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These Durable Foam Solar Racers Could Last and Run Forever

Nerf showed the world that toys made from soft foam could survive a kid’s abuse for weeks, even months at a time. But guns and arrow-launching cannons aren’t particularly educational. So if you want your kids to learn a little something while they play, consider these foam Volta Racers which run on the power of…

All Booze Tastes Better When It’s Squeezed From a Stone

If you’re the party-hosting kind, you’ve probably resigned yourself to the fact that things are going to break—a lot. But if your well-lubricated partygoers must get rowdy, you might as well make sure that the source of that rowdiness will at least stay intact. In which case, might we suggest a 15-pound, 7-inch lump of…

Farming Nemo: How Aquaculture Will Feed 9 Billion Hungry People

Shrimp fountains don’t grow on trees, you know—nor do Ahi Tuna steaks, Fish McBites, or fried calamari. But that hasn’t stopped an increasingly affluent human population from annually demanding more and more seafood. As a result, an estimated 85 percent of the ocean’s fish stocks are now either fully exploited or overfished. But an ancient…

Swim In this Chlorine-Free Swiss Pool With 1999 of Your Closest Friends

Does the good weather have you hankering for a swim? In that case, check out the Naturbad Riehen, an “outdoor bathing lake” in Riehen Switzerland, and although it won’t be open for another year or so, it looks utterly sublime. But isn’t an outdoor bathing lake just a fancy way of describing the wave pool…

YouTube Is Streaming Every Hour of Coachella This Weekend

There might not be a hologram Tupac at Coachella this year, but once again, YouTube will be streaming the whole first weekend of the annual music festival. Starting Friday at 6:30pm EDT lasting through Sunday, you can watch performances from all five stages on the official Coachella YouTube channel. Check out the full schedule here.…

This week, Netflix is rolling out an update to its Xbox app that adds a brand new Netflix Originals landing page.

You Could Probably Spend Your Entire Life On Starck’s New Gadget-Friendly Sofa

Philippe Starck is known for designs that are as functional as they are beautiful. So it’s not surprising that when it came to designing a sofa, the results would include everything from privacy dividers, to accessible power outlets, to even a Powermat wireless induction charging pad. There’s probably a good reason it’s called the My…

Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

Caroline Paul and her partner, the illustrator (and friend of Gizmodo) Wendy MacNaughton, were devastated when their beloved tabby cat Tibia disappeared from their San Francisco home. It was utterly out of character for the timid Tibby to venture far, especially for over a month’s time. Pet psychics were consulted. Fliers were drawn up, posted…

How Inventor Paul Vo Created a Little Black Box That Could Change Guitars Forever

The Vo-96 Acoustic Synthesizer is one of the most innovative musical instrument products created in years. Strap one onto any acoustic guitar and you can transform the way it sounds by breaking—or at least manipulating—the laws of physics. Here’s the story of how inventor Paul Vo made a device that sounds like magic. Vo is…

The Big Jambox Is Your Deal of the Day

There have been a flood of new wireless Bluetooth speakers in the past two years, but Jawbone’s Jambox line remains one of the best-known. The Big Jambox is a three pound, take-anywhere speaker with a pretty attractive design. Plus, it continues to get better through software—last week, a firmware update added an unheard of two…

Self-Standing Butter Knife Keeps Condiments Off the Table

There’s probably rules and proper etiquette on where to place a condiment-covered knife once you’ve spread jams, jelly, or butter on your bread. But most of us just place it on the counter or table anyways, leaving an additional mess to be cleaned up. Is there a better way you ask? There is, this self-standing…

This Timelapse Turns the Moon into a Flaming Cannonball

With time-lapse videos often covering periods of several years or more, we’ve been trained to to assume that, translated into real time, their subject is barely moving at a snail’s pace. And this is what makes Dan Maker-Moore’s incredible, 15-second time lapse of the moon rising over Los Angeles all the more astounding—the whole thing…

Two Magnificent Magnified Shots

The magnifying glass. It’s good for more than burning ants, you classless juveniles. Because you can take funny photos with it, too! Hunting Bugs This challenge gave me a chance to be a better dad by taking my daughter out to “hunt bugs” and bring along her magnifying glass. She’s not nearly as afraid of…

A Quick Look at Google Play’s Android Overhaul

Today, Google started rolling out a beautiful redesign of the Google Play Android app. The new app isn’t just a dark-to-light transition—it’s faster and easier to use than ever. Move the slider in the image above back and forth to see a before and after comparison. The white interface is the new one. The new…

AT&T customers can now access Boingo hotspots overseas—in one of the applicable major international airports, that is.

You can now pay cash for Spotify Premium at your local 7-Eleven. No credit card, no problem.

Why escaping to the water wouldn’t have saved you from a dino attack

New evidence from the University of Alberta suggests that some terrestrial dinosaurs, including carnivorous theropods, were very capable swimmers. Canadian paleontologist Scott Persons recently examined fossilized claw marks he found on a river bottom in China’s Szechuan Province. The scratches, which were left by two-legged dinosaurs, extended for distances of nearly 50 feet (15 meters),…

Magic: The Gathering Lets Make-Believe Wizards Blast Make-Believe Fireballs

At this year’s Penny Arcade PAX convention, Wizards of the Coast, makers of the Magic: The Gathering Card game, set up an awesome interactive installation at their booth that let wannabe wizards live out one of their many, many fantasies: blasting imaginary fireballs. Created by a company called M1 Interactive, the setup relied on a…

What the Death of the Sun Will Look Like

About 1.2 billion years from now, the sun will begin to change. As the hydrogen fuel in its core is used up, the burning will spread outward toward the surface. This will make the sun grow brighter. This increased radiation will have a devastating effect on our planet. Here’s what that might look like. The…

A Modular, Fully Customizable Wine Rack For Every Type of Drinker

Regardless of whether you’re a sommelier-hopeful or just a dedicated lush, you’re going to need a wine rack to match your distinct, personal tastes and—er, volume. This is exactly what makes the completely customizable and optionally mountable Nucleus wine rack from Thijs Goossink so fantastic. Constructed of high-grade, scratch-proof anodized aluminum, the beautifully minimalist holders…