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Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record [World Record]

Posted: August 14th, 2010, 1:40am EDT by Christina Bonnington

#worldrecord 10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field till it was their turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the old world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude. More »
Where Computers Lose Their Souls [Image Cache]

Posted: August 14th, 2010, 1:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#imagecache We desperately hope that the computers which we ship to developing countries will be genuinely beneficial to locals, but unfortunately that isn't always the case—more often than not, they're simply abandoned until they're searched for precious metals. More »
Using Music To Reach The Memories of Alzheimer's Patients [Concept]

Posted: August 14th, 2010, 12:20am EDT by Christina Bonnington

#concept Transcendental Tunes combines RFID technology (in the form of a golden, translucent gem) and a retro-looking wooden audio device to play digital music that releases the memories held captive by the mind in Alzheimer's patients. More »
iSink U Is The Best Looking Battleship Game You'll Find For Your iPad [IPad Apps]

Posted: August 14th, 2010, 11:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ipadapps There's something incredibly satisfying about watching a torpedo shoot from your battleship and crash into your opponent's submarine with a booming sound. There's something even more satisfying about watching this happen from the safety of your iPad. More »
Stimulating Your Brain With Electricity Can Boost Visual Memory [Brains]

Posted: August 14th, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by Sujata Gupta - New Scientist

#brains Struggling to remember faces? Forgetting how your favorite Backstreet Boys member looks? Help could be on its way in the form of the first non-invasive way of stimulating the brain that can boost visual memory: Scull electrodes. More »
iPad and Kindle Screens Compared Under A Microscope [Microscope]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#microscope Ever wondered how the Kindle and iPad displays compare if placed under a microscope? Me neither, but some folks decided to see how things look magnified. They even got closer than the picture above: More »
This Year's UC Irvine Medical Students Get The First iPad-Based Curriculum [Ipad]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 9:40pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

#ipad Forget sitting, lazily note-taking, listening to a professor's lecture. UC Irvine Med School is giving the educational system an about face by providing an iPad to each of its new students for their entirely digital, iPad-based curriculum. More »
New Jersey Police to Shame Drunk Drivers on Facebook [Facebook]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 9:00pm EDT by Addy Dugdale - FastCompany

#facebook The police force of a small New Jersey town has a Facebook page. And on it go the mugshots of people caught breaking the law. Car thieves, shoplifters, and even a child pornographer have been named and shamed so far. More »
Roll Over Your Faces With the Vertrax Treaded Skateboard [Concept]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#concept The idea behind the Vertrax concept skateboard is the ability to cruise over a variety of non-paved surfaces with thick treads. Does it look cool? Sure! Would it work? We'll never know! But it is a neat piece of design. More »
An Aquarium Made of Colossal Beach Pebbles [Architecture]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 7:40pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#architecture According to the architects, the "Batumi Aquarium is inspired by the characteristic pebbles of the Batumi beach-–the residue of dynamic seas continually shaping the shorefront throughout millennia." Each of the stones forming the building will hold a unique marine biotype. More »
This Week's Best Apps [Apps]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 7:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan

#apps In this week's totally awesome app round up: Splodes, sploded; nearby lightning strikes, pinpointed; the apocalypse, rendered in adorable 8-bit style; free turn by turn navigation, improved; Xvid files, played on your iPad; and so much more! More »
Mailbox-Housed Drone Delivers Adorably Secured Perimeters [Quadrocopters]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#quadrocopters Would I rather a security drone that blasts laser rockets? Who wouldn't! But one that makes its home in a little mailbox-shaped house ain't half bad either. More »
NASA Launches Unprecedented Drone Mission to Study the Mysteries of Hurricane Formation [Drones]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

#drones An unmanned Global Hawk recon drone will join a team of aircraft—all equipped with advanced weather instrumentation—to observe the 2010 storm season closer than ever before. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT

#highlights This week we rounded up our favorite free and cheap iPhone apps, automated your media downloads, whipped your Android home screen into shape, and more. More »

Gizmodo

Toilets, Toilets, Everywhere, Nor Any Place to Poop [Concepts]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#concepts "As a cartoonist-inventor, I sometimes cannot resist the temptation to illustrate a concept even while knowing it is crazy, stupid or at least poorly conceived" says Steven M. Johnson. Looking at these toilet concepts, I'm happy his will is weak. More »
Runaway Subway Blows Through Six Stations with No Driver [Scary]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 5:13pm EDT by Maureen O'Connor

#scary Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle round and hear the harrowing tale of London's ghost train of death. More »
How Ankle Monitors Could Replace Prisons [Prison]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#prison "Traditional prison," writes Graeme Wood in this month's Atlantic, "has become more or less synonymous with failed prison." One radical solution: scale back traditional prisons in favor of sophisticated monitoring devices. And it's actually not as radical as it sounds. More »
Say Hello to the Periscope Cam [Concepts]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 4:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#concepts Living on a submarine would probably get pretty miserable pretty quickly. But this wacky camera concept brings the best part of submarine life—the periscope!—to all your landlocked photographic adventures. More »
Humankind Reaches New Low With Auto Channel Changer [DIY]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 4:20pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#diy Granting us a view of our dystopian future, tinkerer Randy Sarafan combined engineering ingenuity and what looks like extreme depression to make "The Most Useful Machine," an automated channel surfing aid. One step closer to being completely immobile! More »
Add a Bit of Gizmodo to Your Facebook [Promotion]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#promotion Did you know that you can easily add a bit of Gizmodo to your Facebook? You'll get all the best stories and discussions right in your Facebook feed. All you need to click that "like" button on our Facebook page. More »
Photoshop Express for iPad Quick Review: Avoid for Now [IPad Apps]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#ipadapps Like the iPhone version, the new Photoshop Express for iPad is a basic image editing program that can publish your photos in your own Adobe-based online gallery or through Facebook. It's nice and fast. Unfortunately, it has problems. More »
How to Seed Moved or Renamed Files in BitTorrent [How To]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 3:20pm EDT by Jake Champion

#howto BitTorrent etiquette dictates that once you've downloaded files, you also seed them to help others' downloads go quickly. If you need to move or rename your download, everything's thrown off. Reader Jake Champion explains how to seed after moving or renaming files. More »
Omega Is Already Using Apple's Liquid Metal [Liquidmetal]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 3:11pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#liquidmetal When we shared with you Apple's acquisition of Liquid Technologies' supermaterial, we noted that liquid metal is already in use across a variety of industries, from sports to aerospace. Or, you might find it on the wristwatch you have now. More »
Soldiers Try To Trade Tech Support For Intel [Tech Support]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Spencer Ackerman - Wired

#techsupport Captain Christian Balan shows holding a spool of Cat-5 cable, eager to play tech support. If he can get the computers running in this relatively-prosperous town of 4000 people, maybe the platoon will get some tips about local insurgent activity. More »
Terry Crews Talks The Expendables, Action Movies, and the Joys of His AT&T MicroCell [Interview]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 2:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#interview The Expendables, in theaters today, delivers old school, ass-kicking action movie action with an entire constellation of the genre's stars. We talked to one member of the Expendables crew, Terry Crews, about the movie, iPhone apps, and plenty more. More »
Guidelines Reiterate That RIM Won't Make Special Deals For Countries [Rim]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 2:05pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

RIM has posted a set of guidelines on its website that specify how countries like India can monitor its services. The rules state that they will not grant access beyond what's legally required by local governments and any monitoring would need to be "technology and vendor neutral." No changes (such as backdoors for a country) will be made to the nature of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. [Blackberry via Electronista] More »
Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Adam Harris

#dealzmodo If you're still a little hung over from last night's #GizDay festivities, cool your throbbing headache with some extra-sweet deals on a Core i3 Lenovo Laptop, a 2TB External Hard Drive, or some free Starbucks Business Cards. More »
Google Calls Oracle Lawsuit A Baseless Attack On The Open-Source Java Community [Legal]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 1:53pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#legal Oracle, the company who acquired Sun Microsystems, the Java programming language and related technology in a nice package deal, accused Google of patent and copyright infringement in relation to those technologies. Based on its response, Google isn't happy: More »
Gizmodo Day Celebrated in 70 Countries [Gizday]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 1:30pm EDT by Scott Kidder

#gizday From Buenos Aires to Buffalo, over 1,500 of you met yesterday to talk gadgets. You sent in dozens of photos on #GizDay, Twitter, and Facebook. In New York, Gizmodo staff, friends, and some lucky readers ate some Gizmodo burgers. More »
Nikon D3100 Leaked Details Reveal a 14 Megapixel CMOS Sensor and 1080p Video [Specs]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 1:24pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

#specs The September issue of Foto Digital prematurely printed specs about the Nikon D3100, which will launch around August 19. The leaked details include its 14 megapixel CMOS sensor, brand new EXPEED 2 image processor, and improved 1080p video support. More »
Meet Gizmodo's Latest Guest Artist: Chuck "No Pattern" Anderson [Interviews]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 1:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#interviews Odds are high that you've seen Chuck "No Pattern" Anderson's work before. He's illustrated everything from the Windows 7 home screen to album covers to magazine art. Chuck's latest project: making Gizmodo posts look better than ever. More »
Extremely Thin, 3G-Capable Sony Readers Coming Soon? [Unconfirmed]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 1:07pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#unconfirmed Rumor is that there's a new batch of Sony Readers coming soon: The PRS-350 and the PRS-650. They are described as being under 10mm thick and all-around better than previous models. More »
Tarantulas Shown on 3DTVs to Cure Arachnophobia Just Seems Plain Evil [3dTv]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 12:40pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#3dtv Apologies if you suffer from arachnophobia, and did not expect a picture of a tarantula to ever appear on Gizmodo. Sky seemingly thinks the only way to cure a fear of spiders is to show them some—in 3DTV. More »
Massive Sun Halo Coronal Ejection Just Needs Some Interstellar Marshmallows [Astronomy]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 12:20pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#astronomy Last week, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected a full halo coronal mass ejection. Fortunately, the Sun didn't actually burp straight into our direction, so we were safe. This is the video of it: More »
The Traditional "Turning of the LEGO Bricks" Ceremony [Lego]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#lego Recently construction began on the second LEGOLAND Discovery Center in the United States. But before any real work could be done, a "Turning of the LEGO Bricks" ceremony had to occur. Yes, it's as silly as this picture suggests. More »
Who Will Watch the Watchmen? More Watchmen! [Street View]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Brian Barrett

#streetview A few things to be concerned with here: first, Google Street View has gone meta. Second, apparently those vans travel in packs. Third, the universe just collapsed in on itself, the end. [Google via Reddit] More »
Play Some FarmVille, Then Book a Delta Flight on Facebook [Facebook]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 11:05am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#facebook No longer should IT managers get away with blocking Facebook on company computers, now Delta's added the ability to book a flight right there in that open Facebook tab. Nevermind that your boss probably knows Delta takes bookings elsewhere. More »
38-Year Old Sony CRT TV Turns Into a Lightbox-Frame [Design]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 10:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#design How many would trade in their grannies for an old Sony TV-750 CRT from 1972? Or, to rephrase that question, how many would swap them for a Sony TV-750 recycled into a photo frame? More »
Rupert Murdoch Is Building a Newspaper for Your iPad [Newscorp]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 10:19am EDT by Sam Biddle

#newscorp NY Times, get ready for a fight: Rupert Murdoch's lumbering news conglomerate is crafting a national paper designed specifically for tablet and mobile devices like the iPad. And Rupert could be prepared to throw down millions to make it work. More »
Only Students Will Get To Use Microsoft's LCD Screen Keyboard [Keyboards]

Posted: August 13th, 2010, 9:50am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#keyboards Microsoft has built their own version of the fabled Optimus Maximus—a QWERTY keyboard set on top of an LCD screen dubbed the Adaptive Keyboard. It looks stunning, but they're only letting students use it. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: August 6th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT

#highlights This week we helped you block unwanted numbers on your cellphone, got up and running with Usenet, did our best to make iOS 4 usable on older devices, and more. More »

A List Apart

No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas

Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 4:00am EDT

You can't create what clients need when you're too busy saying yes to everything they want. As a user experience designer, it's your job to say no to bad ideas and pointless practices. But getting to no is never easy. Proven techniques that can turn vocal negatives into positive experiences for you, the client, and most importantly, the end-user include citing best practices and simple but powerful business cases; proving your point with numbers; shifting focus from what to who; using the "positive no"; and, when necessary, pricing yourself out.
Kick Ass Kickoff Meetings

Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Too many kickoff meetings squander the busiest, most expensive people's time reiterating what everyone already knows. If every meeting is an opportunity, why waste your first one? By asking stakeholders tough questions before the kick-off, and using the meeting itself to explore ideas and build relationships, you can turn a room of mutually suspicious turf battlers into an energetic team with shared ownership of the end-product and the kind of bond that can sustain the group through the challenges ahead.

Gizmodo

Bring The Stig Home With Top Gear's Stig-Copter [The Stig]

Posted: July 31st, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

#thestig All we know is, he's called The Stig. And that now we can race through the air with an RC mini-helicopter styled after the mysterious Top Gear cast member's iconic helmet. More »
This Pixar Luxo Jr Lookalike Lamp Was Made With a Bicycle Chain [Lamp]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:40pm EDT by Casey Chan

#lamp Take the Pixar Luxo Jr Lamp and then remix it with a recycled bicycle chain and what do you get? An incredibly cute lookalike lamp that can be bent and shaped in multiple directions. More »
How To Justify Charging $11,000 For A Single Car Wash [Cars]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:25pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#cars This is 30-year-old Gurcharn Sahota. He runs a car washing business out of his parents' garage. Now, before you start laughing and calling him a failure, consider this: He regularly charges up to $11,000 to clean a single car. Here's how. More »
Dry Off Your Wet Umbrella In Styrofoam Grass [Rain]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#rain There has to be a better way of drying a wet umbrella than just shaking it silly. This Lawn for Rain concept—where you slide a wet umbrella into the styrofoam grass—might be it. More »
The Mysterious Box That Refused To Leave Amazon's Warehouse [Mystery]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 9:38pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#mystery I've learned nothing during the three minutes that I spent watching this video except that someone's order just plain refused to be a good little box and leave Amazon's warehouse. I'd just really love to know what's inside. More »
Make Your Hammer Feel Useful Even When It's Not Hammering [Concept]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 9:20pm EDT by Jeremiah Dobruck

#concept Finally there's a tool box for people who just want their tools to look pretty. This concept by Tim Oelker incorporates your hammer into its design and gives the rest of your tools form-fitting homes. More »
Minimalist Drawing Lamp Focuses Light Where You Need It [Lamp]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 8:40pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#lamp The Drawing Lamp, by designer Thomas Feichtner, is a barebones light source that can be leaned closer to your desk for a more focused glow. Feichtner describes the Drawing Lamp, which he designed for himself, as "reduced to the basics." More »
Thank You/Damn You Sys Admins! [It]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by Brian Lam

#it National sys admin day is a good day to remember the complicated relationships we've all had with them. More »
DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg [DIY]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by Priya Ganapati - Wired

#diy Someday humans and computers will meld together to create cyborgs. But instead of waiting for it, Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. More »
Meet QingTing, the Chinese Company that Copies Apple's Products and Website [Knockoff]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 7:40pm EDT by Casey Chan

#knockoff What did Picasso say again? Oh right. Good artists copy, great artists steal. By that logic, QingTing must be the greatest artist ever. [QingTing via giz-china] More »
The Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb to Date [Art]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 7:20pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#art This video, by artist Isao Hashimoto, charts every nuclear detonation from the US's tests in 1945 to the modern era. Even if you're versed in history, it still offers a perspective that's tough to entirely grasp in numbers alone. More »
The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray/DVD [Movies]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 6:40pm EDT by Brian Lam

#movies This reissue of The Goonies includes a board game and a treasure map on the box as well as some other junk. I'd get it, but I already own the DVD, and chunk ain't getting any prettier in high def. [Amazon via Uncrate] More »
Fastar Is An Action RPG That Makes Killing Squares Super Fun [IphoneGames]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Casey Chan

#iphonegames Fastar is a side-scrolling Action RPG game that packs way more action than RPG. Basically, you run as fast as you can while destroying any square that jumps in your way. It's all about speed and it's ridiculously enjoyable. More »
Android 2.2 Download Now Available For HTC EVO [Android]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 6:16pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#android Android 2.2 is supposed to roll out to the Sprint EVO next week, but it looks like there's a direct download already available through HTC. Here's how to get it. Update: A warning from HTC. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT

#highlights This week we geeked out on DIY food projects, rebooted our attention span, made our Android smartphones truly a helluva lot smarter, and more. More »

Gizmodo

This Week's Best Apps [Apps]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan

#apps In this week's multitouch empire-expanding app round-up: images, kaleidoscope'd on the iPad; news, given the Pulse treatment on Android; iPhone cameras, Photo Booth'd; alarm clocks, beautified; Scrabble, made hexagonal; and helicopters, steered into battle on the iPhone, and much more! More »
Verizon Will Roll Out Android 2.2 To The Original Droid Next Week [Android]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 5:12pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

We've heard some good news from Verizon folks: They'll push Android 2.2—also known as Froyo—to the original Motorola Droid next week. More »
How Much Fancier Can This Palindromic, Kinetic Museum Sign Get? [Design]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#design Yeh, your local museum may think they're pretty fancy with their glowing Helvetica sign, but does it have revolving parts that turn into a mirrored palindrome? London's V&A museum is scoffing in the face of yours. More »
Warning: People of Walmart iPhone App [IPhone App]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 4:40pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#iphoneapp You know People of Walmart, the disturbing site that showcases the posh clients that you sometimes find in that fine establishment. Now, they have decided to put the same terror on the palm of your hand with this iPhone app. More »
Have No Fear, MythBusters Renewed For Seven More Years [Television]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 4:24pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

At Comic Con last Saturday, the MythBusting team of Jamie, Adam, Tori, Grant, and Kari announced that their contracts have been extended for 7 more years. After sharing sneak peaks of their upcoming season, they told fans that they plan on taking on more superhero and comic book myths in the future. [Popular Mechanics via BGR] More »
The Mind Behind the Flying Car's Design [Flying Cars]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 4:20pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#flyingcars As strange as it is to say, we really do live in a world with a flying car. And a few decades from now, when we're all ditching gridlock for the open skies, we can partly thank Jens Martin Skibsted. More »
Europe Could Be Eating Cloned Meat and Dairy Right Now [Cloning]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#cloning Whether you think it's cool and futuristic or gross and immoral, cloning can yield leaner, healthier livestock. And the Times reports that some cloned meat and dairy products are already thought to be lining Old World supermarket shelves. More »
Twitter Will Now Suggest People You Might Be Interested In Stalking [Twitter]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:33pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#twitter It can be tough to find fascinating people to follow on Twitter, but now and then you'll find someone whose tweets perfectly match your interests and you'll wish there were more people like that. Well, now Twitter will help you find those folks—if they exist: More »
This Is How Last Generation Fighter Jet Helmets Work [Airplanes]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:20pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#airplanes I always thought that last generation fighter combat helmets—like the Eurofighter Typhoon's Head Equipment Assembly or the F-35 demon helmet—tracked the pilot's head position using gyroscopes. It turns out that they are more Kinect than Wiimote. More »
How To Splice a Fiber Optic Cable [FiberOptics]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#fiberoptics It's 2010, which means it's almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes. Here's how you splice fiber optics. [TWUntangled] More »
iPad Mount Makes Apple's Tablet the Priciest Fridge Magnet You'll Have [Ipad Accessories]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 2:40pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#ipadaccessories Sure, you could try affixing some magnets to the back of your iPad, and get the same iPad-as-fridge-magnet effect for far less, but then what'd happen if the iPad dropped and shattered? You wouldn't have anyone to sue but yourself. More »
US iPad Data Cost Versus the World: We Lose [Ipad]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 2:20pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#ipad It's one thing to compare how much mobile downloads cost you across various US carriers. Here's how the US iPad data plan stacks up against what the rest of the world pays. It's not pretty. More »
Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Adam Harris

