Gadget News
Hackers That Were Barely Even Trying Stole 44 Million Records Last Year
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 23:00
When you think of hackers, your mind might jump to something like a Boris Grishenko (aka "that dude from Goldeneye") typing away on a keyboard one-handedly with virtuosic skill. A criminal mastermind. Verizon's annual Da...
Functional Apple 1 auctioned off for $671.4K, sets new Sotheby's record
Engadget - 25 May 2013 23:00
With $671,400, you could buy roughly 2,040.7 base-model iPad minis before taxes. One unnamed buyer, however, just laid that amount out for a single Apple 1 from 1976. Auctioned through a Germany-based Sotheby's, The New ...
What's the First Thing You Can Remember Doing on the Internet?
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 22:01
There's no denying the global connectivity literally changed the world, and most of are lucky enough to have been alive and conscious when that paradigm shift was rolling out. You might not remember your first real inter...
A 625 Pinhole Camera Rig Is the Craziest Way to Shoot Bullet Time Video
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 21:00
We've seen a few crazy bullet time rigs in our day, but this one might take the cake both for "coolest" and "most over the top." For the music video of London Grammar's "Wasting My Young Years" photographers put together...
All About the Xbox One, The World's Biggest Lego Model, And More
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 19:30
Hey guys. There was a new Xbox revealed this week. Oh you heard? We'll we've got some nice icing to put on that cake. And along with it we've got gems like the world's largest Lego model, the Subway worker who made a mas...
Glass Nest lets users control their homes from their heads
Engadget - 25 May 2013 18:38
Those who already own Google Glass are more likely than most to embrace new technologies like Nest's thermostat, so it only makes sense that an especially eager adopter would find a way to combine the two. That would be ...
How to Control Your Android Without Looking at It
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 18:00
It's getting dangerous just to walk and text at the same time much less do so behind the wheel of a car. But with Siri being just slightly less helpful than HAL, how are you supposed to surf the web and simultaneously tr...
A Working Apple I Computer Just Sold For $671,400 at Auction
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 17:37
The Apple 1 is a little piece of history, the first in a lineage that's taken the world by storm since its birth in 1976. And that piece of history is worth a lot. An anonymous collector just picked up a still functionin...
iPhone biosensor cradle brings us one step closer to having tricorders (video)
Engadget - 25 May 2013 17:22
It seems like every day we're getting a little bit closer to having tricorders, and today's no exception. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed hardware and software that turns the i...
The Simplest Flashlight Is Just a Rolled Up Piece of Paper
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 16:09
A flashlight is a crucial thing to have around the house, but even though it can be super useful, it's probably plastic and/or filled with DD batteries. Not exactly elegant. The Paper LED Torch Light on the other hand, i...
Hipstamatic's photo filter app Oggl now open for everyone
Engadget - 25 May 2013 15:40
Hipstamatic's subscription-based photo filter app is now publicly available on iTunes, a few weeks after its invite-only launch. Oggl is a free download, and you get five of its parent app's virtual lenses and films that...
Watch These Lunatics Ride the Highest Swings in the World
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 15:00
Rumor has it that sometimes sane people enjoy the thrill of an adrenaline rush, but Six Flags Over Texas' new SkyScreamer seems reserved for the insane.
Report: Xbox One has remote play between consoles so a friend can help
Engadget - 25 May 2013 13:22
Unnamed sources speaking with Polygon say the Xbox One has a remote play feature between consoles, both hardwired and online, allowing friends to take over gameplay remotely. The demonstration the sources claim to have w...
Google's 'last step' in Buzz shutdown: moving all data to Google Drive
Engadget - 25 May 2013 07:40
Google's social networking effort Buzz shut its doors last year but has popped up yet again, for what may be the last time. In an email that just went out to former users, Google noted it's packaging Buzz data into two f...
How to Make Your Own Self-Destructing Laptop That Blows Up
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 07:00
When a laptop or a phone blows up it's usually because of some dangerous exploding battery. But what if you want to make a laptop self destruct and blow up on its own? You'll have to make something that Q from James Bond...
The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Justin Bieber Don't Cry
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 06:00
The Gaga plane-dog has a point. It's not Justin Bieber's fault he's a shrill, spoiled, cheap-shotting little bitch, it's all of ours for paying attention.
Meet Magura's eLECT, an electronic suspension fork for tech-savvy cyclists
Engadget - 25 May 2013 05:43
If you're looking to trick out your bike, Magura's eLECT might be the electronic suspension system you crave -- if you're willing to sacrifice optimal reaction time. Using a 3D accelerometer, the eLECT analyzes terrain w...
The White House Says You Can Use the Metric System If You Want To
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 05:14
When we saw a 'We the People' petition to the White House to make the US move to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen : The imperial system is archaic, irrelevant, doesn't scale eas...
How Many of These Viral YouTube Videos Did You Watch?
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 04:45
For YouTube's comedy week, Dane Boe created this music video 'We Didn't Star the Viral' (riffing off Billy Joel's We Didn't Star the Fire) that recaps pretty much all the viral videos that became infamous on YouTube over...
The Destruction of the Oklahoma Tornado As Seen by Google Maps
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 03:48
This is beyond sad. If you've been keeping up with the tornado that leveled Moore, Oklahoma, you probably saw the destruction it left behind. It looked like a movie set war zone or the aftermath of the apocalypse. But it...
LG may bring Google TVs to Korea, China soon; seeing 'good returns' in the US
Engadget - 25 May 2013 03:10
While Eric Schmidt's proclamation that "most" new TVs would have Google TV embedded last year didn't come true, LG stated today that it's bringing the platform to more regions soon. The Korea Times reports an unnamed com...
Watch Four Clips of Arrested Development Before it Hits Netflix
Gizmodo - 25 May 2013 02:31
If you're busy this weekend with trips to the beach and delicious barbecues and drinks with umbrellas in them, I feel bad for you. Memorial Day 2013 is not about enjoying the weather or spending time outdoors or kicking ...