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95,200 Pieces of Chewed Gum Make Up the World’s Largest and Grossest Gumball

That gigantic yellow stained ball of goopness? It’s made from 95,200 piece of chewed Nicorette gum. It’s the love creation of Barry Chappell, who started rolling his chewed gum into a ball back in 2006. Six years later, it’s now 62 inches in circumference and weighs 175 pounds of rubber, saliva and nastiness. People are…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 25 '12

Netflix Isn’t Doing As Bad As We Thought It Was

Netflix had a pretty bad 2011. And that might be underselling it since the company pretty much destroyed all the goodwill it developed over the years and became a laughingstock. No matter! Netflix just announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 and things are looking good. To sum it up: Netflix is actually…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 25 '12

High resolution images of Mars reveal a stunning, wind-battered landscape

Who would ever imagine that sand dunes could look so incredible? In this beautiful image, sand trapped in an impact crater in the Red Planet’s Moachis Terra region have been sculpted by the winds of Mars into a vast and variegated landscape. But photos like this have far more to offer than their beauty —…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 25 '12

F—k Yes to Snow White’s Ridiculous Swan Dress In this new Mirror Mirror featurette!

We were all aboard the Snow White and the Huntsman’s brand of dark fantasy, laced with Willow-esque fantasies and actually evil Queens. Then we saw this new featurette for the other Snow White flick, the campy Mirror Mirror — in which little Snow White runs around in a swan dress. With a swan head. Fuck,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 25 '12

Shove a Bacon Tampon Up Your Nose and It Will Stop Bleeding

From the Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology comes news that fashioning a strip of cured pork into a nasal tampon will help prevent nosebleeds for those suffering from chronic episodes. More specifically, it was used in the “treatment of [a] life-threatening hemorrhage.” From the Annals: Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 25 '12

Bonobos may have actually domesticated themselves

Bonobos look like tame versions of chimpanzees. They’re much less aggressive than chimps, their features are softer and smaller than their cousins, and they famously have sex for pleasure. Basically bonobos are domesticated… except humans had nothing to do with it. The differences between chimps and bonobos are a good match for similar pairings of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 25 '12

Daily Desired: The Pocket-Sized Survival Kit

I carry around a lot more stuff than I should. Today’s ancillary crap? Five USB cables, an emergency DSLR (no battery), and, um, an iPod Nano that I didn’t know I still had. This tool-loaded key chain, however, might be the most useful thing I’ll ever own. The EDC Kit is inspired by the legions…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 25 '12

Take Better Notes, Draw Your Thoughts, and Rock Out With Your Finger

Someone told me about a study that determined that doodling enhanced your comprehension of what’s going on around you. I think it’s bunk, but what do I know? If you’re the type of person who sketches rather than writes, we have a free app for you. We also tracked down a written-note taking app and…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin Jan 25 '12

How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets

Friend-of-Gizmodo Tonx.org has a cute little comic today bemoaning Keurig K-Cups—the little coffee pods designed to brew single servings of coffee. They’re convenient, but they’re ridiculously overpriced, and don’t make very good coffee. You can do better. You may have seen Matt or I square off over coffee, or Kristen talk about how she loves…

Tech News Mat Honan Jan 25 '12

Cut the Rope Is More Addictive Than Ever Thanks to IE9

You’ve definitely seen it. You’ve most likely played it. And now the web version of Cut the Rope, the addictive game that follows the kinetic challenges of a candy-loving monster named Om Nom, is available online for free. The hugely popular game (it’s been downloaded more than 60 million times) is about to get a…

Tech News Sponsored post Jan 25 '12

Yes, You Can Also Recycle Jeans

Generally when I blow through a pair of denim, I just toss it out and never think of it again. But apparently, that pair of old, shredded jeans can be ground down to a pulp and reconstituted into a fresh pair of pants. Hypebeast says that Swedish denim manufactuer Nudie Jeans and the fashion retailer…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 25 '12

Open WebOS 1.0 Coming in September

When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavor, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they’ve partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September. Along with news of the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 25 '12

This photo of the super-jellyfish? It’s a lie.

