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Verizon Offers Early Customer Upgrades Ahead of Fall Releases

If you’re a Verizon customer with an “New Every Two” upgrade coming, start checking your email. Big Red might have just bumped you to the front of the line. Verizon’s already begun sending out email notifications to many of its customers, alerting them that they’d be receiving an early upgrade. Normally, subsidized upgrades are only…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Crossbow Vengeance, Tablet Attempts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

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. Rock-Throwing Kid Meets Crossbow Vengeance It’s not that we didn’t kind of love this story—I mean, what’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Is the Coolest Way to Take a Self Portrait I’ve Ever Seen

So you’re with your pals, and you want an Adorable Group Shot™. No problem! Just have the ugliest friend take it. Or awkwardly point it towards yourselves, arm extended. Or hurl it into the air with a fisheye lens. This daring method, pioneered by wedding photog Mike Larson, requires a few things you might not…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Oldest-Ever Homo Erectus Gadgets Revealed

They might look like a bunch of rocks, but scientists say this is the oldest-ever collection of hand axes, picks and other cutting tools used mainly by our ancient human cousins, Homo erectus. A new analysis of the stone tools show they are 1.76 million years old – about 350,000 years older than previous estimates.…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

HP, You’re Seriously Bumming Me Out

So, they’re really doing it. HP, the biggest PC company in the world, is announcing to the world that it’s spinning off its $40 billion PC business. With ads. That they’re debuting in a blog post. Except that they’re not really announcing it. Just sort of. https://gizmodo.com/hps-buying-giant-software-company-autonomy-and-spinning-5832225 And I’m totally sure their gigantic $40 billion…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Stunt People Crash And Burn In New Lee Majors Vehicle

Lee Majors is the coolest guy to ever grace a TV screen. Every gadget writer I know wanted to be the Six Million Dollar Man as a kid. He’s back. And his new show looks pretty funny. Majors has teamed up with Tony Hawk and Lance Krall for a new show about stunt men folk.…

Tech News Mat Honan

iOS 5 Beta 7 Is Out

The next OTA update for iOS 5 is out for developers. It’s gotta be close to done now. We’ll know shortly what kind of goodies it has in store. [9to5 Mac]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Twitter Will Start Showing Ads From Companies You’re Not Following

Late last month, Twitter made an obvious choice by putting ads from companies we follow into our feeds. Good! Now they’ve taken it one step further by allowing ads from brands we don’t follow to slip through. Not so good? https://gizmodo.com/stop-whining-ads-in-twitter-are-awesome-5825651 Well, in truth it still makes some sense. It just gets a bit murky…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The New Essential Apps August 2011

iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone 7. We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: iPhone | Android | iPad…

Tech News Gizmodo

Crazy Photographer Captures Perfect Clouds Four Miles Up In the Sky

Rüdiger Nehmzow means “Man With Big Balls Made of Steel” in German. After watching this video of him taking photos of clouds from the open door of a plane, four miles up in the sky, it can’t mean anything else. Rüdiger straps himself into a plane, opens the door at 6000 meters and, equipped with…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sony Sure Had Themselves a Day

https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-sonys-hmz-t1-is-an-amazing-oled-3dtv-that-yo-5835977 Hands On: Sony’s HMZ-T1 Is an Amazing OLED 3DTV. That You Wear On Your Head. Sony’s new 720p OLED 3DTV with 5.1 virtual surround has a 150-inch screen-equivalent and costs $800. But it weighs less than a pound. That’s because it’s worn on your face. More » https://gizmodo.com/sony-tablet-s-review-its-good-to-see-you-again-sony-5836051 Sony Tablet S Review: It’s Good to…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

A Man of Uncompromising Vision, Steve Jobs Is Still… Kind of a Sweet Guy

Stories that have come out of Steve Jobs’ retirement typically focus on his genius and ideas. Writer Lisen Stromberg veers away from all that, though, and describes him as what he is behind the scenes: A really normal, neighborly guy. Views into Steve’s personal life are few and far between—imagine the sales on that upcoming…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Did Apple Lose An iPhone 5 Prototype In A Bar?

