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ATMs Were Born Radioactive 40 Years Ago

This is John Shepherd-Barron, the Scottish guy who invented the first ATM. First installed 40 year ago by Barclays, it worked with Carbon 14-impregnated cheques, the same radioactive material that is used to date fossils. But fret not: not only it wasn’t radioactive enough but they were soon replaced by cards and now even dogs…

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Super-microwave Oven Converts Plastic Into Oil, Gas and Pure Carbon Black

Some good old tree-hugging scientists have created a new process that converts plastic back into diesel-grade oil, combustible gas and pure carbon black. They do it by using a machine called Hawk-10, which cycles through 1,200 different microwave frequencies to separate all these materials. It seems to be quite efficient and it could be applied…

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First Artificial Life Zoo Scares Every Other Life-form Around

If you are going to Portugal on vacation you may want to avoid the Robotarium X, a large glass structure with 45 creepy robots living inside. They belong to 14 different species, from the Acrorhinomorpho to the Zoid, and they feed on human blood. Or maybe they feed on solar power and they just look…

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Vintage Transformers Kick New Transformers’ Ass

Brian Prime didn’t look very impressed with some of the New Transformers toys and I can’t blame him. Nothing beats old school Transformers and the Real Megatron. Check some of the weirdest and coolest models now for sale on eBay, including the Millenium Falcon Transformer, the Gremlin-Troll Transvestite, the X-3 BattleStation Megatron Jazz and Megatron…

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Flying Robot Straight From Area 51 is Turbine-powered

Another day, another step toward materializing Skynet: Here is an exclusive shot of the stunning Boeing A160T flying over the desert for the first time, looking for humans to destroy. Like some kind of angry flying Bender or something. This has been the first test flight of this model, which is turbine-powered instead of piston-powered,…

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Fake Steve Jobs’ Photo With a Fake ThinkPad Reserve

There’s now a photo floating around that allegedly pictures Fake Steve Jobs holding a special edition, leather-bound Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve. Why this matters, I don’t know. But the thing is that some people believe is real and we are going to say it’s fake: It’s fake. There. Fake fake fake. Fake. Come on, it’s fake…

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Andre the Giant Selected as New Hand Model for iPhone

Hello, I am the Brute Squad and this is my friend Patsy. Looking at the latest product pics, some people are saying that the iPhone is now smaller than it originally was. The fact is that its dimensions have not changed. See, what happened is that here Patsy was the first hand model for the…

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No iPhone SDK Means No Killer iPhone Apps

Click to viewAccording to Apple, “no software developer kit is required for the iPhone.” However, the truth is that the lack of an SDK means that there won’t be a killer application for the iPhone. It also means the iPhone’s potential as an amazing computing and communication platform will never be realized. And because of…

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Wood Keyboard and USB Gadgets Give Gizmodo Writer Excuse to Declare: “Gandalf Has a Giant Penis”

I don’t know if I like these wood-made peripherals by Marubeni Infotec or not. I mean, take this beautiful keyboard: I love the clean lines, the nice texture and the great clickity-clack sound it must make. On the other hand, my tree-hugging commie hippie side wonders if we really need the extremely resource-consuming technological industry…

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X-51A’s Hypersonic Engine Firing Test Looks Like Pits of Hell or Doom 3 Scenario

Click to viewBoeing has just completed their firing tests for the stunning X-51A WaveRider Scramjet, and if you want to know what hell looks like, this is it. Or at least, this is how the devil’s version of George Foreman’s BBQ must look like. This is the first time the scramjet engine has been tested…

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Soviet Arcade Machines Fully Explain Russians’ Vodka Addiction

While Russian president, former KGB agent and failed comedian Vladimir Putin polishes his ICBMs, a group of friends at Moscow State Technical University has decided to do the same with a whole bunch of video game machines from the Soviet Era. And like the USSR’s old missiles, these primitive Japanese arcade crude knockoffs look to…

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What iPhone Third-Party Apps Would You Like?

