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Bacon Tampons vs. Invisible Sharks, One-Fingered Push-ups, and Who Sent St. Martin’s Press $70k Worth of Herb?

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s Maui Outdoor comes to us from reader SuperDub Click…

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Armchair Adventurers Can Now Take a Street View Tour of the Amazon

Sure, you can already explore exotic locales like Detroit, San Francisco, and the dark heart of Florida from your desk but now, in honor of World Forest’s Day, you can wander around in the Amazonian rainforest. You’re welcome. This project has been in the works for months and is a collaboration between Google and the…

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MPAA Wants Megaupload Data Saved for Its Future Lawsuits

For as big of a deal as the MPAA made about shutting down Megaupload, the trade association is certainly interested in maintaining users’ data for some reason. Oh, it’s so the MPAA can sue some more people? Right, of course. Not everybody outside the MPAA is super-stoked about Megaupload shutting down and no one less…

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Scrubba Your Clothes with This Washing Machine In a Bag

There’s always a trade-off when packing for extended trips—bring enough outfits to last the entire trip or bring fewer sets and hope you can find a local laundromat? Or, option three, bring the Scrubba wash bag along and do your own laundry. The Scrubba is the brainchild of Ashley Newland, who devised the system while…

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This Asphalt-Spewing Truck Fixes Potholes in A New York Minute

Potholes are nobody’s friend. They are especially unpopular with municipal road authorities, who must spend millions yearly in traffic-snarling road repairs. But a new automated pothole-patching machine could let a single worker do the work of an entire road crew in just two minutes. Potholes are formed by water intrusion, temperature variations, and the stresses…

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People Sure Do Love Stealing NASA’s Laptops

Losing a computer containing unencrypted ISS codes earned NASA a stern talking-to from a House subcommittee but apparently didn’t change many attitudes. NASA’s just lost another and this time, it contained the personal information of every NASA employee in Kansas City. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-lost-a-laptop-with-unencrypted-space-station-codes-5889677 According to an internal memo from Tracy Wetrich, NASA’s HR Director, leaked to…

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Smartphones Can Command DSLRs with the TriggerHappy Remote

Getting the most out of your high-end DSLR—like taking pro-quality time-lapse shots or long exposures—is a lot easier when you’re using a remote. But why blow a bunch of cash for some standalone remote when you’ve already got smartphone that’ll do the same with a TriggerHappy adapter? https://gizmodo.com/triggertrap-commands-cameras-to-take-photos-in-reaction-5816561 The TriggerHappy remote is a three-foot cord…

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Bob Marley on Weed, Fun Things to Do in the Dark, and Rodney Mullen Gleams the Cube

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s stem of Skywalker OG was submitted by reader, Evan…

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Blackhawk Secretary Trunk Is the Air-Stream of Large Luggage

Because who doesn’t need a six-foot-tall piece of travel luggage clad in aircraft-grade aluminum and capable of carrying the contents of a small apartment? The Blackhawk Secretary Trunk from Restoration Hardware is a solid hardwood case covered in aircraft aluminum. It’s rounded edges are meant to evoke airplane designs from the 1950’s. RH is even…

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High-Voltage Briefcase Pikachus Would-Be Thieves

Still handcuffing a Samsonite to your wrist? This isn’t the ’80s and you’re no Pablo Escobar, stop it. Prison bracelets are passe, so unless you want to get downright brutal with your assailant, the Super Safety Suitcase can provide the same security with just a little jolt. https://gizmodo.com/when-anti-theft-concept-devices-were-more-brutal-5884609 The SSS, made by Kimpok is armed…

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US Nuke Stockpile Control Systems Are “Under Constant Attack”

You may never have heard of the National Nuclear Security Administration but that doesn’t mean foreign agents haven’t. The agency tasked with protecting America’s nukes and nuclear secrets has disclosed that its computer systems are attacked as many as 10 MILLION times a day. According to the department’s head, Thomas D’Agostino, the NNSA’s security systems…

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Giant “Metal Moles” Are Tunneling through London

Like benevolent, mechanical Tremors worms, a team of eight Tunnel Boring Machines are inching their way across England’s capital city and leaving neatly packed railway tunnels in their wake. Instead of, you know, all that death, mayhem, and Kevin Bacon. London’s been kicking around the idea of a central East-West underground railway route since the…

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Google Calls Shenanigans on MPAA’s DMCA Interpretation