#dealzmodo Today, we give you light - or at least a few free light bulbs. If that doesn't excite you, grab yourself a sweet Rock Band Fender Stratocaster Replica and rock out with your, um, friends. More »
Zune HD Gets Two New Apps, MSN Money And Animalgrams [Apps]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 1:26pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

Both apps are free and currently available for download in the Zune Marketplace. MSN Money lets you monitor stocks, convert currency, and get info on companies and past trends, and Animalgrams is a basic word game where you to come up with as many words as you can from an animal's name before the time runs out. [Zune Spring and Zune Boards] More »
Believe It or Not, This Is an iPhone Universal Remote [Remotes]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 1:20pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#remotes What to do when Apple's abandoned its remote app and you don't want to gum up your dock connector with an adapter? Well, UnityRemote's a great start: an infrared hub that turns iPhones and iPads into a 360-degree universal remote. More »
Bad Universe: The TV Program That Will Obliterate All Space Myths [Astronomy]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 1:00pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#astronomy Discovery Channel and Phil Plait—of Bad Astronomy fame—are on a mission to destroy wrong astronomy factoids this fall. The TV program will be called Bad Universe and, from the sneak peek, it looks fun. More »
Finally, A Hole Punch for Beer [Food]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 12:40pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#food I think I can speak for everyone here when I say there's nothing worse than not drinking a bottle of brewskie through a crazy straw. More »
The Young and the Restless and the Tech Support Guy Who Wanted Nude Photos [Drama]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 12:29pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#drama Oh what a tangled web we weave. The local ABC affiliate in San Francisco is reporting a scandalous tale of misplaced nude photos, fraudulent laptop purchases, pornographic websites, and a Dell tech support guy—basically an internet soap opera. More »
Feds Pushing for Stronger Privacy While You Shop Online [Privacy]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 12:28pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#privacy Congress is getting behind a policy "rethink" regarding online privacy, including the implementation of an FTC-enforced "Do Not Track" list. Such a list would allow shoppers to opt-out of advertising and behavioral tracking that follows customers from item to item. More »
This Airplane Luxury Suite Is Way Out of My Budget [Airplanes]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 12:20pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#airplanes This is the most luxurious airplane "seat" money can buy: The Singapore Suite, on board Singapore Air's A380s. Fully isolated from the airplane, it has real bed and a three-feet-wide armchair, along with a multimedia center with integrated 23-inch TV. More »
Five Years of an Ant Colony Stuck In a Scanner [Photography]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#photography François Vautier built an ant farm into a scanner, then he proceeded to scan the farm every week for five years. The ensuing clip? Just as wonderful as you'd imagine, though I wish I could see it uncompressed. [Thanks OblivionVII!] More »
Our Worst Nightmare Realized: Subway Stations and Tracks To Have Cell Service, Wi-Fi [Bad Ideas]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 11:27am EDT by Brian Moylan

#badideas Not only will the city's subway stations be rigged to support your handheld electronic devices, but chatty citizens will be allowed to make calls in between stops, too. Is there anything worse than this? More »
Spanning Backup Secures Your Data in Google's Cloud [Google]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 11:21am EDT by Sam Biddle

#google Those who use Google Apps probably assume data is safer in a cloud than it is on a laptop, prone to being dropped and spilled upon. Spanning Backup says otherwise, offering data protection services against data loss on Google's end. More »
IBM Creates the Most Detailed Map of the Brain To Date [Science]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#science In a paper published earlier this week, IBM researchers made huge strides in mapping the architecture of the brain, charting three times as many connections as any previous study. Where does such a map lead? The future of cognitive computing. More »
Kindle iOS4 App Updated With Dictionary and Search [Kindle]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:45am EDT by Brian Barrett

#kindle Your Kindle-on-iPad experience just got a boost: the Kindle 2.2 iOS4 update adds a dictionary and the ability to search inside your books. Just another reason to stick with Kindle's platform even if you skip the hardware. [iTunes] More »
Serve Pirates Beer in this Free Barrr Android App Game [Android Apps]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#androidapps Remember that Star Wars cantina iPhone app? Barrr is the Android version for pirates—sea-faring pirates, that is. Even though it was created by a couple of students, the gameplay's superb, and doesn't cost a single piece of eight. More »
First LTE 4G Phone Clears FCC [Lte]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:18am EDT by Brian Barrett

#lte Looks like the HTC Evo is close to getting some 4G company. The Samsung SCH-R900 has been cleared for landing by the FCC, and is expected to be out by the end of the year. More »
Insert Today's Gadgets Into Early 90's Culture [PhotoshopContest]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Adam Frucci

#photoshopcontest The early 90's were pretty rad, but the gadgets weren't really all that great. Landlines and Windows 3.1 were the norm. Bummer! Let's rewrite some history and fix these issues. More »
Thermaltake Level 10 Review: The Cure For the Common iMac [Review]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 9:40am EDT by Mark Wilson

#review My attempts to live with an iMac were met with nothing but grief. I needed a rebound relationship—a total opposite to the prudish minimalism of Apple design—a bad girl with unnervingly fast tendencies. More »
Apple Creating Mysterious "New Revolutionary Feature" In the Heart of Mac OS X [Apple]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 9:16am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#apple Apple is definitely excited about a new mysterious feature that "will truly amaze everyone [...] a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X." The extreme hyperbole in their latest job offer is surprising, and it doesn't stop there: More »
Vue Wireless Home Monitoring's iPhone Client Is Pretty Decent [Review]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Jason Chen

#review The Vue wireless camera system we reviewed last year is unique, in that it's completely wireless and small, so you can hide it in cracks and check in occasionally. Now we've tried the iPhone client, and it works as expected. More »
The World's Largest Digital Photograph: Budapest In 70 Gigapixels [Photography]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by Brian Barrett

#photography If you thought that 45 gigapixel panorama of Dubai was something, you ain't seen nothing yet. This 70 gigapixel shot of Budapest is so massive, you can zoom right into the windows of those apartments on the horizon. More »
Inception by Pixar, The Trailer [Image Cache]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 8:20am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#imagecache If you haven't watched Inception, spoilers alert. If you haven't watched Up!, spoilers alert. For the rest of you, this Inception/Up! trailer mash-up will make you flip out. In the words of Mark Wilson: "holy shit that trailer is amazing." More »
Nook's Kindle Counterpunch: The Hands-On Approach [Nook]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 8:00am EDT by Brian Barrett

#nook The new $140 Wi-Fi Kindle might have been the latest salvo in the ebook reader wars, but it's definitely not the last. The ball's in Barnes and Noble's court, and they're focused on the home field advantage of 720 storefronts. More »
Redbox Begins Blu-ray Rentals [Now Available]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 7:55am EDT by Brian Barrett

As promised, Redbox has started offering $1.50 Blu-ray rentals in several locations. To see which kiosks in your area are offering a higher definition Hot Tub Time Machine, enter your zip code at the Redbox Blu-ray page here. [SlashGear] More »
ATI Conquers NVIDIA (In Discrete GPU Shipments) [Graphics Cards]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 7:22am EDT by Mark Wilson

ATI has finally overtaken NVIDIA in the quest for dominant discrete GPU (graphics cards) marketshare. ATI: 51%. NVIDIA: 49%. Apparently the flames, dragons and race cars that have been printed on ATI-related packaging are superior to the flames, cyborgs and race cars printed on NVIDIA's. [CNET via Fudzilla via Engadget] More »
Ask Google Earth Whether it's Raining or Snowing Right Now [Google]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 7:20am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#google Why would you want to see real-time snow and rain on Google Earth, you ask, when weather sites or even your smartphone will tell you just as quickly? Don't give me that—you know how often they're incorrect. More »
In the Future, We'll All Wear Clothes Made by 3D Printers [3D Printers]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 6:37am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#3dprinters ...Though I hope the fashions will have changed by then, as these current examples look like plastic chainmail. Some designers are already using 3D printers to create textiles apparently, with the possibility of creating tailor-made figure-hugging being an attractive reason. More »
Froyo Update for European HTC Desires Will Turn On 720p Recording this Weekend [Android]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 5:29am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#android We've just heard from HTC, who's confirmed that European HTC Desires will be receiving the Android 2.2 Froyo update from this weekend, with a couple of extras—namely, 720p video recording and the ability to sync music with iTunes. More »
Toy Story Scalextric Makes Me Wish I Were a Kid Again [Toys]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 5:12am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#toys I love my nephew's visits, if only so we can pull the old Scalextric set out and pretend we're both eight-year-olds. While this special Toy Story edition is only a 1:64 scale, I still really, really want it. More »
Convert Gizmodo's Posts to Audio Podcasts for Nokia Phones [Ovi Apps]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 4:35am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#oviapps What's this? An Ovi app, on Gizmodo? Finally, we've found one worth talking about—though admittedly this technology isn't exactly new, having been kicking around desktops for a few years. More »
Budget Space Airline Now Taking Reservations—Got $95k? [Space]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#space XCOR Aerospace is throwing their hat into the ring, offering budget return flights to space for less than half what Richard Branson is asking for. Who do they think they are, the JetBlue of the interplanetary travel world? More »
Go Pew Pew in the Space Invaders Couch [Concepts]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 2:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#concepts This sofa is likely to never see the dawn of a waking day, nor the imprints of your buttocks as you settle in for a marathon 15-hour Space Invaders sesh. Shame, Igor Chak, shame. [Igor Chak via Kotaku] More »
Motorola Droid 2 Cases Rock Up at Best Buy, But Where's the Phone? [Android]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 2:08am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#android An employee at Best Buy Mobile spotted these suspicious cases in a new delivery, and whaddya know—they're emblazoned with the product name of Motorola's much-hyped Droid 2. More »
Photoshop Opens Time Portals Into World War II Ghost Dimension [Image Cache]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#imagecache Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov took some old photographs from World War II and combined them with new perspective-matching photos. The result are a series of time portals that help us contextualize the war into our current reality. More »
Get Your Segway Kick For A Seventh Of The Price [Mobility]

Posted: July 30th, 2010, 11:20pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

#mobility The Ewee-PT—or the Segway's "Little Sister"—is essentially a cheap way to own an awkward personal transportation system. On the plus side, you're only paying a fraction of the price to look ridiculous, er, get around faster. More »
The Tardigotchi: It's A Tamagatchi Whose Needs Mirror Its Living Twin [Electronic Pet]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 10:40pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

#electronicpet Remember Tamagatchis, those little electronic pets on a keyring you strived vainly to keep alive and grow to adulthood? The Tardigotchi is its successor, but get this—it houses both a virtual pet AND a living organism, a tardigrade. More »
Enviable Android Live Wallpaper #55: aSpiritBomb [Android]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#android As a recent iPhone convert, things are going well. But one feature that keeps me glancing over in Android's direction is those damn live wallpapers. ASpiritBomb, from the maker of aCircuitBoard, is yet another pang in my heart. [Thanks Smith!] More »
How To Pirate Vinyl Records [Records]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 9:40pm EDT by Casey Chan

#records Just because vinyl records are analog, it doesn't mean you can't pirate them. All you need is a wood box, glass, window cement, silicone mixture, liquid plastic and a drill press. Hey, I didn't say it was going to be easy. More »
The We Farm App Is An Imitation FarmVille For Your iPad [IPad Apps]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 9:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ipadapps Sure, there's a FarmVille iPhone app, but iPad users haven't gotten a really good way of satisfying their virtual agriculture needs. Thankfully, there's now the free We Farm app from Ngmoco—a decent FarmVille alternative for your iPad. More »
Full-Size Man Gives Tour of His Absurdly Tiny House [Architecture]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#architecture This impossibly tiny, 100 square foot house contains tiny chairs, a tiny fireplace, and a tiny loft with a tiny window which serves as a tiny bedroom. But of course its owner couldn't help springing for the 15" MacBook. More »
This Wind-Powered Cart Is Actually Faster Than The Wind [Wind]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 7:40pm EDT by Casey Chan

#wind This wind-powered cart breaks the rules of science because it's actually faster than the wind itself. When the wind was only blowing at 20mph, the cart managed to hit speeds of 50mph. Here's how it works. More »
Android 2.2 Will Begin Rolling Out To The EVO 4G On August 3 [Android]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 6:49pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

Good news for EVO 4G owners! Sprint will begin rolling out Android 2.2 to the lucky EVO users starting August 3: More »
Please, Somebody Make These Beautiful HTML5 Animations Into a Game [Image Cache]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#imagecache Maybe it is because I'm a sucker for old school 90s graphic adventures, but I love these just for what they are: Beautiful 8-bit cycling animations made using HTML5. They're so good that someone should write a game around them. More »
Google Now "Fully Blocked" In China [UPDATE: It Was A Status Error] [Google]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 6:13pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#google Google, the brave search engine company who refused to censor search results in China, seems to be finding itself entirely unwelcome in the country: Apparently Google is now fully blocked in China. Update: False alarm due to a Google issue. More »
Comcast's DVR App Is Coming to Android and BlackBerry [Comcast]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 5:51pm EDT by Jason Chen

You can already manage your Comcast DVR from your iPhone, but soon you'll be able to do the same with BlackBerry and Android as well. No date announced, but it's coming. [Comcast] More »
Wear Your iPod Shuffle and Nothing Else [Accessories]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#accessories What to make of the diminutive iPod Shuffle? It's handy for working out, but immediately less handy if you don't have a sporty top to clip it to. That leaves you with two options: your earlobe or the Pod-à-porter neckband. More »
What's the Best Graphics Card for StarCraft II? [Gaming]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 5:20pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#gaming The gang over at TechSpot loaded up the newly-released StarCraft II on what seems like a hundred different PC setups to determine what the best hardware setup for the insanely popular real-time strategy game is. Here are the results: More »
Apple Patents Suggest You'll Soon Rely On Apps To Get Dressed And Leave The House [Apple]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 5:13pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#apple As if some of us aren't already too attached to our iOS devices, Apple seems to be working on ways to add to our addictions: Recent patent applications show that Apple may be creating virtual closet and travel apps. More »
CIA and Google's Joint Investment Raising Eyebrows [Google]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#google Cambridge startup Recorded Future trawls the internet for raw data that it uses in an attempt to predict world events—understandably interesting stuff. But what do both Google and the CIA both see in the company? Wired digs deeper. More »
Amazon Tote Hand Delivers Your Orders Weekly, In a Bag, To Your Door [Amazon Tote]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 4:59pm EDT by Jason Chen

#amazontote As an (greener) alternative to Amazon Prime's free two-day shipping, there's Amazon Tote, which gives you all your orders from the last week delivered once a week in a snazzy reusable tote bag. More »
Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent [BitTorrent]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 4:20pm EDT by Jason Chen

#bittorrent Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. More »
Motorola's Sales Jump 600% Since Last Year [Motorola]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 4:19pm EDT by Christina Bonnington

Selling 8.3 million mobile phones, 2.7 of which were smart phones, provided Motorola with earnings of $162 million this quarter, compared to $26 million this time last year. Motorola's success is largely due to the Droid, which was dropped late last year and leads the market in Android phone sales. [TG Daily] More »
Steve Ballmer On iPad Sales: Not Happy [Blockquote]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 4:19pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#blockquote Asked by analysts about the 3 million magical iPads sold in 80 days, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn't very happy. I'm not surprised: They only sold 1.32 million Tablet PCs in 2008, with 1.25 million estimated for 2010. [Techflash] More »
Jailbreak Matrix Matches Your iOS Device to the Right Jailbreak Tool [Jailbreak]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Jason Fitzpatrick

#jailbreak Confused on what you need to jailbreak your iOS device? Whether you've got a brand new iPad or a first-generation iPod Touch, Jailbreak Matrix dishes the dirt on what you need to jailbreak your device. More »
Hacker Develops Program To Make ATMs Spit Out Free Cash [Atm]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 3:49pm EDT by Casey Chan

#atm ATMs use computers. Computers have weaknesses. Hackers exploit weaknesses. See where this is going? A hacker developed software that can force an ATM's computer to give free cash. Luckily for banks, he showed off his technique at the Black Hat conference. More »
Giant Light-Up Snowflake iPhone Dock Will Really Tie the Room Together [IPhone]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#iphone Earlier this week we called on industrial designers to bring consumer electronics back to an age of handsome, dignified character. Designer Sylvain Gerber seems to disagree, unveiling an enormous wacky iPhone dock shaped like a snowflake and covered in lights. More »
X Prize Offers $1 Million For Oil Clean Up Solutions [XPrize]

Posted: July 29th, 2010, 3:18pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#xprize The X Prize Foundation, which spurs scientific and technological innovation with the greatest of incentives, a big pile of money, hopes we'll have a significantly improved method for cleaning oil by this time next year. The carrot: a cool million. More »
RIM and AT&T Are Holding A Joint Event Next Week [Rim]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 6:24pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

Apparently RIM and AT&T are getting together to throw a shindig next week. Most are thinking that the event will mark the launch of the BlackBerry 9800, but we'll know for sure on Tuesday. [Reuters] More »
The DefCon Ninja Party Badge Will Let You Battle Strangers [Ninjas]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Dave Bullock - Wired

#ninjas A hacker group known as the Ninjas has created what may be the best DefCon badge ever. The badge allows wireless ninja battle between badge holders. Unlike the official badge, attendees can't buy this one: it's free. More »
100 Million Facebook Profile Pages Leaked to Torrent Site [Privacy]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#privacy A 2.8GB torrent is floating around out there containing data from 100 million Facebook profiles. But don't freak out: all the data was already available publicly. More »
You Play Video Games Like A Cyclops [Science]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 5:23pm EDT by Mike Fahey

#science You might have a pair of eyes, but when you're playing first-person video games, you're no better than a cyclops. Neuroscientist Mark Changizi explains how our cyclops-vision helps pinpoint what we're missing out on when we lose an eye. More »
Video: Obama Overviews New HealthCare.gov Website [Healthcare]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 5:17pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#healthcare Watch our technologically-capable President discuss HealthCare.gov, a one stop shop where citizens can get information on new health care laws and evaluate all of their insurance options. Also: check out his neat presidential MacBook decal. [WebMD.com] More »
Music Video Answers Eternal Flamethrower Versus Fire Extinguisher Question [MusicVideo]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#musicvideo Sentences beginning in "What if we got a flamethrower and..." usually result in horrible, moronic, burnt disaster. But we're glad director Tomas Mankovsky threw caution to the fiery wind to see what happens when a flamethrower meets a fire extinguisher. More »
ZTE Peel 3G Case For Transforming Your iPod Touch Into a Sprint Phone? [Sprint]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 4:46pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#sprint The FCC just posted documents for a curious Sprint-branded case called the ZTE Peel 3200, packing its own battery and EV-DO connectivity as well as mobile hotspot capabilities. It might be for heroically transforming your iPod Touch into a phone. More »
What it feels like to ride on the back of a rocket into the upper atmosphere [This Is Awesome]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 4:33pm EDT by Annalee Newitz

