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Those two awesome iPod Nano watches which had our Kyle all in a tizz are being made after an astonishing amount of individuals invested in them, via Kickstarter. The designer requested just $15,000, but received $500,499. Wowsers. [Observer]
“It ain’t a nice road but at the end of the day, you don’t expect someone to nick your snowman, know what I mean?” It may sound like a line from a Guy Ritchie film, but it really did happen. The British woman phoned the emergency services number of 999 from Chatham, Kent, to report…
Imagine Banksy doing long-exposure photography with doggy light stencils, and you’re somewhere close to Pahnl’s Nowhere Near Here video. Over 200 stencils were used in this stop-motion animation, and 300 long, cold hours. [Pahnl via DesignYouTrust via DailyWhat]
Currently, wikileaks.org is dead. Domain name registrar EveryDNS.net shut the domain name down after repeated DDOS attacks, however it’s still accessible through wikileaks.ch, registered to the Swiss pirate party. Yesterday we discovered that WikiLeaks’ servers are now in France. The Distributed Denial of Service attacks have no known origin. EveryDNS.net had to give up because…
In 2008, Pennsylvania couple Aaron and Christine Boring sued Google after a Street View car took pictures of their house. Now, they’ve been awarded $1 and Google is officially labeled a trespasser. The Borings (yes, yes, haw haw) live on a “clearly marked” private road near Pittsburgh, PA. Two years ago, they sued Google for…
After a Droid X was seen ‘shopped with the iPhone’s Google Maps in a Verizon ad, it should come as no surprise to see an advert of a BlackBerry Torch running Android and—gasp!—Motoblur. Mad Men’s Don Draper would whip the art team for this. [Frandroid via An.Droid Life via PMPToday via UberGizmo]
Initially called a “Facebook killer,” Google Me is now said to be a social toolbar/Chrome extension—but don’t get too disappointed. Rumormongers are saying the project’s so big, Sergey Brin is playing an active part in the development. TechCrunch has reported several different project names have been bandied about, including “Emerald Sea,” but the latest (and…
The 1960 book First Men to the Moon by Wernher von Braun tells the story of John Mason, a fictional astronaut of the future bound for the moon. The dedication page reads, “To Iris and Margrit [von Braun’s daughters] who will live in a world in which flights to the moon will be commonplace.” In…
I would be surprised by the impressive quality of this video—recorded with a simple GoPro HD—if I weren’t looking at the screen like an imbecile, wondering why the hell I’m not trying to fly like him. I got it: The reason is painful dead against hard, cold rocks.
If you’re constantly disappointed with your iPhone 3G, 3GS, or iPod Touch‘s camera performance in low light scenarios, the iFlash could be just what you need. It’s $29.95 and plugs into your iDevice’s docking port. The iFlash can conveniently fit underneath most cases and can also be repurposed as an LED flashlight. According to the…
There’s something magical about this video. I think it’s because of the slow pace in which the giant computer-controlled arm carefully places layer after layer of gooey plastic to create furniture. It’s like an endless cream sandwich. It makes me hungry. The robotic arm, controlled by Dirk Vander Koolj, uses a plastic gun to place…
Each day in December, Best Buy will be offering deals on at least four smartphones, one from each carrier. With a new or upgraded two year agreement, you get the smartphone for free. The special is available in stores and online. Examples of the phones being featured include: the Droid Incredible by HTC (Verizon), the…
We’ve certainly seen aerial views of cities before, but there’s something particularly wonderful about this one: The video was shot using a camera attached to a remote-controlled airplane which was flown around New York City. [Matt Haughey via Laughing Squid]
Dar Hi, an eco spa opening in the Tunisian village of Nefta, looks kind of like Luke Skywalker’s Uncle’s place after an extreme home makeover. Which is fitting, because its just a short walk from where George Lucas filmed Tatooine. Designboom visited and photographed the exclusive spa and retreat, as well some of A New…
California’s Computer History Museum got a little star power today, as the legendary Steve Wozniak came by to guide journalists through tech heaven—from 19th century census calculators to 60s machines that look like spaceships. And he was thrilled. Woz made it clear that the exhibit—which spans two millennia of computing— was just as much a…
Edible foam. At this point, we’re weeks away from Guy Fieri introducing a Jack Daniels-infused foam atop deep-fried pork belly at TGI Friday’s across the nation. Cliche foodie trope, but the science behind foam is still remarkably fresh. While foam, whether its the frothed milk in a cappuccino or a bubbly “potatoes” on a slab…
Sometimes you need a light that you can set on a table. Sometimes you need a light you can strap to your forehead. The 130 lumen Gorillatorch Switchback just happens to be both. The Switchback’s main module has 5 LEDs—one XP-G LED spotlight and 4 white and red LED flood lights—which are adjustable from 5…
Verizon’s first LTE dongle is startlingly large. But not as startling as the speed. These results are spot tests from all across the country: New York (Gizmodo & Engadget), Seattle (MSNBC.com), Philadelphia (GigaOM), Arizona (SlashGear) and Boston (NetworkWorld). And they paint a pretty remarkable picture. Most of the “slow” results—around 7-9Mbps downstream—are with a mere…
Earlier today, Congress passed a bill called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (also known ad the CALM Act). This bill could prevent advertisers from forcing annoyingly loud commercials on us by making them abide to volume control guidelines. If all goes well with the bill, the FCC will be required to “adopt industry standards…
The Incident, one of our favorite iOS titles at Giz, has a new version out—and it’s a biggie. If you’ve got an iPad and video-out cable, you’ll now be able to use your iPhone as a TV controller. The iPhone-to-TV setup does require extra gear (though we’re still crossing our fingers for game support on…
