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Follow Me. Call Me. I Love You. Be Stupid.

What do you have to say in ten characters or less? You’d better think of something clever, because Diesel Watches wants you to have a brand-new LED panel watch, into which you can program anything you like. Ideas include: BrushTeeth, Pay Bills, High Score… Diesel’s new watches feature a scrolling LED message display, a silicone…

Tech News Gawkercreative

The most terrifying meat-eating dinosaurs suddenly went vegetarian

The theropod dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor, were some of the most fearsome carnivores ever. Yet most of these perfect hunters abandoned live prey in favor of a more peaceful, vegetarian existence…which started their evolution into birds. Researchers recently set out to determine the diet of 90 different theropod species. They were expecting to…

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Your Favorite Delicious Snacks Get a Minimalist Transformation

Product packages are often the design equivalent of having a hammer driven into your eyeballs. Buzzword-y text everywhere, disgusting color overload, and corny cartoon mascots. So why not strip it all away and let the thing’s name speak for itself? Design firm A2591 took popular tasty products (well, excluding spray cleaner and condoms) and gave…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Deals of the Day

Todays deals include a 3D HDTV bundle, a 20″ Acer monitor, and a free 7 day trial to Match.com. Plus, don’t forget about Amazon’s Free One Day Holiday Shipping! https://lifehacker.com/amazons-got-free-free-one-day-shipping-on-electronic-5715229 Top Deals: • 55″ Samsung UN55C7000 Widescreen 1080p LED 3D-Ready 240Hz HDTV, Samsung BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray Disc Player, 2-pair Samsung 3-D Glasses, SHREK on BLU-RAY…

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The electric ghost of Douglas Adams haunts your screen

Recreating Douglas Adams’ unique, bizarre humor is like catching cosmic rays in a bottle — messy, breathless, and likely to cost you a few fingers. So let’s all celebrate the Dirk Gently pilot’s success in some highly improbable comedy. Spoilers… So the pilot for Dirk Gently, based on the Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency novels,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

App of the Day: Crackdown 2 for Windows Phone 7

New platforms mean cool new games! Crackdown 2, an extension of the popular Crackdown franchise for Xbox, is a WP7 tower defense game with a twist: you defend real locations using Bing Maps. It’s Microsoft synergy at its finest! What is it? Crackdown 2, Windows Phone 7, $3. Says Jason: Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst is,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Disney Patents Interactive Cakes

Think back, if you will, to the last time you ate a birthday cake. Don’t you remember griping about how it didn’t really do anything? Well, Disney’s looking to fix all that with interactive cakes. Yes, birthday cakes with pico-projectors. Just when people were perfecting the non-interactive cake, Disney had to go and throw this…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How to turn an old laptop bag into a data carrier from Tron’s Grid

If you want an accessory that broadcasts your Tron fandom to the world – and just looks damn cool – check out this tutorial on making a Tron bag with electroluminescent wire. Some soldering required! [via LadyAda]

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Pretend Your iPhone Is Naked with This Teardown Skin

We’re very tolerant here at Giz—if the thought of your iPhone 4 without its clothes on gets you excited, by all means! But it’s probably not very good for the phone. Slap on this exposed-guts back decal instead. The decal’s makers claim the skin, less than 0.3mm thick, is waterproof, scratch resistant, and should last…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Family Guy’s Star Wars spoof takes us inside private voicemails between Vader and Luke

We’ve got an exclusive clip from the new Family Guy: It’s A Trap! Star Wars special, in which Vader Stewie reveals the new Death Star’s going to have free wi-fi! Watch over 9 minutes before it’s out on DVD. And if you liked that, here’s nine more minutes of the special via MTV. UPDATE: Looks…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The far side of the Moon at its most psychedelic

These are the most detailed relief maps of the Moon’s far side ever created — NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the surface down to 30 meters. And thanks to false color (red=highest areas, blue=lowest) it’s also our trippiest Moon yet. The pictures are a huge step towards an accurate lunar atlas — including the area…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Chimpanzees play with sticks as though they’re dolls

