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The oldest known color film footage has long been traced to a reel from 1909. But that was before Michael Harvey, the curator of cinematography at the National Media Museum in England, discovered an old forgotten tin in the museum’s archives. After examining the stock, Harvey discovered it was actually color test footage dating all…
Amazon’s Kindle Fire has declared an all out price war with the iPad. But if you don’t need all those fancy color-screen bells and whistles, you can opt for the even cheaper e-ink Kindle. And if even that’s overkill, Conan O’ Brien has discovered Amazon is selling, or renting, an even cheaper solution. What the…
If you want to get an iPhone 5 on a conventional data plan, you can preorder tomorrow and have it in your greedy little mittens on September 21st. If prepaid is more your style? That can be arranged—but you’ll have to wait for it. Prepaid carrier Cricket will offer up the iPhone 5 on September…
Streaming is fast becoming the way most of us consume media, whether it’s music, TV of film. But caught up by the sheer convenience of it all, it’s easy to forget to question its environmental impacts. Could streaming actually be bad for the planet? That’s just what a study by Music Tank set out to…
For people that find themselves working literally in the middle of nowhere, a suitable spot to set up office can be a problem, let alone finding power to keep things running. But the KANZ Field Power Desk offers a solution: it’s a portable workstation that comes packed with power to keep your devices running. The…
Microsoft has openly admitted that Bing is never going to used as a verb. But you can Google on Bing, right? [Fast Co]
While Verizon has been upfront about the fact that it won’t let you keep grandfathered unlimited data plans with a new iPhone 5, it is softening on one point: the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the carrier will let you use FaceTime for no extra charge, regardless of what data plan you’re on. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-iphone-5-will-keep-grandfathered-unlimited-data-pl-5942731…
Creedence Clearwater Revival at Royal Albert Hall – 1970 What, you need a reason to watch a CCR concert beyond the fact that you get to watch a CCR concert? The Remote Control Growroom Finally, I no longer have to get off the couch in order to propagate my motivation for never wanting to get…
For a lot of people a professional DSLR like the Nikon D800 is something you dream about but can’t afford. The new full-frame Nikon D600 is $800 cheaper than the D800 and packs many of its big brother’s features. Yes, you, the non-professional should be very excited. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d800-review-a-major-hd-upgrade-but-is-it-the-be-5897968 The Nikon D600 has a 24.3-megapixel, full-frame…
There’s a hilarious image floating around the Internet today about how Apple, the flag bearer of “don’t you dare steal my design lest you owe me a billi“, copied Nokia’s Lumia with the iPod Nano. Just take a look at the image above! The iPod Nano on the right has the same rounded edges, same…
There is an app for just about anything and everything these days. Even back in 2009, a cartoonist for the New Yorker knew what was up. Roz Chast drew “myPhone”—the cartoon marked the iPhone’s first appearance in the magazine—for an issue that ran July 27, 2009. Clearly she knew the direction in which the app…
Facebook-stalking your ex is one thing. But what about the person you’re currently dating? Do you google them, too? On the one hand, how could you not? But on the other hand, you run the risk of learning something about them that you’d rather not know. https://gizmodo.com/do-you-facebook-stalk-your-exes-5941546 Image via Conrado/Shutterstock
Though we won’t get an official side-by-side comparisons of the camera in the iPhone 4S and the new iPhone 5 until we get our hands on it, this is about as close as it gets: Scott Everett, from Dpreview, took nearly the same picture of Big Sur that Apple has been using in its iPhone…
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it seemed everyone was on the brink of discovering the definitive method for separating oil from water. Hair. Straw. Sand. A lot of suggestions were thrown out there by the happy-to-help public. Now the bright minds at MIT say they’ve developed a new technique…
Today, Apple introduced a bunch of new products: the iPhone 5, iTunes 11, a new iPod Touch and an iPod Nano. And they announce new products at every event! But what if one day they decided to just… stop? CollegeHumor imagines an Apple who’s sick of making products and holds a press conference to release……
Ping is going to officially die on September 30th, according to 9to5Mac. The question is was Ping ever even alive?
School is back in session, for most of you. And if it’s not yet, it soon will be. Might as well make the most of the “back to school” spirit by listening to the Deftones song “Back to School.” Which, unlike tests and homework and gym class, is actually pretty great.
If you want to re-live the iPhone 5 announcement and/or measure the total amount of time Tim Cook took a breath during the keynote, Apple just released the entire iPhone 5 announcement on its website. Watch it here and vote for who dressed best among Cook, Phil, Forstall and crew below. [Apple]
Atlantic City can keep its fancy projection mapping system. This animatronic wall, dubbed the Hyper-Matrix by its creators at the South Korea-based Johnpasang media group, recently made its debut at the Hyundai Exhibition Pavilion at the 2012 Yeosu EXPO. It relies on a massive grid of computer-controlled pistons to move a wall of Styrofoam blocks.…
It was all iPhone today, but there are other things happening in the world too. Like fashionable news. If you’re ready to stash the shades you wore all summer, the timing is right. Today Warby Parker announced its new fall collection and as usual, it’s pretty fresh and not too expensive. $95 will get you…
