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Netatmo Urban Weather Station Review: What the Hell Is the Point of This Thing?

A personal weather station that beams environmental data up to the cloud then down to a colorful smartphone app sounds like an awesome uber gadget. Exciting! But in the end the Netatmo Urban Weather Station just left us confused. What Is It? A $180 “weather station” that records seemingly random metrics about indoor and outdoor…

Everything You Need To Enjoy Tennis Greats Smacking Some Balls Around

If you didn’t get enough of the world’s greatest tennis players demolishing their competitors at the Olympics, the U.S. Open is another opportunity to watch these titans of tennis smack around fuzzy green balls. But to fully enjoy the spectacle you have to immerse yourself in all things tennis, so here’s everything you’ll need to…

Is This Our First Look at Accessories for the iPhone 5’s New Dock Connector? (Updated)

Well this could be something. iLounge is reporting that it’s got images of accessories made for the iPhone 5’s new dock connector. And at first glance, they seem to confirm a lot of what we’ve been hearing about it. https://gizmodo.com/whats-really-going-on-with-apples-new-dock-connector-5933315 The images look like they’re from Scosche, a third party accessories maker. They abide by…

One Simple and Incredibly Painful Way to Fix Your Novel Draft

Congratulations! You’ve written a first draft of a science fiction or fantasy novel. You (and your heroes) have vanquished the enemy, and your story has come to a glorious end. And now, the real agony begins. Chances are your first draft is a misshapen wreck, which requires huge surgery. The good news is, there’s one…

Amidst lawsuits from the major labels, Grooveshark’s streaming music app is again available on Google Play. Huh. https://gizmodo.com/grooveshark-will-soon-be-destroyed-5862026

A Red Architect’s Lamp is a Classic Way to Update Your Desk

Our office tends to get really dark. If you sit in a particularly shadowy corner, you need some extra lighting unless you want to squint, which ruins your vision and gives you crow’s feet, your mother told you for the fiftieth time. Crate and Barrel’s red Task Lamp is a classic way to add a…

Underwater Wheelchair Rides Should Be a Real Thing

Would it ever really make sense to build wheelchairs that can cruise around underwater? Maybe not. But when it’s an art project, watching a wheelchair power around in the sea is surreal and oddly mesmerizing. There’s really nothing else to do but sit back and enjoy the visuals for what they are—beautiful. [Freewheeling]

Facebook Camera app update adds notifications and ability to upload to existing albums.

NASA to Announce Mysterious New Black Hole Discoveries Tomorrow!

Supermassive black holes, rare galaxies, oh my! Tomorrow afternoon, NASA will be hosting a teleconference to discuss new discoveries surrounding these and other extreme deep-space objects. According to SPACE.com: The NASA update is set for Wednesday (Aug. 29) at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) and will discuss the latest science findings from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared…

Ultimate Guide to Porn Spoofs Pt. 2: Superheroes, Star Trek, Star Wars and Horror [NSFW]

Superheroes Super Lady This mid-1970s film is just sort of… odd. I would think it was a spoof of Project A, except that Project A hadn’t come out yet. The film is called Super Lady, but they refer to Project A quite a bit. And the resulting superwoman wears a big “A” on her chest.…

Are you going insane? No, it’s just German Mardi Gras, circa 1933.

What’s going on? Who are these people? What’s on the damn menu? Didn’t you go to high school with that parrot? Relax! This is just a photograph of the 1933 Mardi Gras in Munich, Germany. Either that, or you hopped in your time machine only to accidentally drop acid in the dying days of the…

Oldest Fossilized Bugs Ever Found Preserved in Amber. Clone Time!

You know the drill: An ancient bug is minding its own business, munching some leaves, buzzin’ some dinos’, when all of a sudden he’s sucked up into a ball of tree resin and winds up in a 21st century laboratory. And a team of international scientists just found the oldest ones in the world. Just…

The Worst Art Restoration Mistakes of All Time

So now we all know what not to do when restoring great works of art. Don’t go into a church in Spain and try to touch up a century-old fresco if all your attempts at art so far have ended with people asking you what you’re painting. But it turns out that even professionals can…

Steady Wobbling Tables with Wads of Fake Cash

It’s probably not that much of a stretch to assume that one-percenters steady wobbly tables with rolled up wads of hundred dollar bills. Right? You use what you have on hand. And for the rest of us who only aspire to one day control a vast majority of the world’s wealth, there’s these fake PVC…

On Alphas, everything is Dr. Rosen’s fault. As usual.

Poor Dr. Rosen. He’s always getting flak from everybody. He probably practices that hangdog look in the mirror. Last night’s Alphas underscored that Dr. Rosen is in a tough position, as pretty much the only person around who doesn’t have mutant powers, and someone who’s made some questionable choices. He probably doesn’t do himself any…

Let’s Think About This for a Couple Minutes Now

Right after Curiosity landed on Mars, someone—it may have been Adam Steltzner, I can’t remember exactly now—mentioned that this amazing two-year mission’s total cost was the price of one movie ticket to every citizen in America. https://gizmodo.com/talk-to-the-man-who-led-curiosity-to-the-surface-of-mar-5933049 So I’m just going to leave this here. Enjoy. [Trekbbs—Thanks Karl!]

It’s Time to Pay Attention to Mobile Security for Your Android

It seems like not a day goes by without a report of some new cyber security threat. That’s why, earlier this year, researchers at ESET predicted that mobile malware and localized attacks on modem platforms were some of the most important tech trends for consumers to stay conscious of. Since Android has become the dominant…

China’s Already Knocking Off the iPhone 5

According to highly suspect rumors website NowhereElse.fr, an industrious Chinese company has already copied the design for the iPhone 5—even before we officially know what the iPhone 5 looks like. Meet the Goophone i5, the bastard child of cobbled together rumors and unyielding ambition. If you ignore the buzzing Android bug (?) on the back…

This 500-pound Darth Vader cake could feed the entire Death Star

Have you ever wondered what Darth Vader would look like if he hailed from Candyland? After building a 300-pound, Imperial-stormtrooper-shaped pastry earlier this year, the bakers at Amanda Oakleaf Cakes upped the ante and recreated Anakin Skywalker out of gâteau. This Sith dessert was served last weekend at the 501st Legion Banquet for Star Wars…

In the Victorian Age, astronomy and nudity went hand in hand [NSFW]

Near the end of the nineteenth century there was a brief vogue among artists for mixing astronomical subjects and hot naked women. The foremost among these, the Spanish painter Luis Falero, had his work used in popular science texts, and spawned a number of imitators. Warning: NSFW artworks below! Born in Toledo in 1851, Falero…