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What luxury to have cabinet-mounted iPads! What luxury to have an iPad at all, really. At $70 (plus the cost of an iPad) lazy recipe-readers could have one under every cupboard in the kitchen. Sign me up for 10. Griffin’s cabinet mount dock is probably not intended for holding an iPad permanently, but I like…
See-through things are cool. Anyone who ever pined for a transparent Game Boy (or was lucky enough to own one) knows that. Even if flippers are unfashionable, I still want to hotfoot it over to Japan to scoop this up. Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka’s x-ray phone is actually going on sale in Japan under the…
Perhaps most famous for smut-mag Penthouse, we’d rather remember Guccione for the tech/sci-fi magazine Omni, which hasn’t been seen on newsagents’ shelves since 1995. It was hugely inspirational for its time, when robots, space and gadgets were on everyone’s minds. It was founded in 1978 when PopSci was already over a century old., but you…
If want to know how fast a wet dog should shake in order to dry, you must watch this video. If you don’t want to, you must watch anyway: It’s full of cute furry animals shaking in slow motion. You can fast forward through the formulas for the money shots A team lead by Georgia…
70,000 movies at DVD quality. Or about 24 million songs. That’s what this home computer can hold inside its 60 hard drives—70 terabytes in a wood cabinet that uses 40 fans to keep things from burning. Heyzeuschrist. I wonder how long before he uses those SATA 3TB drives to upgrade it to 90 terabytes. [English…
Google is trying to rid the world of dull tech demo videos by encouraging a bit of healthy competition. The company is asking users to submit video demonstrations of Google products and letting the world vote on the best ones The arena in which the videos are competing is dubbed Google Slam and you can…
If you’ve ever looked at your iPad and had the urge to pretend that it’s an iMac, then you might as well spend $100 on the PadDock 10 stand. It’s basically a fancy speaker dock that’ll keep your desk tidy. The PadDock 10 rotates 360 degrees and comes with built-in speakers as well as charging…
We’ve seen what happened when a golf ball gently bounced off a camera lens, but what happens when a baseball bat is violently flung toward a very expensive camera? And more importantly: What happens to the guy holding the gear? https://gizmodo.com/tiger-woods-shoots-golf-ball-directly-at-photographers-5654535 Turns out that very little happens to both camera and cameraman. Or at least…
Samsung’s Galaxy S phone on Verizon, BlackBerry’s Bold 9700 on T-Mobile and AT&T and Sprint’s Sanyo Zio are all free this Friday from Best Buy. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-fascinate-lightning-review-when-greedy-carrier-5632186 Best Buy’s free phone Friday’s have been going on for a couple weeks now, but this one seems very tempting for fans of Android and BB. The Fascinate’s a…
Sure there are a lot of superficial differences between Facebook and Twitter. But this is really the only distinction that matters. I might add that both tend to make me hate myself a little more, but that’s neither here nor there. [YouFail via The Next Web]
Nooka, venerable maker of sci-fi chic watches, doesn’t want you to throw away the box your new watch comes in. They don’t want you to recycle it either. They want you to eat out of it. Wait, what? The new packaging is the result of design collaboration between Nooka and SiliconeZone. It’s durable, micro-wave safe,…
FaceTime for Macs arrived today, and with it a question of utmost importance: What happens when you FaceTime yourself? I set out to find the answer. At first you feel a little ridiculous. Then things get freaky. https://gizmodo.com/facetime-for-mac-is-here-and-you-can-try-it-today-5668870 Real freaky.
Just how skinny are the new MacBook Airs? Thanks to this photographic evidence from Best Made Co., we can definitively say they’re thinner than an axe blade. Even the sharp end; see for yourself: https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-airs-faster-lighter-instant-on-30-day-s-5668810 The MacBook Airs are both .68 inches at their fattest and .11 inches at the front, which is decidedly less…
In news that will surprise absolutely no one at all, Apple has posted a lengthy list of qualities that will keep your software out their new app store. Check below for the most interesting (and the strangest) prohibitions. Some of the banned qualities are obvious (and welcome), such as “apps that crash,” and “apps that…
We had fun trying out FaceTime for Mac, but we noticed something interesting: Even if you quit the app, you’ll still receive incoming calls. How can you make this stop? Simple: https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-using-facetime-for-mac-5669022 Head up to the FaceTime menu and open up the Preferences. There you’ll find a magical toggle which will prevent random FaceTime calls…
Your desk. A lone ray of sun shines upon it. Tension squeezes the air. Your pencils tremble. Your pulse quickens. Mysterious forces of the universe are at work. And there it is: a black plastic monolith. Dare you touch it? ThinkGeek’s incredibly cool and, of course, incredibly minimalist new toy isn’t quite an “action” figure,…
This accident could have either been the most gruesome thing we’ve ever seen, or the most spectacularly awesome. Luckily for both us and one incredibly agile biker, it was the latter. Getting hit by a car never looked so good. This gent is either some sort of unbelievable acrobat, or just dumb lucky. Either way,…
You can’t do much besides noodle around with the command line (yet), but Pwnage Tool 4.1 lets you jailbreak the new Apple TV, as well as your other iOS devices. Knowing how quickly the jailbreak community works, you’ll probably be able to customize the UI by the end of the week and watch season 2…
The NY Times reports a Chinese embargo on rare earth minerals—crucial ingredients for countless, very important things—has been applied to the US. Oh, and China possesses 95% of the production capability for this stuff on the entire planet. The embargo—still denied by Chinese authorities—is only the latest in a growing economic pissing match between the…
Classical music may isn’t to everyone’s taste, but who hasn’t waved their hands about like a conductor before? iPhone app TikTakt lets you do that, but by shaking the iPod to control music from the likes of Mozart and Beethoven. The conductor looks like a Mii, but behind him there’s a “small orchestra that performs…
