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Have you ever seen those guys on the bus that are listening to music through their phone’s speakers? Don’t be that guy. Nobody likes that guy. Everyone else is riding peacefully, listening to their music of choice through personal, private headphones, but he’s bumping Soulja Boy without a hint of irony. If that’s you, don’t…
So you want a new iPhone, huh? Are you eligible for a new phone through your carrier? If not, you’ll be stuck forking over $600-$700 and you don’t want that. Not sure if you are? Don’t fret, just follow these simple steps. 1) Click this link. 2) Choose Your Carrier. 3) Enter your phone number…
When one member of a flock of birds croaks, the rest collectively flip shit, says science. The way researchers at UC Davis tested this sounds like it came from some weirdo Saw-for-birds setup. They exposed a crew of western scrub jays to three piece of stimuli—a stuffed and mounted dead jay, a stuffed and mounted…
Ebay has a new logo. Much like every other company under the sun, it’s an attempt to go with a design that’s flat, streamlined and sleek—in other words, modern. But while all of those ideas are fine in theory, sometimes the finished product doesn’t always end up the way its creators intended. This might be…
Okay! This is nuts. These dumb idiots broke through the glass facade of a Los Angeles Apple store with A BMW SUV to rob its iPads, iPods, and iPhones. And were nabbed red-handed because the license plate got stuck in the metal grating. The pair pled not-guilty to multiple felonies in court yesterday, which on…
Pornographers AF Holdings sued Internet user Josh Hatfield for copyright infringement because an unnamed “Doe” defendant illegally downloaded their porn using his Internet connection. A judge in California just ruled that since Hatfield didn’t know about it, it wasn’t his fault. Obviously. Here’s what happend: Josh Hatfield left his Wi-Fi connection wide open and some…
So long, iPhone 3GS. Apple has confirmed to AllThingsD that the 3GS will be discontinued, replaced as Apple’s low end, free-on-contract by the iPhone 4. Goodbye, old friend! The 3GS was actually a proto-boring iPhone. It was great at the time, but it was also received as not new, not fresh, and not worth upgrading.…
If you’re planning on snatching up a new iPhone as soon as humanly possible, Wired says it’s going to be a late night—online pre-orders begin tonight. Apple and Sprint will start selling at 12:01 AM PT (that’s 3 AM for us East Coasters), and Verizon will beat them to the punch by a minute, starting…
Maybe it’s all the beautiful clothes and models, but this short film shot through the eyes of Diane Von Furstenberg and her various fashion week models and stylists with Google Glasses is wonderful. Earlier this week, Google Glasses made their runway debut at the DVF runway show. This video was shot on the day leading…
If you’re considering buying a new iPhone 5, you have three important decisions to make—carrier, capacity, and color. To help you in your quest, we’ve determined exactly which iPhone will serve your needs best. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-5-everything-you-need-to-know-5942588 For almost everybody: It’s the 32 GB Verizon iPhone 5, in black. Why 32 gigs? We don’t need as much…
The fitness industry thrives by preying on people’s insecurities about their bodies. It means even the craziest of contraptions—from Thigh Masters to Tae-Bo dummies—fly off the shelves. But who in their right mind would drop over $18,000 on this hot tub-wrapped Fit-Wet exercise bike that flushes itself after every use? (What are they expecting people…
The demonstration in the video may seem like MAGIC! but it’s real: scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are employing a levitation machine that uses sound waves to make liquids float and create “more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects.” The project’s lead researcher—physicist Chris Benmore—claims that this levitation method will…
The iPhone 5 is many things. It’s a pinnacle of product design. It’s a mild annoyance for iOS app developers. It’s very probably the next phone you buy. And it’s also, by broad consensus of the people who follow these things, totally boring. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-5-everything-you-need-to-know-5942588 Of course it is. Anything else, at this point, would be…
Any eyes in San Francisco that weren’t focused on Apple’s announcements yesterday might have noticed something peculiar in the skies over the Bay area. As part of the ZERO1 Biennial—a months long festival celebrating the coming together of art and technology—an artist known only as Ishky used several planes to skywrite the first 1,000 digits…
A prototype weed-seeking automaton could change the way seven billion humans eat, as well as help to end industrial agriculture’s reliance on toxic herbicides and itinerant labor. The “Lettuce Bot” is a four-wheeled weeding machine designed and built by Indiana-based startup Blue River Technology, using a $400,000 angel investment as well as an early grant…
Do you know how many movies Kevin Bacon has been in? Like, seventy. He’s so prolific that the the world’s intellectuals widely accept the theory that every single person in Hollywood is removed from Kevin Bacon by no more than six direct associative on-screen links. Google recognizes that this “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” phenomenon…
Dictation on the Mac is pretty nice, for what it is, but Apple isn’t the first to pull that off. According to a new patent application though, it might be eyeing something more ambitious: full Siri control on the Mac. Here’s an excerpt from a revised application: The electronic device may process voice commands locally…
The technology driving wireless headphones has not yet reached its full potential. But over the past few years, Bluetooth has advanced to a point that less than $500 can buy a pair of headphones with decent audio and respectable battery life. We rounded up four pairs and let ’em duke it out to see if…
The iPhone 5 has been criticized for being a boring and marginal update to the iPhone 4S—at least in terms of design, since the new handset looks a lot like its predecessor. The two phones are so similar, that when Jimmy Kimmel showed the iPhone 4S to random people on the street, passing it off…
Take one look at this old teak and leather-clad Roberts radio, and you’ll swear it dates to the 1950s. But this UK-made Rolls Royce of radios comes straight from the polyester 1980s. The Roberts R900 is quite possibly the last great radio made before video killed the radio star. The R900 was produced from 1985-1990,…
