Agree to "work with her" on the cost of the bungee cord she broke.

Let me preface by saying that I am admittedly biased on this issue. However, the value of the item is not the paper it's printed on or the numbers that were written down. The value is in the fact that it went with a NASA astronaut on a NASA mission, and that's what is being sold here. If I were the one who had to make…

You can make all the angered/impassioned pleas you want; but companies are OBVIOUSLY going to keep using the iName scheme as long as it sells products. If you wan't them to stop, stop buying their products. How many readers here own a non-apple iProduct? Think hard, its's probably an accessory you bought for your…

Ok, then what you have is fake, because that's not how magnets work: in systems like this the magnets with matching polarity repulse one another with a force equal to that of gravity. This is what defines the distance above the surface that the object levitates, since the force of the magnets falls off like…

Ironic how a few short years after Steve Jobs declares the netbook dead and the iPad to be its executioner the MacBook AIR is gizmodo's most important gadget of 2011. I see a lot of comments on here about how the Kindle Fire doesn't stack up well against the iPad because it doesn't have comparable hardware, and that…

Yeah, I own a kindle fire and really like it. So much so that I don't even use the iPad my work bought me for testing my iOS apps.

I'm not much of a turnip guy, but most of the food I eat comes from within 20 miles of my house. Granted, I live in California where its actually possible to buy everything you need locally because we make everything locally. But there are a lot of things that don't need to take up lots of energy being moved, but we…

I think the interesting thing to derive from this statement is that it takes a staggering amount of energy to move a car around. Think about it, with the same amount of gasoline, you could use your iPhone (or probably just about any mobile device) for 20 years. Or, instead, put that in the engine of an average car (30…

Actually, he has a point. I mean, if Motorola announced tomorrow that they had a new phone coming out with a physical screen the same size of the iPhone 4S but with TWICE the pixel density, people would laugh; because no one is going to see the extra pixels, that was the whole idea behind the "retina" display.…

First off, to "un-distort" the galaxy you would have to have to accurate model the effect of the lens, which cannot be done without knowing a lot more about the galaxy acting as the lens then we know. Second, the lensing doesn't let you see further, its not a telescope, it just warps the path of light from behind it…

Hmmm, sounds like the solution is obvious (though not necessarily easy): increase training for existing pilots to re-tool as drone pilots.

I have to imagine that however stressful this job is, it has to be less stressful then flying the planes from inside the cockpit. Everything that these guys do, pilots physically present in the aircraft used to do. Do they have the same kind of dropout rates?

No, I don't think I am misunderstanding the patent. You're describing the mechanism that is currently employed by iOS to implement this idea, like creating an iCal event. But that's not what is patented, the patent predates iOS by 8 years. What is patented really IS the idea of recognizing a phone number, or a date,…

I know I have said this before, many times, but what you are failing to appreciate here is that Apple should never have gotten this patent. A patent needs to be "non-obvious," and if you are writing software that gets a phone number in an email or text message and you don't IMMEDIATELY think "oh, they are probably…

"That's dumb, and to pretend that [it] [isn't] [...] turns a blind eye to [the fact that] that nearly everyone uses Facebook."

Dear Gizmodo,

I have a very similar setup with white board and NERF pistols. I made a variant of cricket that is actually pretty darned fun. I picked up both of the NERF pistols on sale at CVS for $6.00 (total).

Everyone complains about the lack of hoverboards and flying cars, but nobody does anything about it. Back to the Future did all the hard work of motivating a generation of kids about how awesome the future could be, but the movie forgot to mention to those kids that they were expected to make that happen.

Oh, in that case, yes: people at Ivy League schools are too smart to have iPhones. Actually, I think I am giving too much credit to Ivy League schools in that statement...People who didn't pay their way into Ivy League schools are too smart to have iPhones.

No, I have no idea how you got that from what I said.