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College Humor wondered why all Chinese food menus looked the same from all those different Chinese food takeout restaurants that all somehow taste the same and it’s so obvious! They all must use the same Photoshop technique! What you know about the peeling laminant and saucy fingerprints filter? Chinese takeout is one of the true…
This (heads up: rather explicit) song is the perfect thing to listen to at your desk, the volume way up, your headphones clamped on, all day long. And, since we’re all at our computers right now, I suggest you turn it on now if you haven’t already. It’s caffeine for the ears!
If you really want a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, you can buy it now because Judge Koh dissolved the sales ban.
Steve Wozniak, the benevolent genius who co-founded Apple, answered a few questions over at Slashdot today and though many of the answers were consistent with his awesome easy-going, open-sourced, tinkering self, he actually had some interesting advice for Apple. Here’s free advice for Apple from Woz. https://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-became-the-genius-who-invented-the-pe-5926688 Woz would want iTunes on Android Apple’s real…
Imagine a world that’s not completely and totally explored yet—sort of like in Warcraft where the unexplored terrain is dark because your character never went there. It exists in real life too. It’s the own world you live in. You haven’t seen everything or been everywhere so this app, Fog of World, makes the places…
Truly! There is absolutely no age cut-off for learning a new technology. I mean, if a four-year-old can operate an iPad, there is absolutely no reason why that infant’s grandmother or grandfather shouldn’t be able to as well. After all, most if not all of our grandparents have used a typewriter at one point or…
Side by side, Google Maps is better than Apple Maps. No matter what anybody says, that’s the truth. But unbeknownst to most people, there’s actually something that Apple Maps is better at and it’s pretty damn important: Apple Maps is a lot more data efficient, nearly five times more data efficient than Google Maps. Meaning…
Probably the worst part about all the great technology we use to communicate with one another is the ability it gives us not to communicate with one another. Rarely will a text message accomplish what a conversation can. Which is why you should never, ever, not ever break up with somebody via text message. (There…
Anyone who has ever been so unfortunate to have Time Warner Cable as their cable and Internet provider will agree that it is so completely awful. Whether it’s Internet outages or slow trickling speed or screwy HD channels or all of the above, I’ve never known anyone to not hate Time Warner. Hell, even the…
The Hall of North American Mammals reopens this month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York CIty, after a pretty thorough restoration effort that involved—among much else—replacing all of the older lighting fixtures with fixtures that are more energy efficient. It wasn’t quite so simple as swapping out a few bulbs, though,…
Come on, Apple. I don’t care about your iPhone 5 camera’s purple flare problem. If Prince can live with it, so can I. And I don’t give a damn about its paint chipping off either. Or your dreadful maps, for that matter. Getting lost is fun. I can live with all the crap you can…
Most phones—non-iPhones, of course—have a row of dedicated ‘hardware buttons’ that typically include some combination of home, search, menu and a back button. They make for convenient, quick-access commands! But do you really need them all? Our friends at BuzzFeed FWD argue that the dedicated back button should die because its unclear where pressing that…
Winter sports are a lot of fun, but if you don’t have the right clothing, it can be utterly miserable. SmartWool literally has your feet covered with its new PhD socks. Smartwool in a lot of R&D work to make sure the fit and the material are the most comfortable and the best fit to…
Long before cell phones gave us the ability to share pictures with the tap of a button, Polaroid was synonymous with instant photography. In his new book Instant: The Story of Polaroid, Christopher Bonanos explains how that little one step camera paved the way for sexting as we know it: There are plenty of naughty…
Today, the White House confirmed reports that one of its “unclassified networks” was the target of an unsuccessful cyber attack. Officials aren’t coughing up much more informaiton, but a few murmurs have seeped out. On Sunday night, Washington Free Beacon reported that the White House Military Office was the target of a “spear phishing” attack,…
Yes, in September we finally got the long-awaited iPhone 5, but that was just one of the many, many rad gadgets we tested. Here’s a rundown of all the best new gear you should know about. For the full list of Gizmodo favorites, head over to the complete Best Gadgets In: https://gizmodo.com/a-week-with-the-iphone-5-5946599 The Best Smartphone…
Sherman, set the wayback machine to ridiculous because back in 1967, Smith-Corona—best known for its typewriters—actually sold a device called the Mail Call. What did it do? Let users record messages on small cartridges and mail them to anyone with a matching device. In a way it was like the earliest form of voicemail, except…
It is one thing to like Apple products. It is quite another to let your insane tech zealotry escalate to the point where you are actually paying other people to inject ink into your skin with needles so that you may forever serve as a fleshy canvas displaying your deranged, rabidly fanatical devotion to an…
This is the second in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The second episode of “The Jetsons” aired September 30, 1962 and was titled “A Date With Jet Screamer.” Arguably the most famous of all the Jetsons episodes, it’s also certainly the most hedonistic;…
30 years ago, the CD was born. This, of course, was the medium that would usher in the era of optical drives, a technology that dominated personal computing for decades. And though it’s not completely dead, it’s certainly on its way out. In fact, I honestly can’t even remember the last time I used mine.…
