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The world’s largest Jesus statue now towers over Swiebodzin, Poland, measuring 170 feet tall from his feet to the tip of his crown. Watch his head get attached by a 700-ton crane; it’s very spiritual and a little bit goofy. The 52 meter Jesus is made of plater and fiberglass. Upon its completion, Father Zawadzki…
The graphics your iPhone can pull off are mighty impressive these days—but what about you gaming purists? Rather than dust off your SNES and give a Back in my day, whippersnapper speech, check out ultra-traditional iOS RPG Ash. Ash deals with your typical golden age RPG tropes—a fallen kingdom, a hero up against the odds,…
Show your smartphone a little love buy getting a few new apps for it! #Appdealz has a great selection of free and practically free apps, fresh every day. Free Apps: iOS: • App Tools 100-in-1 (iPhone) App for $0 (normally $.99) • Bunz Fighter (iPhone) App for $0 (normally $1.99) • Farm It! (iPhone) App…
Stretching through the summer and into the fall, regions of China including Jiujiang, Sichuan, Wuhan and more were hit with devastating floods. Here are some incredible images of how the water has changed the landscape in those places. [Cinaoggi]
Oh bummer. That mystery missile near LA that neither the Pentagon nor the Navy would take credit for? Well John Herrman, a fellow Gizmodo writer, lays out a pretty convincing case for it actually being a regular old vapor trail from a regular old jet. This is why we can’t have nice conspiracies. [SmartPlanet] https://jalopnik.com/what-mystery-missile-launched-off-californias-coast-yes-5685331
For ages, YouTube-watching posture was essentially this: slumping forward over your computer and squinting your eyes at a clip. But Google’s been trying to make things more comfortable, first with Leanback and now with the YouTube Remote app for Android. https://gizmodo.com/youtube-leanback-actively-wants-your-passive-attention-5581835 The new app, YouTube Remote, pairs Android devices with any screen playing YouTube Leanback,…
The Tron Xbox 360 controllers look amazing, and make you feel like you’re a real cool dude with Olivia Wilde sitting next to you. Not a bad deal for $50. https://gizmodo.com/tron-controllers-make-any-game-a-tron-game-5569832 Everything feels like it should, with the sticks having just the right amount of resistance to feel good, but not too loose. The triggers…
Click to viewI can’t imagine the pressure of being in OK Go, having to constantly churn out jaw-dropping videos. Fortunately, I don’t have to. I get to just sit back and enjoy the stunning results, like this stop-motion story told with toast. The look of this video for “Last Leaf” is so pared down, so…
Your iPhone 3GS doesn’t have its dandy younger brother’s front-facing camera, but if it’s jailbroken, it can still get in on FaceTime action. Sort of. A new app will let you at least watch (and speak to) someone else’s face. FaceIt-3GS, from the iPhoneIslam devs, allows users to stare adoringly at the iPhone 4 owner…
#Dealzmodo tends to have some awesome finds midweek. Check out the prices on this 55″ Mitsubishi LED-Edgelit LCD HDTV and these Sony ALTUS Wireless PC Speakers, then grab yourself all sorts of free samples. Top Deals: • 55″ Mitsubishi LT55164 LED-Edgelit LCD HDTV w/ 16-Speaker Soundbar for $1699.99 plus free shipping (normally $2399 – use…
It’s time to multi-task! Take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a Samsung BD-C5500 Blu-ray disc player. This nifty lil’ guy makes your tube internet accessible, so you can watch Karate Kid and email that important memo—gasp—at the same time! Standard contest rules apply. Only open…
Want tripod action on your iPhone 4? Joby has you covered, with a bumper and stand that’ll keep films and photos away from jittery hands. The bumper’s rails slide onto the tripod two ways, for either portrait or landscape orientation. Once locked into place, use the setup as you would any other tripod-locked camera. Or,…
At the rate we’re going, chocolate is going to be a rare—and extremely pricey—commodity within the next twenty years. Somebody needs to light a fire under those Oompa-Loompas, stat. The problem’s easy to explain, and much harder to fix. According to the Cocoa Research Association, we’re consuming more chocolate than we’re producing cocoa. Which means,…
To everyone who submitted photos to last week’s Fall Leaves Shooting Challenge, thanks! However, dealing with what we estimate to be more than 700 submissions (an all time high), we won’t be able to run results until the tail end of this week. In the meantime, please send your thoughts and prayers to our small…
HG Wells prophesied of a “new order” where newspapers would be “dead” and instead we’d “ring up N.E.W.S. on our telephones” and “listen in to a summary of what has happened in the last 2-3 hours.” How right he was. Well, half-right. Instead of ringing up the news channel on our phones, we browse or…
Strike while the pigs are hot, Angry Birders—Rovio has just released 45 new levels for Android, along with a new bird (a grumpy obese one, by the looks of things) and a new plot twist. Download now! [AndroidPolice]
New Tron Legacy trailer. I said, NEW TRON LEGACY TRAILER! By the way, Disney, this movie better be good or I will kidnap Mickey, drown him in gasoline and torch that bloody rat. Watch it and get into the grid. Even if the movie script sucks, all this eye candy will make up for it.
When Tom Cruise jumped off the Burj Khalifa he was wearing a harness. This guy, however, isn’t wearing anything perched on top of the tallest skyscraper in the world. I can feel the panic just watching. The images make it worse. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-tom-cruise-jumping-off-the-tallest-skyscraper-i-5684038 Of course, he’s not any guy, but one of the stunts for Mission…
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Last night, I joined the NY Giz team (and a throng of several hundred strangers) for a Microsoft-sponsored evening with Katy Perry. It was fun. But it was also clear that smartphones have distorted concerts forever. Is that good? On a technical level, the concert was no different from any other pop spectacle—flashing lights that…
