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A Very Brief Guide To Finding Your Way in Life

Step one: Take this short survey. Step two: email the last question to [email protected] with “Garmin Nuvi Contest” as the subject line. Step three: Potentially win aforementioned Garmin nuvi 50. Step four: mount prize to vehicle. Step five: find your path to enlightenment, or to the nearest Denny’s, or Marfa, TX…wherever. Standard contest rules apply.…

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Could This Be the End of Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

A biotech company that after much turmoil and huge expense launched the first human embryonic stem cell clinical trial in the United States is getting out of the stem cell business. Geron led the charge to push the U.S. government and society at large to allow use of embryonic stem cells. Scientists believed they could…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Feast your eyes on a rare lunar rainbow — against the Northern Lights!

If ever there existed some sort of critical threshold of awesome that nature photos were required to abide by, I’m pretty sure this picture would blow it right out of the sky. (Click here for a hi-res version.) In the foreground flows Iceland’s 200-foot-tall Skógafoss waterfall — but the spray from the falls has become…

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7 Tools That’ll Help You Master Your Movember Mustache

We’ve officially reached the halfway mark, and whether you’ve embraced Movember for charitable, novelty, or stylish reasons, you’ve probably got yourself a respectable soup strainer by now. But there’s still half a month to go, so here are seven tools that will help you put as much mustache into Movember as is possible. Carzor-Card Shaped…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Bang & Olufsen’s New AirPlay Speaker Likes Music, Picnics, and Walks On the Beach

Bang & Olufsen’s stylish AV gear usually gives the impression of wealth and affluence, but having just been revealed by the FCC, its new wireless AirPlay speaker comes across as looking just simple and quaint. The perforated grill that wraps all the way around the Beolit 12 makes it look like a wicker picnic basket,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A giant robotic snake chases a man piloting a spider mecha

Cheese on crackers, would it be fun to work at the eatART robotics collective in Vancouver. In addition to building awesomely biomimetic vehicles like Mondo Spider, they’re currently working on Titanoboa, a mechanical recreation of the 50-foot-long, one-ton prehistoric snake of the same name. Here’s a video of these machines (almost) colliding — it’s like…

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Somebody Ordered Tons of Satellite Photographs of China’s Mysterious Structures

There are lots of explanations for the gigantic structures built in China’s desert. But the most mysterious thing is invisible: according to a former CIA analyst, there’s someone who has ordered tons of satellite photos of this area since 2004. https://gizmodo.com/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-5859081 And the plot thickens. Allen Thomson, an analyst who used to work for the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch the Space Battleship Yamato lift off for the first time in a new Yamato 2199 trailer!

Space Battleship Yamato may be the most famous Japanese space opera of all time, and it’s going strong in Japan. (In the U.S., where the anime series was renamed Star Blazers, we still haven’t gotten the 2010 live-action film.) Now there’s a new anime series coming: Space Battleship Yamato 2199, which will launch with a…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

England Bravely Defended Royal Marriage Against Global Internet Raid

Hackers, do you consider nothing sacred? Sack the CIA, beat up credit card companies, fine. But how could you spoil the wedding day of two awesomely rich, good looking people? They’re royalty! But their big day was almost hijacked. The AP reports a massive DDoS attack against the official royal wedding site was thwarted, allowing…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Hobby Engine Storm-III Remote Control Helicopter Is Your Dream-Fulfilling Deal of the Day

Hey remember Airwolf? Stringfellow Hawke (seriously, the characters real name) would fly around with Ernest Borgnine bringing swift helicopter-infused justice to evil doers. Anywho, I loved that show as a kid and really wanted to be a helicopter pilot. Clearly, that didn’t happen. To replace the hole in my heart that is my career as…

Tech News Natt Garun

Krokodil: Russia’s Designer Drug That Will Eat Your Flesh

It sounds like a direct-to-Netflix horror movie plot — a cheap, addictive drug available in a foreign land, that turns the user’s skin a scaly green color. Soon it rots the flesh, causing the user’s skin to emulate that of a crocodile, leaving bone and muscle tissue exposed to the world. But the Russian drug…

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Holga’s Retro Lens iPhone Case Works Like a Retro Rotary Phone

