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Taking DSLR shots through a USB-connected laptop is a popular way of monitoring a photo shoot realtime. Now OnOne has released the extension of this idea through an iPhone app. DSLR Remote is a remote control for Canon cameras. Connecting to a laptop over Wi-Fi, the software can obviously take shots at will, but it…
Spotted in Japan’s Donki, the “Interesting Gorilla Keychain” has tainted our ability to appreciate family-friendly wind-up toys forever. Remember the good old days when Donald Duck tripping over your carpet was entertaining enough? [TokyoMango]
Woman on wolf action, customized booze, and sneakers from 1956 – get ready for summer with the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We ditch the tent and go solo in the Outdoor Research Advanced Bivy, protect our noggins when flying down the hillside with the Giro Remedy Bike Helmet, and celebrate the…
The Cold War may be over—well, maybe it is not—but some things never change in the Russian Empire. Like the Victory Day parade in Red Square, showing off the mighty Soviet machinery. https://gizmodo.com/russia-to-deploy-strategic-nuclear-bombers-in-cuba-ven-5171346 People have this idea that, after the end of the Cold War, the Red Army was in shambles. In part that is…
The out-and-proud machine fetishists over at io9 have compiled a list of the 15 deadliest robot sirens ever imagined, from Blade Runner’s replicant Pri to Austin Powers’ gun-boobed Fembots. [io9] https://gizmodo.com/sex-robots-who-kill-is-anything-deadlier-5262182
Google’s vision for the future of Android evidently includes a system by which your phone adapts to whatever it thinks you’re doing based on accelerometer data. Like a newer, more advanced Clippy, in your pocket. The patent outlines how an accelerometer-equipped device could monitor users’ movements, and over time, build usage patterns out of the…
CNET’s sources say Sony is mulling a PSP music store, to be integrated into the PlayStation Network. In light of other rumors, it’s starting to sound like Sony wishes this whole “PSP” thing had gone down differently. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-new-umd-less-psp-hardware-to-launch-at-e3-chris-5232000 They wish it was more like the iPod. Touch, to be specific. Let me clarify. Sony has…
Stuntman Steve Truglia drove a Toyota Yaris through what is being touted as the “world’s largest” loop-the-loop, and the stunt’s organizers have released video of the event before it airs on British TV. Since the stunt’s organizers are Dunlop, and this spectacle was at its core intended to sell tires, which apparently allow to drive…
From the same folks who built the undeniably fantastic Ravage transforming USB drive we saw a few days ago, this 800-dpi Trypticon laser mouse is, quite simply, a more formidable Decepticon, and a better gadget. https://gizmodo.com/ravage-transformer-usb-drive-will-hold-2gb-or-roughly-5260953 A 2GB flash drive doesn’t really cut it nowadays, and there’s no functional reason it couldn’t have carried more…
Everyone’s heard the stories about those guys who play entire concerts on their Game Boys, or who recompose symphonies onto NES cartridges. 8Bitone is kinda like that, except on your iPhone, and without the social suicide aspect. 8Bitone is a combination nonlinear audio editor and chiptunes synthesizer, chiptunes being music synthesized in real time on…
Most popular, mid-to-high-range DSLRs eventually get their own waterproof diving cases, but this one is special. It’s a Sea&Sea housing for a Canon 5D Mk II, and it lets you take videos like this: This specific video was actually shot through a modded case, originally meant for the 5D Mk I, but the effect is…
The June 30, 1976 Blue Earth Post (Blue Earth, MN) ran this ad for the Blue Earth Valley Telephone Company, in which the videophone is presented as the inevitable next step in telephone technology. Previously on Paleo-Future: The Future is Now (1955) Discovering the Videophone (1970) Picturephone as the perpetual technology of the future A…
Dell just told us the Mini 10 is finally getting that built-in TV tuner option promised at CES as a $50 add-on. It tunes in to over-the-air digital ATSC TV. [Dell] https://gizmodo.com/dell-mini-10-has-a-10-inch-720p-screen-tv-tuner-5127591
Acer’s Aspire easyStore is on the cheaper and smaller side of pre-built Windows Home Server configs at $400, but unlike some at that price, this little cube actually has three hot-swappable HDD bays to expand its 1TB of storage. Full specs: https://gizmodo.com/windows-home-server-review-317502 New Acer® Aspire easyStore Home Server Provides Access to Family’s Digital Data From…
Also, that’s a Kindle DX she has in her hand, not a Kindle 2. Everyone else on the Heroes set needs to stand on apple boxes to hide the fact that she’s six-foot seven. Of course, she doesn’t actually use this to memorize her lines. For that, she has a little midget inside her ear…
I love Lego’s Frank Lloyd Wright Collection has a mini model of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, but I’m more in love with the model of the Fallingwater house built over a waterfall. The real house sits 50 miles from Pittsburgh, and although it looks as if it belongs in the future, it was constructed…
Another gadget to keep your laptop from burning you silly, Nexus’s TDD-9000 liquid cooling pad is a soft, velvety cloth filled with a patented, gel-like substance that needs no plugs, wiring or electricity to quietly, yet actively, cool your laptop. https://gizmodo.com/little-ionic-winds-stop-laptops-from-burning-body-parts-5261843 Apparently, resting your laptop on Nexus’s cooling pad for 40 minutes will keep your…
This week Lifehacker shows you how to shoot better photos, how to hang your Mac upside-down, how to close apps in Windows 7 fast and how to blow your nose to great effect. • Take better photos by shooting your digital stills as if it’s a video camera • Use Middle Click to close your…
Playing old school Nintendo games on the Wii can be a pain if you can’t get accustomed to their controls using Wiimotes. With Komodo’s Retro Adapter, you can plug in any NES, SNES and N64 controllers to your Wii and play instantly. The adapter, which is shaped like a mini N64 console, fits into a…
Survival Research Labs has been repurposing hardware into giant, deadly displays of machine power since 1978. They say the plank hurling Pitching Machine is their most dangerous made during all that time. It’s basically a machine that uses the power from a 500 cubic inch El Dorado engine power wheels, which launch six foot long…
