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Shooting Challenge: Fail 1

Equipment and Settings: Sony A200 with 18-70mm Kit Lens, f/18 with 15 second exposure (Bulb mode) at ISO 100. I read the shooting challenge information page and immediately knew what I was going to do; long-exposure car photography, at night! So I took my camera and set it to bulb mode at f/18 and I…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Shooting Challenge: Fail 2

The wife and I took our 18 month old daughter to the san diego county fair for her first time. I wanted to mark our first ride by taking a quick pic with my blackberry. I guess right when I pressed the shutter button, she pulled my arm to see the pic I took. This…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Google Spam Filtering Now Works for Your Phone

Google spam filters have been a godsend to my inbox, eliminating the 500 or so unwanted emails I receive per day before they ever sully my inbox. Now, Google’s doing the same to telemarketers. The new “Report Spam” button in Google Voice does exactly what the “Report Spam” button does in Gmail— it keeps the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Apple TV Will Get Bluetooth (and Maybe Apps) with iOS 5

Code pulled from the latest iOS 5 beta shows that Apple TV will support bluetooth keyboards and accessories. Which is cool, I guess. But what that means to you is that your Apple TV might be running apps soon. https://gizmodo.com/ios-5-is-getting-closer-heres-whats-new-in-beta-3-5820067 It’s not a lock, but it does seem natural that bluetooth support would imply the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Is How Big Our Galaxy Is Compared to the Biggest Galaxy of Them All

The Milky Way is huge compared to our Sun, just one more speck of dust of the 400 billion stars in it. But, at 100,000 light years across, it’s tiny compared to other galaxies in the Universe. Quite frankly, I see these videos and all I want is to send everything to hell and go…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What Americans Are Watching on Netflix, Visualized

This delightful infographic from Slacktory dishes up the currently Netflix-fave movies of our United States. And what does it show? Americans love watching movies about where they live! Streaming media and narcissism—the new apple pie. Hot in California? LA Story. Alaskans are watching Braving Alaska and The Alaska Experiment. New Yorkers appear to dig New…

Tech News Sam Biddle

You’d Never Believe This Is a Hurricane

You’d never guess it, but this carnival-esque sculpture is also a musical score. And this score is also Hurricane Noel, the deadliest storm of the 2007 season, passing over Maine. Here, art colliding with science is beautiful. Nathalie Miebach, a Boston-based artist and newly-named TED Global Fellow, collected weather data from the region and used…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The Most Complicated Way to Take a Picture Is with This Rube Goldberg Machine

To be fair, they managed to take two pictures! But boy did it take them some time. There’s at least a gazillion gorillapods, reflectors, flash cards, soft lights, cameras, printers and balls involved in this bat-shit crazy Rube Goldberg Machine. 2D Photography, the photography company who built it all, said it was pretty much hell…

Tech News Casey Chan

Here Are AT&T’s First Real 4G LTE Devices

AT&T might be done teasing us with their fake ‘4G’. Well, hopefully. Today, AT&T unveiled their first two 4G LTE products: the Momentum 4G and Elevate 4G. It’s the real LTE, super fast, blazing speed 4G we want. The sad thing is that neither of AT&T’s first two LTE devices are phones (which is probably…

Tech News Casey Chan

Panasonic’s Toughbook H2 Tablet Can Be Manhandled and Misused

Getting a massive speed bump from Intel’s Atom to Core i5, the Panasonic Toughbook H2 is made for outdoor use with its easily-legible 10-inch screen, rugged exterior and hot-swappable batteries. Inside lurks 4GB of RAM, plus a 2MP camera and barcode/RFID/fingerprint reader. It has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, plus you can spring a little extra…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 1

Humphrey Cheung worked in tech journalism and IT for years. Then, this spring, he had enough. But instead of switching jobs, he strapped on a digital camera, armor, and flew to Libya. This is what a real rebellion looks like. What you’ll see here is a unique crawl through the battle against Qaddafi from the…

Tech News Humphrey Cheung

TiVo Finally Has an iPhone App

Long available for the iPad, TiVo is bringing its talents to the iPhone. Depending on what type of TiVo you have, TiVo’s app will let you cruise through the show schedules, manage recordings, fast forward and rewind TV and more. https://gizmodo.com/multitask-with-tivos-ipad-app-5694827 TiVo Premiere users will get all the goodies while TiVo Series 3, HD and…

