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Because who doesn’t want to own a dinosaur? Hammacher Schlemmer is offering you this gargantuan, 20 foot Triceramonster that looks like it stepped out of Jurassic Park. The first one. The other two don’t count. This dinobot and its brethren have been featured in museums across the country. Packing motion-activated cameras in each eye, it…
Sony’s A77 is a big boy, in and out. Shooting (rumored) 24 megapixels of photo and unspecified “HD video,” (we’re guessing 1080), details are sparse beyond that. But all that jelly is only expected to cost a grand or less. The A77 isn’t technically a DSLR, as it uses light-splitting prisms instead of a mirror…
Apple’s stacking its chips with the new App Store and declaring many popular boxed program families in its retail outlets “end of life,” according to a notice circulated Wednesday. AppleInsider has a full list of the affected programs here. [AppleInsider]
What if I told you that you could be a singer if you just spoke into an app. Seriously, that’s all you have to do with Songify. The app autotunes your voice and stitches it against a song. YOU SOUND AWESOME. What’s it do? It turns basic speech into awesome songs. You don’t even have…
Google closed the doors on Google Labs today. The ongoing projects aren’t disappearing; they’ll be absorbed into other departments, and many have already “graduated” into full-fledged products. The spirit and mission of the initiative will live on, just in a decidedly less centralized way. Here are some of the coolest and most genuinely world-changing things…
Consider this the peanut butter and marshmallow of good looking gadgets: a Pioneer CDJ-2000 buried under a shell of wonderfully constructed Lego kookiness. I wouldn’t want to drop it, but damnit if it doesn’t look exceedingly fun. The deck, constructed by artist Jesse Graves to benefit VH1’s Save the Music Foundation, is fully functional. It…
Shocking as this news may be, not everybody uses a Mac (*raises hand*). For those of us not drinking the Cupertino Koolaid, here are 5 solid alternatives to the new products from today’s Apple announcement. MacBook Air = Samsung Series 9 The Series 9 is like the MBA, just slightly bigger. Unfortunately that includes the…
If you’re going to be bombarded by radiation before boarding a flight, you shouldn’t have to bear the extra insult of also having your birthday suit exposed in the process. The TSA’s scanning software just got a censorship patch! https://gizmodo.com/one-hundred-naked-citizens-one-hundred-leaked-body-sca-5690749 The LA Times reports the TSA will phase in the software, which replaces your backscatter-imaged…
Apparently, “college students” are filled with raging hormones and a desire to put their genitals together! And it’s being facilitated by cellular phones! But are you in the pitiable minority who doesn’t get OMG IM HORNY texts? Tsk tsk. This cultural shocker, courtesy of the University of Rhode Island, says that: 6 percent of the…
I really wish that this was my breakfast today. Sure, you may think it looks ordinary—eggs, pancakes, doughnuts, coffee—but it’s actually made entirely from Jell-O. Yup! All Jell-O everything. Unbelievable, right? These realistic Jell-O creations are part of the third annual Jell-O Mold Competition held recently in Brooklyn, New York and it’s drop dead amazing…
Before the advent of color photography, it was common for black and white photos to be retouched with paints. The “hand-coloring” technique was used with frequency until around 1940. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll dust it off. The Challenge Take an original photo, turn it black and white and color in the image…
The latest update for the Netflix app for Android has expanded the number of supported handsets from 9 to 24. The newly supported phones include the Droid 3, HTC’s Thunderbolt, and Motorola’s Atrix, the Epic 4G and the Fascinate. Now go get to suckin’ down that bandwidth already. [Android Market via Engadget]
When we were growing up, my brother’s tried-and-true Tecmo Bowl method involved kicking my controler plug from the NES just before his game-winning Hail Mary pass. It wouldn’t have been so bad if he didn’t have 6 years on me… and we weren’t gambling allowances. Thankfully he can’t pull that sort of shit with this…
Brian Anscomb, a 37-year-old patent lawyer and dickhead of the week, supposedly “force-fed” an iPhone to his 23-year-old girlfriend in an attempt to make her eat it. That’s, like, really not cool man. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. The ‘stuffing an iPhone down his girlfriend’s throat’ incident happened this past weekend during an…
Apple stopped loving the MacBook a long time ago. It was obvious to everyone, perhaps, but the MacBook. And now Apple’s decided to stop even pretending. The plastic MacBook is gone. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbook-is-dead-5822993/ MacBook, we salute you. When the MacBook first arrived in the Spring of 2006, it occupied a space all its own. There was…
Iranian’s propagandist media mouthpiece is claiming an American spy drone’s been bagged over a nuclear enrichment plant. The US’ propagandist mouthpiece, Voice of America, says it didn’t happen. But who to believe! Danger Room’s David Axe astutely points out that the Iranian announcement hasn’t been accompanied with the usual “hey look, we’re dancing around with…
Molson Coors is releasing Animee, a new bloat-resistant beer targeted at women. Supposedly, the brewery spent two years developing the “lightly sparkling and finely filtered” beer that comes in three flavors: clear filtered, crisp rosé and zesty lemon. I don’t know why they bothered with three different flavors since they’ll all probably taste like varying…
Most 9/11 tributes don’t involve a toy you last played with as a kid, but artist Rob Surette wanted to stand out from the crowd. Enter the Lite-Brite pegs, and a canvas measuring 20 x 10 feet and weighing 1,750lbs. Exactly 504,000 pegs were plugged into the glowing board—pegs of different colors, to denote people…
This is not a Photoshop. Or a 3D rendering. It’s a photo of a Glasswinged butterly, “a member of the subfamily Danainae, tribe Ithomiini, subtribe Godyridina.” It sounds like a fantastic beast, but it’s real. See the other images. They live in Central America, where they are called “espejitos” (little mirrors) and they feed on…
At 8:51 UT July 20th, 1976, the Viking 1 lander separated from its orbiting counter-part. In just over two hours it would become the the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and carry out its mission. After 10-months of interplanetary travel, Viking 1 entered orbit around the planet Mars on June 21, 1976 and…
