Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

What Happens When You Drop a Red Hot Nickel Ball Onto Aerogel

Red hot nickel ball of fire meet your toughest opponent yet: aerogel. In fact, aerogel is such an amazing material and excellent insulator that the eternal flame of the nickel ball does absolutely nothing to it. Like, seriously. It affects the aerogel as much as the normal air around it (or in it too?). But…

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Stan Lee Explains Why 3D Movies Suck

It’s not that 3D movies aren’t worth watching because some totally are (see: Gravity). It’s that Hollywood loves to shove it down our throat as something new and fancy and some sort of advanced technology and trendy and bullcrap like that. It’s not! Most of the times, 3D movies are made just to squeeze more…

Movies Casey Chan

This Next Generation Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Is the Future

Conveyor belt sushi restaurants are usually only worth going to once in your life. The sushi is hardly ever amazing since it spins on the belt over and over again while the dishes you actually want might be snatched ahead of you so you never get to eat it. Not to mention plates stacking on…

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The Nexus 5 Accidentally Pops Up Early on Google Play for $350

Google’s worst kept secret and possibly best upcoming Android phone has just unofficially revealed itself in the most official way possible… inside the actual Google Play Store. https://gizmodo.com/did-google-accidentally-leak-the-next-nexus-phone-1247836161 That’s right, the Nexus 5 is listed as “starting at $349” for the 16GB version and looks exactly like how we expected it to look like. One…

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Watch People Freak Out When They See Ghosts Inside an iPhone Camera

This prank is such pure evil genius that you can’t help but laugh. And feel bad because you’d get freaked out too. Funny man Jack Vale scared the creepy crawly goosebumps out of people by asking strangers to take his picture with his iPhone. Why’s that scary? Because Vale had pre-recorded a fake ‘ghost’ (or…

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Everybody Probably Has These Dumb Pictures on Their Phone

The best camera is the one you have with you, they say. What they don’t tell you is that if that camera is your phone, it also doubles as the worst camera because of all the stupid pictures you have saved and forgot about in your camera roll. You know those photos. Accidental screenshots, once…

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5 Common Life Hack Myths That Aren’t True At All

Debunking life hacks are always fun—come on, pointing out silly people doing silly workarounds for silly things to save a silly amount of time never gets old—so Household Hacker whipped up a quick list of five myths that some people do that don’t actually help change anything. Putting batteries in the fridge? Using salt to…

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A Power Outage Made South Park Miss an Episode for the First Time

South Park was unable to meet its deadline for the first time in its 240+ episode history because of a power outage. That’s 17 straight seasons of somehow making things work on a short deadline until now. What a bummer! Comedy Central said: “On Tuesday night, South Park Studios lost power. From animation to rendering…

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Watch Music Make Paint Dance Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Music is an experience, they say. A great song can serve as a time machine to send you to a particular moment, a specific feeling, a certain memory. You might hear music but you can also see it, feel it and touch it. Touch it? Well, yeah, if you’re filling a speaker with paint to…

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Oh So This Is Why Progress Bars on Videos Get Stuck So Often

Even though our Internet speed is light years faster than what it was before YouTube, it still seems like videos don’t load as fast as they should. Even on YouTube or Vimeo or Netflix or any streaming video website worth a damn, you run into hang ups and a stubbornly stuck progress bar for no…

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A 5-Year-Old Crying Because NASA’s Website Is Shut Down Is So Sad

Well, this is just horrible. Summing up how sane people feel about the government shutdown and hopefully making Congress feel like imbeciles, a 5-year-old boy is in tears because NASA’s official website no longer works because of the idiotic government shutdown. Squabble all you want but don’t rob kids of their space game dreams! The…

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Satiregram Is the Only Instagram Account You Need to Follow

The best Instagram that everyone should go follow right now, Satiregram, doesn’t have any pictures at all. Or well, that’s not completely true. It obviously has pictures but all of its Instagram pictures is just text captions describing terribly cliche pictures you always see on Instagram. It’s riot-inducing hilarious because it’s absolutely true. If you…