In many cultures, girls play with dolls more often than boys do. Now chimps have been observed treating sticks like dolls. Is there a gender imbalance in the way chimps play with their dolls, too? The differences in how boys and girls play is well-documented but controversial, which raises a tricky question. Is this tendency…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

French Cellphone Contracts Will Be the Death of You

Thought getting out of cellphone contracts here in the US was bad? Sorry. It’s got nothing on what American-in-Paris Leonora Epstein went through trying to break up with Orange. This is her story. Quelle horreur! Shortly after arriving in France a year and a half ago, I decided to scrap my shit pay- as-you-go phone…

Tech News Leonora Epstein

Harrison Ford wants Indiana Jones to die

Harrison Ford has a serious death wish for all his iconic characters. It’s common knowledge that Ford always wanted Han Solo to die in Return of the Jedi, and now he wants the same for Indiana Jones. ShowbizSpy is reporting from inside sources that Ford is ready to kill off Indiana: “Harrison thinks it would…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Motorola Thinks Their Tablet Will Be Best of All Time

Looking forward to the unveiling of their Honeycomb-having tablet at CES, Motorola made this teaser outlining the shortcomings of some older slabs. The iPad? Just a big iPhone! The Rosetta Stone? Too low-res! And no Angry Birds. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/android-3-0-aka-honeycomb-makes-a-surprise-appearance-o-5707803

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Best Apps for People Who Need To Know Everything

Yeah, sure, you probably know a lot. But there’s always that movie or star constellation or post-graduate vocabulary word or Wikipedia fact that you can dig into. Here are the six best apps that’ll satisfy your insatiable thirst for knowledge. iOS Wolfram Alpha This is an app that transformed itself from joke to recommended download…

Tech News John Herrman

Doctor Who crashes your Christmas party. Plus Buffy and Star Trek: TNG marathons!

The big event on television this week is the return of Doctor Who, airing in the U.S. and U.K. on the same day. There are also two new episodes of the vastly underrated Tower Prep. Plus some fun marathons! Today: There’s literally nothing on today. Syfy is showing dinosaur movies, including its own Triassic Attack…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Nokia’s Budget 3210 Is Back—Reissued by French Designers

Not content with doing over just the Motorola StarTac, French design company Lekki has reissued Nokia’s 3210, which is one of the best-selling phones in history. Why? Seems like a good time to party like it’s 1999, I suppose. https://gizmodo.com/the-motorola-startac-is-back-in-yellow-5672422 The phone was one of the first models to have an internal antenna, and apart…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Werner Herzog turns “Twas The Night Before Christmas” into a tale of existential terror

What would happen if the famously grizzled German director Werner Herzog was allowed to reinterpret the legend of Santa Claus? You would get a consciousness-shattering tale of an omniscient dwarf who judges us from afar, tabulating our sins. This imitation of Herzogian prose is brought to you by Ryan Iverson. For more scary St. Nick,…

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Follow Me. Call Me. I Love You. Be Stupid.

The most terrifying meat-eating dinosaurs suddenly went vegetarian

Noir Jewelry

Your Favorite Delicious Snacks Get a Minimalist Transformation

Deals of the Day

The electric ghost of Douglas Adams haunts your screen

App of the Day: Crackdown 2 for Windows Phone 7

Disney Patents Interactive Cakes

How to turn an old laptop bag into a data carrier from Tron’s Grid

Pretend Your iPhone Is Naked with This Teardown Skin

Family Guy’s Star Wars spoof takes us inside private voicemails between Vader and Luke

The far side of the Moon at its most psychedelic

Chimpanzees play with sticks as though they’re dolls

French Cellphone Contracts Will Be the Death of You

Harrison Ford wants Indiana Jones to die

Motorola Thinks Their Tablet Will Be Best of All Time

The Best Apps for People Who Need To Know Everything

Doctor Who crashes your Christmas party. Plus Buffy and Star Trek: TNG marathons!

Nokia’s Budget 3210 Is Back—Reissued by French Designers

Werner Herzog turns “Twas The Night Before Christmas” into a tale of existential terror

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