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The New Yorker magazine finally has an app to call its own. And what better way to get to know it than this sublimely bizarre introductory video from the star of Rushmore and Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew? Roman Coppola directs, Jason Schwartzman stars, and the app itself comes off looking pretty great amidst the madness.…
Designer Hamed Kohan thinks that you can spread the love by biking, using these tires to create tracks of hearts across the streets. The concept would be even nicer if it included a fluorescent pink deposit on top of the wheel, so you can actually decorate the pavement permanently as the police chases you down…
ORIGIN PC spits upon your battery life expectations. EON17 Gaming Notebook boasts an Intel Core i7 980X desktop processor, dual Nvidia Fermi GeForce GTX 480Ms, and most astoundingly, 24 GB of memory. Feel free to keep all those tabs open. https://gizmodo.com/nvidias-geforce-gtx-480m-just-turned-your-notebooks-gra-5547204 The rest of the notebook’s specs are almost as killer: a 17.3″ display, up…
Army flight medic SGT Tyrone Jordan of Charlotte, NC knows how to rock a GoPro. (Bet that’s quite the YouTube channel.) And Marine LCpl. David Hawkins—carried here by Jordon in Afghanistan—is surely a big fan. [Scott Olson/Getty Images] And then this email: I didn’t know if you wanted an update on the picture of the…
Available for the 13, 15 and 17-inch MacBooks, this War Machine Decal is perfect for Jim Rhodes’ fans. Since I’m a Tony Stark wannabe, I’ll stick to the Iron Man decal and a morning screwdriver. [Etsy via GeekyGadgets] https://gizmodo.com/iron-man-decal-powered-by-apple-arc-reactor-5445417
To my surprise, the Super Soaker wasn’t always clad in neon yellow and lime green. Turns out the original prototype had much humbler beginnings, with its parts being made from simple PVC piping and a 2-liter bottle. https://gizmodo.com/the-original-classic-neon-super-soaker-50-its-back-5153949 The story behind the Super Soaker is a classic case of accidental genius. Lonnie Johnson, the creator…
This is the first declassified view of the weapon bays hidden inside the belly of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, carrying a standard load: It shows two AMRAAM missiles and two 2000-pound JDAM bombs. Here’s an even closer look: The declassified document also shows all the ordinance you can load in this beast: A lot…
The XOS powered exoskeleton amazed by turning 200 pounds into 20 for the sack of jelly and sticks wearing it. The XOS 2 is stronger, uses half as much power and it’s lighter—light enough to play soccer in: https://gizmodo.com/new-pictures-of-xos-exoskeleton-send-sci-fi-shivers-dow-378759 I kind of can’t wait to see the World Cup in 20 years with these things.…
Just because Nokia’s been slow to deploy MeeGo doesn’t mean the developers over at MeeGo Wiki have to be. They’ve already managed to port the operating system to a Nexus One, Dell Streak, and HTC Desire. It’s not quite the full user experience, and is definitely a “only try this if you know what you’re…
You know those couples in iPhone ads, torn apart by distance and forced into FaceTiming each night? This Ping lamp is for them. It splits in two, and communicates over Wi-Fi so you always know when someone’s thinking of you. Not that this lamp should be used as a strobe light. Instead, the idea is…
Just like the countless innovators, explorers and fine people killed in a Frankensteinian way by their own inventions, the current owner of Segway—not Dean Kamen—died yesterday after he rode off a cliff and into a river in England. Jimi Heselden, aged 62, was found at 11.40am yesterday by the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire, with…
Picture the scene: a truck carrying boxes of mayonnaise bottles skids on a highway. The bottles tumble out, spilling all over the road. Cars, trucks and motorbikes then slide over the eggy mess, in a hilarious Keystone Kops-type situation. Oops. Police spent five hours cleaning up over the 3.5km-long stretch of road in western Japan,…
They’re calling it a revolution in 3D printing. I call it a revolution in laziness. Why else should we applaud the first 3D-printing machine that can print out various objects automatically, without buttons needing pressing inbetween? After tinkering with their MakerBot Automated Build Platform, version 2.0 works kind of like most normal printers work, where…
Most Vegas hotels have some kind of a shtick. From half-scale Eiffel Towers to skanky pirate-wenches, the city is a veritable playground. Vdara Hotel, however, went too far with its death-ray, which its management refers to simply as a “hot-spot.” In typical hotel euphemism-speak, the spokesperson for the hotel chain which owns Vdara played down…
Microsoft is no stranger to odd advertising. While I do get what they’re trying to say with their two latest WP7 ads (showing the HTC Mondrian), the message still aims left of what they’re trying to achieve. https://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-windows-7-launch-party-video-is-either-5366105 Take a look at the ads below and tell me I’m not imagining things. Sure, I may…
Despite fears that the $99 streamer could be delayed for up to 3 weeks, reports of customers receiving shipping notifications have reached our ears today. Let us know when that smaller, lighter parcel drops on your doorstep! [Macrumors] https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-orders-delayed-up-to-3-weeks-5647003
Just as we were beginning to think Palm’s revival would amount to nothing more than four phones and some potential nifty printers, we hear word of two new models (and a new TouchStone) showing up in a certification database. https://gizmodo.com/obviously-hps-ceo-wants-to-put-webos-in-printers-5542059 TUV Rheinland, the same certification site which foresaw the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus has…
Former Nokia employees described to the NYTimes the frustration they encountered while at the company. Stories of a touchscreen phone killed off three years before the iPhone ever appeared are only the start of their worrying problems. [NYTimes]
Their nuclear potential and missiles—despite the dumb Photoshops—are nothing to laugh about. But these images of Iran’s ridiculous “advanced” weapons—shown at their Sacred Defense Week 2010 Military Parade—are hilarious. https://gizmodo.com/iran-state-media-used-photoshop-to-make-missile-tests-l-5023775 The parade, which celebrates their 8-year war with Iraq, looked more like a county fair carnival than the serious military event it was supposed to…
Looks like the Make Faire had a taxi problem this weekend, which is probably why organizers invited Life Size Mousetrap creator Mark Perez to the event to do what he does best: Destroy them as elaborately as possible. Now, you remember the original Mousetrap game, of course. The one with the dozens of colorful plastic…
