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Watch Surfers Ride Waves Like the Bullet Time Scenes from the Matrix

Rip Curl and TimeSlice Films filmed surfers riding real waves with 30 GoPro HD cameras and created an effect very similar to the Bullet Time sequences in The Matrix. It’s jaw droppingly awesome. The 30 GoPros were aligned in one housing and to get the close up shots, someone had to be inside the ocean…

Tech News Casey Chan

World War II Interactive for iPad: Learn About World War II

I’ve said it many times before but my favorite type of iPad apps are the ones that interactively teach you something. Like a blend between an app and a book. World War II Interactive, as you might guess, does exactly just that for WWII. What’s it do? It’s an entire app dedicated to the history…

Tech News Casey Chan

Greubel Forsey’s GMT Watch Puts the Whole World on Your Wrist

Those world time zone watches that let you know when it’s inappropriate to call someone on the other side of the planet just got a lot easier to read with Greubel Forsey‘s new GMT, which manages to squeeze a 3d spinning miniature globe under its glass. The watch is crammed full of mechanical eye candy,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Best Bluetooth Headset

You know those jerks that walk around with little satellites coming out of their ears, feeling all superior? Well, you could be one of them! And why not be be the most superior one, with the most superior headset? In here, chief: As dorky as these things are, true hands-free access to your phone is…

Gadgets Brent Rose

The Five Funniest Siri Videos

The iPhone 4S was released a few weeks ago and its hallmark feature, Siri, has been poked, prodded, played with and patronized by everyone. Hell, even us. We made Siri talk to herself. We talked dirty to her. And you know what, everybody has a Siri story! Which are the best? https://gizmodo.com/watch-two-siris-confuse-the-hell-out-of-each-other-5849962 I don’t know…

Tech News Casey Chan

Amazon’s Shipping Lockers Are Live in NYC

Live in NYC? Hate waiting for your Amazon packages to arrive at your doorstep, or even worse, missing the delivery? Start using Amazon Locker, which routes your shipment to a nearby, publicly-accessible locale. https://gizmodo.com/did-you-miss-your-package-delivery-again-5788216 There are eight locations spread across Manhattan where you can route your packages to, provided they’re small and light enough (Seattle,…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Our Newest Android Mammoth: The Dual-Core, LTE-Speedy HTC Rezound (Hands-On)

People love big screens, so HTC’s giving the people another big screen: the Rezound is smaller than the titanic Titan (packing a 4.3-inch screen) and nice guts. Another piece of speedy LTE hardware is a good thing. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-htcs-titan-is-one-giant-windows-phone-sonofab-5836552 The phone isn’t going to revolutionize anything for either Android software or hardware, but the Rezound looks…

Tech News Sam Biddle and Brent Rose

Oops, Siri Isn’t Working Right Now

It looks like Siri, the iPhone 4S’ do it all personal assistant is suffering from an outage right now. As in, it’s not working. So hold off asking her silly questions or making her write down important notes for you. Because Siri has to tap into Apple’s servers to work, a snafu on Apple’s end…

Tech News Casey Chan

A Stop Motion Video Made With a Quarter Million Jelly Beans

Kina Grannis’ In Your Arms videoclip was animated using 288,000 jelly beans. The effect is great, but the behind-the-scenes how-to video really gives an idea of the gigantic dimension of this project. The jelly bean animation required 30 people, which worked for 1,357 hours over the course of 22 months. Too bad the music makes…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Tank Case: Watch the iPhone 4s Survive a Vicious Hammer Blow

Mil-Spec cases have been around for a while, but the Tank Case is ridiculous. Case Mate is so sure of the Tank’s toughness that it hired third-party testers to subject a Tank-protected iPhone to a grueling, cringe-inducing battery of tests. To the Thunderdome! https://gizmodo.com/a-mil-spec-everything-proof-iphone-case-with-a-freakis-5769882 The Tank looks pretty rugged—but how do we know for sure…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What Are Those Strange Thin Smoke Columns Around Nuclear Bomb Tests?

