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This Wooden Bicycle Is Beautifully Impractical

There’s a natural charm to cycling that allows you to feel at one with the environment that surrounds you—but if that’s not enough, maybe you need this bike that’s made from the environment that surrounds you. There’s no way around the fact that a wooden bicycle isn’t as practical as its metallic brethren. Wood just…

Sony’s SmartWatch 2 Promises to Be Better This Time

We really wanted to love Sony’s SmartWatch last year, but we couldn’t. Which is to say, it made us want to bite our own arms off. Sony is back at it again, though, and thankfully the sequel looks like a real improvement over the previous generation. https://gizmodo.com/sony-smartwatch-review-maybe-the-worst-thing-sony-has-5926728 For starters, the SmartWatch 2 has a bigger…

Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra Phone Is… Nah, That’s Not a Phone

And here we face a conundrum. On the one hand, Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra has salivation-worthy guts. On the other hand, the screen on this thing is 6.4 freaking inches! That’s not a phone, that’s a tablet you talk into. Ignoring that for a moment, this thing sounds awesome. It’ll come running Android 4.2 (Jelly…

This 39-Inch 4K TV Only Costs $700

Earlier this year, Seiki announced a 50-inch 4K TV that went on to sell for less than $1000. Now, the bar has dropped again—and its latest 4K set will retail for just $700. https://gizmodo.com/wow-you-can-actually-afford-this-1300-50-inch-4k-led-5994573 That is crazy cheap for a 4K TV, however you look at it. Sure, it’s only 39 inches, which seems a…

Apple is apparently gathering up new MacBook Airs which appear to be displaying Wi-Fi issues—so it might be worth dropping into the store if yours is struggling with the internets.

IRS Targeted Progressive and “Occupy” Groups Along With Tea Party

Accused of specifically targeting Tea Party and other right-wing anti-tax groups, the IRS has now been caught admitting that liberal-progressive and “Occupy” non-profits seeking tax exempt status would also be unfairly hassled. http://gawker.com/irs-head-says-close-scrutiny-wasnt-restricted-to-tea-p-565764457 [Photo by David Shankbone via Flickr.]

What the Most Famous Brands Are from Each State

When you close your eyes and think of California, what famous brand comes to mind? Is it Apple? Facebook? Google? Or some movie studio? What about Texas? New York? Florida? These are the most famous brands of each state. The Corporate States of America, if you will. It’s very embarrassing to admit that I have…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Mundo

If Kang and Kodos are really serious about enslaving the Earth, they’re going to need a bigger invasion fleet than three clones of Portugues elecetronica artist Paulo Zé Pimenta and a couple of orbiting potatoes. Just sayin’ Check out the rest of PZ Pimenta’s work over at Meifumado.

True Blood: A Totally Normal Show For Normal People

What was that? No seriously, what the hell did we just watch? I love this show, but it is very lucky that vampires have the power to float outside bedroom windows and be sexy or else I’M OUT. Slightly NSFW gifs ahead. Just kidding, that’s never going to happen. I love you, True Blood. Return…

iOS 7 Will Let You Take Secret Screenshots of Your Sexy Snapchats

Fellow sexters or those who like self-destructing pictures and videos, ya better listen up. Snapchat and iOS 7 might have a wee bit of a problem because in iOS 7 you can screenshot Snapchat photos without ever alerting the original person. Basically, you can screenshot without ever getting caught. Currently, when you screenshot a photo…

Siri Actually Cares How Names Are Pronounced in iOS 7

In iOS 7, Siri’s voice is becoming less robotic and more human (we’ll have to wait and see if she’s more useful). One of those improvements will be how she pronounces names. Instead of butchering your name or choppily spelling out letters of your friends’ names, she’ll be able to be ‘taught’ what the correct…

An Artist Got 16 Bucks for a Song That Pandora Streamed a Million Times (Updated)

A million of anything is pretty much always an insanely impossible number. Winning a million dollars, having a million Twitter followers, selling a million products—anything done a million times is something to be proud of. But maybe not getting your song streamed on Pandora a million times. All you get sometimes is 16 measly dollars.…

The New X-M1 Is Fujifilm’s Cheapest Mirrorless Camera Yet

The rumored “entry-level” X-series interchangeable-lens camera from Fujifilm is real. The X-M1, features the same 16.3-megapixel APS-C sensor from the more-expensive X-Pro1 and X-E1 models. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-fujifilm-x-m1-a-cheaper-mirrorless-camera-with-529802966 The X-M1 introduces a three-inch tilting display and built-in Wi-Fi for easy image file transfers. The new, simplified camera body doesn’t have a viewfinder to stick your eye in…

What Happened to the Mysterious Humans of the Sahara 7,000 Years Ago?

The Sahara in central Africa is the largest hot desert on Earth, its blistering sands practically lifeless. But just a few thousand years ago, it was a home to early human civilizations. Over the past decade, we’ve gotten a sharp picture of what happened to the people who lived in this lost landscape. Photo by…

I admit it: I’m a Falling Skies fan.

This latest episode of Falling Skies was action-packed, but it was also jam-packed with silliness and random soap-operatics. And yet, I still kind of love this show, even when it seems to be spinning out of control. There’s just something about the characters and the world that feel right, even in spite of everything. Actually,…

You’ll Dump Your Flat Screen For One of These Insane Television Sets

Early television sets wanted to be from the future. Designers did the best they could with small, rounded screens behind a long tapering picture tube. This 1957 beauty was designed by Phillippe Charbonneaux and would look great in any modern home today.

Watch a Guy Freak People Out By Floating in the Air on a Moving Bus

Though this prank video is an obvious attempt at force inducing viral-ity by Pepsi Max, it’s still a pretty fun watch. The magician Dynamo tricks people into thinking he can levitate by ‘magically’ following a bus around as it moves across London. Watch people freak out when they see him float. It’s always fun to…

The Most Insane Television Sets in History

When televisions were still a luxury, high-tech item, designers wanted to make them look as crazily futuristic and beautiful as possible. Here are some of the most bizarre and breathtaking television sets that ever existed. Kuba Komet (1957-1962, Wolfenbuttel, West Germany) The sailboat-like ultra-heavy (it was 289 lb. or 130 kg) home entertainment system of…

Twinkies Return July 15, Minus Unionized Twinkie Bakers

The repulsive concoction of chemicals and corn syrup called “Twinkie” will return to stores on July 15, now that all the Hostess unionized workers have lost their jobs and a new non-union Hostess begins shipping the indigestible grease sops. http://gawker.com/5990555/who-should-be-the-new-face-of-twinkies

Evidence that our universe may have collided with another universe

This image reveals something bizarre about our early universe. On a large scale, there are greater temperature fluctuations to the right of the gray line than to the left. Could we be seeing the bruise from an early smashup with another universe? Some physicists think so. This is one of several images of the cosmic…