Dan Nosowitz, Author at Gizmodo

Nixie Tubes: (Very) Slightly More Adult Pixy Sticks

The methods of caffeine ingestion range from typical (coffee) to X-TREEM (energy drinks) to sort of hardcore (5-Hour Energy), but none have been outwardly juvenile—until now. Each Nixie Tube packs 100mg of caffeine, about 20% more than a cup of coffee, and comes in colors and flavors a million percent less natural. They come in…

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The Beginner’s Guide to Google Voice

Confused by all the number-changing, grouping, re-routing, and transcribing going on in Google Voice? Head over to Lifehacker to check out their excellent guide to all things Google Voice. [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/how-to-ease-your-transition-to-google-voice-5311254

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Amazing Music Video Is an International Webcam Collage

Click to view Well, isn’t this heartwarming and adorable. Japanese band Sour had fans use webcams in intricate, unexpected ways to create this lo-fi music video for their song “Hibi no Neiro.” We promise you’ll crack a small, satisfied smile. [Vimeo, thanks Jack!]

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Altoids Tin Catapult Will Make You Feel, and Act, 10 Years Old Again

Here’s an Instructables to bring back the obnoxious kid that lives not so far down in all of us: Learn how to turn one of those miniature Altoids tins into a tiny catapult. It’ll be fun for nobody but you. We like Instructables like this one because not everyone has a damn laser cutter lying…

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Beware, Criminals: Japanese Police Now Equipped With Chintzy, Inaccurate Paintball Guns

Paintball guns for police sort of make sense, if you live in a country of incredibly timid criminals. But why do the guns have to look like they were bought at the dollar store? The plasticky firearms feature a laser sight but it doesn’t seem much help, since those demonstrating the “color ball launchers” can’t…

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Sprint to Require WiFi on All Future Phones We Care About

While announcing the company’s intention to release an updated version of the BlackBerry Tour with WiFi next year, a Sprint spokesman let slip that WiFi will also be present “in all its major devices going forward.” Big win! We’re still annoyed with current-gen or even last-gen smartphones that are lacking WiFi (which leads to a…

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MacBook Users Rejoice: The Kanex Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter Includes USB Audio

Frustratingly, Mini DisplayPort doesn’t include audio, so to get sound when outputting to an HDTV using HDMI, you’d need to use yet another cable. This adapter uses USB for audio, so you get the full A/V with just one cable. https://gizmodo.com/monoprice-mini-displayport-to-hdmi-adapter-hands-on-hd-5187481 Though HDMI is capable of handling both audio and video, the Mini DisplayPort on…

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Suge Knight Light Dangles Your Nightmares Out the Window

For those times when you feel like a simple night light isn’t enough to scare off your nighttime demons, who better to help than the scariest man in hip-hop? [YouTube]

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How to: Make a Fisheye DSLR Lens for $16

Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster shows how to make a fisheye lens for his Nikon D90 for just $16, with the help of one of those wide-angle doorway peephole lenses. It looks like a pretty simple mod, both in materials required and construction method: It only needs a couple pieces of particle board, the aforementioned…

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Canon Launches 5 New Printers, We Like the One That Comes in a Bucket

Canon, as is their wont, let loose with a bunch of new all-in-ones, laser and photo printers, and this time, we’re digging two of them: The WiFi- and USB-enabled MP560, pictured, and the CP790, which comes packaged in a bucket. https://gizmodo.com/canon-launches-12-printers-only-needed-to-launch-4-291523 The Pixma MP560, that pretty guy up top, is a compact all-in-one with WiFi,…

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Google Chrome OS Screenshots Are Fake, Just Like We Thought

John Herrman was pretty skeptical of the Chrome OS screenshots we saw this morning, and as it turns out, rightly so; their creator has piped up and admitted their falsity. https://gizmodo.com/are-these-the-first-chrome-os-screenshots-5310757 Here’s the creator’s explanation, in his own (poorly written) words. It was all just a prank, for some unknown reason! I am sorry if…

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Sex Toys Make Delightful Additions to Any Home

This little site provides illustrated guides to using all kinds of sex toys in new and unexpectedly G-rated ways around the house. If you were wondering how to turn that two-foot-long-double-headed-you-know-what into a keyboard wrist-rest, read on. Looks like cock rings make excellent cable organizers, and we bet those girls on Sex and the City…

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Samsung’s New Smartphone QWERTY Idea: Keep Trying, Guys

