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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

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When Is A Tablet Not A Tablet? Viewsonic Teases 22-Inch Android Prototype It’s not a tablet if it’s not portable. I don’t think 22 inches is designed to be portable.

Your Favourite Cartoon Characters Reading The Star Wars Screenplay Will Blow Your Mind Anyone keen to make a side-by-side version with the original?

Sydney And Melbourne: Bring On The Sci-Fi Skyways Sounds like a better idea than Clover Moore’s horrid bike lanes.

Report: Google Tablet With Android 5.0 In June? Google isn’t going to let Apple hog all the attention in June.

You Can Appear In The Steve Jobs Movie Your crazy sense of fashion has totally paid off.


May 26, 2012
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E-Readers To Blame For An Increase In Adult “Shame Reading”

We’ve heard of hate-reading — the kind of reading you do out of disgust or loathing or contempt for the author. Now, it seems that a new type of reading style has emerged: call it “shame-reading”.


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Breakfast Wrap: Friday Night’s Finest

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You’ll Never Want To Skydive After Watching This I remember almost passing out when I went skydiving in New Zealand late last year. I reckon I would have actually passed out if this had happened.

Thief Takes Pictures With Stolen iPhone… That Synced With Owner’s Computer Terrible thief is terrible.

The Bow Size Of The US Navy’s New Nuclear Supercarrier Defies Belief That’s a big boat that I imagine costs a lot of money.

Siri Tells John Malkovich A Better Joke Oh Siri, why are you such a smart mouth? Except when you’re telling people the iPhone isn’t the bestest handset ever.

Make The Meatiest Sandwich In Human History Making it is one thing. How about eating it? That’s the real challenge.


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Thief Takes Pictures With Stolen iPhone… That Synced With Owner’s Computer

That’s Nelson above. That’s Nelson partying. That’s Nelson with his girlfriend. All those pictures were taken with an iPhone he stole. Pictures that were automatically sent to the phone’s original owner, Katy McCaffrey, through Photostream. McCaffrey posted a hilarious Facebook photo album detailing Nelson’s various adventures with her stolen phone.


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Dad Creates Fake Porn Site Profile For Principal Who Confiscated Son’s iPod

When an assistant principal confiscated his 13-year-old son’s iPod, Robert Dale Esparza Jr did what any responsible parent would: He started a fake profile under the principal’s name on a hardcore porn site, and impersonated him via email. Yep!


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You Can Jailbreak Your Apple TV Now

Along with being able to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, you can jailbreak the Apple TV now. It’s the first untethered jailbreak for the new Apple TV software (5.0.1) and it’s all thanks to Seas0nPass. Why would you jailbreak your Apple TV though? For the plugins!


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The FBI Is Now (Officially) Spying On US Internet Activity

The FBI has probably been monitoring the web activity of random US citizens for quite some time, but today, as CNET reports, the law enforcement bureau has formed a dedicated unit for the purpose of internet surveillance. But its end goal is a bit different than you may think.


May 25, 2012
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Man Stranded In Airport For Four Months Disappears Mysteriously

This man is not Tom Hanks. Or Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle’s Terminal One from August 1988 to July 2006. This guy’s name is Parameswaran. He’s from Sri Lanka and he was stranded in Caracas’ international airport in Venezuela for four months.


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Meth Labs And Dead Dogs: How The Founder Of McAfee Antivirus Went On The Run In Belize

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. “I’ve been busy” is everyone’s excuse for laziness, but I can’t come up with a better one. For those of you who follow the news in Central America, you will know that I am in hiding in an undisclosed location in Belize. Hiding out is no fun. I’ve always wondered why people on the run turn themselves in. I now know the answer — boredom.


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This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living In AOL’s Offices

It turns out there is at least one person who likes AOL — enough to even eat, sleep, shower and live out of its Palo Alto HQ like some sort of Silicon Valley hobo for months. Meet Eric Simons.