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Because you must be wondering that, right? I mean I’m rich. I’m famous. People worship me. Plus, I can hypnotize people pretty much at will. And, let’s be honest, when you put me next to Larry, and Eric, and even Bill Clinton, or really almost anyone, well, I’m a lot better looking.
It’s a story doomed to repeat for all of time: Man cheats on wife, wife catches man, wife eagle-claw-slaps man, man runs away, wife chases after man with a golf club, man crashes car. This could have been prevented. As Tiger’s scandal winds to a middle, we’re hearing more about what actually happened, and all…
I suppose it goes without saying, but Punto makes a fine looking lamp. The Zero is almost entirely made of glass, and it looks like the power center of our sci-fi space future. The Zero is available in several different configurations, ranging from a wall sconce to ceiling lamps to floor and table models. The…
Tim Quirk was the singer of punk-pop outfit Too Much Joy, signed by Warner Bros. in 1990. Now he’s an executive at an online music service, giving him insight on digital sales data and just how labels fudge their numbers. I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too…
We heard some impressions earlier today, but look at Time Inc‘s Manhattan Project for yourself: What a live-action Sports Illustrated issue would actually look like—complete with obligatory Swimsuit Issue video clips. Not half bad. [The Wonderfactory on YouTube]
I don’t know what it looks where you live, but in Chicago, it’s cold enough that everything is dead but not snowy enough to hide it. So let’s lament our environment with good old, pretentious, black and white nature photography. The official challenge is “Gray Winter.” For fun, let’s all shoot black and white in-camera…
Word is that the Motorola CLIQ is getting a much needed OTA update. It’s supposed to bring improved battery life and better touchscreen and Bluetooth responses. Anyone been able to update yet? [TMO News via BGR]
Your apartment may be on the brink of being condemned as a biohazard by the state, but even it won’t compare to how the rotating kitchen will look when it ends its run on February 28th, 2010. Designed by artist Zeger Reyers, the kitchen was put in motion last week at the opening of Eating…
Here they are, 10 toys and games painstakingly selected for coolness and/or inoffensiveness (plus two of the worst ideas), running the gamut in age range and price. Pick through, and you’ll find something nice for the brainy little snot. If you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. https://gizmodo.com/toys-and-games-to-buy-smart-kids-whose-parents-you-actu-5416841…
Amazon is celebrating the holiday season by giving away one free festive tune a day for the whole month of December. That should leave you with a little extra coin to spend on Deals for your loved ones. Top Deals: • 17.3″ HP G71t Laptop for $459.99 with free shipping (normally $579.99 – use coupon…
The cores aren’t terribly powerful (described as being like lower-end Atom processors) but hey…it’s got 48 of them, and it’s programmable. Dubbed as the “Single-chip Cloud Computer” (SCC), the 1.3-billion transistor processor one ups it’s 80-core Polaris predecessor because it can run standard x86 software. So far, it has successfully booted Windows and Linux during…
TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld got a sneak peek at Time Inc‘s “Manhattan Project“, a digital magazine designed to run on tablet computers, including the fabled Apple tablet. And it’s going to rock because that’s exactly what people crave for: INTERACTIVE MAGAZINES!!! https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-the-wet-dream-concept-5336204 People from the 80s. All the five who survived wearing their hair spray and…
What does the Freedom Tray do? Lots of stuff, ok? Shut up. Is this a patriotic tray? Yeah, that’s more like it. The official answer, to this official question: The Freedom Tray is a tribute to the world class manufacturing and dedication of the hard working people of this country. We are proud that the…
Bing Maps just got a big ol’ update, bringing its own fancy 3D street view images as well as Twitter and Facebook integration. You need to download and install Silverlight to get the new Maps experience, which isn’t too big a deal. It allows you to have smoother animations when zooming in or out as…
Duct tape, Man’s greatest micro engineering accomplishment. It’s strong, waterproof and it glows like some magical metal shark skin alloy. Why aren’t we wearing this stuff? Over at Instructables, one young visionary has shared his technique for weaving a hoodie from these godly adhesive strips. He says the resulting garment is quite warm and impervious…
If you enjoy photography, don’t make the mistake I did. Using my then-new SLR in 2005 and 2006, I photographed everything from my new son to otherworldly canyons we visited in Utah. The only problem: the photos were taken only in JPEG format. JPEG is fine as far as it goes, and indeed for most…
I’ve always been fond of JVC Everio camcorders, but with the latest round of pocketcams grabbing attention for far too long, it’s about time we reverted back to a model with a decent sensor. The GZ-MG980, GZ-MS230 and the GZ-MS210 have been announced for the Japanese market under the Victor JVC branding, with US pricing…
I thought we saw every kind of nerdy pillow imaginable but, for some reason, iPhone icons slipped under the radar despite being well represented as coasters and paperclips. Finally, someone has delivered. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-coasters-convert-any-table-into-a-jobsonian-devi-5056186 And that someone just happens to be Etsy user iconpillow. Actually, he has quite a few pillow designs outside of iPhone icons…
The days of bypassing subscription fees on Google News appear to be numbered now that Google has updated their First Click Free program. Publishers can now limit access to five articles per day before readers are routed to payment pages. Previously, publishers had to make a choice between making their content less discoverable on Google…
In the last year alone, Sprint turned over users’ GPS data to authorities 8 million times. While that number is misleadingly high—this could translate to under a thousand individual users—it’s still terrifying. But wait, it gets even better! There are convincing arguments to be made for law enforcement agencies’ access to location data, like in…