Samsung filed a patent for this avian-looking smartphone concept: Two spring-loaded half-keyboards burst from the sides of the phone, which in theory provides both a larger keyboard and more screen space, since hands are out of the way. In theory. It’s a half-baked idea, of course, which is why we’re only seeing it in a…

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Solar-Powered County Fair Makes So Much Sense

This year’s Marin County fair in northern California took its environmental theme seriously. A huge photovoltaic setup provided about 40% of the fair’s energy with clean solar power—and a solar-powered county fair makes perfect sense. Think about it: The only time you’d go to a fair (and not be miserable) is during a sunny summer’s…

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LSD Creator Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs: “How Was LSD Useful to You?”

The Huffington Post published a previously-unseen letter from LSD creator Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs, who has in the past praised LSD’s influence on his creative thinking. https://gizmodo.com/the-life-of-steve-jobs-5301470/ The letter itself isn’t too illuminating; Hofmann was an incredible 101 years old at the time of writing, and merely mentions that he knew Jobs had mentioned…

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Google Chrome OS Partners: PC and Chip-Makers, but Not Dell, Sony, or Toshiba

Google released a partial list of their Chrome OS partners, and it includes most of the big boys you’d expect, from all sectors of the computing world, from full-featured PCs to netbooks to handhelds, plus Adobe for some Flash support. The full list: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments. Google is quick…

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AnalogColor Ruins Quality Photos to Create Mock-Polaroid Results

For those who cared enough to be hurt at the death of Polaroid Instant Film but not enough to make it themselves, there’s AnalogColor, which turns your crystal-clear photos into murky, nostalgic simulacrums of the classic format. https://gizmodo.com/polaroid-instant-film-killed-by-the-21st-century-354567 There’s definitely other software that’ll do this kind of thing, but AnalogColor lets you create faux-Polaroids by…

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World’s Largest RC Chopper Is Probably Big Enough for a Very Short Pilot

This RC helicopter is a scale model of a Russian Mi-24 chopper, a monstrous beast that’s 55 feet long. The scale version looks about 1/8th the size, and still scares the crap out of us. Check out the video below. We don’t really know anything about the giant “toy” helicopter, except the model it’s based…

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LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged HD Enclosure Outputs 1080p Video, Ruggedly

LaCie’s new LaCinema Rugged HD is a 250/320/500GB, USB-powered external hard drive marketed as a multimedia player: It’ll output 1080p video to a TV over HDMI, and has a rugged enclosure in case you keep your HDTV in the woods. The LaCinema Rugged HD packs pretty much everything you’d want in a mutlimedia enclosure, with…

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Google G0 Android Smartphone Concept: If Only the G1 Was So Slick

Tryi Yeh’s Android smartphone concept, cheekily dubbed the G0, is a touchscreen slider, but the slide-out section isn’t a hardware keyboard. Instead, it’s got a camera and four customizable smartkeys. Still, we like the design, and it looks fairly realistic. The G0 concept comes with a few equally-conceptual accessories, including what seems to be an…

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Nixie Tubes: (Very) Slightly More Adult Pixy Sticks

The Beginner’s Guide to Google Voice

Amazing Music Video Is an International Webcam Collage

Altoids Tin Catapult Will Make You Feel, and Act, 10 Years Old Again

Beware, Criminals: Japanese Police Now Equipped With Chintzy, Inaccurate Paintball Guns

Sprint to Require WiFi on All Future Phones We Care About

MacBook Users Rejoice: The Kanex Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter Includes USB Audio

Suge Knight Light Dangles Your Nightmares Out the Window

How to: Make a Fisheye DSLR Lens for $16

Canon Launches 5 New Printers, We Like the One That Comes in a Bucket

Google Chrome OS Screenshots Are Fake, Just Like We Thought

Sex Toys Make Delightful Additions to Any Home

Samsung’s New Smartphone QWERTY Idea: Keep Trying, Guys

Solar-Powered County Fair Makes So Much Sense

LSD Creator Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs: “How Was LSD Useful to You?”

Google Chrome OS Partners: PC and Chip-Makers, but Not Dell, Sony, or Toshiba

AnalogColor Ruins Quality Photos to Create Mock-Polaroid Results

World’s Largest RC Chopper Is Probably Big Enough for a Very Short Pilot

LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged HD Enclosure Outputs 1080p Video, Ruggedly

Google G0 Android Smartphone Concept: If Only the G1 Was So Slick

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

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