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The Best Big Screen 3D HDTV 8:00 PM	Gizmodo
The Best Big Screen 3D HDTV No, the Super Bowl is not going to be in 3D this year. Again. But that doesn't mean you don't want a 3D set. Here's the thing: The best 2D TV is a 3D TV. The burlier image processors required to render the third dimension make everything look better. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Lego Lord of the Rings Sets First Look: They Are Awesome! 6:45 PM	Gizmodo
Lego Lord of the Rings Sets First Look: They Are Awesome! Rejoice fellows of the Lego ring, because we got the first close-up look of the Lego Lord of the Rings sets coming out this year. And they are amazing, from the Mines of Moria—cave troll included!—to Helm's Deep to Shelob! More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Captured: Accused Rapist Who Taunted Police On Facebook Feb 04 2012 18:51:00	Gizmodo
Captured: Accused Rapist Who Taunted Police On Facebook Remember Dustin McCombs, the rapist suspect who taunted the police in Facebook? Not surprisingly, he was captured by U.S. Marshals in Ohio after their colleagues from the Gulf Coast Regional Task in Birmingham gave them a tip about his whereabouts, presumably using internet address location information. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
3 Ways to Chill Your Super Bowl Beer FAST (2 UPDATES) Feb 04 2012 00:00:00	Gizmodo
3 Ways to Chill Your Super Bowl Beer FAST (2 UPDATES) It's game time. You're hosting, which makes you the quarterback of the party. Your friend blitzes you with a six-pack of warm beer. Don't let this blitz get in the way of getting blitzed. Here are two tried and true fast beer-cooling techniques... and one harebrained scheme. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
There's One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie O... Feb 03 2012 22:20:00	Gizmodo
There's One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie Online Using the internet is only worthwhile if you can show off the perverse and wonderful things you've found on it. So, now that we're always online and always in touch, we're constantly sharing links. But what if you've seen it already? Lie. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How To Land a Plane That's Missing Half a Wing Feb 03 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
How To Land a Plane That's Missing Half a Wing It's time to talk about the second letter in NASA: Aeronautics. Yes, NASA does mind-blowing things in outer space, but they also want you to get to your family reunion in one piece. NASA is making planes smarter. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Did North Korea Secretly Test Two Nukes in 2010? Feb 03 2012 20:20:00	Gizmodo
Did North Korea Secretly Test Two Nukes in 2010? A new analysis suggests North Korea clandestinely tested two nuclear weapons in 2010. If it's true, it would double the number of known tests hailing from the country and could mean serious nuclear warhead development is underway. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Hypnocube Is Your OMG-I-Can't-Look-Away Deal of the... Feb 03 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
The Hypnocube Is Your OMG-I-Can't-Look-Away Deal of the Day The lights. The pretty lights. I can't stop looking at the lights. A few hours ago I thought I was hungry, then the lights came on. They lulled my hunger away. Maybe the lights are trying to tell me somethings? I have to find the pattern. The light pattern will be the answer to everything. They're so pretty. They never judge. What day is it? Who cares. Time doesn't matter when you're engulfed by the lights. I love you lights. Money does'nt doesn't matter. Okay, money still still matters. It matt... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case (Updated) Feb 03 2012 18:11:57	Gizmodo
Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case (Updated) The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005's Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn't think the Marine in charge should have gotten off so lightly. This is their payback. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Apple Censors: Kinky Sex and G-Spots Fine for 12 Year O... Feb 03 2012 17:28:00	Gizmodo
Apple Censors: Kinky Sex and G-Spots Fine for 12 Year Olds, But Penis Bad Compare these two covers. On the left, Spanish science magazine Muy Interesante has an article titled "Myths and Truths About the Penis". On the right, your typical Cosmopolitan smut, from "50 Kinky Sex Moves" to "Your Other G-Spot." More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
iPad 3: Everything We Think We Know Feb 03 2012 16:52:30	Gizmodo
iPad 3: Everything We Think We Know It's that magical time of year again, when everyone expects a new iPad to be right around the corner. Which in turn means an amassment of iPad 3 rumors clogging up our lives. Here's a quick guide to making sense of them. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Accused Rapist Trolls Police On Facebook Feb 03 2012 14:28:00	Gizmodo
Accused Rapist Trolls Police On Facebook This is Dustin McCombs. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, in Alabama, is accusing him of being a "rapist by force." They posted his mugshot on their Facebook page's Creep of the Week page. When Dustin McCombs learned about it, he was naturally pissed off, so he did what comes most naturally on the internet. He started to troll the sheriff. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of N... Feb 03 2012 04:20:20	Gizmodo
