Tech news, analysis, culture, business, security, and more
We’re drooling over today’s tasty #dealz on a Sony Home Theater Projector, Xbox 360 Bundle, and a free Orange N Creme dessert from Taco Bell. Top Deals: • Sony VPL-BW7 LCD Home Theater Projector for $449.99 with free shipping (normally $600). • Xbox 360 4GB Console, Extra Controller, 1 Year of Xbox Live, 4000 Xbox…
Kindle’s biggest strength? Platform ubiquity. Even more so after this Kindle for Mac update that lets you add and edit notes and highlight passages, syncing everything across all Kindle apps and devices. That cross-platform functionality—through Amazon’s Whispersync technology—is the standout new function, but you’ll also now be able to search within a book, and use…
As much as we’d love to see a great new phone from Nokia, we’re not reviewing the N8. The phone was, unfortunately, irrelevant before it launched. Like a top-of-the-line horse-drawn carriage released shortly after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. Nokia itself has declared that it’s abandoning Symbian for all of its N-Series phones. Nokia…
Justin Bieber feels that he is the Kurt Cobain of his generation. Little he knew that Steve Jobs feels like the Justin Bieber of his generation. The good news: Now you can feel like him too, with the BieberHair application. I know Jobs will find it disgusting that it’s available for iPhone and Android, but…
The infamous “Rorschach Test” is was just a drop of ink pressed between two sides of a folded paper. But the 47 tests that follow have been updated for the mighty year 2010—taken with cameras, rarely utilizing ink. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-rorschach-test-5662879 Lead Shot – Tree / Demon Bull I took this photo of a tree against the…
While this is the first shooting challenge I have actually entered, it is not the first that has worked my brain into a frenzy, attempting to come up with something worthy of Giz. I thought for nearly a week on differing mediums that would lend themselves to this challenge. My son’s silhouette, paint, even chocolate…
Nokia has problems. Smartphone problems. Software problems. American problems. But to fully understand what’s wrong, we’ve got to understand what’s been right, or to put in another way, what’s distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world. https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723 It has been said that more of the world’s population has access to a cellphone…
A flashmob organized by Pedobear. Google CEO Eric Schmidt vaporizing a child’s mind from the window of his robot car. Charlie biting his brother’s finger off. Just some of the scenes found in Taiwan’s latest (and perhaps greatest) animated report. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-road-testing-cars-that-drive-themselves-5659935 This video has the questions, but who has the answers? [Gawker] http://gawker.com/5667437/are-oversharing-parents-ruining-their-kids-lives-probably
We’re giving away a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad to one lucky newsletter subscriber! Don’t subscribe? Enter your email address below to get one great story a day in your inbox. Don’t worry, we hate spam as much as you do. Already subscribed? You’re entered to win! No need to sign up twice. Enter your email address…
This is one of those videos that’ll make you feel all warm inside. Over 20 Lomographers (toy camera-shooting people) from London got together to create a stop-motion video, combining their various films and shots for what you can see here: There’s even some Super 8 video included, too! They all used LC-A+ cameras (which cost…
Why not take this survey and email the last question to [email protected]? You’ll be entered to win a $150 iTunes gift card, and if you win, you’ll have some music to perk up your speakers who have been quietly weeping every time they have to transmit Vampire Weekend. Again. [Rules]
Not content to wait until it went official, an industrious Android user carved Yahoo’s forthcoming Yahoo Messenger app out of a MyTouch ROM that leaked yesterday. It can do video calling over WiFi and 3G no sweat. Artem over at Android Police tried it out on his Evo and said it worked splendidly: Interestingly enough,…
Etsy seller Pixelthis is doing a mean trade in clocks, some of which are the usual hard-drives you’ve seen before, but there are a few nice turntables too, like this subtle Sanyo and an ultra-retro 1960s one. [Etsy via BB-Blog]
Bringing their various cloud-based treats together (Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online), Office 365 is Microsoft’s new name for what’s essentially competing against Google Apps/Docs in the small-business domain. [Microsoft]
The secret of the bull and the bear are in the bird and the whale: Twitter can be used to predict the stock market behavior with an accuracy of 87.6%. In other words: Justin Bieber controls the world’s economy. This is the paper summary by Indiana University’s research team Johan Bollen, Huina Mao, and Xiao-Jun…
I agree with Steve Jobs when he says that Android is a complete mess when it comes to OS maintenance and developers targeting and testing for different models. These are the charts he was talking about. https://gizmodo.com/shit-my-jobs-says-earnings-call-edition-5667183 This was Tweetdeck’s reply to His Steveness’ mention: But no matter what Tweetdeck developers say, the fragmentation of…
Current law mandates that telecoms allow the government to snoop on you when deemed necessary. But with blazing advances in what telecoms offer, the government is left behind. They want to catch up. Their solution? Tougher law. A governmental task force made up officials from the Justice and Commerce Departments, FBI, and intelligence community all…
If I hadn’t written this article—published on Brazilian magazine ALFA—I would have read it just for the amazingly trippy illustration by Chavis Tsevis, whose famous mosaic portraits we have published before. It’s trippy pretty. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-apple-collage-looks-impressive-372516 ALFA is a Brazilian men magazine published by Editora Abril. They asked me for a Steve Jobs portrait slightly different…
It’s always nice when rumors actually hold up: HP just officially introduced the world to webOS 2.0 and confirmed its flagship handset, the Palm Pre 2. So this is why HP spent all that money. Let’s take a quick spin. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-webos-2-0-shots-show-a-bevy-of-new-features-5632031 Much of what we saw in those leaked webOS 2.0 screen shots has been…
I’m a little surprised Pantone needs to bother with a $650 color-reading device when their $10 iPhone app already does the job (and more), but for professionals involved in the creative scene this will fast become the must-have gizmo. I suppose one of the reasons Pantone’s Capsure device costs so much is because it can…
