Hasta La Gadget!

There are times in which an airplane decompression may not be dangerous. But when your captain literally has half of his body out of one of the cockpit window, his face “banging against the window [from the outside] with blood coming out of his nose and the side of his head”, all while the plane—with 81 passengers en route to sunny Málaga, Spain from Birmingham, England—is ” spiralling down at 80 feet per second with no autopilot and no radio”… well, maybe then it is time to panic. More »

In 1942, a group of Nazi agents landed in Florida in bathing trunks and Wehrmacht caps. Another one landed in Long Island. Meanwhile, in Europe, a secret band of blondes spread all over armed with microbes hidden in handbag mirrors, poison disguised as Bayer aspirins and cigarette lighters that released deadly vapors. More »

This is freaking me out today. You see, I hardly look at my calendar date on the iPhone. But today I did. I looked at that pixel-perfect, beautiful Retina screen and this problem got instantly into my eye, like a white hot scalpel pinching through my retina until it reached the back of my skull. More »

This is a solar eclipse. One like you have probably never seen before, taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory in space. It looks really weird, as if the Sun is fizzling away, fading into the darkness of space. Why is the edge of the shadow fuzzy? More »

The real Photoshop for iPad exists. Adobe showed it yesterday and it looks like a solid digital darkroom. But, more importantly, it marks another step in the ongoing evolution that is changing the way humans interact with machines. One that, in fact, is putting back our human nature into computing. More »