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If you like music, you probably know the NPR is a pretty solid source for the good tunes. NPR Music has long served as a nice little app for the iPhone, but today they’ve expanded on the idea, making a little bit bigger and more unique. What does it do? It’s a music app so…
Due to continued interference with the GPS spectrum, Lightsquared’s LTE network likely won’t be approved by the FCC any time soon. That’s bad news for Lightsquared but even worse for Sprint. Last year, Lightsquared paid Sprint $65 million as part of a proposed 15-year infrastructure development and spectrum-sharing deal. As part of that agreement, Sprint…
Barbie, at once a gender pioneer and enabler of countless anorexic, has found her newest role: human-machine hybrid. Barbie Photo Fashion is just like any other digital photog out there—immaculate blonde hair, chunky heart-bejeweled belt, eyes the size of pancakes, and a enormous LCD implanted in her abdomen. Instead of a DSLR, however, her shooter…
You ever see a photo that looks like it’s raining sparks? It was probably made through a trick with steel wool. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you can try the technique yourself, BUT CAREFULLY, AND AT YOUR OWN RISK! The Challenge Create a long exposure photograph of sparks, using the classic steel wool trick.…
If you ever drive through Northern France, you’ll see a lot of butchers that sell horse meat. You’ll also see a lot of glue factories. The two are very definitely linked — but why is it that horses make good glue? One word: collagen. Over at Slate, there’s a great explanation about the long, and…
A storm more violent than anti-SOPA rage is sweeping across the otherwise serene plains of the internet. Families are turning against fathers, mothers against children, flocks against shepherds: is this advanced, non-Euclidian planking, or just something else entirely? I maintain that it is. Planking, although broadly defined by Gizmodo.com as “the act of lying facedown…
Looks like Rick Santorum’s not the only Republican frontrunner to have a “Google” problem. Mitt Romney has one now, too. If you Google “Romney”, the third search result is SpreadingRomney.com, which provides hapless browsers with a not-so-flattering definition for the candidate’s name. Because internet. https://gizmodo.com/santorum-is-winning-caucuses-but-still-losing-google-5883316 Mitt Romney can’t be too pleased that his name, like…
We’re already pretty much in love with OLED displays, but besides stunning picture quality and low power consumption, when they were first introduced it was promised that one day OLED panels could be actually printed. And that day has finally come. https://gizmodo.com/my-eyes-orgasmed-when-i-saw-the-samsung-super-oled-tv-5874917 Konica Minolta has created the first printhead that can be used for electronics…
This is hilariously pitiful. An armed robber stormed a bar and demanded everyone give him their money. Usually, everyone freaks out and hands over everything they have. Not in this case. At this bar in Rotterdam, everyone ignored the robber and kept drinking. Wait… what? Yes! Even when the robber waved his gun in their…
We make fun of the dead tree industry as much as anyone and though The New York Times has its faults, it’s still The Times. The Gray Lady. The newspaper of record. And you, dear reader, should read it more. And yes, I know newspapers are dying and print doesn’t make any sense anymore but…
I’ll be honest, I was a little disappointed my sweetheart didn’t buy me these Black Milk Clothing Retro Gamer leggings for Valentine’s Day. They’re so versatile! I could wear them to dance class or a night out on the town when I want to wave my geek flag high. Plus, bright colors were all over…
Android 4.0—aka Ice Cream Sandwich—is such a lovely and tasteful software update for Android phones that I’d be kicking and crying if my phone didn’t have it. Well, it looks like Motorola owners should start kicking and crying because they have a painfully long wait before they even sniff Ice Cream Sandwich. We’re talking like…
And now, the great circle of tech life heads towards consummation: the scandal, the outrage, the explanation, the Majestic Non-Apologetic Apple Statement. But at least they’re going to fix their privacy problem. Apple provided the following statement to CNET: “Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation…
We’ve made a big deal about Apple allowing app developers to download and store the address books of iPhone users. As have many others. And while it’s easy to shrug and assume that it won’t affect you in any tangible way, you shouldn’t. https://gizmodo.com/any-iphone-app-can-steal-your-contacts-now-against-stev-5885245 This is important. Here’s why. Admittedly, when it was first revealed…
We don’t know how long this has been going on or if it’s new but we’ve never heard about it so HOLY CRAP you can buy Ikea products on Amazon right now! That’s right, you can get Ikea’s affordable furniture with the one click convenience of Amazon. No more taking a trip to some far…
Internships suck, whether you’re in New York, LA, DC, or wherever. You do menial work for token payment (or none), all in the name of experience. At Foxconn, it’s about the same—but you get free housing and more money. Motherboard relays the research of Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation, which chronicles the life and…
There are countless alarms that go the extra mile to get you out of bed in the morning. But none go quite as far, or look as slick, as the Ramos which can only be turned off from a remote keypad. When the alarm goes off in the morning, a four digit code will be…
Bad news if you like Earth unthreatened by crazy people wielding nukes: Iran just claimed significant advancements on its path to nuclear weapons. Iran’s got some new uranium enrichment centrifuges, which will let it produce fuel-grade uranium faster. It also just loaded its first batch of domestically produced fuel into a research reactor. That’s important,…
If you’re going to lay down $6000 for the super-fast, low-light stalking Nikon D4, you might as well pony up another $900 for the WT-5 dongle that cuts the cord. Or why not string 10 D4s together? Wireless bullet time at a cost of $69,000. https://gizmodo.com/nikons-6000-d4-dslr-stalks-light-wherever-it-hides-5873528 Thanks to the WT-5 dongle you’ll be able to…
Purported screenshots of the soon to be announced Windows Phone 7.6 Tango have emerged on a Russian forum. There are a handful of new features, but what’s really interesting is how little seems to have changed. While multi-image MMS, native voice recording, and exporting contacts to SIM are all new, the basic look and feel…
