Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

Very Expensive Bang & Olufsen EarSet 3i Headphones Only Look Sorta Expensive

Super-mega luxury electronics purveyor Bang & Olufsen has a new headphone set out—and it’s got an i-suffix, so you know who they’re trying to grab! The EarSet 3is have a microphone, phone/volume controls, and are moderately shiny. They don’t pack any audio improvement over their predecessors, but sport a brushed aluminum and rubber mix that…

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Fiber Optic Bandaids Show Just How Gross Your Wound Is

For people with serious cuts—think surgery patients—making sure that gash is clean is tricky and critical. Chronic wounds can spiral out of control if infections aren’t caught early. So how about a bandage that monitors your skin? The new bandage prototypes, developed by Swiss scientists, reacts to changing acidity of a wound—a solid indicator of…

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HeadPhone Gets Your Plugged-In Zombie Coworkers’ Attention

The fact that HeadPhone exists is both sad and brilliant. Sad, because it’s actually a problem that it can be really hard to get someone’s attention at work because of perma-headphones. Brilliant, because Headphone pretty much fixes this problem. The app is super small and does only one thing—shoot an un-ignorable “X WANTS TO GET…

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This Is the Last Handwritten Newspaper

Not only is The Musalman written by hand—at a time when printed newspapers are dying like sick lepers—it’s produced by a team of only four scribes. And it’s not just handwritten—it’s transcribed in calligraphy. These people work. Hard. The Musalman has been operating in India since 1927, and has never had an employee quit—the only…

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Rapture Predictor’s Website Gets Convenient Redesign

So what do you do when you spend a mammoth amount of time and money to warn people that the world is going to end—and it doesn’t? Just pretend it never happened. The California doomsday-mongers at Family Radio stripped their website of an apocalypse countdown, and the large text declaring Saturday as Judgment Day. Instead,…

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Legendary Skater Tony Hawk (And Many Others) Joins Rapture Bomb Armageddon

So, the world didn’t end. Sort of anticlimactic, no? But the apocalyptic letdown didn’t stop you guys from pulling off some fantastic rapture bombs. We’ve got another batch of our favorite bombs—plus super grindmaster Tony Hawk rapturing himself. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-rapture-bomb-pictures-5804259 Hawk’s adorable daughter doesn’t seem too thrilled that her dad got sucked up to the great…

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Japan Considering Solar Power for Every Single Building by 2030

Both because they’re a country dedicated to teeny tiny carbon footprints, and because they’re likely not too hot on nuclear power at the moment, Japan is expected to kick off a universal solar panel initiative. Every building, twenty years. The plan, making mandatory solar panels for all residential and commercial buildings, is likely to debut…

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Inside the State Department’s 24/7 Digital Peace Room

When an international incident occurs—say, a nuclear meltdown in Japan, revolution in Egypt, a SEAL raid in Pakistan, or something along those lines—the State Department knows every detail possible. How? A buzzing room of plugged-in, insomniac brains. The State Department’s Operations Center (casually called “Ops”) was first whipped together during the Bay of Pigs invasion,…

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Cisco Threw Their Flip Cams in the Trash

We knew Cisco was killing off the now-obsolete Flip cam, but did they really have to dump them into the trash can, like a used condom or empty box of Lucky Charms? And why’d they toss the globe paperweight? https://gizmodo.com/the-flip-camera-is-finally-dead-your-smartphones-got-bl-5791203 The mass grave pic was snapped by a Cisco employee who must have been troubled…

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The Southern Flood Looks Even More Awful from Space

As the Mississippi rises and sweeps away whatever it wants, photos from the ground are awful enough. But seeing NASA’s satellite view, the damage is incredible. Blue-ish areas? Flooded. That. Is. A. Lot. Of. Water. [NASA via Boing Boing]

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Zuckerberg Wants Kids Under 13 on Facebook

Facebook’s already pretty inane. The only thing that could make it worse is, oh I dunno, having 10 year-olds running wild on it. Luckily, it’s against the law for sub-13 year-olds to join data-collecting sites. Unless The Zuck changes that. At a recent symposium on education reform, Zuckerberg argued that Facebook could, and should, play…

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All the Essential Gear You Need for The Rapture

