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Intel’s Move From Processors to Algae

Renewable energies have gotten a lot of hype over the last few years. It seems only appropriate that an Intel campus in Arizona should be the first semiconductor company to receive LEED certification for a manufacturing campus right before Earth Day. In addition to becoming LEED certified, the Ocotillo campus is attempting an eco-friendly proof-of-concept.…

Tech News Max Behrman

This Spirograph Draws Pictures That Are Bigger Than Your Tiny, Cramped Apartment

I’m no artist. I couldn’t draw a stick figure to save my life. But even I would be able to make a kick-ass sketch using this insanely cool, 9-feet tall, room-sized Spirograph by artist Eske Rex. (It takes up 380-square-freaking-feet.) As you can see from above, two stands are orientated at 90 degrees to one…

Tech News Max Behrman

Camera Boost Wants to Make Your iPad 2 Camera a Little Less Terrible

It seems oxymoronic to discuss stylized photos and the iPad 2 in the same breath, but Camera Boost, the latest iOS photo app, wants to help with the lack of camera apps made especially for the iPad. More than just an image effects app, Camera Boost offers up a live preview of multiple effects while…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: Panoramas, produced; Sword & Sworcery EP, miniaturized, slit-scan photography, discovered; mobile browsing, made social; Wikipedia, beautified; The Civil War, learned about; the wisdom of age, brought to your iPad, and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It’s got Microsoft’s Photosynth…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It’s got Microsoft’s Photosynth engine under the hood, stitching together as many shots of a given area-up, down, left, and right-as you feel like snapping to create a surprisingly smooth model of the space. Whereas other apps of its ilk have you do this thing where you…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Week’s Best Android Apps

CNN: CNN’s been glaringly absent from Android phones for a long time (it’s been on Honeycomb for a while now) but that’s all fixed now! You get to watch live video, receive breaking news notifications, CNN radio, a customizable widget and more. Must have for news junkies. Free. Epistle: A super simple and great looking…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

Qwiki: Qwiki for iPad, like their website, is like a visual Wikipedia. Which is to say it’s a super pretty way to learn stuff. How so? Instead of delivering information in text and hyperlinks, Qwiki provides a narrative to the topics you search for with an audio commentary and relevant visuals. But! It ain’t perfect.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

9 Temporary Structures that Grew into Cultural Icons

Technically, this shouldn’t still exist. Originally meant to be dismantled after the 1897 Tennessee Centenial Expo, the Nashville Parthenon was such a hit with the public it became a permanent attraction. Our friends at Oobject have some other great examples of temporary architecture with staying power. You might also enjoy some half-finished highrises and these…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

9 Permanent Temporary Structures gallery

The Nashville Parthenon The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago The Eiffel Tower The Paalace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Rietvelfd Pavillion The Cenotaph The London Eye The Young Vic Theater, London

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The iPhone 5 Looks Weird (If This Is What It Looks Like)

This is a third-hand depiction—a mockup of a sketch from a source—of what the iPhone 5 may look like, from the guys at This Is My Next. So, what all’s going on in this mockup here, which they’re careful to say “isn’t fact” and might be based on “design prototypes and not production-ready phones”? •…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Record-Breaking Rube Goldberg Machine Also Simulates Entirety of History

Rube Goldberg contraptions are cool no matter what—but getting one to mechanize dinosaurs, WWII, the Cold War, and the 2012 apocalypse is extra icing. Extra extra icing is the machine’s 244 steps—a new world record for convoluted mechanisms. https://gizmodo.com/rube-goldberg-the-man-behind-the-machines-5622673 The project, entitled “The Time Machine,” was created by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers/Society of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Do Apple, Google and Microsoft Know Your Every Step? A Handy Chart

A fun side-effect of the iOS secret-tracking fiasco is that a lot of other different types of location data and transmissions to and from your smartphone are being conflated into a huge pile of fevered paranoia. But! Don’t freak out. To simplify all this (hopefully), here’s a chart that lays out what’s happening on three…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The White iPhone 4 Shows Itself In the UK, Possibly Hitting Stores Next Week

Engadget says that’s the box for the white iPhone 4 shipping to Vodaphone retail outlets in the UK. Someone unwitting sales associate sold one to a customer before Vodaphone sent out a comapny-wide email halting sales until “next week.” There’s also a shot of the phone itself here, which offers up another piece of legit…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Russian Antivirus Tycoon’s Son Kidnapped

Yevgeny Kaspersky, head of mega-antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs, probably has a lot of enemies in Russia—a country where cybercrime rakes in the rubles. So it’s not entirely surprisingly that Yevgeny’s son has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Right now, his captors are demanding $4.3 million for the missing 20 year old, who’s been missing…

Tech News Sam Biddle

More Proof of Windows 8 Facial Recognition Shows Up in API

Facial recognition was one of the purported Windows 8 features to surface last summer in a batch of leaked docs. Now, the login API in the latest build of Windows 8 is making that rumor seem more likely. Windows8Italia made the discovery, and Microsoft News thinks the feature could be used in a Kinect-like manner:…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Proper Way to Talk with an Internet Helpbot

The self service world is a beautiful thing. Self-checkout lines. Vending machines. Amazon. Long gone are the days of being afraid to buy, say, a carton of whipped cream chargers, an oversized balloon and the newest Glee Soundtrack, because some dowdy employee’s gonna give you the stinkeye. Also gone: the days of dialing customer service…

Tech News Erika Stalder

Leaked Images Reveal New NEX-C3 Is a Giant-Flashed Beauty

Camera rumormongers have gotten their paws on leaked shots of the new NEX-C3, and it’s rather purty. Guts-wise, it’ll pack the same 16.2MP sensor as its predecessor, but adds that splendid external flash. [DP Review via CrunchGear]

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Best Deal of the Day

Pictures of cats, pictures of dogs. Pictures of rats, pictures of frogs. Pictures of horribly contaminated ponds filled with toxic waste that will render an entire ecosystem uninhabitable for generations. Pictures of pigs, pictures of figs, pictures of giraffes, pictures of twigs. Nature! Greenery! Flora! Fauna! A great way to celebrate Earth Day is to…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

We’ve Sketched The Wii 2 Controller Of Our Dreams

We haven’t seen the controller for the next Nintendo console. (Nintendo hasn’t sent it over to us yet. Thanks for nothing, Miyamoto!) But we’ve been stitching together the snippets of info we’re picking up from people who do know what… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku

Intel’s Move From Processors to Algae

This Spirograph Draws Pictures That Are Bigger Than Your Tiny, Cramped Apartment

Top Stories: Friday, April 22, 2011

Camera Boost Wants to Make Your iPad 2 Camera a Little Less Terrible

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

9 Temporary Structures that Grew into Cultural Icons

9 Permanent Temporary Structures gallery

The iPhone 5 Looks Weird (If This Is What It Looks Like)

Record-Breaking Rube Goldberg Machine Also Simulates Entirety of History

Do Apple, Google and Microsoft Know Your Every Step? A Handy Chart

The White iPhone 4 Shows Itself In the UK, Possibly Hitting Stores Next Week

Russian Antivirus Tycoon’s Son Kidnapped

More Proof of Windows 8 Facial Recognition Shows Up in API

The Proper Way to Talk with an Internet Helpbot

Leaked Images Reveal New NEX-C3 Is a Giant-Flashed Beauty

The Best Deal of the Day

We’ve Sketched The Wii 2 Controller Of Our Dreams

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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