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Ask a Photographer How to Shoot High-Speed Chases

After a fun and sun-filled trip to Miami, photographer Douglas Sonders is back from the Land of Lebron. The occasion: He used the Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge to shoot some of the flashiest, fastest, ultra-sleek cars he could get his lens on. And although we can only assume he’s still nursing some sort of peel-tastic…

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Photographs by Nick Stango

12 Naked Machines that Look Cool Inside

When I was a little kid, my favorite books were those full of illustrations that showed the guts of airplanes, ships, locomotives, space vehicles and all kinds of machinery. They still are. Machines’ entrails are fascinating. Devoid of any skin, you can’t do anything but marvel at human ingenuity. Here you have some amazing and…

All Hail Xerxes: The Weather Channel Will Name This Year’s Winter Storms

Do you remember the Blizzard of ’96? Actually, okay, if you didn’t live on the Eastern seaboard probably not. But! For a thrilling snowpocalypse it sure had one boring ass name. Well, the Weather Channel wants to fix that problem by giving winter storms wonderfully geeky names. Starting with this winter, the Weather Channel will…

Tumblr Will Live-GIF the Presidential Debates (!!!)

Tumblr will be covering tomorrow’s presidential debate in the best way possible—by live-GIFfing it. And suddenly, the election became almost tolerable. Use this as an excuse to post a bunch of Obama and Romney GIFs? Don’t mind if I do! A dream team of GIF masters—Topherchris, Bobby Finger, Lacey Micallef, and Mr. GIF—will be creating…

iPad Pinball Controller Makes No Promise of Wizardry

One of the few action-oriented games that shines on a touchscreen device is pinball, thanks to its dead simple control scheme. That being said, playing pinball’s always best with a set of physical buttons to tap and a spring-loaded ball launcher, which this iPad accessory delivers. Now, dropping $60 on a controller that’s pretty much…

Nest 2.0: The Smart Thermostat Is Thinner, Works With More Home Heating Systems Than Before

Nest was not the first smart thermostat to reach the hands of consumers. But it was the first that made our parents (and maybe even some of our grandparents) raise an eyebrow. Its cylindrical form and simple GUI are nothing, if not inviting to use, and its ability to learn from your usage habits not…

How Not To Suck at Instagram

Cool it with the hashtags, don’t post obsessively, and follow the rapper Rick Ross—according to a new short movie from filmmaker Casey Neistat, these are the rules of the road on the old Instagram highway. Neistat gushes over Instagram. It reminds him of those old yellowing photo albums that documented his life as a child,…

Vizio’s New 60-Inch Flagship HDTV Anchors Your Living Room For Just $1000

Vizio’s long been the champion of affordable flat-screen TVs, and its new E-Series Razor LED TV puts a massive 60-inch display in your home theater for a mere $1,000. That’s not pocket change by any stretch of the imagination, but for a grand it’s a heck of a lot of TV that doesn’t skimp on…

The Most Expensive Home Movie Ever Will Make You Miss the Summer Even More

Gizmodo reader Brad Kremer sent this beautiful home movie, shot at 2,564 frames per second with a Phantom Flex, Zeiss super speed glass, Canon 5DMKII and Canon L series glass. Total: $300,000 to shoot what’s probably the coolest water balloon battle ever filmed. Worth every cent and second. “As summer comes to an end and…

Grip-Based Phone Interface Lets You Squeeze to Tap

If you’ve ever tried to use your smartphone while standing in a cramped subway car, or while carrying a bag of groceries, you soon realize the limitations of a touchscreen UI. You need two hands free, particularly in the age of the jumbophone. So as an alternative means to interact with your device—not a replacement—NTT…

Samsung Pulls the Trigger on iPhone 5 Patent Lawsuit

Details are scarce, but Reuters is reporting that Samsung has, in fact, submitted a complaint against the iPhone 5 and lumped it in with an existing lawsuit in California. Let the games… continue! Samsung telegraphed its punch earlier this month when it cited eight LTE patents it strongly suspected the iPhone 5 would infringe. Surprise!…

How Not to Open Your New iPhone

There are ways and ways of unpacking your new iPhone 5. This is probably one you want to try and avoid. The image originally surfaced on Reddit a few hours ago, and the comments are well worth reading. Among my favorites: “Put it in a bowl of rice”, “Try and reset it to factory defaults”,…

The HTC One X and S will get Jelly Bean this month—except AT&T and T-Mobile handsets, which’ll be delayed. [Engadget]

These Eye-Popping Rugs Are Actually Perfectly Flat

These rugs, which depict the five senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing, seem to leap out as three-dimensional shapes as you look at them. Weirdly, though, they are in fact perfectly flat. The designs were created using a wireframe 3D model of the human body, and then translated onto the 2D surface of…

How Do You Consume News on the Move?

With the world of print journalism in decline, plenty of news organisations have been betting big on the concept of mobile apps for delivering digital news. But maybe that’s not such a good idea. A new Pew Research Center study shows that people are moving away from consuming news via mobile apps, with over 60…

Gmail now searches for text inside your email attachments. Good news for disorganized people everywhere. [GOS]

HTC’s One X+ Is Official: A 1.7 GHz Quad-Core Beast

The rumours and leaks were spot on. HTC’s giving its flagship One X a spec bump to help it compete with the likes of the Galaxy S III. Meet the new 1.7GHz quad-core-packing, 64GB-equipped 4.7-incher, dolled up in go-faster red and black, the HTC One X+. Basically, it’s the same phone we were impressed by…

Sharp’s New 5-Inch HD Display Is Crystal Clear

Sharp’s launching a new 5-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel display this week in Japan—and it’s one of the most pixel-dense screens to date. According to the Verge, the new display uses TFTs produced with continuous grain (CG) silicon rather than the recently lauded IGZO transistor technology. Despite the fact it’s an older technology, it still…

Shady WikiLeaks and Pirate Bay Web Host PRQ Has Been Raided

The Swedish web host PeRiQuito AB, PRQ, is one of the most controversial web hosts on the planet, valuing free speech so highly that it serves up web content for Pirate Bay, WikiLeaks and even sites like Pedophile.se. Yesterday, though, Swedish police paid a visit. Forbes reports that Stockholm police raided the company yesterday. The…