#thisisawesome A Nexus One smart phone got launched 28,000 feet into the atmosphere, riding on the back of a rocket, and captured the whole ride on video. Yes, it's a little dizzying (rockets spin as they fly) but still awesome. More »
What's Inside AT&T's Mysterious Monolith Display? [Mysteries]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 4:20pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#mysteries This display has been popping up at AT&T stores all across the country, but store workers and managers are being kept in the dark as to its contents. So what's inside that big black box? More »
RIM Buys BlackPad.com, a Home For the BlackBerry Tablet? [BlackBerry]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 4:04pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

MobileCrunch reports that RIM recently snatched up BlackPad.com, a possible name for their forthcoming BlackBerry tablet. The device is anticipated to land in pant-suited laps by the end of the year. More »
Apple Investigating iOS4 on iPhone 3G Woes [Apple]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 3:57pm EDT by Sam Biddle

Those of you who've seen your iPhone 3G's performance significantly suffer after upgrading to iOS4 will be pleased to know that Apple is aware of the problem and is looking into it, according to one their spokeswomen. [Wall Street Journal] More »
The Return of the Cellphone Strap [Cellphones]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 3:51pm EDT by Brian Lam

#cellphones One thing I noticed—sadly!—with the original iPhone was the lack of a place to hang a keitai strap. For awhile, I'd collect fun ones from Japan. Good thing I saved all them because the bumper fixes this. More »
Radio Alarm App Almost Numbs the Pain of Waking Up Every Day [IphoneApps]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Sam Biddle

#iphoneapps It's surprising to be impressed by an alarm clock—it either gets you up in the morning or it doesn't. But EnSight's well designed Radio Alarm app manages to add some pleasure to the agony of waking up early. More »
165 More Photoshopped Publicity Photos for BP [PhotoshopContest]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#photoshopcontest Last week, I asked you to help BP out with Photoshopping their publicity photos, something they clearly were having a hard time with. And wow, you delivered a deluge of images, each one more embarrassing for BP than the last. More »
Ballmer Gives All Microsoft Interns Free Windows Phone 7 Phones, Too [Microsoft]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 2:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#microsoft According to an intern tipster, when Ballmer was asked, at an "Intern Talk" earlier today, if Microsoft interns would also be receiving free Windows Phone 7 phones, he replied, "Recruiting doesn't have the budget, but I do. So, Yes!..." More »
New SSD Can Be Used For Internal Or External Storage [Ssd]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 2:39pm EDT by Casey Chan

#ssd Super Talent's new UltraDrive MX SSD has a feature that allows the SSD to be used as an internal drive or as an external storage device. It's because the SSD can connect to a computer with SATA II and USB. More »
Droid X Gets One-Click Rooting [Droid X]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 2:36pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#droidx You could root your Droid X the old fashioned way, or you can download a program that'll do it for you with a single touch. I'm not gonna tell you your business, but this is a no-brainer, folks. More »
Hack an Induction Charger to Work with Any Cellphone [DIY]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 2:02pm EDT by Whitson Gordon

#diy Inductive charging is a pretty convenient way to charge your phone, but kits for less popular devices are hard to come by. Here's how to hack your phone to charge wirelessly, using another phone's kit. More »
Keep Your Eyes on Their Feet to Cut Through Crowds Like Butter [Crowds]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 2:02pm EDT by Adam Pash

#crowds You know when you're walking through a large crowd and end up in step with someone else, then have to do that all-too-familiar back-and-forth dance until someone breaks free and you go around each other? Wired wants to help you avoid this. More »
Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Jeremiah Dobruck

#dealzmodo Remember that ultraviolet toothbrush cleaner? I know you thought an essential product like that would never be discounted, but we have a portable one for you on the cheap. It'll come in handy after that free lasagna. More »
New Android Copy Protection Has Apps Calling Home [Androidapps]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 1:35pm EDT by Sam Biddle

Google has announced Android's new attempt to curb piracy, an online "licensing service" that automatically contacts the Android Market when an app is launched. The new mechanism is available to developers now, becoming standard "over the next few months." [Android Developers via Engadget] More »
Verizon Smartphones Use More Data Than the iPhone [Data]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 1:12pm EDT by Casey Chan

#data According to a study, Verizon smartphone users use more data than iPhone users. That's right, on average, Verizon smartphones—Android, webOS, and Windows Mobile phones—pull in 421 MB a month of data. iPhone users only use 338MB. More »
Shooting Challenge: Sunrise, Sunset [Photography]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 12:40pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#photography It's the quintessential landscape photo: the sunset, nature's own daily-painted masterpiece of texture, color and light. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, I want you to go out and capture the poor, workhorse of a star's soul. UPDATE More »
Sprint Grows In Subscribers For the First Time In 3 Years [Sprint]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 12:33pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#sprint Thanks to the popularity of Evo, Sprint gained 111,000 net subscribers in the second quarter, the first time the company has seen net subscriber growth in three years. More »
Why You Can't Subscribe To Digital Magazines On Your iPad [ITunes]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 12:07pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#itunes The iPad was supposed to herald a new era in publishing. But the growing rift between Apple and Time Inc. shows that the early troubles clouding digital magazines have only gotten worse. So: is iTunes a mailbox or a newsstand? More »
Because Dogs Need the Occasional Oxygen Boost When Flying, Too [Dogs]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#dogs This is a very niche product for a.) those who want to move overseas with their dogs, or b.) Mariah Carey. Who knew dogs needed additional oxygen supplies when flying at altitudes above 8,000 feet? More »
Best Buy Giving Free invisibleSHIELDS To Unhappy iPhone 4 Owners? [Unconfirmed]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 11:48am EDT by Casey Chan

#unconfirmed Everyone's trying to fix the iPhone 4's attenuation problem! Best Buy is reportedly giving away free invisibleSHIELDs to any unhappy iPhone 4 owner. Meaning you didn't even have to buy your iPhone 4 from Best Buy to take advantage. UPDATED More »
Unconfirmed: White iPhone Delay Caused By Light Leakage [White Iphone]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 11:40am EDT by Jason Chen

#whiteiphone The Street (same people who claimed 1.5 years of free service for the iPhone at launch), now claims that the white iPhone delay is caused by light leaking out the edges, sides and back of the white phone. More »
Lego Headphones Are the Instrument For Some Block Rockin' Beats [Lego]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#lego Think this Instructables DIYer created these headphones just by gluing a few Lego bricks onto an old pair of headphones? O, ye of little faith. Look closer—these illustrate some bona fide crafty skills. [Instructables] More »
Your Boxspring Could Be Acting as a Gigantic, Cancer-Causing Radiation Antenna [Bad News]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 10:47am EDT by Adam Frucci

#badnews The breast cancer rate is 10% higher on people's left side than right. Why? Some researchers think it's because people tend to sleep on their right side, and their boxsprings are pulling in electromagnetic radiation from FM and TV transmissions. More »
Most Accurate Clock in Existence to be Sent to Space [Space]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 10:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#space Anyone visiting the International Space Station from 2014 won't have any excuses for poor timekeeping, with the cold-atom clock being sent up there as part of the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) project. More »
Starcraft II Singleplayer Impressions [StarCraft]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 10:30am EDT by Luke Plunkett

#starcraft While we toil away on an actual Starcraft II review - which I won't be writing - let's pass the time with some quick, dirty singleplayer impressions. Which I will be writing. More »
Kindle Sold Out [Kindle]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 10:24am EDT by Brian Barrett

#kindle People sure are making hay out of Amazon being fresh out of Kindles! And while there's certainly a chance this could herald the imminent arrival of Kindle 3, it seems more likely that Amazon hit an unexpected wave of demand. But who knows? More »
Samsung HMX-E10: A 1080p Pocket Cam With 270-Degree Swivel Lens, and ST80 Wi-Fi Point-and-Shoot [DigitalCameras]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 10:04am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#digitalcameras Samsung's outing two new affordable cameras: the HMX-E10, a 1080p pocket cam with a handy 270-degree swiveling lens and the 14.2MP ST80 point-and-shoot, which packs Wi-Fi for beaming photos and 720p video directly to YouTube, Facebook and the rest. More »
Making Toast, CLEAR! [Concepts]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Mark Wilson

#concepts If only this defibrillator toaster concept were real, I could scream, "I NEED 50 CCs of butter, stat," every morning without looking like a total lunatic. [Shay Carmon via Design Taxi via that's nerdalicious] More »
Presenting: Lawnmower On a Stick [Bad Ideas]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 9:20am EDT by Brian Barrett

#badideas Clippers? Trimmers? Forget all that. All you need to keep those hedges under control is a lawnmower and a very long stick, provided you're both very strong and completely insane. Seriously, don't try this ever. [Geekosystem] More »
Flower Warfare: The Seeds of War [Image Cache]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by Brian Barrett

#imagecache The guns shoot daisies and the bad guys spurt blood-petals. That's just life in Flower Warfare. Stay sharp for the next two and a half minutes, and you might not get plowed. More »
Not Vaporware After All: Lumigon's Android Phones Will Launch This October [Android]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 8:00am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#android In a world of identikit phones, Lumigon's three Android phones announced at CES were like a fresh-faced booth babe amidst a sea of technerds. Holding true to their promise, the T1 will hit October 20th with some nice specs. More »
Panasonic's 3D Lens Makes Third Dimension Dabbling Painless [Cameras]

Posted: July 28th, 2010, 7:59am EDT by Mark Wilson

#cameras We've seen Panasonic's 3D camcorder, but the company is also releasing a standalone lens that will allow otherwise stock still cameras to shoot 3D. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: July 23rd, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we helped you survive the grind of office life, rounded our favorite Linux applications into a one-click installation, and more. Here's a look at this week's most popular posts. More »

A List Apart

JavaScript Minification Part II

Posted: July 20th, 2010, 5:00am EDT

Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic placeholders for values. Nicholas C. Zakas shows us how to further minify JavaScript by replacing local variable names with the YUI Compressor.
SVG with a little help from Raphaël

Posted: July 20th, 2010, 5:00am EDT

Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace? Brian Suda urges you to consider Raphaël for your SVG heavy lifting.

Gizmodo

Consistency Counts For Something [Humor]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by Brian Barrett

#humor In 1996, you could get a Palm Pilot 1000 with a 16MHz processor, 128KB storage, and a 100-name address book for $300. Times sure have changed! Like, what about a TI graphing calculator? More »
Windows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start [Windows Phone 7]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 8:00am EDT by matt buchanan

#windowsphone7 "What's this?" a girl at a party asked, as I handed her my phone. She touched a square, and everything flipped away. "It's Microsoft's brand new phone. Kind of like a fresh start," I explained. "Oh. It's... neat." More »
Japanese Subway Grows Its Own Hydroponic Lettuce [Food]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:59am EDT by Mark Wilson

#food Imagine a Utopian future, one where not only could you score an affordable foot's length of sub from a dispensary on every street corner, but one where every said sub-dispensary actually grew their own raw ingredients. More »
iPad Hitting Nine More Countries This Friday [Ipad]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:40am EDT by Brian Barrett

#ipad Continuing its staggered international expansion, the iPad will come to nine more countries this Friday. Moving into international markets has so far (logically) been a key to bolstering sales numbers, and Apple's entering some pretty big markets this week. More »
Leaked Documents and LTE SIM Show Verizon 4G Launch Is Imminent [Unconfirmed]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:14am EDT by Brian Barrett

#unconfirmed While Verizon's been pretty open about their 4G plans—up to 30 cities and a third of Americans covered this year—there's now some leaked internal documentation showing systems are primed for LTE. They've even got the SIM cards ready: More »
Netflix Coming to Canada, Eh? [NetFlix]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:09am EDT by Mark Wilson

If things get even worse with the latest BP oil seepage reports, I'm hightailing it to Canada. I have no clue what good that will do, but at least it's doing something. Oh, and starting in the fall, I can get Netflix. Soon-to-be fellow Canadians, preregister here: [Netflix via Twitter via Engadget] More »
Now Seagate Has a Really Simple, Really Cheap Home NAS Solution [Nas]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 7:00am EDT by Jason Chen

#nas Recently the manufacturing trend in mainstream network storage has been to eschew using Microsoft's Windows Home Server packages, which is basically a low-powered PC, and coming up with their own proprietary machines. Seagate's? Basically just a hard drive. More »
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Prepare to Check-in With Foursquare [Android Apps]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 5:20am EDT by Gary Cutlack

#androidapps According to quotes from Foursquare's co-founder Dennis Crowley, the company is considering a deal to send out the data it harvests through the location-aware app, and the usual suspects are in the shortlist to acquire it. More »
Samsung Speaks Up Over Antennagate—"Reception Problems Have Not Happened" [Attenuation]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 3:40am EDT by Gary Cutlack

#attenuation So we've already had HTC, Nokia and RIM give us their side of Apple's odd attempt to downgrade the entire smartphone industry, now it's Samsung's turn—which says "Reception problems have not happened so far" on Omnia II. More »
Hopscotch Hero [Games]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 3:00am EDT by Gary Cutlack

#games It was inevitable. Everything we do will eventually be reduced to a game played with a plastic accessory that costs $149.99, and now it's the turn of hopscotch—which has been turned into an in-house art installation. More »
This Week's Best Apps [Apps]

Posted: July 19th, 2010, 11:30pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan

#apps In this week's iPhone, iPad, and Android app round-up: AT-AT's, brought down; Android input, Palm Pilot Graffiti-fied; Dracula, vanquished; calculations, beautified; Starfleet communiques, transmitted; deers, hunted; Firefox, synced; trains, conducted chaotically, and more! More »
The Taiwanese News Animates the iPhone 4 Antenna Saga (With Very Special Bonus) [Iphone 4]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 10:04pm EDT by Jason Chen

#iphone4 The same Taiwanese outlet that does those Sims-style animations to better illustrate the news has done it again for Steve Jobs and the iPhone 4 antenna saga. No spoilers, but there's a very special guest this time. [Thanks Michael!] More »
Lockheed Martin HULC Exo-Skeleton Prepares to Smash Human Beta Tests [Hulc]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#hulc The HULC exo-skeleton, Lockheed Martin's prototype heavy lifter for infantry troops in the field, has its battery and is now ready for human trials. If they're successful, field tests could be close on their heels. More »
Nokia Kinetic Concept Declines Calls Using Playful Flicks [Concepts]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#concepts Designer Jeremy Hopkins, perhaps taking a cue from those inflatable clown punching bags that would always right themselves thanks to a special weight, has designed the Nokia Kinetic to do pretty much the exact same thing. More »
July 19 Motorola Droid X Update Includes Numerous Efficiency Fixes [Droid X]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 3:10pm EDT by Jack Loftus

An upcoming July 19 Droid X software update includes patterns of sorts. Mainly, the words "improved," "faster," and "streamlined" appear frequently throughout the bullet point list of fixes. More »
Shark Faucet Just Wants to Be Touched By Your Dirty Hands [Faucets]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#faucets Lately there's been no shortage of sleek, designer faucets here at Gizmodo, and today is no exception. Called the Shark, this touchscreen faucet won't devour your hands, but it will be touched by them. More »
*New* Nook 3G Outed by FCC Report [Nook]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 2:28pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#nook The news is kind of unsurprising, but there's evidence out today, courtesy an FCC filing, that the Nook is about to welcome a new 3G version to the fold. Perhaps a "Nook 2?" Updated: More »
Swype Input Interface Sneaks Into Windows 7 Demo [Swype]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#swype The Swype text entry interface that's been tearing up Android phones, World Records and maybe iPhones was spotted doing more of the same on a large touchscreen at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference. Spoiler: It looks like Swype, but bigger: More »
Atheists' Latest Gadget: The Hairdryer [Atheism]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 1:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#atheism What does an atheist do when they're trying to prove a point and "de-baptize" non-believers? Why, use a hairdryer of course, as Edwin Kagin has done with a "flock" of atheists at this year's American Atheists Convention in New Jersey. More »
MicDroid: Android Users Get Their Auto-Tune App [Apps]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#apps Hey Android users! Envious of the iPhone T-Pain app? Hungry for some portable Auto-Tune action? Are you still reading? Great, because MicDroid, the purported first Android Auto-Tune app, has landed. Commence with the rolling eyes and bleeding ears: More »
Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists? [Scientology]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Quinn Norton

#scientology NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery. More »
Prototype Vehicle Warning Seat System Vibrates When Danger Is Near [Safety]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 11:00am EDT by Jack Loftus

#safety Is my ass vibrating again or am I about to run headlong into a Mack truck? Well, if a prototype out of the Yale School of Engineering comes to pass, in my hypothetical future both could be true! Wild ride! More »
Artist Births Jedi In Seven Months Flat [Art]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Jack Loftus

#art Robert Burden, the time lapse painter who's graced Gizmodo before with his He-Man Battle Cat and Voltron paintings, is back. The latest is "Birth of a Jedi." And no, that's not a third leg coming out of the Tauntaun. More »
HTC Disputes Apple Cellphone Demo with Numbers of Its Own [PR War]

Posted: July 18th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Jack Loftus

#prwar In the wake of Apple's peculiar iPhone 4 Strikes Back! press conference, you'd be normal if you expected miffed competitors, especially after Jobs threw the likes of RIM, HTC and Nokia under the "Antennagate" bus. Now HTC is hitting back: More »
Wikileaks Keynote at HOPE 2010: No Assange, But Institutional Details Emerge [Wikileaks]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 8:30pm EDT by Quinn Norton

#wikileaks The part of scheduled keynote speaker Julian Assange, the Australian hacker US agents have made it clear they would like to question, was played by Jake Appelbaum today at HOPE. More »
The Robotic Butterfly That Flies Like The Real Thing [Robot]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#robot The ChouChou Robotic Butterfly is just like a real butterfly, except it can live forever. Or at least until its battery runs out. You won't even know the difference, just watch it fly. [Japan Trends] More »
Minority Report Intelligent Digital Billboards Are Real [Billboards]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#billboards You remember those billboards in Minority Report, the ones that personalize what they display depending on who stands in front of it. Tokyo is rolling out digital billboards that do the same thing. More »
Because Drinking Wine From A Glass Is Way Classier Than Drinking From A Bottle [Wineglass]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#wineglass I don't drink wine but if I did, I would totally buy this wine glass. It fits an entire bottle of wine—all 750ml of that bitter grape juice—in its 9-inch tall, super sized goblet. [Amazon via The Awesomer] More »
iChatr, the Chatroulette-like iPhone App, Removed From The App Store [Ichatr]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 4:54pm EDT by Casey Chan

#ichatr The iChatr app has been removed from the App Store due to "a number of users exposing themselves during the random video chat sessions." What did Apple think was going to happen when they approved it? More »
So Motorola Won't Break The Droid X, They'll Just Make It Unusable [DroidX]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#droidx So Motorola spoke up on the Droid X's eFuse issue: if you install unapproved ROMs on your Droid X, your phone won't break. It'll just go into recovery mode and be unusable until you install Motorola approved software. Gee, thanks Moto. More »
Scientists Crack Mona Lisa's Secret By X-Raying Her [Art]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#art Apparently, everyone has long been baffled by how Leonardo da Vinci created such subtle shadows and light on the Mona Lisa. So much so that scientists X-rayed the painting to discover his technique. More »
This Video Was Taken By An iPhone 4 With A SLR Lens Attached [Photography]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#photography This a test video captured by the iPhone 4 with a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens attached. It's pretty impressive. More »
Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan Reviews Kitchen Appliances [Cooking]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 1:30pm EDT by Casey Chan

In his search to create the perfect poached egg, our own matt buchanan documented his journey in the NY Times Diner's Journal blog. Check out the various gizmos and kitchen appliances he tests and the surprising (to me, at least) conclusion he reaches here. [NY Times Diner's Journal] More »
RIM And Nokia Respond To Apple's Antennagate Press Conference [Attenuation]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 12:30pm EDT by Casey Chan

#attenuation RIM and Nokia have responded to Apple's claim that all smartphones have the same attenuation and signal loss issue that the iPhone 4 has. Here's what they said: More »
Hulu Plus on PS3 Review: Everything We Hoped It Would Be...But Free [Hulu]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 11:30am EDT by Mark Wilson

#hulu Hulu Plus got a lot of attention in its iPad/iPhone incarnations. But it's also the smoothest, most polished media experience I've ever had on my PS3. And to some extent, it really is the Holy Grail: Hulu on TV. More »
Live@HOPE, Jeff Potter Cooks for Geeks [Hope]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Quinn Norton

#hope Jeff Potter plays with his food, and wants to get you to as well. He experiments with equipment, techniques, chemistry, even the psychology and genetics of flavor. Sometimes it's delicious, and sometimes he blows up the kitchen. Sometimes both. More »
A Knife Made From Fiber Optic Glass [Knives]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 10:30am EDT by Casey Chan

#knives This beautiful handmade knife is shaped entirely from fiber optic glass. You know, the stuff that gives us super fast internet. A knifemaker used a process called knapping, a throwback method of shaping stones into useful tools, to form it. More »
iHome Wants To Charge Every Gadget You Own [Charging]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 9:30am EDT by Casey Chan

#charging iHome wants to get rid of your loose cables and chargers and replace them with their base docking station. The not-so-elegantly named iB969 is a good looking hub that charges your iPhone, iPad, and any ol' gadget that connects through USB. More »
Mercury Flyby Maps New Territory [Space]

Posted: July 17th, 2010, 8:30am EDT by Lisa Grossman - Wired

#space The results from the Messenger spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury are finally in and cover ground never before mapped. But they leave scientists wanting more. More »
Live@HOPE, Monochrom's Grenzfuthner: "The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape" [Hope2010]

Posted: July 16th, 2010, 9:47pm EDT by Quinn Norton

#hope2010 The idea began over beers. Johannes Grenzfurthner (of Monochrom) and friends wondered if the notion that porn drives technology really was true or urban myth. So, they decided, why not organize a public event and find out? More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: July 16th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT

#highlights This week we took a look at what exactly caffeine is doing to your brain, rounded up ten of our favorite thumb drive tricks, tested out OS X in a Windows virtual machine, and more. More »
This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: July 9th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT

#highlights This week we took a look at some of your biggest email annoyances, helped iPhone owners jump ship to Android without skipping a beat, put together our geeky vacation checklist, and more. More »

A List Apart

Supersize that Background, Please!

