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Windows Phone is no longer the lonely nerd in the streaming music cafeteria—Spotify has arrived, and it looks beautiful. Spotify for Mango will hit every device across every carrier “sometime today,” and they apologize for the delay—they just wanted to make it look deliciously Metro. And it does. The app looks as seamlessly a part…
When most of us wake up, we don’t turn to our loved ones or think about the day ahead. Nope, we let off some gas. Turns out microorganisms are just the same, only their gas might have a dramatic effect on global warming. A team of researchers from Berkeley took chunks of permafrost soil from…
It’s not quite as adorable as its predecessor, but the new Chobi Cam Pro manages to gain 720P video recording while making a convincing case for it being the world’s smallest HD camcorder. https://gizmodo.com/when-is-a-dslr-smaller-than-a-micro-four-thirds-when-i-5738576 The miniscule camera is barely larger than the tip of you finger, but JTT is trying to dispel the idea that…
This street 3D painting was created at the Sarasota Chalk Festival last week: a Lego minifig terracota army, inspired by the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses commissioned for the burial of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-video-how-lego-builds-its-minifigs-5041136 It was made by Planet Streetpainting, a street chalk painting company based in the Netherlands.…
The $250 Nook Tablet isn’t a completely new product or a radical overhaul of the Nook Color. It’s still a 7-inch tablet packing wi-fi and 16GB of storage. But in addition to making it thinner, and lighter, they’ve crammed in a 1GHz dual-core processor as well. The Nook Tablet using the same 1024×600 display as…
Yes, this is advertising. But, damnit, if you’re going to advertise to me, at least make it giant and sensational like this 6-story Windows Phone monstrosity in Manhattan’s Herald Square. Soon, when all smartphones are this large, we’ll long for the days when one could buy something as petite and compact as the Titan. I’m…
This looks like it should be airbrushed onto the side of a really tacky t-shirt, but it’s actually quite real! An Air Force F-15E near Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, illuminated by apocalyptic lightning. It must be nerve-fraying enough to drop JDAMs on Taliban without, y’know, hitting the wrong thing. But skies like that? I’d be…
Time Warner internet services are taking a dump all over the country today, with users in New York, LA, San Francisco, Kansas City, Dallas, Ohio, and other cities and regions without internet. Many areas are reporting that service is back to normal, but we’ve put in a call to Time Warner to see exactly what…
Imagine having a 3D display where lighting, viewing angles and distances from the screen were not a concern. HP’s Photon technology is a 3D display that remedies all of these issues, and theoretically scales to any size screen you like. The Photon display technology I saw was a rear-projection setup that was implemented using an…
Long, long before the company dreamt of an office building from space, Apple occupied a far more modest compound—so much so that it could be sketched by hand. The floor plans were recently rediscovered. Chris Espinosa, an OG Apple employee and gifted programmer (his Calculator app remained in use for 15 years) drew this sketch…
University of Texas Southwestern’s scientists have created a new flu vaccine that can protect us against any kind of flu, not just one type. Unlike the current type of vaccines, this can even protect us if the virus mutates. That’s the big problem of the current vaccines: every year, medical experts guess what’s going to…
Starting Tuesday, November 8th, and for a limited time, Verizon is giving you the old two-for-one on data. Buy the 2GB plan for $30, you get 4GB. Get the 5GB plan for $50, you get 10GB. Dope on a rope. This sweet little deal is for new customers as well as existing customers who have…
HP’s TouchSmart series, perhaps in spite of its touch capability, are damn good all-in-one PCs, and a nice iMac alternative. Now it’s inevitably 3D—active shutter glasses and a 3D webcam jazz up the multimedia desktop slab. https://gizmodo.com/hps-newest-all-in-one-is-why-all-in-ones-are-great-5837812 Design and spec-wise, HP’s done nothing new with the TouchSmart 620 3D—and that’s OK. The guts are capable…
Given that they’re both multi-billion dollar businesses, Disney and YouTube embarking on a $10 million joint adventure seems like small potatoes. But as the NY Times explains, the two need each other in a bad way. And this could be the start of something big. The bones of the deal: Disney will produce a series…
Got yourself an HTC Sensation, Sensation XE or XL and fancy a bit of that tasty new Ice Cream Sandwich? You won’t have too long to wait; HTC’s scheduled the update for “early 2012”, so hopefully it’ll be post-christmas treat. [Eurodroid via Gizmodo UK] Our newest offspring Gizmodo UK is gobbling up the news in…
Panasonic’s dropped two new cameras on the unsuspecting public today: one, the compact DMC-3D1 that shoots 3D, and two, the DMC-GX1 which follows the micro four thirds GF1 model. The GX1 is shaping up to more of a successor to 2009’s GF1 than the GF2 and GF3 ever were, with its 16-megapixel sensor (the GF1…
Combining old school inspiration with a stark design full of sharp lines and a matte finish, iHome’s iP4 boombox simultaneously makes nods to the outlandish, button crazy gadgets of the past, and the flat, minimal designs of the now. I think I’m swooning. The tonal colorway and the seemingly matte finish give the iP4 the…
I’m going to go out on a really, really long limb and assume that this wasn’t the safest restraint system for kids in cars. But HOLY SHIT does it look fun. I was clearly born in the wrong era. [Vintage Ads via Boing Boing]
Chances are you don’t have much use for a switchblade in your life. But you probably use a bottle opener all the time. GamaGo’s Switch Pop combines the tough guy imagery of the former with the utility of the latter. According to the company, they had these bottle openers manufactured in a real switchblade factory,…
The internet is abuzz today over a vague confirmation from Instagram creator Kevin Systrom that video is the next big frontier for the insular social network. And while that may sound like a logical evolution for some, it also sounds like a disaster-in-the-making. Like so many other success stories of tech-centric products and services, the…
