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How Microsoft Captures Remarkable Stills From Lousy Flash Videos

This photo of Mount Rainier looks like it was shot back in the 60s or 70s by a vacationer with a nice film camera. In reality, it was created by Microsoft from an unbelievably hazy, shaky video clip: Even lousy video like this has one distinct advantage over a mere photo: sheer volume. It’s easy…

Tech News Mark Wilson

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, grab the best green apps for your iPad, check out plans for a crazy seaweed airship, OLET tech wants to kill OLEDs, and are smart meters going to slowly kill you? 15 Green Apps For Your New Apple iPad We’re excited to watch iPad apps slowly roll out, and there are…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Pakistani Man Arrested After Massage Slipper Shoe Bomb Scare

Faiz Mohammad, a Pakistani man, was arrested yesterday at the Jinnah International Airport after a scanner showed that his shoes had AC plugs, on/off switches, and soles wired with batteries and circuitry. Turns out the guy just had sore feet. Mohammad said he bought the shoes—which, admittedly, look pretty suspect—at a market and claimed he…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Hey AT&T and Apple, You Are Doing It Wrong

Apple and AT&T, you are doing it wrong. That $30 iPad data plan is kind of OK. However, if you’ve a smartphone in Spain, you get a microSIM duplicate to share your existing internet data plan. All for free. If I’m paying a 3G data plan for my smartphone, is there any reason why I…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Apple Promises Software Fix For iPad Wi-Fi Issues

For those of you iPad owners who are still having difficulty connecting and reconnecting to wireless networks, Apple’s promising more than just a workaround. According to an updated support document, a Wi-Fi software fix is just around the bend. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fix-the-ipads-wi-fi-issues-5511075 There’s no word yet on when the update will happen, but hopefully it will clear…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Samsung Sues Journalist For Satirical Article

This is journalist Michael Breen. On Christmas Day 2009, he published a satirical column in the English-language Korea Times newspaper. Four days later, Samsung sued Breen, his newspaper, and its top editor for $1 million. The column in question referenced Samsung’s past bribery scandals and made light of its executive hubris. It was a small…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Modular Neuroid Shows Everybody How Depressingly Polluted the World Is

The age of cheap, plentiful sensors, tracking everything from heartrates to the noise pollution slowly driving everybody insane is here. Joe Saavedra’s modular neuroid is a wearable, reconfigurable sensor system that monitors pollution we probably don’t wanna know about. The modular part of the system is that it works with different kinds of sensors. Currently…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Now, Anybody Can Accept Credit Card Payments With Square

Square’s been one of my favorite party tricks—watch me take your money with my iPhone!—but now everybody can join in with the full release of the apps for iPhone, Android and iPad. Which is actually more exciting. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-iphone-swipe-a-credit-card-5450838 Noah at Fast Company lays out pretty much everything you need to know about Square—founded by Jack…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Gulf Oil Spill Is Bigger Than Connecticut

We’ve seen aerial shots of the oil spill before, but the damage is so broad it’s nearly impossible to get any perspective. Well, now you can map it over any city—or state—in the world, using Google Earth. https://gizmodo.com/the-gulf-oil-spill-as-seen-from-the-international-spac-5531967 Paul Rademacher has shown the extent of the spill—all 2500 square miles of ocean surface and even…

Tech News Brian Barrett

MSI Slatebook: Microsoft’s Best Windows 7 Tablet Hope?

According to DigiTimes, MSI is going to be showing off a tablet next month at Computex. What it is: a 10-inch Atom-based system running Windows 7. What it’s not: one of the Tegra 2 tablets we’ve been yearning for. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-confirms-tegra-2-will-be-in-tablets-in-2010-5442839 Other details are scarce—and DigiTimes isn’t always the most reliable source—but it appears the Slatebook…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Get Down to Business on your iPad with LogMeIn Ignition

Beef up your iPad’s capabilities with LogMeIn Ignition (hello Flash). With just a simple touch, you can control your work or home computer (Mac or PC) anytime, anywhere from your iPad or iPhone. With access to absolutely everything on your computer, including programs not supported by iPad, you can do more wherever you are. All…

