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Photo: Steve Jobs Leaving Apple Campus Today

Good news! Here you have the man, the one, the only, el señor jefe Steve Jobs leaving Apple’s headquarters, today at 3:00pm. This is the first time he has been spotted—with an iPhone, of course—at the Cupertino campus. Click to viewHe appears to be walking with Jon Ive. Looking thin, but great. After all the…

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The Wrath of God or Just a Huge Atmospheric Discharge of Electricity

Rain, thunder, and lightning are taking over NYC, but nothing as spectacular as this gigantic ray striking aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. Or as scary as this one, touching ground near the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio: I really hope they have grounded plugs there. Head to The Big Picture for some…

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DeltaLab Recording Studio Is Probably Located On Mothership Orbiting Saturn

When the DeltaLab Recording Studios were founded by 19-yo Thomas Troelsen in 2001, they didn’t look this spiffy at all. Eight years later, aliens descended into Copenhagen, Denmark, and redesigned the whole place into a trippy place from outer space. [DeltaLab Studios]

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First Pictures of Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo Interior

We all know how Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo looks from the outside, but this is the first time ever you are going to see the cockpit of SpaceShipTwo’s mothership. It looks like the old-style spaceship cockpits from Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. https://gizmodo.com/first-virgin-galactic-white-knight-ii-photos-5029950 Head to Hyperbola to get more exclusive shots and video. [Hyperbola]

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This Is How You Sell Wide-Angle Lenses

It’s extremely rare to find a tasteful ad campaign that uses sex and clever humor to perfectly define the qualities of a technology product. This series of print ads for Omax wide-angle lenses is one of them: Click to viewThe campaign was created by Publicis India, showing alternative uses for the wide shots that these…

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Convert a Netbook Battery Into an iPhone Battery

Why would you hack your MSI Wind‘s battery to add a USB port when you can just connect your iPhone or any other device to the netbook’s USB port? Well, just because you can. According to the author of the hack, the iPhone 3G took 2 hours and 22 minutes to fully recharge, leaving 50%…

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This Is How Two Girls Play Gameboy When They Really Love Each Other

Today I met Matt, Wilson, Adam, and John for dinner at Momofuku Noodle Bar, here in NY. As I got into the subway, I saw these two really cool blonde girls playing Gameboy together in the weirdest and funniest way. Sitting tight together, head to head, one was frantically rubbing her thumb against the Gameboy…

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Scientist Turn Aluminum Into Strange, Completely New Matter State

Scientists at the FLASH free-electron, high intensity laser facility in Hamburg, Germany, have created a completely new state of matter, transforming aluminum into something “that nobody has seen before,” an exotic material which is transparent to ultraviolet radiation. According to Professor Justin Wark—from the Oxford University’s Department of Physics—the discovery is “almost as surprising as…

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What Is This?

The engine room of the next Enterprise? A glimpse at the heart of some new particle accelerator? The lens of a new US military laser? Actually, it’s the multifunctional hall of the BMW Welt energy-efficient factory, designed as “a solar-heated, naturally ventilated sub-climatic area.” The air flow is generated by thermal currents and turbulences that…

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The Sukhoi Su-35 Eject Stunt Was Filmed for Kerosene Cowboys

I don’t know yet if the crazy Sukhoi Su-35 pilot jumped at Mach 2.0 or not, but the scene showing the fighter flying without a canopy—and one of the pilots jumping—was filmed for a movie called Kerosene Cowboys: https://gizmodo.com/crazy-russian-sukhoi-su-35-pilot-ejects-for-a-hollywood-5323825 In 2001 in Iraq, two American NAVY pilots – Butch Masters and Tom Craig – are…

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iWet T-Shirts: Yet Another iPhone App That Makes Me Shake My Head in Shame

Great. Apple rejects Google Voice for iPhone for whatever reason, but they approve something like iWet T-Shirts with a PG-13 rating—an application in which you use a water hose to make t-shirts wet. T-shirts with buxom girls inside. https://gizmodo.com/apple-rejects-official-google-voice-iphone-app-5324268 Come on. I enjoy wetness as much as the next person, and I like to pinch…

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The Cheese That Almost Went to Space

