"I know at any moment this machine could destroy itself and there won't be a thing I can do about it. What a mutinous thing when a machine, usually so faithful and repetitious, turns against us." More »
Business - Energy - Oil and Gas - Employment - Arts
Forget everything you ever thought you knew about waffles. Because Lolly, a waffle maker that produces 9.4-inch waffle cones on a stick, has changed everything. Can I interest you in a wafflesicle? Of course I can. More »
Ice cream cone - Business - Shopping - Ice cream - Food and Related Products
As a "photographer of the virtual world," Robert Overweg searches first-person and third-person shooter games for striking images. Instead of looking for avatars in vaguely sexual poses though, he's seeking out the very end of the videogame world. More »
Video game - Games - Shooter - Downloads - Art
Good news for the folks interested in a Galaxy S device but not satisfied with Android 2.1! According to Samsung's official Twitter account, the devices will be updated to Android 2.2 later on: More »
Samsung Group - Android - Samsung - galaxy - Sprint
Moscow communicated with alleged spies in America by encoding instructions on public websites. It's a process called steganography. And it's one of a slew of high-tech and time-tested methods that the deep-cover agents and their Russian handlers used to pass information More »
Federal Bureau of Investigation - United States - Russia - Moscow - Espionage
While he was waiting for Futurama to get back, the great Pepa Quin spent more than two years building New New York in Lego, complete with Planet Express, Robot Arms Apts. Applied Cryogenics, Madison Cube Garden, and even the sewers! More »
Lego - Futurama - Recreation - Toys - Collecting
Giant model steps over Times Square crowd, snaps Polaroid, shows close-up, leaves. Repeat. Nice little augmented reality billboard cycle you've got there, Forever 21. Oh! Except for when she picks someone up and waves them around. That part's different. More »
Time Square - Arts - Shopping - Folk - Square Dancing
Hello lovely readers, commenters, and fans. Gizmodo needs a little bit of your help...talking about Gizmodo. Gawker.tv needs to cut a promo video of your favorite website (that would be us) and is looking for a few folks in the NYC area to interview (that would be you). More »
Apple - Arts - Video - Business - IPhone
BBC says this "is one of the most exquisite views we have ever had of the Earth." I would say it is one of the most fascinating, as it shows how Earth's gravity field changes across the globe. More »
Earth's gravity - Gravitation - Physics - Earth science - Alternative
Apple hasn't done a very good job of keeping iWork for iPhone a secret, and now its existence has been confirmed by a host of Pages screenshots over at 9to5Mac. It'll sync up with Pages on your iPad wirelessly. More »
IWork - IPhone - Apple - Handhelds - Smartphones
The folks at BGR got their hands on Apple's internal iPhone 4 antenna troubleshooting procedures. This is what Apple representatives are supposed to follow when you call about your reception troubles. Of course, sometimes they even give the spiel word-by-word. More »
IPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - iPhone 4
Sure, the way Apple pitches it, FaceTime is for touching moments. But let's be a little more realistic about it. [CollegeHumor] More »
Humor - Apple - Recreation - Magazines and E-zines - Analysis and Opinion
Why pay for cable to watch stuff on my television when I can stream most of the TV I care about to every screen I watch for $10/month? That's what I'm thinking after using the awesome Hulu Plus iPhone app. More »
iPhone - IPad - Handhelds - Smartphones - Apple
The iPad is a content-driven machine. That's what it does best, and that's what it's used for. The Cisco Cius, on the other hand, wants to be the consummate professional's tablet. But what's a business-minded tablet do differently? More »
IPad - Cisco Systems - Android - Tablet - Cisco Cius
"You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house—all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission...to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in U.S. and send intels to [Center]." More »
United States - Espionage - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Russia - USA
There's a lot to love about Tron, but for me it all pales in comparison to the lightcycles. These ones on eBay? Not props. They're working, street-legal models you can actually buy. But you'll want to hurry. More »
Tron - Shopping - Realtime - Operating Systems - Jeff Bridges
Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon will begin offering the iPhone in January. That's according to their two unnamed sources "familiar with the plans," although no more details were provided. It's in line, though, with the last several months of rumblings. More »
IPhone - Handhelds - Smartphones - Apple - VerizonWireless
Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus keyboard, which had individual screens on every key, was an extremely ambitious product that didn't quite justify its high cost. Can the followup Optimus Popularis do better? More »
Art Lebedev Studios - Keyboard - ArtLebedev - Hardware - Optimus
DVD Jon, the reverse engineer who decrypted DVDs for the masses and liberated iTunes with DoubleTwist, is worried about the Android Market. There's too much junk, he says, and Google needs to follow Apple's lead to clean it up. More »
Google - Android - Apple - Nexus One - Handhelds
