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The Canon 1DX Makes One Hell of a 5K Movie Camera

People who use cameras like the Canon 1DX are usually shooting fast-action sequences like sports and nature subjects. The hallmark feature at play is the ability to fire off stills ridiculously fast—12 fps RAW, or 14 fps JPEG. Then we started thinking—14 frames per second. That’s so fast, it’s damn near movie-like. In fact, many…

This VOCO Wireless Music System Is The Kanye-Is-Just-A-Shout-Away Deal of the Day

Accurate voice controls for my devices are one my most sought after technological innovations. Microsoft Kinect’s Netflix voice-control is my favorite thing to use right now. I don’t even have to get out of bed to play the latest Star Trek episodes. I’m serious. I’ve watched almost all of them. And being able to say…

Has Curiosity Captured UFO Images On Mars? (You Get One Guess)

Ufologists are running amok after ‘discovering flying saucers’ in the last images from Mars Curiosity. It hasn’t been the first time and it will not be the last—the guys with the tinfoil hats are scrutinizing every single image uploaded by the rover. https://gizmodo.com/martian-mystery-solved-5933965 In fact, they are scrutinizing them pixel by pixel. Literally. Take a…

A Self-Adjusting Measuring Spoon For Insanely Meticulous Chefs

Baking requires considerably more precision and attention to detail than simply cooking up a meal. If you don’t follow a recipe exactly, your creation just won’t turn out properly. So this self-measuring spoon will either appeal to bakers who are incredibly detail-oriented, incredibly obsessive, or incredibly inept in the kitchen. If you think that an…

79 Dramatic Black And White Cityscapes

They’re romantic and inherently a bit melancholy. Black and white city portraits have a flare for the overdramatic, and for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured all of the simple charm and deep intensity of your city. Winner: Manila When I went out to shoot for this weekly contest. I looked for buildings with great…

Shooting Challenge: Black And White 1

Taken by Canon Rebel XS with 55-250mm lens at 150mm, f/8, 10sec, ISO100 The Photo was taken from Humber Bay Park. My friend brought my to this park while I was still studying at univeristy. It is a peaceful small park where you can see the entire view of downtown Toronto. Last time I went…

Shooting Challenge: Black and White 2

I’ve been into photography for quite a few years now with long breaks on and off. I had quite a few cameras from film to digital in the recent past and I recently sold my Canon 5d Mark II in favor of an Olympus OM-D E-M5. (quite an interesting story gear wise, but not the…

Shooting Challenge: Black And White 3

This is an old abandoned factory in Taunton, MA. Used to be an American silver capital, not anymore. I walked around the facility a while. It’s in bad shape and has defiantly been well l lived in since it closed. The inside “may” have been awesome. There was a bunch of cool stuff. I choose…

Ask Our Photographer How He Got these Gorgeous Shots in Paris

You know how we used the Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge as an excuse to send photographer Steven Taylor to Paris to shoot a bunch of black-and-white city portraits? Well the man with the cam is back, and he brought along some great photos of his pal Val in France. Flip through the gallery (we recommend…

The Worst Job at Google: A Year of Watching Beastiality, Child Pornography, and Other Terrible Internet Things

People put terrible things on the internet. Very terrible things. And it’s someone’s job to make sure that regular people don’t run into them. But that is a terrifying job, and it understandably scars a lot of people who do it. Buzzfeed talked to one former employee who told the story. The ex-employee, who is…

Exclusive: Confessions from the Most Corrupt Apple Store in America (Updated)

“The saying goes: Don’t fuck with the person that serves your food,” a former Apple Genius tells me over IM. “Don’t fuck with the person who repairs your computer.” He—we’ll call him Ronald—spent six years as a member of Apple’s Genius squad in a busy Southwestern store. It was a model store: shiny as the…

Get Your Ass Some Wi-Fi

Step aside Hobo Wi-Fi, there’s a new, better way for people to get their internet on the go. Introducing Wi-Fi enabled donkeys from Israel – ancient transport now updated for the 21st century. https://gizmodo.com/homeless-men-turned-into-human-routers-5892443/ Kfar Kedem is a historical theme park with the purpose of reenacting life as it was 2000 years ago, including the…

They Finally Made a Flying Star Wars Speeder Bike!

This is insane. I keep watching this video again and again, and my stupid grin doesn’t go away: a live demonstration of a real flying bike! Now we just need light sabers, golden robots with English accent, and hyperspace engines. https://gizmodo.com/they-finally-made-a-real-lightsaber-5907718 Developed by Aerofex in Manhattan Beach, California, the flying bike doesn’t use anti-gravity devices…

Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?

The web has been alight these past few weeks with the details of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit. It’s been a unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain of how these two companies operate, as the trial seeks to answer the question: did Samsung copy Apple? But there’s actually another question that I think is…

The Mach 6 Scramjet Could Fly from JFK to SFO in an Hour (if it Doesn’t Tear Apart on the Way)

We could have had Bin Laden in 1998. However, in the 80 minutes it took for a volley of cruise missiles travel from US ships in the Arabian Gulf over to his training camp in Afghanistan, he had done packed up and left. If those warheads had been riding on the new X-51 hypersonic jet…

USB Charging Bike Dynamo Harnesses Pedal Power

You generate a tremendous amount of energy as you pump the pedals on a bike to get from point A to point B. Energy that can now be easily harnessed and also used to charge your small electronics with the BikeCharge dynamo. Similar devices have existed for years and are typically only used to power…

The Windows 8 upgrade program kicks off today, for the sad suckers who picked up a Windows 7 rig recently. [Microsoft]

New Frankenstein Virus Can Build Itself on Any Computer From Stolen Snippets of Code

What if a virus were a shapeshifter, able to change its appearance each time it infects a machine? What if a virus used your own files against you, able to ransack the programs on your computer for the bits of code it needs? Judging from the progress made on the Frankenstein virus, a venture sponsored…

Two Gorgeous Lighters From When Smoking Was Still Cool

A lighter is not just a hunk of cheap plastic you use to fire up a smoke. It’s also a matter of taste. And you can light up in style with a pair of vintage Braun lighters designed by Dieter Rams for sale on eBay. One is a table lighter, which is the kind of…

You Can Finally Customize Your Jambox To Be As Ugly As You Want It

Starting today, Klout users and “Jawbone Insiders” can customize the color of their Jambox speaker on Jawbone’s new Jambox Remix site. Klout and the uglification of a perfectly good speaker sounds like a match made in heaven; the rest of the world will have to wait until August 28th for the privelege of mucking up…