Forget Apollo astronauts, forget space monkeys, forget teddie cosmobears, forget shuttle bats, and forget friggin’frozen Ronald McDonald. Tis the time for Space Cheese. https://gizmodo.com/space-monkey-gone-to-heaven-5272801 Today at 4AM GMT, this 300-gram (0.66-pound) piece of godspeedy Cheddar cheese launched in a weather balloon, tracked by a built-in GPS. Sadly, the mission—funded by the West Country Farmhouse Cheesemaker—only…

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At Last, Use Any Headset With the iPod Shuffle

Praise Belkin, for they will save any iPod shuffle owner from the suffering of having to use the Apple-provided headphones. All thanks to the aptly-named Headphone Adapter for iPod shuffle. Available for $20 at the end of July. [Belkin] https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946

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Apple Tablet Probability Meter: 80% Chance, 4 Months Away

We have been tracking the Apple Tablet for longer than I want to remember. Here’s an update on the probability of it happening at all, and when we think it will launch if it does. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve wanted a son of Newton since Jobs cancelled it, and I’ve been gagging for…

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This Blue Rat May Have the Secret to Avoid Spinal Cord Injuries

It’s not a negative. It’s not frozen. This rat’s skin is blue and its color may be the secret to avoid spinal cord injuries and paralysis, according to a new study by neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. That secret is Brilliant Blue G dye, a variant of Blue Number One, which is…

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Multiplayer Chess iPhone App Is Very Cool, But Probably Won’t Be a Bestseller

With the invasion of too-cool-for-school iPhone games with 3D graphics and all sorts of eye candy, it’s hard to imagine Chess Wars being a raging success. Even while this multiplayer chess application seems absolutely splendiferous. The application is simple: Just select an opponent among your Facebook friends and challenge him or her to a game…

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Weirdest Use of Spreadsheets I’ve Ever Heard

I was reading the feeds today and came across this “Intimacy Tracker” application for iPhone, a really ugly app that allows you to track your sexual life stats. The only good thing about it, however, was one of the reviews: I have been keeping stats of my sex life for years using a spreadsheet. I…

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Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 (UPDATED)

Holy frak. Holy frak. HOLYROLLERBLADINGFRAK! Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed. (UPDATED) While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an…

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Car Air Conditioning System Adjust to Your Mental Activity

After having survived a weekend with a crazy silly driver, I wish Nissan didn’t spend money on creating a new car AC system that adjusts to the “driver’s mental activity,” releasing aromas, controlling humidity, and injecting breezes and plasmacluster ions. Developed with the University of Tokyo, Nissan says that their new Forest AC air conditioning…

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Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid’s Bedroom Ceiling

This is what great parents do when they want to take good care of their son, giving him all he needs to grow into a cultured, social, healthy young man: A 98-inch TV mounted flush inside his bedroom’s ceiling. The job was not easy: Admirable mom Patti Deni wanted the 98-inch StarGlas60 screen to be…

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Photo: Steve Jobs Leaving Apple Campus Today

The Wrath of God or Just a Huge Atmospheric Discharge of Electricity

DeltaLab Recording Studio Is Probably Located On Mothership Orbiting Saturn

First Pictures of Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo Interior

This Is How You Sell Wide-Angle Lenses

Convert a Netbook Battery Into an iPhone Battery

This Is How Two Girls Play Gameboy When They Really Love Each Other

Scientist Turn Aluminum Into Strange, Completely New Matter State

What Is This?

The Sukhoi Su-35 Eject Stunt Was Filmed for Kerosene Cowboys

iWet T-Shirts: Yet Another iPhone App That Makes Me Shake My Head in Shame

The Cheese That Almost Went to Space

At Last, Use Any Headset With the iPod Shuffle

Apple Tablet Probability Meter: 80% Chance, 4 Months Away

This Blue Rat May Have the Secret to Avoid Spinal Cord Injuries

Multiplayer Chess iPhone App Is Very Cool, But Probably Won’t Be a Bestseller

Weirdest Use of Spreadsheets I’ve Ever Heard

Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 (UPDATED)

Car Air Conditioning System Adjust to Your Mental Activity

Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid’s Bedroom Ceiling

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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

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