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Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on October 5, 2011 to talk about the death of Steve Jobs. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
People who care about what audio products sound like can be divided into those who need to KNOW—scientifically—something sounds good and those who abide by the old Duke Ellington adage, “If it sounds good it IS good.” When it comes to evaluating audio products not even professional reviewers agree on whether there should be an…
Well, looky here. TmoNews has got their hands on what seems to be T-Mobile product launch roadmap for October and November. Take it with a grain of salt, but if half of this is right, there’s cool stuff a-plenty coming. The roadmap shows 12 upcoming devices, all under their code-names. Let’s get this out of…
The new iPhone 4S is a world phone. Sounds pretty awesome right? You and your iPhone 4S circumnavigating the globe. Calls from tiny cafes in Pairs. Texts from the mighty mountains of Macchu Picchu. It’s going to be beautiful right? Sure, if you can afford it. That new iPhone 4S world phone is gonna bleed…
If you were thinking of switching to (or staying on) Sprint for the iPhone 4S, this might sufficiently twist your arm: Sprint’s confirmed unlimited data, PhoneScoop reports. This gives them a nice feather in their cap over rivals. [PhoneScoop]
At Nikon’s annual Small World Photomicrography Competition, scientists and professional photographers work together to capture the freakiest of the teensiest and tiniest flora and fauna on film. The unseen world they shoot is beautiful… in a terrifying sort of way. The image you see up there was taken by Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, and it depicts…
TmoNews just got leaked info about T-Mobile’s new pay as you go plans and it confirms the new $60 ‘unlimited’ plan (up to 2GB of data). That’s okay. What’s more exciting is the daily pay as you go plan and the new $30 unlimited web and text plan. The daily plans are especially good for…
A new study shows the human brain is all about winning. Literally. By analyzing functional magnetic resonance imaging in a new way, Scientists at Yale found for the first time that almost every area in the brain becomes active when winning or losing is at stake. The researchers had study subjects play games like rock-paper-scissors.…
Platetopper promises to let you protect your leftovers without ever taking them off your plate. Depending on the type of person you are, this suction-cup equipped cover is either the best product or the worst product ever. If you routinely keep your refrigerator in order and finish your leftovers, you’ll put platetopper to great use,…
There are so many protests and demonstrations going on in #OccupyWallStreet that it’s hard to keep track of who’s standing for what and what or who is bending for who. One thing for certain though: with a lot of heated, young-ish rallyers jumbled together, there seems to have been a ton of missed connections. Catch…
How is this possible? Thousands upon thousands of rainbow popsicle sticks, layered together into an enormous exploding chain reaction. But… but how? Is there a spring somewhere? Is the thing held together by sheer tension? Childhood magic! Holy shit. Physics is incredible. This was also probably the happiest child on the face of the planet…
That’s right. You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade your iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4S. Just buy this special kit. It is just 99 cents! It’s easy. Here’s how: 1. Buy sticker. 2. Peel off sticker. 3. Apply sticker carefully to the back of your iPhone. Done. It doesn’t run Siri,…
How often is it that you can buy genius? Purchase intelligence? Teach yourself to be funny? It sounds impossible, right? Not today. Because today you can get the pure, unadulterated ecstasy of Mel Brooks’ Blu-ray collection. Just fork over a few greenbacks and you’ll get a slice of his brilliantly wrinkled brain. A crash course…
Bought an iPhone 4 recently and wishing you’d waited for the 4S? Well, you might not be out of luck. Apple is now offerring up $200 in credit for a used iPhone 4 in good condition. There are a few caveats. In order to fetch $200 it has to be a 16GB iPhone 4 and…
Flames. Condoms. String cheese. Black lace panties. You guys came up with some really strange ideas for lens filters for last week’s Shooting Challenge…but I’ll hand it to you…many actually of worked. Winner – Bottled Palm I used the cutout bottom of a plastic water bottle with a hole punched out of the center. The…
Seems like every musician you can name has a pair of headphones with their name on ’em. Dr. Dre, Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, Quincy Jones, Ludacris, Bob Marley, and Miles Davis. We need a battle royale! Well, here you go… Our friends at Sound and Vision Magazine have put together the ultimate celebrity headphone shootout, and…
We already know the iPhone 4S, despite not being an iPhone 5, has a pretty stellar-sounding camera in it. But it’s more than just words—the phone’s sample photos are absolutely incredible, without any touchups. Our pro photographer agrees. The sample shots Apple’s provided seem too good to be true. Nighttime photos are conspicuously absent. And…
This was a fun one, despite the trial and error in finding a workable setup for this shot and the two hours of narrowing down which photo to submit. This is a ball of party LED lights on a black tee shirt background with a pair of nude pantyhose for the filter. After getting some…
The iPhone 4S is a nice phone. But most people think it’s a disappointment. After all, it comes in last years’ skin, and its guts aren’t radically amazing. It’s nothing special. And that means it’s Microsoft’s chance to counterattack. I say Microsoft because Android is still a mixed bag of hurt and ugly—a lemonparty. Its…
The first time I saw waves light up in beautiful colors as they crashed onto the beach I thought someone had slipped me some acid. It’s real, though. Bioluminescent phytoplankton cause this spectacular light show, and wow, someone’s surfing it. Red tides exist all over the world, and they are caused by large-scale algae blooms.…
