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Temple Run 2, Gogobot, and More

It’s January, and it’s frigid, so you’re either staying inside or plotting an escape to a warmer locale. We’ve got you covered with two travel apps if you’re thinking vacation, two games if you’re thinking hibernation, and more. Gogobot: Book basically everything you need for your next trip—your flight, your hotel, and your meals through…

Calling All Music Nerds: Hole Up With This Awesome Board Game

There’s a storm fixing to hit the Northeast, so you’re going to need something to occupy you. Booze is a start, and the next step is Virtuoso, a music theory board game. First of all, just look at it. It’s a beautiful game. Second, it’s probably unlike any other game you have. It challenges you…

Google Finds 86,000 Unprotected Printers In the Internet

Cool new prank idea: print a bunch of pictures of butts to a random printer. Seriously, you can do it—Google has indexed somewhere around 86,800 publicly available HP printers. Google truncates the results, so you actually only get 73 rather than thousands and thousands. A little savvy searching shows that you can hit up any…

Kim Dotcom Wants to Encrypt Half the Internet

Tired of Kim Dotcom yet? No? Okay, here’s a pretty good interview with Russia Today in which the Megaupload founder chats up his fight with the U.S. Justice department, possible extradition, and the new Mega. https://gizmodo.com/kim-dotcoms-mega-is-now-open-to-the-public-5977329 One of the more interesting tidbits in the clip is that Dotcom apparently wants to encrypt half the internet…

AT&T is buying wireless spectrum from Verizon in 39 random small markets. Congrats AT&T customers of Waco, Texas.

Why Aren’t Telephone Towers This Beautiful Anymore?

You’re looking at what was once the main junction for telephone connections in Stockholm. See all the wires? That’s because it was used for around 5,000 phone lines—literal lines—from 1887-1913. But don’t go looking for the latticed tower on your next trip to Sweden. It remained a landmark until 1953, when it was destroyed in…

Gogobot for Android: One Stop Shop for Booking Your Next Vacation

Traveling is like juggling because you have a million things you have to book and you also want to make sure you hit the best places in a limited amount of time. Are you stressing out? Gogobot has a non-prescription drug solution for you. What does it do? Lets you plan your trip and book…

Here’s What To Do With Your Crap Old iPhone Cables

You know what I have a lot of? Old iPhone cables. You know what I don’t have a lot of? Old iPhones. So here are some cheap(er) adapters so your bogus cords are actually useful. They’re $27 on Amazon, so you’re saving $2 off the price you’d pay Apple. Plus you can get free shipping…

This Isn’t a Microphone

You just had to do a double-take because this adorable orb by OYO totally looks like a little mic, doesn’t it? Surprise! It’s actually a $30 speaker that fits in your pocket. Ballo comes in 11 different colors, each of which has a built-in rechargeable battery and a 3.5mm jack. The band in the middle…

Cuba is officially running an undersea cable to the outside world to boost its internet connection.

I Can’t Stop Looking at These GIFs of Illegal Activities

These illustrated GIFs by artist Stephen Vuillemin are incredible. They’re rife with illegal or borderline-illegal activity, and many are in French. Even if you’re a total prude and you don’t understand a lick of French, you won’t be able to look away. GIFs as art might sound pretentious, but you have to admit—these are awesome.…

Vine Is Twitter’s New GIF-like Video Sharing Service

Twitter just got more GIF-friendly, by introducing Vine, a new video-sharing service for clips that are six seconds or less. Vine is an iOS app that captures both motion and sound. Translation: GIFs MP4 files that you can tweet. Yes, there are similar apps in high supply that already exist. The obvious question is why…

An All-Wool Beanie Makes Single-Digit Temps Almost Bearable

It’s so cold you have to duck when you walk down the street to block the wind from freezing your face. Oh wait, then your head’s iced over. You know what’ll keep it warm? This all merino wool knit cap from Best Made. This cozy hat gets its cred from tests on the frigid streets…

FDA Says It’s OK to Have Robot Doctors

The FDA has approved the first robot doctor, a machine created by iRobot, the same company that made your Roomba. It’s called the RP-VITA and it’s awesome. Check it out in the picture. It’s basically a big screen with an iPad interface that lets a doctor examine a patient remotely, as long as the doc…

Instructables: DIY Instructions For Basically Anything

Want to make a Peter Pan costume for your dog? Craft a voice-controlled robot? Instructables has all the tutorials on the most outlandish projects you can conjure up. What does it do? Gives you recipes, how-tos, instructions, and tips for crazy DIY endeavors. Why do we like it? We’re a big fan of apps that…

You Want a Cast Iron Teapot on a Freezing Day Like Today

It’s cold as hell today. Seriously, frigid enough that the wind hurts your face. That’s why today we’re longing for a piping cup of hot tea, and this cast iron Ciacapo Teapot ($100) will keep your drinks warm for hours because it’s super heavy and thick. The heavy-duty pot is beautiful—an old fashioned style with…

Yes, Of Course The Guy Who Made This Awful App Is a Virgin

Playbook is a stupid skeezy app that lets you brag to your bros about your hookups, inserting ratings and degrading commentary along the way. What’s not to love? So, we thought this was a joke at first. We looked up the Whois record, fully expecting it to be registered to Frucci or something, and instead…

Objectify This Tech Writer: Kyle Wagner (Updated)

Here at Gizmodo, we celebrate Objectify a Male Tech Writer Day. Join in on the festivities by PhotoShopping our sexiest writer, Kyle Wagner, into the most compromising positions. Think slutty schoolgirl. Sweaty fireman. Sexy Subway sandwich artist. Download this blank Wagner head and objectify the hell out of him. And on Friday, February 1, we…

Blow This (Chihuly Glass Blowing) App

Paging Dale Chihuly enthusiast Marissa Mayer. You can make your own incredible glass sculptures in the same style of the artist with an iPhone app. Just blow into the microphone, then choose your color, and texture, and then. Just admire the picture. You can’t actually 3D print the items you design or anything, but it…

Guess Which Country Has the Fastest Internet

What country do you think has the best internet? Hint: not the U.S. Every quarter, Akami ranks countries based on their broadband speeds, specifically how many megabits per second. In the latest report, number one has an average peak speed of 54.1 megabits per second. At that rate you could download an entire feature film…