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Google Nexus 7 Tablet Review: The New Best Way to Spend 200 Bucks

After months of leaks and hints about the Nexus 7, it was clear what to expect from Google’s first tablet. The major question was: “Can it possibly be as good as it looks and only cost $200?” The verdict is in. CAVEAT: This tester Nexus 7 is pre-release. The hardware is final, but the software…

Reviews Brent Rose

Nikon D3200 Lightning Review: Where Were You Two Years Ago?

It’s hard to name a good reason to buy a budget DSLR now. You can get virtually all of the same features—lenses, image quality, manual controls—from a smaller, more portable mirrorless camera. So how does the Nikon D3200 fit into today’s camera market? What Is It? At $700, the Nikon D3200 is one of the…

Reviews Mario Aguilar

Facebook Adds Gay and Lesbian Marriage Icons

Facebook will now include special icons for same-sex couples who indicate that they’re married on Facebook. Just a few weeks ago, developers realized that Apple introduced same-sex couple emojis in iOS 6. The times they are a-changing. Now, users who specify that they are in a same-sex marriage will see icons featuring two men or…

Social Media Mario Aguilar

How to Mega-Troll Your Friends with iPhone Emoji

Gizmodo loves emoji more than we love some of our own family members and/or sexual partners—sometimes, it’s just the best (or only) way to express yourself. But there’s a dark side to emoji—they can be weaponized. Let’s troll. It’s simple, if a bit time consuming at first. Step one: type every single emoji into a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Moons of Mars may be the first place we find extraterrestrial life

Was there ever life on Mars? In fact, could there still be microbes living on Mars now? It’s still a distinct possibility. But given the difficulties involved in sending people and specialized equipment to Mars to look for samples, we could be waiting decades to find out. So it’s a good thing there’s a ready…

io9 Ron Miller

Are You Impressed By This Publicity Stunt?

A German heavy equipment manufacturer decided they’d impress potential buyers—or maybe just people with a fetish for construction equipment—by using a series of massive cranes to lift each other. The Inception-like stunt started with a small crane hoisting a model, that were both then lifted by a larger crane. And so forth, until four cranes…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The world’s smallest fly probably decapitates really tiny ants

Some flies, known as phorids, specialise in decapitating ants in a gruesome way. They lay their eggs inside their victims. When the maggots hatch, they move towards the ant’s head, where they gorge upon the brain and other tissues. The ant stumbles about in a literally mindless stupor until the connection between its head and…

io9 Ed Yong - Discover

Our Favorite Laptops, Routers, Cameras, Ice Cube Trays and More

The summer heat is here, and with it comes a an arsenal of new gear that’ll help you enjoy your summer adventures. Here are toys that take photos on the trail, keep your bike safe, and produce perfect ice cubes for your back patio drink. For the full list of Gizmodo favorites, head over to…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Making Edison’s Batteries Charge 1000 Times Faster

Over a century ago, Thomas Edison developed a rechargeable nickel-iron battery, designed to power cars. Remarkably, the technology is still used by some people to store energy from solar panels and wind turbines—but now, Stanford engineers have tweaked it to charge 1000 times faster. Edison’s original battery used a cathode made of nickel and an…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why the Last People on Earth Will Eat Sugar Cane and Corn

If there are three agricultural products that it’s cool to hate right now, they’re corn, sugar, and corn syrup. But if we peer into the future — in the very long term — human life on this planet depends on keeping those plants around. Here’s why we’ll be eating sugar-frosted corn flakes half a billion…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

You Can Ship This Stainless Steel Table In an Envelope

When buying furniture that’s easy to ship, you usually have to compromise on design, stability, and even ease of use. But Studio Toer is offering the best of all worlds with these stainless steel tables that fit inside a shipping envelope when disassembled. The Postable Table’s modular design not only lets it squeeze inside shipping…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why It Takes So Long to Fix a Power Outage

A storm this weekend knocked out power to millions of buildings in the mid-Atlantic region. About 443,000 lost electricity in the Washington, DC area, and over 200,000 outages occurred in southern New Jersey. The utilities that serve those two markets, Pepco and Atlantic City Electric—say it might take until midnight on Friday, July 6, before…

