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If you could travel through time, what would you do? Where would you go? When would you go? Would you attempt to test the validity of the so-called Butterfly Effect? Would you make millions by buying stock in Apple circa 1997? Or would you travel thousands of years into the future and attempt to wrap…
The iPad isn’t all that terrible for a built-in tablet speaker, but if you find yourself needing more sound in a small package, Logitech thinks they have the perfect speaker for you. Their Tablet Speaker clips onto the back of most tablets and plugs into the 3.5mm audio jack. The battery provides up 8 hours…
Like most days, there was a protest in San Francisco yesterday where people said silly things. But atypically, this one was semi-organized by hacker collective Anonymous. Also unlike most San Francisco protests, there was sort of a point to it. Monday’s protest was a reaction to BART cutting off cell phone service during a previous…
We’ve seen the new Batmobile, and we’ve even seen the gnarly Batwing, but have we seen the Batwing accidentally breaking some shit in Pittsburgh? Nope. So let’s take a look! I’d hate to see the bill from this little incident. https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-new-batmobile-5826243 This is a nice little followup from that little mishap Catwoman had last week…
How does a court seize a nuclear plant? Well, that damn Russian floating nuclear plant is cursed. After a series of early setbacks, the plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now close to completion. Too bad the shipyard building it is going to go bankrupt. The power plant had been planned to be used in the Arctic…
Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined Bloomberg West on August 16, 2011 to discuss the evolution of the tech in your living room. Watch the clip above! For media requests, please contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
There’s nothing like a good DVI to better your watching/gaming/skyping experience. And Kanex’s new dual-link DVI will hook you up with resolutions of up to 2560×1600 on a 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display. That is, as long as you’ve got a PC or Mac with a good graphics card. Plus, you can transfer sound via…
This is a shot I took of Scott Seekins only this afternoon, a relatively famous local guy in the art scene of Minneapolis. Scott is well known for his bizarre homage art to Brittany Spears as well as his choice in wardrobe through seasons. In Summer he wears all white, in winter he wears all…
Film noir. The sharp, stoic imagery is almost self-parody, this overly masculine compensation for maudlin emotion. It’s also just really creepy when someone photographs a baby this way. Winner – The Black Umbrella It poured all day Sunday. In the evening, I got my mother to get out an old raincoat and umbrella that looked…
A small town in England is being terrorized by a talking, lady-like toilet. Men in the town are complaining that a GLaDOS-like woman’s voice in public restrooms is disconcerting, presumably leaving them too shaken to do their business. We think. We’re actually not really sure who’s doing the complaining. Not the residents the local news…
As the saga of London rioting and social media blocking continues, the British government is calling in the spooks. They’re now summoning MI5 and GCHQ to help not block but track the messages that might be the root of the trouble. Christ. As if Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to block social networking wasn’t enough,…
BGR is reporting that the regional court in Düsseldorf is partially lifting the ban that allowed Apple to block Samsung from selling their popular Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the European Union. It is still banned in Germany, pending Samsung’s appeal. https://gizmodo.com/apple-blocks-galaxy-tab-10-1-sales-in-the-whole-eu-5829152 This news comes hot on the heels of the revelation that Apple may have…
Most shopping catalogs seem to be aimed at our moms, but Google Catalogs has signed up some younger retailers whose products can be browsed easily in the app, such as Urban Outfitters, Sephora, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn. Ok, maybe Pottery Barn is for moms too. And maybe all of them are aimed at…
HTC sued Apple over mobile patents today. Again. Pretty soon Apple will likely sue them back. Again. Shrug. Throw it on the pile. And while the patent Cold War continues to heat up, weep for the real casualty: innovation. I’m not a lawyer. Hell, the last time I watched Law & Order, Jerry Orbach was…
Terrifying. The sound of MABEL’s hard metal feet on the lab floor sends a chill down my spine. These poor, blind researchers at University of Michigan don’t know what havoc they’ve wrought on our future. Who will save us? Well, ok. MABEL can only run at a top speed of 7mph. Hardly Usain Bolt speed.…
I’m hooked to the US Navy and US Air Force’s Flickr feeds. Why, because they sometimes contain some incredibly beautiful and interesting images of planes in the field. You should check them out too.
Doesn’t matter if you’re stalking a herd of elephants along the Serengeti or a Snookie along the Jersey Shore—the MD4-1000 Quadcopter aims to change the way aerial surveillance of everything from wildlife to wildfires is captured. The MD4-1000, built by MicroDrones Gmbh, is an AUMAV (Autonomous Unmanned Micro Aerial Vehicle) designed to perform remote aerial…
Reviews are in for Blackberry’s newest handset, and critics agree: It’s great! …For a Blackberry. Crackberry On the outside, the Bold 9900 is a drop dead gorgeous BlackBerry bombshell. I can’t even think of one thing I would change about it.…The new 1.2GHz processor and Snapdragon chipset provide an overall level of performance that has…
Whether you’ve been holding out for a Windows Phone, or already own one, Microsoft’s Xbox Live announcements from the Gamescom show today should rock your world by approximately 0.0005 of a degree: there are 14 new games on the way! Unfortunately the new games are probably the high point from a rather lucklustre announcement—the new…
The utility of your average vibrator is pretty clear, right? Pleasure. Combining that purpose with anything else would normally seem unnecessary. The Duet makes its case nicely by being both a waterproof USB drive and cute little love toy. While it’s exactly the diametric opposite of a Fleshlight, the elegant Duet come close. It’s made…
