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Like the iPhone 5 before it, the unannounced iPad Mini has—through leaks and logic—made itself essentially a known quantity. Let’s assume for a second that we know what it looks like, how big it is, and what guts will power it. It’s a safe assumption. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 With just a few weeks until a rumored launch,…
The last thing you want to have to deal with when riding your bike, particularly in busy traffic, is your sunglasses falling off. So to ensure they stay on your face no matter how rough the terrain is, the Helm from Dux features a retractable pair of sunglasses that will never go missing. They can…
It’s a year today since former Apple CEO Steve Jobs passed. Fittingly, Apple has posted a moving video tribute on the front page of its website, which remembers his enthusiasm and determination. Kicking off with the now-famous Wayne Gretzky quote—”I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been”—the video…
This gorgeous typographic chess set, based around the Champion font by Hoefler Frere Jones, brings elegant simplicity to the game with each piece assuming the form of its initial. It’s almost too pretty to play. Developed by Jim Sutherland of Hat-Trick Design, each piece is laser cut from 25mm acrylic, and they range in size:…
A team of Japanese scientists has managed to turn mouse stem cells into viable eggs—that can be inseminated and go on to produce normal, healthy mouse pups. The finding has massive implications for the development of infertility treatments in the future. The team of researchers from Kyoto University has previously created fully grown adult mice…
There’s a generation of youngsters growing up who think that Cloud Storage means Dropbox or Drive, and not some crazed childhood idea to collect all those awesomely shaped plumes in the sky. [XKCD]
Most battery advances concentrate on improving hardware, but researchers from the University of California San Diego have developed new algorithms that can cut lithium-ion battery charge times in half. Usually battery behavior is tracked by monitoring voltage and current, but according to the researchers relying on those measures leads to over-designed, oversized batteries that weigh…
Sony has stopped selling its Xperia Tablet S due to “water resistance issues”. Don’t use yours in the shower! [Jili]
Apparently, there is such thing as a valet service for phones. Seriously! Phones, tablets and iPods are banned in New York City public schools and though that rule is typically ignored, 88 schools in NYC have metal detectors, which means those kids have to store their phones with a ‘valet service’. It’s a pretty ridiculous…
Microsoft has done a bang up job with Internet Explorer and has a fancy, heart-pumping, dare-I-say-cool commercial to go along with it. Seriously, watch it. But you know what? It’s hard to stop poking fun of IE because of its horrid reputation. This video by World Wide Interweb is the honest version of that super…
Though most payphones are now of the open air variety, this idea of converting old closed kiosk phone booths into aquariums is just plain brilliant. People only use payphones to pee in and do drugs, let’s transform ’em into pillars of nature! These aquarium payphones are being created in Osaka, Japan by a Japanese art…
Some of you probably already know this but if you’re a new kid in the kitchen, here’s a great explainer on how to flip food in a pan: It’s not an up and down motion! You don’t lift the pan AT ALL. Instead, just slide the pan quickly back and forth and you’ll get the…
ASAP Science does their thing again, this time explaining what happens to your brain when you smoke weed (or pot or marijuana or whatever the hell you call it). The nut of it: when you’re high, whatever you think about when you’re on marijuana starts to feel like the most important thought you ever had…
We really liked the HTC One X, and from our brief encounter with the One X+ tonight, we’re going to like it even more. On the outside, it looks essentially the same—same gorgeous screen, same solid build—but its insides are nicely ramped up. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-x-review-the-best-android-phone-right-now-upd-5907529 This will be the first phone hitting the States with Nvidia’s…
LG wanted to build a super-phone. Good idea. So LG crammed it with the nastiest specs we’ve seen on a mobile device. We were excited. We got to play with it today… and they covered that beauty in one of the ugliest skins we’ve seen. C’mon, guys! The tale of the tape: It’s an Android…
We see overly specific, overwrought stock photography all the time. Like who ever decides that a picture of ‘hot girl in business suit crying because she’s trapped under cables’ or ‘guy in forest eating an ice cream cone while a bear lurks in the background’ is necessary? Those pictures (or things like it) totally exist!…
A couple of years ago I went to Brazil for a month. I took a backpack. One of my friends took a Country Road duffle, which is like a durable clown car for your clothes because impossibly enough, it fit enough stuff for four weeks. And it’s much better looking than my tattered knapsack. At…
Just a few weeks ahead of Microsoft’s release of Windows 8, Mozilla has pushed the first preview version of Firefox Metro out of the nest. https://gizmodo.com/windows-8-will-be-out-october-26th-5927138 Though its designed specifically for Metro, it also works on the classic Windows desktop environment. You can download it here, and it will be updated nightly. It’s the same…
Yeah, we get it. This is the iPod generation, and you won’t listen to anything smarter than a Top 40 song by Shakira or whoever the hell is popular right now, but there’s a lot of classic jazz that you should really learn more about—if only to impress future dates. What does it do? Founded…
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