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Click to viewWhen Faisal Shahzad left his bomb-loaded car parked in Times Square, every step of his escape route through Manhattan was caught by both police and private spycams. If they’re the NYPD’s eyes, this room is its central nervous system. The brief look at the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative’s surveillance HQ offered to 60…
For a while today, a Twitter bug let anyone force anyone to follow their accounts. It was a hilariously simple trick, and equally bizarre. Even better? This bug was discovered by accident, by a Turkish Twitter user. Here’s what happened. Our initial tip came to us through another Turkish Twitter user, named Güntekin. His first…
The thing about wirelessly streaming video to millions and millions of phones is that it’s, like, hard. Wireless vs. Wired Why is it, you might be wondering, that wireless speeds can’t just zoom zoom, faster faster, the way that Verizon or Comcast seem to press a button and magically, new, faster internet speeds appear. Well,…
Google Buzz stumbled out of the gate with varying degrees of miscues and upsets. Three months later, Google has created a “Head of Social” position, to help navigate the murky waters of the social web. Too late? Yes. Too little? https://gizmodo.com/google-buzz-is-a-dirty-snitch-5469101 Possibly! Because while the major problem with Buzz is that it was a privacy…
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’ve brought in a special guest judge. Martin Waugh is not only a master of catching water drops in flight; he’s oft-labeled the inventor of the “drop collision” shot. He’s appeared discussing his craft on the Discovery Channel, and you can find his work in museums and advertisements alike. (Of…
NPD Group’s smartphone survey* puts total iPhone’s sales for the first quarter at 21%. That’s third in the ranking. Second position goes, for the first time, to the Android platform, with 28%. El Número Uno belongs to BlackBerry, with 36%. According to Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD, the bigger factor in…
-Rafael Novaes Lemke Nikon D300s Nikkor 150mm F/2.8 1/125, f/8, ISO 200 Outside on the patio with natural light, citronella candle in the background provides the red. SB-900 camera left fired from SB-900 master unit on D300s. Cropped in Lightroom, sharpened in Nik Software RAW Output Sharpener. -Chuck Pepper Jr. Equipment and techniques: Spceially for…
Shooter Aperture 1/200 ISO 100 F5,6 Aperture JPEG Quality Lens at 55 mm Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS Kit Lens (18-55 mm) I just asked my mom to help me doing a good picture os a drop. Being a good farm woman as she is, she loved the pictures I’ve taken. -Thiago Lopes Pereira Model:…
Equipment: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSI Lens: Canon EFS 18-55 Exposure time 1/800 at F5 ISO: 800 Manual Focus Taken at full sunlight with flat black back drop. Tripod used with remote shutter release. Water dropped using measuring cup onto slate stones. -Anthony Dedal Equipment: Canon 7D, Canon 22mm – 70mm USM II L f/2.8…
First, Verizon changed their mind about the Google Phone after releasing the similar HTC Incredible. Now Sprint, weeks before the release of the Evo 4G, has done the same. And with that, the CDMA Nexus One is all but dead. https://gizmodo.com/the-htc-incredible-really-is-verizons-nexus-one-5524570 When Sprint’s Michelle Leff Mermelstein told us that the company wouldn’t be selling the…
Clear your schedule. Tell the boss you’re sick. Because you’re going somewhere—anywhere—tomorrow. JetBlue is offering $10 flights for May 11-12 and if you’re lucky, some flights still might be available. If not, enjoy the latest deals from Dealzmodo. Top Deals: • 15.6″ HP Envy 15 Core i5 Laptop for $1,099.99 plus free shipping (normally $1,300…
Starting May 16, you’ll be able to pick up the Palm Pre Plus at AT&T. It will sell for $150 with rebate, and for a limited time, that deal will come with a free Touchstone charging dock. Ooohhh! https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-and-pixi-plus-coming-to-at-t-soonish-but-5498945
If you’re in prison and want to keep your dealing business alive, you need a cellphone. But how to you get it through security? Baking loaves of bread, crossbowing over prison walls, and, of course, the good old rectum. https://gizmodo.com/7-prisoners-have-surgery-to-remove-cellphones-stuck-up-5044409 They Daily Mail published an entertaining and disheartening rundown on the many techniques prisoners use…
Current hard disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack ten times as much data in the same space. A new paper in the journal Nature Photonics outlines the process, which combines TAR (thermally-assisted recording)…
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover materializing on Primrose Hill, in Regent’s Park, London. Beautiful. Tripping. Awesome. Some of you probably don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. Don’t worry. It’ll make sense one day. Sky Arts recreated the famous design in real life using lasers, neons, and smoke. The Great Gig…
I can’t be the only one who’s wondered—even stabilized by several screws in metal mounts—how can hard drives sift through so much minuscule data amidst minuscule vibrations? A new study suggests what we’ve long suspected: They can’t. …well, not all the time, at least. In a study conducted Julian Turner, traditional hard drive racks were…
You’re looking at the balcony of the Avro Business Jet Explorer One. Its creators—BAE and Design Q—say that the “Air Deck” is a first in aviation history. True. It’s also the most stupid invention in aviation history. They say: “The ‘Air Deck’ transforms the rear of the aircraft into the ultimate living space, providing an…
Follow this dead-simple guide to force any Twitter user—from Oprah to Kutcher—to follow you. No, seriously. (Update: Here‘s what happened.) https://gizmodo.com/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ridiculous-follow-bug-5535536 I have no idea how a hole this large could be left in a service as popular as Twitter, nor do I understand why it hasn’t been shut yet. What I do understand, though,…
I’m sure the conversation that started “let’s hook a roundabout up to my tiny motorcycle and ride it until one of us flies off at breakneck speed” sounded much more convincing in the original German. [The Daily What via NextRound]
If this furniture looks like a giant egg carton to you, well, that’s only because it’s supposed to. By designers Dan Hochberg and Odelia Lavie, ‘Pulp Furniture‘ is modeled after the strong but lightweight pulp spacers found in some packaging. So the components of this set of furniture are 100% paper (save for elements like…