Posted: July 6th, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Background images that fill the screen thrill marketers but waste bandwidth in devices with small viewports, and suffer from cropping and alignment problems in high-res and widescreen monitors. Instead of using a single fixed background size, a better solution would be to scale the image to make it fit different window sizes. And with CSS3 backgrounds and CSS3 media queries, we can do just that. Bobby van der Sluis shows how.
Prefix or Posthack

Posted: July 6th, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our consciences, along with our patience. But while nobody particularly enjoys writing the same thing four or five times in a row, prefixes may actually accelerate the advancement and refinement of CSS. King of CSS Eric Meyer explains why.

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we tricked out your brand new Google Voice account, downgraded your overtaxed iPhone 3G, prepared you to safely take advantage of those free Starbucks Wi-Fi hotspots, and more. More »

Gizmodo

Apple Easing Up On Book App Censorship? [Censorship]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 12:30pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

In 2008, the App Store rejected the app for Knife Music, a novel penned by Giz friend and CNet editor Dave Carnoy, for "objectionable" content, and he was forced to censor his book to gain admittance. Now, backed by a major publisher, a new Knife Music app has been accepted to the App Store, naughty language and all. More »

Apple - Knife Music - App Store - Censorship - Libraries
Building Your Own White iPhone 4 [Mod]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 11:30am EDT by Casey Chan

If you were geeked on the white iPhone 4, but disappointed to see that they wouldn't be shipping until late July, you could always just build your own. Engadget put together a white iPhone 4 with third-party parts and it looks, well, great. Though it's missing an earpiece grill, lens cover, LED diffusor, and a white Home button, it's a pretty neat mod for users who just can't wait for the white version. There's a Michael Jackson joke here but yeah, we're not going there. [Engadget] More »

IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Engadget - Apple
What Is Last Week's "Alex Meets Auto-Tune" Jeopardy Category? [Autotune]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 10:30am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#autotune Presumably in an effort to engage younger audiences, this happened last week, resulting in the respectable, gray-haired host of a popular TV quiz show singing clues through a trendy pitch-correcting software used by artists such as T-Pain and Kanye West. More »

Arts - Television - Programs - Jeopardy - Game show
Plastic Logic Que Pre-Orders Cancelled, Probably Never Being Released [Plasticlogic]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 9:30am EDT by Casey Chan

#plasticlogic The story of the Plastic Logic Que, a huge-screened ereader, reads like a tragedy. The latest in its saga? All pre-orders of the Que have been cancelled and there's no timeline for release. Yeah, it's looking like vaporware. More »

Plastic Logic - Math - Logic and Foundations - Research Groups and Centers - E-book
Impossible-Looking Pedals Push Your Bike Up Hills [Bicycles]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 8:30am EDT by Wired.com - Charlie Sorrel

#bicycles An English inventor has come up with an cheap, lightweight power-assist system for bicycles. It is built into a pair of modified pedals and requires no extra hardware. It also seems to be impossible. More »

Bicycle - Cycling - Business - Sporting Goods - Consumer Goods and Services
Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 3:12am EDT by Kevin Purdy

#lifehackertop10 Earlier this week, Google Voice opened to everyone in the U.S.. The phone management app is great, but even cooler hacks exist just under the hood. Here are our favorite tricks every Google Voice user should know about. More »

Google - Google Voice - Searching - Search Engines - Companies
Steve Jobs On iPhone 4: "There Is No Reception Issue. Stay Tuned." [Apple]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 1:01am EDT by Rosa Golijan

We know that something is going on with the reception on our iPhone 4 devices and some of us are jumping through hoops to avoid any troubles, but according to Steve Jobs' latest email: There are no reception issues. More »

Apple - IPhone - Steve Jobs - Smartphone - Handhelds
iPhone 4 Already Jailbroken, Tool Being Publicly Released Next Week [Apple]

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 11:56pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

Looks like the iPhone 4 has already gotten the jailbreak treatment. There are images floating around showing a proper jailbreak using a new version of the Spirit tool which should be publicly released next week. Updated. More »

IPhone - Apple - Handhelds - Smartphones - Jailbreak
Gaming With Defendant Costs Judge His Seat [Crime]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by Owen Good

#crime Weird story out of Bristol, Va.; a judge there has abandoned his seat after it came to light that he'd been a constant video gaming companion of a man he'd sent to jail at least three times over the years. More »

Bristol Palin - Bristol - Levi Johnston - England - Anchorage Alaska
NASA's Green Dart [Nasa]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#nasa NASA's green supersonic dart, courtesy a design team at Lockheed Martin, isn't all conceptual looks and aggressive lines, as there's an environmental angle—pardon the pun—that's present here too: More »

NASA - Space - Technology - Education - Lockheed Martin
EMILY Robot Lifeguard to Begin Saving Victims Off Malibu Shores This Summer [Robots]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

Swimmers running into trouble at Malibu's Zuma Beach this summer might owe their lives to a robot named EMILY. The robo-raft, set to launch there and 25 other beaches by December, could rescue victims six times faster than a human. More »

Robotics - Robot - Robot Wars - Competitions - Building
Site Issues [Announcements]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 5:05pm EDT by Jack Loftus

The image-related issues from earlier persist! Sorry again for the inconvenience, and for the missing comment avatars. That said, comments are still working overall. Chatter can continue unabated. More »

Chat - Virtual Places - Avatars and Gestures - Animation - Fandom
Single Sapphire Graphics Card Powers Multi-Monitor 3D Gaming [3D]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

Gaming with goggles? Haven't tried it just yet, though I hear it's coming in our uncomfortable, slightly expensive futures. 3D PC gaming? Even more obscure to me, although Sapphire's single card setup sounds multi-monitor cool. More »

Multi-monitor - game - Video Games - Gambling - Equipment
FAA Exemption Moves Flying Car Closer to Road-Ready [Flying Cars]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 4:15pm EDT by Jack Loftus

The folks at Terrafugia have moved the flying car even further into the mainstream this weekend thanks to a weight exemption granted by the FAA. More »

Terrafugia - Recreation - Autos - Flying car - Business
Workable Android Port for HTC HD2 Nears? [Android]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

An intrepid crew of tinkerers, working with the Android OS, are all but ready to spring that OS on the Windows 6.5 hobbled HTC HD2. More »

Android - HTC Corporation - Handhelds - HTC Hero - Google
Test Shows iPhone Antenna Issue Impacts Voice Transmission Too [Iphone 4]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Jack Loftus

#iphone4 In this video, an iPhone 4 owner demonstrates how the antenna problem also affects transmission in voice calls. Using only one finger, the voice quality degrades, even dropping completely. He explains the process: More »

IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Antenna
Germany Demands Apple Improve Data Transparency [Privacy]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 12:35pm EDT by Jack Loftus

At least one country is taking note, and objecting to, Apple's now well-known data transparency issues, which made a subtle appearance in the software license every user must agree to before installing iOS 4. More »

Apple - Privacy - Security - IPhone - Macintosh
Site Issues [Announcements]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 12:26pm EDT by Jack Loftus

The Gawker Media sites are having image server issues today. We'll be doing some headline-only stuff for the time being, and we'll ramp up the visual stuff as things come back online. Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone! We should be back to normal shortly. More »

Gawker Media - Nick Denton - Apple - Recreation - Volkswagen
The "Cult of Mac" Alive and Well, It Would Seem [Apple]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Jack Loftus

If we ignore, just for a moment, all the issues purportedly plaguing the iPhone 4 launch and look at simple numbers (like the purported 600,000 phones sold on day one), who, exactly, was buying this thing? The results? Here: More »

Apple - IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Macintosh
The Best Semi-Solutions for iPhone 4 Reception Problems So Far [Apple]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 7:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#apple There's no great fix for the iPhone 4 reception issues right now. Here are the best pseudo-solutions so far. More »

IPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - iPhone 4
FaceTime and Puppets and Apple Employees, Oh My! [Humor]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 6:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#humor We knew that we can call 1-888-FACETIME to try out a FaceTime chat with an Apple employee. What we didn't know is that they're also happy to talk to puppets and seem to work from a beach. [Thanks, Andrew!] More »

Apple - IPhone - Macintosh - Companies - Articles
Have You Noticed the iPhone Reception Problem in Practice? [Qotd]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 12:13am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#qotd We've seen many examples of iPhone 4 reception problems when people hold their devices a certain way, but we're wondering: What about during normal use? Have you experienced reception problems when you're not trying to replicate the so-called death grip? More »

IPhone - smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Antenna
Rumor: iOS 4.01 Update May Come Monday to Fix Reception Problems [Unconfirmed]

Posted: June 26th, 2010, 11:58pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

You hold your iPhone a certain way and poof! There goes your reception. According to Apple Insider, the issue may not be hardware-related but rather a software quirk: More »

Cisco IOS - IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple
This Is Why I Hate Video Chats [Image Cache]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 9:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#imagecache This happens to me every single time I video chat with someone. And then once the chat disconnects, I keep wondering if I had a stupid look on my face in the final frame. [Doghouse Diaries] More »

Chat room - Chat - Webcam - Web-Based - Group sex
Go Go Gadget Cat Legs! [Prosthetics]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 9:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#prosthetics This cute cat is named Oscar. He lost his rear legs in an accident, but thanks to veterinary surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick and some bionic leg implants, Oscar can walk again. Here is a video of some of his first steps. More »

Cat - Prosthetics - Pets - Recreation - Products and Services
This Week's Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 8:27pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#iphoneapps In this week's triumphantly multitasking app round up: iMovies, edited; NPR music, listened to; farms, tended; DC Comics, virtually collected; the elements, miniaturized and beautified; the iPhone 4's gyroscope, put to use for some target practice, and more! More »

iPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Wallpapers and Themes - app
The iPhone 4 Voice Command Cheat Sheet [IPhone]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by matt buchanan

#iphone You probably know you can make your iPhone do stuff using your voice. "Play music!" Old hat, but there's a few new commands for iOS 4, like "What time is it?" [ATMac] More »

IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Wallpapers and Themes
Did Concealment of Prototype iPhone 4 Devices Mask Reception Issues? [Apple]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 7:31pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

We know that prototype iPhone 4 units were disguised to look like older generation units using some clever cases. Now the NYT is speculating that this clever iPhone 4 testing disguise may have actually prevented Apple from noticing the odd antenna performance when the phone is held directly. More »

IPhone - Apple - Handhelds - Smartphones - iPhone 4
BP Begins Fighting Oil Spill With Kevin Costner's Oil-Separating Centrifuges [Bp]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 7:18pm EDT by Ariel Schwartz - Fast Company

#bp Woah! BP Has actually gone ahead and started using those centrifuges designed by Kevin Costner to clean up the oil spill. And there's video. More »

BP - Oil spill - Kevin Costner - Environment - Energy
This Picture Was Taken 24 Miles In the Air With A Crappy Camera Attached To A Balloon [Photography]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Casey Chan

#photography What do you get when you combine a styrofoam box, duct tape, orange paint, a weather balloon, and 2 old Canon cameras? Apparently, images that look like they're from NASA. More »

Photography - Camera - Arts - Equipment and Services - Canon
Bye Bye OLED, Hello LCD for Some HTC Phones [Htc]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 6:09pm EDT by matt buchanan

#htc You know how OLED screens, like in the Nexus One, are sort of hard to make? Well, shortages mean that HTC's swapping in LCD screens for OLEDs in the Desire, and possibly other 3.7-inch-screen phones, like the Incredible. More »

Organic LED - Business - Electronics and Electrical - Human Interfaces - Hardware
I Had My Shattered iPhone Replaced by Apple on Day 2 [Apple]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 5:55pm EDT by Ryan F. Salerno

#apple After shattering my iPhone the day I got it, I called up Apple to make an appointment at their Genius Bar to see what they could do. Over the phone, they weren't of much help. More »

IPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - Macintosh
1-888-FACETIME Might Be The Future of AppleCare [Facetime]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Adam Feldman

#facetime The line Apple set up for users to test out FaceTime is a great idea, but it might be leading to something bigger. The rep I spoke with mentioned that this is a trial for video calls with AppleCare. More »

Apple - IPhone - Facetime - Macintosh - Apple II
StealthArmor Is A More Attractive "Fix" For iPhone 4 Reception Than A Bumper Case [Iphone 4]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#iphone4 Supposedly iPhone 4 reception issues are fixed if you just hold the device differently (uncomfortable and awkward!) or put it in a Bumper case (ugly!). This StealthArmor for the iPhone 4 might be the first attractive pseudo-solution. More »

IPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - iPhone 4

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we wished some of our favorite Mac apps were on Windows (and vice versa), introduced you to the new features and shortcuts you'll want to know in iOS 4, kept you (and your computer) cool, and more. More »

Gizmodo

Lightning Interview: How James Dyson Could've Fixed the Oil Disaster [Interview]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 4:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#interview Sir James Dyson, the man behind the bagless vacuum and the bladeless fan, designs products that solve problems. We caught up with him and talked about one of the biggest engineering problems the world currently faces: the Gulf oil disaster. More »

James Dyson - Vacuum - Vacuum cleaner - Home and Garden - Shopping
Test Notes: iPhone 4 Camera [Test Notes]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 4:08pm EDT by matt buchanan & woody allen jang

#testnotes The best camera is the one you have with you, so I carry a very nice point-and-shoot everywhere. Nothing else has been good enough. But the iPhone 4 is. More »

IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - iPhone 4 - Recreation
Windows Phone 7 Coming In October? [Microsoft]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 4:07pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#microsoft According to this video of a Microsoft Live Labs presentation of Windows Phone 7 at Cannes Lions 2010, Windows Phone 7 will be coming this October. Listen yourself, the month slips out around the :16 mark. [Thanks, Gary!] More »

Microsoft - Operating system - Windows Phone 7 - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms
Apple Stops Replacing Shattered iPhone 4s After 50 Units [Apple]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 3:41pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#apple Apple has replaced 50 iPhones 4s with shattered backs so far, including the one that our intern Ryan Salerno dropped in the first day. According to what the Apple Store genius told him, Apple won't replace any more units. More »

IPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - Wallpapers and Themes
How To Build A DIY Nuke [Nuke]

Posted: June 25th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Casey Chan

#nuke The scariest thing is that building your own nuke doesn't seem as hard as it should be. Dangerous and expensive? Yes. Impossible? Not so much. Kim Jong Il, please don't read this. More »

North Korea - PHP - Asia - History - PHP-Nuke

A List Apart

Stop Forking with CSS3

Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 4:00am EDT

You may remember when JavaScript was a dark art. It earned that reputation because, in order to do anything with even the teensiest bit of cross-browser consistency, you had to fork your code for various versions of Netscape and IE. Today, thanks to web standards advocacy and diligent JavaScript library authors, our code is relatively fork-free. Alas, in our rush to use some of the features available in CSS3, we’ve fallen off the wagon. Enter Aaron Gustafson’s eCSStender, a JavaScript library that lets you use CSS3 properties and selectors while keeping your code fork- and hack-free.
Taking Advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr

Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Years ago, CSS browser support was patchy and buggy, and only daring web designers used CSS for layouts. Today, CSS layouts are commonplace and every browser supports them. But the same can't be said for CSS3 and HTML5. That's where Faruk Ateş’s Modernizr comes in. This open-source JavaScript library makes it easy to support different levels of experiences, based on the capabilities of each visitor’s browser. Learn how to take advantage of everything in HTML5 and CSS3 that is implemented in some browsers, without sacrificing control over the user experience in other browsers.

