Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Author at Gizmodo

Beautiful Warming Huts Are Proof That Canada Does Winter Better Than Us

The average temperature in Winnipeg during the winter hovers around 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit—a number most of would consider cause for hunkering down for the season. In Canada, it’s cause for parties. Winnipeg keeps up a busy schedule of outdoor activities, including a four mile skating trail on the frozen Red River, which is often called…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 28 '14

Subway Etiquette Posters From 1970s Japan Are Just as Relevant Today

Don’t smoke in the train station. Don’t spit your gum on the floor. And please, god, don’t splay your legs out like no one else is around you. These sound like basic rules of today’s public transit, but they’re actually messages that graced the walls of Tokyo’s subway forty years ago. Hideya Kawakita is a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 27 '14

Be Thankful For the Invisible Belt That Saves Earth From Radiation

Well, here’s something cosmic to be thankful for this weekend. A NASA-led study of the Van Allen radiation belts has uncovered new information about the invisible “shield” that keeps harmful ultrarelativistic electrons from the Earth. In a study published in Nature, scientists from MIT and the University of Colorado at Boulder detail their analysis of…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 26 '14

Why a White Cup Makes Your Coffee Taste More Intense

If part of your morning routine involves coffee, it’s likely that you have a very specific ritual about which cups you use. Now, an Australian scientist has taken it upon himself to find out whether there’s any scientific basis for thinking that taste is influenced by cup color—and it turns out, the color of your…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 26 '14

Today Definitely Isn’t the Worst Day to Fly

Everyone—ourselves included—loves to moan about how terrible Thanksgiving travel is: The crowds! The weather! The godforsaken airports! But QZ has run the numbers, and it turns out we’re all a bunch of factually incorrect babies. Based on the US Department of Transportation’s 2013 data on the number of carrier operations in US airports, QZ says…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 26 '14

A Radical Plan to Fix America’s Worst Airport

A few weeks ago, we asked you to name the worst airport in America. It was a seemingly crowded field, but in the end, there was no competition: LaGuardia won out by a landslide. And not just according to you—that’s according to experts, the governor, and even Joe Biden. Jim Venturi, a filmmaker and the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 25 '14

You Can Climb Through This Web Made From 27 Miles of Tape

12 people and ten days: That’s how long the artist collective Numen / For Use says it took to create a cellophane jungle gym inside this gallery in Paris, where visitors can crawl inside their milky, transparent network like spiders on a web. How much tape did they use? Almost 30 miles. The installation at…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 25 '14

NASA Built a Grappling Claw With Just Household Objects and LittleBits

There were plenty of engineering-themed toys on view at this weekend’s Toy and Game Fair in Chicago, but none of them came close to NASA’s contribution in terms of sheer cred. On hand at the fair were NASA reps who demonstrated a mechanism built from the agency’s new LittleBits kit. First announced in April, LittleBits’…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 25 '14

The Worst Airport In America

More than 46 million Americans will travel further than 50 miles for this week’s turkey-based festivities, and many of us will do it via air. And while very few airports deal well with holidays swarms, some of them excel at misery. Last month, we set out to find America’s worst airport. We asked you to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 25 '14

This iOS Keyboard Finally Lets You Draw Your Own Texts

GIF keyboards. Typo-busting keyboards. Even just Swype. App developers have been going wild since iOS 8 finally gave us the ability to install third party keyboards, but this might be the most fun: It’s called DrawType, and it lets you sketch responses right in your texts. For .99 cents, DrawType gives you access to a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 24 '14

This Sweet Connected Toy Is Designed To Teach Kids How to Program

Last week we were given a stark reminder of just how far the toy industry has to go in making great toys for girls that promote engineering, in the form of this Barbie travesty. Here’s a nice antidote from a UX design firm called Slice of Lime: Nübi, a connected toy prototype that aims to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 24 '14

I Zapped My Wine With an Ultrasonic Decanter and It Tasted Pretty Good

Technology that can age wine within minutes sounds like it belongs in the same too-good-to-be-true boat as those ads for that “one food that kills belly fat.” But the inventor behind a device that claims to do just that, the Sonic Decanter, recently invited to me to test out this fantastical technology. Does it work?…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 21 '14

Half of a Teapot Is Actually the Perfect Amount of Teapot

Have you ever filled your teapot up more than halfway in your life? Oh, you have? Well, not all of us are constantly having wild parties with dozens of friends for whom to make tea. The rest of us are usually only making one or two cups—and that’s who the design team at the Dutch…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 20 '14

Ikea Is Reissuing Amazing Old Designs From the 1950s and 60s

Ikea is over 70 years old, which means the company has survived through dozens upon dozens of design trends, from stuffy conservatism in the late 1940s to the craziness of the 60s. Wonderfully, the company is now plucking classics from its archives to sell in some stores. As one of the only mass-produced furniture companies…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 20 '14

