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There’s a reason why they call ice cream, ice cream. Too much iciness and it feels like you’re sucking flavored water, too much creaminess and it feels like you’re suffocating on a stream of condensed milk. I’m not saying they’re not delicious but texture plays with ice cream. That’s why you need the Breville Smart…
Like something out of a twisted Disney nightmare, President of Russia Vladmir Putin took to the skies, clothed in white overalls and a faux beak, and rigged into a strange flying contraption, in a fantastic effort to teach darling baby birdies—cranes, to be precise—how to fly. The “Flight of Hope”, as it is called, aims…
Nokia has come around and apologized for its sleight of hand trick on the PureView demo, saying it should have put a disclaimer saying that the video was not made with a Lumia phone. That’s good on them. Even better though is that Nokia has released a video showing optical image stabilization footage taken with…
We’re proud iPhone nudists here at Gizmodo so it’s always nice to see people join our free roaming club. Let it hang out, people! Enjoy life! Because really, as Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates’ former commercial best friend, says in this video, if you have a case on your iPhone, why don’t you have a helmet…
When this time of year came around when you were a kid, it meant back to school. And that meant new outfits. That hankering doesn’t necessarily go away as an adult, and Incase’s new Pathway collection will tickle all your weather-changing wardrobe fancies. The shoulder bag—for a 15-inch MacBook Pro—is really slick, with a leather…
Hoping to provide a safer home environment for the elderly and those with diminishing mobility, a team of researchers at the University of Manchester have created a pressure sensing smart carpet that can detect and even predict when someone might fall. The normal-looking carpet sits atop a layer of plastic optical fibers that bend and…
You know, Nokia, I was all excited about your new PureView camera after watching your fake demo video. So excited that I wrote a piece on how this camera will make me dump the iPhone and get a Lumia 920. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-faked-its-pureview-demo-and-then-claimed-they-nev-5940784 Now I just want to slap you. Sure, I know that our own hands-on…
Can’t wait to download a new album or TV show? Don’t want to wait until you’re on your home computer? From the people who created the BitTorrent protocol more than a decade ago, comes an app that lets torrent on your phone. What does it do? Lets you find and download torrents on your Android…
This is freaking scary. This is even scarier than Big Dog. It’s the latest version of the Pentagons’s newest Cheetah robot and it now runs faster than Usain Bolt. 0.5 miles per hour faster than the fastest man on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 And if can catch Usain, it can catch you too. And then kill you.…
When we watched the latest ad from Nokia showing off its PureView technology in the Lumia and ridiculously fluid optical image stabilization, we were stunned. Excited. Happy. If the camera on the Lumia was that good, we wanted it. Badly. Immediately. But sadly, it was faked. Nokia isn’t showing off what the Lumia 920 can…
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was recently scooped up by Cambodian authorities in Phenom Penh at the request of the Swedish government. Just yesterday Cambodia agreed to send him back to Sweden to serve his year-long jail sentence for creating the Pirate Bay. Turns out the Swedes might have paid HUGE for Cambodia’s cooperation. TorrentFreak…
Good news retina iPad-owning creatives—Adobe just released an update to Photoshop Touch, making it compatible with the tablets superior resolution. Version 1.3 supports images up to 12-megapixels each and is available in the App Store for $9.99.
“The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests. There’s no way down. There’s no way out.” So read the poster for the 1974 disaster movie Towering Inferno, which depicts an epic tale of survival in the badly wired 138 story Glass Tower in San Francisco and the…
The advent of articulated LCD displays has made it a lot easier to snap over-the-head shots at crowded photo-ops. But its usefulness pales in comparison to the cleverly named Tree-pod tripod from Fishbone which lets photographers and videographers perch high over crowds for the perfect unobstructed shot. The $6,000 Tree-pod collapses to just three feet…
Back in March, we saw a sneak preview of Ten One Design’s slick pressure-sensing touchscreen stylus—code named the Blue Tiger. But the company has finally revealed that the Bluetooth-connected stylus is now officially known as the Pogo Connect and, it will have a couple of new tricks up its sleeve when it becomes available for…
I was going through a whole lot of awesome cockpit photos yesterday when I stumbled upon this image, the most impressive of them all. It looked more like the interior of a secret Imperial fighter from Star Wars than a machine made on Earth. Of course, it’s not new: it’s the WhiteKnightOne, the mothership designed…
After weeks of anticipation we finally know what Motorola is serving up to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC One X. Can the Motorola Droid Razr HD measure up to its badass Android counterparts? https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review-a-great-phone-that-tries-t-5919730 The Droid Razr HD’s billboard feature is its 2500 mAH battery, which Motorola says will keep…
For a long long time, Dealzmodo has been unchanged: a scraping of the Internet for the best deals we could find. At the end of the day, it was a passive enterprise. That’s changing. Right now. Starting today, Dealzmodo is going to be centered around exclusive deals that we didn’t just stumble across, but actively…
Modern electronics go bad. They may not rot like vegetables, but a look at the Dealz from two years ago proves that some gadgets certainly have a shelf life. But there’s some technology that never goes obsolete. A great example of that is the eponymous tools for the Swiss army. The standard Swiss Army knife…
As Motorola introduced its new handsets today—including the Droid RAZR HD—it crowed about how tightly integrated it was with Android. Which makes sense! Because Google owns both Android and Motorola. Synergy is a beautiful thing! https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-razr-hd-beauty-in-a-kevlar-coat-5940661 So why does the Droid RAZR HD launch with a year-old operating system when a new one came out…
