Get a Year of Free Talk, Text, and LTE Data with the iPhone 5 for $399
Right now, FreedomPop is offering the iPhone 5 (16gb) and a year of service for $399. This plan will save you up to $1,000 per year in comparison to other carriers, allowing you to say goodbye to the traditional two-year plan and high monthly bills.
You Wouldn't Believe These Trick Golf Shots Without Slow-Mo Video Proof
George and Wesley Bryan turn the stodgy old game of golf into an extreme sport
with their wacky trick shots. They're so well-timed and precisely
coordinated, you'd probably lose track of that little white ball with
your naked eye. Thank goodness for GoPro and slow-mo footage.
Report: iWatch Will Have Third-Party Apps And a Dedicated App Store
Ahead of Tuesday's big reveal of the much-anticipated Apple smartwatch, 9to5Mac brings us new details
of what that iWatch might have on its homescreen: A bunch of
wearable-optimized apps, downloadable from an iWatch section of Apple's
App Store. Hope the icons are legible on that tiny screen.
This Robot Maximizes Your Chance of Finding Love on Tinder
Tinder is a great way to find hookups
romance near you, but it still relies on you and your potential partner
finding each other mutually attractive. Since you can't always rely on
that, why not boost your odds—say, with a robotic finger that can "like" up to 900 Tinderers per hour?
What's The Earliest Trace Of Yourself You Can Still Find Online?
The
internet is so deeply woven into our everyday lives, we hardly think
about it anymore. We've all been posting, commenting, liking, and
sharing for at least a decade. In the process, we've all left a long
digital trail. What's the oldest remnant of your online life that you
can still find?
Get a Domain Name and Hosting for $2.95 a Month (67% Off)
DreamHost is offering Gizmodo readers web hosting and a domain name for just $2.95 a month, 67% off the regular price, on annual plans. Build your ideal site from the ground up and get all the key features to keep things running smooth and efficiently for just $35 annually.
Protecting Your Nude Pics, Apple's Newest Designer, A Sewer Tour, More
This week revealed a lot about life on the internet. Most of it was
pretty awful. Let's flush out the bad with the best—specifically, the
best stories Gizmodo wrote this week.
Got your eye on a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone? Motorola will give you up to $300 on a cash card
when you trade in your old smartphone. Hypothetically, that means you
could buy a subsidized Moto and make money, if you trade in a desirable
phone in perfect condition. [Motorola via Cnet]
Space Station Defies Humans, Launches Satellites Without Permission
The International Space Station has a cannon that launches tiny CubeSat microsatellites into orbit. Most of the time, those launches are triggered by human scientists on board or back on Earth. But this week, the ISS launched two CubeSats entirely on its own. This is how the uprising begins.
Reminder: Stay Skeptical About iPhone 6 Leaks This Weekend
The tech blogging world was alight this morning with purported images
and video of a leaked iPhone 6. That's not surprising—in the run-up to
Apple's iPhone 6 event on Tuesday, leaks and rumors are inevitable. But
as always, it pays to have a skeptical eye.
How to Get (Legal) Weed Delivered to Your Front Door
There
are more than a few sketchy pot stores among the thousands of licensed
dispensaries spread across the 23 states and DC where medical marijuana
has been legalized. Fortunately, you can just have your weed order
delivered. All you need is a green card, the Internet, and cash.
CDC Statistics Show What Happens When You Don't Vaccinate
The
latest figures: Between January 1 and August 29 of this year, nearly
600 confirmed measles cases were reported to the CDC's National Center
for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The resurgence is the
greatest the U.S. has seen since the disease was eliminated from the
country in 2000.
Spotify Hack Plays Only the Most Dramatic Part of Your Favorite Song
There's probably a perfect moment in your favorite song where everything just clicks. Wouldn't it be great to skip right to the zenith of every tune? Music Machinery's Paul Lamere think so—he's just devised a Spotify plugin that takes you right to the most dramatic moment of any song.
10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Evernote Master
Evernote
is well established as the go-to app for organizing just about
everything in your life. Whether it's notes for a novel or bookmarks
from the Web, Evernote can take pretty much anything you want to throw
at it. But are you using the platform to its full potential? Here are 10
quick tips for turning yourself…
How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?
For
those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude
and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using
Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck is that? Why
are there so many digits after the decimal?
Detroit's Under-Funded Fire Departments Use a Soda Can For a Fire Alarm
Where absent money leaves gaps, ingenuity fills in. Nowhere is that more true than in Detroit's fire departments, where, as Detroit Free Press reporter Tresa Baldas shows us, a soda can full of jangling coins and screws alerts the Motor City's long-suffering heroes when there's an emergency.
These ads for a British movie channel are cooler than most films
ManvsMachine is
an award winning design and motion studio based in London, England.
Their work for the visual identity of english movie channel Film4 is
outstanding and far more interesting than most movies out there. Watch
these examples and judge for yourself:
I wish I could talk to machines the same way this kid does
Imagine
you could talk to machines the same way the kid from this GE commercial
does. Manipulating any electronic device just with a beep from your
mouth. BEEP...phone on. BEEP...buy first-class flight ticket to Tulum,
Mexico. BEEP...phone off.
These sniper fish kill prey firing water with their mouths
Archerfish
can kill prey using a precise water pistol they make with their mouths.
New high speed footage shows how they produce a stream of water capable
of shooting down insects several feet away. Just like snipers do.
Watching this piano burn and slowly disintegrate is beautifully sad
Having
Beethoven as the soundtrack obviously adds to the feels but there's
something strangely beautiful and yearningly sad about seeing this wood
piano burn to ashes by two heat guns. Like it's a memento of a simpler
life disappearing via the hands of cold robots.
Watch the clouds run away from this volcano eruption
Here's a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea.
What's cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the
clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually
reaches the people on the boat. Boom, for real.
California is such a stunningly gorgeous place
I'm
biased because I grew up in California so it'll always be home to me
but I'll always be a little jealous of people who aren't from here, just
for the opportunity to be able to see it for the first time with brand
new eyes. It's such a big state that there are so many different faces
of beauty.
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