Posts By John Mahoney

Software

The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE. LAST. TIME.

7:40AM May 9, 2009 | John Mahoney

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.


Science

Eating Like an Astronaut: Our Six-Course Space Food Taste Test

2:40AM May 9, 2009 | John Mahoney

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.

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iHome iP1 Studio Series iPod Dock Looks Nice, Sounds Nice

10:50AM May 8, 2009 | John Mahoney

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.

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Geek Out

This Is What I’m About To Eat For Lunch

2:20AM May 8, 2009 | John Mahoney

Will I survive?

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Cameras

Ricoh CX1 Review: A Photographer’s Compact Point and Shoot

1:10AM May 8, 2009 | John Mahoney

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.

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Electronic House’s Home of the Year Makes Me Want to Die

9:30AM May 6, 2009 | John Mahoney

Ever wake up in a fitful cold sweat with the cutting realisation 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.

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Our Very Own Martian Landscape Here On Earth

6:20AM May 6, 2009 | John Mahoney

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!

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Cameras

Santa LeBron Gifts Unsuspecting Teammates With Flip Mino HD Cams

2:40AM May 6, 2009 | John Mahoney

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.

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Entertainment

Light Saber Jousting With Segways

11:00AM May 5, 2009 | John Mahoney

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!

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Everything’s Better In Space

9:40AM May 5, 2009 | John Mahoney

Including epic battles with interstellar octopi, staff blasters and all. Flaunt this obvious fact to the less informed with a t-shirt.

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