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File-Syncing Service Dropbox Now Has An iPad App

There’s now an iPad app for popular file-syncing service Dropbox. It’ll allow you to access, edit, sync, download, upload, and share Dropbox contents on your iPad. The app looks great and, just like the iPhone version, it’s free. [iTunes]

How to Create the Perfect Internet Meme

“It’s taken me seven years of research, but I have finally figured out the perfect formula for a viral internet meme.” Steven Lefcourt must have visited every dark corner of the internet to find the secret Meme Machine—I think it’s probably next to the Fountain of Youth or something—but he did find it and he…

This MacBook Only Stores Business Cards

If you want to make sure all your future business partners know that you bleed Apple, this MacBook is the only one to buy. Cause it’d be totally gauche to put “Apple Fanboy” on your business card itself. In addition to having an adorable little keyboard, a dock, and a menu bar, the screen is…

A Laser Jacket So Tacky That It’ll Make You Go Blind

The lights dim as our evil genius slips on his jacket—only pausing briefly to admire the 200 laser diodes sewn into the garment. He takes a deep breath, exhales, and steps forward: “Pew pew.” Everyone is blinded. I don’t really know what Wie-Chieh Shih’s motivation was when he made this laser jacket, but I do…

White Castle Scented Candle: The Stink of Success

If they can make a pine scented candle and a cinnamon scented candle and a country linen scented candle, you’re damn well right they can make a candle that smells like Grade-D Holstein smothered in onion scraps. And they did! The White Castle scented candle was created in honor of the 18th celebration of National…

Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook

Facebook privacy policies keep going down the drain. That’s enough reason for many to abandon it. Here you will find nine more: After some reflection, I’ve decided to delete my account on Facebook. I’d like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I…

IBM CityOne Is SimCity For the Real World

If SimCity introduced legions of gamers to the world of urban planning, then IBM’s upcoming CityOne game looks to take that education to the next level. With real-time water management, microlending, and smartgrids, will there be any room for fun? We’ll get a better idea of that tomorrow, when IBM introduces the game at the…

Not-So-Old Technology Warping Into Obsolescence

Gizmodo collaborator Anna Jane Grossman appeared last week on Nightline to talk about her second most favorite thing*: The death of not-so-old technology. And along with it, the death of blind dates, love letters, and long phone calls. https://gizmodo.com/four-old-gadgets-we-love-and-four-we-hate-5378200 Click to view Anna Jane—author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By and…

Monami Hard Drive Breathes Your Data

Monami. A hard drive with a leather element that changes shape depending on the data stored inside. It’s only a concept, but it’s the kind of thing that someone like a LaCie would actually do. In the fantasy world of the designer, the hard drive enclosure also acts as a USB HUB and a 3-inch…

Which iPad Did You Buy?

Whichever iPad you wanted, it’s out now—from the basic $500 model to the fully loaded $830 64GB totally stacked version with 3G and GPS. So, which one did you buy? If you’re planning to buy one in the next 30 days, that’s close enough too. (And we know, lots of you aren’t going to buy…

Speech Recognition Isn’t Dead

Robert Fortner’s penned a fascinating post-mortem on speech recognition software. That’s right, post-mortem. Because it’s apparently very, very dead! Except that it’s not. Fortner’s analysis is thorough, and to be fair, he’s speaking mostly about the apparently stagnation of speech recognition research and accuracy improvement, not declaring speech recognition dead outright. The thesis: The accuracy…

Google Invests $39 Million In Wind Farms

Google announced its “first direct investment in a utility-scale renewable energy project”—$38.8m to two wind farms in North Dakota that generate 169.5 megawatts of power, enough to keep the lights on in 55,000 homes. Though $40 million is relative pennies in the big Google bucket, it’s been known for some time that Google is interested…

This Is What Happens When You Microwave an iPad

With every new Apple gadget, there’s always an imbecile who wants to destroy it on video to get his Warhol moment. This one put an iPad 3G 64GB in a microwave but, instead of a Warhol, he got a Pollock. Yes, it’s art. Art enclosed in transparent resin. Titled the EyePad, you can buy it…

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An ABC iPad App That Streams Lost Over 3G Is Almost Here [UPDATED]

ABC’s iPad app was one of the few we tested that flat-out didn’t play video over 3G—unlike Netflix and YouTube, which play degraded video—but Business Insider hears a 3G-compatible version has already been submitted to the App Store. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-3g-test-notes-5528240 This is one of the cases that people using an iPad plus a Verizon MiFi for…

Beware of the Great Dimple Fraud

She smiled back. You’d hoped she would actually laugh, but those two charming dimples more than made up for her tepid response. Those two beautiful dimples… WROUGHT BY STEEL. [Modern Mechanix via Vintage Ads via Copyranter]

Gadget Deals of the Day

Another day, another dollar saved. Dealzmodo is back to kick off the start of the week, the start of the May, and hopefully, the start of good weather. Grab the latest gadget deals and enjoy the best of Spring. Top Deals: • 55″ Vizio VF551XVT 1080p 240Hz LED TV for $1,599.00 plus free shipping (normally…

Frog Watch or Boob Watch, I Like It Just the Same

304 components made of grade 5 titanium, blue 22K gold rotor, three-dimensional horological engine, hour and minutes information transmitted via ceramic ball bearings to rotating aluminium domes covered with 0.28mm-thick sapphire crystal. They call it the HM3 Frog. MB&F HM3 Frog is a limited edition outside the budget of most mortals (the price is not…

The Real Problem with 3DTV: There’s Nothing to Watch… Yet

Panasonic and Samsung have launched the first models in an onslaught of 3DTV. But the big problem isn’t their quality, silly glasses or price—it’s that, even if you wanted to attain 3D media, you can’t. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-3dtv-samsung-un55c7000-vs-panasonic-tc-p50vt2-5501900 Remember when HDTV came out and there was barely anything to watch in HD? Or maybe you bought a…