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Wayne Coyne, frontman of the acclaimed rock band The Flaming Lips, recently renovated his Oklahoma compound, and the new space gives the group’s music a run for its money in terms of psychedelic flair, playful construction, and sheer imagination. The last we saw of Coyne, he was, naturally, sitting in a bathtub on Google Street…
It’s the worst feeling: Waking up completely wrecked from the night before, only to realize with a dull sweat that you pressed ‘Send’. Fortunately for the rest of us, what you drunkenly texted is often hilarious. And now there’s even a whole website dedicated to collecting your stupidest text messages: Texts From Last Night (dot…
Verizon has officially stated that they will be holding a joint press conference with Skype at MWC on Tuesday, and now Business Week is reporting that Verizon will announce new phones preloaded with Skype for use with their 3G network. Well yes, that seems like a pretty reasonable guess for what the two companies will…
The August 17, 1967 Salina Journal (Salina, KS) ran a headline that caught my eye: “Enjoy Your Privacy; It’ll Be Gone In a Few Years.” Someone from the year 2010 might look at this headline and expect to read an article with rather prescient predictions of how a vast network of computers might allow for…
If you like robots or music even a little bit, you should really just go ahead and watch this video of Marv, a robotic vibraphone, playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” faster than any human ever has or ever will.* On the vibes, at least, Marv is king. Created by three San Francisco engineers who are…
Though we’ve talked a lot about dumping via text message, the burning question put to our resident love doctor is: Can you ask someone out via text message? And can you do it with video? As technology evolves, the number of ways to ask someone out on a date grows and grows until one day…
Yesterday we saw the Samsung Wave from afar, today we get our first close look at Samsung’s first Bada-powered handset. The Wave is indeed the S8500, the first handset to receive Bluetooth SIG certification for the new Bluetooth 3.0 standard. Ironically, Bluetooth was left out of the list of leaked specs but we will presume…
With MWC right around the corner, all eyes are on Microsoft for the launch of Windows Phone 7. And though we heard Project Pink was in trouble, this FCC filing suggests the Sharp-made Turtle may still be on its way. https://gizmodo.com/danger-for-microsofts-project-pink-5374973 The diagram for the model PB10ZU shows a short, stout device that bears an…
Not many thermometers claim to be well-designed and booze-filled. If you’re ever left in a dry house, you at least have one more option. Then again, regular thermometers can get you messed up fast too (and dead). [Unpluggd]
Bioshock 2 is out, genre-bender Heavy Rain has been reviewed and there’s news on Fable III, Crackdown II and Alan Wake. So let’s do this. Heavy Rain Review: No Wrong Conclusion In 10-20 years, it’s my guess that you’ll see a lot more games like Heavy Rain. https://kotaku.com/heavy-rain-review-no-wrong-conclusion-452580385 Frankenreview: Heavy Rain For a second opinion.…
Forget grades of wool—the clothing of the future’s going to be measured in millivolts. Researchers at UC-Berkeley have created electricity-generating nanofibers that could someday be woven into your clothing. The fibers are about 100 times thinner than a human hair, but can generate electrical outputs of up to 30 millivolts. Even better, their piezoelectric properties…
Last Wednesday I married the love of my life. This is the short story of some of the things I did before I met her, a guide on flirting using Twitter, Facebook, texting, and sexting face-to-face, in the real world. Since I came to New York, my romantic life has been a rollercoaster. A very…
Apologies to all the other brilliant Valentine’s e-greetings at someecards, but this is the only one you should need to truly prove your love. [someecards]
We knew it would come and we’ve seen demos, but at this year’s TED conference Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson confirmed that the publication would hit the iPad this summer. Unfortunately there aren’t details regarding digital subscription costs yet.[Wired] https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-maga-5370252
I’m more excited about Final Fantasy 1 + 2 coming to the iPhone than just about any upcoming iPhone game. It’s Final Fantasy! For iPhone! https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-final-fantasy-is-coming-to-iphone-5453416 This is what it looks like in motion. You still have to use the traditional iPhone control scheme of putting your left thumb over 1/6 of the screen, and…
In today’s Remainders: the unfun. Wait! Don’t go. The items themselves are fun! They just involve unfun. We have a no fun WiFi school bus; a no fun eBook from the White House, an unspectacular Samsung smartphone reveal, and more. Boring Bus I recently took my first trip on a WiFi-enabled airplane. At first I…
It’s not hard to find a neoprene laptop sleeve, but few are made from the discarded remnants of an actual wetsuit factory like LooptWorks’ cases (starting at $30). Authentic shark bites and pee stains not included. [LooptWorks via Treehugger]
Someone in our virtual bullpen said: “It’s a cockpit erection.” The truth is harder than that. The roof of one of the small jets hangars at Dulles International Airport collapsed, pushing the tails of the airplanes down and the cockpits up. Apparently because the structure wasn’t able to hold under the massive pressure of the…
In this week’s romantical app roundup: Google, Buzzed! Phone trees, sheared! The Olympics, demystified! Doom II, taken down a notch! Your person, flailed around! Your visage, cartoonified! Sesame Street, Picasso’d! And more… https://gizmodo.com/a-love-story-as-told-by-iphone-apps-5469996/?skyline=true&s=i To view this post as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5470900 Google Buzz: To be a geek is to enthusiastically try every…
As long as humans have had genitals, we’ve found artificial ways to stimulate them. But it took the repressed Victorian era to create the vibrator, a device aimed at curing a disease that doesn’t exist. It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, a time where those without honeybears to take out to dinner are probably feeling a little…
