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Can you describe yourself in a tweet? Under Armour is looking for summer digital media interns to be part of their ‘Ultimate Intern Team’ and in order to apply, you have to submit a 140-character cover letter and upload your resume to their Facebook page. Makes sense! If the interns’ main focus is going to…
On the hunt for a slick and streamlined monster machine of a laptop? Consider Origin’s EON17-S gaming notebook. If its 17.3-inch 1920 x 1080 display, 2GB Nvidia GTX 485M GPU, and 32GB dual-channel RAM doesn’t grab you, maybe its 2nd generation Sandy Bridge Intel Core i5/i7 processors will. And if even that doesn’t do it…
Did you know that yesterday was both Easter and World Pinhole Photography Day? Is there a better way to celebrate both days than to make a pinhole camera out of an egg? Not for Francesco Capponi, who did that exact thing. Francesco’s goal was to impress the photograph on the inside of the shell. To…
If you need any reminder to lock up your home Wi-Fi network with a password, here it is: A man was accused of downloading thousands of images of child pornography. Disgusting and gross, right? Yup. But it wasn’t him! Turns out, it was his neighbor that had tapped into his home’s open Wi-Fi network who…
Sitting in my living room is an aqua Remington Streamliner, a boxy 1950s typewriter. It’s missing the right-hand Shift key, and has an exclamation point but no number one. As of this week, it’s now part of an extinct breed. Godrej and Boyce was the last operating typewriter factory, a small plant in Mumbai who…
Losing your possessions can be a pretty unnerving experience. It’s one of the worst feelings: knowing that you had your keys/wallet/backpack when you left your apartment only to be locked out/broke/laptop-less when you get home. One iPhone app is looking to change this, however. Remember It lets you set a location-based alarm that goes off…
Australian designer Marc Newson makes hourglasses by hand. He does it with fire and glass and a sculptor’s touch. And while the final products—10 and 60 minute timepieces from Ikepod, each filled with countless stainless steel nanoballs—cost more than any of us is able to afford, this intimate look at the process is priceless. [Ikepod…
If you wear the Casio F-91W watch, a cheap, widely available Casio watch, the US Government thinks you might be a terrorist. Seriously! It’s been known for quite a while now too. There’s a whole list of Guantanomo Bay detainees who wore the watch, an old Washington Post article that said terrorists can use the…
The exterior of the 2011 Smart Home during the day The exterior of the 2011 Smart Home at night The 2011 Smart Home’s living garage roof Uni-Solar panels installed atop the 2011 Smart Home The Living Room features Florence Knoll Slipper Chairs upholstered in rubbRe, Oscar Isberian rug made from reclaimed wool from vintage kilim…
The reality of any concert today is that your vision is probably going to be blocked by hundreds (or thousands) of assholes holding up cameras and phones to capture an event they’re already attending IRL. Fine. But with an iPad? This shocking footage, from a concert I’m horribly, bitterly jealous that I didn’t attend, shows…
What would you do if you walked into a supermarket with no employees inside? Dump everything into 5 carts and run? Steal all the alcohol you can? Grab store displays? Get a lifetime supply of cereal? Fruit? Or would you pay? Well, Pak ‘n Save, a supermarket in New Zealand, opened when no employees were…
According to Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, whom AppleInsider says has proven sources in Apple’s supply chain, new MacBook Airs will go into mass production in May. This corroborates with a previous report saying a summer release for new MacBook Airs were likely. That update is expected to bring Sandy Bridge processors and Kuo expects…
Gholam-Reza Jalali, Iran’s Commander of Civil Defense, claims that a new computer virus code-named “Stars” is attempting to compromise Iranian systems. It is currently unknown what the new worm is targeting—nuclear facilities or other computer networks—and who is responsible but Jalali acknowledged that “the virus is congruous and harmonious with the (computer) system and in…
HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR ROUTER? IS IT ON FIRE? ARE YOU SURE? CHECK IT AGAIN. ARE YOU SURE IT’S STILL NOT ON FIRE? CHECK AGAIN. Actually, just buy Dr. Cool, a dedicated router cooler that solves a problem nobody has. Evercool’s completely superfluous router accessory will keep your scalding hot flameball of IP death from…
Tunneling Taliban | In hindsight, The Shawshank Redemption probably wasn’t a good call for movie night. https://gizmodo.com/500-taliban-prisoners-just-escaped-through-a-long-under-5795362 Rumored Photos of Next iPhone Emerge, Looking Pretty iPhone 4ish It’s iPhone 5 rumor season! And while we have no reason to think that these rumored white iPhone 5 pictures at MIC Gadget are any more-or less-legitimate than…
From the vaguely Eastern European and decidedly unbalanced creator of the Crossbow Machete comes the next masterpiece in death-by-rubber-band: the Gatling Slingshot Crossbow. https://gizmodo.com/the-crossbow-machete-the-most-badass-way-to-accidental-5787139 Joerg’s latest creation fires off eight 20mm balls at a theoretical rate of 960 rounds per minute. For those keeping score at home, that’s faster than an M16 assault rifle. Perfect…
The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other companies. Ronald Huang, an Apple senior engineering manager, filed patent application 12/553,554 last month, “Location histories for location aware devices,” which explains how…
Almost no one reads the lengthy terms and conditions that come with nearly every piece of technology. But here’s a reason you may want to start: Toshiba is charging a customer over $400 to fix his friend’s hard drive because he wrote “X Faulty” on the label. Chris, a computer technician, determined that the drive…
The Daily Beast has interviewed two of the men freed in the prison break we covered earlier today. One interviewee, Mullah Asadullah Akhund, described the escape in detail, while an anonymous commander was quoted as saying, “We are poor in technology, but with the help of All Mighty Allah we embarrassed the enemy with all…
A Brief History of Strange Prison Escape Tools https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-strange-prison-escape-tools-5795458 The recent Taliban prison escape was undeniably crafty. But especially noteworthy was the creation of the 320+ meter tunnel without power tools, which would have been too noisy. Here are six other great escapes, and the gear that made them possible. More » Taliban Prison Breakers Interviewed…