The MPAA has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, “molding” their facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google’s tastes. The search giant has just filed an Amicus brief objecting to the MPAA’s “distortion” of the DMCA. An Amicus brief is a court document filed…

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Artist Treats San Francisco Beach Like an Enormous Etch-A-Sketch

Bay Area landscape artist Andreas Amador employs San Francisco’s beaches as a canvas for his artistic vision—creating and photographing large-scale organic designs, like an gigantor zen garden. You can see more of his work on his website and buy prints and postcards as well. He’ll even carve a marriage proposal into the sands of Ocean…

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These Narcotics Are More Legal than Weed, Cats Don’t Fly for a Reason, and How to Ignore Armed Robbers

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s forearm’s worth was submitted by an anonymous reader Click…

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Uniquely-Attired Nutter Attempts to Force Open a Cockpit to Show Pilots His Laser Glasses

I know what you’re thinking but no, not Florida. The older gentleman above landed himself in jail Friday after rushing the cockpit of an American Airlines flight Flight 2401 to LAX. According to police reports, within 15 minutes of the flight’s departure from Dallas/Fort Worth, the unidentified suspect had apparently left his seat, rushed past…

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Nasty Clamps Grab What Gorillas Can’t

My Gorillapod can grab onto just about anything—provided it’s round, preferably magnetic, or made of glass. That limits the places I can actually stick it. The Nasty Clamps however are the Bizzaro Gorillapod—attaching to tables, shelves, and anything else with an edge. https://gizmodo.com/squid-inspired-camera-mount-sucks-in-the-best-possible-5887333 The Nasty Clamp is, well, a clamp. With an articulated and extendable…

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Duqu Framework’s Mystery Language Identified as Custom C

When Kaspersky Labs revealed its analysis of the Duqu Trojan earlier this month they were stumped by a block of code that appeared to be a previously unseen programming language. With the help of the Internet, Kaspersky’s identified the code, not as a new computer language, but rather, an old one. https://gizmodo.com/whoever-wrote-the-duqu-trojans-framework-wrote-it-in-an-5891789 The block of…

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Cops May Have to Return Dotcom’s Fortune Due to “Procedural Error”

When New Zealand authorities raided the estate of MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom, they confiscated nearly $200 million worth of property. But as it turns out, the court order authorizing this seizure was invalid because the police filled out the wrong paperwork. Oops. https://gizmodo.com/feds-kill-megaupload-updated-5877612 Prior to the raid, police commissioner Peter Marshall’s office reportedly applied an…

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This Mississippi Roll Cloud Seems to Go on Forever

Roll clouds may look gorgeous off the coast of Brazil, they may be a common sight over Queensland, but they appear downright menacing when spanning the horizon above Richland, Mississippi. https://gizmodo.com/tubular-roll-clouds-look-like-a-toppled-tornado-5890578 Daniel Blake Fitzhugh captured the impressive footage a phone camera just outside of Jackson back in 2010. “It had been cloudy and windy all…

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Bacon Tampons vs. Invisible Sharks, One-Fingered Push-ups, and Who Sent St. Martin’s Press $70k Worth of Herb?

Armchair Adventurers Can Now Take a Street View Tour of the Amazon

MPAA Wants Megaupload Data Saved for Its Future Lawsuits

Scrubba Your Clothes with This Washing Machine In a Bag

This Asphalt-Spewing Truck Fixes Potholes in A New York Minute

People Sure Do Love Stealing NASA’s Laptops

Smartphones Can Command DSLRs with the TriggerHappy Remote

Bob Marley on Weed, Fun Things to Do in the Dark, and Rodney Mullen Gleams the Cube

Blackhawk Secretary Trunk Is the Air-Stream of Large Luggage

High-Voltage Briefcase Pikachus Would-Be Thieves

US Nuke Stockpile Control Systems Are “Under Constant Attack”

Giant “Metal Moles” Are Tunneling through London

Google Calls Shenanigans on MPAA’s DMCA Interpretation

Artist Treats San Francisco Beach Like an Enormous Etch-A-Sketch

These Narcotics Are More Legal than Weed, Cats Don’t Fly for a Reason, and How to Ignore Armed Robbers

Uniquely-Attired Nutter Attempts to Force Open a Cockpit to Show Pilots His Laser Glasses

Nasty Clamps Grab What Gorillas Can’t

Duqu Framework’s Mystery Language Identified as Custom C

Cops May Have to Return Dotcom’s Fortune Due to “Procedural Error”

This Mississippi Roll Cloud Seems to Go on Forever

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

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

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees