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This is the part of the day when I make fun of my sister. She has lost two, that’s right, two iPhones in the span of four months. She doesn’t use a computer so Find My iPhone makes no sense to her. Maybe being hassled by the BungeeAir security bubble will keep her next iPhone…
Dyson’s Air Multiplier is the craziest-looking fan we’ve ever seen. It shoots cold breeze out of a ring! No blades! The new Dyson Heat is pretty much just this in reverse: a warm glow for you room. From a ring. Not only is the Hot a gorgeously minimal design piece, it’s terrifically safe: no exposed…
Here’s a simple DIY project from Kitesurfer that’ll let you charge your devices without the distracting clutter of power strips and wall worts. The mod uses a single cubby in an Ikea bookcase as a charging station. To keep a clean appearance, Kitesurfer shoved all the unsightly chargers and power strips behind a fake wall…
Music Video Genome is an ambitious project to create a Pandora-like application for music videos. It’s in the early stages of development and needs help from the community to grow. Created by Casey Pugh, the online service is building a database of music videos from sources like YouTube and Vimeo. Pugh is relying on the…
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. It’s Like a Theramin on Speed, Which Is Still Kinda Boring Look ma, no hands! Also no…
Mexico is fighting a war. A brutal, inexhaustible war against rich, powerful, merciless drug cartels. The rich part is key, as they’re able to afford nice toys like a completely private communications network—until government commandos destroyed it. As much as cartels like the might Zetas rule parts of Mexico, taking illegal drug talkin’ (and war…
I know I must not laugh about this image, but I am. There’s something comical about all these cats waiting for surgery. Of course, I wouldn’t be laughing if I were the one about to get my balls sliced and diced. But fear not, dear readers, because this is nothing bad at all. It’s just…
The Thunderbolt I/O interface is the darling of Apple and Intel. Introduced on the MacBook Pro line in late February, the port is still largely collecting dust. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-thunderbolt-5769321 The peripherals just haven’t materialized as quickly as many had expected, and unless you want to drop $1000 on an Apple Cinema Display, even getting something as…
When it comes to headphones built to stay put when you’re exercising there’s plenty of products that look hardcore but are just annoying. Polk’s new UltraFit3000 headphones might just be the the most thoughtfully designed I’ve seen. Like other old school speaker companies Polk has decided to make the jump from wooden boxes to headphones.…
English is my first tongue, but my family doesn’t have a whole lot of native speakers. So, sadly, I’ll often find myself at family functions nodding politely at French jokes aimed my way. Which makes Vocre a godsend for those many awkward family situations. What’s it do? Vocre is a voice-recognition app that makes it…
So you might think a carbon fiber bathtub is silly, but somewhere there’s a person who won’t just bathe themselves in a common porcelain basin—they need excess. The Corcel N°1 is a beautiful thing for the awesomely opulent. Carbon fiber is tough and versatile, sure, but the Corcel N°1 is made of the material because…
Starting tomorrow, MOG users will have access its 11 million song library for free with no monthly usage cap—as long as they’re willing to put up with ads and actively interact with other users. Think of MOG’s new “FreePlay” service as Pandora’s ads meets Dropbox’s incentives. MOG assigns users of the services a “virtual gas…
NASA’s getting back in the swing of manned space exploration, but chances are it won’t be your butt strapped to the newly-unveiled Space Launch System whenever it takes off. So how’s a spacefan nerdboy to get his to-boldly-go fix? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-nasas-new-deep-space-rocket-5840149 Here are six tools to get you knee-deep in astronomy dweebiness. Image from Shutterstock/MaszaS Celestron…
The latest version of Google Goggles will kick into action without your lazy ass doing a thing. All you have to do is enable a setting that allows Goggles to work in the background each time you take a photo. If Goggles recognizes something, it will send you a notification. If it doesn’t you’d never…
Hang gliding. One of the most inspiring, peaceful and exhilarating experiences ever. But if you puke on your first lesson, maybe it’s time to think about dedicated yourself to the other most inspiring, peaceful and exhilarating ever: minigolf. [The High Definite]
One of Apple 3rd Reich’s patent war fronts is Motorola. Out of desperation, Motorola sued Apple first; then Apple sued Motorola. Now, Apple has asked the court to halt all Motorola patent suits, alleging they can’t defend themselves. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sues-apple-over-pretty-much-everything-phone-r-5657451 Since Motorola is in the process of being acquired by Google, Apple says that they don’t…
Anytime you take a call, the outside world loses a good chunk of your entire bodily apparatus capable of communication. That sucks. So you can set some of those people at ease with the EARonic case. The cases were designed by Daniela Gilsanz at the Rhode Island School of Design. They have their limitations: obviously,…
If you upload your videos to YouTube—or most video sharing sites for that matter—there isn’t much you can do to improve them after the fact. Starting today, though, YouTube will finally provide basic tools to make your kitty videos suck less. YouTube is rolling out the new feature in the form of a simple “Edit…
Somewhere, right now in Holland, a well-intentioned team of inventors are trying to kill you. They don’t want to kill you. They want to save you. But while it’s just a concept, if this device ships it could kill people. The Oh Music Where Art Thou (great name) team has cooked up a novel navigation…
Intel dumped $300 million into the laptop industry to buy it something it’s never had before: attention. Ultrabooks sound cool, and could look beautiful while running like little thin crust pizzas of awesome. Instead, we’re seeing pathetic MacBook Air clones. https://gizmodo.com/intel-insists-macbook-air-thin-ultrabooks-will-be-under-5827999 What went wrong? From the floor of Intel’s Developer Forum, its yearly showcase of…