CNET is reporting that Apple has lost another iPhone in another bar. This time, it appears to be an iPhone 5 that’s gone missing. (We say appears because CNET neither confirms this, nor provides any photos of the phone.) Of course, Apple lost an iPhone 4 in a bar last year, too. Am I the…

Tech News Mat Honan

Sony Ericsson Reboots Xperia with Arc S, a Phone That Miiiiiiight Actually Matter

Sony is going full-tilt today, dropping more toys than a drunken toddler covered in Crisco. They’re giving the Xpreria Arc—their hallmark smartphone—an S as the end of its name, and beefing it up. The biggest change is that the processor has been ramped up to 1.4GHz (single-core), which has gotta get pretty hot in your…

Tech News Brent Rose

Watch People Get Flung Hundreds of Feet by a Human Slingshot Slip and Slide

If I could do one thing before the summer was over, I’d want to set up a giant slingshot anchored to a truck and drawn by an off-road vehicle that hurled me down a humongous slip and slide, careening wildly into a lake. Something like this, basically. The video’s sponsored by Vooray, a clothing company,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Sony’s Android Walkman Is Really for Music Nerds

A Walkman’s not just for music anymore. The forthcoming Sony Android Walkman will give people access to apps—finally!—but true to the Walkman’s legacy Sony’s built the new version around it’s music features. Just a week after we first saw the forthcoming Android smartphone, Sony showed off a prototype of the new the Walkman. It sports…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Is This What the iPhone 5 Looks Like?

Reportedly, in the latest beta of Apple’s Photo Stream app, there’s a verrrry interesting icon repping for the iPhone—an iPhone that sorta doesn’t look any other iPhone yet. The screen is larger and seems wiiiiiider, stretching further out—with the phone having slightly different proportions than the current iPhones. (Update: To clarify! My working assumption in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

A Programmable LED T-Shirt Is Your Novelty Deal of the Day

Oh hey, fun party, right? Yeah, me too. Jane? No I’m not friends with Jane. Which one is she, the lazy eye? No, like, not in a mean way. Pass the dip? Who’s Dan? Oh, right, no, I don’t know anyone here, I just heard the Simply Red when I was walking by and thought…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

This Life-Size Woman Candle Scares the Beegeezuss Out of Me

Holy Jesus on a pogo stick! Watch this video of a life-size wax woman turned into a giant candle and join me in my nightmares for the next six months. [A.F.Vandevorst via Lenn Cox via This Is Colossal]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Facebook Music Coming September 22nd?

File this one under rumor, but CNBC just tweeted that Facebook is preparing to launch a new music service on September 22nd, which just happens to be the date of their annual f8 developer conference. What a coinkidink. The new service is rumored to be called Facebook Vibes (yeah man, totally trippy). There’s some speculation…

Social Media Brent Rose

Verizon Offers Early Customer Upgrades Ahead of Fall Releases

Crossbow Vengeance, Tablet Attempts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

This Is the Coolest Way to Take a Self Portrait I’ve Ever Seen

The Oldest-Ever Homo Erectus Gadgets Revealed

HP, You’re Seriously Bumming Me Out

Stunt People Crash And Burn In New Lee Majors Vehicle

iOS 5 Beta 7 Is Out

Twitter Will Start Showing Ads From Companies You’re Not Following

The New Essential Apps August 2011

Crazy Photographer Captures Perfect Clouds Four Miles Up In the Sky

Sony Sure Had Themselves a Day

A Man of Uncompromising Vision, Steve Jobs Is Still… Kind of a Sweet Guy

Did Apple Lose An iPhone 5 Prototype In A Bar?

Sony Ericsson Reboots Xperia with Arc S, a Phone That Miiiiiiight Actually Matter

Watch People Get Flung Hundreds of Feet by a Human Slingshot Slip and Slide

Sony’s Android Walkman Is Really for Music Nerds

Is This What the iPhone 5 Looks Like?

A Programmable LED T-Shirt Is Your Novelty Deal of the Day

This Life-Size Woman Candle Scares the Beegeezuss Out of Me

Facebook Music Coming September 22nd?

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

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You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

Amazon Echo Dot Sees Its Last Price Drop in the Spring Sale, Final Hours Tick Down Ahead of an Uncertain Prime Day

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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