Tech News Casey Chan

Godzilla-Maru Deep Sea Drill Pokes the Ocean’s Deepest Holes

If Land of the Lost taught me anything, it’s that cool things lurk just below the surface of the earth (and Will Ferrel is the greatest actor of his generation). That’s where the Chikyu Hakken Deep Sea Drill comes in. The Deep Sea Drilling Vessel D/V Chikyū Hakken (“Earth Discovery” aka “Godzilla-Maru”) is a Japanese…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Klipsch’s Headphones Keep On Noise-Cancelling For 45 Long Hours

That’s “hella-long,” our editor Joe has assured me, and just in case you’re willing to test that one out yourself, they can be used as normal stereo headphones should the battery run out of juice. Coated in leather and with a 40mm woofer and 15mm tweeters inside, Klipsch’s Mode cans haven’t been priced yet but…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

AMD Claims the Radeon HD 6990M Is the Fastest Consumer GPU

Mere weeks after NVIDIA claimed to have the fastest GPU on the market, AMD is now claiming supremacy with their Radeon HD 6990M graphics card, despite having a lower clockspeed by over 500MHz. According to Laptop Mag, The Radeon HD 6990M has a 1.7 billion transistors, 700MHz processor, 2GB DDR5 RAM, and has support for…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Everyone Can Be Famous For 15 Minutes With the Andy Warhol Museum’s iPhone App

Grab this app now while it’s only $1 and you too will be turning your pals into Andy Warhol prints, only for them to post them as their Facebook profile pics and take all the credit for your “hard work.” The DIY POP app from the Andy Warhol Museum and Carnegie Mellon University uses a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How Did This Owl Ghost Magically Appear On a Window Pane?

“For the Unholy Underpants of Voldemort, what bollocking sorcery is this?” That’s probably what Sally Arnold thought when she arrived to her house and saw this perfect image of an owl over the window. How did this spookiness happen? According to the boffins from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, this freaky image…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Is Obsolete Tech an Inalienable Right?

Today’s superfluous political grappling comes via Texas, where Republican rep Joe Barton’s incensed by legislation mandating efficient incandescent lightbulbs. Rather, he and his backers claim, Americans should be able to screw-in whatever they damn please. Is old tech really a liberty? Although the bulb battle isn’t a strictly partisan one, the AP reports, (the original…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sly Tweet Says Samsung’s Making the Nexus Prime Android 4.0 Phone

The next-best-thing to hit the Androidworld is rumored to be the Nexus Prime—and thanks to an accidental tweet by Samsung Romania, we know they’re definitely building it. Even if they retracted the tweet later. [@SamsungMobileRO via AndroidCommunity] https://gizmodo.com/will-samsungs-nexus-prime-be-the-next-best-android-ph-5815813

Tech News Kat Hannaford

You Can Look at These Pretty Steinway S15 Speakers, but You Probably Won’t Touch

The Steinway S15 speaker is a beauty, with a 600W peak power, 2-way speaker construction, and a design suitable for a steel foundry. But this for the rich and famous only: 2.1 configurations start at $22,000. [Steinway via Extravaganzi]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Shooting Challenge: Fail 1

Shooting Challenge: Fail 2

Google Spam Filtering Now Works for Your Phone

Apple TV Will Get Bluetooth (and Maybe Apps) with iOS 5

This Is How Big Our Galaxy Is Compared to the Biggest Galaxy of Them All

What Americans Are Watching on Netflix, Visualized

You’d Never Believe This Is a Hurricane

The Most Complicated Way to Take a Picture Is with This Rube Goldberg Machine

Here Are AT&T’s First Real 4G LTE Devices

Panasonic’s Toughbook H2 Tablet Can Be Manhandled and Misused

This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 1

TiVo Finally Has an iPhone App

Godzilla-Maru Deep Sea Drill Pokes the Ocean’s Deepest Holes

Klipsch’s Headphones Keep On Noise-Cancelling For 45 Long Hours

AMD Claims the Radeon HD 6990M Is the Fastest Consumer GPU

Everyone Can Be Famous For 15 Minutes With the Andy Warhol Museum’s iPhone App

How Did This Owl Ghost Magically Appear On a Window Pane?

Is Obsolete Tech an Inalienable Right?

Sly Tweet Says Samsung’s Making the Nexus Prime Android 4.0 Phone

You Can Look at These Pretty Steinway S15 Speakers, but You Probably Won’t Touch

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