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Given you can design your own t-shirt and get it made by Threadless if it’s good enough, it makes sense that Griffin’s partnered with Threadless again for an iPhone 4 case design-contest. I like this Chipset one the best. [Threadless]
This is not going to end well. The CN Tower, which stretches 116 stories above the Toronto skyline, its “main pod” hovering there like some sort of malevolent spacecraft, will now invite tourists to stroll around its perimeter. There will be no fences, no ledges, no plexiglass walls. NOTHING, in fact, standing between you and…
Made using a 3D printer, this microSD card reader resembles an Atari 810 floppy disk drive, and can transfer data from 8GB cards to the old Atari it’s hooked up to. Moore’s Law at work? [Rossum via HackADay via LaughingSquid]
That airplane shaking uncontrollably in the sky is not CGI or a model airplane. It’s a real Tupolev Tu-154, a three-engine jet designed in the Soviet Union during the mid-sixties. If you are scared of flying, don’t watch this video. Apparently, the airplane’s control surfaces went completely bonkers right after taking off from Chkalovsky airfield,…
It’s no David Copperfield, but in this day and age surely that’s a good thing? Winner of the Best Illusion of the Year contest, this moving circle of dots tricks the eye into seeing changing color even when they’re not. While you may not see it, the dots in the video above are always changing…
As you point this Rolleiflex, your subject won’t know your dirty little secret—that you’re actually shooting a digital photo, rather than film. Just like the original TLRs, you look down into the lens—or 1.1-inch LCD, in this case. The crank on the side needs to be turned for every photo, and just like with the…
Good news if you are a student who wants a Chrome OS laptop and missed out on the free Cr-48. Google may announce a purchase plan that lets you buy a Chrome OS laptop for $20 per month. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-cr-48-the-first-chrome-os-laptop-you-can-nev-5708670 This small fee includes both the hardware and online services needed for Chrome OS. Later this…
Roller coasters make you feel like you’re living life on the edge! But in reality, they’re controlled—every ride is the same. But what if it was different? What if rides would go faster when you got scared? That’s what a team at Nottingham University is trying to do. They’re trying to create rides that are…
We’ve seen pictures of John Nolan’s amazing animatronics before and they were already scary! Now, we get to take a peak at his video reel and see all of those complex robots come to life. No surprise: it’s even more frightening. https://gizmodo.com/the-importance-of-good-dental-care-5449110 I can’t get over how lifelike they are! I’m going to be up…
Whether it’s enjoying food, drinks or conversation, life is better on a picnic table. It’s one of tenets I live by. But picnic tables kill my back! If only I could prop the seat up and lounge. Wait. I can? Wrongfully called ‘Another Picnic Table’, it splits the benches up into two different seats and…
This is Julie Watai. Don’t ask why she’s wearing a maid’s uniform — it doesn’t really matter. All that matters is that she’s WAY better at hacking Furbies than you are. [Julie Watai via Japan Probe]
I’m going to buy a bike this summer. It’s time to enjoy this city. But as most of you guys probably know, everything is better with music! This iPhone bicycle mount/passive amplifier will give the soundtrack to my rides. There’s no way I’m plugging in earphones when I ride around, have you seen people drive…
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is amazing in two ways. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-killed-and-reborn-as-worlds-thi-5784427 It’s the first tablet that’s as immaterial as the iPad 2, in form and weight and feel. (In fact, it is slightly more so, by a gram and a millimeter.) That’s amazing. What’s more amazing, maybe, is the fact that it’s amazing. It’s not quite…
Losing a nuclear plant after being devastated by an earthquake and tsunami tend to have negative effects on a small country’s grid. So Japan’s looking outward for juice—borrowing Thai diesel generators for up to five years. [In Focus]
Thirty years after his big screen debut in the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones is back on the scene and ready to inspire a new generation of budding archeologists. The swashbuckling adventurer is the star of a traveling exhibit now at the Montreal Science Center in Montreal, Canada. Visitors can check out props…
Al Jazeera already has a live streaming app available for Android, but a new full featured Al Jazeera English app has hit the Android Market and includes all the content from the website, breaking news alerts, free live video of their broadcast and the ability to send your media to Al Jazeera. Free. [Android Market]
I type like a grandpa on my iPad but I’ve never really wanted a physical keyboard for it because it’d be a pain carrying the damn thing. This iKeyboard, however, looks like it’d be the perfect compromise. The iKeyboard lays on top of your iPad and has cutouts that fit the iPad’s keyboard perfectly. There’s…
The promise of Google Music is that it lets you listen to music anywhere. Aces! Except, for all the unifying promises of its online locker, Google Music does kinda the same thing as your hard drive: It isolates your songs. It’s basically the Skull Island of music services. You know how it works: You take…
Microsoft is developing a sensor system that could turn your house into a giant controller that lets you play video games and control appliances. The technology uses the electromagnetic fields from household wiring, appliances and nearby power lines to detect your motion. A wearable sensor uses your body as an EMF antenna and is sensitive…
Google didn’t spend a whole ton of time talking about Google TV today, but here’s what’s up in a nutshell, after it’s updated to be Honeycomb-based later this summer. Three biggies: • The Android Marketplace is the biggest deal, when it launches later this summer. At first, it’ll just be apps from Google-approved developers to…