Have you seen this picture? Apparently it’s been floating around on the internet for a while now, but has experienced something of a comeback as of late, usually with some version of the following caption: The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 25 '12

This R2-D2 Rug Would Look Great In the Emperor’s Throne Room

I don’t know why Pottery Barn only sells this lovely graphic print R2-D2 rug on their ‘Kids’ site. I would happily put one in every room of my home, and I suspect I’m not alone. But Pottery Barn probably realizes this too. So they actually sell the pure wool rug—dyed blue and gray with a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 25 '12

The Power A Batarang Wired Xbox 360 Controller Is Your Not-A-Real-Batarang Deal of the Day

So how do we feel about Microsoft and Sony waiting until 2013 or 2014 to put out their new systems? With the pace of phones moving so quickly, tablets popping out like companies have indigestion and even laptops becoming more ultra every year, it seems like game consoles have become forgotten technology. But! We would…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jan 25 '12

With Flame Alphabet, the bar has been raised for weird apocalypses

You think The Road was bleak? You found Zone One kind of dark and relentless? Bah. The latest literary apocalypse, Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet, is weirder, more disturbing and harder to deal with than any of your other literary calamities. The Flame Alphabet may not be the most violent apocalypse, but it is quite…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 25 '12

“The fuel tank is half full”: Gregory Benford on why the dream of space exploration is not dead

Reason Magazine just posted a must-read article from its February 2012 issue by Timescape author Gregory Benford, in which he examines the expansive dream of space exploration propounded in the early 1950s by Wernher Von Braun. And he concludes that even though NASA seems to be scaling back and our dreams of interplanetary exploration have…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 25 '12

Floating Flamer BBQ Lets You Host Tailgate Parties From a Canoe

Apparently the creators of this Floating Flamer barbecue haven’t heard the old adage that you should wait an hour after eating before swimming. Because they want you grilling up burgers and hot dogs while you’re frolicking in the waves. I can’t argue with the convenience of having easy access to grilled consumables without getting out…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 25 '12

Princess Leia meets Tank Girl, and the galaxy is made way cooler as a result

Our new favorite fan-art mashup combines Star Wars and Tank Girl, to give Princess Leia a bit more attitude to cope with that nerf herder guy. Mashup artist James Hance posted this a couple days ago, and prints and T-shirts are already available. Check out the whole thing, plus his new doodle in progress, “Anakin…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 25 '12

Are the Next Great Windows Phones Landing March 18th?

Two of the phones we’re looking forward to more than anything else in this wide world are the Nokia 900 and the Mechagodzilla Titan II. BGR says it’s got the word on the phones’ due dates (and prices). Gulp. According to a “trusted source,” the two solid handsets will both arrive on March 18th—the Titan…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 25 '12

95,200 Pieces of Chewed Gum Make Up the World’s Largest and Grossest Gumball

Netflix Isn’t Doing As Bad As We Thought It Was

High resolution images of Mars reveal a stunning, wind-battered landscape

F—k Yes to Snow White’s Ridiculous Swan Dress In this new Mirror Mirror featurette!

Shove a Bacon Tampon Up Your Nose and It Will Stop Bleeding

Bonobos may have actually domesticated themselves

Daily Desired: The Pocket-Sized Survival Kit

Take Better Notes, Draw Your Thoughts, and Rock Out With Your Finger

How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets

Cut the Rope Is More Addictive Than Ever Thanks to IE9

Yes, You Can Also Recycle Jeans

Open WebOS 1.0 Coming in September

This photo of the super-jellyfish? It’s a lie.

This R2-D2 Rug Would Look Great In the Emperor’s Throne Room

The Power A Batarang Wired Xbox 360 Controller Is Your Not-A-Real-Batarang Deal of the Day

With Flame Alphabet, the bar has been raised for weird apocalypses

“The fuel tank is half full”: Gregory Benford on why the dream of space exploration is not dead

Floating Flamer BBQ Lets You Host Tailgate Parties From a Canoe

Princess Leia meets Tank Girl, and the galaxy is made way cooler as a result

Are the Next Great Windows Phones Landing March 18th?

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