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Shit, Internet, Phone—But What Did You Tweet About This Year?

These are the words that appeared most often in my Twitter timeline. I know this thanks to Vizify’s fun new tool that pulls highlights from all of your 2013 tweets—including popular topics, Vines, photos, and followers—and assembles them into a delightful short video. Soooo, I probably swear too much on Twitter and nothing puts that…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 31 '13

I Never Want This Best Vines of 2013 Compilation To End

Picking a favorite Vine is like picking a favorite hilarious, non sequitur grain of sand from an endless beach of weirdness. Fortunately, some blessed soul has stitched together hundreds of six-second masterpieces for your near-endless amusement. Watch it, enjoy it, laugh and cringe at it. And if after sitting though all 23 minutes of madness…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 31 '13

Make a prediction about 2014!

What will 2014 bring? Will all our mail really be delivered by robots? Will the new Planet of the Apes finally deliver an image more iconic than Charlton Heston yelling at a statue? Do you have a prediction about what the year has in store for you personally? Tell us your predictions about the year…

io9 Ria Misra Dec 31 '13

The 20 Best Movies Disappearing From Netflix Tomorrow

When the clock strikes its last midnight in 2013—or somewhere around there, anyway—dozens of movies will disappear from Netflix streaming. Fortunately, you’ve still got some time to churn through the ones you’ll miss the most. Here’s a list of the very best of the movies that’ll be gone in 2014. While Netflix has made it…

Movies Brian Barrett Dec 31 '13

Beat-Matching Glowing Sunglasses Are Perfect For New Years Eve and Morn

It’s New Year’s Eve and unless you’ve got children to tend to you’ll probably be partying well into 2014 this evening. And while normally sunglasses aren’t required for the middle of the night, these Dropshades are, since they feature a glowing pulsing EQ that stays in sync with whatever music you’re listening to. And, the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Dec 31 '13

Kentucky is about to host the world’s first Ninja Throwing Star Range

“Ninjas” and “Kentucky” are two nouns that very rarely manage to show up in the same sentence. But all that’s about to change when the first indoor throwing star range opens in the Bluegrass State this coming spring. According to the delightful official website, the Ninjas Throwing Star Range will feature 500 types of shuriken…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 31 '13

If You’ve Got Google Music All Access, You Can Get Glass Now

Google Music All Access users are reporting that they’ve received an email inviting them to join the ranks of Glass Explorers. (Here’s the sign up page you can try if you didn’t get the email.) As far we can tell it’s the first time Google has opened up the program to a subset of its…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 31 '13

Mac Pro Teardown: An Apple Rig You Can Actually Tinker With

It looks like a waste paper bin, costs a fortune and is, perhaps, the best workstation you’ve ever owned. But what lurks beneath that shiny black shell? https://gizmodo.com/a-fully-loaded-new-mac-pro-will-cost-you-14-00-1486321039 Fortunately, you must ponder no longer, because iFixit has kindly ripped apart the new Mac Pro and spread its guts out on the floor for all to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

The 38 Most Interesting Designs of 2013

Welcome to the end of another year, people! We made it, and not without a ton of brand new stuff to carry us into 2014 and beyond. We saw lots of beautiful, interesting, and just plain weird things, but here we’ve rounded up the items that stuck with us; not just because of what they…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Dec 31 '13

Is Batman Vs Superman adding Denzel Washington as another superhero?

