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Under the guise of praising the new MacBook Pro’s gorgeous retina display, Tapbots’ Mark Jardine just confirmed the existence of the Tweetbot Mac app. He was lauding the pretty screen, posting a picture that showed Tweetbot for OS X open on his laptop. When asked later, he wouldn’t say anything directly about the client, but…
If you want to make your guests feel very uncomfortable sit them down at this absurd dinning room table. The 12-foot-long carbon fiber table only stands up on one leg. How is that even possible? The ostentatiously-named Monolito and Megalito by British designer Jules Sturgess looks mighty precarious. But its dramatic, angled design is actually…
One of Apple’s top interface talents, frogdesign veteran and UI Design Manager Chris Weeldreyer, just jumped ship. And he’s paddling straight for the muscular, Poseidon-like arms of Mark Zuckerberg. Is Facebook about to become beautiful? 9to5Mac points out Weeldreyer has some serious design clout under his well-designed belt (we’re assuming it’s well-designed): He is listed…
Satellite Eyes is a smart OS X app that changes you desktop wallpaper to an aerial view of where you are, each time you change locations. So when you load up your laptop in midtown Manhattan, you might glimpse the Empire State Building. Then when you go home to Brooklyn, you’ll see… lots of industrial…
If you live in a small apartment, you know how valuable space is. And for the vast majority of people, having a dining room set is necessary, but ultimately space consuming. What if you could easily tuck it away somewhere when you needed more space? Orla Reynolds’ “As If From Nowhere” furniture set takes a…
Google is reportedly planning to shake up the familiar layout of its search page. Spanish site Techno-Net has apparently gotten its hands on a short clip of a test. The video shows the left-hand vertical menu with tabs like images, maps, videos, news, etc. shifted to the top, where it sits horizontally above search results.…
The words “modern” and “store” connote “shit I can’t afford,” but the newest offerings from the Museum of Modern Art’s gift shop are within reach! Seriously. And they’re also the best way of injecting some super-class into your pad. OK fine—a lot of the “new” stuff from the MoMA store isn’t technically new. In fact,…
WNYC’s Radiolab is audio storytelling at its best: Experimental, wonderful, and weird. The show’s new app for Android and iOS is designed to get you in on the action of making the crazy sound happen. The app has a built-in recorder that allows you to capture audio wherever you are and submit it to the…
The late Jack LaLanne probably wouldn’t have approved, and certain green juice enthusiasts likely don’t either, but it’s hard to imagine having a cooler juicer than Natalia Coll’s Edwin juicer. https://gizmodo.com/what-jack-lalanne-did-for-your-body-5741960 The Naming of the device, the simple-yet-playful cylindrical design and two-tone color scheme, and focus on sustainability are all there with the intent of…
Get used to this. Come October, it could be Apple’s home page for the entire winter. Gizmodo reader Martin Hajek has rendered new images of the new iPhone 2012—or iPhone 5, or, most probably just iPhone—to make it look like bona fide Apple eye candy. I wasn’t in love with the rumored next generation iPhone’s…
Nvidia’s been holding AMD slightly under the water lately, but if AMD’s newest Radeon beast performs as well as it looks like it could, the tables are turned. Is this the best possible GPU you can buy? The GHz Edition lives up to its name, delivering a GPU clock speed of 1,000 MHz with the…
Though Flipboard was originally supposed to be a Samsung Galaxy S III exclusive, the social reading app landed on Android today. It showed up last month on the XDA-Developers forum, but now Flipboard is official. It’s available now as a free download from Google Play. It also works on the Nook and the Kindle Fire,…
Google has managed to inadvertently let slip that the unlocked Galaxy Nexus will be the first handset to feature Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, through a slightly mis-timed Google Play product listing. Not, admittedly, that surprising. What is interesting, however, is that the announcement doesn’t name the first device to come loaded with Android 4.1— which…
Late last year studies into mutated avian flu, H5N1, were deemed too risky to be published. Now, one has made its way into a journal—and it warns that a bird flu pandemic is just three mutations away. https://gizmodo.com/the-us-is-trying-to-censor-scientific-journals-5870004 The study describes how a team of scientists, from Cambridge, Rotterdam and the NIH, managed to create…
Gliding along sidewalks, grinding along rails and… oh, walking down the stairs? There are some obstacles not even a skateboard can clear, which is why Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs. Called the Stair Rover, it takes the traditional skateboard design and tweaks the trucks…
This is Leyna Gonzalez. When her mother was just 17 weeks pregnant, this ultrasound scan revealed that she had a tumour the size of a peach growing from her mouth. The only way to save her was to remove it while she was still in the womb—a procedure that had never been performed before. The…
Following yesterday’s failure, Twitter has gotten to the bottom of what went wrong: it was a software issue known as a “cascading bug”. https://gizmodo.com/essential-bookmarks-for-surviving-the-next-apocalyptic-5920348/ If that doesn’t mean an awful lot to you, you’re not alone, so Twitter has tried its best to explain the issue on its blog: A “cascading bug” is a bug…
While last years Thailand floods saw the cost of HDDs skyrocket, the price of solid state drives has been slowly dropping. In fact, since early 2011 prices have dropped on average by 46 percent. https://gizmodo.com/nimec-hit-hard-by-thailand-floods-here-comes-the-great-5852480 Tech Report has taken a long and thorough look at the changing prices of SSDs, and the news is good:…
Microsoft’s new Surface tablet looks like it could give the iPad stiff competition—but according to Bloomberg it won’t be matching Apple’s offering on every front. Their sources suggest that, initially at least, the Surface will only feature Wi-Fi, and no option for a mobile data connection. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-just-made-the-macbook-air-and-the-ipa-5919521 According to sources “familiar with the matter”, Microsoft…
At times, these robots look like tiny, technically-skilled children. Don’t they? [Reddit]
