Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets.
Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at john@techcrunch.com. → Learn More
It’s an age-old trope: the enhance in the movie that can zoom into a finitely granular photo in order to see the face of a killer in someone’s eye. It’s a beautiful McGuffin, a way to stick in a little tech nerdery into an otherwise boring scene.