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: June 18th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we de-vuvuzela'ed your World Cup broadcasts, rounded up our favorite free and must-have Mac applications, extended up your home's Wi-Fi reach with your old router, and a whole lot more.
More »

Gizmodo

Watch a Raven Do Battle With an RC Airplane [Rc]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#rc Dogfight! Bird fight? Whatever it is, this clip imparts three important lessons: 1. Respect birds' space. 2. Always put a camera on your RC plane. 3. Our pale blue dot planet might just be some cosmic raven's terrifying eyeball. [Neatorama] More »

Recreation - Shopping - Bird - Baltimore Ravens - National Football League
100,000 LEGO Bricks Build One Hell of a Robotic Chess Set [Lego]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 6:30pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#lego Monster Chess is a big fat "checkmate" to all other do-it-yourself chess sets. The incredible set took a team of 4 over a year to construct, using $30,000 worth of LEGO bricks. And it's even more impressive in action: More »

Lego - Toys - Recreation - Collecting - Construction
A Soccer Ball To Light Up Developing Nations [Brightideas]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 5:12pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#brightideas Just in time for the World Cup, the sOccket 2.0 offers an ingenious solution for illuminating developing nations. Kicking the induction coil-equipped ball around for ten minutes provides 3 hours of LED light. More »

World Cup - Sport - Soccer - Competitions - 2006
Cousteau's Amazing Fleet of Vehicles [Vehicles]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#vehicles Jacques Cousteau showed audiences undersea life like they had never seen it before. But just as remarkable as the seascapes he photographed are the vehicles he used to access them: repurposed battleships, saucer-like subs, and of course, the aqualung. [YouTube] More »

Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Business - YouTube - Business Services - Émile Gagnan
Charles Eames and His Solar-Powered Toy Cosmos [Imagecache]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:30pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#imagecache The Eames Lounge Chair is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful pieces of furniture ever designed. But as shown by this lovely photo of his "do nothing machine," Charles Eames was as much a tinkerer as a designer. More »

Charles and Ray Eames - Business - Charles Eames - Technology - Home and Garden
Watch the U.S. vs. England World Cup Match Live On Your Computer [WorldCup]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 1:26pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

The U.S. vs. England World Cup match is about to start. Watch it online so you'll know what everyone on Twitter is talking about for the next few hours. [Lifehacker] More »

FIFA World Cup - Sport - World Cup - Soccer - Competitions
The Droid X Is Going To Be One Gigantic Phone [Droid]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 1:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#droid The HTC Evo, with its 4.3" display, is a humongous phone. But next to the forthcoming Motorola Droid X, which reportedly also sports a 4.3" screen, the Evo looks positively reasonable. Yeah, the Droid X is gonna be large. More »

Droid - Smartphone - Motorola - Android - Handhelds
Coral Reefs Have Creepy, Alien-Like Superpowers [Ocean]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ocean Sure, coral reefs are pretty, but they also have creepy almost alien-like superpowers: An entire reef can be regrown from a tiny chunk of coral. More »

Coral reef - Biology - Ecology - Ocean - Aquatic Ecology
This Week's Best Android Apps [Android Apps]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 11:00am EDT by matt buchanan

#androidapps No, Android fan boys and girls, you're not imagining it. We'll be rounding up the best new Android apps every two weeks from here on out. This week, apps that make you smarterer. More »

Android - Handhelds - iPhone - Sport - Smartphones
Reeder For iPad: RSS With Attention to Detail [Apps]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 10:16am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#apps The hotly anticipated iPad version of Reeder, the popular iPhone RSS app, landed in the App Store last night, and with a clean look and some thoughtful navigational tools, it's immediately at the head of the iPad RSS pack. More »

IPad - App Store - IPhone - RSS - Reeder
Gajillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter, Now Easier to Shoot Down [Planes]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Noah Shachtman -Wired

#planes The jet that's supposed to make up more than 90 percent of America's combat aviation fleet may have become a lot easier to shoot down. More »

Aviation - Military - Aircraft - fighter - Recreation
How To Photograph Insane Waves [Ocean]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 8:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ocean You may not have the guts to try it yourself—I certainly don't—but wave photography as it's done by Clark Little, surfer and photographer extraordinaire, is awe-inspiring. Check out our interview with him to read about his awesome techniques. More »

Business - Photographer - United States - California - Clark Little
This App Turns Your iPad Into A Touchscreen Foosball Table [IPad Apps]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 1:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ipadapps It's tough to find someone who doesn't appreciate a good game of foosball—whether he's a soccer fan or not. It can just be tough to find a foosball table sometimes. Guess this Foosball HD iPad app will do. More »

Game - SoccerTable - Yard Deck and Table Games - Table football - Foosball
This Explains So Much [Image Cache]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 12:20am EDT by Brian Barrett

#imagecache With the imminent release Rock Band 3, keytars have been on my mind a lot lately. Then again, when are they not? Anyway, here's the world's all-time greatest keytar-platypus Venn diagram to get you through the weekend. [The Daily What] More »

Keytar - Rock Band 3 - Rock Band - Music - Guitar
Water Soluble Swimwear: Delightful or Terrifying? [Nsfw]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 11:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#nsfw Water soluble swimwear is either absolutely wonderful or entirely horrifying, but you can decide which it is yourself by watching this video of a trial swim. More »

Shopping - Clothing - Swimwear - Water - Women
Spies Want to Stockpile Your YouTube Clips (And Scan Them for Terror Threats) [Terrorism]

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by Katie Drummond - Wired

#terrorism Your Youtube videos could soon be scanned and evaluated for terror threats, thanks to a new project funded by the U.S. intelligence community that'll create a searchable warehouse of open-source clips. More »

YouTube - Terrorism - Counter Terrorism - Articles and Reports - Law
F-18 Coming Out of Hyperspace [Image Cache]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#imagecache Apparently, the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets of the Royal Australian Air Force have teleporting powers. That, or the Australians have discovered a way to magically create combat jets out of vapor. More »

Military - United States - Air Force - Government - Royal Australian Air Force
The Great Futurama X-Men Mash-Up [Image Cache]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 9:40pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#imagecache In this epic mashup by gottabecarl, the Futuramaverse crosses streams with the X-menverse. Not to ruin the effect with lowly geek pedantry, but aside from points regarding Fry's fiery trichosis, shouldn't Leela be Cyclops? [deviantart-full rez via scifiwire] More »

People - Image Cache - Relationships - DNA - Laser
Drink From Your Own Customized Heineken Bottle [Beer]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 9:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#beer Get rid of Heineken's iconic green bottle and customize a bottle yourself. It'll cost you a pretty penny at $36 for a 6-pack so don't play beer pong with this, enjoy every sip. Responsibly, of course. [Heineken via Fast Company] More »

Beer - Games - Recreation - Food - Drink
Taking The Cove, the Incredible Account of Dolphin Slaughter, to Japanese Theaters [Activism]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 8:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#activism The Cove, last year's Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, is an incredible account of the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. Now the crew needs help bringing the damning film to the Japanese public. More »

Cove - Japan - Academy Award - Asia - Tokyo International Film Festival
A Real Adobe Photo Shop [Imagecache]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#imagecache No fakery here, folks. Just an honest to goodness adobe Photo Shop. You walk in lookin' kinda "eh" and walk out with your wrinkles buffed, smile brightened, and your blemishes content-aware filled away. [Global Nerdy via BoingBoing] More »

Adobe Systems - Graphics - Vector Based - Illustrator - Companies
Christina Hendricks Is My Favorite Cyborg in All of Outer Space [Firefly]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 7:40pm EDT by matt buchanan

#firefly The music video for Broken Bells' "The Ghost Inside" stars Christina Hendricks as a cyborg. On a spaceship. (You know, her.) Watch. Now. More »

Firefly - Christina Hendricks - Music video - Arts - Technology
The Best iPad Kickstand Is a Robotic iPad Kickstand [Kickstands]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#kickstands Without a doubt, my favorite feature the iPad doesn't have is a kickstand. Some kickstand solutions have been proposed, but none of them will stand your iPad up autonomously like this bizarro robotic one. Bonus: robotic iPhone sidekick kickstand! [NoWhereElse] More »

IPhone - Handhelds - Smartphones - Coffee - Wallpapers and Themes
Why James Cameron Can Be the Gulf's White Knight [Ocean]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#ocean James Cameron's announcement last week that he was assembling a veritable Justice League of oceanographers, engineers, and other specialists to combat the BP oil disaster was met with some eye-rolling. But he may be the best man for the job. More »

James Cameron - White knight - Avatar - Health - Glenn Beck

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

This week we showed you where to catch World Cup soccer games online, pitted the iPhone against Android in a feature comparison, made Gmail play nice with your desktop email client, and more. More »

Gizmodo

You Will Like the Facebook Like Rubber Stamp [Facebook]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#facebook I'm tempted to ask for one of this Facebook Like button rubber stamp. Just to print the ten reasons you should quit Facebook and smash all the pages with it. More »

Facebook - Facebook Like - Online Communities - Social Networking - Arts
D-Link Boxee Box Won't Be Available Until November [Dlink]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

Uh oh. Looks like it'll be a while before you can get your hands on a D-Link Boxee Box. Apparently the device's availability date has been changed to November: More »

Entertainment - Shopping - Tickets - Sports - Colleges
Watch the First 90 Seconds of the Season Premiere of Futurama [Futurama]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 5:58pm EDT by Jason Chen

#futurama Futurama's coming back on the 24th (two weeks!), but Comedy Central has the first 90 seconds of the first episode. Woooo! [Comedy Central] More »

Futurama - Comedy Central - Arts - Television - Comedy
Question of the Day: How Will You Watch the World Cup? [Qotd]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#qotd The World Cup is here! And you've got more ways to watch it than ever before—including 3DTV! So what's your viewing poison? That is, if you care to watch it at all. More »

World Cup - qotd - Memorial Day - Android - Electron microscope
This Week's Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 5:20pm EDT by John Herrman

#iphoneapps In this week's afterglow-y app roundup: Navigation, given away for nothing! The world's most popular sporting event, parsed! Things, learned by rote! Drinking games, put to shame! Humans, zombified! And more... More »

iPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Games - Wallpapers and Themes
Microsoft Creating 3D Effect By Shooting Images Straight Into Your Eye [3Dwithoutglasses]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#3dwithoutglasses The reason I'm not sold on 3D? Those nasty glasses. Luckily, Microsoft is ditching the glasses, choosing instead to create 3D by beaming different images into each eye. More »

Microsoft - Microsoft Corporation - Companies - Shopping - Recreation
The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn't Created by Dr. Frankenstein [Computing]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 4:20pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#computing I don't know when optical quantum computers are going to arrive, but I sure hope they look like this crazy Toshiba visualization of an Entangled Light Emitting Diode. This new LED type could finally make practical quantum computers possible. More »

Computer science - Quantum Computing - Quantum mechanics - Theoretical - Quantum entanglement
The iPhone 4 Retina Display Controversy [Iphone 4]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by matt buchanan

#iphone4 Apple makes a pretty ballsy claim about the iPhone 4's display: "The pixel density is so high that the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels." They're pushing against the limits of the human body. Is it true? More »

IPhone - Apple - Handhelds - Smartphones - iPhone 4
Sony LCD 3DTV Gets Disappointing First Look [3dTv]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 3:54pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#3dtv Gary Merson at HD Guru has seen Sony's new KDL-55HX800 LCD 3DTV live and in person. His first take? Even a slight tilt of the head makes you see double and lose the 3D effect. Uh oh. More »

Sony - Television - Business - Intellectual Property - Human Interfaces
GE Engineer Crushes Your Childhood Dreams [Lightsabers]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#lightsabers GE Engineer Matt Gluesenkamp decided that to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the laser, he'd destroy any hope you ever had of lightsabers becoming a reality. Hey, Matt, next time just blow up some balloons or something. More »

Lightsaber - Engineers - Laser - Star Wars - Shopping
Our Brains on the Internet: A Defense [Internet]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 3:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#internet The debate on how the internet is affecting our brains rages on, with the latest take coming from Nick Bilton on the NYT's Bits Blog. His contention? The web is stretching our brains in new and valuable ways. [NYTimes] More »

Nick Bilton - Bits Blog - FAQs Help and Tutorials - Business - History
AT&T Data Service Outages Nationwide? [Updated] [Att]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 3:17pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

Uh oh. There are reports of nationwide AT&T data outages. Supposedly the trouble is with 2G service in particular, but we have contacted AT&T for clarification. [BGR] More »

United States - Business - Databases - Data Warehousing - Extraction and Transformation
Hurricane Disasters To Be Avoided With Bill Gates' Ocean Pumps [Ocean]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#ocean Bill Gates, since leaving the helm of Microsoft, has been busy plowing his money into well-deserved environmental issues such as the artificial clouds project, and ocean pumps which could (almost) halt hurricanes in their tracks. More »

Tropical cyclone - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences - Meteorology
Fresh Horror from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill [Oil Spill]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:59pm EDT by matt buchanan

The Big Picture's latest roundup of photos from the Gulf Coast disaster. Ghastly. [The Big Picture] More »

Gulf Coast of the United States - Gulf Coast - United States - Mississippi - Big Picture
The Worst Oil Disaster in US History: How You Can Help [Disaster]

Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:20pm EDT by Don Nguyen

#disaster Thanks in large part to BP and the government's inept handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill, we're going through one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. But there are some things we can do to help. More »

History of the United States - Oil spill - Environment - Gulf Coast - Energy

A List Apart

Web Fonts at the Crossing

Posted: June 8th, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink summarizes the latest news in web fonts, examining formats, rules, licenses, and tools. He creates a checklist for evaluating font hosting and obfuscation services like Typekit; looks at what’s coming down the road (from problems of advanced typography being pursued by the CSS3 Fonts Module group, to the implications of Google-hosted fonts); and wraps it all up with a how-to on making web fonts work today.

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: June 4th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we hunted down your router's must-have tweaks, rounded up some great projects you can tackle in a free afternoon, released our 2010 Lifehacker Pack for Windows, and a whole lot more. More »
This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: May 28th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we rebooted your sleep cycle, helped you understand Facebook's new privacy settings, took a tourist-free photo in crowded places, and more. More »

Gizmodo

Oh, THAT'S How Magnets Work [Magnets]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 1:20pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#magnets Magnets have always been able to suspend soda cans in midair, haven't they? That's just basic science, right there. More »

Magnet - Business - Shopping - Home and Garden - Industrial Goods and Services
Lost Phone Leads Police To Discover Major UK Child Porn Ring [Crime]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 12:40pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#crime Sony Ericsson W350i—the phone of choice for British paedophiles, turns out. A massive UK child pornography ring with 70 members was discovered after a man left his phone on the bus, whose driver found indecent images of children. More »

Child pornography - Crime - Sex Offenses - Pornography - Legal Information
So Long, Unlimited Data: Verizon Wants Tiered 4G Plans [Verizon]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 12:02pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#verizon Yesterday, Verizon Wireless big boss Lowell McAdam told investors that when 4G hits, unlimited data plans won't make sense anymore. Instead, buying "buckets" of data—where you'd purchase a set number of monthly megabytes—is the model of the future. More »

VerizonWireless - Verizon - LowellMcadam - Domain Names - Disputed Domain Names
High-Tech NYC Restaurant Takes Orders On iPads [Restaurants]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#restaurants London has the Flash-based, Bluetooth-ordering Inamo restaurant. Germany, the waiter-less kitchen. Japan has ramen vending machines, and soon, New York's midtown will play host to a restaurant with a 240-square-foot screen, displaying tweets and Foursquare check-ins. More »

Business - Vending - Opportunities - Business and Economy - Germany
"Top Kill" Reportedly Successful in Stopping Oil Leak [Oil]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 11:32am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#oil Oh hey! After weeks of halfbaked attempts and botched efforts, yesterday's top kill procedure has stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf, according to the Coast Guard. Soon engineers will start cementing and then sealing the well. More »

Coast Guard - Gulf of Mexico - United States - BP - Business
A Working Halo Assault Rifle Is a Terrifying Thing [DIY]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Brian Barrett

#diy I'm sure that Halo assault rifle you mocked up for Halloween 2004 was nice and all. But unless it's also a fully functional Nerf gun that holds three magazines and "a bunch" of darts, you lose. Here's the video proof: More »

Recreation - Guns - Nerf - Toy - Assault rifle
WebOS Designer Matias Duarte Leaves Palm For Google: Will He Make Android Nicer? [Google]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 10:41am EDT by Kyle VanHemert

All Things D is reporting that Matias Duarte, Palm's Senior Director of Human Interface and User Experience and the lead designer behind the beautiful WebOS UI, is leaving the recently-acquired company for a new post at Google as Android's User Experience Director. More »

Google - WebOS - Matias Duarte - Searching - Search Engines
Suits With Custom iPad Pockets, For the Fanboy On the Go [Suits]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 10:40am EDT by Adam Frucci

#suits You could carry your iPad in a bag like a normal person. But it'd be so far from your body! Luckily, these new suits feature an iPad pocket inside the jacket, keeping it nice and close to your heart. More »

Shopping - Sport - Clothing - Tailor - Custom
Samsung Behold II Owners May Sue Over Android 2.0 Snub [Android]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 10:36am EDT by Brian Barrett

#android In November of 2009, Samsung put a video up on YouTube that didn't promise the moon—it just promised Android 2.0 for Behold II owners. But now that Samsung's reneged, it looks like it's time to lawyer up. More »

Samsung Behold II - Android - Samsung - Handhelds - Samsung Group
Foxconn Jumps Reach 15...Potential 16 Spotted On the Roof [Foxconn]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 10:18am EDT by Mark Wilson

#foxconn While we recently published news of the 12th Foxconn employee to attempt a suicide, and then immediately updated the story with new of a 13th jumper, those reports are already dated. More »

Suicide - Foxconn - Apple - Death - China
Adorable Bookmarks That Make Like a Leaf [Bookmarks]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Brian Barrett

#bookmarks These little "Leaf-It" bookmark Post-Its could technically work with any book, but I'm going to start with The Giving Tree. From Apree designer Sangwoo Nam, they've made the jump from concept to product. And they come on branches: More »

Bookmark - Bookmark Managers - Clients - Add-on - WWW
NBC, Time Warner Tell Apple They're Sticking with Flash [Flash]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 9:51am EDT by Adam Frucci

#flash It sounds like not everybody is ready to just throw Flash out the window because Steve Jobs told them to, as Time Warner and NBC have just told Apple they're happy to stick with it for their online video players. More »

Time Warner - Flash - Steve Jobs - Apple - Multimedia
Eat Bacteria to Boost Brain Power [Science]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 9:20am EDT by New Scientist

#science Could playing in the dirt make you smarter? Mice given peanut butter laced with a common, harmless soil bacterium ran through mazes twice as fast and enjoyed doing so. More »

Bacteria - Educational Resources - Science in Society - Organizations - Mycobacterium vaccae
Time Lapse Video of BP's Gulf Oil Disaster [Gulf Disaster]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 9:02am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#gulfdisaster This NASA time lapse video shows how the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster evolved from April 20, the day of the explosion, to May 24. The images were taken by the MODIS instrument in NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. More »

NASA - Space - Gulf Oil - Gulf of Mexico - Technology
Comcast 105Mpbs Service Coming Soon for $200/month? [Unconfirmed]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 8:59am EDT by Mark Wilson

#unconfirmed According to this ad on a Comcast customer bill, a new "Extreme" tier of Comcast's cable internet, err, Xfinity service could roll out within the next week. More »

Comcast - Cable television - Television - United States - Cable
IRONY: Warner Bros. Sued for Pirating Anti-Pirating Technology [Piracy]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by Mark Wilson

#piracy In 2003, a company named Medien Patent Verwaltung showed Warner Bros. their technology to mark films in a way capable of tracing a pirated copy back to its origin theater. And allegedly, WB has been using the tech since...without paying. More »

Piracy - Warner Bros - Intellectual Property - Services - Copyright infringement
What I Wouldn't Give For an 8-Bit Desk [8-Bit]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 8:07am EDT by Brian Barrett

#8bit My Desk Is 8-Bit is a frothingly good—and self-explanatory—short film made by Alex Varanese. The stop-motion was inspired by Michel Gondry, R-Type, and every significant furniture day dream I've had in the last six years. More »

Michel Gondry - Arts - Animation - Movies - Filmmaking
Rumor: Steve Ballmer To Speak At WWDC During Apple Keynote [Apple]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 7:28am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#apple It sounds random, but Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry is claiming that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, will be joining Apple during their WWDC keynote. It's not completely crazy though—Bill Gates jumped onstage back in 1997 at Macworld. More »

Apple - WWDC - Steve Jobs - IPhone - Macintosh
Exploded Android Reveals the Robotic Heart Behind Google [Art]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 7:21am EDT by Mark Wilson

