Andrew Liszewski, Author at Gizmodo

Cuddle Up With Plush Versions of Andy Warhol’s Most Famous Artworks

Unless you’ve got hundreds of millions of dollars burning a hole in your pocket, or fancy yourself a Thomas Crown-esque art thief, you’re never going to own an Andy Warhol original. You can, however, grab these plush recreations of some of the pop artist’s most famous artworks from Kidrobot and cozy up with a masterpiece.…

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This Machine Creates a Custom Perfectly-Sized Box For Whatever You’re Shipping

The internet’s full of stories of tiny products being shipped to customers in absurdly oversized boxes. It’s not only a waste of cardboard, it’s also a waste of cargo space as the products are being shipped. But a company called Slimbox thinks it has the solution with a machine that creates custom, perfectly-sized boxes on…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

We Should Turn All Rifles Into Candy Dispensers

Artist Constantine Zlatev, working with Kostadin Ilov, a computer scientist at UC Berkeley, has come up with a clever way to repurpose old weapons as candy dispensers so that they only pose a risk to a perfect smile. At the heart of The Candy Machine is a disabled Model 94 Winchester rifle featuring a lever-action…

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Crashed Enterprise Is a Gingerbread Masterpiece

‘Tis the season to recreate classic pop-culture references using the age-old medium of gingerbread, frosting, and candy, but Redditor ejustice has boldly gone where no gingerbread engineer has gone before. The U.S.S. Enterprise, and other Starfleet ships, have made emergency crash landings on random planets and worlds countless times, so it’s hard to pinpoint the…

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Playing Lemmings on the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar Almost Justifies the Upgrade

We’ve seen a lot of unorthodox uses for the MacBook Pro’s fancy new Touch Bar, including using it as a piano, or turning the whole machine into Kitt from Knight Rider. But playing a simple version of the classic puzzle game Lemmings might be the most brilliant use of the hardware upgrade yet. Erik Olsson…

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Watch a Soccer Ball Slam Into This Guy’s Head in Super Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys have come up with some wonderfully original experiments to film with their high-speed camera. But the footage they capture is always the most fascinating, or excruciating, when they turn their slo-mo camera on themselves. As you can probably imagine, getting hit in the face with a water-filled soccer ball is probably…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Your Next Birthday Party Needs This Life-Size Balloon Animal T-rex Skeleton

Mark Verge makes balloon animals, but his creations aren’t limited to just tiny poodles and flowers like some yellow pages birthday clown. As YouTube’s Coolest Thing channel reveals, he instead builds mammoth creations using nothing but balloons, including a life-size version of a T-rex skeleton. Measuring in at 12-feet tall and over 43-feet long, the…

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Watch These Kids Pass Around a Fireball Like They’re Mortal Kombat Characters

We’re going to assume that Dan Clinch is a teacher who’s either found a great way to get his students excited about chemistry, or is just looking to get fired with a comfortable severance package. Because having them pass around what appears to be an invisible flaming bubble of propane looks both amazing and dangerous…

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I Would Happily Live in This Gigantic AT-ACT Playhouse

Colin Furze is best known as the internet’s most lovable mad scientist, responsible for building everything from working hoverbikes to thermite cannons. But every Star Wars fan on the planet is going to be insanely jealous of the little kid who gets this AT-ACT playhouse the Furze just build. Standing just over 18 feet tall,…

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How to Perfectly Fake a Glowing Lightsaber in Photoshop

It’s time to face the facts: lightsabers aren’t real, and they’re simply not going to exist in your lifetime. The closest you can get to realizing your Jedi fantasies is through this excellent tutorial by Mathieu Stern showing you how to properly fake a lightsaber using Photoshop. Basic Photoshop skills will allow you to simply…

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Careening Down a Mountain on Glowing Skis Is Dangerously Beautiful

You’d think that professional skier Mathieu Bijasson would be a little more careful after having his first kid. But now that he’s a dad, apparently skiing down a mountain on a pair of glowing skis in the middle of the night is how he chooses to spend his time while his kid sleeps. Thankfully for…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Two Clouds Colliding Is the Most Relaxing Crash You’ll Ever See

Watching two crash test vehicles meet their demise in a head-on collision always makes for some exhilarating footage. But when two fluffy clouds collide, the destruction that ensues is so gentle and peaceful it somehow ends up being incredibly relaxing and soothing. We could watch Mitchell F. Chan’s new art piece, Something Something National Conversation…

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You Can Stop Worrying, Disney Figured Out How to Make Perfect CG Sugar

So far 2016 has been a wild ride, but there’s one less thing to keep you awake at night, terrified about the future, now that Disney Research has finally found a way to render convincing computer-generated sugar that looks and moves just like the real thing. Phew! In a paper titled Efficient Rendering of Heterogeneous…

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Adorable BB-8 Alarm Clock Goes Nuts When It’s Time For You to Wake Up

