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If you’re anything like we are, you sit around in your free time and ask yourself, “Hmm, what’s going on with the Unabomber auction?” Well, we can tell you this: bidding is brisk on the marquee items, but there are still some great finds of historical significance that are seeing little action. http://gawker.com/5801518/unabomber-manifesto-sunglasses-on-auction-block Of course,…
HTC took to Facebook to say they’re looking into allowing bootloading (the installation of OSes and custom ROMs) on its EVO 3D, Sensation, Incredible S and Thunderbolt phones. With Android meant to be “open source,” their decision has angered many. They’d previously turned a blind eye to the practise before, but with the aforementioned phones…
It’s a hard life, being a trucker—weeks without seeing your family; roadside diners; roadside naps; accidents that end up with your bum being pierced by the nose of a compressed air hose, and your body pumped with air… The unlucky trucker, Steven McCormack of New Zealand, was standing on his rig’s foot plate when he…
Apple’s got quite the reputation as being a tough employer, so once they catch wind of employees planking on the job, will they follow Woolworths in giving them the sack? I mean, that’s a precious MacBook Pro he’s planking on! https://gizmodo.com/apple-gestapo-how-apple-hunts-down-leaks-5427058 Catalogued by the anonymous Apple Store Planking Tumblr (whose catchline is “The funnest sport…
Nooka’s got grand ideas of creating clocks to adorn your wall, to match your watch. They need some help getting the cash together to make them a reality though, so have turned to Kickstarter-like Ckie for raising the funds. With a lofty goal of raising $40,000 to finance the project, they hope to then sell…
Brits have patiently twiddled their thumbs while the US talks about super-fast connections, but finally there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Everything Everywhere (Orange and T-Mobile’s parent-company) and BT will be testing 4G LTE this September, in Cornwall. Specifically, in the St Newlyn East area of South Newquay, where 200 lucky cellphone and…
There’s nothing as spectacular as watching a thunderstorm roll in on the dry Australian landscape, which could explain why I’ve just spooked myself by watching William Phuoc’s video of a bolt striking just 200m from where they were photographing. [PetaPixel]
When a loud motorcycle woke up Mark Nesdoly’s young daughter, he decided he had enough. Instead of taking a baseball bat to the offending Harley, Nesdoly used his engineering skills to design the Noise Snare, a video detection system for loud vehicles. The system is simple, yet effective. It uses a microphone to detect excessively…
You know that iPhone you are holding. The one with the password and encryption. I hate to tell you, but it’s been cracked. Russian security firm Elcomsoft is behind this crack and the team over there is smart. They took a brute-force password cracker and bundled it with a decryption tool that uses established methods…
Pro tip for the single men out there: if you want to get a date with the girl next door, don’t smile at her. Raise your arms in the air like you just hit a game-winning home run instead. This advice may seem crazy but it’s backed up by a recent study from the University…
If you’ve ever dreamed of spinning like a top, here’s your chance. Designed by Jaanus Osugaar, the spinning accelerometer chair lets you sit and spin to your heart’s content. The chair uses six balls inside the base to keep the chair moving and hand straps to keep you from falling out. It’s meant to be…
Oh God. Why would they do such horrific things to a beautiful iPad 2? It’s like a child to me. And here they are, subjecting it to unforgivably brutal impact tests, just to see how well the Smart Cover protects. See them dropping an unprotected iPad 2 face down on concrete? Agrhrrhhghrhg, the CARRRRRRRRRNAGE (but…
Sure, it looks like a speaker cabinet, or mysterious piece of nautical equipment, but what you’re looking at is actually a pinhole camera from Kurt Mottweiller Studios. The P90 is a lensless, medium format cameras are handmade from cherry, brass, and anodized aluminum in Portland, Oregon. It has a gracefully curving frontside, with a field…
There’s no iPhoto app, which is really bad because I want to be able to tag and organize my photos on the iPad. The good news: it may not be far way. After all, iPhoto ’11 is iPad ready today. I got iPhoto ’11 to run on the iPad using a remote desktop software called…
On the heels of Square’s mobile payments launch, Google is also planning a scheme to let you make payments using your phone. https://gizmodo.com/square-iphone-based-mobile-payment-system-kills-cash-re-5804589 According to Bloomberg, Google is getting ready to unveil a mobile payment system on May 26 that will let Android users of some Sprint/Nextel phones make payments using Near Field Communications (NFC).…
Jackass: Ten Years of Stupid for iPad is a behind the scenes look of the biggest Jackasses we know: Knoxville, Steve-O, Pontius, Wee-Man, etc. There’s video clips, gross photos, and essays on the entire history of Jackass. I love it. They’ve released a book by the same name but the iPad app is more interactive…
Every image in this collection was captured in 1/1000 of a second—300x faster than a human blink—the briefest of moments that we would miss if not for the remarkable capabilities of the modern camera. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-1-1000-of-a-second-5803159 Winner – Match Strike I was very excited to try this challenge as it pushed me outside my comfort zone.…
This is probably the quickest challenge i had ever completed. It was a boring rainy wednesday afternoon in Columbus until i saw the shooting challenge. So off i went to complete it. Grabbed my Nikon put the shutter speed to 1/1000 and set the aperture accordingly. Needed someone to drop the weight into the glass,…
Nikon d7000, nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 lens @ 55mm, f/3.2, iso 400 My idea for this photo was to capture a chain reaction. Without access to nuclear material I turned to matches. It is a simple design, really, 100-plus matches in a circular candle cup with the center match lit first and the reaction began. The…
When I was at the Lego factory, the first thing I thought when I saw the moulding machines spitting 600 pieces per second was “holy fuck”. The second thing was “holy fuck”. And then I thought I wanted one. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-look-inside-the-lego-factory-5022769 Little I knew then that Lego had made a very special model that only 68…