#art Much like Robocop, the Android was a man once. Now, he just spends his days posing for geeks. He looks adorable—that's his job—but inside there's pain, loss and regret. Available in t-shirt or poster formats for $19. [ExpodedAndy] More »

Android - Google - Handhelds - Searching - Search Engines
OLPC XO-3 Dream Tablet May Come True After All [Olpc]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 7:00am EDT by Brian Barrett

#olpc Last December, One Laptop per Child's XO-3 tablet was an impossible dream: semi-flexible plastic, multitouch, sci-fi thinness, all for $75. And while a partnership with Marvell helps breathe life into XO-3, it won't resemble winter's fantasy device. More »

One Laptop per Child - Hardware - Notebooks and Laptops - iPhone - One Laptop
Acer's Nexus One-Rival, 'Stream' Has 720p Video Capture [Android]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 6:28am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#android Time to get excited about Acer's phone offerings. The Stream will be running Android 2.1 when it goes on sale, though it'll also include a "brand new" UI, said to be a "stunningly fluid 3D" skin. More »

Nexus One - Android - Google - Handhelds - Stream
What's He Got Up His Sleeve? Why, 4GB of Data, That's What [Apparel]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 6:17am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#apparel Combining form and function (and just a little dash of nerdlinger-ness), these USB cufflinks actually have 2GB of flash memory each. That's 4GB of secret documents you could be carrying with you. How very James Bond. [Cufflinks via Red Ferret] More »

Hardware - James Bond - Storage - Solid State - USB
Does Carrie Give Up Her Mac For a HP Netbook in SATC2? [Movies]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 5:22am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#movies In today's news-you-wish-you-didn't-know, there's a vicious rumor circulating that Carrie Bradshaw has swapped her MacBook for a HP netbook (albeit one designed by fashion designer Vivienne Tam). Gasp! Phone the girls! We have a MAJOR situation on our hands! More »

HewlettPackard - Vivienne Tam - Netbook - HP 3000 - Design
The Math Behind The Foxconn Suicides [Foxconn]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 4:25am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#foxconn This goes some way to explaining why employees at Foxconn may be killing themselves. According to The Telegraph, Foxconn pays 110,000 Yuan ($16,100) to the family of each person who dies. That's ten years' salary, on average. More »

Foxconn - Apple - Suicide - China - Shenzhen
Free GTA Chinatown Wars Lite iPhone App Hits App Store [IPhone Apps]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 4:02am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#iphoneapps If you don't want to bang down ten notes for the full-fat Chinatown Wars iPhone app, this free "Lite" version is worth checking out. It provides a good taste of the Nintendo DS game, with the first three missions playable. More »

IPhone - App Store - Smartphones - Handhelds - Nintendo DS
12th Foxconn Employee Jumps; Becomes 10th To Die [Foxconn]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 3:35am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#foxconn Despite Foxconn allegedly asking all employees to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves, another worker has jumped out of a building window. This came hours after Foxconn's CEO was boasting to press of the fabulous facilities at the factories. More »

Foxconn - Apple - Suicide - Business - China
Acer Shows Off an Android Tablet (Which Looks Like an Ereader) [Tablets]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 3:17am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#tablets Regular readers will know that Acer's been planning ereaders and tablets for some time, but the Dubai-based Shufflegazine saw Acer's CEO fondling what looks like an ereader (check out the QWERTY keypad)—despite him calling it an Android-powered tablet. More »

Acer - Android - Google - tablet - Google Chrome OS
Rumor: Avatar 3D Blu-ray To Be Bundled With Panasonic 3DTVs From August? [3dTv]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 2:46am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#3dtv The to-ing and fro-ing of the Avatar 3D launch increased in noise today, with HDGuru.com reporting that the 3D Blu-ray will be bundled exclusively with Panasonic 3DTVs. We'd previously heard it'd be tethered to the purchase of Blu-ray players also. More »

Blu-ray Disc - Movies - Arts - Home Video - Blu-ray and HD
Barnes & Noble's iPad App: The iPad Ebook War Just Got Real(er) [IPad Apps]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 11:01pm EDT by matt buchanan

#ipadapps Barnes & Noble's free eReader app is here, and shockingly, it's probably the best ebook app on the iPad, for now. Better than Kindle, and better than iBooks. More »

Barnes & Noble - IPad - E-book - nook - Apple
This Ferrari Gets You Through Your Quarter Life Crisis [Lifelines]

Posted: May 27th, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#lifelines You're 25 and life is tough. You got laid off at work. Your girlfriend dumped you. You ate three KFC Double Downs last week...unironically. You need to get behind the wheel of a Thrustmaster Ferrari Wireless GT racing game controller. More »

Ferrari - Recreation - Autos - Makes and Models - Sports
Google Latitude's History Dashboard Just Got A Bit Smarter and Creepier [Google]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#google Despite the fact that it's opt-in and has decent privacy settings, I find Google Latitude's location history dashboard a bit creepy. It now gives step-by-step views of where I've been and even knows how many total miles I've traveled. More »

Google - Google Latitude - Searching - Search Engines - Companies
0888 888 888: The Cursed Phone Number That Killed Its Owners [Curses]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 9:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#curses Vladimir Grashnov died of cancer, possibly contracted due to radioactive poisoning. Konstantin Dimitrov was assassinated while on a date. Konstantin Dishliev was gunned down during lunch. All three were assigned a cursed phone number: 0888 888 888. More »

Cancer - Konstantin Dimitrov - Bulgaria - Health - Konstantin Dishliev
Android's Growth in the Last 18 Months in Numbers [Infographic]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 9:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#infographic If this was the past 18 months for Android then the next 6 months of Android will "blow your mind". [AndroidTapp] More »

Android - Handhelds - IPhone - Android Market - Google
Soon Your Firefox Browsing Sessions Will Sync To Your iPhone [IPhone Apps]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 8:24pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#iphoneapps The Firefox Home iPhone app will allow you to sync your desktop browsing sessions to your iPhone. This means that you'll be able to access your Firefox history, bookmarks, open tabs, and Awesome Bar right on your iPhone. More »

iPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - App Store - Poem
WebMD iPad App Is A Hypochondriac's Nightmare [IPad Apps]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 8:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ipadapps My toes are tingly, my head kinda hurts, and last night's a bit fuzzy. Did I have a seizure? Is it lupus? Where's my iPad? The WebMD app will help me figure it out—Oh God! It's Sjögren's syndrome! More »

IPad - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Musculoskeletal Disorders - Connective Tissue
Free Bitbop App Streams and Downloads TV Shows Via 3G or Wi-Fi [Apps]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:52pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#apps Bitbop is a clever little app that allows you to stream or download full-length TV shows to your mobile device. Currently only a few BlackBerry models are supported, but other cellphones will soon enjoy the mobile Hulu-like fun, too. More »

Wi-Fi - BlackBerry - Television - Smartphone - Hulu
This WWI Machine Gun Only Captured People Souls [Retromodo]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:40pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#retromodo In 1915—one year into World War I—bullets were too expensive to use in air-to-air combat pilot training. Camera manufacturer Thornton-Pickard had a great idea: Make a machine gun that used film—the Mark III Hythe Machine Gun Camera. More »

World War I - History - Twentieth Century - Wars and Conflicts - World War
These Lost Dharma Posters Are Your New Smartphone Wallpapers [Wallpapers]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:20pm EDT by Jason Chen

#wallpapers Artist Neil Richards has created a set of 10 posters, one for each Dharma station on and off (and really off) the Island. They're an awkward dimension for your desktop, but work GREAT as a smartphone wallpaper. [Flickr via Bestbookmarks] More »

Lost - Wallpaper - Desktop Customization - Arts - Holidays
The Complexity of Fluid Dynamics In Slow Motion [Slow Motion]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#slowmotion There's a lot of complex math equations that describe the interaction between fluids and masses of lipids wrapped in keratinocytes, melanocytes, Langerhans cells and Merkels cells in the presence of gravity. This video doesn't solve any of them. [Gawker TV] More »

Fluid dynamics - Physics - Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics - Companies - University of Massachusetts Lowell
What Verizon Does To Gym Employees Who Find Unreleased Phones [Verizon]

Posted: May 26th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#verizon Yesterday an employee at a corporate Verizon gym found an unreleased Motorola Droid Shadow. The device's owner eventually returned to pick it up, but a photo and specs were still emailed to us. Hours later the gym employee was fired. More »

Verizon Communications - Droid - Smartphone - Handhelds - Motorola Droid Shadow

A List Apart

Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 5:00am EDT

User research doesn’t have to be expensive and time-consuming. With online applications, you can test your designs, wireframes, and prototypes over the phone and your computer with ease and aplomb. Nate Bolt shows the way.
Responsive Web Design

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 5:00am EDT

Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to appropriate these constraints: using fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, he shows us how to embrace the “ebb and flow of things&#8221 with responsive web design.

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: May 21st, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we showed you how to quit Facebook (without really quitting Facebook), shared a handful of cool Windows tricks every geek should know, helped you upgrade your morning routine, and more. Here's a quick look back. More »

Gizmodo

Ploom Vaporizer Review: Solid Concept Goes Up In Smoke [Review]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 9:40am EDT by Adam Frucci

#review I really wanted to like the Ploom. It's a slick little portable vaporizer, something that's easy to toss in a bag and carry around with you. Unfortunately, having used it, I have no interest in ever using it again. More »

Video Games - Games - Platform - Super Mario Sunshine - Mario Games
Thirty Years Since Mount St. Helens Devastation [Science]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 9:24am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#science Everything was calm in beautiful Skamania County, Washington, until May 18, 1980. Then, a massive stratovolcano unleashed its rage, obliterating 230 square miles around it. It was Mount St. Helens. This video show how things have changed since then. More »

Washington - United States - Travel and Tourism - Parks - Counties
The Attack of the Zombie Satellite [Communications]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#communications There has been a zombie satellite in space for the last few days. Apparently, the sun's radiation—or space Gremlins—turned it into a rogue spacecraft. Since then, Galaxy 15 has been threatening other cable TV satellites, like MTV's. More »

Satellite - Space - Telecommunication - Technology - Business
Controversial Google Service Targets Ads to Your 911 Calls [Parody]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by Mark Wilson

#parody According to highly regarded news scoopers at The Onion, a new Google service promises subsidize phone costs by whispering ads during your calls. It's barely incredibly intrusive at all! More »

Google - Searching - Search Engines - Onion - Companies
Shazam Now Most-Popular Music App For Phones [IPhone Apps]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 8:00am EDT by Kat Hannaford

Shazam rates as one of Gizmodo's favorite apps ever, so it's not surprising to hear that the billionth song has now been identified—Gettin' Over, by David Guetta featuring Chris Willis. This comes after their users rose from 50m to 75m in the past six months. [Shazam on iTunes] More »

Shazam - IPhone - Smartphones - Handhelds - Music
The Hypnotizing Twitter Parade [Twitter]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 7:50am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#twitter Twitter meets Nintendo's Miis to satisfy your most intimate narcissistic and megalomaniacal desires: It's your own Twitter Parade! I can't stop looking. [ISparade via Twitter] More »

Twitter - Online Communities - Social Networking - Trending and Popularity - Nintendo
Adobe Crash Reports Make Us Rue The Day We Got Married, Too [Humor]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 7:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#humor If you've never seen Garrett Murray's comical Adobe crash reports, do yourself a favor and check out this one at least. Before you overdose on a lethal combination of pills and broccoli. [ManiacalRage via Twitter] More »

Adobe Systems - Social Network - Adobe - Online Communities - Home
Best Buy's CinemaNow Streaming Movie Service Begins This Month [Movies]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 7:39am EDT by Mark Wilson

We've known Best Buy's CinemaNow-branded streaming service was in the works for some time now, but it's finally launching this month. At the moment, this only concerns those of you with an LG Blu-ray player, since you'll have access to $3-$4 rentals (and more expensive purchases) first. As the service is refined, it will make itself available across platforms, much like Netflix and all of those other streaming services you probably don't use. [WSJ] More »

CinemaNow - Netflix - Best Buy - Movies - Arts
The Joker's iPad [Ipad]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 6:57am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#ipad See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! More »

Refugee - Arts - batman-arkham-asylum - Australia - Television
Hulu Plus Subscription Service Likely Delayed [Rumor]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 6:24am EDT by Kat Hannaford

According to All Things Digital, that $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service won't quite make it out the doors in time for the rumored May 24th launch-date. Considering Hulu still hasn't confirmed that a subscription service is on the cards, it's not entirely surprising we won't be seeing anything next Monday. [All Things D] More »

Hulu - HuluPlus - Business - Subscription business model - All Things Digital
Nintendo Trademarks "3DS," Plus "3DSPlay" and "3DSWare" [Nintendo]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 6:14am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#nintendo Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's President, has been especially cagey about the final name for what's known as the 3DS, but according to recent trademarks filed in Japan the 3DS model name could very well stick. More »

Nintendo - Video game - Games - Console Platforms - Nintendo DS
Ex-CEO of Intel Invests $1.5m Into Medical Research [Medicine]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 5:22am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#medicine Being a Parkinson's disease sufferer, and previously having prostate cancer, Andrew Grove knows all to well the ins and outs of hospital life. That's partly why the ex-CEO and chairman of Intel has pumped money into "translational medicine" research. More »

Health - Medical research - Conditions and Diseases - Parkinson's disease - Cancer
Miffy MP3 Player Tickles Adults and Kiddies Alike [Mp3 Players]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 4:34am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#mp3players It's the Dutch bunny Miffy's 55th birthday, and to celebrate, Green House has knocked together the cutest little MP3 player ever. More »

Arts - MP3 - Shopping - Broadcasting - United States
Apple Quietly Bumps Plastic MacBook To 2.4GHz [Apple]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:37am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#apple As we expected, Apple has refreshed its solitary plastic MacBook (favored by cheap-ass students), bumping it from 2.26GHz to 2.4GHz. Hard drive capacity is the same as last October's refresh, but the real story is the extra three hours' battery-life. More »

Apple - MacBook - Macintosh - Hardware - MacBook Air
Bury Me In Davy Jones's Locker [Concepts]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:05am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#concepts Meet the next-gen grave, or "genesis biopod," as creator Jack Hokanson calls it. It's a pod containing the cremated remains inside a dissolvable bag. Mere minutes after being tossed into the waves it dissolves, creating a plaything for curious sea-creatures. More »

Davy Jones - England - Video game - Games - Simulation
LED Lights Able To Stream Video At 2Mbps Thanks To Chinese Research [LEDs]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 2:36am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#leds Turn off your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, everyone! Well...not quite yet. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have successfully used LED lights to transfer wireless data to a laptop at a speed of 2Mbps. More »

Bluetooth - Wireless - Data Communications - Chinese Academy of Sciences - Business
Let's Tell Each Other Jokes In #Whitenoise And Reward The Best With Stars [Community]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 2:16am EDT by Rosa Golijan

You know the drill by now: Once a week or so, I tell you that if you need a place to gossip about shiny gadgets or have some off-topic talk with fellow Gizmodo readers you should head to #whitenoise and join the conversation. More »

Gossip - People - Celebrities - Arts - Humor
Microsoft's Hotmail Gets A Makeover: Here's What's New [Microsoft]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 2:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#microsoft Hotmail, that filthy webmail service we'd secretly use for our throwaway accounts is about to turn into something we might want to use regularly. The service is getting a thorough overhaul and plenty of new features: More »

Microsoft - Hotmail - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - Google
Paintings So Ugly That They'll Scare Away Cellphone Reception [Art]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 1:20am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#art These are among the ugliest pieces of art you could possibly waste $150 on, but they're hiding a devious little secret: Under those terrible layers of paint, there are remote-controlled cellphone jammers. More »

Art - Visual Arts - Galleries - Shopping - Virtual
Augmented Reality App Lets You Try On Watches While Still In Pajamas [Geek Fashion]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 1:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#geekfashion We've seen concept videos for apps that let us try on watches, but now we've finally got something we can actually play with. Now we can try on watches without ever having to put on pants and leave the house. More »

Augmented reality - Watches - Shopping - Jewelry - Consumer Goods and Services
Japan Will Soon Fly A Kite...In Space [Space]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 12:40am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#space Japan is launching its first Venus probe and along with it they're sending Ikaros, a "space yacht" also known as the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun. Yes, Japan is sending a gigantic kite into space: More »

Space - Technology - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - Sun - Venus
Third of Devices Accessing the Android Market Are Running Android 2.1 [Data]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Rosa Golijan

#data Occasionally Google produces charts showing "the relative number of active devices running a given version of the Android platform." The latest of these charts is special though: It apparently marks the first time Android 2.1 was the most used version. More »

Android Market - Android - Google - Handhelds - Apple
If Only Everything In Life Could Be Coded [Image Cache' ]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 11:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#imagecache If only the trick worked, I'd actually learn to code this properly: More »

Image Cache - Windows - Shareware - Security - Biology
Free Kindle App Coming To Android Devices This Summer [Android]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 11:32pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#android This summer, Android users will finally have their very own Kindle app. The app will allow you to access the Kindle Store, synchronize bookmarks across all your devices, and do just about everything Kindle apps on other platforms can. More »

Android - Handhelds - Shopping - Smartphone - VerizonWireless
Verizon Forgives Family's $18K Phone Bill After Four Year Fight [Happy Endings]

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#happyendings Bryan St. Germain's dad, Bob, must look a lot happier right now than he did in this picture. After all, Verizon has just dismissed a $18,000 phone bill racked up by the young man after a tedious four-year fight. More »

Boston Globe - Religion and Spirituality - Germain - Ascended Masters - New Age
Beautiful Air Purifier Doubles As A Smell-O-Vision Display [Concept]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#concept The Twilight air purifier concept design has a slender, sheet-like OLED display which allows you to view videos or images while your air is cleaned of impurities, cooled down, and filled with a pleasant fragrance to match what you're watching. More »

Smell-O-Vision - Shopping - Home and Garden - Climate Control - Air Cleaners
Elderly Japanese Would Rather Be Tended to by Robots Than Foreigners [Robots]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 10:00pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#robots Japan's looming population crisis combines lots of old people with not many workers. Many of the potential nurses to tend to said old people happen to be from neighboring Asian countries. Not so fast! What about robots?! More »

Robotics - Japan - Robot - Companies - History
How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying [Data]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 9:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#data Yikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently "Google's lobbying is half what it spends on advertising." [BI] More »

Google - Searching - Search Engines - Lobbying - Business
Routemaster Buses To Return To London By 2012 [Travel]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 9:20pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#travel One of London's most famous icons got retired in 2005 to international dismay—the Routemaster bus. Seen on the roads since 1956, they were replaced by bendy-buses that almost everyone despises. Until now! Meet the new Routemaster. More »

London - Routemaster - Boris Johnson - Bus - Transport
Ninja Assassins Are After Your Toothbrush [Ninjas]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 8:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ninjas Yes, there are ninja assassins after that disgusting, germ-ridden toothbrush of yours. They want to brutally annihilate 99% of the mess with their germicidal ultraviolet lights and you should probably just step back and let them do it. More »

Recreation - Toys - Shopping - Lego - Collecting
Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made at Room Temperature, From Bacteria, Sand and Urine [Brick]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science

#brick An American architecture professor in Abu Dhabi has come up with a new generation of sustainable bricks — grown by bacteria using sand, calcium chloride, and pee. More »

Abu Dhabi - Government - Bacteria - United States - Executive Branch
Conquer Your Fear of Creepy Crawlies With Augmented Reality [Ar]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 7:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#ar A lot of augmented reality applications we've seen thus far have seemed a little, well, excessive. But if AR can put me at peace with spiders, snakes, cockroaches, and the rest? That's a feat deserving of a Nobel Prize. More »

