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Forget about using keys, buttons, knobs, or pads on a MIDI device. With the Pulse Surface Controller, you create sounds by banging on your desk, computer, or anything, really. The Pulse controller’s construction centers around a piezoelectric microphone—a special type of transducer that’s designed to turn physical vibrations into electrical signals. When you attach Pulse…
OS X Mountain Lion’s Notification Center looks incredible. So good, in fact, that we’ve been wondering what’s going to happen to Growl notifications in the future. Some crafty developers have presented one answer to that question with Hiss, a program that integrates the latter utility into the former. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-more-iphone-like-than-ever-5885628 The preview of OS X Mountain…
Rejoice! For the Church of the Holy Brick is here. Called Abondantus Gigantus, it was built in 2011 around a 65-foot (20-meter) spire for the Grenswerk Festival, in the town of Enschede, Netherlands. The church was not really a church. Although a mass was celebrated there at one point, it was created as a public…
Planking is so over. Breading? Yesterday’s news. Sandwiching hasn’t really hit mainstream America yet. Now is the time when we, as a people, cry out for a new Internet trend to fill the void. And to that I say: coon-hounding. http://gizmodo.com/5803311/what-is-planking?tag=planking Meet Maddie. Maddie is a coon hound. Maddie’s travelling companion, Theron Humphrey, puts her…
It’s February! Or if you’re on a “diet”, FebruANY. Which really means, you’ve already failed your new years resolution of getting in shape this year. Fret not friends because Fitness Buddy is an app that’ll jolt your bloated midsection to life. What does it do? 1700 different workout exercises. 1000 workout videos. 4000 exercise photos.…
There are something like a bazillion apps in the App Store. Do you know what that means? A lot of craptacular apps that should never be put on your iPhone. But sometimes you download an app not knowing it sucks or doesn’t work or is buggy or isn’t what you thought. Can you get a…
Using information from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, the people at Public Intelligence have created a Google Map showing all the United States drone bases in Pakistan, some of which are vital for the support of US military forces in the area. Take a look. Some of the bases are no longer in use. According…
LG’s Vu is offensive in virtually every way that an object can offend. It’s called the “Vu,” it has an abhorrent 4:3 screen, and, as BGR has loathsomely coined, it’s a “phablet”. Let it never leave Korean gadget hell. Do you see the look in that woman’s eyes? Her pupils burn with hegemony, her arms—limbs…
Avinash Arora just wrote to tell me that he has updated his amazing Star Wars’ Last Supper, with Luke Skywalker as Jesus. It’s much cleaner and crispier than the original one because it uses the Blu-ray movies. https://gizmodo.com/skywalker-last-supper-painting-made-with-69-550-star-wa-366573 Because of the new edition’s ratio adjustment, the new image is made with 70,448 frames instead of…
Russian scientists say they’ve revived a plant that had been tucked away by an arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago on the tundra of northeastern Siberia. A few years ago, the scientists found the burrow stash and tried to germinate the long-frozen plant. That didn’t work. So they took cells from the plant’s placenta, the…
Short of kidnapping Tim Cook and waterboarding him, we couldn’t be more sure the iPad 3 will boast a mega-pretty retina display resolution. But buzzwordiness aside, just how much better will the new sharpness be? It makes everything that came before it look puny. See for yourself. iOS developer James Thomson decided to whip together…
Jeb Corliss is a seasoned wingsuit flyer: he’s jumped off the Eiffel Tower, the Space Needle, and even the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia with just flaps of material to keep him aloft. But when he jumped off Table Mountain, he hit one of its outcrops at full speed. Somehow, he survived. You’ll have to…
America’s F-35 may not be very useful, but it’s still, on paper, one hell of an aerial destruction machine. This freshly-released image from the F-35’s first-ever weapons test shows the punch it’ll pack. https://gizmodo.com/trillion-dollar-plane-grounded-once-again-5880858 Well—the kind of punch it’ll pack if it’s ever used for anything more than tests and photographs. The load up top…
Fresh off the report that Google was bypassing the privacy settings of Safari users by installing cookies that could track browsing habits, Microsoft has discovered that Google has been doing the same thing on Internet Explorer. This is not good. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-google-planted-cookies-on-iphones-without-anyones-5885929 According to Microsoft VP Dean Hachamovitch, after the Safari Google cookies snafu hit, the…
In its early years, Boy Meets World was a wonderful show about an awkward and obnoxious, but ultimately endearing boy who vowed to make his teacher’s life hell. Somewhere along the way, that awkward and obnoxious boy turned into an awkward and unlikable young adult, and most of the show’s appeal went down the drain.…
Your passwords are horrible. You should do a better job, but keeping track of tons of unique alphanumeric cyphers is a pain, and password managers come with their own inconveniences. Luckily, it looks like future versions of Google Chrome will have built-in features to help you do better. https://gizmodo.com/its-change-your-password-day-5881358 According to documentation on the Chromium…
If you pay close attention to the streets of any city, you might notice the boxy, armored shields that house telephones. Yes! Phone booths still exist. Of course no one ever uses them because everyone has a cell phone but yet they still stand, like unwavering artificial trees. But what if we convert phone booths…
Up until now, Microsoft’s SkyDrive has mostly been noteworthy for the staggering amount of free storage it offers to users (25 GB) and little else. But with the introduction of Windows 8, it will acquire a whole new set of features, along with the new Metro UI, which they believe will make it much more…
DIY pellet gun enthusiast and YouTuber Nighthawkinlight is back at it again. This time, he’s teaching you how to upgrade that $15 rapid-fire pellet gun with a backpack mounted air supply system. Basically, he’s teaching you how to shoot a DIY airsoft gun, flamethrower style. Moving the power of the air compressor into a backpack…
It has long been seen as a matter of when, not if, Canon will come out with a mirrorless camera to complete with models from the likes of Fuji, Nikon, and Sony. A small tip toward that inevitability has been revealed in a patent detailing a kit lens meant for a mirrorless camera possibly containing…