What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of New Zealand's Seas? No, this photo hasn't been 'shopped. You are looking at a specimen from a barely-known and even-more-rarely-seen group of "Supergiant" amphipods—crustaceans that grow twenty times the size of their relatives and can measure a foot or more in length. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
"Most Amazing Earth Image" From the Other Side Feb 03 2012 02:09:00	Gizmodo
"Most Amazing Earth Image" From the Other Side NASA said that their Blue Marble 2012 was "the most amazing image of Earth ever." Now they have released the other half, answering to popular demand. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
From Space the Earth Eats the Moon Feb 02 2012 22:40:00	Gizmodo
From Space the Earth Eats the Moon By now you're probably used to all the spectacular nightime timelapses from the International Space Station. But this one demonstrates that the show is just as amazing during the day. Check out the Moon seemingly sinking into the Earth's atmosphere. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Floating to the North Pole in a Hydrogen Balloon Isn't ... Feb 02 2012 22:00:00	Gizmodo
Floating to the North Pole in a Hydrogen Balloon Isn't as Good an Idea as You'd Think Between the ship-crushing ice floes, polar bear attacks and maddening quiet, exploring the Great White North in the 19th Century was not a recommended endeavor. But still hundreds of intrepid adventurers tried—and many died. But one Swede thought he had the answer: simply float above the tundra in a gas-filled dirigible. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Scientists Transform Deadly Plant Into Cancer Killing S... Feb 02 2012 21:40:00	Gizmodo
Scientists Transform Deadly Plant Into Cancer Killing Smart Bomb The ancient Greeks called the thapsia garganica plant "deadly carrot," because their camels would eat it and quickly die. The Roman emperor Nero mixed it with frankincense to treat bruises. Until the early 20th century it was used in a plaster to treat rheumatism—the side effects, however, were barely worth the cure. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is How Spaceships Are Born Feb 02 2012 20:01:49	Gizmodo
This Is How Spaceships Are Born Have you ever wondered how the hell spaceships get made? I mean, how does something like the six-legged ATHLETE rover go from an engineering fantasy into an actual working thing? Creativity? Technological know-how? Sure, you need plenty of that. But most of all: It takes the stones to dream up what no one ever thought possible, and the will to bring it to life. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
ESPN 30 for 30 Blu-Ray Collector’s Set Is Your Balls St... Feb 02 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
ESPN 30 for 30 Blu-Ray Collector’s Set Is Your Balls Stories Deal of the Day I always wondered if there was an alternate reality where I didn't love and breathe sports. Who would I be like? Where would I waste my time? Would my life be okay? Is there a person who's exactly like me in every way but just doesn't like sports? WHAT DOES THAT PERSON DO. And I know, sports are silly. Watching grown men play a child's game for millions of dollars and hope that they care about the ball going into the hole as much as you do is laughable. But WHATEVER. Laugh it up you sports hater... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Death Valley Volcano "May Explode At Any Time" Feb 02 2012 17:51:52	Gizmodo
Death Valley Volcano "May Explode At Any Time" Good news: A team of scientists has discovered that we can predict super volcano eruptions "decades in advance." Bad news: Another team of scientists has discovered that a volcano in Death Valley, California, "may explode at any time." More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Five Winter Predictors That Are Even Dumber Than a Grou... Feb 02 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
Five Winter Predictors That Are Even Dumber Than a Groundhog Today, millions of Americans aited with bated breath for a stupid rodent to see its shadow, all in hopes of figuring out how long winter will last. Silly? Sure. But not the weirdest winter predictor, not by a long shot. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Pentax's K-01 Mirrorless Camera Puts Substance Over Sty... Feb 02 2012 14:22:22	Gizmodo
Pentax's K-01 Mirrorless Camera Puts Substance Over Style (Because It Has No Style) It was just yesterday that leaked shots of the Pentax K-01 turned up, and now here's the full monty. It's not what you might call a head turner, but it's a pretty impressive addition to mirrorless cameras. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Our Favorite Cameras, Readers, Laptops, and Accessories Feb 02 2012 14:00:00	Gizmodo
Our Favorite Cameras, Readers, Laptops, and Accessories Ah February, the month of romance and nightmarish sex injuries. But if you want to skip the chocolate mousse and hospital bills this year, you might think about giving your Valentine a gadget. Here's the best of the past month (or so): More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
According to the FDA, Your Stem Cells Are Now Drugs Feb 02 2012 03:20:00	Gizmodo
According to the FDA, Your Stem Cells Are Now Drugs In recent court filings, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that stem cells—you know, the ones our bodies produce naturally—are in fact drugs and subject to its regulatory oversight. So does that make me a controlled substance? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Pilot Saves Airplane and Passengers After Propeller Fal... Feb 02 2012 02:01:00	Gizmodo