Virtual reality - Philanthropy - Companies - Insect - Phobia
Leisure Eyes Cover with Nature Sounds Sets the Bar a Little Higher [Brando]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 6:40pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#brando This gadget has it all: it's a light-blocking face mask, plays nature sounds, plugs into any audio player and comes in a variety of colors. And for only $16, you can afford one for every room in your house. [Brando] More »
Your Grandmother Would Love This Crystal iPhone Stand [Bad Ideas]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#badideas Sure, with prices ranging from $199 to $349, these are pretty expensive iPhone stands. But what else would go so well with her elephant figurine collection? [CalypsoCrystal via CrunchGear] More »
Foursquare Mayors of Starbucks Can Now Get Discounts [Foursquare]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 5:47pm EDT by Casey Chan

#foursquare Starting today, Foursquare Mayors of Starbucks can cash in their hard-earned virtual reputation in the form of a $1 coupon. Frappuccinos may taste awful but slightly cheaper Frappuccinos should be drunk proudly. More »
Scientists Concerned About Safety of New Airport X-Ray Scanners [Xrays]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 5:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#xrays By the end of 2011, two thirds of U.S. airline passengers will be asked to step through one of 1,000 new Rapiscan X-ray machines. But some scientists are concerned about the unprecedented radiation exposure coming along with them. More »
Hopefully A Victoria's Secret Model Will Help GQ Sell More Than 365 iPad Apps [IPad Apps]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 5:01pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#ipadapps GQ's app looks good, but it's not exactly flying off the iTunes App Store shelves: The December 2009 issue only sold 365 iPad copies. Solution? Slap Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr on the next cover and hope for the best. More »
In2Pay iPhone Case: Anywhere Visa payWave Is Accepted [Mobilepayment]

Posted: May 17th, 2010, 4:51pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#mobilepayment As if making money magically disappear from your bank account wasn't easy enough, DeviceFidelity's new In2Pay case, which will let iPhone users make contactless transactions on Visa's payWave system, will turn you into the Dumbledore of mobile payment. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we helped you work past your procrastination problems, slimmed down your bulky keychain, explained how to build the ultimate media center, start to finish, and more. More »

Gizmodo

$5 Homemade Toaster Teaches the Value of Walmart [Design]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 9:20am EDT by Mark Wilson

#design Art student Thomas Thwaites created a lofty personal challenge: remake a £3.99 toaster he bought new at a shop from scratch. This corded glob is what he came up with...and while it's a bit different from the model, it works. More »

Video Toaster - Graphics - Animation and Design Tools - 3D - Arts
Gizmodo Summer Internships in New York and San Francisco [Announcements]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by matt buchanan

#announcements Hello college students. It's summer, that most magical of seasons. You want an awesome internship. We have one. A couple actually, in New York and San Francisco. More »

New York City - New York - San Francisco - United States - Religion and Spirituality
A Haunting Time-Lapse Video of Eyjafjallajökull [Iceland]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 8:40am EDT by matt buchanan

#iceland Photographer Sean Stiegemeier: "So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better." Well, good job, Sean. [Vimeo via Petapixel] More »

Iceland - Eyjafjallajökull - Maps and Views - Photo Galleries - Government
This Is What a Spider Nanobot Really Looks Like [Imagecache]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 8:05am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#imagecache Yesterday we learnt that scientists have created the first nanobot assembly line. It's "manned" by four spider-like nanocreatures made from DNA strands, with three arms and four legs. That's what you are looking at in this image. More »

DNA - United States - Biology - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Molecule
Rice Bra: The Only Logical Deterrent to Food Shortages [Fashion]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 7:55am EDT by Mark Wilson

#fashion Before you dare think this idea is even remotely sexy, I want you to consider something: There are hundreds of billions of microorganisms in a handful of soil...and a lactating rice paddy can only be worse. [NYDailyNews via Gawker] More »

Fashion - Art - Design - Business - Agriculture
And Then There Was A Solid Gold iPad [Ipad]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 5:47am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#ipad On the 107th day, Stuart Hughes revealed the solid gold iPad. With 53 diamonds set in the Apple logo, and the casing crafted from 22ct gold, 10 lucky people can snap one up—for $189,000. [Stuart Hughes] More »

Gold - Apple - Stuart Hughes - Business - Precious Metals
Samsung To Start Trialing 40-Inch OLED TVs This Year [Oled]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 5:28am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#oled It's going to be another couple of years until Korean rival LG begins producing 40-inch OLEDs, but already Samsung is talking of trialing 42-inch OLED TVs later this year. More »

Organic LED - South Korea - Asia - Business and Economy - Industrial
Dell Streak Tablet Hitting US Late Summer With AT&T [Tablets]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 4:33am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#tablets Once known as the Mini 5, the Streak will be launching first in Europe with O2 Telefonica, and then "later this summer" with AT&T in the States, according to CEO Michael Dell. More »

Michael Dell - tablet - Mini 5 - O2Telefonica - Engadget
Folding Travel Belt From Hermès Will Set You Back $750 [Apparel]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 4:13am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#apparel I know Hermès is a high-end brand and all, but $750 for a folding belt just takes the piss. I do like the way it folds out like a carpenter's measuring tape though—smart. [Selectism via Acquire via OhGizmo] More »

Business - Hermès - Consumer Goods and Services - Projects - Birkin bag
James Cameron Urges Industry To Shoot In 3D [Blockquote]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 3:30am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#blockquote James Cameron is fast replacing Michael Bay as the industry preacher-man. Instead of praising the Blu-ray format though, he's taking to his soapbox weekly to mouth off about 3DTV. This time, about how content-makers need to shoot in 3D. More »

James Cameron - Arts - Movies - Avatar - Home Video
Take Your iPad Abroad With MAXroam's iPad 3G MicroSIM [Ipad]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 2:49am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#ipad MAXroam's iPad-friendly microSIM will let you take your coffee-shop wankery from Starbucks to streetside cafes in Milan. Their microSIMs cost an extravagant €75/$95 for 50MB of data, but at least you'll be able to tweet smugly from your iPad, right? More »

IPad - Beverages - Business - Shopping - Coffee
Traditional Cellphone Usage Dying A Long, Painful Death (For Carriers, Anyway) [Cellphones]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 2:13am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#cellphones Whether you blame it on Twitter, texts, or the inability to make a phone call on a touchscreen phone, the US is moving away from voice calls, with the average length of a call falling dramatically in the last year. More »

Twitter - Social network - Online Communities - Mobile phone - Trending and Popularity
Nintendo DS Will Be Best-Selling Game Console Ever Later This Year [Gaming]

Posted: May 14th, 2010, 1:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#gaming Very soon, that little flip-screened gaming console hidden in your draw or under your bed is going to break all kinds of crazy records. Currently, the PlayStation 2 is king of the best-selling console hill, but come October... More »

Nintendo DS - Nintendo - Video game - Games - Console Platforms
Now Available: A $10 App Which'll Sync Your Jailbroken iPhone to iTunes Over Wi-Fi [IPhone Apps]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 10:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#iphoneapps Wi-Fi Sync is a clever little app with a self-explanatory name: It allows you to sync your jailbroken iPhone to iTunes over Wi-Fi. While it did not get approved by Apple, it is available in the Cydia store for $10. More »

IPhone - Apple - Smartphones - Handhelds - Wi-fiSync
Oh Yes! Classic Karate Champ Game Coming to iPhone Soon [IPhone Apps]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 10:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#iphoneapps Remember Karate Champ? It was one of the very first fighting games—coming far before Street Fighter and Tekken—and we loved it dearly. Now this arcade classic will be coming to the iPhone and it looks damn good. More »

iPhone - Smartphones - Handhelds - Tekken - Video game
Build a Mood Ring For the Entire World [DIY]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 9:20pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#diy How's the world feeling right now? There's only one way to find out—build yourself one of these handsome Arduino-powered, Twitter-parsing LED mood lights. More »

Arduino - Online Communities - Social Networking - Recreation - Do it yourself
The Modern Hobo Code [Data]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 8:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#data Hobo code is a system of symbols drawn to aid one's fellow vagabonds and make life on the streets a bit more comfortable. The only trouble is that it didn't really take modern technologies into consideration much—until now. More »

Programming - Languages - Times Square - The New York Times - Rube Goldberg machine
MacBook Pro 15: Is the Higher Resolution Screen Worth It? [Apple]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by John Herrman

#apple With the newest version of the 15" MacBook comes a new option: a 1680 x 1050 screen—about 30% more pixel-y than the original 1440 x 900 unit. But how does it look? Do you need the extra dots? More »

Apple - MacBook family - MacBook - Macintosh - Hardware
LSD, Sexy Fonts and Muppet Genitalia: The Strangest Tech Q&A We've Ever Witnessed [Humor]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 7:20pm EDT by Wilson Rothman

#humor Thousands of you Twittered up to feed questions about tech—and some Muppet-based ones—to guest editor Peter Serafinowicz. He answered 25 in a torrent of wordplay. While we await his first guest post, here's the amazing #PSQA playback: More »

Muppets - Arts - Puppetry - Performing Arts - Movies
Confessed Spy Convicted of Exporting U.S. Crypto Gear to China [Spy]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Kevin Poulsen - Wired.com

#spy A Chinese national was convicted this week of smuggling and other charges over his efforts to acquire sensitive military and NSA-encryption gear from eBay and other internet sources. More »

China - Security - Cryptography - eBay - Asia
Forget Using A Stylus, Now There's A Knob For Your iPhone [Concept]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#concept Do you miss old-school physical controls when using your fingers and toes to change settings on a multi-touch device? Well, you're in luck! Because some clever folks decided to provide us with real knobs to use on our multi-touch displays. More »
Study Claims That Gadgets Make People Happy [Happiness]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 5:40pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#happiness After surveying 35,000 people around the world and analyzing the results, researchers came to a conclusion: Gadgets make us happy. Don't laugh just yet though, because they've got reasonable explanations for this theory. More »
Acer Chrome OS Devices Coming In June? [Unconfirmed]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 5:27pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

Chrome OS isn't supposed to be released until later in the year, but according to Venture Beat, there'll be some Chrome OS devices well before that: More »
19-Year-Old Facebook CEO Didn't Take Your Privacy Seriously, Either [Blockquote]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 5:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#blockquote Today, Facebook is having an emergency meeting to discuss their site's privacy problem. But these instant messages, supposedly sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook's early days, suggest that user privacy may have always been an afterthought. More »
Samsung Moment Users: You're Finally Getting Android 2.1! Celebrate! [Android]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 4:54pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

The wait for Android 2.1 is finally over for Samsung Moment users, but the rest of you—such as those rocking an HTC Hero—will be waiting for a while longer. Ah well, let's just be happy for the Moment. [Sprint—Thanks, Aaron!] More »
The Fatal Flaw With Portal on Macs [Comics]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 4:20pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#comics Macs may have supported the two-button mouse well before Portal came free with Steam on Mac, but that makes this comic no bit less funny. [googpeg via digg] More »
Google Makes Giant Froyo Statue To Feed Android Alien [Android]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 3:49pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#android Oh hello! Looks like that giant alien on the Google campus will finally get to snack on something other than cupcakes and eclairs. I just hope he likes blueberries, nuts, strawberries and...are those banana pieces? More »
Chinese Groups Blame Sony, Apple, Vodafone and Others For Factory Pollution [Manufacturing]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 3:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#manufacturing An investigation by Chinese environmental groups, sparked by thousands of cases of lead poisoning in the country, has concluded with a report that urges foreign manufacturers including HP, Sony, Apple, and Vodafone to clean up their supply chains. More »
The Smartest Way To Find a New Job On Google [Search]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#search Alec Brownstein wanted a job in advertising, so he made pages that showed up as the first result when several big New York creative directors Googled themselves. He got interviews with nearly all of them. Yeah, it's pretty brilliant. More »
75 Years Ago Today, the First Parking Meter [Retromodo]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 2:40pm EDT by Tony Borroz - Wired.com

#retromodo 1935: An entrepreneurial politician files a patent application for a device that will elicit curses and contempt from generations of motorists: the parking meter. More »
Serve Up Some Fast Food of THE FUTURE! [PhotoshopContest]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 2:20pm EDT by Mark Wilson

#photoshopcontest We've seen what those hoity-toities at Frog Design think McDonald's will look like in 2020. Now it's your turn to show us the grotesque, inevitable future of fast food. UPDATE: Frog Design is guest judging! More »
A Litl Box Wants to Turn Your TV Into an Actually Good Web Browser [TV]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 2:12pm EDT by matt buchanan

#tv This is the touchscreen remote for the Litl TV box, which aims to go where no man has gone before (since 1998): To turn your TV into a legit web browser with a new generation of web apps. More »
Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by Casey Chan

#dealzmodo There's a lot of new deals popping up in Dealzmodo today and if you can't get excited about that, well then you have amazing self control. For the normal folks out there, pony up and buy. Dealzmodo doesn't judge. More »
Watch an Undersea Robot Try, and Fail, To End the Gulf Oil Spill [Messes]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 1:40pm EDT by John Herrman

#messes In an attempt to stop—or at least slow—the horrifying oil geyser spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP dropped a 100-ton containment dome onto its mouth. The result? It's basically a thumb on a garden hose. [BusinessInsider] More »
Is the Boss Coming? Up Periscope! [DIY]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 1:20pm EDT by Kat Hannaford

#diy Working from home, the post-man's the only person I have to watch out for, so cubicle-dwellers will have greater need for a boss-watching periscope than I do. Using a few supplies you'll be closing the Gizmodo tab well within time. More »
Plastic Logic Planning Color E-Reader Display For 2012 [Ebookreaders]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 1:17pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#ebookreaders Though the Plastic Logic Que, an expensive, amply-screened ebook reader, is still in delay purgatory, the company says that it is already working on a color display that should be completed by the end of next year. More »
Sony Dash Review: The Clock Radio, Evolved [Review]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 12:40pm EDT by matt buchanan

#review Sony calls the Dash a "personal internet viewer." It's more like a $200 alarm clock with an app store. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. More »
Hulu Just Got a Lot Awesomer [Hulu]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 12:39pm EDT by matt buchanan

#hulu Hulu might not jump on the increasingly crowded HTML5 video bandwagon anytime soon, but I don't really care because it's adding a whole bunch of new features to make Hulu much more awesome. More »
What's Going on Inside Android? Another Major Player Leaves Google [Android]

Posted: May 13th, 2010, 12:22pm EDT by matt buchanan

Uh, what's up with the water at Google right now? Android Senior Software Engineer Cedric Beust is following chief Android Erick Tseng out the door, also to a social networking site—though it's the comparatively drab LinkedIn, in Cedric's case. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: May 7th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Kevin Purdy

#highlights This week we peered into the coolest corners of Google Maps, tortured our batteries for testing purposes, wrote a power user's guide for Windows 7's taskbar, learned the mental games that drive great liars, and more. More »

A List Apart

Habit Fields

Posted: May 4th, 2010, 4:00am EDT

We have the power to bestow our abilities onto the things around us. By being conscious of our tools, habits, and spaces, and actively conditioning them to help us behave the way we want to behave, maybe we can more efficiently tap into the thousands of hours of creative genius embedded in our everyday objects. Maybe we’ll be able to maximize the capabilities that new technologies afford us without being overwhelmed by the distractions. And, just maybe, we’ll remember what it feels like to be utterly engrossed in our daily work.
A Brief History of Markup

Posted: May 4th, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Hot off the presses! In his brand new, brief book for people who make websites, HTML5 For Web Designers, Jeremy Keith cuts through the confusion surrounding the web's new markup language and presents what every accessibility- and standards-focused web designer and developer needs to know about it—from semantics to strategy. Not only is HTML5 For Web Designers a great, fast read, it is also our first A Book Apart publication. To celebrate, A List Apart proudly presents all of "Chapter One: A Brief History of Markup." Enjoy!

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: April 30th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we helped you upgrade your hard drive, debunked hangover myths (and offered a few helpful suggestions), dug up some from foreign language courses courtesy of the government's Foreign Service Institute, and more. More »
This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: April 23rd, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we helped you find a workaround for accessing blocked content on the internet, highlighted the good, the bad, and the useless of Windows maintenance tips, determined whether that download really had a virus, and a whole lot more. More »

A List Apart

Design Patterns: Faceted Navigation

Posted: April 20th, 2010, 5:00am EDT

Faceted navigation may be the most significant search innovation of the past decade. It features an integrated, incremental search and browse experience that lets users begin with a classic keyword search and then scan a list of results. It also serves up a custom map that provides insights into the content and its organization and offers a variety of useful next steps. In keeping with the principles of progressive disclosure and incremental construction, it lets users formulate the equivalent of a sophisticated Boolean query by taking a series of small, simple steps. Learn how it works, why it has become ubiquitous in e-commerce, and why it’s not for every site.
Better JavaScript Minification

Posted: April 20th, 2010, 5:00am EDT

Like CSS, JavaScript works best and hardest when stored in an external file that can be downloaded and cached separately from our site's individual HTML pages. To increase performance, we limit the number of external requests and make our JavaScript as small as possible. JavaScript minification schemes began with JSMin in 2004 and progressed to the YUI Compressor in 2007. Now the inventor of Extreme JavaScript Compression with YUI Compressor reveals coding patterns that interfere with compression, and techniques to modify or avoid these coding patterns so as to improve the YUI Compressor's performance. Think small and live large.

