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Though they deliver clean energy, wind turbines are not exactly pretty. They’re tall, grey and sterile. They also interrupt a beautiful outside view. One exception may be the wind generator in Hanover, Germany which is decked out from top to bottom in lights. This colorful structure was the handiwork of French artist Patrick Raynaud and…
Much of California, Arizona and Mexico is in the dark right now due to a massive power outage. There’s no word on the cause yet, but officials say that the lights may not be back on until Friday. A California nuclear plant has been shut down as a precaution, and the cities of Phoenix Yuma…
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. Batmanning Is the New Stupidest Thing Ever Okay, okay, we get it. You’re capable of taking a…
Tomorrow, September 9, Gizmodo’s going to nerd up NYC, and we’d love for you to drop in and meet us and your fellow readers. We’ll be at The Magician Bar in Manhattan, at 118 Rivington. We’ll be chatting about any nerdy or awesome or prurient interests you have, or any combination thereof—we’re the world’s foremost…
Google seems to pick and choose when they’ll make a native app and when they’ll go the web route with iOS. For Google Music, which is still in beta, they chose the web app route and it’s actually still pretty good. It’s all powered within the Safari browser, you can swipe left, swipe right to…
When I first heard about a new Leica camera being designed by Kunio Okawara-sama, the man responsible for the mechanical design of the insanely popular Gundam anime series, I nearly shit myself in excitement. Then I saw what it looked like. I believe “disappointment” is too weak a sentiment. This “Okawara Factory” limited edition—only 200…
This three-story 9,300-square-foot apartment building weighs 220 tons and is 40-foot high. It also moves. In fact, it’s the first building in the world that can be moved anywhere. It’s also earthquake resistant. The owners have installed it in Turku, on the southeast coast of Finland, using a crane. There it would be rented for…
There was a not so brief moment in my life where I wanted to become a hip hop producer. Drum machines, soundboards, studios, all of it looked so damn cool. I became a blogger who plays with phones instead. Which is fine! Because MadPad creates custom soundboards to create your own music. What’s it do?…
According to a Folsom Prison guard, the iPhone is not a very popular cellphone among convicts. It’s hard to smuggle it inside the prison because “they take too much… real state.” The question now is: would the new iPhone 5 form factor increase Apple’s market share in the US prison system? And how popular is…
There was a lot of charm to the bygone experience of using a computer in the 90s; I remember the nuances of my modem’s soothing screech better than the hook from “I Want It That Way” (which is reallyreallyreally well). And the goofy pointer finger cursor was so wonderful that this novelty cursor tablet stylus…
In addition to their circular “spaceship” campus, because of company growth, Apple is already in the early planning stages of building a third campus. https://gizmodo.com/jobs-spaceship-apple-headquarters-a-dream-30-years-in-5811469 Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong told the San Jose Mercury News that Apple executives had confided in him that they are already planning a third Apple campus after they finish the…
Ever since Back to the Future Part II came out and tickled my fanciful soul with the Nike Air Mag, I’ve been waiting to get my hands on a pair. They’re finally real and oh my god they’re so dreaaamy. https://gizmodo.com/is-nike-finally-releasing-the-shoes-marty-mcfly-wore-in-5838207 The upper of the shoe is made of reinforced mesh. The outer sole is…
Instagram is the lovely. Sadly though, it’s really only available on your iPhone. With Carousel, you can peep Instagram on your Mac. Some of you may not see the need for a photo sharing network but Instagram is a really neat way to see life through your friends’ eyes (and alternatively, judge them on their…
Google just announced that its data centers use 260 million watts to power Google searches, YouTube videos, Gmails, ads and so on and so on. That’s about a quarter of the output of a freaking nuclear power plant. Or more power than Salt Lake City uses. Basically, it’s a ridiculous amount of energy, enough to…
The Fujifilm X100 doesn’t just perform like a champ, it looks wonderfully analog as well. Samsung isn’t going to let Fujifilm eat all the retro cake—they’re planning a faux-vintage digital of their own, according to a new rumor. https://gizmodo.com/retro-fujifilm-finepix-x100-camera-will-give-leicas-x1-5642538 Photog blog 36exp posted about an R1 camera by Samsung—a camera that doesn’t exist—which was then…
I don’t remember the last time I ate Jell-O, just to eat Jell-O. Who does that anymore? Wait. Why don’t I do that anymore? Jell-O was one of my favorite things as a kid and now that I’m a stuffy ah-dult, I don’t eat the colored clear crack because I’m too big time now? That’s…
Mobli is a camera app/photo sharing service that does a lot more than everyone’s current fav Instagram. There’s channels that allow you to see pictures from people, pictures by places and pictures tied to a topic/current event. Along with that, Mobli offers a full fledged website (Mobli.com) that lets you see all the pictures posted.…
9/11 is a mostly visual terror. Photos of exploding towers are synonymous with the day. But the fear, desperation, and confusion captured in this chatter between pilots, the FAA, military, and terrorists themselves are unbelievably chilling. The New York Times’ audio archive of the day’s radio communication is far more than an archive—the nightmare of…
Orange and blue. Red and green. These timeless color combinations aren’t just coincidences, they’re complementary colors. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll exploit the very nature of human perception to capture a photo with incredible vibrance. The Challenge Capture a photo that celebrates complementary colors as their subject. In other words, capture a photo…
4K video might be our inevitable future, but for now it’s prohibitively expensive and rarely available. Sony’s taking care of the latter part with its new VPL-VW1000ES projector—four times the resolution of 1080p (!) for mega, mega bucks. Sony’s many-charactered projector has some serious eyeball muscle: 2,000 lumens of brightness, the aforementioned insanely-high 4096 x…
