Kyle VanHemert, Author at Gizmodo

The Most Unforgettable Way To Learn About Neutrino Physics

It looks like a scene from some sci-fi epic. But for a week in October, anyone visiting the Manchester Science Festival was able to don a white tyvek suit and paddle through this wormhole of spectacular golden balloons. For science! It was part of a celebrated installation called Super K Sonic BOOOOum by Nelly Ben…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle VanHemert

Reeder for Mac Now Available in Beta

Reeder, our favoritest RSS reader for iOS, is now available in beta for OS X. Hooray! And though this early version is missing some features like feed management and search, you can still sync it up with an existing Google Reader account and breeze through feeds with an attractively simple interface. In fact, it’s got…

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A Museum With Wings

Watch me figure the Zayed National Museum out: its metallic sails are obviously supposed to represent the wingtips of some enormous super-insect whose head happens to be burrowed underground while it’s taking a nap. OK, no, that’s not quite right, but it’s close! The museum, a monument to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the…

Biology Kyle VanHemert

How You Can Make Time Lapse Videos With Your DSLR

Philip Bloom is a time lapse photography wizard. Here he shows you how to make a simple, zoomy time lapse video with photos from your DSLR. Now you just need a plane ticket to Dubai or Prague or something. [Photoxels] https://gizmodo.com/dubai-like-you-have-never-seen-it-before-5470483

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How This Mad Scientist Is Using Cadaver Legs To Understand Torn ACLs

Like any ordinary orthopedist, Mark Drakos treats patients, performs surgeries, and prescribes medicines. But if you catch him in his lab, you might be surprised by what you’d find: the doctor twisting dead human legs until they snap. Drakos, who played on the Harvard football team for four years as a wide receiver, has set…

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The iPhone Apps Everyone Should Have (Updated)

The end of the month is here, and that means it’s time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Who will unceremoniously get the boot? https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-apps-5676549 Added: Google Voice For iPhone: What kind of bizarro alternate universe are we living in? Well, it’s one…

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An iPhone 4 Amplifier That Doesn’t Need Any Electricity

The Phonofone III, like the Phonofone II before it, pumps tunes from your iPhone at 60dB without having to be plugged in to any outlet. Yup. It’s just big beautiful acoustic amplification. https://gizmodo.com/phonofonics-ii-dock-pumps-out-55db-without-external-pow-276629 While its predecessor was nearly $900, Science+Sons is offering first batch of redesigned Phonofone IIIs for only about $200 bucks. That’s not…

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EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, brilliant hour-glass street lights, inflatable homes, pedal-powered kitchens, disposable e-readers, all the world powered by sand, Russia spending billions on a space trash collector, and so much more. Clever Bike Lock Can Climb a Light Pole (Video) Instead of chaining up your ride to an object at ground level, imagine if…

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Comcast Is Bullying Netflix Partners Into Paying a Toll to Deliver Streaming Video

Level 3 Communications, the networking company that delivers streaming video to Netflix users, says that Comcast is demanding a “recurring fee” for the transmission of such videos to its subscribers. This, it goes without saying, is very shitty news. Updated. Level 3, who recently signed a deal to become the primary provider for streaming Netflix…

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Google Earth Now Has 80 Million Beautiful Trees

Say Hello to Google Earth 6, complete with 80 million freshly planted 3D-modeled trees. I never really pay much attention to real life trees, but for some reason this strikes me as indescribably awesome. I really can’t put my finger on it, why exactly I’m so impressed by all the new plant life in Google…

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If I Had These Stamps, I’d Find Paper to Push

From the desk of Kyle VanHemert. Ha! I don’t have any important documents to send to people or even a desk from which to send them. But these stamps. These stamps! They might just spark my professional renaissance. You can’t put a price on happiness! Unless you push paper in a dead-end office job, in…

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Buy a Galaxy S, Get a Free Sith Lord

Why is this man lounging in a rowboat with Darth Vader? Because apparently when you buy a Galaxy S on Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, you get the power of an evil intergalactic wizard along with it. Or something like that. [YouTube]

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

The Weird Futurism of the 1970 World’s Fair

The 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, the first to be held in Japan, was full of retro-futuristic architectural splendor. Here’s a look at just a few of its strange sights. [Pink Tentacle]

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Keep This Altoids Tin Martini Kit On You at All Times

I will say this up front: I like projects that stuff cool things in little Altoids tins. Don’t know why! I just do. But I think we can all get behind this one, which puts a martini in your pocket. Now that the Era of the FourLoko has drawn to its (unfortunate, premature) close, we’re…