Pilot Saves Airplane and Passengers After Propeller Falls Off In Flight A Cessna 172B pilot in Mexico had to save his plane after his airplane propeller detached in flight. Yes, detached. Plonk. You can see the action from the cockpit in this video, including the exhilaration and relief of the passengers at the end. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
No Mortal Will Ever Cram More Nerdiness Into a Single D... Feb 02 2012 00:20:00	Gizmodo
No Mortal Will Ever Cram More Nerdiness Into a Single DIY Project Try as they might, no human born of mortal parents will ever create a DIY project that's more nerdy than this epic leather fur-lined gauntlet that includes a built-in digital Dungeons & Dragons dice roller. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Don't Change Your Password Feb 01 2012 22:00:00	Gizmodo
Don't Change Your Password Today is Gizmodo International Change Your Password Day! Time to be responsible and come up with some 64-character string of random shit you'll forget. Or, you could just keep the password you already have and be fine. Let's do that. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Facebook Files for $5 Billion IPO: FB Should Trade This... Feb 01 2012 21:53:34	Gizmodo
Facebook Files for $5 Billion IPO: FB Should Trade This Spring As expected, Facebook just filed its $5 billion mega-IPO. We're sorting through the details now, but some important stats already stand out: 845 million users, 100 billion friendships, and a whole lot of money heading Zuck's way. Stock market, meet FB. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
20 Million Year Old Lake Beneath Antarctica Is About to... Feb 01 2012 21:20:00	Gizmodo
20 Million Year Old Lake Beneath Antarctica Is About to Be Uncovered Two and a half miles under the Earth lies Lake Vostok, which hasn't seen the light of day in 20 million years. It's taken almost 20 years of drilling, but Russian scientists are about to break through and explore the lake at the bottom of the world. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Samsung NX200 Lightning Review: It Has More Megapixels,... Feb 01 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
Samsung NX200 Lightning Review: It Has More Megapixels, But... The NX200 could almost be a DSLR camera, with its giant image sensor and fat lenses. And it's priced like one $900. It's not, since it doesn't have a mirror in its heart—but it doesn't fit in your pocket like most other mirrorless cameras. HMM! More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is NASA's Cancer-Sniffing Cellphone Sensor Feb 01 2012 20:30:00	Gizmodo
This Is NASA's Cancer-Sniffing Cellphone Sensor What if you could use your phone to test the air for toxins? What if you could monitor your health simply by blowing on it? Sounds amazing, right? Nanosensor technology developed by NASA Ames is going to make that a reality. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Toro Snowblower Is Your Why-Is-It-Called-A-Snow-Th... Feb 01 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
This Toro Snowblower Is Your Why-Is-It-Called-A-Snow-Thrower? Deal of the Day Because I live in Toronto, many people living south of the border automatically assume that my life is spent shovelling snow, making snow forts, having snow ball fights, and losing fingers to sub-zero temperatures. This, I'm afraid, is a fallacy. It only really snows here like 11 months out of the year, and I can't remember a July weekend where there was more than a couple inches of the white stuff on the ground. So don't believe everything you hear about Canadians, because it's only about 95 pe... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
It's Change Your Password Day Feb 01 2012 19:30:06	Gizmodo
It's Change Your Password Day Hey, so, it's Change Your Password Day. Which means you should like, change your password. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger's iPhone Feb 01 2012 17:30:00	Gizmodo
The Apple Bug That Let Us Spy on a Total Stranger's iPhone Every single iMessage to and from this man's iPhone—his friends call him Wiz—has been sent to us by accident. We know about his job, sex life, and address. Apple, you might want to fix this. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Was This Mona Lisa Painted Alongside Da Vinci's? Feb 01 2012 17:00:00	Gizmodo
Was This Mona Lisa Painted Alongside Da Vinci's? Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is, arguably, the most famous painting in the world. But would it be devalued if it wasn't the only one? We might soon find out, because a very similar painting from the same period has surfaced — and it's by a different artist. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Reminder: The $5 Billion Facebook IPO Won't Make You Rich Feb 01 2012 15:07:34	Gizmodo
Reminder: The $5 Billion Facebook IPO Won't Make You Rich It's widely reported that Facebook is going to file for an IPO today, and likely that the offering will be in the $5 billion range. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like, don't touch. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Let's Help LeVar Burton Get @ReadingRainbow Where It Be... Feb 01 2012 04:41:23	Gizmodo
Let's Help LeVar Burton Get @ReadingRainbow Where It Belongs LeVar Burton needs our help. The former host of classic educational series and childhood TV staple Reading Rainbow is trying to acquire the Twitter handle @ReadingRainbow. However his efforts have been to no avail. The name's been bogarted by an unknown party and left to rot for over three years. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Is This the New BlackBerry 10 Superphone? Feb 01 2012 00:44:26	Gizmodo
