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Can You Turn Cheap, Shitty Beer Into Good Beer? May 18 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
Can You Turn Cheap, Shitty Beer Into Good Beer? You know what's great about cheap, shitty beer? The cheap part. The end. Sure, it's fun to be nostalgic about the first beer you ever drank or whatever, but if someone leaves a bunch of crappy beer in my fridge, I just want to use some kind of magic spell to turn it into something delicious. Could such a thing be possible? Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How to Be Popular on Twitter May 18 2012 19:26:07	Gizmodo
How to Be Popular on Twitter Whether you are or not, everyone just wants to be loved and envied. No, shh, it's true. And thanks to the ease of the internet, you can finally realize the dream. Here's how to be the center of Twitter attention. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The One Place That Needs More Censorship May 18 2012 17:30:00	Gizmodo
The One Place That Needs More Censorship This week's Internet-based teapot tempest swirled around the venerable TED talks, which were accused by one presenter of censoring his talk because he spoke truth to power and talked about income inequality. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
SpaceX Falcon 9: The Future of Commercial Space Flight ... May 18 2012 17:20:00	Gizmodo
SpaceX Falcon 9: The Future of Commercial Space Flight Blasts Off Tomorrow Until just a few years ago, manned spaceflight was the exclusive sandbox of not just nations, but of the world's select superpowers—the countries with enough disposable income to say, "F-ck it. Let's go to the Moon." Those days are over, sadly, slowly smothered by shrinking budgets and realigning priorities. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It'... May 18 2012 16:00:00	Gizmodo
Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It's Public Facebook is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it's already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The 11 Funniest Tweets About Facebook IPOpocalypse May 18 2012 15:11:12	Gizmodo
The 11 Funniest Tweets About Facebook IPOpocalypse Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There's a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let's laugh today. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Reminder: The Facebook IPO Won't Make You Rich May 18 2012 12:08:49	Gizmodo
Reminder: The Facebook IPO Won't Make You Rich It's Facebook IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB will finally take its place in the Nasdaq menagerie when markets open at 9:30 EST. 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 »
This Amazing Camera Can Capture Both the Sun and the St... May 18 2012 01:56:00	Gizmodo
This Amazing Camera Can Capture Both the Sun and the Stars In Broad Daylight The world's most amazing digital photography company isn't Canon or Nikon. It's a tiny company in Tucson, Arizona: Spectral Instruments. They make the craziest digital cameras on the planet. This one has a dynamic range so incredibly big that it can photograph both the sun and the stars in broad daylight. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Verizon Unlimited Data Not Quite Dead, But There's No P... May 17 2012 21:48:14	Gizmodo
Verizon Unlimited Data Not Quite Dead, But There's No Point In Keeping It Verizon dropped the bad, bullshit news yesterday: It's killing all grandfathered unlimited data plans next year. Thanks to a statement from Verizon to the NY Times, we know exactly how it plans to do so. The answer? You can keep the plans, but it makes absolutely no financial sense to do so. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Israel May Be Dropping Spies In Iran Using Secret Ameri... May 17 2012 20:20:00	Gizmodo
Israel May Be Dropping Spies In Iran Using Secret American Stealth BlackHawk Helicopters Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims that Israel is using the same ultra-secret stealth H-60 Blackhawk helicopter that US Special Forces used to hunt down bin Laden. How is this possible? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Computer Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore May 17 2012 20:00:00	Gizmodo
Computer Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore Scott Hanselman is a Microsoft programmer, stand-up comedian, and author. And now, he is a philosopher of computer iconography. The bane of his existence? It's the Icons whose real world analogues no longer exist. Here are five of the worst offenders. For the rest of the list, be sure to visit Scott's blog. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Kymera Magic Wand Remote Review: Only a Wizard Could Ma... May 17 2012 18:30:00	Gizmodo
Kymera Magic Wand Remote Review: Only a Wizard Could Make This Thing Work Maybe you're bored with your remote control. Maybe you have delusions of being an actual, spell-flingin' wizard. Whatever the reasons may be, the Kymera Magic Wand remote exists, and aspires to make your television watching a little more magical. Is it just a bunch of hocus pocus? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
