I was playing Lumines when I switched from PS2 to Xbox 360. It was tragic. The D-pad on the 360 made it impossible to play.

Voice search? An innovation? Last I checked, Android has had that forever.

@AlteredSpeed08: Freedom of speech (the 1st Amendment) only applies to the government. Private entities, including your employer (the NFL), can restrict your speech all they want without running afoul of the 1st Amendment.

Cloud-based storage needs to be provider-agnostic. If I have to have Verizon (and, even worse, specifically FIOS) as my provider, I'm not putting my content on their servers. With Google, YouTube, Picasa, etc... I know that as long as Google and the Internet exist, I can get at my content wherever, whenever, without…

There are lots of reasons why I love my Android phone, post-purchase rationalization being the most prominent of course, but not having to deal with crap like this is way up there. I hope that Apple's shenanigans drive more developers to Android, because I want some of those super-cool iPhone apps over here.

For those who may not already know, this is called a zoetrope, and is usually accomplished by combining the turntable with a strobe light flashing at the correct frequency. Combining it with a video camera's shutter speed and turntables is really clever.

This is a classic example of over-engineering something to "solve" a problem that doesn't exist. Really? Do most of you have such problems with regular old scissors?

OMG when I was a kid I used to spin around until I was dizzy! I'M A DRUGGIE! SAVE ME!

@JrsyDevil's Advocate®: I cannot possibly ever hear the sentence, "Good news everyone," in any voice except for Prof. Farnsworth's. Thanks, Futurama!

Don't get your hopes up too high. I bought some MOCA 1.x modems when they first came out and got a real TCP throughput (as measured by iPerf) of about 15 Mbps. I still preferred it to wireless for various reasons, but the quoted speeds are a fantasy. YMMV, as always. I'll take 100 Mbps Ethernet any day of the week,…

Of all the objections I've heard to this device, one that I've yet to hear is this: it doesn't "prevent rape". By the time this device is engaged, the rape has already occurred. It simply punishes the rapist with personal injury and, potentially, makes it easier to catch the rapist by requiring him to go to a doctor.

I found the distance measurement to be wildly inaccurate for anything more than ten or fifteen feet, because tiny changes in the aim point resulted in 20 or 30-foot swings in the distance measured. The height measurement is more useful, IMO.

QR code pls!

@jingram421: What do you mean "cleaned up"? Do you have any idea the scope of this disaster? They still haven't "cleaned up" Valdez, because you can't really totally "clean up" an oil spill. Especially one of this size.

This quote is totally out of context. He's just saying that it's easier to do it from his Blu-Ray player that has Blockbuster On-Demand built in.

Okay, I promise this is the last time I'll beat this drum, but it just happened again, and it really drives me crazy. If I click on the link, "you will get this Easter Egg" what the hell should that take me to? The easter egg? Yes, of course it should! But instead, it takes me to all Gizmodo posts tagged "easter egg."…

Gizmodo, once again, I frickin' hate linked tags in your articles. How annoying is it to click on "petrol bombs" expecting to be linked to a story about the guy making petrol bombs or something, only to actually be linked to all articles on Gizmodo that are tagged "petrol bombs," of which there is only one—this one.…

@Bane_Majik: +1. I had the same thought. I used to have an oven stick and never used it.