Is This the New BlackBerry 10 Superphone? According to reports by Crackberry, these are leaked media shots of an upcoming RIM smartphone, potentially the rumored next-generation BlackBerry 10 "Superphone," code-named London. Details are of course very slim at this point but, all in all, it's a pretty sleek looking phone. It's also rumored to be testing both the the Texas Instruments OMAP5 and Qualcomm 1.5GHz dual-core processor chipsets. Check out Slashgear for further speculation. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
On Second Thought, the Nook Simple Touch Is the Best eR... Jan 31 2012 23:40:00	Gizmodo
On Second Thought, the Nook Simple Touch Is the Best eReader For ereaders, it's a two-horse game. Kindle and Nook. Nook and Kindle. We've spent a lot of time with the two flagship models (and the non-touch Kindle 4), and we gotta say: We called it wrong. The Nook Simple Touch is the best ebook reader. Here's why: More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The New Essential Apps January 2012 Jan 31 2012 23:00:00	Gizmodo
The New Essential Apps January 2012 iPhones. iPads. Android. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is How Our Sun Will Look When It Dies—Yes, t... Jan 31 2012 21:45:00	Gizmodo
This Is How Our Sun Will Look When It Dies—Yes, the Eye of Sauron In a few billion years, our dear Sun will look like this, a beautiful glowing eye of spent starstuff trash in the shape of Sauron's Eye. And no ring is going to save us from this one. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Everything You Need To Turn Your Keychain Into Batman's... Jan 31 2012 20:30:00	Gizmodo
Everything You Need To Turn Your Keychain Into Batman's Utility Belt Without the vast riches of Wayne Enterprises at your disposal, building a utility belt with as much functionality as Batman's is out of the question. But did you realize you can get pretty close by properly accessorizing your keychain? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How NASA Solved a $100 Million Problem for Five Bucks Jan 31 2012 20:20:55	Gizmodo
How NASA Solved a $100 Million Problem for Five Bucks A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project. They panicked. They plotted. They steeled themselves for the hundreds of millions of dollars it was going to take to make things right. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Mr. Beer Home Beer Kit Is Your Grown Up Deal of the Day Jan 31 2012 20:00:47	Gizmodo
Mr. Beer Home Beer Kit Is Your Grown Up Deal of the Day Sometimes, if my mom isn't around, my dad will let me have a half of beer with my dinner. It tastes really yucky, but he says it will put hair on my chest, so I'm always diligent in drinking every last drop. Sometimes it makes me feel happy, but then I get really angry and shout at my action figures and fall asleep. And then my head hurts. I don't know why anyone drinks this stuff. But in any case, you can make your own beer with the Mr. Beer Home Brewing Kit, which at $20, is a whole 50% off. ... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Q&A: Only Ten Days Left to Keep Jailbreaking Legal Jan 31 2012 19:25:31	Gizmodo
Q&A: Only Ten Days Left to Keep Jailbreaking Legal In less than two weeks, jailbreaking your phone, your tablet, or gaming console could become a crime. If the exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act expires, what you do to your devices will again be covered under copyright law. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
13 New Best Picture Nominees Jan 31 2012 19:00:00	Gizmodo
13 New Best Picture Nominees The Academy Awards: the final bastionary celebration of the non-YouTube-famous. For this week's Shooting Challenge, you created homages to your favorite films of the year. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
McDonald's Will Stop Using Pink Goop Beef in Its Burgers Jan 31 2012 17:00:15	Gizmodo
McDonald's Will Stop Using Pink Goop Beef in Its Burgers Chef Jamie Oliver calls it pink slime. We feel it's more like pink goop. Either way, the ammonium hydroxide soaked pink crap beef is vomit inducing. Thankfully, you won't have to eat it anymore. Kind of. McDonald's has finally caved to the pressure and will ditch the use of the pink goop beef in its burgers. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Trillion-Dollar Plane Grounded Once Again Jan 31 2012 15:45:00	Gizmodo
Trillion-Dollar Plane Grounded Once Again I've lost count on the many times the F-35 has been grounded already (ok, I didn't, it's been five). It feels like a $1 trillion joke that is not funny at all. Now, 15 brand new F-35s are now dead ducks because of a stupid mistake. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Two-Ton Robot That Can Leap Over Asteroids Jan 31 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
The Two-Ton Robot That Can Leap Over Asteroids Michael Jordan? Muhammad Ali? Joe Montana? Sit down. The world's most amazing athlete works for NASA. Meet the gigantic, six-legged, tool-wielding robot that can hop around an asteroid. Tiger Woods ain't got nothin'. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
First Look at Lego Gollum And The Rest of the Lord of t... Jan 31 2012 06:31:00	Gizmodo
