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Camo Bolt-Action Pen Review: Now That’s A Pocket Protector

The web is full of secret online weapons stores and places you can legally load up on ammo. But the pen is mightier than the AR-15. Especially this bolt-action bullet pen. https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anyt-5927379 What Is It? It’s a pen made of a replica 30-caliber bullet, with a rifle-shaped pocket clip. Who Is It For? Anyone who…

Reviews J.D. Levite

The Letter from Stanley Kubrick to Arthur C. Clarke that Sparked 2001: A Space Odyssey

Behold the first letter from Stanley Kubrick to science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke asking for his help penning a “really good science-fiction movie.” Five years later, the result was 2001: A Space Odyssey. Amazing. Here’s the most interesting part: I had been a great admirer of your books for quite a time and had…

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How To Keep Beer from Getting Skunked

You crack that frosty brew. It’s a hot day. You’re salivating. You take a deep swig and… what the hell is that? Pepé Le Pew? A flatulent egg farmer? No. It’s your precious beer, and it’s gone bad—skunked beyond recognition. How could this happen? More importantly, how could you have prevented it? It’s Friday afternoon,…

Tech News Brent Rose

Prince, the Great Unsung Fantasy Storyteller

Prince may call himself the Purple Yoda — but when he tries to tell a sweeping, transformative story, he always reaches for fantasy, not science fiction. Prince’s career is littered with weird little magical adventures, and it might even be fair to call him the Tolkien of funk. (Or maybe, just the Purple Hobbit.) Don’t…

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The Largest Mirror In the World Is So Big That You Can See It From Space

This is the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flatland in the world at 4,086 square miles (10,582 kilometers). Every year, this amazing wonderland in southwest Bolivia covers with a thin layer of water. When that happens, it turns into the largest mirror on the planet, as these photos recently taken by Takaki Watanabe show.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

These Malicious Tweets Want To Hijack Your Computer

If you tend to be click-happy, you better be careful on Twitter today. There’s a malware epidemic going around and it seems to think it has your picture. The malicious tweets come in two varieties, both in the form of @ mentions. There are ones that ask “It’s you on photo?” paired with a dangerous…

Tech News Eric Limer

Let’s Talk About Anything You Want for the Next Hour

Yup, it’s another Friday, and we feel like talking. Let’s talk about whatever. Seriously. It’s up to you. You provide a question, comment, or observation, and for the next hour, the entire Giz staff will respond. Let’s go. Image via Shutterstock/IR Stone

Tech News Adrian Covert

Which Olympics App Is Right For You?

The Opening Ceremonies today mark the beginning of 17 full days of athletic awesomeness, live from the London Olympics. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 countries have descended on the city to compete in 26 sports spread out across 302 events. There are about as many apps that help you follow the games. Whether you’re…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Operation Plowshare: The Plan to Bomb America With Kindness

The Plowshare program was both a public relations ploy and a serious scientific study. It was an attempt to see if nuclear bombs could be used in peaceful constructive ways. If it had been successful, America would pretty much be humming by now. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the entire focus of the…

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How to Follow Gizmodo Nerds on Twitter

If you really want to get to know Team Gizmodo, we’re all on Twitter. You can think of it as Gizmodo unfiltered. With up to date links to our stories, hot gadget action, 140 character insights, and pictures of sandwiches. Any serious Gizmodo fan will want to follow everyone below. We give good Twitter. If…

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Apple TV or Roku: Which Media Streamer Do You Use?

We know News Corp is sinking a whole bunch of money into Roku, thus upping the stakes of the streaming media box war that’s brewing amongst companies such as Apple, Boxee, Western Digital, Microsoft and Sony. While all the boxes are similar, each has its own strengths and weaknesses, . Which one do you use?…

Television Adrian Covert

Silent Hill: Revelation trailer reunites Eddard Stark and Jon Snow WITH BLOOD!

