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As my first digital camera was a Ricoh, I have a very soft spot for them. This limited edition version of the GR Digital III looks amazing with its blue accents, and whaddya know, clothes-house Stussy helped design it. https://gizmodo.com/ricoh-gr-digital-iii-point-and-shoots-fast-28mm-f-1-9-l-5323771 It’s apparently the 30th birthday of Stussy, and to celebrate they’ve splashed it with a…
The Modo, a wireless handheld introduced in 2000, couldn’t give directions. It refused to make calls and had no interest in displaying fresh emails. It was too busy being cool. Alas, I never got to touch it. As a college student in 2000, I spent many a morning babysitting the daughter of New York Times…
While this hoodie will make me look almost as snazzy as the oh-so-evil Shredder, odds are that I won’t have any more success against do-gooder turtles than he. Maybe I should just wear a pretty, girly dress instead. https://gizmodo.com/im-gonna-wear-this-mini-dress-for-a-full-body-3d-experi-5376849 Failing evil plots aside, the Shredder hoodie actually looks rather cozy with all those crazy “blades”…
A 21 year old man was shot over a stolen iPod. His killer was shot by police officers responding to the crime. Both men died. All over one freakin’ iPod. It’s unclear what the exact details of the argument which led to these lost lives were, but we do know that it was over an…
Intel revealed its new line of Atom processors today, including the “Pineview” nettop-centered ones we saw benchmarked earlier. What do they have to offer? A smaller footprint, better efficiency, and not a lot more power. https://gizmodo.com/intels-new-pineview-atom-processors-benchmarked-foun-5424696 The new chips include the N450 for netbooks and the D410 and D510 for nettops (or, as Intel kept…
Underside of a DVCPro Tape. I work in video. i look at these allllll day. Well, not specifically the underside, but still. anyway! taken with my iphone, so no larger size/specs… -Jillian Selsky Old Canon Powershot A95, 8mm focal length, shutter speed 1/60, ISO 50, f2.8, auto flash. Yes, that is a Macbook Pro, the…
I’m not sure if a dress composed of a few dozen dragon skin silicone tiles—each infused with an LED light—is the most comfortable or practical thing to wear, but it sure does create all kinds of possibilities. Designed by Elizabeth Fuller for the NYU’s ITP Winter Show, the Life Dress is fully programmable, meaning that…
My soon-to-be-wife knows the weirdest people. Like Ari Gorman, a man who can talk, play the guitar, and sing backwards. I find it weird and amazing, but it also freaks the hell out of me. Watch for yourself.
Seriously, folks: Guess what I saw in this oddly catchy commercial for the Shack, because I can’t figure it out. All I know is that Biz Markie is excited about something and that there’s a squirrel DJ. Ok, maybe the part about this commercial being catchy isn’t such a great thing. Excuse me while I…
Is the 2000 version of yourself worried about missing incoming calls while online? Just connect your modem to your phone then call Sprint and go online and write a check to pay the bill and… you’ll have Internet call waiting! At least that’s what I understand from this commercial. Truth be told, my attention span…
I can’t tell if the OSIM uCrown 2 really is a head massage device, a practical joke, an attempt to reinvent 1980s electronics styling, or some twisted mixture of all three. Also, there was a uCrown 1? Now, if we’re to accept that the head massage functionality as the goal, here’s what Brookstone says this…
Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously by William Gurstelle Danny Allen remarked that this book “looks like some hazardous, but fascinating Summer reading,” but I think that flamethrowers and gunpowder are great DIY projects all year ’round. [Amazon; Kindle; Barnes and Noble] https://gizmodo.com/summer-reading-fun-with-absinthe-and-flamethrowers-5333757 Dangerous Book for Boys Electronics Kit…
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol by Iain Gately I don’t know what it says about the editor who recommended it, but this book covers the history of alcohol from “absinthe to Jay-Z’s boycott of allegedly racist Cristal, from Mayan pulque to Pilsner Urquell.” It appears to be one of those rare reads that’s chock-full…
Glitch: Designing Imperfection by Iman Moradi The publisher describes images and text in Glitch as capturing “the fact that no one can deliberately make a mistake, although mistakes are often the greatest sources of inspiration.” And the book certainly does this by showing us several hundred images from around the world which, despite (or rather…
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt A recommendation and mini-book review from Joel Johnson earned Traffic a spot in our Reading Room: “Want to learn about humans integrate technology into wide-ranging, everyday systems? And learn even more because its about a network that’s been…
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta Publisher’s Weekly described Ken Auletta’s book as a “savvy profile of the Internet search octopus,” and they’re not very far off. If there was ever anything you wanted to know about the way the company on whose services we depend oh-so-very much,…
Daemon and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez Daniel Suarez has earned not one, but two spots in our reading room. These techno-thrillers not only use every bit of jargon from the hacker’s cookbook, and a fair amount of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson in to boot, they also feature deadly autonomous motorcycles with spinning katanas instead…
If you’ve ever wanted to see the places you frequent most rendered as a heat map, Steven Lehrburger’s Where Do You Go project for NYU’s ITP Winter Show is worth a pixelated look. By logging in at wheredoyougo.net, users can make colorful patterns out of their social lives to share with friends either on Twitter…
Certainly not the first time we’ve seen something like this, and certainly not the last. And no offense, dude, but World of Warcraft Panera Bread iMac man looked way cooler. [Imgur via Reddit via CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/you-have-nothing-to-apologize-for-panera-bread-imac-ma-5429732
A St. Louis company named Bing Information Design!, whose services and website look nothing like a search engine and could not possibly be confused with Microsoft’s foray into search, is now suing Microsoft because they say its new search engine will confuse people. They can’t lose! [CNET]