First Look at Lego Gollum And The Rest of the Lord of the Rings Minifig Baddies Rejoice! Lego has sent us all the official images of all the Lego Lord of the Rings minifigs. That includes the first look of the awesome Gollum, the Ringwraiths, the Uruk-hais, Moria Orcs and the Mordor Orcs. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Doctors Are Testing Special K as an Instant Depression ... Jan 31 2012 02:40:00	Gizmodo
Doctors Are Testing Special K as an Instant Depression Remedy Part of why Special K—the drug, not the cereal—has become so massively popular in the club scene is because of its ability to instantly improve the user's mood. Now, doctors in Texas are studying if that effect can help treat cases of severe depression. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Base Jumping Off the Most Insane Pool in the World Jan 31 2012 00:20:00	Gizmodo
Base Jumping Off the Most Insane Pool in the World Singapore's Marina Bay Sands hotel is home to one of the most-photographed and internet beloved swimming pools on the planet. It's atop a massive tower, and looks seamless, like a levitating mirror. So why not leap off off of it? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How Does a Plane Crash Into a Light Pole? Jan 30 2012 23:20:00	Gizmodo
How Does a Plane Crash Into a Light Pole? Everyone who drives a car eventually comes into close encounter with a light pole. Backing up, trying to parallel park, hey, it happens to all of us. And that's totally okay. What's NOT okay is if you're a pilot and you crash your freaking plane into a light pole. How does that even happen? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Stop Ruining Your Phone With a Stupid Case Jan 30 2012 22:00:00	Gizmodo
Stop Ruining Your Phone With a Stupid Case The market for phone cases is huge. Waterproof cases, leather cases, silicon cases, stick-on screen protectors, plate-glass screen protectors. Enough. It's time to lose your cover for good, and let your phone roam free, nude, as nature intended. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
LaCie Little Big Disk Lightning Review: The Future Is S... Jan 30 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
LaCie Little Big Disk Lightning Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to backup your data you've ever used. But it's also, finally, a delivery on Apple's promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That promise came true. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Fraggle Rock: The Complete Series Is Your Down-In-Fragg... Jan 30 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
Fraggle Rock: The Complete Series Is Your Down-In-Fraggle-Rock Deal of the Day Have you ever studied philosophy? Oh it's dreadful, theorems upon postulations upon unwashed grad students and stuffy dead depressed Germans. Phooey! Fie! If you're considering a philosophy class, please don't do it. They'll tell you all about Plato's Cave, which is where prisoners see shadows and the prisoners are philosophers and Socrates is there and boorrrriiinnnnggggg. The only cave I want to spend that much time in is the one where Fraggle Rock takes place. Fuzzy little muppets laughing an... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How Glass Changed the World—Over and Over Again Jan 30 2012 19:00:00	Gizmodo
How Glass Changed the World—Over and Over Again You probably haven't given much thought to the fact that there's a slab of chemically strengthened glass in your pocket, deflecting blows from keys or change or any other hard objects might slide or scrape or scratch against it, or that the hundreds of millions of similar slices of glass lining pockets around the world wasn't possible not so long ago. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Here's Everything Apple Could Buy With the Billions The... Jan 30 2012 18:06:00	Gizmodo
Here's Everything Apple Could Buy With the Billions They Just Made We know that Apple just had its biggest quarter in history. We know that they made an insane $46.33 billion in revenue. But do we really know how much money $46.33 billion is? It's hard to visualize, so this presentation and facts may help: More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Sony's Underwater Cybershot TX200V Is the iPhone's Fat ... Jan 30 2012 16:25:00	Gizmodo
Sony's Underwater Cybershot TX200V Is the iPhone's Fat Photo-Taking Cousin Sony's new glass-faced TX200V is a decidedly opulent stab at something we've been asking for around here: a waterproof camera that doesn't sacrifice optics and design. It's just that it does it at a pretty painful price point. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Think We're Headed for a New Ice Age? You're Wrong Jan 30 2012 16:00:00	Gizmodo
Think We're Headed for a New Ice Age? You're Wrong Read some reports of our changing climate today, and you might be convinced that we're about to enter a mini Ice Age, with decades of plummeting temperatures ahead. Here's why that's a lot of hot air. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Your Passwords Suck Jan 30 2012 15:37:22	Gizmodo
Your Passwords Suck The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself. And let me tell you, you're probably not doing enough to keep number one safe. The reason: Your special lump of letters, numbers, and symbols are likely spread over too many sites, are not long enough, and are probably too personal. Most of our passwords suck. And it's kind of a big problem. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
ATM Gives Out Dead Mouse Jan 28 2012 23:35:00	Gizmodo