This video shows part of a nuclear blast test. Notice those parallel smoke trails? They are present in many other nuclear test images and videos, but they are not created by the blast itself. What are they? Back in the early days of the Cold War there were no computers capable of modeling nuclear explosions…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Pulp Fiction on Blu-ray Is Your Royale-With-Cheese Deal of the Day

The best movie year of all time? Has to be 1994, right? It was ah-maze-balls. You have Lion King, the best Disney movie of all time. The Shawshank Redemption, another GOAT movie. Exemplary action flicks like Speed and True Lies. One of my favorite docs in Hoop Dreams. Dumb and Dumber, Clerks, The Mask, The…

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The Weirdest Home I’ve Ever Seen Is an Exhibitionist Wet Dream

It’s hard to believe that this house in Japan is real, but it is. Not just a project, but a home. Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, its metal structure and the division of space defy any convention or logic. In other words: I don’t know what the heck is going on here. And yet, I…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sun-Loving mPowerpad Keeps Insects and Dead Batteries at Bay

Solar powered backup batteries make the great outdoors even better by keeping all your toys running, and Third Wave Power makes a convincing case for its new mPowerpad with the inclusion of extra functionality like a flashlight, radio and ultrasonic insect repeller. The laptop sized device is covered on one side with a solar panel…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!)

EEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRNDguzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzdungahdungahdungahhhhhhh. That sound you hear isn’t a 56k modem, it’s the sound of my brain collapsing upon itself as I read AOL not only has 3.5 million dialup users, but added 200,000 since last year. How can this be? It can be because there are still large swaths of our country without broadband—mostly rural areas—and…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Craziest Megalomaniac Engineering Project Since the Pyramids Is In England

This is the Thames Hub airport, part of a gigantic project that would also include a railway terminal connecting to England and Europe through high speed trains, huge storage depots and a port. Total cost: $80 billion. This thing is crazy. It aims to be a central hub for absolutely everything, with multi-level underground railroads…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

HTC’s Impending Big ‘Ol Rezound Leaks

We’re going to see it in the flesh here in New York when it’s announced a little later today, but if you need some leaked shots to tide you over, behold: the HTC Rezound, via PocketNow. That screen’s rather large! Hey look, LTE! That’s excellent, and if these shots are real, so’s that speed. Rumored…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Apple’s Trying to Boot Hardcore Porn Sites from iPhone Domains

Apparently, dear reader, some websites that a casual observer would assume are Apple sites are actually landing sites for hardcore porn. Apple’s filed complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against seven sites—all of which have iPhone in their url—including the especially troubling iPhone4s.com. (Don’t click that NSFW NSFW porn it’s porn NSFW!) Okay, so…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Safety Inspectors May Not Be Able To Tell If a Dreamliner Is Damaged

The extensive use of composite materials makes the Boeing 787 one of the most advanced commercial aircraft ever built. And while it’s already been approved for flight, safety officials are concerned about the long term viability of those materials, which are now being used in the aircraft’s wings and fuselage. Composite materials like carbon fiber…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Protect Against Worms, Bots and Viruses Without Ever Slowing Down

When reading about online security threats, it’s easy to feel as if you’re a bit character in a sci-fi novel. Yet, trojans, rootkits, and spyware are all very real dangers. Fortunately for those who don’t like getting their LARPing and computer safety mixed up, GFI Software has unveiled GFI VIPRE® Antivirus 2012 and GFI VIPRE®…

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Watch Surfers Ride Waves Like the Bullet Time Scenes from the Matrix

World War II Interactive for iPad: Learn About World War II

Greubel Forsey’s GMT Watch Puts the Whole World on Your Wrist

The Best Bluetooth Headset

The Five Funniest Siri Videos

Amazon’s Shipping Lockers Are Live in NYC

Our Newest Android Mammoth: The Dual-Core, LTE-Speedy HTC Rezound (Hands-On)

Oops, Siri Isn’t Working Right Now

A Stop Motion Video Made With a Quarter Million Jelly Beans

Tank Case: Watch the iPhone 4s Survive a Vicious Hammer Blow

What Are Those Strange Thin Smoke Columns Around Nuclear Bomb Tests?

Pulp Fiction on Blu-ray Is Your Royale-With-Cheese Deal of the Day

The Weirdest Home I’ve Ever Seen Is an Exhibitionist Wet Dream

Sun-Loving mPowerpad Keeps Insects and Dead Batteries at Bay

3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!)

The Craziest Megalomaniac Engineering Project Since the Pyramids Is In England

HTC’s Impending Big ‘Ol Rezound Leaks

Apple’s Trying to Boot Hardcore Porn Sites from iPhone Domains

Safety Inspectors May Not Be Able To Tell If a Dreamliner Is Damaged

Protect Against Worms, Bots and Viruses Without Ever Slowing Down

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