For a couple of bucks you get an app that lets you churn out retro looking photos from your iPhone. Orrrrrrrr you bring some analog back in to the process with Holga’s dope new iPhone case. It packs a rotary dial filled with nine plastic lenses and filters. The effects range from simple tints, to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Bats can instantly change the shape of their ears just to hear better

Bats rely on their hearing more than any other mammal. After all, bats navigate the night sky by hearing the results of their echolocation, their natural sonar system. Turns out that’s just the beginning of what makes bat-hearing amazing. In order to better hear the returning ultrasonic pulses that they send out, bats can actually…

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Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNN International

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined CNN International on December 15, 2011 to discuss Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Commerce Scott Kidder

Putting a 10,000 Square-Foot Forest in the Middle of an Old European City Is Easier than You Think

Milan has terrible air quality. Some of the worst in all of Italy. So architect and developer Stefano Boeli dreamed up away to combat that issue in a practical manner: He’s turning two residential towers into vertical forests. Dubbed Bosco Verticale, The Creators Project says the structures will provide a home to more than 900…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Kristen Stewart joins overly bland Akira cast

The Americanized Akira remake is rattling forward, with the blandest possible red-carpet casting. Garrett Hedlund has been offered the role of Kaneda, and now Kristen Stewart has been rumored to be up for the part of his love interest Kei (presumably because Blake Lively was busy). https://gizmodo.com/garrett-hedlund-offered-lead-role-in-akira-crap-5856168 Kei is a medium and a member of…

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The Science of Leftovers: Why Don’t They Taste As Good?

Something really weird happens between the time you put your dinner in the fridge and the time you heat it up the next day. Once heavenly fried chicken deflates into a soggy mess; perfect salad wilts; even basic pasta turns into dense sludge. This kind of wtf moment happens to us a lot. So we…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

Amazon Drops Apple TV Price, Calls It ‘2010’ Model. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!

Amazon could just be getting a jump on moving units of a product that’s certain to sell well during the holidays by lowering Apple TV’s price to $90. But what, exactly does ‘2010’ imply? Are they clearing inventory for something new? [9to5mac via Cult of Mac]

Tech News Adrian Covert

The world’s first lab-grown hamburger could be created by August of 2012

There’s no two ways about it: humans love meat. By 2030, it’s estimated that the world’s annual meat production will reach 376 million tons, up from 218 million tons in 1999. But conventional meat production is notoriously wasteful, and it’s becoming more and more unsustainable by the day. Many scientists believe that meat grown in…

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62 Beautiful Photos That Only Use Two Colors

These 62 photographs have one thing in common: none of them uses more than two base colors. These two colors in tiny dots produce halftones from which all the gorgeous shadows and highlights derive. They’re simple yet striking. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-duotones-5857851 Winner – Blue Fog This is my entry for the duotone challenge. Living on the water…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A Very Brief Guide To Finding Your Way in Life

Could This Be the End of Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

Feast your eyes on a rare lunar rainbow — against the Northern Lights!

7 Tools That’ll Help You Master Your Movember Mustache

Bang & Olufsen’s New AirPlay Speaker Likes Music, Picnics, and Walks On the Beach

A giant robotic snake chases a man piloting a spider mecha

Somebody Ordered Tons of Satellite Photographs of China’s Mysterious Structures

Watch the Space Battleship Yamato lift off for the first time in a new Yamato 2199 trailer!

England Bravely Defended Royal Marriage Against Global Internet Raid

Hobby Engine Storm-III Remote Control Helicopter Is Your Dream-Fulfilling Deal of the Day

Krokodil: Russia’s Designer Drug That Will Eat Your Flesh

Holga’s Retro Lens iPhone Case Works Like a Retro Rotary Phone

Bats can instantly change the shape of their ears just to hear better

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNN International

Putting a 10,000 Square-Foot Forest in the Middle of an Old European City Is Easier than You Think

Kristen Stewart joins overly bland Akira cast

The Science of Leftovers: Why Don’t They Taste As Good?

Amazon Drops Apple TV Price, Calls It ‘2010’ Model. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!

The world’s first lab-grown hamburger could be created by August of 2012

62 Beautiful Photos That Only Use Two Colors

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