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Kacey Jordan, the porn star who smoked crack with Charlie Sheen shortly before his hospitalization, shared some good news today: Her “babe rank” just skyrocketed! How good is a Charlie Sheen scandal for a porn star’s career? A quantitative investigation. FreeOnes.com, an aggregator of adult photos and videos, quantifies (NSFW) the demand for each “babe”…
LG will soon show off its newest device: The Optimus 3D. It’s a smartphone with a nice assortment of connectivity options such as HDMI and DLNA, a glasses-free 3D display, and a built-in dual-lens 3D camera. What the hell, LG? Either this device will be all sorts of awesome—a built-in 3D camera does sound fun—or…
Safari for iOS is good. Very good, even! But you might want an alternative—an extremely sexy alternative. But useful, too! Like a Hooters waitress who also teaches physics! And is a web browser. What is it? Portal, iPhone, $2. A fullscreen web browser with an expanding radial menu. Who’s it good for? Aesthetes. You want…
If it was possible to drown in plastic and silicon, we would so choke to death on all the Android tablets coming soon. This is a guide to not making one. The Dell Streak 7 followed it precisely. The Dell Streak 7 is perhaps the last Android tablet from a major manufacturer that will follow…
Why, Ms. Allison, why? If you want single people living alone to cook at home, at least promote gas, not a bloody microwave. Using a microwave for cooking will condemn them to be forever alone. [Thanks Karl!]
“How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape?” That’s the question Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter asked himself, setting off with a camera on a collapsible fishing rod to shoot the Netherlands’ forests. The answer: amazingly, gorgeously abstract. BLDGBLOG has a handful of de Ruijter’s shots, all of which show trees looking decidedly…
We’re “constantly confronting the onslaught of information, and our brains are trying to make patterns out of the randomness,” says TIME’s Joel Stein. Obsessively tagged MP3s, meticulous photo folders, whitewashed inboxes—are you too struggling to stay digitally neat? “We believe that if we just finish a list of every movie we want to see, we…
Google, Twitter, and voice-messaging company SpeakNow have put their brightest minds together to provide a way for people with limited or no Internet access to tweet about the events occurring in Egypt: @speak2tweet. Here’s how it works: [A]nyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294…
Yeah, that pretty much sounds like crazy geek YouTube video MadLibs, but in this case it’s actually what you get. Fireworks might not be the most accurate missiles, but they’re definitely the most fun ones. Especially with helium-filled targets involved. I know how I’m spending my next Independence Day. [RC Explorer via Adafruit]
Thought the Slip ‘n Slide in your mom’s backyard was big? Think again. This half empty reservoir not only makes your sprinkler look inadequate, but also your local pool. [Viral Viral Videos]
After information on his 30 million members was compromised, Plenty of Fish CEO Markus Frind did what any sensible tech executive who cares about his reputation would do: Complain to the mom of the youngster who hacked him. In a long post on his pesonal blog, the dating site CEO accused a hacker from Argentina…
Sure, I could tell you how light the new MacBook Air is. But there are some things you really do have to see to believe. And a MacBook Air suspended from nothing but a balloon is one of them. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/13-inch-macbook-air-review-so-long-fatty-5676186 Nicely done, Apple Store marketing team! Let’s hope none of the customers brought darts.…
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iPhones! iPads! Android! You’ve got a screen in your pocket, and we know what you should put on it. To get the most out of your technological revolution, you’ll need apps. Lots of apps. Put your tiny hand in ours… https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-apps-5676549 The Best iPhone Apps https://gizmodo.com/the-best-android-apps-5739420 The Best Android Apps https://gizmodo.com/the-best-ipad-apps-5747915 The Best iPad Apps
The end of the month is here, and that means it’s time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Who will unceremoniously get the boot? https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-apps-5676549 Added: WordLens: WordLens is a taste of the future. Point it at a sign in Spanish and it’ll…
You’ve seen the commercials; Apps are what makes an iPad come to life. Here are the very best ones for work, play, creation, consumption and everything in between. Social Twitter: The official Twitter app for iPad packs in the features, giving you a full Tweet-and-browse experience. It can be a little bit overwhelming at first,…
Finding stellar Android apps isn’t the easiest task, but that certainly doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Here’s the cream of the crop. Social Twitter: The official Twitter app is good enough for almost everyone. Along with giving you a clean, easy way to keep track of your timeline and updating your status, Twitter for Android…
In the last three months of 2010, smartphone shipments doubled all the way up to 101.2 million handsets. Android shipped the most, sure. But the real winners are folks leaving their dumb old feature phones behind. Android’s a big part of that story—615% share growth year over year, according to Canalys, with handsets from every…
Using HTML5 and a copy of the NYC subway map, Google engineer Alexander Chen created an internet-instrument, where the crossing trail-lines pluck one another like guitar-strings. Have a go yourself, and try and find the easter eggs! [MTA.me via Fastco]
Apple’s changed their technical support rules on the Liquid Contact Indicator that’s inside just about all iOS devices so that even if it’s triggered, you might still be able to get a replacement. This, supposing you didn’t actually dunk your phone. The LCI rests inside the speaker jack of most iPods and iPhones and iPads,…