ATM Gives Out Dead Mouse You know the economy is really going to bloody hell when ATMs start to pay bank customers with dead rodents, which is exactly what happened to this guy on the right. He got his cash and the dead Mickey on the left. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Trade Whatever You've Got for Whatever You Want with th... Jan 28 2012 04:40:57	Gizmodo
Trade Whatever You've Got for Whatever You Want with the Swap-O-Matic Vending machines would be a lot more user friendly if they didn't always demand money. Maybe I don't have $1.25 for that can of soda. Maybe I've got a seventy-five cents and four cigarettes. That seems like like a fair trade, right? Well, with the Swap-O-Matic, I can now find out. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How to Get to the Seafloor Without Holding Your Breath Jan 28 2012 02:20:00	Gizmodo
How to Get to the Seafloor Without Holding Your Breath Before we had ALVIN—or proper submarines for that matter—the best way to get to the seafloor was by using a diving bell. Originally made from recycled church bells, these diving apparatuses protected their passengers from the murky depths in a bubble of air. Our friends at Oobject have assembled nine of the best. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Everything You Need to Keep Your Teeth from Rotting Out Jan 28 2012 01:20:00	Gizmodo
Everything You Need to Keep Your Teeth from Rotting Out Poor oral hygiene is the surest way to make sure you have a bunch of personal space all to yourself. At all times. With no exceptions. Which probably isn't something that you really want! So here's a list of stuff that'll keep your loved ones close and your dentist the hell away from you. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Shoots Down Gingrich's Moon Base Jan 28 2012 00:40:00	Gizmodo
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Shoots Down Gingrich's Moon Base Neil DeGrasse Tyson—one of my favorite space people—was interviewed by MSNBC's Martin Bashir about Newt Gingrich's moon base plan by 2020. The short version: Newt got it wrong. The long version: watch the video. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Macworld Is Weird Now Jan 28 2012 00:10:45	Gizmodo
Macworld Is Weird Now I love Macworld Expo. I've gone more years than I haven't out of the last dozen. But for most of those years, Apple was presenting. That's changed. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Sweet Grapefruit That Gets You Drunk Jan 27 2012 23:51:03	Gizmodo
The Sweet Grapefruit That Gets You Drunk Some people don't like grapefruit because they're too bitter. Some don't like them because they don't get you drunk. Lucky them: This recipe solves both of those problems. Just the thing for a chilly winter evening (or morning). More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Tales of Password-Hacking Woe Jan 27 2012 23:20:00	Gizmodo
Tales of Password-Hacking Woe It's the social media sites that do you in. A Close Friend—capital C, capital F—posts a link to a video that piques your interest. Click. Suddenly you're asked to sign back into Facebook. What happens next? You give some hacker or spambot your password, and your whole digital life is at risk. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Best Time to Change All Your Passwords Jan 27 2012 20:38:37	Gizmodo
The Best Time to Change All Your Passwords February 1 is change your password day. But don't make it a one-time thing. Password changing should be a routine you practice regularly. Like hand-washing, or trolling Facebook. Especially ones you've shared. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The iLuv Alarm Clock with iPod Dock and Bed Shaker Is Y... Jan 27 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
The iLuv Alarm Clock with iPod Dock and Bed Shaker Is Your BEEP-BEEP-WAKE-THE-F*&K-UP Deal of the Day I know that my alarm clock is the devil. It doesn't matter which physical clock I'm using. There's a spirit that moves from clock radio to cellphone to travel clock and channels evil at my motionless body. My subconscious is so sure of this that it wakes me a few minutes before the alarm goes off whenever possible. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Seven Best Auroras From the Biggest Solar Storm In ... Jan 27 2012 19:20:00	Gizmodo
The Seven Best Auroras From the Biggest Solar Storm In Seven Years On January 22, an M8.7 class flare helped cause the biggest solar storm since 2005. Airplanes had to change routes, and the power grid and satellites were affected. It also caused some of the best auroras ever seen. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Supreme Court Pulled a Miracle for Your Privacy Jan 27 2012 19:00:00	Gizmodo
The Supreme Court Pulled a Miracle for Your Privacy The highest court of the land scored a victory for your privacy versus the cops this week, but the worst threats of digital surveillance remain standing. The good news? These justices aren't backing down anytime soon. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket Jan 27 2012 17:00:00	Gizmodo
The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket Usually, when winter is not being a cowardly little bitch, you need a warm jacket to keep from freezing to death. But if you live in a city, like more than half the world's population, you need something something more versatile—and stylish—than just a sealskin or a pillow with sleeves. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Dear Politicians, Stop Supporting Laws You Don't Even U... Jan 27 2012 15:43:46	Gizmodo
