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Lee Clow stepped down as the chief creative officer of TBWA/Media Arts Lab, Ad Age reports. Clow and TBWA/Media Arts were responsible for many of Apple’s most popular advertisements. So, while he’s probably not a household name with the Apple faithful like Steve Jobs, or even Jonathan Ive, Clow left an indelible stamp on the…
Released by Verizon last week, Media Manager for Mac allows users to stream any iPhone or iTunes media to FiOS TV DVR hardware. Though the Windows software that has been out for a while remains more robust, the new Media Manager does a fine job with playlists, slide shows and the rest. You can download…
With Halloween coming up this weekend, it seemed like the perfect time to discuss a problem far too many of us face—homes that are haunted by evil spirits.These gadgets can confirm you are not completely crazy. Nikola Tesla’s Spirit Radio is built with a simple crystal radio circuit, but it has the ability to generate…
Surprisingly, our our poll yesterday revealed that Mac owners were running neck and neck with PC owners, each commanding 41% of the vote. Although Mac owners have maintained an extremely slight edge over the last few hours in actual numbers. https://gizmodo.com/do-you-use-a-mac-or-a-pc-as-your-personal-home-computer-5392835 People who own PCs and Macs, the category I fall into, got 15% of…
Nintendo is considering taking a page from the Kindle playbook and offering free 3G wireless web access with its next handheld console (next gen, not yet another DS version), according to company president Satoru Iwata. https://gizmodo.com/video-first-good-look-at-the-larger-nintendo-dsi-xl-5393387 The move, if it did happen, would clearly be a response to the surging popularity of iPhone gaming. “Only…
This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggerized Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer. This box is responsible for what you are reading now, which either makes her my mom or the internet’s mom or both. The Interface Message Processor was The Original Router. Two of these machines connected in October…
A mystery slime growth, or a smushed headcrab. Actual, leaking steam. Endless corridors My WASD fingers are twitching just looking at this
Yesterday we asked you to submit your geekiest Halloween costumes—clearly, Halloween is dominated by nerds far too old to trick-or-treat. It was also clear that mdg357’s homemade Iron Man suit was more than deserving of the free pizza. UPDATED: https://gizmodo.com/halloween-costume-contest-show-us-the-geeky-getup-youl-5392155 Here is the complete list of costumes, in order of awesomeness. Thanks to everyone for…
“Spam King” Sanford Wallace was just ordered to pay $711 million in damages in a case about him spamming the hell out of Facebook users. Meanwhile, your idiot friends are still zombie biting you. While I’m all about stopping professional spammers, I find it amusing that this case revolved around Facebook. At this point, a…
Remember the xpPhone? The 4.8-inch touchscreen slider has netbook-like specs, some sort of “AMD Super Mobile CPU”, and runs a full-blown copy of Windows XP. They’ve just sent through shots of its phone-function interface…and they actually look pretty good. https://gizmodo.com/itg-xpphone-runs-windows-xp-pre-orders-for-at-t-vodaf-5361497 The main phone screen (pictured below) has call-centric icons, plus shortcuts to regular Windows apps…
A crazy British engineer named Iain Sharp decided to honor the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by building a real-life version of the classic Atari game Lunar Lander. And you know what? It’s pretty great. Built using a pair of old PCs, some fishing wire, inkjet printer motors, spools and little lander models. You…
mgd357: Iron Man, built from scratch TheOriginalEd: I made my son a tanooki suit for his 2nd halloween. rwarner16:Megatron in all his awesomeness. Made from cardboard, paper mache, chicken wire, and 80’s fandom. Skoch: Felt, Cardboard, Cartoon Gloves & a whole lot of love… Could only wear it around the office for a while since…
Pumpkin Carving Night. Nikon D90 with Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 D, 1.3 sec, ISO 200. -Jeremy Champion Second place: Canon Rebel XS with a 28-105mm f1:3.5-4.5 zoom lens (w/ a Tiffen Sky 1-A filter). Manual focused, set it to auto exposure w/o flash. It chose ISO 800, shutter 1/6th second. -Eric Kornblum Third place: This photo…
This incredible interactive visualizer of cell size from the University of Utah is a must see, allowing you to zoom in from a coffee bean down to a carbon atom. Prepare to have your mind blown. [GSLC via DailyWhat]
Nothing gets my blood pumping like a sexy lady wearing a skimpy outfit that glows in the dark. Well, I guess the glowing in the dark thing isn’t necessary, but if it’s part of the package, go nuts, I guess. LuminoGlow is an Australian company that makes unmentionables that look normal with the lights on,…
I’ve been considering buying one of those aerovertebraedynamic Herman-Miller chairs. But then I saw this: The Vespa Chair. Awesome retro design recycled with leather to fit my sweet bubblebuttocks or scientifically-researched ergonomics that can avoid fatal back problems and RSIs? https://gizmodo.com/the-herman-miller-embody-chair-or-aeron-part-ii-5059651 I always wanted to have a Vespa. *Buys* [Born Rich]
As a New Yorker, this gets me very excited: the Bedford Ave L station just got an LCD screen that shows exactly where all the cars on the line are, so you know how long you’ll have to wait. It’s part of a test program on the L line, where they installed boards telling people…
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This is Lockheed Martin’s Sabre Warrior, a next-generation plane that looks like something Batman and Darth Vader would fight over for. Instead, some good-turned-evil computer will get a fleet, as part of a plan to destroy us all. It’s impressive. The Sabre Warrior drone is 46 feet long, with a 36-foot wingspan, capable of taking…
To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. It’s offering $40,000 in hard cash to the first entrant who finds ten 8-foot weather balloons located at fixed locations around the U.S. https://gizmodo.com/happy-birthday-internet-lets-celebrate-your-history-5393181 Registration begins on December 1, and the balloons will appear on December 5. The first…
