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The iPhone 5’s most obvious upgrade is its larger four inch display. The size boost makes it easier to enjoy widescreen content, but if four inches is still too damn small for your liking, this monstrous magnifier puts a miniature IMAX theater on your lap. The best part of this—let’s call it a dock, for…
While the rest of America grapples with an 8 percent unemployment rate and a generally MySpace economy, the New York Times reports Facebook’s top 250 richest staffers gather to talk boats, art, and generally being unimaginably rich. Sounds fun! The Times’ claim undergirds an important aspect of Facebook’s IPO disaster: you can be insanely rich,…
The new Zyvex Marine LRV-17 Long Range Vessel is a special kind of boat. The world’s first manned water vessel made of nanocomposites, its hull is reinforced with carbon nanotubes to make it tougher and stronger—which is why it’s going to be used to chase pirates. The boat has a range of more than 1,500…
Apple blew through the first batch of iPhone 5s almost as soon as pre-orders started, and the frenzy continued after that. Apple is now saying pre-orders for the new phone reached over 2 million in just the first 24 hours, twice the record set by the iPhone 4S. Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Marketing put…
iPhone line-sitting has never been a proud endeavor, but at least there was something pure about the diehards and wackos that set up shop outside Apple Stores for days, even weeks ahead of launch. This year? It’s just a bunch of sellouts and self-promoters. The first two people, Fortune reports, in line outside of Apple’s…
If you were banking on hacking a new Kindle Fire to take advantage of cheap hardware without Amazon’s modded Android OS, you perhaps better think again. Developers over at XDA are speculating that they expect the new range of Fires to be too sophisticated to hack. In particular, a forum post provides evidence which suggests…
There have never been more ways to stream and share music in your home. But how do you do it? Are you fully sold on Sonos? An avid fan of Apple’s Airplay? Or perhaps you run some geeky central server that feeds music to the rest of your house using some home-brew streaming solution? However…
Photoshop CS6 will be the last version to support Windows XP. If you haven’t already, it’s time to upgrade! [Adobe]
A whole community of filmmakers—amateur and pros alike—turned the Panasonic GH2 into a surprisingly successful camera. It turned out, that with a simple to execute hack, you could use the camera to record ultra-sharp 100-Mbps+, 1080p HD video. The results were spectacular. With the new GH3, Panasonic has beefed up its stock camera to look…
Most folding bikes make a big compromise: they’re either incredibly portable with tiny wheels, or offer normal proportions but prove a pain in the ass to transport. Mikuláš Novotný’s solution, however, seems to offer the best of both worlds. His folding bike features standard 26-inch mountain bike wheels. If you’re wondering why that’s important, bigger…
Last year’s Olympus micro four thirds cameras were very good. Well, now Olympus is bringing touchscreens to two of the cameras from the line that should make them easier to use than ever. The 16.1 megapixel E-PL5 has higher resolution than its 12.3-megapixel predecessor. It also goes up to a higher 25600 standard ISO (compared…
At just $2100 for the body, the Canon EOS 6D it’s the cheapest full-frame camera you can buy new. It’s got one hell of a lineage, but how will it measure up to Nikon’s crazy new D600, which the same price for body alone? The Canon EOS 6D—Canon’s new entry-level full-frame DSLR—looks a whole lot…
For years we’ve bee ranting about Canon’s S-series PowerShot cameras. They’re fantastic, versatile pocket cameras. Well the PowerShot S110 is the upgrade to last year’s pretty darn great S100—now it’s got new capacitive touchscreen controls and Wi-Fi connectivity. https://gizmodo.com/canon-powershot-s100-lightning-review-one-hell-of-a-ca-5858210 The best part about the Canon S-series cameras is that they’re so easy to use. In…
For the first time since the 80s PCs no longer account for the majority of DRAM memory use. Blame the iPhone. [Reuters]
When the excellent Sony RX100 came out from hiding, we fawned over its huge one inch sensor, f/1.8 aperture, and positively tiny point-and-shoot frame. Now another has arrived in the form of the FujiFilm XF1, and while it only has a 2/3-inch sensor, it too has a f/1.8 aperture and a diminutive figure draped in…
Often hailed as the worst film ever made, Plan 9 From Outer Space is definitely an experience. If you had to pay so much as a penny to see it, the cost-proposition might be rough, considering the so-bad-it’s-good here really skirts the edge of venturing into so-bad-it’s-bad. Fortunately (?) for all of us, it is…
A lot of you are going to hate this song. Actually, most of you will probably hate this song, but if just one of you likes it half as much as I do, our collective glee will more than balance any cringing dismay. I’ll admit, the vocals here are bad, really bad. They’re so bad…
One of the key features of Apple’s upcoming North Carolina data center is its mammoth field of solar panels, which aim to provide the center with the majority of its power. Though the solar farm in progress is a whopping 100 acres, and aims to put out 20 megawatts, that’s only 60 percent of the…
A weapon doesn’t have to be complex to be devastating and awesome, and this sling is a perfect example. Dubbed the “forearm hoopack” this simple frame, lets the user sling spheres with repeatable precision. There’s no doubt about it; slingshot master Joerg Sprave shows off his balls of steel with this one. [YouTube]
Of course your smartphone (or tablet) can handle Karaoke, but you don’t want to have to hold a screen while you’re rocking out and driving the neighbors insane; you want a microphone, to add to the ridiculous fantasy that you’re worth listening to. Enter the AppToyz AppSing, complete with scorpion-like phone holder. While you’re busy…