While the dust is still clearing from yesterday’s All Things D (as in Digital, Damned, Drowsy, completely Delightful and even Dildonic at times), the best news for me has been Jobs’ announcement that Apple is planning to open the Mac OS X Messiah-phone to developers. To achieve their need to balance security and openness, my…

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Billionaire Orders Private Airbus A380, Declares ‘Mine is Bigger than Yours’

While the ink on Joseph Lau’s order of a $153 million Dreamliner VIP is still wet, an anonymous billionaire has just reserved a gigantastic Airbus A380 for his private use. The eight-story-tall airplane will be converted into a luxurious flying mansion that will include everything you can imagine, even the obligatory whirlpool bathtub for romantic…

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VIP Edition 787 Dreamliner Still Kicks Airbus’ Butt With Style

Click to viewFollowing yesterday’s 787 news, Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau has just ordered a Dreamliner VIP. It’s the same airplane you and I are going to use, but instead of being crammed in seat 36D between Biff, the overweight shoe salesman, and Chantal, the aerobic teacher from Fort Lauderdale, he’ll have a…

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Boeing 787 LEGO-like Building Begins, Kicks Airbus Nuts

Click to viewBoeing has started building their new flagship: the 787 Dreamliner. The cool thing about the 787 is that it only requires them to put together six big composite parts to build the final airframe, and operators don’t have to use huge tools and overhead cranes: All the parts can be slid along on…

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F-35 Helmet Display System To Scare the Bejeezus Out of Enemies

This is the new helmet-mounted display system for the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter. The helmet is designed to provide pilots with binocular-wide field-of-view, give night vision abilities and scare enemy pilots at first sight. It was used for the first time last April, making the F-35 the first combat plane without a cockpit-mounted…

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James Webb Space Telescope: Boldly Peeking Where No Man Has Peeked Before

This is the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s new infrared peeping Tom and part of the effort to replace Hubble. It looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer and it seems just as big. OK, maybe it’s not Enterprise-fire-your-transphasic-torpedoes huge, but as you can see in this impressive actual-scale model, it is giganormous: At 80ft (24m)…

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Galileo Satellite Positioning System Is a No-Go for Now

Leave it to that nest of fat bureaucrats called the European Union to fix what a consortium of eight European companies have not been able to pull off: Galileo, a former excommunicated astronomer turned global positioning system, is in a “dead-end street”. The 30-satellite system promised extreme accuracy to everyone around the world without the…

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iPhone Site Publishes Fourth Consecutive Irrelevant Post as World Keeps Ignoring It

Dear friends, In light of recent rumors and tabloid non-news, I feel compelled to clarify some aspects of what we, my shiny friend and I, are doing in London now. I can confirm that, after a short vacation in Kauai, we took off to England in my Gulfstream V. https://gizmodo.com/non-fake-iphone-photos-and-ballmer-blabber-vol-2-256927 However, this time it wasn’t…

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iPhone Non-News: 100% Refreshing Chilled Alcohol and Lime Juice!

Yes, it’s another round of iPhone Non-News, carefully collected from around the Web to keep you up to date with all the stuff that’s happening with the Apple wonder that you should know about. Or maybe you shouldn’t. Actually I would say that some of the stuff is barely happening at all. In fact, nobody…

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ATMs Were Born Radioactive 40 Years Ago

Super-microwave Oven Converts Plastic Into Oil, Gas and Pure Carbon Black

First Artificial Life Zoo Scares Every Other Life-form Around

Vintage Transformers Kick New Transformers’ Ass

Flying Robot Straight From Area 51 is Turbine-powered

Fake Steve Jobs’ Photo With a Fake ThinkPad Reserve

Andre the Giant Selected as New Hand Model for iPhone

No iPhone SDK Means No Killer iPhone Apps

Wood Keyboard and USB Gadgets Give Gizmodo Writer Excuse to Declare: “Gandalf Has a Giant Penis”

X-51A’s Hypersonic Engine Firing Test Looks Like Pits of Hell or Doom 3 Scenario

Soviet Arcade Machines Fully Explain Russians’ Vodka Addiction

What iPhone Third-Party Apps Would You Like?

Billionaire Orders Private Airbus A380, Declares ‘Mine is Bigger than Yours’

VIP Edition 787 Dreamliner Still Kicks Airbus’ Butt With Style

Boeing 787 LEGO-like Building Begins, Kicks Airbus Nuts

F-35 Helmet Display System To Scare the Bejeezus Out of Enemies

James Webb Space Telescope: Boldly Peeking Where No Man Has Peeked Before

Galileo Satellite Positioning System Is a No-Go for Now

iPhone Site Publishes Fourth Consecutive Irrelevant Post as World Keeps Ignoring It

iPhone Non-News: 100% Refreshing Chilled Alcohol and Lime Juice!

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

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

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets