Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

The Ridiculous Requests That Ad Agencies Get

No matter how often you watch Mad Men, it ain’t always booze, sex and cigarettes when it comes to advertising because of the brain numb clients. They always have ridiculous requests like making the Vikings nicer or making the logo bigger. It’s hilarious what they ask for. These posters, made by graphic designers in Ireland,…

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Remembering Failed Apple Products Is Pretty Fun

Our friends at Wired have a great gallery of forgotten and/or failed Apple products. Do you remember iPod socks? The QuickTake camera? What about the iPod Hi-Fi and Apple Bluetooth Headset? Yeah, it’s chock full of awkward products that never really took off like the iPhone and iPad. My favorite weird Apple product has to…

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These Teenage Girls from Africa Made a Urine Powered Generator

When I was a teenager, I don’t think I ever imagined doing anything other than playing video games and eating junk food. Luckily, these teenage girls weren’t me because they’ve developed a generator that can be powered with urine. Yep, it’s pee-powered. Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin and Bello Eniola are 14 and 15-year-old…

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Why You Shouldn’t Park Your Car in Front of a Fire Hydrant

We’ve all thought about it before. Why can’t we just park in front of the fire hydrant? Do fire fighters really need all that space to hook up their giant hose? Is there really going to be a fire? Yeah, there is and your car is going to get screwed like the one above. So…

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When Stores Open for Black Friday

It’s not just Wal-Mart that’s opening up its stores for Black Friday sales right about the time most people cut their turkey during Thanksgiving Dinner, a lot of stores are bumping up their opening times a lot earlier this year too. Here’s a list of when stores will open for ‘Black Friday’ also known as…

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Watch These Printers Sing Songs Like Bob Dylan

If you didn’t get the memo sent around in the last couple of years, printers don’t actually print anything anymore. In fact, they don’t really do anything anymore. The only thing they’re good for is making music. Seriously, check out the printers above playing Dylan. The band is made of more than just printers, copiers,…

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Sarah Silverman’s iPhone Camera Trick Is Hilariously Explicit

Funny person Sarah Silverman has an idea for all you twelve-year-old boys with iPhones out there. Make a person tilt their head sideways and then take a picture of a person slightly sticking out his tongue and then… yeah, just watch the video. It’s foul, dirty and hilarious. Also: I love how she’s just cruising…

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What It’s Like to Fly Through a Nuclear Mushroom Cloud

Joe Pasquini, a RAF flight navigator, had the unfortunate job of collecting samples of a nuclear bomb after it exploded. Which meant, Pasquini had to fly an airplane covered in wax through the mushroom cloud to capture the floating radioactive particles. That doesn’t sound fun. Pasquini, who has had seven bouts with cancer since flying…

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Microsoft Pranked People with a Live Floor Tile That Knocked Down a Wall in the Middle of a City

One of the coolest things about Windows 8 are the Live Tiles, which are like the beautiful love children of widgets and icons. Microsoft thinks so too so they created a hilarious prank that involved a light up floor tile (think Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean) and a collapsing wall. Directed by McCann Oslo, the live…

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Would You Fly On an Airplane Without Any Seats?

Ryanair, which is an airline who absolutely loves to stir up publicity by way of controversy, has another idea for airplanes: no seats. As if charging to use the restroom wasn’t enough, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary believes that seatbelts on planes are useless so therefore it’s a waste to even have seats. Make people stand!…

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AT&T Will Give You a $100 Discount on an iPad If You Sign a Two-Year Contract

If you want to save a chunk of money now while signing your soul away for two years, AT&T will give customers a $100 discount on all tablets if you sign a two-year data contract with them. If you’re going to be buying a data contract for your iPad anyway, it’s a pretty good deal.…

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Learning About Knives with This App Will Make You a Better Cook

Cooking ain’t easy! But if you want to get better, you have to start somewhere and that somewhere should probably be your knife skills. With Kitchen Knife Skills, an iOS app, you’ll stop accidentally chopping your fingers and start learning slick tricks to make you a better cook. Kitchen Knife Skills is a beautiful app…

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Who Wants to Drive a Crashed Car Made with Naked Bodypainted People?

