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What Can You Do With a Screen Made from 480 Shoes? Play Video Games, Turn It into a Mirror and More

Converse has created a 13 foot by 16 foot wall (4x5m) with 480 Chuck Taylors as its pixels. It’s amazing. The wall, or screen o’ Chucks, can be used to play video games, be a virtual mirror or just be awesome. I was never a Chucks guy. I appreciated its classicness and pioneerism but they…

Tech News Casey Chan

It’s Too Late to Fly from This Flood

Devastating flooding along the Mississippi River have left large swaths the delta states in drenched ruined. General DeWitt Spain Airport, right outside Memphis, is clearly in rough shape—as seen by this barely-visible airplane tip. Here’s what the airport looks when not stricken by natural disaster. It’s closed at the moment (to say the least), and…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Now Available for Android

Yahoo’s Fantasy Baseball app has finally made its way into the Android Market—just a month and a half late. You can manage your lineup, track matchups, get real-time scoring updates, and more. Free. [Android Market] https://gizmodo.com/the-best-apps-for-baseball-5787785

Tech News Davey Alba

Future Touchscreens Might Have Adjustable ‘Stickiness’ Factor

Things such as brightness and responsiveness are adjustable variables on touchscreens. But what about stickiness? Is that even possible on a glass screen? Short answer: yes. And researchers at the University of British Columbia are showing off how this is possible. According to New Scientist: The friction adjustment is actually something of a trick. The…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months

You are going to run out of USB ports on your computer. It’s inevitable. And sucky! But HP’s new Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse helps you conserve those ports by connecting wirelessly—not with Bluetooth, though. Wi-Fi. This rodent’s battery life can last up to nine months before it drains out—supposedly more than twice the lifespan of other…

Tech News Davey Alba

Today’s Best Gadgets

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-wi-fi-mouses-battery-lasts-for-nine-mo-5801419 You are going to run out of USB ports on your computer. It’s inevitable. And sucky! But HP’s new Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse helps you conserve those ports by connecting wirelessly—not with Bluetooth, though. Wi-Fi. More » The Bridge IIIP Swirls Your iPhone With Your Home…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Chubby Guy Dressed As Batman Got Arrested for Dangling from a Building

Mark Wayne Williams, a 31-year old man, was caught by police as he dangled off the side of a building. The dude was decked out in full Batman costume, and carrying a baton, Freeze Plus P and lead-lined gloves. Police pulled Williams up from the side of a 30-foot building and arrested him. Public safety…

Tech News Casey Chan

It’s Official: This Is the New AIM

On Monday we reported on AIM’s kind-of-sort-of-secret new video chat site. As of today, it’s official, and it’s just the beginning of a new direction for the hoary chat service. https://gizmodo.com/we-used-aims-secret-video-chat-site-and-its-pretty-gre-5800344 We all use AIM. And yet we can also all agree it’s a horrid, outdated user experience. Even Aol knows that, so it bought…

Tech News Mat Honan

Which Tech Features Aren’t Worth Your Money?

The NYT’s got a dandy writeup of seven tech perks that you should eschew in favor of saved cash: oversized megapixelage, pointlessly fast CPUs, and as our dear Matt Buchanan hits, unneeded TV screen size. But how do you skimp? I agree strongly (like Godzilla squeeze-grip strongly) about CPUs—clock speed stopped mattering a long time…

Tech News Sam Biddle

New Support for “Treatment as Prevention” Approach to HIV

A trial that had originally been planned to run until 2015, testing whether treating an HIV-infected person with antiretroviral drugs could prevent that person from passing the disease along to his partner, stopped today. Because it was so successful. The trial, sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was called off…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Bridge IIIP Swirls Your iPhone With Your Home Theater

So you’ve got a ton of your favorite music on your iPhone, but no AirPlay speakers. You want to lie back on the couch and enjoy some Keri Hilson. I feel you. The Bridge IIIP makes your iPhone A/V family. It’s really just a fancy $130 dock, yes. But it’ll let you control your music…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The 20 Best Google Labs Add-Ons For Gmail

