#gizexplains

Giz Explains: Why Everything Wireless is 2.4GHz

You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen. More »
Feature
09/07/10
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By John Herrman
#vocablesson

Vocab Lesson: Vapor-Metalized Plastic

A piece of plastic goes in, a piece of metal comes out. At least, that's what vapor metallizing seems to accomplish, at least to our immediate senses. It's gilding, except it's been updated for the electronics age. And it's everywhere. More »
08/26/10
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By John Herrman
#gizexplains

Giz Explains: How Blind People See the Internet

Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They're passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That's how reading works, online: you take this for granted. But what if you couldn't? More »
Feature
08/24/10
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By John Herrman
#vocablesson

Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo's new weekly column on words—the ones you've heard, but can't quite define, or the ones you haven't, but might like to hear about. This week's lesson: Thermocouples! (Huh?) More »
Feature
08/19/10
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By John Herrman
#gizexplains

Giz Explains: What Is Liquidmetal?

Apple has a new toy. It's a materials company called Liquidmetal, and everybody's talking! Problem is, nobody seems too sure what they're talking about. So, Liquidmetal: What is this stuff? And what does Apple want with it? More »
Feature
08/17/10
204,619204,619 views on this post, 10,168 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#jailbreak

16 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch NOW

Jailbreaking is truly and totally back for every iDevice, and it hasn't been this easy for years. But with iOS 4's new features, is it worth the (minimal) effort? 16 times yes. More »
08/07/10
320,663320,663 views on this post, 22,715 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps

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 »
06/11/10
98,23098,230 views on this post, 2,607 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#bp

BP, the Man

From the apparently fantastic Mike Mitchell, cropped for your (HVGA) smartphone wallpapering convenience. For your own crops, here's the full-size source image, in all its spewing glory. More »
06/11/10
25,78125,781 views on this post, 5,280 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#humor Click here to read How BP Deals With Office Coffee Spills

How BP Deals With Office Coffee Spills

For God's sake get these people some tippy cups! Then get them to engineer the oil rig equivalent of a tippy cup, and the world will be saved. [UCB via Cajun Boy] More »
Cousteau
06/10/10
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By John Herrman
#security

Should I Worry About the Apple iPad + AT&T Security Breach? (Probably Not.)

Click here to read Should I Worry About the Apple iPad + AT&T Security Breach? (Probably Not.)
AT&T accidentally exposed a whole bunch of iPad customers' email addresses. Oh dear! But wait, I'm an AT&T customer! And I have an iPad! Should I be worried? And what exactly was exposed here? Here's the rundown. Updated. More »
06/09/10
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By John Herrman
#apple Click here to read On Firing Steve Jobs From Apple, 25 Years Later

On Firing Steve Jobs From Apple, 25 Years Later

"I haven't spoken to Steve in 20-odd years," says John Sculley, the former Apple CEO who ejected Jobs from the company in 1985, in an illuminating, slightly painful Daily Beast interview. Hindsight is 20/20, yes, but also cruel. More »
06/09/10
58,01858,018 views on this post, 1,450 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#jailbreak Click here to read iOS 4 Jailbroken Within a Day of First Release

iOS 4 Jailbroken Within a Day of First Release

A Gold Master release of iOS 4 (née iPhone OS) was seeded to developers yesterday. And the next iPhone's software has been surprisingly accommodating to jailbreakers' attempts to crack it wide open. More »
06/08/10
87,48887,488 views on this post, 12,705 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#iphone4

Should I Buy an iPhone 4?

The one question Apple never answers at keynotes—their opinion is implicit—is always the most pertinent: Should I buy this new thing? Here's a simple guide: More »
Next Generation
06/07/10
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By John Herrman
#wwdc

What Is iPhone 4's FaceTime Video Chat?

Steve Jobs usually saves the meatiest bit of his keynotes for the end. But WWDC's "One More Thing" was a little tame: FaceTime, a video chat system for iPhone 4. So, what's special about FaceTime, and how does it work? More »
Next Generation
06/07/10
75,51375,513 views on this post, 10,189 new visitors
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By John Herrman
#cloud

How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft's Plan for Us All

Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it's Microsoft—not Google—that's best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here's why. More »
Feature
06/05/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

In this week's moderately anticipatory app roundup: Long distance charges, eliminated! Text messages, circumvented! Novelty zombie books, adapted! Free music, streamed! Consciousness, conveniently regained! Art, simulated! And much more... More »
06/04/10
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By John Herrman
#privacy

Are Cameras the New Guns? The LAPD Investigates!

06/03/10
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#microsoft

The PC Will Continue to Thrive, Because Everything Is a PC

The question implicit here would have meant something completely different five years ago. But things are changing: computers are shrinking; tablets are knocking; the clouds are forming. The PC will thrive, says Ballmer, because PCs apparently encompass all of this. [Bits] More »
06/03/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps Click here to read Splinter Cell Conviction for iPhone: Stealth!

Splinter Cell Conviction for iPhone: Stealth!

There are games where you blast, and there are game where you sneak. The iPhone has a wide selection of the former, but real stealth games, not so much. Splinter Cell, then, is more than welcome to the App Store. More »
06/01/10
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By John Herrman
#iphoneapps

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

In this week's peacemaking app roundup: Music, gleaned! Court adjourned! Lives, documented! Libraries, kept! Cities, terrorized! Scavenger hunts, organized! Stains, vaporized! And, well, Prince of freakin' Persia. More »
05/28/10
177,674177,674 views on this post, 5,498 new visitors
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By John Herrman
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