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Did you watch a lot of movies in the ’80’s and ’90’s? If the answer is yes, you need to go home, put this video on the largest screen you have, and take this amazing trip down memory lane. Skinemax, by Smash TV is a gorgeous montage of movies from your past set to set…
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. The Most Boringest Apple Patent in the Land Some Apple patents make us thrill at the possibilities…
Sony’s made a lot of money selling TVs over the years. So it’s kind of a shock to the system to hear its CEO Howard Stringer say that it needs to completely overhaul the way it does business in televisions. Stringer said at a breakfast hosted by The Wall Street Journal that companies had backed…
They’re slowly taking over our world, but the one skillset that robots and computers haven’t mastered yet is sportscasting. Keeping track of every single player on a basketball court is a real challenge for an artificial intelligence, but researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland may have developed a system that could…
Like a swiss army knife for epicureans, the collapsible Blacktop 360 grill includes all the cooking surfaces you’ll need to prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between. There’s even an optional cutting board for something called veg-e-tables. Surrounding a deep fryer with a 20 oz. capacity you’ll find a griddle for frying up breakfast…
I don’t know how this guy managed to build a 3,118 coin coin tower on top of a single dime on the corner of a table but boy did he do it. It took him 7 hours, over 200 dollars in change plus some presumably insane weed smoking to pull it off. The final tally…
Typically when we’re talking about using your smartphone while driving, it’s either for maps or because it’s making your car into a death trap. iOnRoad is a pretty darn good attempt at using your phone to make you safer. What’s it do? It’s an app that uses your phone’s native camera and sensors to tell…
There are 5,113 nuclear weapons in the US right now, Mother Jones reports. That’s enough to destroy the entire planet many, many, many, many times over. And then there are the country’s aging nuclear plants. Are any close by? This terrific map by MoJo shows how littered our continent is with nuclear stuff—active weapons ready…
How many gestures can Apple implement in iOS? Apparently not enough! These new gestures, detailed in a recent patent may end up in your iPad or iPhone in the future. Seriously Apple—NO. The first patented gesture is “Swipe and Hold,” designed to allow users to navigate faster through a series of photos, instead of having…
So today represented a pretty important typically uneventful and depressing day for the ongoing NBA labor negotiations. Commissioner Stern and the players’ union are going to meet again at noon tomorrow, but talks haven’t been very productive, and I need some goddamn NBA basketball. Here are some proactive ways you can get your NBA fix,…
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. $2.1 billion worth of ringtones were sold this year? Who still buys these things? Why? I thought we all had our phones permanently set to silent. $2.1 BILLION?! Peter Kafka used the Gartner stat in an All Things D post to highlight the slow rate at which…
Kickstarter is full of awful, ill conceived, downright dumb ideas. So is the internet. So is the universe. But it’s also festooned with crazy-good thinking, ingenuity, and imagination. It’s fun and unfettered. It’s the opposite of the tech industry. http://gawker.com/5858118/end-online-panhandling-forever Here’s how the technology we use ends up being created: Companies conceive of products using…
Remember that time Facebook changed its privacy settings and made literally everything about you public? Yeah, you weren’t the only person who raised several eyebrows at once—the Federal Trade Commission dropped the hammer on Zuck. We all win. The WSJ reports an agreement between the FTC and Facebook—pending final approval from the gov—would force you…
Flight Global’s Jon Ostrower has flown in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner a few times already. He just posted a video along with a detailed account of his experience inside ANA’s newest toy. It seems like a great experience, as promised: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-boeing-dreamliner-to-enter-service-5843817 • It feels natural, as if you never left the ground. This is because…
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, apparent hater of the internet, decided she had enough of America using it to easily gain access to information, news and Nyan Cat. So she demanded that congress overturn the FCC’s Net Neutrality policy. Today, she lost. After the House of Representatives voted to overturn the legislation that was passed…
As a speaker gets smaller, it also loses sound quality. So while the two inch tall Muse Mini is certainly the most compact Bluetooth speaker I’ve seen, I have my doubts it can really compare with larger alternatives like the foxLv2 or the Jambox. https://gizmodo.com/this-could-be-the-pocket-speaker-that-doesnt-totally-bl-5845042 Compared to the minuscule speaker on your smartphone I’m sure…
The Canon S100—like its S-series predecessors—is an almost perfect compact camera with some drawbacks stemming from its pocket-friendly size. There’s a lot of crazy tech on board. The Canon gods have outdone themselves; but that outdoing might be the camera’s undoing. Why it matters Enthusiast camera, meet the rest of the world. The S100 wants…
Ever wished your paper aeroplane would just make itself? Well now it can. Almost. Because scientists have developed a material that can fold itself when you shine light on it, without you ever needing to lay a finger on the thing. It’s actually really simple. You take a sheet of pre-stressed plastic, and then print…
I absolutely love Star Wars. And like any Star Wars fan, I really, really, reaaaally want a lightsaber. Hell, I’ll pretend any cylindrical object longer than 3 inches is a lightsaber. So when I was searching for today’s Deal of the Day and stumbled upon this Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber for $79 I got…
Daylight White Balance Setting Exposure — 1/80 Aperture — f/2.0 ISO Speed — 200 Auto White Balance Exposure — 1/80 Aperture — f/2.0 ISO Speed — 200 Macro Exposure — 1/50 Aperture — f/2.0 ISO Speed — 80 S100 Auto Exposure — 1/8 Aperture — f/2.0 ISO Speed — 1600 S100 Low-Light Exposure — 1/4…
