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Report: Automatic Video Ads (With SOUND?) Coming To Your Facebook Feed

If you think the auto-play commercials on sites like ours are annoying, get ready to have it in your face times a billion: Ad Age says video ads are hitting Facebook. The transition, which AdAge’s anonymous industry sources say will begin in the first half of 2013, will stick video commercials in your browser, tablet,…

Shooting Challenge: Ornaments

Shooting Summary: f/5.0,1/8,ISO125, Nikon D80,18-55mm lense My mom bought this ornament at the Goodwill 5 years ago, it is hand painted and has no religous meaning. But the painting on it is so whimiscal, that every Christmas I’ll stare at this ornament and wish I was a part of the picture. – Margaret Warburton Camera…

24 Photographs Of Your Most Treasured Ornaments

Even for heathens, hanging Christmas tree ornaments can be a multi-decade tradition. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to not only take some photos, but share the stories behind the ornaments that only you’re allowed to hang. WINNER: Babys and Bokeh, The Ultimate Combo I’m not normally a sentimental holiday guy, but since…

Whoa, Is This Polaroid Mirrorless Camera Real?

The internet is awash today with rumors of a possible Polaroid mirrorless camera. All looks good at first glance, but some weirdness makes us question whether it’s all a ruse. Images were originally leaked via Russian social network VK and later published by Photorumors.com. The supposed camera looks remarkably similar to the Nikon 1 J2…

iPhone 5 and iPad mini owners, iOS 6.0.2 is now available via iTunes to fix any and hopefully all Wi-Fi issues.

Is it OK to Propose on Twitter?

Electronic music superstar and friend of Gizmodo Deadmau5 just got engaged to the beautiful and talented Kat Von D. (Congrats dudes!!!) But no matter how happy we are for the love birds, we can’t seem to agree about whether or not popping the question on social media is OK. Discuss.

What Frodo would have looked like as Gollum

In the original script for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the ginger-haired Faramir has a vision of Frodo’s future, should the ring take hold of Frodo’s soul. So Elijah Wood had to be done up as Frodo-Gollum. And now, here are the alleged results of that makeup monster. According to Movie Ramblings…

Google’s new music matching service is basically iTunes Match streaming playback for free. [ATD]

Need Holiday Shopping Help? We’re Here to Help—Live

It is officially the time of year when all gear writers start getting emails from friends and family asking what presents they should get their loved ones for the holidays. Then we get together in gadget guy bars and bitch about this fact ad nauseum. Well, some of us do. Not me; I love this…

8 Signs That Pop Culture Is Finally Done With the Apocalypse

The world has ended, civilization has collapsed, the undead hordes have overrun everything. We’ve seen the apocalypse so many times, even Roland Emmerich is bored with it. So what comes next? We’ve still got some apocalyptic movies to look forward to next year, and post-apocalyptic TV shows like Revolution and Walking Dead are coming back…

This is not a photograph

It’s a hand-pixelated portrait (over 2-million individual dots, in total, drawn in the onomatopoetically named style known as stippling) of Benjamen Kyle, the only American citizen to be officially recognized as “missing,” despite his whereabouts being known. Colossal’s Christopher Jobson explains: In 2004 an unconscious man was discovered behind a fast food restaurant in Richmond…

Falcon feeds a dog, and proves that predators make adorable friends

This beautiful falcon has decided to cross species lines and share a snack with its dog companion. I love how the dog waits humbly under the falcon’s perch for table scraps. The falcon carefully pulls bits of meat off the bones of the animal its eating, then tosses them to the dog. This falcon is…

Monsters University banners reveal the villainous Monster Frat

We’ve got two new images from the Pixar Monsters University: one showing the wacky monster hijinks on campus (look at that monster pig with the hypnotoad eyes!), and another shot of a banner that reveals this prequel’s villains. Spoilers ahead! These banners, found by Pixar Post, show Sulley and Mike on the presumed team good…

Beats By Dre Headphones Are Going in Helmets Now

POC and Beats By Dre are going to make your next ski trip better and safer with a new line of Receptor BUG Helmets that have headphones built in. They’re pretty standard as far as these kinds of helmets go—the headphones are built into the neckroll for a comfortable fit, and there’s a mic and…

Go On a “Mission” With Your Nike FuelBand. Wait, What?

If you or your friends are sporting Nike FuelBands, you might be interested in this weird animated game that taps into your Fuel scores. Called NikeFuel Missions, the “game” essentially riffs off the existing challenges that are presented to Nike+ users on the desktop website. https://gizmodo.com/nike-fuelband-review-a-friendly-reminder-to-stop-being-5900807 Whether you use a FuelBand or any other Nike+…

Now you can watch all of Vimeo’s lovely short films on Xbox through a brand new app. Start with this video.

Finally, some scientific explanations for Rudolph’s red nose

Via the always-excellent Annals of Improbable Research come not one, but two, studies (both of them Dutch… make of that what you will) on possible physiological explanations for Rudolph’s ruby schnoz. From “Microcirculatory investigations of nasal mucosa in reindeer Rangifer tarandus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Cervidae): Rudolph’s nose was overheated,” published today in the journal Deinsea: The…

Winter is coming, and so is Game of Thrones: The Official Beer

HBO, perhaps inspired by season two’s breakout star Drunk Cersei, has announced the greatest Game of Thrones merchandise available (at least until someone can start bioengineering dire wolf puppies): Official Game of Thrones beer. From the press release: Unlike previous efforts by brewers, which were typically executed as ‘brewed under license’ arrangements or straightforward product…

18 Adorable Videos of Kids Being Incredibly Excited About Christmas Gadgets

Sweaters. Meat. Gift certificates. Books. Whatever. We know what really gets kids excited on Christmas morning. It’s gadgets. Well, video game consoles, mostly, but kids know enough to slip an iPod request in there on off years. Most of these videos are adorable, a few are cringe-inducing, and a couple are downright touching. Six years…

Digital Comics Finally Let You Pick Up Where You Left Off

Comixology, the biggest provider of digital comic books and the engine behind the Marvel and DC apps, just announced it’s got a new automatic bookmark feature called Continue. That’s great—and it’s about time. The Continue feature works on iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web client. So you won’t lose your place…