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Dealzmodo: Papa John’s Facebook Friends Get One Free Pizza

If Papa John’s thinks that they can buy our Facebook friendship by offering us a free medium pizza with any online order…they’re completely right. The free medium pizza is a new promotion to generate social networking buzz, and 10,000 users have already signed up, probably rubbing a collective hundreds of gallons of free garlic sauce…

Zeppelins Transport You To Your Floating Island Hotel

The airy experience of Alexander Asadov’s Aerohotel begins when you leave the mainland, gliding over the water in one of the island hotel’s designated airships. The hotel itself is so lacy and light that it seems to float high above the surface, letting the ocean and sky stretch out in all directions while having minimal…

Why So Copyrighted?

TorrentFreak reports that The Dark Knight is officially the most pirated movie of 2008. Maybe the Joker’s lectures about law-breaking and those burning piles of money taught audiences a lesson? Apparently, the flick got a million downloads in under seven days, and those are on top of the cam and DVD-screener versions that were swapped…

Hands-On With Newber, The Location-Aware Call Redirector For Your iPhone

Think of Newber as sort of a location-aware GrandCentral call directing service that lives on your iPhone and can forward calls automatically to whatever landline is closest to your location. Other features, like being able to swap phones in the middle of a conversation, making and receiving calls from a “Newber” number and automatically sending…

The Tuned Bear iPod Speaker is Romantic in a Nerdy Sort of Way

It may seem a little strange, but gifting teddy bears to adults is still a time honored tradition. If cute and cuddly isn’t your style, a somewhat less emasculating option can be found with this Tuned Bear iPod speaker. The bear can be turned on and off by pressing on his ear and the volume…

Alan Moore’s Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game

Click to viewIf Alan Moore had been even thinking about opening up to Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation of his classic graphic novel Watchmen, this new video game ought to be the final nail in Moore’s anti-social coffin. The game, entitled Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, has released a batch of stills that show Rorschach and…

Superman To Abandon Earth And Action In ’09

2009 is going to be a big year for DC Comics’ Superman. He’s going to leave his comic book home for the last 70 years, and he’s also going to be abandoning his adopted home planet forever (or the comic book version thereof, which is at least six months). What could make the Man of…

LHC’s $21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most complicated machine that was felled by a single faulty solder joint last month, won’t be back until summer 2009 now, at the earliest—a few months later than CERN last speculated. And at what cost? $21 million in repairs. A drop in the bucket when the full $10 billion…

Apple Apples Are Not from Apple

Risking a spacetime paradox that could destroy the entire Universe, a Japanese guy has devised a way to naturally grow Fuji apples with the Apple logo on them. His technique is very simple: Apply an Apple sticker (or iPod or Appleish Heart) a month before harvesting. I knew girls who apply stickers while tanning to…

Star Trek Trailer Goes Online, Just In Time For The Inevitable Backlash

The HD version of the full-length Star Trek movie is finally online, and it wants you to know two things: Kirk and Spock are troubled youngsters who find their purpose (and each other) on a ship with a big tortilla in front. And there will be big splodey starship battles. Now that we’ve had a…

Will the Global Economic Crisis Kill the Large Hadron Collider?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest physics experiment, was all set to start up a few months ago – its miles of underground tunnels would provide answers to deep physics questions about the nature of everything from atoms to black holes. And then it broke. Big time. Six tons of ultra-cold liquid helium…

Caution: This Sign May Be Awesome

If the economy has taught us anything, it’s that the traditional caution sign has been a failure at warning us of the dynamically shifting troubled waters ahead. For example, whereas a traditional caution sign might warn of a rock falling on your house, a more modern caution sign might warn of said rock falling on…

New York improv comedian and writer DC Pierson just sold a novel that’s being billed as “Superbad meets E.T.” The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Didn’t Have To, forthcoming from Broadway, is about two outcast teens who bond over their love of comic books and science fiction. One of them never sleeps, and instead just…

Laser-Etched Powerbook Ensures Hands Never Leave the Keyboard, Ever

Instructables user noahw used an Epilog etcher to lase an imprint of his hands and forearms, eternally vigilant in home row position, onto the top case of his PowerBook G4. Noah says that typing on top of his own hands is “a little freaky” (as is the brownish mildewy patina on the etched keys, ahem)…

The Official NASA Guide To Drinking Your Own Urine

Click to viewIf you’re going on a long space trip, you’ll soon realize that you can’t carry all the fresh water you’ll need with you. The cost of getting all that water into space would destroy your budget before you ever built a single photon torpedo launcher. The answer, of course, is recycling. Those childhood…

Mimo 7-inch USB Battleoid Cockpit Display Coming to the US

A Gizmodo reader saw the Mimo 7-inch USB rotatable, touchscreen display and he thought they were so cool that he is importing 500 units to sell them in the US. I’m not surprised, because they are extremely nice and useful indeed: You only have to connect it to a USB port and it will work…

Sector Compass Torch Watch For Transmitting Messages in Morse Code

With all of the communication technology we have at our disposal today, good old fashioned Morse code is all but forgotten. However, I can see it making a comeback in a big way if these “Sector Compass Torch” watches take off. A small flashlight is embedded into the side of the watch and can be…

2012 Viral Marketing Just As Terrible As Movie

Roland Emmerich’s 2012 teaser trailer has dropped, and right behind it is the wave of viral marketing that I can only imagine will continue to slam our computers like his terrible monk-hating apocalypse. Right now, you can go to the Institute For Human Continuity and register for a lottery number that I assume will be…

Review: Sony’s Complete Bravia Link Home Theater System

While many of us have our collection of nice electronic toys, most of us can’t afford to walk into a store, take a look at a company like Sony’s complete line of Bravia media add-ons and walk out with it all. And your conscience might stop you anyway-even if your wallet could take the hit,…

SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Spec Finalized: It’s Fast

We already know most of what there is to know about USB 3.0—officially dubbed SuperSpeed USB—but today it’s officially set in stone. To recap, with transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps, it’ll dump a 25GB HD file in about 70 seconds, and the architecture has been beefed up with extra data lanes to make for more sustained,…