Gadget News
Nordic Ware Egg Waffle Pan
The Gadget Flow - 25 Mar 2014 08:00
The Nordic Ware Egg Waffle Pan from Williams-Sonoma commercializes what has traditionally been a staple breakfast food item on the streets of Hong-Kong. Now you can make these lip-smacking and filling doughy treats calle...
Stunning photo of lightning illuminating Earth
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 06:43
Photos of lightning taken from space may be a dime a dozen, but sometimes there are images that are truly extraordinary. Like this one, taken by the Expedition 26 crew with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 180 millimet...
This ridiculous badminton rally shows how impossibly quick humans are
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 03:04
Badminton is silly and soft and dainty and not tennis, right? I don't know anymore! This impossibly fast rally makes it seem like an impossibly fast sport played by humans who have impossibly fast reaction times. Even ro...
Facebook is buying Oculus VR for $2 billion, plans to 'unlock new worlds for all of us'
Engadget - 25 Mar 2014 23:34
Mark Zuckerberg is following up his Whatsapp buy with another big acquisition: virtual reality company Oculus VR for $2 billion in stock and cash (curiously, news of the talks may have leaked on Reddit a month ago). In a...
Depth Maps Hidden in Google Street View Create Flickering Ghost-Cities
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 22:40
This is awesome: Patricio Gonzalez Vivo found a way to scrape Google Street View for its depth map data, then rebuilt the streets as ghostly spatial models in openFrameworks. The weird and flickering results, seen in the...
The Onion's Useless App Pitch Is Perfect
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 21:50
The Onion's TED talk parodies return with the reveal of a remarkable new app called PicSong that turns your countless photos into music--for anyone who might want to do that for some reason.
Intel acquires wearables company BASIS Science
Slash Gear - 25 Mar 2014 23:57
Last month, word surfaced from sources that Basis Science, maker of wearables, was looking to sell itself to a big-name company, with Google, Apple, Samsung and others having been tipped. …
Facebook buys Oculus for Rift VR social
Slash Gear - 25 Mar 2014 23:53
Facebook has bought Oculus, spending $2bn on the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, in what the social network says will be a push to grow 3D vision …
A Clampable Lantern That Stays Perched Wherever You Need Light
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 23:40
A headlamp is the ultimate hands-free flashlight when you're going toe-to-toe with mother nature, but you don't necessarily want to wear one 24/7. For those times when you're hanging out at a campsite, or getting ready f...
A toxic and deadly week in landscape reads.
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 23:31
A toxic and deadly week in landscape reads. We learn how, remarkably, tourist poop is flown by helicopter out of national parks, how Silicon Valley exports toxic waste all over the country, how poison lurks in our old te...
Video: Dramatic rescue of man trapped in raging 5 alarm fire
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 23:30
I can't begin to imagine the terror of this man trapped on a top floor terrace of a building on a 5 alarm fire. Thankfully, Houston's firefighters were able to rescue him on time.
Intel buys maker of the Basis Band, promises smarter wearables
Engadget - 25 Mar 2014 23:16
Well, it's official. In a bid to boost its wearable clout, Intel confirmed today that it bought Basis Science, the startup behind the fitness-friendly Basis bands. The deal reportedly cost Intel a cool $100 million (acco...
King's EU "Candy" trademark targeted by Cut the Rope's ZeptoLab
Slash Gear - 25 Mar 2014 22:52
On this day last month, King announced plans to abandon its "Candy" trademark in the United States, citing reasons of having acquired the better trademark "Candy Crusher", though it said …
This Is the Power Glove Oven Mitt You Want To Buy
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 22:20
About a year ago we brought news of a Power Glove themed oven mitt that had anyone who grew up playing the NES excited to do some baking. But that version was made of heatproof fabric and while it looked convincing enoug...
Game of Thrones music video is made of auto-tuned might and magic
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 22:08
Game of Thrones Season 4 is coming in two weeks and everyone is itching to see [SPOILER] die a horrible dead. Please allow me to entertain you with this wonderful auto-tuned music video that will placate your thirst like...
This Synthetic Mother of Pearl Is Ten Times Tougher Than Ceramics
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 22:00
Ceramics are an increasingly common material to work with--from hard-wearing bearings to heat-proof cladding on spacecraft--but they all share one fatal weakness: they're fragile. Now, though, inspired by nature, researc...
IRS Bitcoin ruling: it's property, not currency
Slash Gear - 25 Mar 2014 21:54
Among the issues surrounding Bitcoin, the question of how it should be handled when it comes to taxes has been oft-asked with no answer in sight. That ends today, with …
IRS says bitcoins are taxable property, but not currency
Engadget - 25 Mar 2014 21:49
People love referring to Bitcoin as a "cryptocurrency," but the Internal Revenue Service looks at it a little differently. According to a new IRS statement, Bitcoin should be considered property, not currency. What does ...
NVIDIA SHIELD gets KitKat in April plus price slash
Slash Gear - 25 Mar 2014 21:45
NVIDIA has detailed the Android KitKat update for SHIELD, as well as giving the portable console a temporary price cut as it pushes gaming notebook support and remote play. Android …
Autographer wearable camera now lets you take hands-free photos underwater
Engadget - 25 Mar 2014 21:31
If you just can't get enough of documenting every waking moment of your life, then the Autographer life-logging camera, launched last July, has its appeal -- it's designed to automatically snap pictures based on what it ...
LifePrint wants to make sure you memories can't be deleted
Coolest Gadgets - 25 Mar 2014 21:30
Taking a picture or shooting a video is often done in an effort to keep a specific memory. Through these methods of recording, that concert you went to or meal you ate with a friend you haven’t seen in years is solidif...
Every Brand Video You've Ever Seen in One Sweeping Parody
Gizmodo - 25 Mar 2014 21:20
In a time when a company's brand is seemingly more important than its products, there's emerged an ugly trend where advertisers slap together a stock footage highlight reel designed to emotionally connect consumers to a ...