LG 55" Cinema 3D Smart TV Lightning Review: A Pret... May 17 2012 17:00:36	Gizmodo
LG 55" Cinema 3D Smart TV Lightning Review: A Pretty Good TV for Children of the Night LG's newest LED member of its Cinema 3D line is packed to the gills with features and functionality including native support for Netflix and HuluPlus, sharing media from mobile devices and PCs, and Internet access, but you're going to have to keep vampire hours to avoid the glare. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The HyQ Is a Robotic Italian Stallion May 17 2012 15:30:00	Gizmodo
The HyQ Is a Robotic Italian Stallion DARPA may be the Big Dog of robotic cargo transport for now, but that doesn't mean it's the only game in town. A new design from the Italian Institute of Technology may look like the Army's pack-bot but it runs like a Ferarri—or, at least, a skittering, mechanical Ibex. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
These Mysterious Rocks Caught Fire Inside a Woman's Poc... May 17 2012 14:48:00	Gizmodo
These Mysterious Rocks Caught Fire Inside a Woman's Pocket Causing Third-Degree Burns This is weird: these rocks combusted spontaneously inside a woman's pocket, seriously scorching her right leg and hands with third degree burns. They were collected in a beach and look fairly normal. Nobody knows yet why they started to burn with such strong flames. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
There's No Such Thing as a Brogrammer May 17 2012 13:45:11	Gizmodo
There's No Such Thing as a Brogrammer A spectre is haunting startups—the spectre of the brogrammer. Several prominent, quivering articles would lead you to believe the frat houses have emptied into tech, spreading misogyny, keg stands, and chest bumps throughout. This is bullshit. I met one. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The New Netflix Video Player Feature by Feature May 17 2012 12:59:00	Gizmodo
The New Netflix Video Player Feature by Feature I'm a huge Netflix fan and I'm happy with how its user interface has evolved lately. The main web screen is good and now they have changed the video player to make it prettier and more useful. Here are all the changes: More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Verizon to Kill Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans. Thi... May 16 2012 19:56:35	Gizmodo
Verizon to Kill Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans. This Is Bullshit. Unlimited data on Verizon is dead. The death rattle just wheezed out during Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo's dream-killing presentation at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. Everyone with a grandfathered unlimited data plan will be forced to switch to a tiered plan when they upgrade to LTE. It's absurd, warrantless, and sadly, typically, aggressively anti-consumer. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Brain Tapeworms Are Real, And They're Disgusting May 16 2012 19:20:00	Gizmodo
Brain Tapeworms Are Real, And They're Disgusting You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that's only one step of a larger infectious chain the tapeworm is a part of. The alien life-form doesn't only cause crippling stomach pain; it could also debilitate mental capacities if they find their way to the brain. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Electronics Lab Hidden in a Kitchen Pantry May 16 2012 17:40:00	Gizmodo
The Electronics Lab Hidden in a Kitchen Pantry You might not have heard of Ken Murphy, but you are probably familiar with his work. It's awesome. He hacks typical Radio Shack items to create blinking bug sculptures and analog synthesizers that sound like Atari video games. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Lies Everyone Tells on Dating Sites May 16 2012 15:40:00	Gizmodo
The Lies Everyone Tells on Dating Sites Finding love online isn't easy. The prospect of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right seems to turn everyone into porn star used car salesmen. Luckily for you, dear dater, Vice's Brian Moylan knows exactly what everyone's lying about. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
20 Photos of Creative Frames Within Frames May 15 2012 18:00:00	Gizmodo
20 Photos of Creative Frames Within Frames Using a frame within a frame is one of the easiest ways to spice up a dull photo. And with Photoshop, it's also a way to create something totally mind-bending. These 20 Shooting Challenge entries celebrate both schools of thought. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet May 15 2012 16:30:00	Gizmodo
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Worst Phones You Can Buy May 15 2012 13:05:27	Gizmodo
The Worst Phones You Can Buy You might find this hard to believe: not everyone owns an iPhone or one of the several thousand decent Androids for sale or even a Windows phone. Crazy! But what's even more insane is the number of shockingly horrible dumbphones major US carriers are still selling like it's 2006. Here are the worst of the worst. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon: The Ultralight, Semi-Rugged ... May 15 2012 04:01:00	Gizmodo
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon: The Ultralight, Semi-Rugged Carbon Fiber Ultrabook Tablets may be the next big thing in mobile computing, but don't count out ultrabooks just yet. At least not until you've given Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Carbon—a feather-weight, carbon fiber workhorse a closer look. It's tough, it's light, and you don't have to be an office drone to crave it. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
There's Not an App for That: When Will Our Smartphones ... May 15 2012 02:00:00	Gizmodo
There's Not an App for That: When Will Our Smartphones Be Recognized as Valid Forms of ID? Over the weekend, I flew to LA to attend the wedding of my mother's cousin, a beautiful ceremony, right on the ocean, at a hotel in Santa Monica called Shutters. Vows were exchanged and champagne flowed and as soon as we were seated inside for dinner, I was hit with a world of ridiculous. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Nine Weirdest Coffins You Can Actually Buy May 14 2012 20:33:19	Gizmodo
The Nine Weirdest Coffins You Can Actually Buy When you die and you're lowered into your grave, you might as well do it in style. If you were a brewer, why wouldn't you be buried in a beer bottle? Crazy Coffins lets the deceased and their families do just that, with some of the wildest eternal resting places you've ever seen. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
HTC EVO 4G LTE Lightning Review: The Phone That Would B... May 14 2012 18:30:00	Gizmodo
HTC EVO 4G LTE Lightning Review: The Phone That Would Be King (But Isn't) HTC's new line of phones is kinda, like, the best. The One S (on T-Mobile) is good. The One X (on AT&T) is very, very good. The latest addition is the EVO 4G LTE. Can it hang with its brothers? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Cheapest Ways to Save the World May 14 2012 17:40:00	Gizmodo
The Cheapest Ways to Save the World Ask a bunch of the world's best economists—including four Nobel laureates—how to make the world a better place, and they don't just blurt out an answer. They take their time, weigh up impact-per-dollar and make careful decisions. And this is what they came up with. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Stream Music to Every Radio in the House—Cheap! May 14 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
Stream Music to Every Radio in the House—Cheap! You can broadcast streaming Internet music throughout a house over Wi-Fi using products from Sonos or Grace Digital. But it gets expensive. Instead, why not make send the tunes to the basic FM radios you already own? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Report: New MacBook Pros Will Be Retina Display, USB 3.... May 14 2012 12:36:51	Gizmodo
Report: New MacBook Pros Will Be Retina Display, USB 3.0 Monster Machines It's always best not to put too much stock in the old familiar "supply chain sources," but 9to5Mac knows a guy who knows a guy who has confirmed what we've always thought about Apple's next MacBook Pros: They're going to be thin, fast, and gorgeous. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is the World's Most Expensive Camera May 14 2012 11:26:00	Gizmodo
This Is the World's Most Expensive Camera You're looking at a prototype Leica 35mm film camera, known as the 0-series. It was one of just 25 produced in 1923 for testing, and only 12 of them are known to have survived to this day. That's why it's just set a record, becoming the world's most expensive camera. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Stunt-Double Drugs That Hollywood Actors Take on Ca... May 14 2012 09:24:47	Gizmodo
The Stunt-Double Drugs That Hollywood Actors Take on Camera While movie stars aren't drug-free zones, movie sets are at least supposed to be. Which is why, during filming, actors have to make do with stunt-double drugs. An article in Wired neatly summarizes some of the most common stand-ins; here are a few of the best. [Wired] More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched... May 14 2012 03:33:00	Gizmodo
Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium Hidden In a Basement Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago. Down in a basement in Rochester, NY, they had a nuclear reactor loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium—the same kind they use in atomic warheads. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Truly Awesome Picture Perfectly Shows How Little Water ... May 13 2012 18:00:00	Gizmodo
Truly Awesome Picture Perfectly Shows How Little Water There Is On Earth This is one amazing visualization by the U.S. Geological Survey: a picture that gives you a perfect idea of how much water there is on Earth compared to the solid materials that form its main body. It's truly staggering: More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Photos of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Confirm How Bad ... May 13 2012 15:21:00	Gizmodo
Photos of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Confirm How Bad This Movie Is Going to Be TMZ has scored some photos of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. I don't know what disgusts me more: the fact that a useless actor like Kutcher is playing Jobs or that they are milking Jobs figure already or that they got the characterization entirely wrong. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Bizarre History of the Vibrator: From Cleopatra's A... May 13 2012 07:12:00	Gizmodo
The Bizarre History of the Vibrator: From Cleopatra's Angry Bees to Steam-Powered Dildos Did you know that the first vibrator in history may have been invented by Egyptian Queen Cleopatra? Apparently, she had the idea of filling a hollow gourd with angry bees. The violent buzzing caused the gourd to vibrate and then... well, then, the rest is history. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Write the Perfect Craigslist Post May 12 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
Write the Perfect Craigslist Post Craigslist is weird. Equal parts shady flea market and poetry slam—and crammed full of just as much junk as either. If you're trying to sell something or rent an apartment, your post needs to stand out. Crafting that perfect post is equal parts art and science. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Man Must Be the Saddest Scientist In the World May 12 2012 14:48:00	Gizmodo
This Man Must Be the Saddest Scientist In the World This is Professor John Mainstone, from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He's the custodian of the longest running science experiment in the history of the world. He also must be the saddest scientist in the world. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Add Bubbles to Any Booze Without Watering It Down May 11 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
Add Bubbles to Any Booze Without Watering It Down Bubbles are amazing. They seem to make any drink (or bath) more fun, more refreshing. Ever wish you could carbonate your whiskey, or wine, or mixed drink without diluting it with watery, zero-percent-alcohol liquid? The Perlini System by Perlage was built to do just that. Oh hell yes. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How To Make Your Mom Feel Loved with Technology May 11 2012 18:12:17	Gizmodo
How To Make Your Mom Feel Loved with Technology Your mom will always love you, and you'll always love your mom, but now that moms are comfortably geeky, maternal interactions can get weird and frustrating very quickly. How do we manage? You need a plan—especially with Mother's day coming so soon. This is it. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How To Use Android May 11 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
How To Use Android Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you're not a baby. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Apple Television Set Confirmed By Foxconn Boss May 11 2012 13:45:00	Gizmodo
Apple Television Set Confirmed By Foxconn Boss Hell? Frozen! The fabled Apple television set has been confirmed by Foxconn's bossman Terry Gou. According to Gou, Foxconn is getting ready for the manufacturing of Apple's television. What would this magical device be? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6 May 11 2012 12:24:04	Gizmodo
Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6 Apple hasn't really needed Google maps for a while now, but until now it's continued to lean on the service to power iOS's Maps app. 9to5mac is reporting that Apple will drop Google's mapping service in iOS 6 in favor of an entirely in-house system. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Could There Be a Cooler Maurice Sendak Tribute Than Thi... May 10 2012 21:00:00	Gizmodo
Could There Be a Cooler Maurice Sendak Tribute Than This Awesome Axe? Maurice Sendak was important to us here at Gizmodo: His stories inspired us to follow our own internal compasses when our parents told us to stop wasting our time skateboarding or making movies or playing with gadgets. In an unhappy coincidence, we visited Best Made Co.'s New York City workshop on the day of Sendak's death. They were pretty broken up about it. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Leica M Monochrom Only Shoots in Black and White and Th... May 10 2012 19:49:22	Gizmodo
Leica M Monochrom Only Shoots in Black and White and That's Awesome Leica's Latest addition to the M series of cameras is a bit different from the ones which came before it: the M Monochrom only shoots pictures in black and white. The $8000 full-frame camera is fully intended for enthusiasts and/or those with a bottomless bank account, and aims to explore the benefits of having a dedicated monochrome sensor (merely removing the color from a photo after the fact is hardly the same). More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
9 Ridiculous People You Should Be Following on Instagram May 10 2012 18:45:54	Gizmodo
9 Ridiculous People You Should Be Following on Instagram Instagram is now the consummate way of sharing our mundane lives—one billion of Facebook's dollars agree! But there's a vast menu of famous, beautiful, rich, and insane people out there Instagramming too. Here's the best of the best. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How Tupperware Almost Didn't Make It Into Your Kitchen May 10 2012 18:00:00	Gizmodo
How Tupperware Almost Didn't Make It Into Your Kitchen Tupperware is a bit like Kleenex; No matter the brand, if it's a plastic container designed for leftovers, you probably call it by a single brand name. That's because, when it comes to designated plastic vessels that can be sealed and then opened and then resealed again, Tupperware was the first. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is the Definitive Photograph of Planet Earth May 10 2012 15:28:00	Gizmodo
This Is the Definitive Photograph of Planet Earth Unlike NASA's Blue Marble—which is a composite made from many different photographs—this is a portrait of Earth taken in one single shot. It's the highest resolution image of our home planet, 121 megapixels. That's an amazing 0.62 miles per pixel. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is the iPad Keyboard Case You Want May 10 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
This Is the iPad Keyboard Case You Want The Wirecutter's singular goal is to decide which gadgets to buy or not to buy. Today, it takes a hard look at iPad keyboard cases. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Seven Weirdest Creatures Under the Sea May 09 2012 23:00:00	Gizmodo
The Seven Weirdest Creatures Under the Sea If you're looking for a good fright, forget about going to see a horror movie, or wandering through a cemetery in the middle of the night. Just flip on the National Geographic channel and find yourself a good documentary about the horrors lurking under the sea. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
It Takes Carbon Fiber and Kevlar to Make the Best Baske... May 09 2012 19:30:00	Gizmodo
It Takes Carbon Fiber and Kevlar to Make the Best Basketball Shoes in the World When you look at basketball shoes, what do you see? A big swoosh. Three stripes. Michael Jordan. A billboard molded to your feet. But do you see the technology? Though maybe not as blatant as an Intel sticker on your laptop, every shoe showcases its own advanced technology. Don't worry, you can't miss it on these, the best basketball shoes on the planet. Because they roll with carbon fiber and Kevlar. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Why Building the Death Star Is a Bad Investment May 09 2012 17:00:00	Gizmodo
Why Building the Death Star Is a Bad Investment I wish to address the most important policy question of the millenium: should we build a Death Star? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Nerdgasm Alert: Full Size Lego Avengers Props! May 09 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
Nerdgasm Alert: Full Size Lego Avengers Props! Ken Robichaud has created these awesome, full-sized Avengers props in Lego: Thor's Mjölnir, Captain America's shield, Hawkeye's bow and arrows and the Black Widow's thingamajigs. They are perfectly made. The arch even bends like the real thing! (nerdy scream). More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Pink Slime Is Close to Complete Destruction May 09 2012 14:27:49	Gizmodo
Pink Slime Is Close to Complete Destruction Great news for people who don't like eating disgusting liquified cow slurry: the company behind our country's pink slime nightmare is shutting down its crap factories. Three down, one to go. Will our nation ever be free from the slime? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Race Car-Inspired Chair Designed Using Direct Feedb... May 08 2012 19:40:00	Gizmodo
The Race Car-Inspired Chair Designed Using Direct Feedback From Your Butt Furniture designers have a general idea of what makes for comfortable furniture, thanks to years of research, intuition, and user feedback filtered down into theory. But much of this has largely been driven by qualitative feedback instead of something more quantitative. That's what the R18 Ultra chair wants to change. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
19 Drawings That You'll Never Believe Started as Photos May 08 2012 18:00:00	Gizmodo
19 Drawings That You'll Never Believe Started as Photos Would you know that each of these 19 drawings actually started as a photograph for this week's Shooting Challenge? Because they certainly would have fooled me. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Cheap, Charming, Kinda Crazy Lab of a Video Visionary May 08 2012 17:00:00	Gizmodo
