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Last February a Turkish Airways jet crashed in Amsterdam killing nine people and injuring 121 others. Passenger Sefer Baris and his MacBook Air survived the crash—but both were a little worse for wear. Sefer’s friend Bullent tells Macenstein: He was sitting on the chair in the front [of the airplane]. Seat number seven. (3-4 chairs…
Only the best albums are worth buying more than once. Maybe you lost it, maybe you bought it in different formats—whatever the reason, let us know which albums are worth the investment. Have You Ever Bought An Album More Than Once? ( polls)
iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 users can now jailbreak your iPhone again with QuickPWN, but will probably make your phone unable to be unlocked by the iPhone Dev Team’s unlock util. Be careful. [QuickPWN via Into Mobile]
Score one for the consumer—Time Warner Cable has decided to temporarily shelve their tiered pricing plan in response to “unprecedented customer protests. In a statement released by TWC, Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt explained the situation: “It is clear from the public response over the last two weeks that there is a great deal of…
Besides some Spanish groups most of you won’t know—Radio Futura—David Bowie’s Hunky Dory was the first album I ever remember getting. I’ve been listening to music through my telescopic nipple antennas since then. https://gizmodo.com/the-philips-livingcolors-lamp-video-review-verdict-mi-337181 I was 17. About to finish high school, drop the girlfriend who later became my first wife—yeah, first: There are more—and…
If, for some strange reason, you still have tons of cassettes lying around, this USB gadget from Japanese company Novac will help you convert them to MP3, WMA or WAV files. The MV-CM001U can store MP3 and WMA files in 32/64/128/192/320kbps sizes, it features a 1.5W speaker and it has a surprisingly attractive wooden design.…
At first, I misread the phenomenon as LARPing , the pastime for aspiring night elf mohawks. Now I’ve realized the acronym reads “LAPP.” These photographs were captured through what at least one group of awesome Germans are calling Light Art Performance Photography. Practically, all that means is long exposure photography capable of transforming a dot…
Unlike Jason, I have a reason to be proud of my first album purchase. It was Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine on cassette. https://gizmodo.com/my-first-album-5213281 As I recall, I saw the Head Like a Hole video on MTV and liked the direction they were going in. At this point hair band music was wearing itself…
Get ready for that summer cross-country trip you’ve been hankering for with a snazzy new GPS, headphones, and netbook. Not man enough? George Clooney will teach you how. Computing and Peripherals: • Dell Vostro 420 Desktop with Core 2 Duo Processor and 19″ LCD Monitor for $429 (normally $749). • MSI Wind Atom 1.6GHz Barebones…
I’m all for convergence, but some gadgets just don’t belong together—like MP3 players with tasers and, in this case, cellphones with shavers. The Rong Zun 758 Razor is a GSM phone that features a detachable bottom plate covering a working shaver along with dual SIM card slots, a 2.6-inch touchscreen, 3-megapixel camera, MP3/MP4 player, FM…
Europeans and Japanese already enjoy high-speed rail service, but Americans are woefully dependent on cars and planes to get from city to city. Not for long, if Obama has anything to say about it. Obama’s right-hand goon, Joe Biden, unveiled the administration’s plans for high-speed rail all across the country today, showing off a seriously…
Or digital electric sheep. Both possible with this 8-bit slumber mask, $22 shipped from Thailand. [Studiobo via Unplggd]
Since no child says “invasive surgery, I choose you!!” the Pokémon X-ray machine should soon add some smiles to 30 Japanese ICUs. Designed with a Pokémon (Diamond and Pearl) theme, this portable X-ray machine is meant to calm children who, unfortunately, need to be pokéd and prodded a bit more before they will actually feel…
The Sony VAIO® Lifestyle PC with Intel® Inside notebook is just under 1.5 lbs, but still has a full lithium-ion battery that holds up to 4 hours of battery life. In other words, this entire notebook weighs as much as a standard notebook battery, but holds the same charge. Can you say no-brainer?
I wish I could fly. Or at least, ride a giant eagle and experience the thrill that some crazy spaniards captured putting a camera on top of an actual Imperial Eagle. [Cetrería José Luis Ortiz]
I am 45 years old and I have been an audiofile since I was 12 years old. I have never been able to afford any of the more expensive audio systems, but I do have the “Golden Ears” to tell the difference. My last hearing test showed that hearing is still in the range of…
The first CDs I got for my first CD player? Why, Blind Melon and the Jurassic Park soundtrack, of course. After that, I got Dookie, the Blue Album, Soundgarden’s Superunknown and Pearl Jam’s Vs. I had a crappy CD boombox in my room that I’d lay in front of for hours, listening to music over…
The Wall Street Journal has traditionally been an expensive paper, costing over $100 a year for both online and print subscriptions. Now it’s free on the iPhone (just like it’s been on BlackBerries). https://gizmodo.com/get-the-wall-street-journal-free-on-your-blackberry-ev-5038901 I took the app for a quick spin and noticed, as pretty much everyone else will, its content layout is nearly…
E is a social networking tool that makes it easy to trade business cards, personal info and automatically connect to each other on most social networking sites. And yes, there’s an iPhone app. You’ve got three ways to use E. The neatest right now is with a connector dongle. You hold it up to another…
A speaker system can cost as little as $35. Or as much as $350,000. As a normal person, you probably have just one question about speakers that cost as much a Ferrari: What. The. Hell. https://gizmodo.com/why-we-need-audiophiles-5213042 How Speakers Work Especially when you consider just how simple the overall mechanism behind a standard speaker is: It…