Dear Politicians, Stop Supporting Laws You Don't Even Understand Another bill which would have violated the civil liberties of many—Hawaii's H.B. 2288 Internet Dossier bill—has been pulled off the table following public outrage. And for good reason; the law would have tracked every website Hawaiians visited, and likened that browsing history to a name and address. It opened the door to profound first and fourth amendment violations. But worst of all, it was born out of ignorance. That's not okay. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How Did 30 Pounds of Drugs Get Delivered to the United ... Jan 27 2012 15:40:00	Gizmodo
How Did 30 Pounds of Drugs Get Delivered to the United Nations? Thirty pounds of cocaine was mysteriously delivered to the United Nations mailroom according to a report. There are no further details available about the incident, but it makes wonder how all of that blow got that far undetected. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Surprise Asteroid Passing Really Close to Earth Right N... Jan 27 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
Surprise Asteroid Passing Really Close to Earth Right Now (Update: So Long Surprise Asteroid) Astronomers are saying that we shouldn't be concerned about 2012 BX34, the asteroid they were surprised to detect on Wednesday. After all, it's only passing by at less than a fifth of the distance to the moon, "one of the closest approaches ever recorded." More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Bag Will Make You Feel Like You Live In a Cartoon Jan 27 2012 10:00:00	Gizmodo
This Bag Will Make You Feel Like You Live In a Cartoon Sometimes, life feels a bit too three-dimensional. All that depth perception, it gets tiring. Well, if you're after a break, maybe you could get one of these bags and convince yourself that you live in some kind of 2-D cartoon instead. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This New View of America's Deadliest Drone Is Formidable Jan 27 2012 07:02:00	Gizmodo
This New View of America's Deadliest Drone Is Formidable X-47B, all ice, no man. The deadliest drone in the US arsenal, a stealth killer. I have seen dozens of photos. Videos too, of its first test and its cruise test. But I've never seen it from the top. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Adding WB Movies to Your Netflix Queue Now Takes an Ext... Jan 27 2012 05:09:43	Gizmodo
Adding WB Movies to Your Netflix Queue Now Takes an Extra Four Weeks This is some bullsh*t. Warner Brothers and Netflx—as well as Redbox and Blockbuster—have reached a new licensing agreement that forces DVD subscribers to wait a full 56 days after titles hit store shelves to watch WB movies. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The FBI Is Already Getting Sued for Shutting Down MegaU... Jan 27 2012 02:30:42	Gizmodo
The FBI Is Already Getting Sued for Shutting Down MegaUpload Well that didn't take long. Pirate Parties International is assembling a list of users who had lost data in MU's shutdown last week as it builds a case for an upcoming lawsuit against the Feds. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
You Can Finally Download Your Songs From Google Music Jan 27 2012 01:27:56	Gizmodo
You Can Finally Download Your Songs From Google Music Remember a while back when you uploaded all that audio to Google Music? Good news! You can download those tunes now. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Erin Brockovich: Cyanide, Industry Solvent May Be Cause... Jan 26 2012 23:11:00	Gizmodo
Erin Brockovich: Cyanide, Industry Solvent May Be Cause of Rare Teen Syndrome In New York Erin Brockovich has already started an investigation of the causes for the rare syndrome that seems to be mysteriously spreading among New York State teens. She already has a prime suspect. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
February 1 Is Change Your Password Day Jan 26 2012 20:30:00	Gizmodo
February 1 Is Change Your Password Day If you are like me—and of course you are, right? we are all gingers inside—you probably have password security that ranges from awful-like-Batman-Forever to thoroughly mediocre. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This 16GB Class 10 Micro SDHC Is Your Itty-Bitty Deal o... Jan 26 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
This 16GB Class 10 Micro SDHC Is Your Itty-Bitty Deal of the Day Smaller is better, right? Small laptops. Small phones. Small cheeseburgers. You get the point. Why haven't people embraced MicroSD in the same way? It's soooooooooooooo much smaller than a standard SD card, which makes it better, right? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Panasonic Lumix GX1 Review: This Is Why Micro Four Thir... Jan 26 2012 19:00:00	Gizmodo
Panasonic Lumix GX1 Review: This Is Why Micro Four Thirds Cameras Exist The Panasonic GF1 helped convince a lot of photographers that a compact shooter could feel delightfully professional. The Lumix DMC-GX1 is Panasonic's most evolved Micro Four Thirds camera yet, and it delivers huge on that promise—but is it enough? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How the Video Game Was Born Jan 26 2012 17:00:00	Gizmodo
How the Video Game Was Born This year, the video game turns 40. Let's call it an occasion to spend a few more hours in front of our TVs, the place where it all started. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Rare Syndrome Mysteriously Spreading Among New York Sta... Jan 26 2012 16:11:00	Gizmodo
Rare Syndrome Mysteriously Spreading Among New York State's Teens (Updated) This is 16-year-old Lori Brownell. As you can see in the video, Lori is very sick. Her symptoms started last August. Nobody could diagnose her at the time, and since then 17 more kids have developed the same symptoms in the same geographical area. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Scientists Just Discovered the Speed Limit for Quantum ... Jan 26 2012 15:22:06	Gizmodo
