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Omipotent Colonialist Photoshopping Hand Remakes 3rd World in Helvetica’s Image

Oh, wretched, impoverished shopkeepers of the developing world! If only you could put down your weary, paint-splattered arm, and stop making handcrafted signs for your stores. If only you had the brilliant Swiss diamond-light of Helvetica. Enter your minimalist paradise. At the Try Helvetica blog, Brazilian design firm NOONO (So, not really a colonialist thing)…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How I Made a 15-Year-Old App Developer Cry

When I was 15, I was wearing baggy jeans, chasing girls and listening to hip hop. If I was 15 today, I’d probably do the same things but with skinny jeans on. Not Nick D’Aloisio. He’s a 15-year-old kid who makes iPhone apps. And I made him cry. If you don’t know who D’Aloisio is,…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Lost Origins of the Stopwatch: A Story of Racehorses and Scrappy Startups

Stopwatch. No big deal. You’ve got one on your wrist, or even on your phone. But it didn’t used to be like that. It took a very fast horse and an enterprising company to bring the super-accurate timepiece to America. It all started in 1855, when horse racing was a very big deal in the…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

Windows Phone Mango Dropping Off the Tree Sept. 1?

According to Pocket-lint, Microsoft’s going to release the long-awaited and much-hyped Windows Phone Mango on September 1. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-windows-phone-its-pretty-great-5813901 Microsoft had previously said that Mango would be coming in “the fall,” but this is the first solid date. Which would make some sense because it’s just before Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, IFA, so it’d let…

Tech News Brent Rose

9 Tools for Camping Like a Boss

Ah, the Great Outdoors—how I loathe your Wi-Fi-less expanses. But if I must be forced to bask in your natural beauty, you can be damn well sure I’ll be doing it with a laptop in my hand. REI Kingdom 4 Tent Me. Sleep out under the stars. You must be out your got-damn mind. The…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

When Will Apple Integrate These Pico Projectors It Just Patented?

So is this why Apple picked up ApplePico.com last week? They’ve just patented a bit of Pico projector technology and could potentially put them in everything. https://gizmodo.com/whats-up-with-apple-and-applepico-com-5828218 As you can see from the patent illustration above, Apple could integrate the mini-projectors into future phone, tablet and laptop peripherals, creating what they describe as a “shared…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Air Force’s Experimental Hypersonic Aircraft Disappears Again

I don’t know what the hell is going on with the Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2, but the Air Force just lost it again. Last year, the first Falcon vanished over the Pacific Ocean, leaving absolutely no trace. https://gizmodo.com/air-forces-falcon-hypersonic-glider-disappears-mysterio-5526308 Now it has happened again. The Falcon HTV-2 launched today from the Vandenberg Air Force Base…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Obama Basher Is the Stupidest, Most Offensive Trash to Contaminate Our Inboxes

We receive lots of moronic emails daily, but this description of the “Obama Basher”—an electronic disc you punch for whatever reason—is perhaps the bottom of the bucket. Oh, idiotic plastic thing, let us count the ways you’re dumb. The Obama Basher is described as a “Punch-friendly gadget let’s right-wingers ‘virtually’ bash Obama without risk of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Vaas’ Tape-to-MP3 Converter Is the Futureproof Deal of the Day

Hey there, this is your old friend the Cassette Tape writing in. I just want to say that I got a raw deal in the canon of audio formats. Everybody loved the CD because it was soooooooo technologically advanced. And people still love the LP because it’s the purest representation of analog sound or some…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Attacked By Hackers

As if stock markets of the world needed any more problems after the recent U.S. credit downgrade and the market catastrophe that followed. Yesterday, trading in seven Hong Kong stocks stopped after the exchange’s website was shut down by an attack. Poor poor stock market guys. Like most mysterious shut-downs as of late, authorities are…

Tech News Alyssa Bereznak

iPhone 4 Vs The Simplest Phone on the Planet

Oooh yeah, let’s get ready to rumble! The iPhone 4 is the world’s favorite smartphone. John’s Phone is the world’s simplest cellphone! Which one will win as they battle to the death? John’s Phone was created to be a simple, cheap phone that you wouldn’t mind taking on hikes because you don’t really care if…

Tech News Brent Rose

You Need to Have Time Shifting Powers to Watch This Sculpture Move

This is one of the weirdest public art projects I’ve ever seen: A sculpture that moves but it’s actually static to the naked eye. Only if you record it on a time-lapse video you would be able to appreciate its motion. Its name is Möbius and it was made by art and design firm Eness…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

New Apple Patents Show Exaggerated and Distorted iPhone Maps to Help You Get Around Easier

