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Lil Wayne’s iPod Lands Him a Month In Solitary Confinement

Lil Wayne’s only got a month left on his eight-month stint at Riker’s, but he’s going to be spending it all by his lonesome. The guards who found the rapper’s contraband iPod, charger, and headphones have banished him to solitary. Weezy will spend 23 hours out of every day in “punitive segregation” until he’s released…

Google Goggles Arrives On the iPhone Today

The wait for Google Goggles—the crazy good visual search app—to hit the iPhone was shorter than we thought. Today, it’s finally been added as part of the Google Mobile App. Once you’re in the Google app, just click the camera to activate Goggles. From there, you can identify and search for info on landmarks, logos,…

Oprah’s Favorite iPad Apps

Oprah is a big iPad fangirl. Such a fangirl, in fact, that she bought one iPad for each of her magazine’s staffers. She’s also a big iPad applications buyer. These are her favorite iPad apps: Talking at the annual American Magazine Conference, Oprah said that she uses her tablet to be on top of news,…

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today we bring you some great deals on an LG Local Dimming LED HDTV, an Archos 5 Android Tablet, and a free sample of Garnier Rescue Gel. Top Deals: • 42″ LG 42LE5500 120Hz, 1080p LED HDTV (local dimming) for $799 with free shipping (normally $1,000 – use coupon code EMCZYYS66) • Archos 5 Android…

What Happens When You Fossilize a Pheasant In Four Months

Whether in the name of science, art, or sheer morbidity, Austin Houldsworth’s determination to fossilize a pheasant and a pineapple got results. Although if Houldsworth’s goal is eventually to fossilize humans, I hope we turn out better than the bird: The project, called 2 Million & 1AD, involved placing the bird and the fruit in…

158 Sinuous Silhouette Wallpapers

You’d think that a figure of pure darkness would look like the essence of evil. But the 158 silhouettes from this week’s Shooting Challenge are active, earnest, understated, funny, friendly, sexy…and yes…occasionally a little bit evil, too. Lead Shot Taken with a Nikon D80 in manual mode with an ISO of 100 and a 28-105…

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Taken with Nikon Coolpix S610 F 5.8 1/800 ISO 100 I got up early to exercise at a park down the street from my apartment. It had been an unusually hot week in Southern California, but this day was cooler and humid. I live in a beach community outside of Los Angeles and we’re used…

Shooting Challenge Silhouettes Gallery 2

Some friends and I went hiking up to Kennedy’s Peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The overlook platform at the top offers the best view of the valley I’ve ever seen, well worth the hour and a half hike up. Picture taken un-posed with a Casio EX-FH25 on auto settings. -Alec Sparks Camera:D300s…

Shooting Challenge Silhouettes Gallery 3

Camera: Canon Model: Canon EOS 7D Lens: EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM ISO: 100 Exposure: 1/4000 sec Aperture: 10.0 Focal Length: 70mm I am currently in Jacksonville Florida for work, and decided to go to the beach and get some shots of the sunrise. The long grass created an amazing Silhouette with the Sun…

For Almost $3k These Ultrasone Edition 10 Headphones Better Turn You Into a Zebra

We know the downfalls of cheap headphones, but is $2,749 for a pair of Ultrasones going to give you the best-possible audio experience known to man? That I can’t tell you, but my god would you look at them?! They’re a thing of beauty, I’m sure you’ll agree. But then, Ultrasone has always been known…

Every Type of Photo You Will Ever Find On Facebook

Are you a stable person? A little crazy perhaps? Fun-loving? A risk? Dangerously volatile? How do your friends see you? It’s all in your Facebook profile photos. This visual guide dissects everything that there is to know about Facebook portraiture. The flowchart seems quite complete, although I’m missing the Drunk > Half-naked > Biting >…

Frito-Lay Cancels Louder-Than-Combat-Jet Snack Bags

Frito-Lay is pulling their Sun Chips 100% Compostable bags after receiving “consumers’ feedback about the bag’s noise level.” Well, since they are louder than a combat jet, I’m not surprised. Here’s why: Hi, Heidi, Thank you for contacting Frito-Lay to share your thoughts about the SunChips compostable package. Frito-Lay is taking steps to improve the…

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I Just Retweeted a Kidney

The last place I imagined being was in an operating room following the minute-by-minute highlights of the significant kidney surgery being performed on Brian’s dad. I’ve never met Brian’s dad. And that’s not much of a surprise. Brian lives in another state and is a private person. At times in his life, I’ve described him…

Get Anyone Naked With the Pic Bubbler iPhone App

Perverts rejoice, for someone has released an iPhone bubbling app. Its name is Pic Bubbler, and it allows you to see anyone naked by using an optical trick and your twisted brain. I tried it. It works. Pic Bubbler is very easy to use. First, you load an image of someone in their swimsuit—woman or…

The Glif Stand and Camera Mount Is the Sidekick Your iPhone 4 Deserves

The Glif is one impressive little piece of plastic. It can stand your iPhone 4 up in portrait mode. It can prop it up in landscape. And it has a built-in camera mount for attaching your iPhone to a tripod. It’s just a small piece of injection molded plastic that’s shaped like a bottle opener.…

A Cobra Helicopter Slicing the Air

After seeing the helicopter under the fiery Kopps-Etchells Effect, Gizmodo reader Carlos sent us his recent pictures of this Cobra helicopter slicing the air. I took these a few months ago on base. It was so humid you can see the blades cutting the air producing a vortices. You are probably familiar with this phenomenon.…

RED Gives Up Making Consumer Cameras, Saying “We Had No Idea What We Were Doing”

They might be struggling with how to position themselves in the market, but at least RED is willing to jump onto their message boards and update everyone on what they’re doing. A lot of companies could learn from that transparency. Still, it’s not at all surprising that the delayed prosumer Scarlet camera is going to…

Classical Music Lovers Get an iTunesesque Store of Their Own

It’s not impossible to browse and discover good classical music online—but it’s very, very difficult. The iTunes selection is limited, and the sound quality of downloaded music isn’t up to Tchaikovsky. Sony aims to fix that with Ariama, a music store devoted the classics. Ariama’s greatest appeal might lie less in its selection—it’s not promising…

Super Microphone Can Listen To Any Conversation On the Court

Click to viewThat big yellow circle attached to the bottom of the Lakers’ jumbotron? It’s a new super microphone that can zoom into any conversation with perfect clarity. Listen to it pick up the guy chewing bubble gum next to Phil Jackson. The AudioScope, developed accidentally when two former University of Oslo physicists were working…