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Tech NewsThis 360 Video Puts You Behind the Wheel of a Formula Drift Race Car
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift sucked, but that’s just cause it wasn’t shot with 360 degree cameras. This 360 degree video from the top of a Pro Drifter’s car does the art of drifting justice the way the movie never could. We took the 360fly to a Clubloose Slay Ride drift event and … Continued
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Tech NewsMy Climb to the Top of New York City’s Tallest Wind Turbine
New York City is no stranger to wind energy. Just this past year, quite a few small wind turbines popped up on roofs all over the city. But when New York’s newest, biggest recycling facility decided to build the waste-munching powerhouse of the future, they weren’t going to settle for anything less than the tallest … Continued
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Tech NewsOutrage Is a Violent and Blood-Fueled Mob Epic
Thanks to years of violence being shoved down our throats by pop culture and the media, many of us have very strong stomachs—we tend to become very desensitized. Very few filmmakers are capable of pulling off a tastefully violent film. A film with violence that actually shocks you. Cinematic Japanese legend Takeshi Kitano is one … Continued
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Tech News
Let’s Make TVs Accurate, Not “Enhanced”
AquoMotion, AquoDimming, Auto-Depth Enhancer, Motionflow, Precision Black Local Dimming, Clear Action. These are the marketing names given to common features built into today’s televisions to “enhance” the image. But while they alter the picture in a way that makes it catch your eye, the result often bears little resemblance to how it was intended to … Continued
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Tech NewsStardust Is The Best Fantasy Movie You’ve Never Seen
Put simply, Stardust is the best movie no one has seen. It managed to slip under a bunch of people’s noses, most likely because of its name (it does sound pretty cheesy). Fortunately for you, that means this little treasure is something you can discover now. I hope you like fantasy. In the same tongue … Continued
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Tech NewsIt’s a Treat to Watch This Legendary Bike Builder at Work
Kinfolk bikes are known for their breathtaking classic looks. The trouble with them is that they’re made so very far away, in Japan. Thanks to a couple guys with cameras, you can make the trip to Kinfolk’s incredible workshop right from your computer, and see what it takes to hand-make some of the best bikes … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Contraptions That Made Photographic Images Before Cameras Existed
You’re probably familiar with the beginnings of photography. The daguerreotype, early black and whites, sepia-tone—and it all gets more colorful from there. But what about before photography? When there was no capture medium or lenses and everything was based on linear perspective? How did these early artists capture something or someone in the most accurate … Continued
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Tech NewsOnce Upon A Time In The West Is the Best Western and You Should Watch It
The opening is iconic. In eerie silence three outlaws take over a rail station somewhere in the west to set up a trap for the soon to arrive hero. After locking up the ticket clerk the three outlaws each take a position at different ends of the station. Suffocating closeups of each outlaw is intercut … Continued
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Tech NewsOur Best Original Photo and Video Posts of 2014
Gizmodo loves documenting its hi-tech or oddball adventures, and 2014 happened to be a year chock-full of them. Whether we were tagging along with King’s Distillery to turn Coca-Cola into whiskey or journeying deep underground into the 2nd Ave subway tunnel, Gizmodo always had its camera ready. Here are the best original photo and video … Continued
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Tech News
Photo Essay: NYC’s Incredible Christmas Tree Seller Subculture
The Friday night after Thanksgiving is when all the little forests pop up around the city. Most Christmas tree outlets—bodegas, parks, supermarkets, and big-box stores—have a team that comes in to set up wooden display racks, while electricians wire up lights to a generator and a truck drops off Fraser Firs to sell the next … Continued
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Tech NewsCelebrate Ralph Fiennes’ Birthday By Watching In Bruges
There is no good trailer for In Bruges. They all try to make the movie look like a slapstick comedy, a farce, or maybe a little of both. It’s neither. In Bruges is a very dark, very funny movie, about two hit men on hiatus from a job gone wrong. And the hiatus happens to … Continued
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Tech NewsJames Bond Will Return So Watch From Russia With Love
Bond is back next year in Spectre. And it’s gonna be the best Bond yet. Duh. Spectre almost definitely will bring Bond back to the ultra cheesy roots it started from with the terror organization responsible for all of the Sean Connery films plots. In From Russia With Love, the second Bond film ever made, … Continued
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Tech NewsField Notes: The Nikon D750 Is a Delightful Full-Frame Video DSLR
Back in September, Nikon announced yet another full-frame DSLR to add to its broad lineup— the upper-mid-level D750. Equipped with a pivoting LCD and a handful of video specific features, this new guy is chasing the hearts of filmmakers in particular. At first glance it’s a welcome addition to an already proven camera lineup. Regardless, … Continued
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Reviews
The Bike-Friendly Commuter Suit Review: Good at Bikes, Bad at Suit
You can’t ride a bicycle in a traditional suit. The wear and tear on that fabric will be enough to tear holes in the pants and rip the shoulder seams. Not a good look! You could keep a suit in a bag and change when you get to work, but you’d have to show up … Continued
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Tech NewsEscape the Cold By Watching 12 Angry Men
It’s freezing. Literally everywhere. So let’s watch something where it’s the opposite. On the hottest day of the year in New York City, Sydney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men are just walking into the deliberation room to pass verdict on a murder trial. All but one of the 12 believe the defendant is guilty. 12 Angry … Continued
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Behind the Scenes at the Best IMAX Theater in America
Since 1994, as far as movie theaters go, the IMAX at Lincoln Center in New York City is the best there is. With films projected on an enormous 100-foot screen, any viewing experience there certainly fits the bill as “larger than life.” I went inside the projection booth to see what type of machinery makes … Continued
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Reviews
F-Stop Guru: An Adventuresome Camera Bag That Gets a Lot Right
Finding the right camera bag is as difficult as buying the right pair of shoes. They don’t fit comfortably, hold your equipment well, and they’re never cheap. Yet, they’re necessary. Though there are ways to circumvent the disaster that is the state of camera bags these days, the F-Stop Guru does a near-perfect job of … Continued
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Tech News
I Lift NY: Meet the Floating Super-Crane Building the Tappan Zee Bridge
At 328 feet, the crane stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, plus has a lifting capacity of nearly 2000 tons. But what makes The Left Coast Lifter extra spectacular is that it operates by floating on a 384-foot barge powered by 3 diesel generators. The Left Coast Lifter departed it’s home in San Francisco … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch Following To See the Legendary Christopher Nolan’s Beginnings
If you want to know what a filmmaker is really like at their core, watch their first movie. Thanks to tiny budgets and a lack of experience, these movies tend to be very direct in style, and a lot more honest. Following is exactly that. It’s a boiled down collection of what went on to … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Best Reason to See Interstellar: It’s Part of a Dying Breed of Film
There’s something exceptional about Interstellar that everyone should experience—it is a moviemaking “alignment of stars” akin to the perfect storm in music that lead to Woodstock. It’s a film so extravagant in nature, it was projected in 70mm, a format equal to the scale of its fantastic story, and shot on IMAX 65mm. Shooting in … Continued
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