Here’s a ride I wouldn’t mind taking, even if it ends up in a crash: a car made with bodypainted people. The art project, which paints 17 bodies and shapes it into a busted car is part of an anti-speeding ad that’s supposed to encourage driving slow. You bet we would. Emma Hack, a body…

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Being Trapped Inside This Giant Plastic Space Time Foam Art Installation Looks Like Out of This World Fun

I don’t know what I think of this art installation. Sometimes I see a giant alien playground from the future, other times I think it’s a sticky membrane web from the inside of some sci-fi monster. Whatever it is, every single time I see a lot of freaking fun. The installation, called On Space Time…

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I Really Want a Credit Card with a LCD Screen and Touchscreen Keypad

You can have your black card and your credit card carved out of adamantium (just kidding, I would really like that), the only credit card I want is MasterCard’s Display Card. MasterCard has been testing the card that comes with a LCD and touchscreen keypad, for some time and has now introduced it in Singapore.…

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Anybody Who Says Buzzwords to Describe Startups and Technology Should Be Zapped in the Head

Synergy! Gamification! Likes! Viral! They’re all awful bullshit buzzwords that marketing folks love to use to spin their product. The words sound really nice coming out of your mouth but they don’t mean anything. If you can only describe your product with buzzwords, you already screwed up. [YouTube via The Awesomer]

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Hiding a GoPro Inside a Bouquet Shows the Wedding from the Bride’s Point of View

Here’s a freaking sweet idea for all you future lovebirds: hide a camera inside the wedding bouquet so you can capture the entire wedding through the bride’s perspective. You’ll end up with a touching first person video of the biggest day of your life. Ben Horne, a photographer, and his wife cleverly put a GoPro…

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What an iPad and Microsoft Surface Parody Commercial Looks Like

Cheery piano music and then *drop* DUBSTEP BOW WAH KEKEKEKE CHIGGCHIGGCHIGG BADOOM chop your stupid hand off music. It’s kind of hilarious to see the two tablets (and its ad strategy) next to each other, no? Kind of like seeing a Mitt Romney and Barack Obama dual commercial or something. The ad parody was made…

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Your President for the Next 4 Years Barack Obama Just Probably Tweeted the Most Popular Tweet of All Time

After the networks gave the presidential victory to President Barack Obama, his Twitter account sent out a few tweets talking about the victory. One of those tweets has been retweeted so much in the past hour that it’s very probably the most popular tweet of al time. The tweet, a touching Twitter picture (#nofilter) of…

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How Mitt Romney’s Plane Gets Stripped of Mitt Romney Now That He Lost

We all know that Air Force One transports the President around but what about the presidential candidate? Well for Mitt Romney, he used an airplane from a small airplane company in Michigan who will get it back now and have to “de-Romneyize” it: strip the logos, change the seats and clean it up. The airplane,…

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The Ridiculous Requests That Ad Agencies Get

Remembering Failed Apple Products Is Pretty Fun

These Teenage Girls from Africa Made a Urine Powered Generator

Why You Shouldn’t Park Your Car in Front of a Fire Hydrant

When Stores Open for Black Friday

Watch These Printers Sing Songs Like Bob Dylan

Sarah Silverman’s iPhone Camera Trick Is Hilariously Explicit

What It’s Like to Fly Through a Nuclear Mushroom Cloud

Microsoft Pranked People with a Live Floor Tile That Knocked Down a Wall in the Middle of a City

Would You Fly On an Airplane Without Any Seats?

AT&T Will Give You a $100 Discount on an iPad If You Sign a Two-Year Contract

Learning About Knives with This App Will Make You a Better Cook

Who Wants to Drive a Crashed Car Made with Naked Bodypainted People?

Being Trapped Inside This Giant Plastic Space Time Foam Art Installation Looks Like Out of This World Fun

I Really Want a Credit Card with a LCD Screen and Touchscreen Keypad

Anybody Who Says Buzzwords to Describe Startups and Technology Should Be Zapped in the Head

Hiding a GoPro Inside a Bouquet Shows the Wedding from the Bride’s Point of View

What an iPad and Microsoft Surface Parody Commercial Looks Like

Your President for the Next 4 Years Barack Obama Just Probably Tweeted the Most Popular Tweet of All Time

How Mitt Romney’s Plane Gets Stripped of Mitt Romney Now That He Lost

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