The best thing about Google is that its employees have all the time in the world-or at least, a Google-bestowed chunk of hours-to devote to various side projects. You might recognize some of these. Like, say, Gmail. Other Google side projects might fly under your radar for a variety of reasons, not the least of…

Tech News David Murphy - Maximum PC

How Osama bin Laden Sent E-Mail

As more details come to light about bin Laden’s life of the past few years, we’re learning how the leader of Al-Qaeda communicated to his underlings through e-mail—even though he didn’t have an internet connection in his compound. A counterterrorism official briefed the Associated Press on bin Laden’s methods and turns out, it was a…

Tech News Casey Chan

It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Nuclear Meltdown

The flow of bad news (and radiation) out of Fukushima’s reactors has diminished to a trickle over the past several weeks, as rescue work has proceeded. Not today. TEPCO’s admitted for the first time that Fukushima experienced a grave meltdown. What exactly is a meltdown, you might ask? There’s a lot of confusion as to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

I’ll Always Be Scared of a Lightning Bolt Striking a Plane

What is it about lightning bolts that make them so goddamn scary? Oh yeah, that crazy electrocution thing. Now imagine being in a plane—in the freaking air—and getting struck by lightning. That’s what happened here. An Airbus A380 was flying into London’s Heathrow Airport and as the plane touched down, was struck by a lightning…

Tech News Casey Chan

Netflix Is Finally Available on Android (Sort Of)

We’ve been waiting for Netflix to come to Android for a very long time. And it’s finally here! Well, kind of. At the moment, you can only use Netflix on Android if you have a Samsung Nexus S, Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, T-Mobile G2 or Nexus One. Remember, the LG Revolution was supposed to be…

Tech News Casey Chan

Social Memories: The Thing All Your Facebook Friends Are About to Post

The latest annoyance on Facebook? It’s an app called Social Memories that slices and dices your data and slaps it together in a pretty book that costs 19 Euros. It’s way narcissistic and therefore will be huge. Social Memories sucks down your Facebook data from June 2009 onward, visualizes it with graphs and charts and…

Social Media Mat Honan

You Are What You Eat Eats

There’s no such thing anymore as just eating a steak. Was it grass fed? Did it have a hobby? Now, thanks to a group of Irish chemists, you’ll never have to worry again about your Porterhouse’s diet. Just your own. Turns out that the proportion of stable isotopes of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and sulfur found…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Best Deal of the Day

Sometimes there’s just nothing like violence. Pure violence. Fireballs, flailing bodies, ruptured gas tanks, collapsed bridges. Blowing things up! Electricity! Screams! Startled cats! A man sprayed in the face with a squirt gun! A baby spilling a little bowl of mushed carrots on its bib! CHAOS! But we can’t live in a world of violence,…

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What Can You Do With a Screen Made from 480 Shoes? Play Video Games, Turn It into a Mirror and More

It’s Too Late to Fly from This Flood

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Now Available for Android

Future Touchscreens Might Have Adjustable ‘Stickiness’ Factor

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months

Top Stories: Thursday, May 12, 2011

Today’s Best Gadgets

This Chubby Guy Dressed As Batman Got Arrested for Dangling from a Building

It’s Official: This Is the New AIM

Which Tech Features Aren’t Worth Your Money?

New Support for “Treatment as Prevention” Approach to HIV

The Bridge IIIP Swirls Your iPhone With Your Home Theater

The 20 Best Google Labs Add-Ons For Gmail

How Osama bin Laden Sent E-Mail

It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Nuclear Meltdown

I’ll Always Be Scared of a Lightning Bolt Striking a Plane

Netflix Is Finally Available on Android (Sort Of)

Social Memories: The Thing All Your Facebook Friends Are About to Post

You Are What You Eat Eats

The Best Deal of the Day

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

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