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Canon’s 1D Mark IV is real: Vincent Laforet, who shot the first videos using the 5D Mark II was the first to take out the 1D Mark IV, and the result, using entirely ambient light, is just astounding. https://gizmodo.com/a-taste-of-the-canon-5d-mark-iis-mindblowing-full-hd-vi-5052767 Click to viewThe basic specs of the camera are what was rumored: 1D body, 1.3x crop,…
John Boswell who auto-tuned Carl Sagan for us, has come back with another clip featuring our favorite stoner, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye in almost educational, entirely awesome Auto-Tune goodness. [YouTube via Nerdist] https://gizmodo.com/carl-sagan-auto-tuned-5370335
Apple Second Only To Google In Social-Network Buzz…70mph Robot Runs Like Cheetah—on Paper…Drunk on Ego, NPR Brands Its Own Internet Radio…San Diego Finally Puts All That Sunshine to Good Use In a survey of brand names dropped in the tweets and facials (is that the right term?) of today’s social-networking mavens, Google came out primero,…
Clowns are scary to some, but apparently they’re invisible to most cellphone users. According to a study involving a unicycle, a clown, and 150 college students, cellphone users were half as likely as others to notice a red-nosed, unicycle rider. https://gizmodo.com/warning-this-image-will-give-you-insomnia-for-a-month-5373105 Ira Hyman, Jr., a researcher at Western Washington University sent a student unicycling around…
I thought it was a sleek CD launcher, maybe a DIY weapon, but the reality of the Quackie CD Player concept isn’t too horrible either. You open up the “beak” to turn up the volume, close it to power down. Designed by Mac Funamizu, Quackie doesn’t really seem like it’d be practical once you’re over…
Back in my day, a Huffy and some training wheels were all I needed to learn how to ride a bike. Honda thinks today’s kids need something more—like a ridiculously elaborate and expensive bicycle simulator. The idea is to teach kids how to bike safely by placing them in a variety of real-world scenarios like…
You like robots? Well, just hold your horses. They’re not here yet. And until they are, you better ride our damn street cars. That seems to be the gist of an ad the San Antonio Public Service Company took out in the February 17, 1929 San Antonio Light. There’s an attitude of inevitability in the…
Let’s forget about T-mobile’s Project Dark for a moment. Looks like the release date for the Samsung Behold II may have leaked. Oh, and there’s another T-Mobile handset dubbed “Tap” with a street date of November 11th. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-project-dark-rumor-update-financed-phones-ti-5384048 I sincerely doubt many cares about the Tap as its feature set is nothing to write home…
We like to put everything else in a can, so why not fire? That must be what designer Camillo Vanacore was thinking when he dreamed up this portable, capsule fireplace. https://gizmodo.com/8-foods-that-should-never-be-canned-5347767/ The concept involves some sort of magical ceramic from outer space that starts out opaque, but becomes transparent when exposed to the heat of…
Here’s a gadget etiquette lesson—the type I will be covering in the Ask Jason column. Tip: guaranteed sex always trumps using your iPhone for just about ANY REASON*. https://gizmodo.com/got-questions-ask-jason-5380922 *Unless it’s a phone call for sex with more than one person, in which case, that is an acceptable useage. [Copyranter via Gawker] http://gawker.com/5385040/cunnilingus-pants-really-work
Bas Van Der Veer won a prize this weekend for this combination rain collector and watering can. The setup presumably connects to a house’s gutter system, storing rainfall it for the next uh, not-rainy day. It’s gorgeous but I think it should be made out of metal, not fiberglass, if he is going for maximum…
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Seriously, the TSA doesn’t take kindly to logic and reasoning. [XKCD via The Daily What]
In addition to curing blindness and developing solar cars, the minds at MIT have found time to revolutionize the world of pop-up books by integrating electronics for more “dynamic interactivity.” https://gizmodo.com/mits-eyeball-chip-could-make-the-blind-see-5366776 According to the project page, “Popables” utilizes flexible, paper-based electronics to create “an interactive pop-up book that sparkles, sings, and moves.” Imagine how this…
I’ve never had a Fanta in my life, but this demonstration of ridiculous motion control from ABB robotics has hypnotized me into wanting whatever the hell "Exotic Thrill" flavored Fanta is. Through a simple program, ABB’s precise industrial robots are able to maintain tolerances tighter than 1mm—even at super speeds. As our own Brian Lam…
Surprisingly the one real moment of shiitake in the Apple earnings call was prodded by an analyst who asked Apple COO Tim Cook what he thought about iPhone wannabes “like Android.” Tim Cook flings some poo at everybody else: https://gizmodo.com/apple-crushes-recession-by-selling-more-macs-and-iphone-5385183 “Frankly, I think people are still just trying to catch up with the first iPhone…
Stanford scientists discover that by changing a mouse’s neurons to respond to light, they could use fiber optic cables to influence the mouse to do certain things. The trick is to insert plant genes into the brain first. The full story is over at Wired, and is quite interesting, but one of the effects achieved…
In case my passionate summary wasn’t enough, this info-clip will demonstrate how Dyson’s Air Multiplier moves air without blades—except that it fails to mention that there are still blades inside the machine (that factoid kills the magic). [boingboing] https://gizmodo.com/dyson-air-multiplier-review-making-a-300-fan-takes-co-5379890
Michael W., creator of this amazing portable sports bar! Michael W., deemed the Maximum-est of Tailgaters by the reigning King of Tailgating, Eddy D., has won 2 tickets to The Big Game in Miami courtesy of Gizmodo and Pepsi Max! https://gizmodo.com/portable-sports-bar-5375705 Thanks to all who entered the Maximum Tailgating contest. And remember—keep it maximum at…
Apple just sold more Macs and iPhones than ever before: 3.05 million Macs and 7.4 million iPhones. iPods, doomed that they are, are still dying. But, Steve promises “some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010.” Updated live. Update 2: Q & A time. Analyst dude asks what Apple thinks of wannabes “like…