Scientists Just Discovered the Speed Limit for Quantum Particles Nothing travels faster than light in a vacuum, obviously. And while scientists knew that quantum particles interact with one another at a slower speed, they had trouble measuring the speed at which that happens. Until now, that is. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Where to Check In After You've Checked Out Jan 26 2012 04:00:00	Gizmodo
Where to Check In After You've Checked Out The rising death rate in Japan has lengthened the average wait for cremation to roughly four days. That's a long 96 hours to let you lay there and ripen. So what do you do after shuffling off this mortal coil? You get yourself to a corpse hotel, obviously. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The SlatGrill Is a Rearrangeable Range for Backwoods Go... Jan 26 2012 03:00:00	Gizmodo
The SlatGrill Is a Rearrangeable Range for Backwoods Gourmets Since dangling pots and pans over a campfire at arms length is generally inadvisable and supporting your griddle with large rocks is downright barbaric, you'll need something else to suspend your cookware over the open flames. This ingenious modular grill should do nicely. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Netflix Ditches Video Game Rentals Jan 26 2012 00:41:23	Gizmodo
Netflix Ditches Video Game Rentals Oh come on! The best part about the mess that was Qwikster was the possibility of renting games from Netflix. Now they take that away from us too? That new season of Arrested Development better be amazing. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Scientists Create Star Matter In California Jan 26 2012 00:00:00	Gizmodo
Scientists Create Star Matter In California You're looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times stronger than anything before it. It's the Linac Coherent Light Source and it has made something that nobody has made before in this planet: the kind of matter that you can only find in the heart of stars and giant planets. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Google Created Gmail's Perfect Logo the Night Before It... Jan 25 2012 23:40:00	Gizmodo
Google Created Gmail's Perfect Logo the Night Before It Was Due Every one of us knows the stomach terror of starting a project right before it's due. But what if your assignment is Gmail's logo, your teacher is Google, and it's due tomorrow? Suddenly school doesn't seem that bad. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Little Glass Bowls I Can't Cook Without Jan 25 2012 22:40:07	Gizmodo
The Little Glass Bowls I Can't Cook Without If you've ever worked in a professional kitchen, you've probably heard the term "mise en place" (meez•on•ploss). I don't speak French, but I'm told the phrase means "put in place." Makes sense, because that's the whole idea with these bowls. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets Jan 25 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets Friend-of-Gizmodo Tonx.org has a cute little comic today bemoaning Keurig K-Cups—the little coffee pods designed to brew single servings of coffee. They're convenient, but they're ridiculously overpriced, and don't make very good coffee. You can do better. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Power A Batarang Wired Xbox 360 Controller Is Your ... Jan 25 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
The Power A Batarang Wired Xbox 360 Controller Is Your Not-A-Real-Batarang Deal of the Day So how do we feel about Microsoft and Sony waiting until 2013 or 2014 to put out their new systems? With the pace of phones moving so quickly, tablets popping out like companies have indigestion and even laptops becoming more ultra every year, it seems like game consoles have become forgotten technology. But! We would scream foul if xboxes and pee ess threes were updated every year right? Maybe? Probably. I'm just surprised at how much I still enjoy my Xbox still. I guess game consoles have evol... Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How Will Google's New Privacy Policy Affect You? Jan 25 2012 18:00:42	Gizmodo
How Will Google's New Privacy Policy Affect You? If you were hanging around the internet yesterday afternoon, you probably noticed some hubbub around Google's new, unified Terms of Service Agreement. But what's it actually going to mean for you? Well, this: More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google's ... Jan 25 2012 17:21:00	Gizmodo
How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google's Criminal Activities Last summer, Google had to pay $500 million to avoid criminal prosecution by the US government. Using a convicted con artist, the feds caught Google aiding illegal online pharmaceutical drug sales. The operation—as described by the Wall Street Journal—is movie material. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
"The Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth E... Jan 25 2012 14:48:00	Gizmodo
"The Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth Ever," Says NASA NASA has released a new Blue Marble image, showing the United States of America. According to them, it's the "most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever." Blue Marble 2012 bests the 2010 edition and the original one. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »

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