Tech News Harry Sawyers

Absolutely Everything Is Better In HD, Including Gizmodo

HD is just a better way to view anything, period. So why are you looking at Gizmodo in anything else? Just click the HD view icon sitting to the right of the eyeball and magnifying glass on the top right, and you’ll be instantly treated to big, crisp, beautiful Gizmodo in HD. The new, dynamic…

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Watch This Man Destroying a T-Mobile Shop

What did T-Mobile do to this man? Why did he come into one of its stores like a slow-motion Hulk to smash everything inside and spray it all with a fire extinguisher? I don’t have a clue, but it feels satisfying. I love the store clerk’s “yep, this is happening and I’m not doing sh*t…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Great Lines, Plenty of Light, and Absolutely Zero Moths: The House of Cedar

This timber-framed house in Osaka looks a bit like the unfinished blueprint for a Mondrian painting. And though it might appear as though it’s incomplete, that’s how it was intended. Designed by Japanese architects Suga Atelier, the House of Cedar is made up of a cross-bracing collection of rectangle and square windows, three of which…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How This One Little Satellite Could Save Life on Earth

Let’s face it, Bruce Willis is getting old. We can no longer rely on the option of simply strapping him to a rocket, shooting said rocket towards an oncoming asteroid, and hoping for the best. Luckily, the Silicon Valley-based B612 foundation is developing the world’s most advanced asteroid early warning system. Comets and asteroids fall…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Island Tiki Hut Hides A Lot of Money

You see that phone booth-sized tiki hut made of bamboo, stone and glass? That’s a specially made building that houses the only ATM in a village. On top of that, it’s completely solar powered, naturally designed for its island and holds a whole lotta cash. The Tiki Hut ATM is in Bali, fittingly located on…

Tech News Casey Chan

Spotify, Rdio or MOG: What Streaming Music Service Do You Use?

News spread this morning that MOG has been purchased by HTC/Beats Audio for $10 million, which probably was not the payout the Berkeley-based company was hoping for (disclosure: I used to work there once upon a time). And while Spotify appears destined to win the streaming music wars (as far as subscription services go, at…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Would you want to survive the end of civilization?

Let’s say the end of the world as we know it is coming — but someone offers you a priceless spot in their guaranteed-to-be-safe bunker, so you can be one of the chosen few who rebuilds the Earth. Would you want to survive, and emerge into the post-apocalyptic wasteland? Would the positives of playing a…

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This Superman fan cartoon is good enough to warrant an entire movie

Disney animator Robb Pratt (Pocahontas, Tarzan) previously wowed us with his 1940s-inspired interpretation of the Man of Steel. Now, he’s given Superman’s opposite-day-yammering clone his own short cartoon, Bizarro Classic. Fantastic stuff, and note the backwards theme music! [Via Cartoon Brew]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Google Nexus 7 Tablet Review: The New Best Way to Spend 200 Bucks

Nikon D3200 Lightning Review: Where Were You Two Years Ago?

Facebook Adds Gay and Lesbian Marriage Icons

How to Mega-Troll Your Friends with iPhone Emoji

The Moons of Mars may be the first place we find extraterrestrial life

Are You Impressed By This Publicity Stunt?

The world’s smallest fly probably decapitates really tiny ants

Our Favorite Laptops, Routers, Cameras, Ice Cube Trays and More

Making Edison’s Batteries Charge 1000 Times Faster

Why the Last People on Earth Will Eat Sugar Cane and Corn

You Can Ship This Stainless Steel Table In an Envelope

Why It Takes So Long to Fix a Power Outage

Absolutely Everything Is Better In HD, Including Gizmodo

Watch This Man Destroying a T-Mobile Shop

Great Lines, Plenty of Light, and Absolutely Zero Moths: The House of Cedar

How This One Little Satellite Could Save Life on Earth

This Island Tiki Hut Hides A Lot of Money

Spotify, Rdio or MOG: What Streaming Music Service Do You Use?

Would you want to survive the end of civilization?

This Superman fan cartoon is good enough to warrant an entire movie

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