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Here’s One Way to Expose Your Kids to Good Design Early

Some parents worry that their kids will turn to a life of crime. Some worry that the children will forsake an education. But not you. You’re more stressed about the kiddehs growing up without a sense of style. Well, OK! You can assuage your misplaced fears with this beautiful baby lounger that exposes them to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Supersonic Jets Shatter Brazilian Supreme Court Building (Updated)

If you’re tuned into Brazilian national politics, maybe there’s some sort of metaphor here. But for the rest of us, awesome video of sonic boom resulting in massive destruction!—these fighters just ruined Brazil’s Supreme Court. The Aviationist reports the two Mirage 2000 fighters in the video above were taking part in yesterday’s “ceremony of exchange…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Would You Use This Curved Keyboard?

WMPowerUser is reporting that Microsoft’s research team is working on this curved software keyboard, leaked from an internal presentation. It even speculates that it might be made available in Windows Phone 8. It’s clearly designed for single-handed use, following the arc of the thumb across the screen and presumably using predictive algorithms to make up…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Jelly Bean Checks You’re Actually Alive Before Unlocking Your Phone

Google’s clever little Face Unlock security feature, which lets you use your phone’s camera to pull your Android mobile out of standby mode by having it recognise its master, has been updated, with the Jelly Bean version of the tool allowing users to blink at it to prove they’re not a photograph. This is designed…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - gizmodo uk

Apple Settles Chinese iPad Name Dispute With $60 Million

Apple has been battling a long legal dispute in China for months with a company who claimed ownership of the iPad name. During the course of proceedings iPads were pulled from Chinese shelves and even global sales were threatened—but now, Apple has ponied up a $60 million settlement. The payment, announced by Chinese courts this…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

There Is No Offline Anymore

Technology pervades our lives. But while many writers argue that such a phenomenon should see us rebel and take time away from our gadgets to experience some notional “real life”, Nathan Jurgenson has other ideas. Instead, as he sees it, there is no offline any more. In a fascinating essay for The New Inquiry, Jurgenson…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Nexus Q Is Also a Magic 8-Ball

Google’s Nexus Q is many thing to many people. A miniature Death Star, an alien being, necessary but overwrought or, umm, a media streamer. It also has an extra, hidden function: it works as a magic 8-ball. Someone at Google clearly thought the new device shared more than a passing likeness to everybody’s favorite future-prediction…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Upgrade Your Macbook Air SSD, Reuse the Old One as a Sleek External Drive

If you’re planning to upgrade the SSD in your Macbook Air, here’s a neat little idea from Other World Computing: stick the old drive in a tapered aluminum case to provide an external drive which matches your laptop. OWC offers the Aurora Envoy enclosure kit for $20 when you buy any of their Mercury Aura…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Metropolis Restored: A Sci-Fi Cinematic Masterpiece Is Whole Once Again

Metropolis is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, telling the tale of class warfare and uprising in a dystopic society that has been spurred by an cyborg fashioned in the likeness of an aristocrat’s dead wife. But the version the vast majority of us had seen was not the original…

Tech News Adrian Covert

GamaGo’s Record-Shaped Placemats: Yay or Nay?

There’s nothing fancy or sophisticated about GamaGo’s dinner placemats fashioned in the likeness of a vinyl record. And it’s hard to argue that they’re not a little bit kitschy, but they just have a certain charm that makes the music nerd in me smile. But what say you? Awesome or terrible? [Gama-Go via Apartment Therapy]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Braun (Sorta) Resurrects an Old Dieter Rams Watch Design

In 1978, Dieter Rams designed a watch for Braun that saw a limited, 3,000 unit production run. The stainless-steel DW30 featured a digital face and only two buttons, with a thick, leather band holding the timekeeper in place. Out of production since 1982, Braun has resurrected the spirit of the DW30 with the BN0076—a watch…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Sleeping in a Geodesic Dome Is the Only Way I Want to Camp

The Geodesic dome was first invented by Buckminster Fuller as part of his vision of a better tomorrow. While the world did not adopt his solution for a shelter that maximized volume while using minimum amounts of material, the dome has maintained a cult-following. One such example of that is a British farm that lets…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Let’s All Be Happy Lego Didn’t Have Patent Trolls to Deal With in 1958

