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Show’s over! Tonight night we’re celebrating the launch of Gizmodo Gallery with an opening party, and we’ve invited A/V remix maestros the Eclectic Method to shower us with their electronic weirdness-and you can watch the performance at 8:30pm LIVE from the Gizmodo Gallery Santa Claw feed. Eclectic Method and Gizmodo Gallery are a match made…
Oh, Kodak, once the acme of all things camera, now a stark lesson in Darwinism in technology. You adapt and evolve, or you die. It was revealed today that Kodak is shedding more than $70 million a month. Let’s hold hands. Kodak insists there is no impending bankrupcy, and that they have $862 million in…
According to security consultant Dan Rosenberg, the Carrier IQ spyware in his Samsung Epic 4G is not recording his text keystrokes. Rosenberg also claims that Carrier IQ cannot record SMS text bodies, emails or web page contents: CarrierIQ cannot record SMS text bodies, web page contents, or email content even if carriers and handset manufacturers…
Improving on existing systems that only watch a driver’s eyes for signs of fatigue, Denso has created a drowsiness level checker that tracks subtle muscle movements over their entire face. Alerting them that they’re too tired before they fall asleep. A camera installed on the steering column is pointed at the driver’s face, while the…
TV Guide was awesome. It told me what time the A-Team was on. Of course that was about a million years ago. You know, before smart phones. With i.TV finally on Android, I can now find A-Team reruns. What’s it do? Keep track of what’s on TV without having to find the TV Guide channel.…
You’ve probably seen remote controlled dart launchers all over the place, but this updated version transfers launch control from your PC to an iOS device using Bluetooth, letting you play Khrushchev by putting the launcher wherever you like. When combined with a firing distance of 25 feet, the iLaunch Thunder’s ability to rotate and raise…
Spike TV, preeminent purveyor of television manliness, and Gizmodo, your favorite gadget site, are teaming up. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Spike for their marathon coverage of the biggest tech event of the year: CES. Bonus: Eliza Dushku. Yep! Yours truly and Gizmodo bossman Joe Brown will be joining Spike’s CES All Access Live…
When White Box Gallery handed us its keys three days ago, it looked exactly like what its name implies—a big empty white space on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Then Gizmodo Gallery construction started. Over the course of the weekend, more than fifty people worked around the clock to bring everything together. Before we could even…
If this monstrous snaking course is what slides are like at Japanese playgrounds, my mind probably won’t even be able to begin to comprehend the magnitude of their swingsets. I imagine they must tower over skyscrapers. I have no idea where this footage was captured, but as impressed as I am with this slide’s massive…
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On November 13, 1946 pilot Curtis Talbot, working for the General Electric Research Laboratory, climbed to an altitude of 14,000 feet about 30 miles east of Schenectady, New York. Talbot, along with scientist Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, released three pounds of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) into the clouds. As they turned south, Dr. Schaefer…
I love it when old people try to understand the inner workings of the teenage brain. Like if they think hard enough they’ll figure out why little Amanda sneaks out at night. Please. Kids are kids! So parents, just understand that you’ll never understand the advanced and possibly unreal sexting terminology of your kids. This…
All mobile carriers pretty much suck. Sure this one has true unlimited data, but maybe it doesn’t have the phone you want. This one has the phone, but you’ll end up burning through your savings if you blow past your already expensive subscription cap. Ting’s sliding scale approach to billing might be what you’re looking…
We all know the story of Merlin. The wizard who came of age in Camelot under Uther Pendragon, and would later become a trusted friend of King Arthur, Merlin may or may not have been the Antichrist, with the ability to shapeshift and/or see the future. And then Snape killed him. The first season of…
The spacecraft Voyager 1 is now 11 billion miles from the sun, at the very end of the solar system. It’s peacefully sailing in a new region between us and interstellar space. NASA poetically calls it cosmic purgatory. The cosmic purgatory is not full of souls wandering in angst. At least, Voyager 1 doesn’t have…
The Conficker worm was one of the more intriguing and potentially destructive pieces of malware in the past decade. Earlier reports have suggested that Stuxnet was created by the U.S. and Israeli governments, and now Reuters has a source telling them Conficker was also used to negate Iran’s nuclear program. John Bumgarner, a retired Army…
I personally don’t give a damn about this gimmicky piece of software, but if you have a jailbroken iPhone 4 now you can add full Siri functionality using a Cydia program called H1Siri. Unfortunately, there’s a catch. Grant Paul has detected that the hack sends your personal information through a server in China. And with…
A long time ago, I made a compact with Apple. “You can control my entire technological life, from my computer to my phone to my stereo. I’ll pay premium prices. I’ll dive into your product ecosystem, and buy books and music and movies and apps from you. Even though they won’t work on devices made…
A group of crazy and wonderful scientists have organized the World Cell Race. 50 lab teams from all over the world sent their microscopic pilots to race against each other. The winner: a bone marrow stem cell line from Singapore. They beat everyone else accelerating to 5.2 microns per minute. That’s 0.000000312 kilometers per hour…
Remember when art class was fun? Before you had to worry about techniques like three-point perspective. It was just you and some finger paints and a smock. Save a buck and return to the art-creating world of your childhood with SpinArt. While you’re down there, throw a ball in a hole. And while some parents…
