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Most of the world has moved on to svelte SD storage, but many photog pros still swear by the speed and durability of Compact Flash. If you’re one of them, smile: Lexar just dropped a 256 GB bomb. The cards, with a claimed minimum transfer speed of 60 MB/sec, will probably be very expensive: the…
The Hexa Pot is a foldable paper pot that can boil water, cook pasta and make noodles with. It isn’t real yet (it’s a Kickstarter) but it’s the perfect pot for the outdoors. And the perfect pot for lazy people like me who hate to do dishes. The Hexa Pot is made of “special non-toxic…
When Spotify first launched in America last July, they promised that streaming from the desktop app would be free and unlimited for the first six months. Well for those of you who subscribed on day one, that six months is about to expire next Saturday. What does it mean for you? Spotify hasn’t said for…
What’s your favorite thing to take pictures of? Landscapes? Sunsets? People? Portraits? Kids? Food? Buildings? Bridges? Water? River? Nature? Animals? Dogs? Cats? Lights? Streets? Cars? Gadgets? Funny things? Ironic things? Hipster things? Spy shots? Dong shots? Awesome shots? All the above? None of the above? All I know is my favorite thing to take pictures…
It’s a fact of life that some of us have to work even when we’re away from the office. Yeah, it sucks. But at least we’re not stuck in a meeting with Stinky Bob. Seriously Bob, buy some deodorant. Today we have an app that lets you edit and create Microsoft office documents from your…
Web browser improvements seem to pop out at a pace barely detectable to the human eye, so periodically Tom’s Hardware will go through every desktop browser on Windows and OS X with a fine-toothed comb and tell you which one comes out on top. This time around, they like Firefox and Safari. Firefox and Safari…
It’s become decorum to place your phone atop the restaurant table before (and while) you dine. But just because it’s the status quo doesn’t mean it’s not annoying and gross. Use this brilliant test of will to punish pathetic talk-and-texters. I’ll admit I’m as guilty as the rest when it comes to the smartphone at…
Nikkei is reporting that Kaz Hirai will finally be promoted to President of Sony (in April). If you remember, Hirai has been the Playstation boss for quite some time and was rumored to be in talks of becoming President as far back as November 2010. Sony sure took its time with this one. https://gizmodo.com/sony-promoting-playstation-boss-to-take-over-from-sir-h-5698913 So…
There were those who said man would never make it to the moon. They were wrong. There were those who threw up their hands in anguish, saying the large round waffle and the chicken wing could never unite. Wrong again. Miniaturizing the classic chicken and waffles combo to an extent that will continue Moore’s Law…
CES is a blizzard of stuff—and much of it sucks. So how do you cut through the crap to sip from the fountain of awesome? Follow Gizmodo on Twitter. We’ll be your personal gadget filter, straight from Vegas. If you want the latest Gizmodo stories pumped straight into your Twitter feed, @Gizmodo will be your…
Apple commercials usually tout what the iPad and iPhone can do rather than the innards running them. That doesn’t mean Apple isn’t actively working on making your next iOS Device super-duper, quad-core fast. The folks at 9to5 Mac found evidence of an A6 quad-core processor in the processing-core management software of the iOS 5.1 beta.…
At the end of this post there is a comment form, where you can weigh in and tell me I am wrong. If you do that, however—even if you have a great point—you’re probably a troll. I know. You don’t think you are a troll. You are simply assured of your righteousness. You’re just demonstrating…
Cleanup efforts around the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are expected to require decades—up to fifty years, in fact. However, if a new radiation decontamination technology from Toshiba and IHI pans out, that date will come much, much sooner. The SARRY-Aqua (Simplified Active water Retrieve and Recovery sYstem) is a trailer-mounted machine the size of an…
Apple accessories purveyor Mobee thinks it has the solution for needing to swap out the batteries on your Magic Trackpad every so often. The Power Bar will do the trick—if you remember to charge it. Mobee claims that the USB-rechargeable battery pack will give you 10 days of usage for a six hour charge. Sounds…
I love the late Don Hong-Oai’s photography. His style, the perfect composition, the texture… everything in his work fools the mind into thinking you are looking at a delicate ink illustration. Photo or drawing, they make me want to travel there. Hong-Oai, who was born in Canton, China, 1929. He lived most of his life…
G-Form has put iPads through some serious torture in the name of, err, angular yellow iPad cases? Whatever. This is an iPad (and a Go-Pro!) falling from over 100,000 feet—high enough to see the curvature of the Earth and the black of space. In addition to shooting expensive gadgets into the stratosphere, G-Form’s also got…
Good news for Facebook fans: now you can get a free set of cool color personal cards based on your timeline. They’re giving 200,000 sets of 50 cards for free, so you’ve to hurry up. Here’s how to get yours: 1. Go to your Facebook Timeline. 2. Click on About (it’s just below your profile…
When you shrink wires down to nanometers in diameter, their resistivity normally grows exponentially—a trade-off which many have predicted will be Moore’s Law’s undoing soon. But a new, single-atom thick wire could change that. Over time the copper tracks on microchips have been shrinking, and the resulting massive increases in resistance are what have been…
Polk Audio’s speakers are hands down some of our favorites, so we’re pretty curious what the company’s new UltraFocus 8000 noise-canceling headphones will sound like. If they can cram some of that goodness into a portable package? Aural heaven. The UltraFocus 8000s will compete with the Beats by Dres and Boses of the world in…
