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If you love the big screen of the Galaxy Note, you’re going to love the (rumored) larger 5.5-inch (!!!!!) screen of the Galaxy Note 2 even more. Here’s a leaked photo of it. It’s really big. That about does it. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-note-lightning-review-wait-who-ordered-5886054 KnowYourMobile says the phone—very close to becoming a small tablet, roughly the size of…
Remember the world as it is right now before you knew about RastaCam. Jot down a few notes about what your life was like before your knew there was an app that could turn all your pictures into something resembling a souvenir from Bonnaroo. It’s a ridiculous idea, right? Why would anybody want to make…
Typically the first thing that goes through a dog’s head when he wakes up in the morning is “ugh, I have to trot all the way downstairs to eat my kibble on the same filthy steps as humans.” Architecture Firm 07Beach totally understands that sentiment, so it remodeled this home in Ho Chi Minh City…
The microwave is an appliance without glory. You throw in your bag of un-popped kernels, some leftover Chinese food, whatever. Your slop is reanimated by The Power of the Atom, and you save time. But this microwave is different. Why’s it different? Mostly because it’ll be the best looking thing in your kitchen, and maybe…
I’m in Gentry Lee’s office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California for less than 30 seconds before he jumps to his whiteboard to explain to me why people care about Mars. “Let’s not beat around the bush,” Lee says, “the reason Mars is fascinating and the reason that we went to explore Mars…
Clearly the big box consumer electronics store featured in last night’s episode of Louie isn’t Best Buy. The people here are wearing red shirts, not blue ones! And everything else is… well, okay, everything else is exactly the same. Clearly Best Buy has plenty of problems that are out of any one person’s control. But…
I hate, hate, HATE, the idea of being trapped in the water upside down. Or down upside. Or whatever side. It’s one of the worst deaths I can imagine. Thankfully, if you are a USAF helicopter pilot, there’s a way out: An aircrew member attending the water survival training course sits upside down in the…
Just me and my 16 iPads, flying to Maui, said the one person who invented this case that simultaneously charges 16 iPads a laptop and no one else ever again. If every defensive starter of a football team plus the head coach and two alternates are flying to an away game with their Apple tablets…
Rickety, slow, and mind-numbingly dull, Ferris wheels are the black sheep of state fairs. Not the Singapore Flyer—this engineering marvel lifts visitors high enough to spot neighboring countries. Located on the Southern shores of (where else) Singapore, the Singapore Flyer reaches 541 feet into the air—16 feet taller than the previous record-holder, China’s Star of…
Earlier this year, a devastating virus dubbed Flame made its way through power plants in Iran, wreaking havoc on system software, and prompting the country to disconnect itself from the internet. Now comes word from Kaspersky Labs that there’s a copycat virus doing the same thing to “at least one organization in the energy sector.”…
Missing the olympics? Trapped in the office dying to dive in a pool or the sea? Love physics? If the answer is yes to any or all of this questions, you will love this amazing image of a swimmer about to break out of the water. Expand for gorgeous detail. The swimmer seems to be…
The tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is a whopping 828 meters tall, and in 2018, the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia aims to top it by going to 1,000 meters. Is there a practical limit to this architectural oneupsmanship? Apart from the wrath of a vengeful god, who will smite…
A jailbreaker by the name of Pod2g has reportedly discovered a vulnerability in iOS that enables hackers and other general bullies to change the reply-to number in an SMS. You might think you’re getting a text from a trusted source, but it would actually be someone else entirely. Using some simple trickery, a hacker could…
Reread every noun in the headline above—now let’s proceed. After a desperate burglar nabbed $60k worth of gear from Steve Jobs’ former residence, one of his iPads wound up in the mitted hands of Kenny the Clown. Clown. The tablet trickled down to the California entertainer, The Mercury News reports, shortly after the robbery—an apparent…
NASA’s ability to land a gigantic rover on the surface of Mars? Impressive. The fact that it did so for less money than AT&T spent on building cell towers last year? The best evidence yet that we’re putting our faith in the wrong people. https://gizmodo.com/the-mars-curiosity-rover-has-landed-live-coverage-fr-5932039 And by “wrong people” I mean “anyone but NASA.” [Doghouse…
Windows Phone’s app selection has enough problems as it is without the full stop on app installations for older phones that hit it Wednesday. But don’t worry, we’re back! Sort of! Well, pretty soon, anyway! https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-store-bug-sees-microsoft-block-new-apps-5934883 It’s going to take a day or two for Microsoft’s bug fix to take hold, after which newly published…
For his latest exhibit at the Museum of Moving Image in New York City, Berlin-born artist Aram Bartholl has installed a DVD burner into the side of the museum itself. The slot-loading device is practically invisible to the ignorant eye—identifiable only by the thin slit cut into the building’s brick facade, through which blank DVDs…
Barrett M82A1 .50cal – Hyperdouraku You may be wondering why this lady is cosplaying as a French Maid while firing a huge sniper rifle. Don’t. [Hyperdouraku] Bombing Hawk Hill Hawk Hill is located just North of the Golden Gate Bridge and offers a spectacular vista of San Francisco. However, riders from The Werehaus didn’t come…
My mind pretty much exploded inwardly when I saw these pictures from below. Created by Michael H. Rohde, the pictures show something you hardly see (if ever): the perspective of the ground. It’s so unsettling that it feels like you’ve stepped into some sort of time space warp or saw a glitch in the world…
