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This is a computer kiosk used to control public bicycle lending. But as you can see in the image, the touchscreen is not displaying the software used for this task, but a porn movie at full screen. It happened in the city of Zamora, Spain—where else—this weekend. For more than one hour, the movie played—in…
Far from your local cineplex’s marginally enhanced “IMAX Experience,” these seven theaters are the best, the biggest, and the craziest thunderdomes IMAX has to offer. https://gizmodo.com/cineplexes-getting-imax-but-is-it-imax-or-conspiracy-5250625 Cinesphere – Toronto, Canada IMAX is a Canadian company, so it makes sense that their first permanent installation, built in 1971, would be in the New York City of…
We’ve gone through it time and time again: One of the most formidable problems e-readers need to overcome is the expensive and primitive issue of e-ink. But Mary Lou Jepsen, of OLPC fame, has a new display that just might make the e-reader a viable, desirable, and even inexpensive gadget. We’ve known about Pixel Qi…
This media room of the future, featured in the 1979 book The Computer Age: A Twenty-Year View, is strikingly similar to the living room of the future we looked at almost two years ago. Media Room. Homes of the future will have rooms akin to this illustration into which a user can immerse all sensory…
Here is a simple and funny way to make your still photos look like they are part of Google Streetview or an internet video, ready to be played. It only takes some tape, cardboard, and acrylic, plus a bit of genius when you frame the photo. Click to viewAs you can see in the gallery,…
The PSP Go leak confirmed two things: that the device was real and that it’s coming at E3, and that Sony’s experience with the Mylo internet device wasn’t going to be wasted. They look almost exactly the same. https://gizmodo.com/psp-go-leaked-slider-with-16gb-of-flash-storage-and-bl-5273203 There were a couple hints leading up to this. There was the patent for a mystery…
The LiveSpark Fireplace features music-reactive flames, meaning, like a real-life visualizer, that the fire will jump and shrink itself based on the thumping beats it detects. LiveSpark has both indoor and outdoor versions, and seems pretty flexible: The site shows installations of all different sizes and of different materials. We’re not sure if it’s actually…
Hello, welcome to the inaugural this month in Android apps. It’s been a pastry-packed month, what with cupcakes and donuts and, um, ions flying around. We’ve got spots, searches, flicks and apps that will make you burn with jealous rage just ahead. https://gizmodo.com/about-those-other-app-stores-5272973 Spotify: Demoed at Google IO 2009, it actually isn’t available in America—legit…
You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn’t insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don’t walk fast enough. The president of Canon Electronics, Hisashi Sakamaki, is also the author of a book proposing some of the same measures he takes…
When my computer puts up its screensaver, I like to give it a little rest—maybe a nice analog clock or peaceful image of a meadow. But Sprint’s NOW screensaver tracks an exhausting amount of information we guarantee you don’t need, refusing to cut your overworked computer a break. The screensaver is pretty much a compendium…
Live images have leaked of Sony’s PSP Go, set to launch at next week’s E3. Looks like those rumors were true: It’s a UMD-less slider with 16GB of memory, and it’ll ship this fall. No price yet, but that should come with the official announcement next week. Update with video: https://gizmodo.com/ars-psp-go-will-be-announced-at-e3-sold-alongside-ol-5271829 All this leakage stems…
Perhaps more than anything else previously invented, this pretty black box changed the world of communications, entertainment, commerce, scientific research, and even war forever. In fact, the world as we know it today would have never existed without it. It happened less than two decades ago, when Tim Berners-Lee released version 0.1 of his web…
While some work toward an invisibility cloak, University of Illinois professor Nicholas Fang is taking steps to create a similar material, only for sound, that could, for example, make ships invisible to SONAR. To successfully do this, of course, requires we break the laws of physics. But, you know, whatever. I’ll let the experts explain:…
It vibrates to massage your gums. Sure. [Dark Roasted Blend]
Dell’s Mini 9 netbook, despite being one of the best in its class, is being phased out in favor of the Mini 10. Engadget has confirmation from Dell, so if you want to replicate John’s Hackintosh, we’d recommend snapping one up quickly. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-5156903
I’ve survived a 100mph car crash—the floating shrapnel confetti that used to be Federation’s armada shows no one survives space wrecks. You can see more stunning concept art James Clyne did for Star Trek, The Fountain and Minority Report and more at his site: [James Clyne via io9] https://gizmodo.com/the-enterprise-versus-a-black-hole-in-new-star-trek-con-5272855
Here’s one way to raise energy consciousness: Share Aware lights are connected to each other by radio, and share a finite amount of energy. When you make one brighter, the others get proportionately dimmer, but dim yours, and the rest get brighter. I can’t see any problem with that. Oh wait, yes I can. Say…
Seriously, can someone explain it to me? Because I, for one, am at a loss. [FailBlog]
A lot of Android’s potential has nothing to do with phones—it’s running little gadgets. For starters, Moto Labs (not that one) put Android on aBeagleBoard, mashed that into a soup with a wireless cam and Flickr feed to monitor power usage from a custom Google Gadget. [Moto] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-loses-another-231-million-still-praying-to-g-5234342
If mosquitoes find you delicious, this gadget can help you find relief. Apparently, holding its heat source over the bite “helps neutralize the insect-injected proteins that cause itching and swelling.” Something tells me that good old scratching is still the best medicine—that and avoiding bananas. I seem to recall Mr. Wizard saying something about how…