The world is ending tomorrow. Maybe. Odds are, if you’re a Gizmodo reader, you’ll be stuck down here with the rest of us sinners—pick up this apocalyptic hardware beforehand. Lock Picks You know what the best part of the Rapture will be? The looting, of course. With all the goodie goodies sucked up into Heaven,…

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Heroic Citizen Defends Self Against Armed Robber with a Beer Can

You’re approached by a man with a knife. He demands money. Do you: A) Consent, safely handing over your wallet. B) Make a run for it. C) Beat the guy with a can of beer you’re holding? If you’re this anonymous Michigan bro ninja, choice C is the only choice. He told the crook he’d…

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Sex Moan-Detecting Software Blocks Porn the Fun Way

I feel myself in a serious moral bind when it comes to porn blocking software, but here we go. The “problem” with image-based filters is that they get a lot of false positives. But porn moans? There’s no confusing those. Unless you’re browsing videos of someone falling off a cliff, the screams of OH MY…

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Another HIV-Beating Pill Now Available

It’s pretty amazing that there’s are any pills used to beat back HIV in the body—but now there’s another. The FDA’s approved Edurant, which, when used with other drugs, drops the virus’ presence inside patients. Lives saved. [AP]

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The Internet’s Creepiest Craigslist Ad

It takes a lot to be creepy on Craigslist. To be noticed for being shady on civilization’s greatest repository of perversion and fraud is like being the most naked woman at the strip club. But this, uh “researcher” managed it. Under Brooklyn’s “General Community” section, one anonymous Craigslister posted the following solicitation: Have you ever…

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American Nuclear Plants Have Fukushima’s Flaws—And We’ve Ignored the Warning

Five years ago, Anthony Sarrack, an engineer at a Minnesota nuclear plant, warned the US government that their common emergency vents wouldn’t work in a disaster. He was ignored. Two months ago, Fukushima exploded because of those same vents. The vents at Sarrack’s plant require electricity to open—which is exactly what workers at Fukushima didn’t…

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Facebook Hunting Kiddie Porn Pervs with Microsoft Algorithm

The internet can literally only agree on one thing: child pornography is awful and the worst. And if there’s one place I don’t want that bile winding up, it’s on my precious Facebook. Microsoft to the illegal-photo-tracking rescue. The tech, called PhotoDNA, cross-references photos—even if they’ve been cropped or edited—against a giant database of illegal…

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War Dogs Can Rappel Down Walls

War dogs are going to get you. You think you’re safe because you’re downstairs and they’re upstairs? Think again, chief—because those war dogs are about to rappel the hell down, clad in armor, and eat you to death. https://gizmodo.com/war-dogs-in-afghanistan-5801815 This video, from Canadian war dog outfitter K9 Storm, shows what’s probably the only thing more…

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What Is Bitcoin?

Maybe you’ve heard of Bitcoin—it wants to shake the entire global economy, and has become the financial bubble du jour with a skyrocketing value. It’s online money—an alternative to dollars and euros. Well what’s that mean? It’s complicated, but we break it down. Bitcoin is an anonymous digital currency… Bitcoin is not real money. It’s…

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Very Expensive Bang & Olufsen EarSet 3i Headphones Only Look Sorta Expensive

Fiber Optic Bandaids Show Just How Gross Your Wound Is

HeadPhone Gets Your Plugged-In Zombie Coworkers’ Attention

This Is the Last Handwritten Newspaper

Rapture Predictor’s Website Gets Convenient Redesign

Legendary Skater Tony Hawk (And Many Others) Joins Rapture Bomb Armageddon

Japan Considering Solar Power for Every Single Building by 2030

Inside the State Department’s 24/7 Digital Peace Room

Cisco Threw Their Flip Cams in the Trash

The Southern Flood Looks Even More Awful from Space

Zuckerberg Wants Kids Under 13 on Facebook

All the Essential Gear You Need for The Rapture

Heroic Citizen Defends Self Against Armed Robber with a Beer Can

Sex Moan-Detecting Software Blocks Porn the Fun Way

Another HIV-Beating Pill Now Available

The Internet’s Creepiest Craigslist Ad

American Nuclear Plants Have Fukushima’s Flaws—And We’ve Ignored the Warning

Facebook Hunting Kiddie Porn Pervs with Microsoft Algorithm

War Dogs Can Rappel Down Walls

What Is Bitcoin?

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