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Debunking 30 Life Hacks That Don’t Actually Make Your Life Better

Our obsession with hacking life to become more efficient beings of human knows no end. We bookmark links that promise to make picnicking more enjoyable, we scour the internet for kitchen tricks and watch endless videos that promise anywhere from 7 to 101 life changing tips. But how often do these life hacks actually stick?…

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Michael Jackson’s Thriller Epically Performed with Stop-Motion Lego

If you don’t care about the Mileys and the Biebers like most sane humans of this world, one of the most iconic music videos to you is probably Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Or maybe Billie Jean. Or is it Smooth Criminal? Beat It? Actually, it can be five more MJ creations. But Thriller is somethin’. And…

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Reuters: Panasonic Is Going to Kill Off Its Plasma TVs by March 2014

According to Reuters, Panasonic is going to stop production of its fantastic plasma TV sets by March 2014. That sucks. But also not surprising since previous reports had hinted at Panasonic planning to cut its TV production and that the TV market has been overtaken by seemingly every other technology not named plasma. Hundreds of…

Television Casey Chan

That Curved Screen Samsung Galaxy Round Is a Real Thing

If you’re looking to get weird with your phone, the curved screen of the official Samsung Galaxy Round is a good start. Well, sort of. The curved 5.7-inch screen—same as the uncurved Note 3—is a real thing that Samsung is actually making but it’s only launching on SK Telecom in South Korea. There doesn’t seem…

Gadgets Casey Chan

Exploding Giant Bubbles Will Never Get Old

Though we can never be in awe of bubbles like we once were, we can still have fun with them. Lots of fun! And the easiest way to have more fun with bubbles is to go bigger and add in slow motion to capture the exploding bubbles. When you see these giant bubbles get popped…

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Watch the iPhone 5C Get Obliterated By a .50 Caliber Rifle

In all your years of owning an iPhone, I hope you never have to use it as a bulletproof vest. Because it wouldn’t work. It might be able to survive a soft drop on the dirt and come away cracked on concrete and barely scathe away after a quick dip in water but when you…

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Record/Play: A Walkman Time Machine Is Tragic Sci-Fi Love

Here’s a fantastic short for you sci-fi fans: Record/Play, directed by Jesse Atlas, is a short film that covers time travel, love, changing fate, war, memories and cassette tapes. It’s slow building yet tense, you’re itching to see what new wrinkles each play of the tape will bring. The film originally debuted at the 2012…

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Is the NSA’s Data Center Melting Down Because It’s Spying Too Much?

This is embarrassingly funny. The WSJ reports that the NSA’s new Utah data center has suffered 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months because of electrical surges. The NSA is basically using so much power in its spying efforts that it is poetically killing its data centers. Seriously, the surges have destroyed hundreds of thousands…

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What Happens When You Drop a Red Hot Nickel Ball Onto Aerogel

Stan Lee Explains Why 3D Movies Suck

This Next Generation Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Is the Future

The Nexus 5 Accidentally Pops Up Early on Google Play for $350

Watch People Freak Out When They See Ghosts Inside an iPhone Camera

Everybody Probably Has These Dumb Pictures on Their Phone

5 Common Life Hack Myths That Aren’t True At All

A Power Outage Made South Park Miss an Episode for the First Time

Watch Music Make Paint Dance Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Oh So This Is Why Progress Bars on Videos Get Stuck So Often

A 5-Year-Old Crying Because NASA’s Website Is Shut Down Is So Sad

Satiregram Is the Only Instagram Account You Need to Follow

Debunking 30 Life Hacks That Don’t Actually Make Your Life Better

Michael Jackson’s Thriller Epically Performed with Stop-Motion Lego

Reuters: Panasonic Is Going to Kill Off Its Plasma TVs by March 2014

That Curved Screen Samsung Galaxy Round Is a Real Thing

Exploding Giant Bubbles Will Never Get Old

Watch the iPhone 5C Get Obliterated By a .50 Caliber Rifle

Record/Play: A Walkman Time Machine Is Tragic Sci-Fi Love

Is the NSA’s Data Center Melting Down Because It’s Spying Too Much?

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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