Monthly Archives: February 2015

Astropad Is An App That Pretty Much Replaces Graphics Tablets

By Chris Mills

For as long as I’ve owned a Macbook and an iPad (read: two years), I’ve been searching for a way to connect the two together, marrying touch sensitivity and portability to a proper operating system in some kind of post-Jobsian tech utopia. And as long as I’ve been trying, every half-assed solution has sucked — until now.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/bl90Ei3et4A/astropad-is-an-app-that-pretty-much-replaces-graphics-t-1686931534

      

Man pretending to be a robot looks like a robot pretending to be a man

By Casey Chan

Dancer Madd Chadd is so, so good at doing the robot that he actually looks more like a frighteningly realistic robot pretending to be a human than a human dancing like a robot. In this latest video, he’s sitting down and attempting to eat a sandwich like a robot would and it looks absolutely perfect.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/DvdrvFja-v8/man-pretending-to-be-a-robot-looks-like-a-robot-pretend-1686908505

      

It’s Been Three Months And The State Department Is Still Hacked

By Chris Mills

Back in November, we learned that the State Department’s unclassified networks had been hit by an unidentified group of hackers, causing the department’s email and websites to go offline, and prompting some awkward conversations with the IT guys. And according to a …

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/508arP7Gg0A/+chris-mills

      

Color-changing jacket taps your brain to display your mood

By Michelle Starr A new serpentine jacket from clothing design studio The Unseen is embedded with colour-changing inks that react to your brain activity.
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What Do You Think Will Be the Doom of Civilization?

By Meg Neal

It’s probably true that every generation thinks it’ll be the last—I mean, the Doomsday Clock has been ticking since 1947. And though I accused us millennials earlier today of being the “generation that cried apocalypse,” I fully admit there are some damn legit reasons for that cry currently brewing.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/sQygCErumLQ/what-do-you-think-will-be-the-doom-of-civilization-1686816143