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Joining the distinguished Bot App family, including Papa Pastebot, Cousin Convertbot, and Wally Weightbot, is Calcbot, a stylish, simple calculator for both iPhone and iPad. It has swipe access for advanced functions and calculation history, and is currently just $1. To celebrate Calcbot’s arrival, MacHeist is giving away Socialite, an all-in-one social media application for…
Who? “Here in my car, I feel safest of all…” Ah, yes! Here is Numan, the electronic music pioneer, performing his 1979 hit “Cars”…on a bunch of cars. Oh, and the whole rig’s powered by a single car battery. The 96-wheeled instrument was put together by Synn Labs, the tinkerers responsible for the Rube Goldberg…
Students get all the good deals, like free Amazon Prime. But this post’s deals don’t discriminate. If you’re bitter about never getting that diploma, take comfort in a free appetizer, since that’s probably all you can afford anyway, you dropout. https://gizmodo.com/get-a-free-year-of-amazon-prime-if-you-have-a-edu-emai-5585324 Top Deals: • 20″ Lenovo C315 40221GU AMD All-in-One Computer for $599 plus free…
Steve Jobs thinks games made with middleware aren’t so good. Unity CEO David Helgason, whose SDK is used in the creation of plenty of games used in the App Store, disagrees. And he was quite vocal about it yesterday. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-responds-to-developer-agreement-concerns-5514300 Helgason’s remarks came during his keynote presentation at Develop, where he was challenged with the…
The iPad’s the best tablet around because it’s the pretty much the only tablet around, but a whole legion of Android tablets, like Velocity Micro’s Cruz Reader, are on their way. For $200, this one looks pretty good. The 7″ Cruz Reader, slated for availability in August, is being sold as an ebook reader—a $300…
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you got up close and personal with some terrifying creatures. And you made them look stunning…though still pants-wettingly terrifying. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-bugs-5581568 Lead Shot 5D MK II, 50mm 2.5, life size converter, extension tube, and Manfrotto focusing rail. No artificial light whatsoever, just shot with light glowing from worm! ISO 4000, 30…
LaCie XtremKey: One of those extreme can-take-it-all USB keys that you can run over, boil, roast in the oven, drop in water, freeze, and sledgehammer—then eat it and poop it out. According to the video, it’ll keep working. The LaCie XtremKey can work 333 feet underwater. Its temperature operating range goes from -58ºF to 392ºF,…
I went to the Museum of Science and Industry over the weekend and this little guy crawled up my leg while I was waiting for the bus outside the museum. It was NOT easy getting close enough with my standard lens, and took me a few tries to get it in focus. I would have…
Canon EOS REBEL T1i Lenses: Canon EFS 18-55mm Focal Length: 55 F number: 5.6 Exposure Time: 1/160 I was at a friend’s cabin, when i saw something shining over some flowers, and it was a butterfly -Victor Flores Nikon D40, 18-55mm Lens, ISO 200, f/5.6 I’m a tour guide in Alaska and while giving a…
Taken with my Nikon D3000 by using a home-made reversing ring to flip my kit lens for a super macro effect. I then processed the image to correct for underexposure (blame the ghetto setup) and slight lack of contrast. Obtaining focus on the ladybug was quite irritating as the depth of field provided by such…
Camera used canon 550d iso auto lense standard canon 18-55 dont have a macro 🙁 shot at Brunel university in middlesex just outside london. I was coming back from a dance performance and saw the bug on the floor, since i had my camera i thought id take a few snaps as i knew about…
Hello, this is my entry for the bugs shooting challenge. The image was taken using a Canon G9 on macro setting, f/8, ISO 80 and shutter speed at 2 sec. I had left the windows at the office open over night after a hot day. The following morning this badly camouflaged “monitor moth” had joined…
Canon 5D Mark II Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro I was just watching TV and saw this ant walk across the screen. I grabbed my camera and started shooting and flipping channels while I did. I kind of like how it takes the idea of bugs and combines it with technology (befitting of Gizmodo). The macro…
While Sprint has been ahead of the game on 4G—despite some product constraints—with their WiMax network, CEO Dan Hesse has seemed surprisingly receptive to jumping to LTE instead. Now we may know why: it’d allow a T-Mobile tie-up. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-shortages-frustrate-you-and-sprint-equally-5584761 A possible merger between the two carriers has been rumored for some time, but Hesse’s recent…
Windows XP is dead, Windows XP will live forever! Windows 7 Professional buyers will continue to have an option to downgrade two gens to Windows XP for the next 10 years, according to Microsoft. Windows 7 Ultimate users will continue to have the option for 5 more years, until 2015. Why such a long window?…
The concept may not be new, but the lawn mower tricycle brings biking and lawn mowing to a whole new level. The things-can’t-get-any-more-stupid-than-this level. But at least, it’s a good excuse for child labor this summer. https://gizmodo.com/bike-lawnmower-hybrids-make-lawn-upkeep-more-fun-306107
We’ve seen enough pricing leaks to pretty much confirm that Microsoft’s Kinect will be priced at $150. But did you know those games are gonna sell for $60, and none will come bundled with the hardware? Hoo boy. https://gizmodo.com/kinect-priced-at-150-on-microsofts-online-store-5569483 Yes, this new Wal-Mart preorder bundle deal for the Kinect hardware, one game of your choice…
It may not be as glamorous a target as NYC, but the evil 8-bit forces have again gathered to wreak havoc. Except this time, with more shredding. https://gizmodo.com/evil-8-bit-forces-destroy-new-york-5512177 “Gnarcade,” from Knifeshow Inc, features Scott Stevens, Micah Hollinger, Chris Beresford, Tim Eddy, Ben Bogart, and Casey Wrightsman skating and skiing away from a bevy of classic…
Breaking up is hard to do, especially in the age of the internet. How can you really avoid her when there’s Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of it? With the new Ex-Blocker plugin, that’s how. The Ex-Blocker is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome that literally filters your ex out of the internet for…
We all check the weather in habitual, niche ways. Some watch the news, others glance at their phones. And others still? They require nothing short of 6,000 windows illuminated by 72,000 RGB LEDs that abstractly report the weather. For a 2008 project by Belgian design studio lab[au], the Dexia Tower in Brussels was transformed into…
