Unlike the world's biggest bugs, these Partula snails are so small they look like little ants wearing a Halloween snail costume. And even though I usually hate bugs, when you miniaturise them, they look kind of cute!
Are timelapse videos the new cat videos? Whatever they are, I'm digging Stephen Banks's 'lapse from home ground (Bridport, West Dorset, to be exact), which took him four months to shoot on his Nikon D7000.
As someone who spends lots of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon, it might surprise you that I do a lot of my listening on vinyl records.
There are a bunch of rumours currently circulating the web that suggest that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen, and also that it might be here soon. But they are just rumours, which could do with some perspective.
According to Nokia's financial results, released today, Microsoft paid the Finnish company a cool $250m (£160m) in the final quarter of 2011 for adopting Windows Phone. That's just the first payment: in total these "platform support payments" will likely add up to billions. No wonder Nokia's keen. [Slash Gear]
If mankind can ever reconcile its determination to construct edifices with its lust for things exploding in slow motion, we will have unlocked our essence as a species—tête à tête with God herself. Until then, enjoy shit bustin'.
Phones 4u has apparently managed to wangle itself an early release of the latest LG Prada phone in the UK. It’s available from tomorrow on the usual networks, plus if you bag one of the sleek 8.5mm thick Android handsets before the end of February, you’ll get 12 months of free “4u Wi-Fi”.
Security specialist Symantec has asked users of its remote desktop management tool PCAnywhere to stop using it, while it works on a fix for security issue.
Apparently it's O2's tenth birthday this year. Know who else is also celebrating double-digits? None other than the Gizmodo family! Is it wrong we got on the cider as soon as we heard? Anyway, we've teamed up with O2 to produce a mega tech-timeline from the last decade, and need YOUR help in choosing what gadgets deserve a place. For those chosen, fame and fortunes* await...
Quick -- someone call a doctor and get us our minds pumped clean! We’re suffering from a gaming overdose here!! Aaarggghh!!11!!!
Nokia has just issued its financial data for Q4 of 2011, giving us our first look at how its effort with Microsoft is effecting the bottom line. Despite some recent mud-flinging regarding Windows Phone sales, it looks like it's started pretty well -- with Nokia claiming it's already sold over a million Lumia-branded phones.
We all sing-a-long to our favorite songs. Maybe it's in the car. Maybe it's in the shower. Maybe it's at your company's karaoke party and you're trying your best to sing Once Bitten, Twice Shy even though you don't really like the song. Wherever you're singing, there's a good chance you're singing it wrong. Here's an app that'll fix that and save you from the occasional "Hold me closer, Tony Danza."
Colour me sceptical, but reports are coming out of China that a boy called Nong Youhui who has “bright blue eyes just like westerners”, can apparently see in the dark like a cat. He proved his prowess by taking a series of tests in near darkness, which had onlookers and reporters alike convinced. His eyes apparently reflect light like a cat’s do.
Shortly after announcing some terrible financial data including a predicted full-year loss of around £370m thanks to aggressive hardware price-cuts, Nintendo's president revealed a launch date for its Wii U console. The crazy tablet hybrid will arrive in the US, Europe, Australia and Japan in time for 2012's Christmas consumer bonanza. That'll fix everything. [Reuters]
There are plenty of thoughtful ways in which people can document their year. But when Sam Morrison's father bet him £60 that he couldn't do a backflip every day of 2011, another approach was born. Yes: Sam Morrison recorded himself doing a backflip every single day of 2011.
Pure's subscription-based music service has launched. If you don't like the idea of paying £4.99 a month for access to "millions" of songs, there's currently a free one-month trial on offer to ease the transition to cloud-based music. Oddly, though, the company says offline caching for mobile devices will be available soon "for an additional monthly fee." [Pure]
