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Esquire makes a pretty serious claim about their new iPad app: they say it’s the hardest puzzle ever. In fact, they believe it so much, they just called it The Hardest Puzzle Ever. Whether or not that claim is true remains to be seen. The game is simple in design, but hardly a walk in…
A fairer test would involve comparing a chocolate bar with a granola bar, but Qualcomm doesn’t care. Not when their video “shows” a second-gen single-core Snapdragon (in Verizon’s Thunderbolt) speeding against a dual-core Tegra 2 (in AT&T’s Motorola Atrix.) It’s a cheap ploy on Qualcomm’s behalf, as of course the LTE 4G network beat the…
As the video subtitles remind us, how close was that?! Whoever goes into the field of photography believing it’s a safe career-choice should be forced to watch this video example. [PetaPixel]
Sure, you could spend heaps of money on a fancy waterproof case for your camera, but why would you take that risk when Photojojo’s selling a $35 digicam that shoots both photos and video, and can dive to 100ft? [Photojojo]
It’s not often an exec is this honest about his/her own faults, but Google’s Eric Schmidt admitted that not only did he “clearly knew I had to do something and I failed to do it,” but that he “screwed up” when it came to social networking. Telling the D9 conference-goers yesterday, Schmidt (ex-CEO, now Executive…
Know how to dig yourself an even deeper hole, after your website inadvertently leaks upcoming products? Ask the site that blogs about them first to remove the screenshots. Not before other sites grabbed them too, though… The screenshots seem to reveal a watchphone by the name of Tracy XL, along with a Xoom 2 tablet,…
Oh, so you like HTC’s Android phones, do you? Their latest flagship, the Sensation 4G, will be sold for $200 (after a $50 mail-in rebate) from June 15th. https://gizmodo.com/htc-sensation-a-dual-core-video-editing-smartphone-su-5790902 BELLEVUE, Wash. – June 1, 2011 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the HTC Sensation 4G. Expected to be available by June…
You can’t go wrong when you mix long exposure photography with a moving object. It’s even better when you have control over that moving object and use it to do some light painting. Artist/coder Robert Hodgin showed off his light painting skills when he grabbed an R/C helicopter and used long exposure photography to capture…
Ever wonder what a museum in your honor would look like if it used your Facebook profile as the basis for all the exhibits? You may not have dreamed up such a wild idea, but Intel surely did. The Museum of Me compiles all your Facebook information and creates a three-minute long expose about you.…
Historian John Curren believes he has found the inspiration for the yellow brick road in L. Frank Baum’s popular children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Mostly gone, the road leads to a parking lot in the small town of Peekskill, NY Curren pored over the life of Baum and discovered the man spent two…
Firefighters have the coolest job. They get to play with fire each day and don’t get in any trouble for doing so. Of all the firefighting jobs out there, the position of burn boss is by far the best. https://gizmodo.com/firefighter-burns-self-with-ipad-2-in-ironic-blaze-5787560 Burn bosses are responsible for starting controlled-burn fires that prevent the devastating spread of wildfires.…
Google promises that “your phone will be your wallet” and starting Wednesday this mobile wallet will be able to snag daily offers in Portland, Oregon. https://gizmodo.com/google-wallet-how-googles-going-to-eat-your-real-walle-5805879 Google Offers will go live on a limited basis in the City of Roses and expand this summer to hundreds of merchants in San Francisco and New York City.…
Ringtones suck. Not in theory but in practice. They exist for one reason and that is to notify; this however, doesn’t stop everyone and their grandma from using screechy loops of “Ice Cream Paint-Job” instead. Enter Cleartones by Hugo Verweij. Verweij makes his living as a sound engineer so you can imagine how much it…
You know, being a hard core Rolling Stones fan I thought nobody would ever beat Keith, Mick, Charlie and Bill at their own game. I was wrong. Albeit different, this version matches the original and it gives me goosebumps. This Gimme Shelter cover was made by Playing for Change—the amazing people who put together the…
Talk about a sacrifice that will warm your heart. A group of older Japanese folks are asking for permission to clean up the contaminated nuclear power station in Fukushima. https://gizmodo.com/japans-nuclear-problem-explained-in-an-easy-to-understa-5782537 More than 200 retirees are volunteering to take the place of young people who are exposing themselves to high levels of radiation. The group figures…
Apple software engineer Nirav Patel wanted to create something useful with his 3D printer, so he designed a system that generates any key from any lock from any manufacturer using just the lock code. Lol, what? Using a specialized CAD program and the manufacturers’ various pin depth specifications, he was able to generate functioning keys…
I recently wrote about the Arctic Midnight Sun. This is what happens before that time comes: The Arctic Light. It’s hard to believe that such breathtaking beauty still exists untouched on this glorious planet of ours. https://gizmodo.com/this-beautiful-video-of-the-arctic-midnight-sun-will-ma-5804900 The Arctic Light is a natural phenomenon that happens two to four weeks before the Midnight Sun season,…
Up until now, the Pentagon’s been concerned with how best to out-hack hostile hackers. Counter-cyberwarfare. But that’s changed—the military’s decided digital attacks can be considered acts of war, with bombs, not bits, dropped in return, the WSJ reports. One anonymous military official puts it pretty damn succinctly: “If you shut down our power grid, maybe…
Kids these days are so unhealthy! All they want to eat is junk food and fried things. Ideas man Shed Simove wants to address this problem by making healthy eating more fun. Witness his latest creation, the Cornobi. Although still in the prototype stage, Simove is seeking business partners to bring it to market. I…
The asphalt in Phoenix is turning green, and not because of a strange natural phenomenon or some environmentalist campaign. Rather, it’s a solar reflective coating that can reduce ground temperatures by 30 degrees Fahrenheit. According to SmartPlanet, the city of Phoenix contracted the Arizona-based company Emerald Cities Cool Pavement to cover a 90,000 sq. ft.…
