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America Never Looked More Stunningly Beautiful Than This Timelapse

Photographer and Gizmodo fan John Eklund made this extraordinary time-lapse movie of the Pacific Northwest. I thought I was getting tired of these videos, but some of his shots really push it to a new level. “I started the project from July 2011 to August 2012,” he said in an email, “I took approximately 260,000…

Sadly, You Will Not Be Able to Visit Neil Armstrong’s Grave

Neil Armstrong, America’s greatest and most reluctant hero, is not going to have a grave. He’s going to be buried at sea. Armstrong was a Lieutenant in the US Navy reserve. He originally joined the Navy in 1949, training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola and becoming a pilot. He flew 78 missions in the…

Here’s Kim Dotcom’s Car Being Chased By a Helicopter (Updated)

Kim Dotcom just posted an image of a helicopter chasing his car. Is that the New Zealand police? The FBI in a rented helicopter? The press? A playful friend? He hasn’t shared any more details, but it’s pretty amazing, in a Ray Liotta’s Goodfellas kind of way. Update: Kim just told us that this is…

Dubai Is Officially the Craziest City in the World Now

By the powers bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants and after carefully examining and considering the numerous photographic and videographic documents covering its many insane and absurd architectural structures, I hereby declare Dubai the craziest city in the world. [Airpano.ru—Thanks Karl!] https://gizmodo.com/this-the-amazing-present-and-the-crazy-future-of-dubais-5587470

Incredible Photograph Captures Exact Moment of Tank Shell Hitting Against Syrian Rebels

This image sequence of a Syrian army tank firing against a group of rebels in a street of Aleppo is pure and horrible insanity. Taken by Tracey Shelton, it captures the exact moment of a tank shell hitting the rebel position. Miraculously, she survived. Sadly, some of the men weren’t so lucky. Tracey—a veteran photographer…

This Amazing Skyscraper Parks Your Car In Your Living Room

I’ve seen other amazing robotized parking systems in the past, but this just seems insanely unreal to me. Just watch this guy parking his Lamborghini in his living room. It’s like someone went to the future in a nuclear-powered DeLorean and filmed the whole thing. [Liveleak—Thanks Karl!] https://gizmodo.com/vws-automated-parking-garage-173049

Confidential Images of Apple’s New Spaceship Interior Leaked

We already saw plenty of exterior images of Apple’s new headquarters, which look like a giant spaceship or a spaceport. But these confidential interior images—obtained by 9to5mac’s Élyse Betters—truly show the scale of this place. Look at the size of the glass walls! https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-mothership-campus-shows-mysterious-research-5865977 The first thing you will notice looking at these images is…

How to Enable Image Stabilization on the Nokia Lumia 920 (Not Really)

It seems that Nokia screwed their Lumia 920 camera demo even more than we thought. Not only they faked the video but also faked photos. https://gizmodo.com/how-could-you-screw-this-up-so-badly-nokia-5940748 Some of the images presented as taken by the Lumia 920’s new PureView camera were actually taken by a DSLR camera, as the image below shows. A DSLR on…

This Is the Most Expensive Penny in the Universe

This is the most expensive penny in the Universe. It’s now on Mars, after an exciting $2.5 billion ride. Previously, the most expensive Lincoln penny in history was a 1943 copper-alloy cent that was sold for $1.7 million in a 1996 auction. That’s peanuts compared to the cost of putting this coin up there, however.…

iPhone owners can’t sue Apple over broken glass, says judge. Which kind of imbeciles sue for breaking their own stuff?

Who the Hell Cares About Ads In the New Kindle Fire?

Some people are whining that the new Kindle Fires shows Amazon’s “special offers” when locked. They’re upset because “I can’t put my own pretty background!” Or “I can’t put the face of my cat!” Or “I can’t cycle through those photos of the Grand Canyon that I took on two years ago when I thought…

Scientists Discover Method to Control Cockroaches Remotely

Researchers have been working on this for a very long time and now they have finally achieved it: scientists at North Carolina State University have successfully remotely controlled cockroaches. Watch the video. It’s both disgusting and impressive, but it could save your life one day. https://gizmodo.com/remote-controlled-roaches-the-next-front-line-in-nucle-5474179 According to lper Bozkurt, assistant professor of electrical engineering…

The Most Amazing Solar Eruption Ever Recorded Is Even More Terrifying In Video

Holy Jesuspants. The image was already astonishing but this video made my head spin. Watching this magnificent violence from every angle is a good way to realize how lucky we are to be alive, precisely because of that titanic ball of fire in the sky. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-most-astonishing-solar-eruption-ive-ever-se-5940625 The video of this “magnificent CME”—as NASA calls it—was…

How Could You Screw This Up So Badly, Nokia?

You know, Nokia, I was all excited about your new PureView camera after watching your fake demo video. So excited that I wrote a piece on how this camera will make me dump the iPhone and get a Lumia 920. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-faked-its-pureview-demo-and-then-claimed-they-nev-5940784 Now I just want to slap you. Sure, I know that our own hands-on…

Pentagon Robot Is Faster Than Usain Bolt—and Freaks the Hell Out of Me

This is freaking scary. This is even scarier than Big Dog. It’s the latest version of the Pentagons’s newest Cheetah robot and it now runs faster than Usain Bolt. 0.5 miles per hour faster than the fastest man on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 And if can catch Usain, it can catch you too. And then kill you.…

This Is Not the Cockpit of a Secret TIE Fighter

I was going through a whole lot of awesome cockpit photos yesterday when I stumbled upon this image, the most impressive of them all. It looked more like the interior of a secret Imperial fighter from Star Wars than a machine made on Earth. Of course, it’s not new: it’s the WhiteKnightOne, the mothership designed…

First Video of an iPhone 5 Booting Up

At this stage of the proceedings, Foxconn must be churning a triillion iPhone 5 units per second, getting ready for the September 12 launch. Nor surprisingly, it seems someone managed to smuggle one out of a factory in Jincheng, China. Not just parts, but an entire unit. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5-is-coming-on-september-12-5940289 The phone seems complete and booting. It…

This Is the Most Astonishing Solar Eruption I’ve Ever Seen

I don’t know if it’s the most amazing view of a solar eruption ever recorded, but it probably is. When our friends at NASA Goddard sent us this image of the latest solar eruption today, we just couldn’t believe how astonishing and ominous it looked. So astonishing and special that NASA titled their image “Magnificent…

The President Will Be Able to Order Drone Strikes Against Hurricanes One Day

We are in the middle of hurricane season. Isaac hit the south of the United States last week, inundating acres of land, wreaking homes and disrupting oil and gas production—a stark reminder of the Katrina disaster and yet another warning of catastrophes to come. Now, imagine if the President of the United States had the…

Chinese Clone Company Will Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 Design

The clone manufacturer who released an iPhone 5 knock-off last week now says that they will sue Apple if they release the real iPhone 5 in China. Surreal? Hilarious? Pathetic? All of the above. https://gizmodo.com/chinas-already-knocking-off-the-iphone-5-5938613 Hong Kong-based GooPhone, who designed their cheapo Android phone after the alleged Apple iPhone 5 parts leaked during the last…