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Hello, new readers! Welcome to Gizmodo. Many of you are probably here because of the lost Apple iPhone 4 saga. Perhaps another big news brought you to our pages or maybe some of you are reading these lines just because someone sent you a Gizmodo story they liked. https://gizmodo.com/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone-5520471 Well, there’s a lot more than…
Google’s TV ambitions scrambled into view last month, when the NYT outlined the company’s plans. Today, we learn a little more: Google—with Sony—is making an announcement next month, around a version of Android called Dragonpoint. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/a-google-tv-set-top-box-is-coming-5495856 Dragonpoint! We’ve reached out to Google for what on earth this is—it could be anything from a codename…
Often, overzealous renders get our hopes up for architectural projects that never quite stun the same way in person. But Basil Childers’ first photos of Shanghai’s Dream Pavilion are even more impressive than the initial renders promised. https://gizmodo.com/stunning-shanghai-corporate-pavilion-made-from-used-cd-5351058 The facade is 100% LED array, but the exact pattern is constantly in flux, dictated by those…
Really, you could swap out the word “iPad” for about any shiny new toy, it’s just funnier (and a touch truer) with Apple. [thenextweb]
In this corner: a multi-million dollar NASA-sponsored space balloon, crashing magnificently in the Australian desert. In the other: an dark SUV of indeterminate make and model. I’m not a betting man, but I’d say the smart money’s on the balloon. It’s not clear yet what caused the failure—apparently conditions at the launch were pristine—but fortunately…
Photo removed What happens when you take an iPhone up in an F16 fighter jet for a few dog fights, bringing it up to speeds of 9Gs? The pixels start to melt off the screen. Badass. [Flickr, Thanks, Jason!]
Behold the Chatroulette speed painter at work: armed with just a Wacom tablet and a preternatural drawing ability, he’s able to create incredible sketches of his chat partners in no time flat. And you thought the Chatroulette pianist was good. https://gizmodo.com/the-chatroulette-pianist-will-make-you-laugh-today-5494014 One shudders to think just how much naked ended up on the cutting room…
I’m not going to pretend HotelChatter’s chart works, so I’ll just point to their list of best hotel Wi-Fi (Holiday Inn for mega-chains) and worst (avoid mid-high-enders like DoubleTree). My hotel criteria? Waffle House proximity. [Hotel Chatter via Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/the-best-and-worst-hotels-for-wi-fi-2010-edition-5527086
If Apple’s position on Flash wasn’t perfectly clear, Steve Jobs has taken the time to write a 1500-word open letter regurgitating the party lines at length. In a word (or three), Apple’s position is “Flash sucks unwashed balls.” Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business…
Hey, kids… heard of this Facebook thing that’s been hitting the internet? Amazon did! And they’re integrating it, along with some newfangled Twitter whatnot, in their Kindle 2.5 software update—along with some other, less-belated goodies. The full list of enhancements also includes password protection, the ability to pan and zoom PDF files, larger font sizes,…
The iPad 3G may require a micro SIM—a lilliputian SIM card incompatible with anything else you own—but AT&T will be selling each bundled with a full SIM card adapter—meaning you could potentially use your data plan elsewhere. UPDATE: UPDATE: Actually, a better look from BGR shows us that this seems to be a punch out…
I applaud Serious Eats for attempting sous vide in a beer cooler, but the adventurous article didn’t convince me that the mass sous vide revolution would come via Coleman or Igloo. Remember, sous vide cooking consists of holding water at a specific temperature, and immersing vacuum-sealed food into that water, cooking it right up to…
Adobe may have stopped bothering with iPhones, but they certainly didn’t hesitate to finally give us a tolerable Flash video experience on Macs by incorporating Apple’s new video acceleration API in a Flash Player preview release dubbed “Gala.” https://gizmodo.com/adobe-dropping-iphone-app-development-technology-after-5520938 The preview release “introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3.” This…
After modding the toy Millennium Falcon, Peter Clute decided to combine Buzz Lightyear with the Terminator, resulting in a zombie nightmare for kids and yours truly. I wish Toy Stoy 3 included this character. https://gizmodo.com/modded-millennium-falcon-can-pass-for-real-movie-prop-5033783 [Peter Clute—Thanks Peter]
Do you have $366 left in your iPad fund? Want to buy a case for it covered in the iconic LV logo in order to show that you spent $366 on an iPad case? Here you go. [GQ via BornRich]
When the Dallas Cowboys blew up Texas Stadium this week—punting accident—they had the good sense to put in a 3D camera rig inside. Click and drag to move the camera around. And turn up the sound. Boom!
Jon, Jon… a merger? A merger? Maybe you should read our analysis on HP buying your company. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/why-hp-buying-palm-is-good-for-you-5526620
The problem with messages is that you can’t be sure who might pick them up at the other end. But a new scheme for a quantum communications ensures only a recipient in exactly the right location can read their message. If banks were to use the new scheme they could send messages that could not…
This ad for Latinworks’ Parental Control Bar urges parents to protect their kids from the seedier sides of the internet. But if you’re going to organize your folders like that, what the hell do you expect? [ScaryIdeas via Copyranter] https://gizmodo.com/desktop-clutter-art-a-go-go-383942
Ooh la la! Google’s Image Search has gotten quite a nice makeover for iPhone and Android devices. There are now neater thumbnails, results optimized for speed, and pictures that can be flipped through with a swipe. [Google Mobile Blog]
