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Most GSM phones use regular SIM cards. Which are small. The iPhone 4, iPad and uh, not many other devices use next-gen micro SIM cards. Which are smaller. Apple’s just proposed a new SIM standard. Which is smallerer. https://gizmodo.com/micro-sim-cards-just-like-a-sim-card-but-a-lil-smalle-5462472 Reuters reports, via massive telecom Orange’s head of devices Anne Bouverot, who says that “Apple has…
Macro photography never gets old. And the 153 entries to this week’s Shooting Challenge prove it. (They also prove that people loooveee taking photos of insects, eyeballs and flowers—not that there’s anything wrong with that!) WINNER – Flower Stigma and Petal On this shot I used a reversing ring to reverse the lens thereby creating…
Shooting Summary Camera: Sony NEX-3 F Number: 5.6 Exposure: 1/20 Focal Length: 55 Was lucky enough to pick up Led Zeppelin I and IV at the local record shop this past week and thought it would make a good subject for the challenge. If nothing else, might make you dust off those old vinyl records…
One mushroom was harmed in the making of this photo. Shot Details: Nikon D3000, with a reversed 50mm 1.8. Cheers, – Anup Hi Gizmodo, it was raining buckets and i thought it would be great to take a shot of a raindrop. Sadly i have no macro lens. So i took my old Canon 18-55…
I was really excited about this challenge when I saw it. I always loved Macro Photography. Unfortunately, I dont have a very good macro lens. So I decided to take some inspiration from an earlier challenge (Free-Lensing). Ultimately, after having a conversation with a friend about the sexual nature of tools, I decided on a…
Hey Californians, you are all going to die. Not in some abstract, eventually, kind of way. But horribly. In a radioactive fire. Probably. The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which Rolling Stone dubbed California’s “Fukushima in waiting” straddles fault lines and sits on the edge of the sea. In the wake of Fukushima, it had…
According to an Airbus telex sent to all airlines using their A330, the flight recorders on Air France flight 447 confirm that their airplane didn’t suffer any failure and they shouldn’t take any precautionary measure: …at this stage of preliminary analysis of the Flight Data Recorder, Airbus has no immediate recommendation to to its operators.…
So you want to suckle at the electric teet of Four Geez, but you’re broke. This is a problem! But if you’re a T-Mo subscriber, you can now trade in that gross old flip thing for something a little newer. The value of your craptacular phone will be determined by someone at the T-Mobile store…
Before Twitter was public, it was just an AIM hack on Jack Dorsey’s pager. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey had a background in messenger culture. He had even launched a dispatch software startup called D-Net, back in 1999. He was also captivated by his friends status messages on AOL Instant Messenger. He wanted to combine the…
All sorts of rare and unusual artifacts in Yale’s collection are being photographed/digitized for the web, so everyone around the world can check out a handwritten Mozart sonata or William Blake watercolor, even if they don’t actually attend Yale. Going one step further than many other similar schemes, Yale isn’t forcing a license or limits…
And I don’t just mean a particularly-bogan strain of Orrstrayan, either. Researchers at two Queensland universities are creating a robot lexicon for a new language spoken purely by the shiny metal-bummed ‘bots, which have been dubbed the Lingodroids. Makes sense. The Lingodroids are all outfitted with cameras, laser range finders and sonar-mapping, but also microphones…
Some secret work is being done on Apple Stores across the country, shrouded in typical occult Apple mystery. Nobody’s sure what’s about to be revealed, but BGR claims NFC gear is being hooked up—suggesting an NFC iPhone 5. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-near-field-communication-5707321 The details of the rumor are hardly details at all—BGR cites “new tables installed in stores…
Barnes & Noble has cordially invited us to special announcement next Tuesday morning! They’re playing it coy on the invite, but they already let it slip in a filing that May 24th happens to be the day they’re setting loose a “new eReader device.” Our money’s on a cheaper E-Ink alternative, but there are some…
Queen Elizabeth II is visiting Ireland, a momentous occasion that’s supposed to signal reconciliation of the two countries. But not everyone is happy! Just hours before the Queen arrived, a pipe bomb was found on a bus headed to Dublin. The bomb was in the luggage compartment of a bus headed straight for the capital…
Jeffrey Martin, the master of gigapixel pictures, has brought us inside Wembley Stadium during a live soccer game. Like his previous iterations, you get to pan, zoom, pull and see a moment frozen in time. And as alway, it’s amazing. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-picture-taken-indoors-is-40-gigapixe-5786753 The game was actually an important one, with Manchester City taking on Stoke City…
We’ve long assumed that the double decker disaster scenario of a massive earthquake and tsunami caused the Fukushima meltdown. Turns out, all it took was the former, which knocked out Fukushima’s cooling in less than 10 minutes. Records released by TEPCO from the day of the quake show that the plant began to plunge into…
This week on TreeHugger, creepy cool steampunk-style insect sculptures, an 18-foot truck turns into mobile greenhouse, a bike stand doubles as your desk, a website connects you to neighborhood kitchens for homemade take-out, and more! 1. Steampunk Style Insect Sculptures Are Beautifully Strange (Pics) Artist and maker Tom Hardwidge has an incredible talent for building…
I own an Android. You own an Android. Heaps of people own Androids. But apparently 99 per cent of them can be easily attacked, every time we log into a website on an unsecured network. This is according to researchers at the University of Ulm, in Germany, who found that any phones running a version…
People—boring people!—suggest carrying your laptop in a scuffed duffle bag, because laptop bags are so obviously full of goodies worth nicking. To a hungry thief, a pizza box carried under-arm would prove even more tantalising. I wonder whether they’d be disappointed to open it and find (a working) computer inside, though? [Reddit via DailyWhat]
Apple and Canon may’ve thrown their weight behind Intel’s Thunderbolt, but HP’s playing it safe for the meantime, as they “haven’t found a value proposition yet,” and that “everybody seems to be content with the expansion of USB 3.0.” [MacWorld] https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-add-thunderbolt-more-graphics-muscle-5798012