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Like the inventor of the lens cap-holder, I too have lost two lens caps in the past. While you can pick a replacement up for next to nothing on eBay, this Kickstarter project is a better idea. [Kickstarter via Petapixel]
Millions of workers in millions of businesses across the US use one of these SecurID tokens to log onto their computers every morning, with the device generating a unique password every time it’s used. Nonetheless, a security breach still happened. EMC Corp. confirmed the incident yesterday, saying that Lockheed Martin Corp. (a weapons manufacturer client…
The New Settings Control Panel Settings with the Notifications Notifications center Customizing your notifications Banner alert on top Collapsible tray with alerts from multiple apps Alerts on the lock screen Twitter account screen in the settings Tweet from Safari Compose a tweet from Safari Camera App with the grid enabled Camera shortcut on the lock…
Apple announced iOS 5 today with 200 new features for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Grab a coffee and settle into your favorite reading chair as we’re going to take a closer look at some of these changes. https://lifehacker.com/ios-5-the-top-10-new-features-5808982 Notifications Honestly, the notifications in iOS 4 and earlier were barely adequate. They were nothing…
The Argentinean pilots who flew that FMA IA 63 jet trainer at one meter from the ground have sent me an exclusive video in high definition from the cockpit of the plane. It’s going to blow your mind: https://gizmodo.com/the-craziest-low-pass-flyby-ive-ever-seen-updated-5808599 Make sure to click on the video to see at full screen. The skills of this…
This two-mile tunnel running on solar power just switched on today. It’s part of the Paris to Amsterdam line and the first in Europe, promising to save a ton of energy that would otherwise be wasted during the trip. Now Paris and Amsterdam obviously aren’t two miles apart. But this thing features a 16,000 solar…
MIT scientists have developed new battery technology that lets you fill a battery with goo instead of throwing it away or recharging it when it’s drained. The black goo, called Cambridge sludge, works just like a normal battery. The goo is a liquid suspension that has charged particles and flows like quicksand. There is a…
Sony’s starting a new program called PlayStation Suite for non-PlayStation devices—basically, “certified” Android phones and tablets will get PlayStation content. Details are slim, but basically it potentially means better games for baller Android phones.
You already knew most of the details about the next PSP. But now we know its name: The PlayStation Vita. ‘Cause it means life, or something. Update: Hands on. (Sony was being stingy about photos/video though, sorry!) https://kotaku.com/the-psp2-is-here-dual-analog-sticks-touch-sensitive-o-5744485 Where to start? The five-inch, 960×544 OLED display screen is uh-mazing. Super duper rich. And clear. The…
So, it looks like Apple may have unleashed its iMesssage app without telling its carrier partners. If true, Apple just thumbed its nose at AT&T, Verizon and others. You see, the iMessage app lets iOS users send messages to each other without using their SMS plan. If you have enough iOS users in your circle…
Researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney have announced an major breakthrough in the field of forensic science that may help resolve countless decades-old cold cases by lifting prints off of virtually any surface. Traditional fingerprinting techniques are designed to detect sweat from the eccrine glands in the skin which is left behind on…
Says Sony’s Jack Tretton, here at Sony’s E3 press conference. A higher figured than I’d pegged. [Kotaku Liveblog] https://kotaku.com/live-from-sonys-e3-2011-press-conference-5809217
If you need a reminder on how fucking scary volcanoes can be, check out the explosion of Puyehue volcano in southern Chile. The volcano hadn’t erupted for half a century but blew up this past weekend, painting the sky red. I mean seriously, this volcano looks unreal. 3,500 people were evacuated from the area and…
My eardrums are bleeding, so you won’t get to experience that part of the event, but if you want to follow along with Sony’s E3 keynote—where we’re expecting lots of ass-kissing and bowing and the PS Vita—GameTrailers has a live stream right here. https://gizmodo.com/why-it-took-sony-seven-days-to-alert-playstation-networ-5796085 And Kotaku’s liveblogging right here, if that’s not your jam. [Game…
iOS 5 is certainly going to make a ton of iPhone users happy. Notifications are improved, iMessage will be awesome, Newstand looks nice, etc. But what about the other 200 features that’ll show up in iOS 5? There’s good stuff there too! https://lifehacker.com/ios-5-the-top-10-new-features-5808982 We’ve talked about other awesome features that got glossed over in the…
For decades, Amon Tobin has constantly pioneered new sounds in the world of electronic music. So it makes sense that he’d want a visual stage show as advanced and experimental as his sounds. I think he nailed it this time. The result? An geometric and downright beautiful video wall projecting visuals that float, spasm, surge…
A haunted house? Yes please. A crowded house? Sure, as long as someone’s always playing “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” But one thing I could not stand is a rainy house, like this one, which will be rainy for the entire month of June. Australian art and design collective The Glue Society have put together the…
Researchers from Brown University have developed a way to view the brain using two dimensional neural maps. With their software, you can navigate the brain the same way you would use a Google Street Map. The benefit to all this being that you can easily spot bundles of neurons (or whatever you’re looking for) without…
You’re mad at Sony. We get it. But it turns out that users really aren’t much better at abiding by best security practices, according to software architect Troy Hunt’s quick parse of the account info released by LulzSec. Of the 37,608 released passwords, only 4% had three or more character types, with half made up…
It was only a matter of time before someone responded to Google’s ChromeOS. Webian is that response, and looks and acts much like you’d expect a browser-based OS to act. Functioning as a Mozilla Labs project, Webian is fully open source, but in the very early stages of development. Still, some of the design ideas…
