Jamie Condliffe

Finally, Wall-Mounted Bike Storage That Looks Great

Wall-mounted bicycle storage is incredibly practical, but usually leaves you with an industrial-looking mess when the bike’s in use. Not if you get hold of a Trophy Bicycle Holder: a modern riff on the stuffed animal head that doubles as a bike hanger. Available in two designs—Trophy:Bull or Trophy:Deer—these powder-coated metal frames fasten to the…

How Astronauts Trim Their Nails in Space

In space, even the most mundane routines become elaborate tasks. Like cutting your nails: if you’re not careful, your fellow astronauts will have face full of clippings. Gross. Fortunately, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has taken time out to explain how the folks on the ISS cope. It’s actually a simple idea: normal nail clippers, an…

Can You Find the Man Hiding Among These Mobile Phones?

We’re a massive fan of the invisible Chinese artist Liu Bolin, and he’s at it again. A new exhibition at Galerie Paris-Beijing is showcasing his latest work and our favorite—unsurprisingly!—is this one, where he’s hiding in front of a wall of mobile phones. Can you spot him? [Galerie Paris-Beijing via Design Boom] https://gizmodo.com/can-you-see-the-man-hidden-in-these-pandas-5899119

The New Biggest Structure in the Universe Is Too Large to Comprehend

An international team of scientists has discovered the biggest known structure in the universe—and it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light 4 billion years to cross it. The structure is a large quasar group—a collection of supermassive black holes which form a single, massive structure—and it is huge. It’s made up…

Even though Oracle’s patched its recent vulnerability, Home Security still thinks you’re better off without Java. Ouch.

How Apple Sets Its Prices

Apple pricing is unlike almost every other brand in consumer tech: consistent across each and every retailer, and rarely discounted. How do Cook and Co manage to pull that off? MacWorld has an interesting article about the techniques which Apple uses to keep its prices fixed. From the article: Most products move from manufacturers to…

This Is What a Virus Infecting a Cell Looks Like

This isn’t a cartoon tree or some strange piece of modern art. In fact, it’s what researchers from the University of Texas at Austin saw when they managed to observe a virus in the act of penetrating a cell. In the image, you can see a T7 virus (red) burrowing its way into an E.…

This Is What Hyperspace Travel Would Really Look Like

Hundreds of sci-fi movies have depicted hyperspace travel, where stars appear as streaks of light as the spacecraft in question surges forward. But according to a team of physicists, that’s bullshit—and hyperspace travel would look a whole lot fuzzier. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-starts-work-on-real-life-star-trek-warp-drive-5942634 A team of graduate students from the University of Leicester, UK, has turned their thinking…

Clicking Your Mouse Solves Every Computer Freeze Known to Man

When your computer freezes, clicking the mouse button furiously is definitely what solves the problem. Amazing, really, that repeating a single, simple, mechanical operation can rectify complex software problems so easily. You must have healing hands. [Mr Lovenstein]

RIM ran a competition to get apps ported to BB10, and it worked: 15,000 new apps in just 38 hours. Promising. [Twitter]

This Scientific Coffee Machine Could Satisfy the Biggest Coffee Nerd

This system of burners, pipes, flasks and gauges looks like it came straight out of a laboratory. In fact, though, it’s a prototype coffee machine—and it could satisfy the technical desires of even the biggest coffee nerd. The Laboratory Espresso Machine was dreamt up by israeli designers David Budzik and Adi Schlesinger. Its design aesthetic…

The Price Tag on Samsung’s Awesome 85-Inch 4K TV Will Make You Weep

If you thought Sony’s 84-inch 4K TV was expensive at $25,000, then think again. Samsung has announced the pricing of its new flagship model—and you could buy a number of cars with the same cash. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-monster-4k-tv-costs-more-than-a-car-5940793 Samsung’s new 85-inch S9, which we described as “massive, and beautiful, and everything wonderful that can be wonderful about…

Oracle claims to have patched the Java vulnerability that Homeland Security was worried about. Browse freely! [Oracle]

WSJ: Apple Cuts Orders of iPhone Parts Following Low Demand

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to “weaker-than-expected demand” for the device. Citing “people familiar with the situation”, the Journal claims that Apple has cut its orders of iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for instance, by half. If the rumors are true, they…

This Is How Hiroshima Looked From the Ground

This picture, found in a Japanese Elementary School, depicts the mushroom cloud which formed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was taken just minutes after the bomb fell, from the location where modern-day Kaita is situated, six miles east of Hiroshima’s center. On the back of the photo (click above to…

Reuters has withdrawn its story on Phil Schiller’s denial of a cheaper, smaller iPhone. Well that sure clears things up!

You Can Send a Message to Zuckerberg’s Inbox (For $100)

If you have something you feel you desperately need to tell Mark Zuckerberg, now might be a real good time. For the handsome sum of $100, you can send a message to Mark’s Facebook inbox, without being automatically sent to spam. How nice. Mashable reports that Facebook is actually trialling a new spam filtering technique:…

BlackBerry users are suffering a major outage in the UK—and perhaps beyond. [Reuters]

You can now get Chrome Beta on Android: faster, newer features… and the occasional bug. Take your chances? [Google]

Would You Crowd-Source Your Email to Save Time?

We’re all busy and getting busier, which doesn’t fit well with a list of unread email that refuses to stop growing. Now, though, a team of researchers has developed a crowd-sourced email valet system—but would you share your inbox to streamline your life? New Scientist reports that academics from Stanford University have developed a new…