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Watch Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Explain QR Codes On MSNBC

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle appeared on MSNBC on Saturday July 9, 2011 to talk about QR Codes with anchor Alex Witt. Watch the clip above. For media requests please contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Tech News Scott Kidder Jul 9

Automatic streetlamps switch on when cars pass, switch off when traffic ceases

In a huge city, lighting the streets is a necessary but pricey precaution. Pedestrians and motorists are no doubt safer when streetlamps, not just car headlights, illuminate roadways and sidewalks – but streetlamps are expensive and inefficient to run. A prototype system that turns the lights on and off depending on traffic could save money…

io9 Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Jul 9

The Vol Is for Tweak-Happy Audiophiles

The Vol portable speaker is like if designer Hironao Tsuboi plucked the dial from your dad’s old hi-fi and stuck the sound inside it. Crafted out of aluminum and made to be lightweight, you’d want to take these anywhere. And they’re so sleek and small, measuring at 2.2 inches across and 1.4 inches high. I’d…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 9

Jaws are very ancient, and possibly unnecessary

About 420 million years ago, fish evolved jaws. 99% of vertebrates still have them — including humans — but they may not be a very useful adaptation. New research published this week shows that the arrival of jaws didn’t give any particular advantage over other fish, and that the design remains fundamentally unchanged since the…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jul 9

Travel the multiverse with “Curvy,” meet interesting people, and have sex with them

Webcomic Curvy is a romp through a gimmick-laden multiverse of erotica. The protagonist Anais travels to strange worlds with the licorice-flavored princess named Fauna and encounters candy tentacles, transspecies pirates, human furniture, and some literal sexual healing. Curvy (NSFW, on just about every page) uses the video game premise that the multiverse is filled with…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jul 9

Nevermind Obama – Vote Anonymous in 2012

LulzSec may have been in it for the laughs, but Anonymous has always claimed that its hack attacks and DDoS bombs are designed to push forward a liberating social agenda. “Hooey,” you might say, “What about that time Anonymous harassed that kid with the No Cussing Club?” and we’d have no option but to nod…

Tech News Brad Chacos - Maximum PC Jul 9

A Giant House Filled with Hammocks to Hang Out In. Don’t Mind the Boobs Tower

Sometimes I think the Europeans know how to live. In Vienna, Austria they’ve created a gigantic 5-story “hangout spot” complete with hammocks to sprawl out in. The best part is the view. It’s a gigantic Tower of Boobs. Seems like a nice place to hang. Except that it’d probably be run down with vagrants in…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Patton Oswalt Goes Crabwalkin’

In the briefest top comedy video yet, Patton Oswalt goes for a good ol’ fashioned crabwalk, and gets hit with the oldest punchline (kickline?) in the books. I read Shouts and Murmurs and all, but a good swift kick to the dinglebits remains mankind’s finest comedic achievement. The rest of this week’s top web comedy…

Tech News Splitsider Jul 8

io9 Roundup: July 8, 2011

FINAL JOURNEY | The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off on its final mission to the final frontier. https://gizmodo.com/lets-light-this-fire-one-more-time-the-space-shuttle-5819426 With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas https://gizmodo.com/with-miracle-day-torchwood-becomes-first-rate-science-5819599 There’s seldom been an hour of television that brought up as many fascinating ideas about the nature of humanity as Torchwood: Miracle Day’s first episode, which…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8

Army Uses Radar to Spot Suicide Bombers From 100 Yards

The security at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel wasn’t nearly enough to stop nine suicide bombers from setting the place ablaze and killing 12 people last month. But the U.S. military thinks it can do better – by spotting treacherous individuals before they get close enough to cause serious harm. Meet the CounterBomber. The Army just awarded…

Tech News Lena Groeger - Wired Jul 8

With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas

There’s seldom been an hour of television that brought up as many fascinating ideas about the nature of humanity as Torchwood: Miracle Day’s first episode, which just aired. Russell T. Davies may have hit on his most fertile premise yet. The previous Torchwood miniseries, Children of Earth, had a darkly sardonic premise that could almost…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8

Meat, Machines, Music, More Meat

This is how your sausage and burgers and jerkies and other meats are made, set to weirdly hypnotic-but-unnerving music that I’m pretty sure turns it all into a social commentary about industrialization and socieity and our lives and meat. [BoingBoing via Eater]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 8

Concrete Speakers Sound Solid

Concrete isn’t usually associated with elegance and beauty but Israeli designer Shmuel Linski wants to change that. His “Exposed” concrete speakers are the latest in a series of high-end concrete product concepts. https://gizmodo.com/concrete-espresso-machine-would-probably-be-difficult-t-5598747 It is worth pointing out that concrete is an awful medium for making traditional speakers. Its stiffness distorts any sound it comes…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 8

What makes your cells self-destruct from too much fat and sugar?

One of the built-in defense mechanisms of our cells is that they self destruct when overloaded with fat and sugar. This helps kill off damaged cells, and prevents them from multiplying into cancers. While this ability is crucial for the body to maintain itself, up until now we’ve never known what causes this fat-and-sugar deathstroke.…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jul 8

Foosball Midfielders Are Good for Goal Scoring and Coat Storing

If you’re still reminiscent of your glory days between the ages of 14-20 when you could destroy anyone in a game of foosball, chances are you’ll love this foosball coatrack. Though it will serve as an eternal reminder of simpler times. It will also make you look like you’re between the ages of 14-20. $90…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 8

This Amplifier Is Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold

Audia Strumento’s GoldAmp A100 weighs only 800 grams. 800g of gold at today’s prices would cost around $39,200. Its MSRP however, will be between $48,622-$51,490. Sure it’s expensive but this is what audiophiles get wet dreams about. Top of the line components are a given at this price point but in addition to nice guts,…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 8

HP Pre 3 not Coming to Sprint

Considering that Sprint and Palm/HP washed their hands of each other awhile ago this shouldn’t come as a huge shock, but yeah, This Is My Next has sources telling them the Pre 3 isn’t coming to Sprint. Sad face? [ThisIsMyNext] https://gizmodo.com/hp-pre-3-goes-giant-with-a-3-6-inch-screen-1-4ghz-proc-5756093

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 8

This Freaky Optical Illusion Turns People Into Horrible Monsters

This optical illusion is one of the weirdest, freakiest brain phenomenon I’ve ever experienced. It’s called the flashed face distortion effect, but just follow the instructions in the video and experience it for yourself, then read the description: We describe a novel face distortion effect resulting from the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. When cycling…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 8

Watch Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Explain QR Codes On MSNBC

Automatic streetlamps switch on when cars pass, switch off when traffic ceases

The Vol Is for Tweak-Happy Audiophiles

Jaws are very ancient, and possibly unnecessary

Travel the multiverse with “Curvy,” meet interesting people, and have sex with them

Nevermind Obama – Vote Anonymous in 2012

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A Giant House Filled with Hammocks to Hang Out In. Don’t Mind the Boobs Tower

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io9 Roundup: July 8, 2011

Army Uses Radar to Spot Suicide Bombers From 100 Yards

With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas

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Concrete Speakers Sound Solid

What makes your cells self-destruct from too much fat and sugar?

Foosball Midfielders Are Good for Goal Scoring and Coat Storing

This Amplifier Is Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold

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HP Pre 3 not Coming to Sprint

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