Tech News Gawkercreative

The Next Playboy Centerfold Will Be In 3D

When Hugh Hefner launched Playboy back in the 50s, he hired a photographer to shoot two nude women in 3D. But the price of bundling anaglyph glasses with the magazine was too high. This week, Hef’s dream becomes reality. In an effort to bolster low readership, the June edition of Playboy, on newsstands this week,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Hands-On: Sony Alpha NEX-5 Interchangeable-Lens Camera

Eagerly anticipated ever since Sony floated its wood-block concept designs at the PMA show in February, Sony’s Alpha NEX-5 and NEX-3 have finally arrived. Its debut models are the smallest entrants to date, and are aggressively priced given their features. The cameras are nearly identical, differing only in two ways. They have slightly different body…

Tech News Kevin Lee

NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX: Portable Viciousness

It’s tough to tell in this grandiose lead shot, but the new NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX case is LAN-party-portable, as it stands just 16 inches tall and 16 inches deep—40% smaller than a typical tower. Plus, there’s a handy non-slip handle on top to carry the thing around, and much of the system seems to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photos

May 10, 2010 10:00 PM PDT By: Lori Grunin Compact The NEX-5 is so small that it gets visually overwhelmed even by its 18-55mm kit lens. Still, it feels balanced in your hands while shooting. Photo credit: Sarah Tew/CNET May 10, 2010 10:00 PM PDT By: Lori Grunin Tiltable LCD The tiltable LCD is a…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Shoot Pointless Tweets to Death

Yahui Gu’s @twitter project lets us do something everybody wants to do, at least a few times a day: Vaporize pointless tweets. The moral is something about information overload, but I was too busy shooting Twitter to ponder it. [Parsons]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photo samples:

Noise Both visually and by the numbers, the NEX-5 delivers excellent noise performance for its class. Photos are pretty clean up through ISO 800, and you don’t start to see significant softness until ISO 1600. Photo credit: Matthew Fitzgerald/CNET May 10, 2010 10:00 PM PDT By: Lori Grunin Noise, ISO 6400 Sony has really gotten…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Famous Pop Artist David Hockney’s New Paintbrush Is The iPad

He’s known as one of the most famous English artists of the twentieth century, was hugely popular in the Pop Art phase—and now, David Hockney is creating artworks with his iPad. After experimenting with iPhone artwork, Hockney’s picked up an iPad (despite it not being available in the UK yet), and is making streaky masterpieces…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Paul Allen’s Yacht Could Be Yours For $158,000,000

The 303-foot-long Tatoosh is number 26 on the world’s largest yachts list, but don’t worry too much about Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: he still owns the world’s ninth largest, the Octopus. Allen’s put Tatoosh up for sale at Fraser Yachts in Florida, with the asking price of €125,000,000 (around $158,564,719.54). It’s a lot of money,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

DustPan+Bin Fits In Your Tiny Ikea Apartment

It’s a dustpan! It’s a bin! It’s DustPan+Bin! A smart and pretty idea for those who live in a small apartment and don’t have a vacuum cleaner. [Lufdesign via Core77] https://gizmodo.com/dyson-makes-its-smallest-vacuum-cleaner-yet-the-city-d-5453590

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Microsoft Captures Remarkable Stills From Lousy Flash Videos

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Pakistani Man Arrested After Massage Slipper Shoe Bomb Scare

Hey AT&T and Apple, You Are Doing It Wrong

Apple Promises Software Fix For iPad Wi-Fi Issues

Samsung Sues Journalist For Satirical Article

Modular Neuroid Shows Everybody How Depressingly Polluted the World Is

Now, Anybody Can Accept Credit Card Payments With Square

The Gulf Oil Spill Is Bigger Than Connecticut

MSI Slatebook: Microsoft’s Best Windows 7 Tablet Hope?

Get Down to Business on your iPad with LogMeIn Ignition

The Next Playboy Centerfold Will Be In 3D

Hands-On: Sony Alpha NEX-5 Interchangeable-Lens Camera

NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX: Portable Viciousness

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photos

Shoot Pointless Tweets to Death

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photo samples:

Famous Pop Artist David Hockney’s New Paintbrush Is The iPad

Paul Allen’s Yacht Could Be Yours For $158,000,000

DustPan+Bin Fits In Your Tiny Ikea Apartment

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