As adorable robots go, it seems almost impossible to ever get angry at The Force Awakens’ BB-8. Which is why turning the little robot into an alarm clock is such a brilliant idea, because no matter how tired or grumpy are, you’ll never be tempted to throw BB-8 across the room when he frantically tries…

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Watch the World’s Most Complex Rube Goldberg Machine Light Up a Christmas Tree

A Latvian company called Scandiweb was recently awarded the Guinness World Record for Largest Rube Goldberg machine after spending over two months designing and building the 412-step contraption that ultimately does nothing more than push a button to light up a gigantic Christmas tree. It just might be the perfect metaphor for all the craziness…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

This Self-Making Duvet Needs to Get Out of My Dreams and Onto My Bed

There’s no better way to end a long day than crawling into a perfectly-made bed, but who has time to actually make their bed as they frantically head off to work in the morning? Nobody. That’s why a self-making duvet might be the best thing you could ever throw on your bed. So how does…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Now You Can Measure How Long It Will Take for R2-D2 to Get Sick of Being Merchandised

Aside from Hello Kitty, it’s hard to think of a character whose image has been slapped onto more products than Star Wars’ R2-D2. Everything from oven mitts to coffee makers bear the little droid’s likeness, and now you might even see him pop up on construction sites as an officially-licensed tape measure. Created by ThinkGeek,…

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Watching This Super Precise Robot Doodle Is Super Satisfying

Evil Mad Scientist’s new AxiDraw V3 personal drawing machine can use any pen or marker to print or write on your behalf if your penmanship is awful. But simply watching the machine draw ultra-precise doodles and complex patterns is so satisfying you might be able to justify its $475 price tag as just a relaxation…

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It Took Four Months to Recreate the TMNT Cartoon’s Intro Using Super Nintendo’s Mario Paint

The Super Nintendo is best remembered as defining the 16-bit era of video gaming, although many of us spent countless hours playing with Mario Paint instead. But that pales in comparison to the over four months Mike Matei spent recreating the opening to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ animated series using only the SNES’ beloved…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

I Want a Jet Engine Ceiling Fan Hanging in My Bedroom

Global warming promises to make the summers more and more unbearable. Instead of precariously balancing an air conditioner in your window, imagine how cool you’d be standing underneath a jet engine ceiling fan. Styled after the turbine fans used to suck massive amounts of air into jet engines made by companies like Pratt & Whitney,…

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Andrew Liszewski

Cuddle Up With Plush Versions of Andy Warhol’s Most Famous Artworks

This Machine Creates a Custom Perfectly-Sized Box For Whatever You’re Shipping

We Should Turn All Rifles Into Candy Dispensers

Crashed Enterprise Is a Gingerbread Masterpiece

Playing Lemmings on the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar Almost Justifies the Upgrade

Watch a Soccer Ball Slam Into This Guy’s Head in Super Slow Motion

Your Next Birthday Party Needs This Life-Size Balloon Animal T-rex Skeleton

Watch These Kids Pass Around a Fireball Like They’re Mortal Kombat Characters

I Would Happily Live in This Gigantic AT-ACT Playhouse

How to Perfectly Fake a Glowing Lightsaber in Photoshop

Careening Down a Mountain on Glowing Skis Is Dangerously Beautiful

Two Clouds Colliding Is the Most Relaxing Crash You’ll Ever See

You Can Stop Worrying, Disney Figured Out How to Make Perfect CG Sugar

Adorable BB-8 Alarm Clock Goes Nuts When It’s Time For You to Wake Up

Watch the World’s Most Complex Rube Goldberg Machine Light Up a Christmas Tree

This Self-Making Duvet Needs to Get Out of My Dreams and Onto My Bed

Now You Can Measure How Long It Will Take for R2-D2 to Get Sick of Being Merchandised

Watching This Super Precise Robot Doodle Is Super Satisfying

It Took Four Months to Recreate the TMNT Cartoon’s Intro Using Super Nintendo’s Mario Paint

I Want a Jet Engine Ceiling Fan Hanging in My Bedroom

Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern ‘Trek’

Pompeii Study Confirms Roman ‘Wine’ Ritual Previously Known Only From Texts

JBL Clears Out a 5.0-Channel Compact All-in-One Soundbar at a Record Low Beyond Its Portable Speaker Deals

Anker Solix C2000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station Is 50% Off as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes Into Its Final Clear-Out

Anker’s USB-C Docking Station With Detachable Hub Hits an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Likely the Last Chance Before Prime Day

The Sadie Sink ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Rumors Just Keep Swirling

This Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader Now Costs About as Much as a Few Paper Books, While Amazon’s Spring Sale Price Still Holds

Lenovo Tab One Becomes an Even Better Budget Tablet Pick Below $100, Now Bundled With a Case in Amazon’s Spring Sale

Jason David Frank’s Final Movie Honors His ‘Power Rangers’ Legacy

AirPods Pro 3 Still at Their Lowest Price While Apple Gradually Pulls Back Amazon’s Spring Sale Offers

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets