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This is Rodney Bradford. A few days ago, Facebook saved his 19-yo life. Facebook, and his status plea demanding the immediate consumption of one of the basic food groups every human being needs to properly function in the morning: Pancakes. Rodney was arrested on October 18 as a suspect in two crimes. He declared himself…
*Ring* *Ring* *Ring* *Ring* “What?!” “Oh sorry, I can’t stop pushing your Spore doorbell.” *Ring* “I’m calling the cops.” *Ring* [Spore Doorbells via Apartment Therapy]
Poor Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous. His Microsoft brethren is calling him uninformed and practically disowning him for the quotes he threw out earlier about Windows 7 basing its UI on the Mac OS. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-manager-admits-mac-influence-amidst-other-non-5402589 A post on the Windows Blog entitled ” How we really designed the look and feel of Windows 7″…
Google Cuts Price of Online Storage by 800%…Apple Updates Genius Bar Reservation System…Gold-Dipped PS3 Slim: The Hot Holiday Gift (in Donald Trump’s House)…Sanyo’s “Stick Booster” Looks and Sounds Far Dirtier Than It Is… Google Cuts Price of Online Storage by 800% You know how sometimes the new version of a product will offer 50% more,…
After dying in a movie, apparently the creepy Pre girl died in Palm’s world, too. This new Pixi ad is full of fun, happy people using the phone while “Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit plays in the background. Huge improvement. https://gizmodo.com/someone-shot-the-creepy-palm-pre-chick-in-a-movie-5357824
“While the human body has never been equaled [in] all-around master engineering, a number of glaring weaknesses do exist in man’s basic equipment,” stated a Mechanix Illustrated article from August 1956, which enlisted experts to suggest upgrades. I’m not sure how serious this is, but it certainly reflects the design mentality of 50 years ago:…
Last year Father Jose Gabriel Funes, a Jesuit priest and the chief papal astronomer, noted that the search for aliens did not contradict a belief in God. With that, the floodgates appeared to have opened at the Vatican. Over the last five days, the Vatican invited 30 of the world’s leading scientists to participate in…
This week Lifehacker has some great tips to overcome the piggy flu, protect yourself from intruders at open airport Wi-Fi spots and a guide to wire your house with Ethernet. • Polish your shoes with a banana (This is a winner of a headline if I ever saw one) • The Gaia Desktop, shown above…
That’s how much it costs to visit Bill Gates’ home with him as the cicerone: 35,000 doubloons. Jefe Gates, if you are reading this, could I go visit your house gratis? I promise not to look for hidden Macs. https://gizmodo.com/iphones-and-ipods-banned-at-gates-home-5162674 $35,000 was the final bid in a charity auction that will take the winner and…
If you were put off by the stigma associated with the Snuggie, try one saturated with Street Fighter IV imagery. And it’s actually being sold, somewhere, for $20. Capcom confirmed to our friends at Kotaku that this is the real deal, but I have no idea where you would get one or, more importantly, why…
The latest adventure for the Google Street View car comes to us from the Netherlands, where it witnessed a fire truck mow down an innocent old lady on a bike. Click to view Grotere kaart weergeven Yeah, it looks like the fire truck just continued down the street like nothing happened. Look at her, in…
Yeah, netbooks feel so much nicer running Windows 7 than Windows XP, but you’re paying a secret price: Your battery. On average, Windows 7 seem to suck all the life out of it 47 minutes faster than Windows XP. It varies from netbook to netbook—Toshiba’s NB205 hardier withstood Windows 7’s power greediness better than HP’s…
Apple brought Steve Jobs back to the company in December 1996. Since then, he’s been building a massive pile of cash, rolling out new product after new product. On December 27th, 1996, Apple had $1.8 billion in cash and securities. Today it has $34 billion. (Thanks to reader Cory Padfield for this chart idea.)
You saw it up close in all its black and gold Tim Burton’s Batmanesque glory in our review. Now it’s time to see all its naughty bits out. Enjoy, the Motorola Droid slicing and dicing photo fest. [iFixIt] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168
Sure, you own a digital camera, but do you know what’s inside? Faeries, maybe, working in a darkroom to develop your photos instantly? The Big Shot‘s a camera kit for kids to put together, teaching them how digital cameras work. In a Skittles array of colors, the Big Shot’s actually designed to be put together…
Have you played Modern Warfare 2 yet? With sales of over 7 millions copies in one day, chances are you have. And man, is it great. Here are my five favorite new toys in the latest Call of Duty blockbuster. Predator Missiles—You call these bad boys down from a UAV flying above. Pop open the…
Just about every BitTorrent trick you need to know that we haven’t shown you, Maximum PC covers in their BitTorrent guide, like remote management, rolling your own torrents, and even getting somebody else to do the dirty work for you. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-bittorrent-like-a-pro-5187630 The other major bit they’re missing—where to get torrents where the policies are a…
The first jenn-you-ine beta of Chrome for Mac is coming in December, graduating from the developer release that’s out now, according to an email sent to developers by a Chrome product manager, mentioning “our Beta launch in early December.” I’ve been running the nightly Chromium builds as our secondary browser to Firefox, and it’s been…
The past decade’s march towards better gadgets shows a trend line pointing towards ultra powerful gadgets with UIs so seamless, they make Macs look like a punchcard computers. But if you think about it, we—not hardware—are the limitation. Besides processing power, price and battery life improvements, our preferences for gadgets and the direction of those…
Notes: When uploading to YouTube, obviously a lot of quality is lost, but since YouTube is the likely destination for most videos taken with these camcorders, it seems appropriate. iPod Nano, outdoor: Colors are washed out, dull, and muddy, it seems much darker than it really was, detail is lousy (especially in the blades of…