For the most part, the innerworkings of a Lego brick aren’t all that complex. It’s just a matter of good Geometry, really. But looking at these patent sketches submitted in 1958 (and granted in 1961), make me happy that Lego didn’t have to live in an era where their efforts might be thwarted by a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Future Drones Will Autonomously Navigate the Skies Without GPS

Military drones rely heavily on GPS for navigation guidance while in the air. But in areas where a signal can’t be found, or where someone is using a GPS jammer, a drone will find itself in a troublesome predicament. Military sub-contractor BAE Systems has come up with a solution to that problem: A positioning system…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Would You Use This Weather App?

Wthr is the latest meteorological app to hit the iPhone and has had the internets going nuts because it was conceived around Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of good design. But personally, I think the look and overall function of the app is just OK. I’d much rather have an apps that look or behaves along…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Why the Internet Disappeared Last Week… Again

A week ago, the internet fell victim to a thunderstorm outside of Washington D.C., taking out a chunk of Amazon’s servers, which plays host to sites and services such as Instagram and Netflix. Then, on Friday; the internet died again, taking down sites such as Yelp, Reddit, and even our very own Gawker network. https://gizmodo.com/how-an-electrical-storm-in-virginia-brought-down-a-larg-5922578…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Graphic Designers Will Love Hate This Gradient-Covered Cabinet

The Shift cabinet is a pretty simple piece as far as form and materials go—it’s MDF in the shape of a rectangle. But the front panels, which vary in color, and have a gradient effect applied to them, turn that cabinet from something simple (and maybe even mundane), into an attractive and extremely modern piece…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Is Someone Trying to Hack the Dalai Lama?

If you didn’t know, the Dalai Lama is a Mac user. He also happens to be an advocate for an ethnic Turkish group spread throughout Eastern and Central Asia who are embroiled in a human rights battle with the Chinese government. The combination of these two factors have security firm Kaspersky Labs believing that a…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

Watch This: YouTube Complaints Department IRL

Sketch comest and song parody group Barely Political made this IRL video version of the YouTube Complaints Department. It’s appropriately annoying, given the topic, and also pretty funny. SNL’s off season, so this’ll have to do. [LaughingSquid]

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Should Google Have Fired this Newly-Hired Redditor Simply for Posting Pictures of His Uniform? (Updated)

On Friday afternoon, an anonymous Redditor posted a follow-up to a thread he’d since deleted, explaining that Google had fired him for posting pictures of his company uniform. About the non-disclosure agreement, he writes: “I thought it applied to what we were doing during training. Which makes sense, because they gave it to us before…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Here’s One Way to Expose Your Kids to Good Design Early

Supersonic Jets Shatter Brazilian Supreme Court Building (Updated)

Would You Use This Curved Keyboard?

Jelly Bean Checks You’re Actually Alive Before Unlocking Your Phone

Apple Settles Chinese iPad Name Dispute With $60 Million

There Is No Offline Anymore

The Nexus Q Is Also a Magic 8-Ball

Upgrade Your Macbook Air SSD, Reuse the Old One as a Sleek External Drive

Metropolis Restored: A Sci-Fi Cinematic Masterpiece Is Whole Once Again

GamaGo’s Record-Shaped Placemats: Yay or Nay?

Braun (Sorta) Resurrects an Old Dieter Rams Watch Design

Sleeping in a Geodesic Dome Is the Only Way I Want to Camp

Let’s All Be Happy Lego Didn’t Have Patent Trolls to Deal With in 1958

Future Drones Will Autonomously Navigate the Skies Without GPS

Would You Use This Weather App?

Why the Internet Disappeared Last Week… Again

Graphic Designers Will Love Hate This Gradient-Covered Cabinet

Is Someone Trying to Hack the Dalai Lama?

Watch This: YouTube Complaints Department IRL

Should Google Have Fired this Newly-Hired Redditor Simply for Posting Pictures of His Uniform? (Updated)

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