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This world clock, called ‘The Bent Hands’, keeps you on time with cities and zones you didn’t even know existed. Like Dhaka. Or Eastern Canada. It works with a bent, spiraling hand showing each zone’s time at the connected points. [Dezeen]
The federal government rarely hands fair use proponents cheerful news—usually it’s quite the opposite. But a judge of the 5th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that circumventing DRM for non-infringing purposes isn’t illegal, contrary to years of precedent. Judge Emilio Garza’s ruling is an extraordinary rebuke of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which since 1998…
If the Sea-Doos of yesteryear were bulbous and cheerful like cartoon whales, the Silveira Green Samba XRS is more like a shark. A geometric, 65mph, zero-emission shark, one made out of carbon fiber and perfectly suited for Batman’s maritime adventures. The Silveira Group, which is improbably based in Ohio and specializes in custom personal watercraft,…
I wish I had a small fraction of the mechanical knowledge and talent of these women. They built—literally, with their bare hands—thousands of mighty planes in the 40s, to kick the ass of Nazis and Japanese forces everywhere. They may not look as explosive as the pneumatic half-naked pinups, but maybe they should have been…
Tired of being shut down because you’re still reading paperbacks? Well, it’s your lucky day. If you take this survey and email the last question to [email protected], you’ll be entered to win a brand-spankin’-new Amazon Kindle! Hey, ladies, who’s got two thumbs and a Kindle? This guy. [Rules]
I was going to be big about this. I was going to just make a pithy one-liner about these TRON shoes by Adidas, due out in December. But then I felt an itching under my skin…it was…the geek inside. That geek has three-point thesis on why these TRON shoes make him want to make jokes…
It’s $50. But in an age when Apple was just selling fanboys Livestrong bracelets for $30, I don’t think we can complain about that point too much. Have you tried Air Display yet? It’s wonderful. The only real flaw with the app is something you realize about 1 minute into its use: You’re gonna need…
Colorware strikes again. This time the new Mac Mini get the rainbow treatment, with a full range of logo and body coloring options letting you beautify or putrefy as you please. The service costs $250—almost half what it costs to Colorware an iPad—or $1000 if you want them to throw in the hardware as well.…
Plastiki, a 60 foot vessel buoyed by over 12,000 2-liter plastic bottles, sailed into the Sydney Harbor today, completing a 130 day, 8000 mile journey from San Francisco. A long way to travel for the coveted 10 cent deposit! https://gizmodo.com/plastiki-the-ship-made-from-12-000-plastic-bottles-wi-5482703 The boat, which actually set sail to raise awareness about the amount of plastic debris…
We knew that the iPhone 4 was going to get a big international boost at the end of this month, and now we know that Friday’s the day 17 more countries will see the device hit their shores. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sold-1-7-million-iphone-4s-in-three-days-5574299 Last month’s announcement originally promised an 18-country expansion, but South Korea is facing additional unexpected delays…
You kids and miscellaneous hipsters probably love this one: The Flowlab Skateboard. They were invented in the 90s, and it surprises me that they haven’t completely replaced regular ones. It looks a lot more fun. Unlike most conventional skateboards—which can lean up to 25 degrees—the Flowlab allows you to carve at 45 degrees. That gives…
Hidden away in a bland update about terms & conditions, Google’s Android Developer Blog has revealed the next phase in Google’s plans to make Android a little more pleasing to the mass market—direct carrier billing for app purchases made via the Android Market. The lack of a properly integrated, universal way to buy apps is…
HTC has today confirmed rumours of a planned switch away from the supply constrained AMOLED screen tech it sticks in its Desire and Nexus One phones, with new/old and more plentiful “Super LCD” screens replacing them. Publicly acknowledging that “high demand” for AMOLED screens has led it to switch suppliers, HTC says the SLCD screens…
The big news in the grown-up media today is the latest WikiLeaks disclosure, which has seen 90,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan released to the press. The Guardian has created this grim mash-up illustrating key events. [The Guardian] https://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-defends-manning-decision-5591905
We’ve previously reported the lunatic Westboro Baptist Church’s bizarre new War on Nerds—now the nerds have turned and staged a staggeringly weird counter-protest at this year’s Comic-Con. https://gizmodo.com/god-hates-nerds-5588219 While the Westboro people hung about with their usual anti-everything signs, Comic-Con attendees waved around their own awesome geek-themed banners in a hilarious simultaneous protest-protest, ranging from…
This is simply a brief video played 300 times slower than it should be, showing the birth—and the death—of a lightning bolt. [Science Blogs via Twitter]
Seems there’s at least one mystery HTC smartphone making the rounds today that’s bucking the company line and not running the Sense UI in any way shape or form, “augmented features” be damned. https://gizmodo.com/htc-sense-heads-to-windows-7-mobile-devices-later-this-5595936 According to the Engadget tipster, the candybar handset sports a 3.7-inch SLCD and 1GHz Snapdragon processor and is running a bona…
There’s no crying in baseball. There are no cellphones, smartphones or PDAs either. [Image: Fenway Park visitor’s clubhouse, via CNET]
So you have your beloved Android phone. You’re making calls. Installing apps. All is right with the world. Well, almost everything. How to profess your love so others can see, everywhere and forever? Stencils, that’s how. And it helps that this Android stencil is all sorts of simplistic super sexy. With the $25 kit you…
Console emulators are nothing new, even on mobiles, but this is the first time we can bring you news of a legitimate PlayStation one for Android devices. Called PSX4Droid 1.0, it looks a little something like this: The app’s available for $6 in the Android Market and you’ll need the usual ROMs and PS BIOS…