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: April 16th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we set out to determine which iPhone browser was fastest, set up our media centers so they're friendlier to non-geeks, highlighted an easy-to-remember password system for users a bit too lazy to go truly secure, and oh so much more. More »
This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: April 9th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we helped you save money with DIY cellphone mods and accessories, tweaked Windows 7, and whipped your digital music library into shape. More »

Gizmodo

Zero Angle Digital Camera Protects Lens and LCD Alike From Your Clumsy Paws [Concepts]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 4:40pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#concepts A nice digital camera's an expensive investment, which is why it's so frustrating that the lens and LCD screen are often left so exposed. This concept—that flips a camera lid 360 degrees—would protect my soul-stealer but nice. More »
Sad, Lonely Mars Phoenix Lander Gets One Last Chance to Call Home [Nasa]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 4:00pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#nasa Wondering why we hadn't heard from NASA's Mars Phoenix lander in a while? Ever since the harsh Martian winter of 2008 set in, the poor guy's been in deep freeze. This week, he's got one last chance to make contact. More »
The Best Nintendo 3DS Concept Yet [Nintendo]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 3:35pm EDT by Jesus Diaz

#nintendo I like this. It's a bit boxy and too big for my taste—and the 3D renders have a few aliasing and compositing glitches—but this Nintendo 3DS concept is great. More »
We'd Love to See Steve Jobs Announcing These 47 Non-Apple Products [PhotoshopContest]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 3:00pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#photoshopcontest For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine El Jobso announcing something a bit more surprising than a new iPhone. And the reality distortion apparently field works for non-Apple products, because now I really want a pizza. More »
Understanding the iPad's Software [Ipad]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 2:00pm EDT by matt buchanan

#ipad There have been tablets before the iPad. They weren't as beautiful or well crafted, but that wasn't why we chose not to pick them up. It was the software. More »
Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 1:55pm EDT by Kevin Lee

#dealzmodo Our Dealzmodo is bursting with great TV deals today with a Samsung and blu-ray player combo on the cheap and a Hitachi going for nearly nothing, and read up on digital cameras and video just in time for NAB. More »
Comcast Wins, We Lose: Court Says FCC Doesn't Have the Power to Enforce Net Neutrality [Comcast]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 1:41pm EDT by matt buchanan

#comcast A federal appeals court just ruled on Comcast's lawsuit to get the FCC's p2p blocking ban overturned—that the FCC doesn't have the power to tell Comcast, or any ISP, to be net neutral. Whoa. More »
The Original Energizer Bunny: Starting at $15,000 [Batteries]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 1:20pm EDT by John Herrman

#batteries Own a piece of the fascinating battery spokesbunny saga, for a minimum of $15,000! "What fascinating battery spokesbunny saga?" you might ask. Well, have you ever heard of the Duracell bunny? More »
Google Really, Really Doesn't Want to Lose Any Potential Customers [Google]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 12:40pm EDT by Adam Frucci

#google If you ever doubted your value to Google and its targeted advertising, just suggest to it that you're considering signing off for good. [Digg via The Daily What] More »
The iPad: Amazon's Secret Weapon [Ebooks]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by Wilson Rothman

#ebooks The iPad may seem like Apple's move to cockblock Amazon in the Ebook Wars, but Amazon's Kindle app makes it part of Amazon's larger ebook ecosystem. In many ways, the iPad is the best Kindle yet. More »
Flash 10.1 Release Candidate Now Available For Download [Flash]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 11:59am EDT by Brian Barrett

Looks like Flash 10.1 is emerging from the beta depths and almost ready for prime time. This is particularly good news for you owners of netbooks with Broadcom Crystal HD accelerators, since now you'll be able to watch HD Flash video. The hardware video acceleration applies to Windows XP, Vista, and 7, though Mac and Linux owners are just gonna have to be patient. You can read more in the release notes here (PDF), or go get your download here. [Liliputing] More »
Newly Independent Rhapsody Gets Price Cut and Android App [Rhapsody]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 11:52am EDT by Brian Barrett

#rhapsody Rhapsody's been spun off from RealNetworks, and now we know what its future holds: the $10 Rhapsody Premier streaming music subscription service, down from $15, and a free app for Android handset users. More »
Even Sodium Sulfur Batteries Are Bigger in Texas [Batteries]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 11:40am EDT by Brian Barrett

#batteries Sorry, did I say bigger? I meant biggest. The town of Presidio, Texas has built the biggest NaS battery in the US, capable of storing up to four megawatts of power for up to eight hours. They even nicknamed it. More »
Apple's iPad Apps Wouldn't Have Been Approved By the App Store [IPad Apps]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 11:20am EDT by Adam Frucci

#ipadapps Apple's new iPad apps—iBooks, Pages, Keynotes and Numbers—wouldn't be accepted into the App Store if they were submitted by an outside developer. That's because they use private APIs that other devs don't have access to. Yet. More »
Desperate Nokia Making a Tablet Too [Rumor]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 10:51am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#rumor A Finnish analyst says Nokia's preparing a touchscreen tablet "for fall release." If confirmed, it won't be the first time that Nokia tries a tablet format. I just hope they don't take any notes from their sad previous efforts. [Reuters] More »
Metal Flower Glows Brighter The Faster The Wind Whistles Past [Architecture]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 10:40am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#architecture Erected to highlight an English river's pollution, this 14m-tall metal flower has dozens of LEDs which glow brighter the more the wind around it increases. More »
iPad App Review Marathon Live (Part 3) [Ipad]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 10:22am EDT by Mark Wilson

#ipad We're STILL reviewing as many iPad apps as possible LIVE and updating all day. If you have a specific app you want reviewed, let us know in the comments. So many apps that we had to start a third post! More »
Apple Store Goes CODE RED After MacBook Pro Request [Apple]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 10:00am EDT by Brian Barrett

#apple Well, what to make of this? A man walks into an Apple Store in Santa Monica, asks for a 2.66GHz MacBook Pro, and suddenly security gets thrown into high alert. Beware the "forerunner," my friends. More »
Western Digital's Velociraptor SATA 3.0 Hard Drives Out Now In 450 - 600GB Options [Hard Drives]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 9:48am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#harddrives Western Digital has updated its two-year-old Velociraptor range of hard drives with the SATA 3.0 drives, coming in 450 and 600GB capacities. They're the fastest-writing hard drives around, transferring up to 6GBs a second. More »
ICD Gemini Comes with Loaded Feature List [Tablets]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 9:44am EDT by Adam Frucci

#tablets There are people out there who are interested in a tablet computer, but refuse to buy the iPad on principle. Well, take a gander at ICD's Gemini, an 11.2-inch tablet that's got a damned impressive spec list. More »
Dragon Spotted Flying Over Disney's Castle [Imagecache]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 9:30am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#imagecache It is obviously just a cloud, isn't it? Actually, no, it's not just any cloud. Updated. More »
Armored T-Shirts May Stop Bullets One Day [Science]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 9:15am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#science They are not ready to replace Kevlar yet, but scientists are working on armored cotton t-shirts that are light and flexible but acquire the properties of boron carbide, the third hardest materials on the planet, according to researcher Xiaodong Li: More »
Well, That's One Use For The iPad... [Ipad Accessories]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 8:33am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#ipadaccessories Shame you'd have to fork out $39.99 for the iBookend to give the iPad purpose (if it were a real product, obviously). [Dominic Wilcox] More »
Plastic Logic Que Still Delayed, But Could I Interest You in Plastic Logic? [Plastic Logic]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 8:17am EDT by Brian Barrett

#plasticlogic The promising-but-pricey Plastic Logic Que was enticing when first announced, but extensive delays have made it less appealing. Still, major Plastic Logic investor Herrman Hauser selflessly thinks now would be the perfect time for someone to buy the company. UPDATED: More »
Circuit Board Heels Have Me Spouting Vogue-Isms In The Face Of Their Beauty [Shoes]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 8:00am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#shoes Accessorize summer's dreamy palette of nudes and pastels with a pair of circuit board heels from little-known designer Steve Rodrig. While kitten heels are the height du jour this season, Rodrig's jade pumps redefine modernism. [XactStudios via Make via UberGizmo] More »
SuperNES on iPad Is So Nice [Apple]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 7:34am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#apple The SuperNES emulator for iPad is extremely fast and, according to Snes4iphone developer ZodTTD, "it looks, sounds, and plays great." The best thing: It's just a quick port of the iPhone version. The worst thing: It's not an official app. More »
ThinkGeek's Universal Wrist Charger Gives Life While On The Move [Chargers]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 7:20am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#chargers Strap the wrist charger 'round the skinniest part of your arm, and juice up your console, or other miniUSB-supporting device. The 1,500mAh Li-Ion battery won't power you to level 47 but will get through a couple hours' usage. More »
Your Xbox 360 Now Supports USB Storage [Xbox 360]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 7:04am EDT by Mark Wilson

#xbox360 Any USB drive—be it a thumb stick or a full-blown 1TB enclosure—now works with the Xbox 360 to store content like game saves and DLC. Just keep in mind, 16GB is the limit—you may need to partition. [Kotaku] More »
Portable PS3 Slim...But Only In Japan [Gaming]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 6:31am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#gaming The PS3 Slim wasn't much lighter than the previous model, but that hasn't stopped crafty Japanese manufacturer Hori from cobbling together a portable PS3 Slim with a 720p LCD screen. More »
CallTrack Android App Lists All Calls On A Google Calendar [Android Apps]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 6:06am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#androidapps Our brothers at Lifehacker have highlighted a nifty sounding Android app called CallTrack, which shows all your calls on a Google Calendar. More »
Keep Your Precious iPad Warm In The First iPad-Compatible Vest [Ipad Accessories]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 5:12am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#ipadaccessories If there's one thing that turns me off more than a man in a vest, it's a man in a vest with an iPad. More »
Just You Try and Play Heart Of Gold on the World's Smallest Harmonica [Harmonicas]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 4:48am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#harmonicas Internationally-known for its harmonicas, Hohner doesn't like to discriminate. Especially against little people. Measuring just 3.5cm long, the world's smallest harmonica plays the whole octave in C-Major and costs an equally small $23. [LatestBuy] More »
Batteries That Last 10 Years Developed By Hitachi [Batteries]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 4:31am EDT by Kat Hannaford

Doubling the Li-Ion battery life from 5 years, Hitachi reckons its new technology which extends the life of batteries will also cost less too—thanks to reducing the amount of cobalt used. Hitachi hopes to get them onto the production line in the next year. [Akihabara News] More »
"How's It Going?" Glasses Illustrate Your Mood [Concepts]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 4:10am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#concepts Cater for those who find it difficult reading emotions, with the "How's It Going?" glasses. "Post-Easter Bloggers' Droop" not labelled. [Eunah Kim via Tumblr] More »
Blu-ray Discs Increasing In Capacity To 128GB [Blu-Ray]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 3:37am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#bluray Blu-ray Discs are getting a step-up, after the Blu-ray Disc Association announced two new specs for the format—BDXL, and IH-BD. There's bad news however—you'll need to buy a new player/recorder to use the 128GB discs. More »
$10,000 Will Buy You A Hand-Delivered iPad From eBay Anywhere In The World [Apple Ipad]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 3:29am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#appleipad Someone should pull eBay seller "thejamesg" aside and explain that a flight to the US plus an iPad can be had for well under ten grand. Oh, but "THESE WILL SELL OUT ON LAUNCH DATE," he cries! [eBay] More »
Scrabble Makers Relent On Proper Nouns So You Can Now Play G-I-Z-M-O-D-O [Games]

Posted: April 6th, 2010, 3:08am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#games It'd only get you 20 points, mind. Mattel, the Willy Wonka-esque makers of most board games, has relented under the pressure of unimaginative word sleuths by allowing pronouns onto the checkered boards. More »
How a Robot Sidekick Is Made [DIY]

Posted: April 5th, 2010, 10:34pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#diy For some reason, CBS decided to actually allow late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson to have this robot skeleton companion. Mythbusters' Grant Imahara built the odd—and slightly freaky—fellow and then taught him the Robot Skeleton Sidekick Laws: More »
Robot Built to Promote Book Trashes Its Creator's Kitchen [Robots]

Posted: April 5th, 2010, 9:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#robots To promote his book Dot Robot: Atomic Swarm, children's author Jason Bradbury built a replica of one of the characters, Punk. The only trouble is that—with some CGI help—the spiky, spherical robot turned against his creator. More »

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: April 2nd, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we showed you how easily your weak passwords can be hacked, helped you steer clear of April Fools' pranks, saved you from wasting cash on HDMI cables, and more. Here's a look back at this week's most popular posts: More »

A List Apart

Contrast is King

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 4:00am EDT

Being colorblind doesn’t mean not seeing color. It means seeing it differently. If colorblindness challenges the colorblind, it also challenges designers. Some of us think designing sites that are colorblind-friendly means sticking with black and white, or close to it. But the opposite is true. Using contrast effectively not only differentiates our site’s design from others, it’s the essential ingredient that can make our content accessible to every viewer, including the colorblind. By understanding contrast, we can create websites that unabashedly revel in color.
Infrequently Asked Questions of FAQs

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 3:59am EDT

We take FAQs for granted as part of our sites’ content, but do they really work, or are they a band-aid for poor content? FAQ-hater R. Stephen Gracey explores the history and usability of FAQs. Learn how to collect, track, and analyze real user questions, sales inquiries, and support requests—and use the insights gained thereby to improve your site's content, not just to write a FAQ. Find out when FAQs are an appropriate part of your content strategy, and discover how to ensure that your FAQ is doing all it should to help your customers.

Lifehacker: Highlights

This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we helped you decide between Firefox and Chrome, highlighted some of the best tools available for controlling your computer while you're away from it, and rounded up the best tools for backing up your computer offline. More »
This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Adam Pash

#highlights This week we showed you how to make potato chips in the microwave, demystified the legality of recording phone conversations, and helped you add Mac-like gestures to your Windows laptop. More »

Gizmodo

The Right Hard Drive For You [Memory]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 9:00am EDT by Will Smith

#memory So, all this storage talk has gotten you excited about upgrading your laptop's crappy old 120GB drive? It's about time, dammit. More »
Legendary Microsoft Game SkiFree Now Free for the iPhone [IPhone Apps]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 8:32am EDT by John Herrman

#iphoneapps This news would have made my week if not for one little caveat: "Upcoming Features Include: Snow Monster." It's like a Rolling Stones reunion tour without Keith Richards. [iTunes via SAI] More »
Windows Phone 7 Will Get Copy & Paste...After Launch? [Unconfirmed]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 8:31am EDT by Mark Wilson

#unconfirmed We've lamented WP7's lack of copy & paste (though we haven't missed the irony), but now trusted Windows blogger Long Zheng is reporting that all hope is not lost: More »
Rupert Murdoch Says Bigger iPads Are Coming [Ipad]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 8:18am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#ipad Rupert Murdoch says "the iPad will be pretty small to start with, but there will be more iPads…" Oh, really? REALLY RUPERT? Who said that? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve... More »
Barnes & Noble Has No Illusions About What It's Becoming [Books]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 7:49am EDT by John Herrman

#books Barnes & Noble's departing CEO, Steve Riggio, has been selling books for 30 years. His replacement, William Lynch, has been selling them (online) for about two, following 10 years in e-commerce—and four with Palm. Nooks all around! [B&N] More »
Back Up Your Cloud-Stored Memories With These Free Tools [Memory Forever]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 7:21am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#memoryforever Today I'd like to talk to you about...backing up. I don't just mean connecting an external hard drive to your laptop and transferring all your files over. I'm talking 'bout backing up the cloud. More »
Windows Phone 7 Tablet Concept Should Be Real [Tablets]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 6:14am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#tablets LG, Samsung and ASUS have all developed hardware for Windows Phone 7, but none tickle my fancy quite as much as this WP7 tablet concept, which has a kickstand that folds into a keypad, and joystick controls on the back. More »
Rumor: HTC Incredible Launching On Verizon In A Fortnight; Supersonic With Sprint Next Week [Android]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 5:48am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#android Depending on who you speak to, the Incredible will be the next HTC phone to launch in the US. Or maybe it's the Supersonic. There was even talk that they may be one and the same. More »
Lawnmower Scooter: Vroom Vroom Splutter Splutter [Concepts]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 4:58am EDT by Kat Hannaford

#concepts Small garden owners who can't be arsed pushing a conventional lawnmower around in neat lines, nor afford a proper ride-on mower, rejoice: designer Vicky Petihovski has created a (concept) mower just for you. More »
Nokia CEO Hints At Snapdragon Phone [Nokia]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 4:36am EDT by Kat Hannaford

What Nokia needs is less Symbian, and more innovative phones like they were wheeling out a couple of years ago with their N-series line. Merely whacking a 1GHz Snapdragon chip in won't help pick them up off the floor, however great they're doing financially. More »
Amazon Threatens to Dump Two Major Publishers (Read: They Just Lost the Price War) [Amazon]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 2:07am EDT by Jason Chen

#amazon Amazon is getting serious about getting its way with ebook pricing, threatening to do what they did to Macmillan (pull physical and digital books) unless publishers agree to certain demands. More »
The Return of the Commodore 64 [PC]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 12:00am EDT by Jesus Diaz

#pc Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will rise from the dead in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: More »
Amazon Kindle App for Mac OS X [Kindle]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 11:23pm EDT by Brian Lam

#kindle Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out. It's free, but you have to buy the books, of course. It doesn't have multitouch, like the Windows app, though. [Amazon via TUAW] More »
HTC: We Disagree With Apple's Actions and Will Fully Defend Ourselves [Htc]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 11:08pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#htc As if a big, bold "HTC DISAGREES WITH APPLE'S ACTIONS" doesn't sum things up, HTC has taken the chance to remark that they will fully defend themselves and to remind us of their history of innovation. Here's what they wrote: More »
The Secret to "Ripping" Your Books [Memory Forever]

Posted: March 18th, 2010, 11:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#memoryforever It's easy to rip your CDs and turn them into easily stored digital files: You pop in a CD, click a few buttons, done. Now try ripping a book into a digital format. Struggling? Here's setup you'll wish you had. More »
Google Maps 4.1 for Android Has Latitude Widget, Better Search Results Pages [Google]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 10:59pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#google Google Maps 4.1 for Android allows for switching of Google accounts, has a Latitude widget, Maps live wallpaper, neater search pages, and the option to swipe for more results. The update is available through the Android Market now. [Google Mobile] More »
The 20 Cell Phones That Leak the Most Radiation [Radiation]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 10:40pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#radiation Cell phone radiation. Some consider it a heath-hazard of paramount importance. Others couldn't care less. Whichever camp you're in, there's some perverse satisfaction in clicking through CNET's countdown to see which is the most mind-melting gadget on the market. [CNET] More »
Angry Jobless Man Remotely Disables Over 100 Cars [Cars]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#cars Omar Ramos-Lopez was recently laid off from the Texas Auto Center and he was angry about it. So he used a former coworker's password to log into software allowing him to remotely disable cars and got his revenge. More »
Watch a Neuron Go Bad [Neurology]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 10:00pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#neurology Just like hard drive sectors can fail, neurons can go bad as data processing, memory-storing units in your brain. In this video, a neuron lacks the protein needed to make connections with other cells, essentially becoming a bad sector. More »
Magnets and Metal Nano-Particles Can Build You a New Liver [Health]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 9:20pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#health Between alcohol-fueled holidays and everyday health issues, some of us might eventually wind up needing new livers or some other organs. Turns out scientists could build us those new organs using metal nano-particles suspended in a magnetic field. More »
What Happens (Online) When We Die: Twitter [Memory]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 8:40pm EDT by John Herrman

#memory One day, you're going to die. And when you do, your online presence—like your social network profiles, your blog comments, and your web services—will serve as your very first memorial. Here's how it'll play out. More »
Sony Gets Catty About the Competition in PlayStation Move Ad [Sony]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 8:32pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#sony We're used to feeling oddly insulted by Sony ads, but for once it's everyone else who might need a hug. Because in this PlayStation Move ad, the competition gets named, shamed, and leaves crying for mommy. [Ars Technica via Kotaku] More »
8 Things Made Out Of Carbon Fiber That Really Shouldn't Be [Wrongmodo]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#wrongmodo Things made of carbon fiber tend to be appealing-looking, light-weight, and durable. But sometimes we just plain wonder how on earth someone decided to choose the often pricey material for a particular piece of gear. More »
GM's Enhanced Windshield Uses Lasers to Make Your Road Trips Safer [Automotive]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 7:00pm EDT by Rosa Golijan

#automotive It makes it feel like you're in the middle of Tron, but GM's new heads-up display's not just a way to play out childhood fantasies. The system projects laser-generated images onto windshields, providing a great looking enhanced vision display. More »
This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft's Secret Stealth Data Centers [Memory Forever]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:20pm EDT by Wilson Rothman

#memoryforever "The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers all around the world. Physically real, but still beautiful. More »
Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: What's Next Edition [Remainders]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:10pm EDT by Kyle VanHemert

#remainders In today's Remainders: the next step. For John Grisham, it's ebooks. For the television-viewing public, it's viewing television while surfing the web. For Google, it's controlling the internet. And for NVIDIA, it's releasing GeForce drivers that don't melt your rig. More »
DIY Steve Jobs Cheese Head Gets Real Creepy [Image Cache]

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:00pm EDT by Brian Barrett

#imagecache Hellooooo, weirdtown! Not only did someone go through the trouble of carving a giant Steve Jobs head out of mozzarella cheese, they've also given detailed instructions on how to make your very own. In three varieties, no less! More »