The Cheap, Charming, Kinda Crazy Lab of a Video Visionary He once washed dishes full-time in a Connecticut trailer park. Now he uploads videos that break the 5,000,000-view mark in under three weeks. But when Casey Neistat isn't leaping into a sinkhole in Oman or stealing his own bike on the streets of NYC, he's busy working in this obsessively organized, fully functional, bare-bones 870-square-foot studio. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
London's Rooftop Missile Sites Could Have Been Designed... May 08 2012 16:40:00	Gizmodo
London's Rooftop Missile Sites Could Have Been Designed by Tony Stark Those surface-to-air missile batteries that are being installed around Olympic Stadium must have been invented by Stark Industries. Each high-speed missile houses a trio of smaller projectiles—like a troika doll of fiery, explosive death. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Badass Paralyzed Woman Finishes London Marathon in a Bi... May 08 2012 15:20:00	Gizmodo
Badass Paralyzed Woman Finishes London Marathon in a Bionic Suit After 16 days of an agonizingly slow process, a paralyzed woman has become the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit. Talk about an inspiration. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Sunscreen Could Be Giving You Skin Cancer May 08 2012 13:12:54	Gizmodo
Sunscreen Could Be Giving You Skin Cancer If it's not one thing, it's another. While everybody knows that too much time in the sun massively increases the chances of developing skin cancer, new research suggests that a compound found in most sunscreens may also increase the chances of acquiring melanomas. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
MIT Student Builds Awesome Working Mario Kart, Document... May 08 2012 05:20:00	Gizmodo
MIT Student Builds Awesome Working Mario Kart, Documents Process Every Step of the Way More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
There Is a Poisonous Alien Caterpillar Threatening to I... May 07 2012 23:23:08	Gizmodo
There Is a Poisonous Alien Caterpillar Threatening to Invade the London Olympics. Seriously. The Oak Processionary Moth is a nasty little beast. It's native to Europe, but didn't show up in the United Kingdom until 2006, when a few eggs hitched a ride on oak trees transplanted to London. Since then, it's been causing environmental chaos. Now it's threatening to seriously screw up the Summer Olympics. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Cineskates Lighting Review: What Happens When You Mount... May 07 2012 20:17:13	Gizmodo
Cineskates Lighting Review: What Happens When You Mount Your Camera on Skateboard Wheels? Dolly shots are a quintessential signifier of high production value; they remind us we are watching something cinematic. Cineskates is probably one of the simplest and cheapest off-the-shelf options for recreating this effect. But it has its limits. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
15 Ways to Make Yourself a Better Computer User May 07 2012 20:10:01	Gizmodo
15 Ways to Make Yourself a Better Computer User You know what the slowest part of your computer is, the one that really holds you back? You. Our friends at Laptop Mag are here to teach you how to overclock yourself, including how much time you'll save—down to the second. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Did Scientists Really Just Break the Speed of Light? May 07 2012 17:20:00	Gizmodo
Did Scientists Really Just Break the Speed of Light? Today, you might read that scientists have developed a way to produce faster-than-light travel. But steady, there: we've been burnt once recently, so let's not let it happen again. Did scientists really manage to break the speed of light? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
11 Other Uses for Toothpaste May 07 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
11 Other Uses for Toothpaste Besides keeping your teeth sparkly, toothpaste offers a wide range of cleaning, cosmetic—even healing abilities around the house. Just be sure to use the white pasty stuff, not gel. And for any of these tips that call for an actual toothbrush, just consider that tool off-limits for the mouth from here on out. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How to Pirate Software Without Getting Caught May 05 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
How to Pirate Software Without Getting Caught Pirating software you don't own is always illegal. But there are times when you do own software that you can't access without pirating it. The cruel irony is that in those times, you're probably more at risk of getting slapped with a lawsuit than real, actual pirates. Here's a guide to pirating like a pro to get back what's rightfully yours. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Meet the JMFB: Beef-Infused Rye, and a Whole Lot of Fire May 04 2012 21:04:49	Gizmodo