5 New Details That Show How Apple Wants Us To Use Its Watch

This week the Apple Watch made a big step towards reality, with the release of WatchKit for developers of watch apps. Hidden within a fairly mundane document are plenty of glimpses at how Apple envisions smartwatches fitting in with our lives. With WatchKit come Apple’s Watch Human Interface Guidelines, which lay out the company’s recommendations…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 20 '14

Oh Hey, Ikea Bought Another Giant Wind Farm

Back in March, we learned Ikea had purchased an Illinois wind farm big enough to power all its US stores. Well, that was small potatoes. Today the company announced its largest investment in renewables ever: The acquisition of a much larger wind farm in Texas. The new farm will be built in Cameron County, Texas,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 19 '14

How a Medical Stress Sensor Evolved Into a Beautiful Wearable For All

Seven years ago, an MIT professor named Rosalind Picard developed a wristband called iCalm to help autistic kids manage stress by measuring electrodermal activity on the skin. Today, Picard and her team want to put their device in your hands. What happened in between is a fascinating story about the role of accidental discoveries in…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 19 '14

Behold the Internet’s Favorite Bathroom

Remember a few months ago, when we talked about the bathroom supply company on a quest to find America’s best restroom—a dubious honor—by polling the internet? Well, today they announced the winner, and somewhat ironically, it recreates nature around those who are answering calls of nature. After months of public voting, the winner is the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 19 '14

These Architects Want To Build a Surf Park That Floats In the Ocean

Australia is home to some of the best surfing in the world, but at least a few surfer-slash-designers aren’t content to leave their city to find great waves—so they’re proposing an urban “surf park” right in the Melbourne’s harbor. The idea for the Docklands Surf Park came from a group of young Melbourne architects who…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 18 '14

Inside the Blood Factory That Keeps Track of the World’s Rare Donors

When most of us think of “rare blood,” we think of AB-positive or O-negative. But it turns out there are far, far rarer types than that. In Filton, England, there’s a lab that handles blood donations from across the UK—and identifies this super-rare blood. Photographer Greg White recently got a tour of the NHS Blood…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 18 '14

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Beautiful Warming Huts Are Proof That Canada Does Winter Better Than Us

Subway Etiquette Posters From 1970s Japan Are Just as Relevant Today

Be Thankful For the Invisible Belt That Saves Earth From Radiation

Why a White Cup Makes Your Coffee Taste More Intense

Today Definitely Isn’t the Worst Day to Fly

A Radical Plan to Fix America’s Worst Airport

You Can Climb Through This Web Made From 27 Miles of Tape

NASA Built a Grappling Claw With Just Household Objects and LittleBits

The Worst Airport In America

This iOS Keyboard Finally Lets You Draw Your Own Texts

This Sweet Connected Toy Is Designed To Teach Kids How to Program

I Zapped My Wine With an Ultrasonic Decanter and It Tasted Pretty Good

Half of a Teapot Is Actually the Perfect Amount of Teapot

Ikea Is Reissuing Amazing Old Designs From the 1950s and 60s

5 New Details That Show How Apple Wants Us To Use Its Watch

Oh Hey, Ikea Bought Another Giant Wind Farm

How a Medical Stress Sensor Evolved Into a Beautiful Wearable For All

Behold the Internet’s Favorite Bathroom

These Architects Want To Build a Surf Park That Floats In the Ocean

Inside the Blood Factory That Keeps Track of the World’s Rare Donors

The Government’s Page About Its AI Vetting Deals with Google, xAI, and Microsoft Is Missing from Its Website

Remember Digg? It’s Back, in AI News Outlet Form

Amazon Stops Selling Fast E-Bikes To Californians

Why Jane Schoenbrun Wanted to Make a Queer-Focused Slasher Film

Someone Created a Version of ‘Elden Ring’ That Runs on a PS1

Blueair Smart Air Purifier Gets Another Price Cut to All-Time Low With HEPASilent Filtration Capturing 99.97% of Airborne Particles

Jonathan Hickman Returns to the X-Men With Marvel’s New ‘Midnight’ Universe

Google Says It Found Evidence of Hackers Using AI to Discover a Zero-Day Vulnerability

Activists Install Arcade Game Mocking Trump on the National Mall. You Can Play It in Your Browser Right Now

Logitech G PRO X Superlight 2 Wireless Gaming Mouse Drops Below Black Friday Pricing, USB-C Charging for PC and Mac

Smart Glasses With Subscriptions Are As Bad as They Sound

iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In

Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It

JBL Live 780NC Review: Solid Wireless Headphones You Can Live Without

Acer’s Swift 16 AI (2026) Gets a Lot Right, But I Can’t Get Past the Trackpad

Samsung Galaxy A57 5G Review: Not Worth It at Full Price

Logitech G G512 X Review: The Tasting Menu of a Pro Gaming Keyboard

Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone Review: AI Can’t Save This Robot Vacuum

The Best Tech Gifts for Mother’s Day 2026

Asus’ Dual-Display Gaming Laptop Will Ruin Your Single-Screen Lifestyle