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You know what commercial I can’t get out of my head? The Amex commercial the one where faces are found where they shouldn’t be. That’s the Shooting Challenge for this week. Make inanimate objects animate. The rules: 1. Submissions need to be your own. 2. Photos need to be taken the week of the contest.…
I’ve suspected that Intel’s engineers were somewhat crazy, but I never thought they’d hop into cannons and shoot themselves toward giant tube-shaped bells in order to recreate that catchy “Intel inside” chime. Ding-ba-bing-ba-ding-ouch! Looks painful, even if probably fake. The stunt really looks like it should result in some major neck injuries, safety gear or…
Jesus, that picture seethes class, amirite? Anyway, there’s some cool tech stuff on the Gawker Luxury Gift Guide, including a paper thin Dell, a personal sports aircraft, and REALLY good whisky (like the kind that guy drinks). Check it out!
I have to admit, a robot that would help you buy groceries at the supermarket would be awesome. But I think that Robovie II could be even better. Currently, Robovie is designed to help the elderly complete their shopping rounds. At home, users enter their list into a special mobile device that Robovie senses upon…
Even Martha Stewart couldn’t conjure up a decoration as charmingly nerdy as this papercraft tree from Sparkle Labs. All you need to do is download the PDF, print it out on card stock, cut it out, tape the ends closed and ipop some LEDs in there for color. As you can see in the image…
Look, I have no problem with people who are into building their own computers. It’s cheaper than buying a premade tower, and you get a real sense of satisfaction out of building something yourself. But you’ve gotta have limits. Spending $500 on a nice graphics card? OK, that’s a reasonable enough splurge if you can…
This is One Force Tracker, a cool military iPhone application that shows friends and foes over maps in real time, and provides with secure communications. This is how it works, according to Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems’s CTO J Smart: This is hypothetical, but if there is a building with known terrorist activities, it could…
A while back we saw charts of smartphone market shares across the world, but now we want to know more. Specifically, we want to know more about Gizmodo readers. Which smart (or dumb) phones do you use? On which continent? https://gizmodo.com/the-year-apple-and-rim-ate-everyone-elses-lunch-5404274 To help satisfy our curiosity (and maybe your own), head over to the poll…
“Genius”, “safe” and “accuracy” are all words I couldn’t possibly use to describe what this guy has done to his motorcycle. As you can see, he mounted launch tubes on the bike so he can remotely fire bottle rockets in random patterns on public roads. As much as I love anything rocket-related, this just strikes…
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Yesterday’s report from Android tracking site AndroLib that the Android Market had probably surpassed 20,000 apps was heartening for Android users and industry watchers alike. Minor issue! According to Google, they overshot the figure by about 20%. Still, the current count of 16,000 apps sit on a pretty healthy growth curve, if not a particularly…
Or rather, what it would look like: Lockheed Martin’s Scorpion glide bombs, seen here floating toward their targets mesmerizing slow-mo from the bay of a high-speed ground sled, will drop from the skies, not the carpool lane. The Scorpion is designed as a possible replacement for the current, heavier munitions on Predator drones, or, in…
Intel has announced the winners of their Core i7 desktop mod challenge. Naturally, the mods had to be built around intel Core chips, and the focus was to showcase the “possibilities of tomorrow’s technology.” Detailed images of the builds are scarce, but I managed to scrounge up some media on a few of the more…
Elgato’s EyeTV Live3G web app lets you stream live television from your Mac to your iPhone for free. It’s similar to the iPhone app they announced in October, except that it allows for 3G streaming, not just wireless. Available now, here. [Elgato] https://gizmodo.com/eyetv-iphone-app-allows-for-streaming-over-3g-through-b-5383752
The Tegra system-on-a-chip, the zippy hardware that powers the Zune HD, had so much potential. Then, the delays. Slow pickup. Disappointment. Whatever happened to the Tegra, Nvidia doesn’t want it to happen again. This time, they say, will be different. https://gizmodo.com/mobile-chipsets-wtf-are-atom-tegra-and-snapdragon-5277326 As for what the Tegra 2 is, nobody really knows, because the closest Nvdia…
PC owners now have access to doubleTwist’s Amazon-linked music store, and all doubleTwist users will have support for the most talked about phone of the moment. Not a bad day’s worth of updates! https://gizmodo.com/doubletwists-amazon-mp3-store-one-less-reason-to-bothe-5376195 The doubleTwist-Amazon venture has been available for Macs for about a week, and looks like it will deploy the same easy-to-use…
Winner, Mod Creativity: let Just say I was thinking outside of the box on this mod. I wanted bring something from the past to the future. With project “Cool” I accomplished that goal. By bringing a 1990 Boomboox converting it to a ultimate gaming machine. I added a lot of new features that you don’t…
I’m glad that the Ikkar—a yacht that can open its hull until it looks like a trimaran—is just a really sleek concept. After all, the only people who can actually build it are Dr.Doom, Magneto, and Larry Ellison. I wish it was real, however. The Ikkar allows for 50 passengers, with suites that have terraces…
This organic flash memory from researchers at the University of Tokyo has got me dreaming in flex-o-vision. Takeyo Someya, Tsuyoshi Sekitani and their team have placed memory cells on a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) sheet that can bend with a curvature radius up to 6mm before causing any mechanical or electrical degradation. We’re still pretty far…
Texting while walking is dangerous, as you can’t see what’s in front of you. The Type n Walk iPhone app, as predicted on April 1st, solves that by using the camera to make the phone transparent. Sigh. [TypeNWalk via BoingBoing] https://gizmodo.com/despite-being-an-april-1-gag-txtnwalk-mobile-app-is-sw-5195440