Meet the JMFB: Beef-Infused Rye, and a Whole Lot of Fire How do you drink a man? You heard me. How do you find the gastronomic, alcoholic equivalents to a guy's personality, especially when the guy in question is Glorious Leader, Gizmodo Editor-In-Chief Joe Brown? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Incredible Story of the Blind Dog With His Own Guid... May 04 2012 20:20:00	Gizmodo
The Incredible Story of the Blind Dog With His Own Guide Dog Tanner is a blind golden retriever whose life almost ended when his owner died. Blair is a black mutt who got shot and used to live in fear. Then they found each other, became best buddies and solved their problems together. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
How To Tip Online Food Delivery Guys May 04 2012 20:04:12	Gizmodo
How To Tip Online Food Delivery Guys Leaving the house? Yuck! The reason we have tablets and consoles and OLED TVs is so we can stay indoors. You'll still need to eat, though. And tipping the internet food delivery guy correctly could make the difference between sustenance and disaster. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
HTC One X Review: The Best Android Phone Right Now May 04 2012 17:27:03	Gizmodo
HTC One X Review: The Best Android Phone Right Now HTC is bringing its A-game in a big way. The One S was good, but the screen and radio were weak links. The One X aims to fix that. It brings a bigger, more beautiful screen, and LTE connectivity. It's beautifully designed. But is it enough to eclipse the best Android phones—or even the iPhone? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The 9 Weirdest Places in Reddit (Updated) May 04 2012 15:00:00	Gizmodo
The 9 Weirdest Places in Reddit (Updated) Reddit is the best possible argument anyone can muster against direct democracy: a perfect cross section of the internet and all horrible people on it. It's bloated with racism, depravity, more racism, but moreover with an incredibly diverse array of strange and absurd subcultures. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
This Is Not Fancy Camerawork, Just One Giant Biggest Cr... May 04 2012 03:00:00	Gizmodo
This Is Not Fancy Camerawork, Just One Giant Biggest Crustacean Say hello to Claude, the Tasmanian Monster Crab, who was recently caught off the coast of Tasmania. Originally destined to become crab cakes (approx 162 of them), a British aquarium bought his freedom for $4,800 and transported him to the UK, where he is expected to grow much, much larger. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Faceoff: Samsung Galaxy S III v. iPhone 4S May 03 2012 20:29:32	Gizmodo
Faceoff: Samsung Galaxy S III v. iPhone 4S Today Samsung took the veil off the Galaxy S III, the newest smartphone in the line. The debut of the new device puts more fuel on the fire in the war between Samsung and Apple, but how do these phones stack up against one another? More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Samsung Galaxy S III: Meet the New Android Emperor May 03 2012 18:00:00	Gizmodo
Samsung Galaxy S III: Meet the New Android Emperor Thanks to the previous Galaxy model's success, Samsung is now the world's biggest phone manufacturer, a title it will no doubt keep once the slim and pebble-like Galaxy S III hits stores shortly. At 4.8-inches, you can tell Samsung worked really hard at retaining the slightly-smaller Galaxy S II's footprint, so despite the 22 per cent larger display, it's only 16 per cent bigger than the S II. We hear HTC's One X is already quaking a little in fear. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
Ketchup Used to Be Made of Fish: The Crazy History of T... May 03 2012 16:30:00	Gizmodo
Ketchup Used to Be Made of Fish: The Crazy History of The World's Greatest Condiment Here's something that might just blow your mind: ketchup—the national condiment of 1896, according to the New York Tribune—wasn't always tomato based. In fact, if it had remained in its early form, we might be spreading fish paste on our burgers (gulp) instead of the tangy tomato-y goodness we presently rely on. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The First Assassinated Man In History Was Killed By an ... May 03 2012 14:40:00	Gizmodo
The First Assassinated Man In History Was Killed By an Arrow 5300 Years Ago A new report published in The Journal of Royal Society's Interface has confirmed that the first assassinated man in history was killed by an arrow, shot into his back, 5,300 years ago. According to the paper's lead author Albert Zink: More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »
The Best AirPlay Speakers May 03 2012 14:00:00	Gizmodo
The Best AirPlay Speakers AirPlay is the way digital music should be. If you have WiFi, you have music. But you also have a tough choice. More and more speakers come equipped with AirPlay, ready out of the box to blast music wirelessly from your preferred Apple gizmo. In a test of four speakers, the one that sounded sweetest was also among the cheapest. More » Read the full article on Gizmodo »