There are new behind-the-scenes photos from Days of Future Past and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. True Blood is recasting a character following an actor leaving due to “creative direction.” Steven Moffat promises a “new direction” for Doctor Who. Plus, a new look at Star Wars: Rebels’ villain. Spoilers now! Fantastic Four Versus…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Dec 31 '13

Get More Birthdays By Celebrating Mathematically Significant Dates

Birthdays are great, aren’t they? Really, we should have more of them—so why not try and do that by opting to celebrate mathematically significant dates rather than being a slave to the annual event? Really, birthdays are arbitrary anyway, so you may as well switch to math. You’ll learn something, it’ll be interesting, and you…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

Where Emotions Hit You, Visualized

Nerves make your stomach churn; embarrassment brings a glow to your cheeks. Emotions clearly have a direct physiological effect on our bodies, and now a team of Finnish researchers has analyzed exactly how—and represented them in this visualization. To construct the maps, the researchers showed 773 participants different words, stories, movies, and expressions, and had…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

This Is London’s Floating Bike Road Dream

A team of architects has updated and fleshed out its SkyCycle plan—a bizarre concept that would use the empty channels above some train lines to build floating, bike-only cycle superhighways. The idea, should it ever be allowed, approved, funded and built, is to create a 136-mile network of elevated cycle routes spanning the city of…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK Dec 31 '13

What is this?

The first thing I thought when I saw this was “nice abstract painting.” So pretty and delicate. But it’s not. Like Steve Coogan says in The Trip: “You can’t paint this. I mean, you can, but it would be rubbish.” What is it? It’s an aerial photo of an Icelandic river, taken by Andre Ermolaev,…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 31 '13

How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works

With more than 150 million people in the United States (nearly half of the population) requiring some form of corrective eyewear to compensate for visual impairment, chances are you have had your eyesight graded on the 20/20 scale before. If you haven’t, you have probably heard other people saying they have “20/20 vision” or even…

Tech News Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com. Dec 31 '13

Awesome ad erases all the animals in The Lion King’s opening sequence

This is a great ad by Greenpeace Netherlands, brilliantly executed by Studio Smack: They erased all the animals of The Lion King’s opening sequence to show kids and adults how the African savanna would look if we don’t protect its animals. I can imagine the kids first puzzled, then crying, as all their favorite animals…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 31 '13

Crooks Have Been Hacking ATMs With Infected USB Sticks

Criminals will go to all lengths to cheat an ATM out of its cash. But now, a team of researchers has discovered that skimmers may be a thing of the past: crooks have been targeting cash machines directly using infected USB sticks instead. https://gizmodo.com/you-cant-even-see-the-latest-atm-card-skimmers-5928513 The findings, presented at the Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg, Germany…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

Why Times and Timezones Still Confuse the Hell Out of Developers

There have been no end of time and calendar mess-ups in software over the years, and they still seem to keep happening. So why is it that times and timezones still confuse the hell out of developers? In truth, it’s because it’s an insanely complex subject. It’s not just that countries are in different timezones,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

We already knew that the NSA had developed a taste for intercepting packages to put backdoors in electronics. Now, it turns out that those hacks provide it with almost complete access to the iPhone, too. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-put-backdoors-1491169592 Documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German magazine Der Spiegel reveal that the NSA can spy on…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: I Am the Walrus

LSD is a hell of a drug.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 31 '13

Shit, Internet, Phone—But What Did You Tweet About This Year?

I Never Want This Best Vines of 2013 Compilation To End

Make a prediction about 2014!

The 20 Best Movies Disappearing From Netflix Tomorrow

Beat-Matching Glowing Sunglasses Are Perfect For New Years Eve and Morn

Kentucky is about to host the world’s first Ninja Throwing Star Range

If You’ve Got Google Music All Access, You Can Get Glass Now

Mac Pro Teardown: An Apple Rig You Can Actually Tinker With

The 38 Most Interesting Designs of 2013

Is Batman Vs Superman adding Denzel Washington as another superhero?

Get More Birthdays By Celebrating Mathematically Significant Dates

Where Emotions Hit You, Visualized

This Is London’s Floating Bike Road Dream

What is this?

How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works

Awesome ad erases all the animals in The Lion King’s opening sequence

Crooks Have Been Hacking ATMs With Infected USB Sticks

Why Times and Timezones Still Confuse the Hell Out of Developers

The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: I Am the Walrus

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