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AirPlay is awesome but it could be more awesome if it worked with more iOS apps. TUAW recently discovered that a feature that allowed other apps to use AirPlay was disabled by Apple. But! If you insert one single line of code, AirPlay would work across all apps (like VLC and Safari). A developer named…
Think you’ve got it rough, queuing for hours only to get groped by a TSA agent? Consider the following modes of transport, and just how slow and sweaty they are. Suddenly a swift grope doesn’t look quite as bad… [TIME]
As regular Gizmodo readers may already know, I occasionally act in comedy sketches and the like. I also go out very rarely on commercial auditions (for a brief while in 09 I was in a Hot Pockets ad that ran, it seemed, almost exclusively on MTV2. You’ve seen it if you’re a Rob & Big…
Today’s Thanksgiving, and a whole bunch of people are going to just toss a frozen turkey willy-nilly into a deep fryer, film the exploding fireball that results, and post it on YouTube. (For which we, of course, are very thankful.) Most likely, you’re doing it wrong and should probably stick the bird in the oven.…
Thomas Edison is an inventor known for great things. We also know he had a pretty good sense of humor. Some of these er, lesser known contributions from Mr. Edison were ahead of their time; others are just plain twisted. https://gizmodo.com/inside-thomas-edisons-vertically-integrated-megalab-5623885 Feeling the spirit of Thanksgiving, American ingenuity, or invention? Why not take a look…
What Giz is Thankful For: Brian Lam: • I am thankful for the software revolution in mobiles. That these little landfill-fillers can improve 100x by means of apps, social networks, the internet and new firmware. • I am grateful I’m learning how to filter the internet. And a big part of that is news, but…
Magic is a singing home. But piping music all over a house has always been unreasonably hard. Or just primitive. Over the last 10 years, I liked music, but it was an inconvenience. I had to drape wires through holes we we knocked, drilled or cut in drywall, or have a stereo in every room.…
While it won’t cast enough light to read by, Huey the chameleon lamp would make a great night-light. Like a true chameleon, he adapts to his environment and glows in the same color as whatever’s underneath him. If your whole house is void of color, he can otherwise cycle through the whole color range. A…
It’s a renaissance out there and 21st century artists have better be prepared. Whether your loved ones are aspiring creative professionals or just wanting to take the baby steps into digital art world, you’ll find the tools for them here. 1. Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, $333: This is one of the most powerful tools out…
It’s almost the holidays, which means it’s time to start thinking about gifts for your mother, and brother, and wife’s sister’s dog. Good thing it’s also #Dealzmodo Black Friday season, our way of helping you find the best tech presents. Even better: Chase Slate with Blueprint can help you pay for all those goodies. Chase…
Got National Geographic’s external hard drive on your Christmas wish list? You may want to replace it with Playboy’s $300 250GB drive which contains every single issue of Playboy, from vintage 1953 gals to current-day plastic zombies. [PlayBoy via Reg] https://gizmodo.com/get-every-issue-of-the-national-geographic-magazine-on-5436913
I spent my first 18 years in Australia, so know all too well how harsh the sun can be there—and how an app such as SunSmart could stop the slew of lobster-faces walking around in summer. The app comes from the Australian Cancer Council, sick of seeing over 1,850 people dying of skin cancer every…
Considering I’ve just polished off half a jar of jam, you could say I’m a fan of all things preserved. But inedible LED jams? JellyLamps’ bright hues make me sad I can’t slather a knife-full on a bit of crust. When turned upside down, the LED light inside each jar of JellyLamps jam switches on,…
After 20 years of using the 98-acre land in Cupertino, HP’s given it up and moved down the road to Palo Alto. As Apple’s lived next door since 2006, it was only natural for them to snap it up. Apple now occupies 57 buildings in Cupertino, making them the largest landholder in the city according…
Optoma’s 3D-XL comes in the shape of a little black box, which grabs content from Blu-ray players, PS3 and other 3D sources, and connects them to Optoma projectors as well as the numerous DLP link-compatible projectors available. The 3D-XL has two HDMI 1.4 inputs and one HDMI 1.3 output, and comes with just one pair…
Enough people voted on this “Kisai RPM” concept watch submitted to Tokyo Flash by Brit James Fursedon, that the Japanese company is making it a reality. There’s even better news—it’s on sale now! Thankfully, it’s one of the easiest-to-read designs we’ve seen by the crazy watch manufacturer. Inspired by DJ decks, the glowing blue LEDs…
The snuff movie. Edison had a thing for watching things get killed—human or animial—primarily to show how dangerous the rival Westinghouse alternating current system was compared to his own direct current. [Oobject] Edison’s concrete record player, one of the results of his experiments with foam concrete. [Oobject] Edison’s concrete houses, which were styled exactly the…
You didn’t misread that headline. Your marriage—and wearing a loose-fitting wedding ring while playing Kinect—can destroy your television. According to Gizmodo reader Brian, the photo above was taken just a few moments after he accidentally flung his wedding band at a television while trying to play a Kinect game for the first time. I don’t…
James West of Australia has been receiving e-mails from the Tran Family in Florida for years. One problem: he doesn’t know the Trans because he’s the wrong James West. However, this year, he’s accepting their invitation and joining their Thanksgiving. West, a 28-year-old from Sydney, initially thought the e-mails were spam until he realized he…
Whoever it was that decided to bake some tiny little pies, load them onto a tiny little trebuchet, and catapult said pies directly in the path of a variety of bees, beetles, and spiders? That person is a hero. This video may have been around for a while, but for me nothing says Thanksgiving like…