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A Staircase and a Chandelier

You’ve probably seen plenty of spiral staircases and plenty of chandeliers in your life. But I doubt any have looked quite as cool as this photograph of the new cylindrical light in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Here’s another view: The light, designed by Spiers + Major, is comprised of fluorescent tubes encased in 45 total feet…

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This Is How AirPlay Should Work

AirPlay arrived this week, perhaps not quite as ass-kickingly as we had hoped. Here’s a clip of Air Video, the excellent stream-any-video-you-want-to-your-iPad app rigged up to beam video to an Apple TV. Basically, this is how AirPlay should work. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-airplay-in-action-5696600 And hopefully will, once Apple sorts out the relevant APIs. This demo was done with…

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Police Find Record Stash of Homemade Explosives in California Home

Bomb technicians are currently clearing a house in Escondido, California containing the largest cache of certain homemade explosives ever found in the U.S. Among other weapons, the stash includes 9 pounds of suicide bomber-favorite HMTD. The explosives were discovered last week after a gardener accidentally ignited some of the hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) powder, causing…

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Take a Ride on a Creepy Crawly Robotic Skateboard

Who the hell knows when we’re getting hoverboards? The Land Crawler eXtreme, a creepy 12-legged personal transport bot, is here now, and it’s only a matter of time before someone figures out how to kick flip one. https://gizmodo.com/a-real-working-hoverboard-exists-5549271 Made for his son by the Japanese roboticist Vagabond Works, the Land Crawler eXtreme has six pairs…

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Check Out Our Updated Black Friday Cheat Sheet

We’ve updated our Black Friday cheat sheet—the most useful deal-finding document around—with great deals from SonyStyle, HP Direct, and Toshiba Direct. Those are online stores, so you can score the savings without leaving your lair. Peep it. [Giz] https://lifehacker.com/the-ultimate-black-friday-gadget-cheat-sheet-updated-5696851

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This Door Knob Lets You See What’s in the Room Behind It

You probably don’t spend much time thinking about door knobs, or how they could be improved. Maybe you should! This glass globe lets you catch a glimpse of what’s going on in the room you’re about to enter. Hideyuki Nakayama’s “A Room in the Glass Globe,” developed in conjunction with door handle manufacturer LEVER, shows…

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The Most Unforgettable Way To Learn About Neutrino Physics

Reeder for Mac Now Available in Beta

A Museum With Wings

How You Can Make Time Lapse Videos With Your DSLR

How This Mad Scientist Is Using Cadaver Legs To Understand Torn ACLs

The iPhone Apps Everyone Should Have (Updated)

An iPhone 4 Amplifier That Doesn’t Need Any Electricity

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Comcast Is Bullying Netflix Partners Into Paying a Toll to Deliver Streaming Video

Google Earth Now Has 80 Million Beautiful Trees

If I Had These Stamps, I’d Find Paper to Push

Buy a Galaxy S, Get a Free Sith Lord

The Weird Futurism of the 1970 World’s Fair

Keep This Altoids Tin Martini Kit On You at All Times

A Staircase and a Chandelier

This Is How AirPlay Should Work

Police Find Record Stash of Homemade Explosives in California Home

Take a Ride on a Creepy Crawly Robotic Skateboard

Check Out Our Updated Black Friday Cheat Sheet

This Door Knob Lets You See What’s in the Room Behind It

30 Unpublished Poems From Iconic Greek Philosopher Discovered in Cairo

Lucid Recalls 4,000 Gravity SUVs for Faulty Seat Belts That May Not Actually Work During a Collision

Ninja Blast Max Hits Its Lowest Price and Now One of the Cheapest Portable Blenders Worth Buying

The ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Is a Beautifully Executed Dystopian Nightmare

Antibiotics Turned This Woman’s Limbs Into an Unsettling Horrorshow

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 Bundle at 97% Off With Premium Coding Certification Included, a Complete Learn-to-Code Package

Shark PowerPro Reveal Plus Cordless Vacuum Drops to an All-Time Low, Selling Faster Than Dyson at a Fraction of the Price

The First Trailer for ‘Widow’s Bay’ Welcomes You to a Creepy Horror Comedy

What the New Starbucks ‘Widely Recyclable’ Label Really Means

LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Quietly Hits a Record Low, Expanding Beyond the Millennium Falcon Deals for a Limited Time

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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?