft’s Insane Quest for Gadget Perfection

Logitech’s Wi-Fi Webcam Turns Your MacBook Into a Broadcast Studio

Foxconn Admits Violating Child Labor Laws

iPod Nano Teardown: Try Not to Break It

Electric Bike Tech Makes Power-Assisted Wheelchairs Way More Affordable

Microsoft Surface RT Tablet: $500 for 32GB of Windows 8’s Best Hope

WSJ: Microsoft Building 5 Million Surface Tablets This Quarter

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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