We are all oddly excited for the Silent Hill: Revelation movie. The creepy nurses are scary, the new mannequin monster looks excellent — and Sean Bean is reunited with his bastard son from Game of Thrones, Kit Harington. Check out the brand new trailer, which promises at least one scene of Harington whipping his hair…

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The US Army Is Outfitting Soldiers With Blast Sensors

Starting next month, US soldiers in Afghanistan will be wearing a Soldier Body Unit, a two-pound pack with four blast sensors, to collect data on concussions and traumatic brain injuries. The data the soldiers collect will help us better protect soldiers in the future. A thousand of these Soldier Body Unit packs will be sent…

Tech News Casey Chan

Why Some Diseases Wait in Your Body For Decades Before Striking

Almost any disease will spend some time in your body before making you ill, summoning its forces or just lying in wait. But some maladies are even more patient than that. Some ailments can spend decades lurking in your body, dormant and unknown, until they suddenly spring to life. Let’s take a look at some…

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This Remote Control Rolling Cooler Is Your Don’t-Get-Up-For-The-Rest-Of-The-Summer Deal of the Day

You’ve got everything set up in the backyard. Someone’s working the grill, with a dozen hot dogs and hamburgers cooking nicely. Music, maybe something taking you back to the summers of the past, blasts from the stereo. You and a group of friends are lounging in your miscellaneous collection of hammocks and lawn chairs. You’re…

Tech News J.D. Levite

The graffiti of Pompeii was downright raunchy, and absolutely hilarious

Before being entombed with ash by Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii was a thriving city. There was government, there was infrastructure — and yes, there was graffiti. Very vulgar, very explicit graffitti. https://gizmodo.com/a-weird-chart-comparing-lewd-graffiti-in-ancient-pompei-5856858 Much of that graffiti, like the rest of the city, remains well-preserved to this day. Some of it is poetic, at times even poignant;…

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What to Do With the Digital Remains of a Failed Relationship

After the split, you’re left with an abandoned attic’s worth of stuff: on your phone and hard drive, in your inbox. It’s stuff that used to matter, and still does. It’s stuff that hurts. It’s stuff you loved. What do you do with it? It’s impossible to plow through a committed relationship in an industrialized…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Did somebody eat these missing mastodon bones in Central Florida?

A disturbing bit of news has bubbled up in Central Florida, where an 80,000-year-old mastodon skeleton has gone missing from the shed where it had been stored for over 20 years. CFNews13.com reports: City workers stumbled upon the skeleton in 1989 during construction for a water treatment plant off what was then 11th Street, now…

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The Most Common Words in Android and iOS App Names

If you ever searched for an app on the App Store or Google Play, you would see an endless list of crappy apps with similar names just tagged as HD or LITE or FREE or PRO. Everybody wants to call their app the same damn thing! Here are the most popular words used in Android…

Tech News Casey Chan

DARPA Moving Ahead with Building Zombie Frankensatellites

It’s like Alien meets Bride of Frankenstein, mixed with Night of the Living Dead: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to harvest components from dead, non-working “zombie” satellites to build new ones in space, all done remotely via a grasping, mechanical arm. The agency would like to have the first keystone mission of…

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Camo Bolt-Action Pen Review: Now That’s A Pocket Protector

The Letter from Stanley Kubrick to Arthur C. Clarke that Sparked 2001: A Space Odyssey

How To Keep Beer from Getting Skunked

Prince, the Great Unsung Fantasy Storyteller

The Largest Mirror In the World Is So Big That You Can See It From Space

These Malicious Tweets Want To Hijack Your Computer

Let’s Talk About Anything You Want for the Next Hour

Which Olympics App Is Right For You?

Operation Plowshare: The Plan to Bomb America With Kindness

How to Follow Gizmodo Nerds on Twitter

Apple TV or Roku: Which Media Streamer Do You Use?

Silent Hill: Revelation trailer reunites Eddard Stark and Jon Snow WITH BLOOD!

The US Army Is Outfitting Soldiers With Blast Sensors

Why Some Diseases Wait in Your Body For Decades Before Striking

This Remote Control Rolling Cooler Is Your Don’t-Get-Up-For-The-Rest-Of-The-Summer Deal of the Day

The graffiti of Pompeii was downright raunchy, and absolutely hilarious

What to Do With the Digital Remains of a Failed Relationship

Did somebody eat these missing mastodon bones in Central Florida?

The Most Common Words in Android and iOS App Names

DARPA Moving Ahead with Building Zombie Frankensatellites

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