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“Did airplanes come from the R&D department of a train company or a steamship company?” Nathan Myhrvold asks, rhetorically, his voice cracking. He’s explaining how his company, Intellectual Ventures, is going to reinvent the way things are invented. Nathan Myhrvold doesn’t resemble anybody I’ve ever met before, so much as he does the mental image…
Today we’ve got… #dealz! Check out the super discounted 15.6″ Lenovo IdeaPad Quad Core Laptop, video game steals like Dead Rising 2, and free Domino’s Cinna Stix. Couldn’t ask for much more than that. Top Deals: • 15.6″ Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 Quad Core i7 Laptop w/8GB RAM for $999 with free shipping (normally $1,599 –…
Garmin today announced that they’re recalling five Nuvi models—the 200W, 250W, 260W, 7xx and 7xxT (where xx is a two-digit number)—totaling 1.25 million units in all. 796,000 of those were sold in the united states. The culprit, according to today’s press release, were batteries manufactured by a third-party that are can cause overheating and, potentially…
This Sanyo VPC-CA102YL waterproof HD camcorder is head and shoulders (or head and snorkel) above the rest. With a full HD Xacti, 12x double-range zoom and 2.7-inch LCD screen, it’s safe to use in up to 10 feet of water! Summermodo 2010 is packed with tons more underwater gadgetry. Summermodo is a constantly-updated feed of…
SmartPhoneMedic has uploaded a video that claims to be the 4th generation iPod Touch LCD-digitizer combo identical to the leaked photos we saw earlier this month. The other good news: the high likelihood of a retina display. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-ipod-touch-parts-reveal-facetime-camera-plans-5605683 Rumors about dual cameras and retina displays have been heating up recently, and Apple’s clearly announcing new…
Using a RED camera, two actors wearing Tron costumes and a whole heapa’ special effects, WonderHowTo‘s put together the ultimate guide for nerdlingers interested in pleasing their partners. Even Tron Guys with beer bellies can pull off some of these: https://gizmodo.com/tron-guy-buys-custom-painted-aircraft-to-match-tron-out-5018093 WonderHowTo suggests you start out nice and slow with the Missionary, and then flip…
If anyone today can be considered an inventor, it’s Sir James Dyson, the man who took the bag out of the vacuum and the blades out of the fan. Here’s the first time we talked to him, last fall. [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/james-dyson-lightning-interview-a-mac-man-with-a-blade-5381777 Eureka is our week-long meditation on the wonders of invention, inventors and genius.
Cats. Dogs. The occasional lizard, pig or rock. These are your pets, Gizmodo readers. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you photographed them brilliantly. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-pet-photography-5615841 (Wallpaper-dimension photos are available on flickr.) Lead Shot I have a Canon Rebel EOS Xti DSLR camera. The story of the shot is a fun one. If you take a…
Equipment: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens Settings: F number 1.8 Exposure time 1/100 Technique: patience Story behind the shot: Savannah is a southern belle beauty queen at heart, who has been shun from the pagent circuit because she has extra fingers and toes. Thus is the difficult difficult…
Model: NIKON D90 ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/6 sec Aperture: 1.8 Focal Length: 50mm Flash Used: No Just got a new 50mm f1.8 d lens for my Nikon D90… just messing around with the new aperture :). My dog, Gizmo, is a 7 year old Chow Chow / Lab mix. He’s awesome. He was just hanging out…
After only recently buying my “nifty fifty”, and never having entered a shooting challenge before, I decided that this was the perfect time to give it a whirl. While Poppy (pictured) sat looking mesmerized at the heavy rain outside, I grabbed my camera and started snapping. This is one of many taken, originally taken in…
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, Lens: 18-55mm, ISO: 400, Exposure: 1/60th @ f/4. Shooting Summary This is a photograph of my sister’s toy poodle; Scotty. My sister is a pet groomer and has a creative side usually shown in the color/grooming of her pets. Scotty is usually purple, but for the time being he’s tie…
Canon Rebel T2i F/3.5 1/500 ISO 6400 EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Got some catnip swung the toy in front of him and set the camera to burst mode. -Aaron Dasaro Camera: FujiFilm Finefix S2000HD FocalLenght: 5.0mm IS0: 100 Aperture: f/7.0 Shutter Speed: 1/350 sec We went to a short trip to Khindsi(60kms away from Nagpur,India)…
This our cat Lulu who we got from the shelter in January this year. She’s settled right in since then and loves being groomed, in this photo she is standing on our barbeque/grooming station waiting impatiently to be groomed. The pic was taken with a Canon T2i using a EF 28-135mm lens (focal lenght 28mm…
Taken With: Sony Alpha 200 w/ 75-300mm Lens F6.3 1/160 ISO 200 @300mm My girlfriend’s dog Charlie is very, very photogenic and I figured it would be a great reason to send my first shooting challenge photo. He loves playing with his little yellow ball called “Nubby” and he’s just to cute not to take…
Today’s Nerf guns are exceedingly complex, with automatic firing and reloadable dart magazines. But Nerf’s eureka moment arose from a decidedly more primitive scene: some cavemen chucking boulders around an office. https://gizmodo.com/so-this-is-what-nerf-guns-are-like-now-huh-5588890 The year was 1968, three years after toy developer Reyn Guyer had begun bending partygoers into pretzels with his smash hit Twister. Guyer…
The Colbert Report set its sights last night on internet privacy—skewering CEO Eric Schmidt, especially, for saying we’ll all need name changes someday. http://gawker.com/5614198/googles-ceo-has-scary-ideas-for-children The segment targets online privacy, generally, but hinges mostly on Google (with a smattering of Facebook thrown in for good measure). It also comes not long after Jon Stewart’s net neutrality…
Calling! In Gmail!. It’s been rumored for a little bit, but now it’s here. Merged. You can make phone calls from Gmail (without going to your GV page). And they’re free to the US and Canada. https://gizmodo.com/soon-youll-be-able-to-make-phone-calls-from-your-gmail-5621146 How’s it going to work? You can make calls in Gmail, and then talk directly to your computer.…
After tense, months-long talks with Facebook executives, filmmakers behind Facebook flick The Social Network have decided to keep a scene involving cocaine and boobs. Did Facebook finally realize it will never again look this sexy? The company had reportedly been complaining about inaccuracies in the film. But now, the Hollywood Reporter’s Matt Belloni and Allison…
So, that Galaxy Tab teaser video from yesterday was pretty great! But if bits of it caused a little deja vu, it could be because the interface seems to take more than a few cues from the iPad. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-samsung-galaxy-tab-official-teaser-video-5620623 The Gadgets has a full breakdown of perceived similarities, some of which are fairer than others.…