Apple Insider has uncovered some new Apple patents that may make maps a lot easier to figure out. The general idea is that they’ll highlight the stuff you care about through exaggeration: routes are bigger, landmarks are emphasized, etc. The patent, entitled “Schematic Maps”, is supposed to get rid of the fluff in maps today…

Tech News Casey Chan

Class Up the Joint With a Retro Internet Radio

Bells, whistles, and brushed aluminum on your home stereo are great—if you’re into that sort of thing. But if you want something a bit more Mad Men and less Mad Max, check out the Victoria Nostalgic Internet Radio. Built by Grace Audio, the Victoria Nostalgic mixes vintage 1940s styling and modern internet connectivity. It runs…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

HTC Buys Beats: All Your Bass Are Belong To Them

HTC just shouted to the world that it has made a massive investment in Beats By Dre to the tune of $300M. Here’s what it means for everyone involved—especially you. https://gizmodo.com/beats-by-dr-dre-audio-coming-to-htc-handsets-this-fall-5829785 What It Means for HTC For starters, the speakers on HTC phones and tablets are going to start sounding a lot better. Beats has…

Tech News Brent Rose

The Batman Equation Is Not a Horrible Fraud

Great Descartes’ ghost, Batman! The Batman equation, that Cartesian forumla that when plotted gave you the Batman logo, is a total lie! Or at least in error, says another mathematician! [Update: He’s wrong!] Math fight! Math fight! https://gizmodo.com/the-batman-equation-5826056 Italian computer scientist Michele Filannino says that while the terms are correct, its general formulation is wrong.…

Tech News Mat Honan

Why Does This Guy Have an Assault Rifle at the Apple Store?

HEY ASSHOLES, MY IPHONE SCREEN IS BROKEN AND YOU WILL GIVE ME A REPLACEMENT. Was that this gun-toting Swissmister angle? Or was he just a member of the military, allowed an open carry? What the hell is possibly going on? Is this one of the infamous fake Chinese Apple Stores, finally being eliminated by a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Vuzix Wrap 1200 3D: Hopefully Not Just a Really Belated Virtual Boy Sequel

3D glasses are lame. Glassessless-3D phones can be abominations. But a pair of glasses that simulate strapping a 75-inch 3D-capable screen to your face? Mmmmmmmaybe. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-3d-oh-my-god-make-it-stop-hurting-5812185 Vuzix’s Wrap 1200 glasses let you watch video from your phone, iPod, or other device on a proper screen. That actually sounds pretty awesome, although most 3D content would…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

SteelSeries Sensei: A Gaming Mouse With a Braiiiinnnnn

Ergonomically, SteelSeries’ new Sensei mouse is just like their previous ambidextrous kit, so the upgrades are all under the hood: Namely, a 32-bit ARM processor that doubles its max counts per inch from 5700 to 11,400. https://gizmodo.com/steelseries-xai-gaming-mouse-is-high-definition-whatev-5321981 (The industry standard term for sensitivity is dots per inch, but SteelSeries prefers counts per inch—regardless, the higher…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Every Horrible Wrinkle Is Visible In Microsoft’s 3D Modeling Software

Even if your skin resembles a dewy peach more than Daniel-Craig-as-Mikael-Blomkvist, be worried: Microsoft’s 3D modeling is the most advanced ever built; capable of showing every wrinkle in your face. Naturally, it could be added to Kinect in the future. As you can see in the example above, expressions are replicated flawlessly in the software…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Omipotent Colonialist Photoshopping Hand Remakes 3rd World in Helvetica’s Image

How I Made a 15-Year-Old App Developer Cry

The Lost Origins of the Stopwatch: A Story of Racehorses and Scrappy Startups

Windows Phone Mango Dropping Off the Tree Sept. 1?

9 Tools for Camping Like a Boss

When Will Apple Integrate These Pico Projectors It Just Patented?

Air Force’s Experimental Hypersonic Aircraft Disappears Again

Obama Basher Is the Stupidest, Most Offensive Trash to Contaminate Our Inboxes

Vaas’ Tape-to-MP3 Converter Is the Futureproof Deal of the Day

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Attacked By Hackers

iPhone 4 Vs The Simplest Phone on the Planet

You Need to Have Time Shifting Powers to Watch This Sculpture Move

New Apple Patents Show Exaggerated and Distorted iPhone Maps to Help You Get Around Easier

Class Up the Joint With a Retro Internet Radio

HTC Buys Beats: All Your Bass Are Belong To Them

The Batman Equation Is Not a Horrible Fraud

Why Does This Guy Have an Assault Rifle at the Apple Store?

Vuzix Wrap 1200 3D: Hopefully Not Just a Really Belated Virtual Boy Sequel

SteelSeries Sensei: A Gaming Mouse With a Braiiiinnnnn

Every Horrible Wrinkle Is Visible In Microsoft’s 3D Modeling Software

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