Boing Boing Gadgets has six of the hundreds of thousands of gadgets Doraemon—the Japanese anime gadget cat—pulled out of his magic pouch over the years. Above: the Polaroid-esque Voodoo Camera. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
Light performance photography is impressive enough, but shoving these light performance photographs into a video and putting a Depeche Mode-like music track on it? We’re sold. [Hacknmod via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Texas inmate Derrick Ross, 38—a three-time burglary felon—has been sentenced to 60 additional years after he was caught having a mobile phone in his possession.
Apple’s said no background apps on the iPhone forever, citing it destroys stability and system resources. Today, three reputable publications have independently claimed that Apple is having a change of mind. What the hell?
newVideoPlayer("/patdowndouchebag_gizmodo.flv", 506, 285,""); Suburbanites need not venture further, since your torpid bodies have grown into your automobiles. City dwellers, this is how you probably look to everyone else, stumbling around with your iPhone.
I know this Nikon S630 is just trying to be helpful, but a little tact wouldn’t hurt. Some people’s eyes just extra squinty when they smile, OK, camera? [Flickr via BoingBoing]
Nicknamed the “Easy-Bake Oven of handheld GPS devices,” the Geomate.jr is a family-friendly device designed to get children out of the house, away from their video games and go geocaching outdoors.
Microsoft’s officially banning the Memcpy(), CopyMemory() and RtlCopyMemory() functions, meaning that if apps want to align with Microsoft’s Secure Development Lifecycle, they need to strip these out.
