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This Guy Is Selling a Whole Mess of Apple Prototypes on Ebay

Steve Wozniak’s name may be on the shipping label for one of the devices, but it’s not the Woz selling it or more than a dozen other Apple prototypes currently available eBay. Seller Hap Plain just happened to pick up the Cinema Display with Woz’s name on the label while on the hunt for other,…

Tech News Alex Cranz Mar 9

This Guy’s Hot Wheels Collection Is Worth Over $1 Million

Ready to feel anger and resentment towards your younger self for not taking better care of your Hot Wheels toys? Bruce Pascal has been collecting them since he was seven years old, and now that he’s all grown up his collection, with over 3,000 tiny cars in it, is worth well north of a million…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Nov 14

Rent-A-Center Customer Horror Stories Allege Harassment at Home and Work

If you walk into any of Rent-A-Center’s 2,600 locations across the country, you can walk out with a laptop, a smartphone, or a couch under a high-interest payment plan. The Rent-A-Center business model allows people with low or no credit some access to the basic necessities of modern life, even if they wind up paying…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 24

What Precious Items Have You Collected?

Your friendly Gizmodo staff has ranged from collecting soda memorabilia to pogs to 1994 X-Men Fleer trading cards. Some of us still have active collections. What about you? I’ve gone through collections in fits and starts, getting really psyched for something, like say state quarters, then having my enthusiasm wane and my collection pile up…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Oct 15

The History of Rain Jacket Tech, From Intestines To Gore-Tex

From seal intestines to woven grass, mankind’s been staying dry by any means available for thousands of years. And, with the rise of wonder materials like Gore-Tex, even drier for the last few decades. Now, a new technology promises to keep us the driest yet. Here’s a look back at how it all worked.

Tech News Wes Siler Feb 5

The History of Rain Jacket Tech, From Intestines To Gore-Tex

From seal intestines to woven grass, mankind’s been staying dry by any means available for thousands of years. And, with the rise of wonder materials like Gore-Tex, even drier for the last few decades. Now, a new technology promises to keep us the driest yet. Here’s a look back at how it all worked. Ancient…

Tech News Wes Siler Feb 5

I Can’t Stop Buying Ridiculous Keyboards

Your keyboard is boring—completely practical, functional, useful even, but also awful, boring and stupid. You just don’t know it yet. I learned about boring keyboards in college, when a nasty case of carpel tunnel syndrome threatened to silence my fingers forever. Then, one day, my father lent me a ridiculous vertical keyboard that changed how…

Tech News Sean Buckley Feb 2

Who Needs a Weatherman? These Buildings Tell You the Forecast

It has never been easier to get updates on the weather. If you have a smartphone, a few taps will pull up forecasts quicker than you can say “colder than a witch’s tit” three times fast. Technology! But there’s a much older, low-tech option for figuring out whether to bust out the umbrella, and it’s…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Jan 7

The Bedpan Whisperer

How many bedpans is too many? 10? 50? Try 250. That’s about how many bedpans and items of bedpan memorabiliaEric Eakin has collected thus far. “I have bedpan greeting cards, bedpan poems, bedpan jewelry, and bedpan salt-and-pepper shakers,” he says. Eakin’s also got plenty of vintage and antique bedpans, each one clean enough to eat…

Tech News Hunter Oatman-Stanford - Collector's Weekly Nov 14

11 Incredible Smartwatch Apps That Don’t Exist Yet

Over the weekend, we asked you to have a think about what kind of apps you’d want on your wrist if you were a designer. We encouraged you to go big—and go big you did, suggesting everything from a universal translator to walkie-talkies. We received over a hundred comments on the original post, but below…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 5

5 Selfie-Enabling Devices That Deserve a Permanent Ban

Here at Gizmodo dot com we are dedicated to telling you about the best technology and design innovations IN THE WORLD, SON. That means relentlessly following the best new phones , showcasing souped-up vacuums , or highlighting fascinating social networks . And sometimes it means showing you the absolute worst technology and design innovations so…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Oct 1

The 9 Deadliest Minerals We’ve Ever Mined

Precious minerals make the modern world go ’round—they’re used in everything from circuit boards to tableware. They’re also some of the most toxic materials known to science, and excavating them has proved so dangerous over the years, some have been phased out of industrial production altogether. Here are the nine most toxic minerals we’ve ever…

Health Andrew Tarantola Sep 26

5 Important Artifacts That Were Lost—And Found—In Museum Storage

“It belongs in a museum!” It’s a common refrain among archaeologists who are passionate about preserving artifacts for future generations. But anyone who’s seen the end of the 1981 documentary Raiders of the Lost Ark knows that precious relics can be easily forgotten once they make it into storage. Okay, Indy’s not real. But it…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Aug 13

Yep, Harvard Really Does Have a Book Bound in Human Skin

This past April brought disappointing (but relieving?) news that a book long suspected to be bound in human skin in Harvard’s library was, in fact, bound in sheepskin. Nothing here, move along, right? But no! Now Harvard has confirmed, for the first time ever, one of its other books is indeed sheathed in human skin.…

Books & Comics Sarah Zhang Jun 4

These Modular Cabinets Are the Coolest Way To Display Precious Things

There’s a case to be made—recently by designer Martino Gamper (and me)—that shelving is the most personal piece of furniture you own; a functional place to store your stuff that also puts it on display, like you’re curating own little curio exhibition. The Room collection, by Kyuhyung Cho and Erik Olovsson, might be the most…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Apr 14

The World’s Largest Toy Car Collection Has Over 30,000 Tiny Vehicles

The fact that Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys are so cheap means that countless kids have giant collections of tiny cars. But the world’s largest? With over 30,000 scale vehicles in his collection, Beirut’s Billy Karam has a legitimate claim to that title, and Cool Hunting had a chance to tour his showroom. An actual…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 29

What do you think this goblin is saying on Jim C. Hines’ book cover?

We’re stoked to present the first exclusive look at the cover for Jim C. Hines’ new story collection, The Goblin Master’s Grimoire. But when you see the full cover (below), you’ll be left with a pressing question: What exactly is the goblin in the picture saying? Answer it, and you could win a signed copy…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 4

13 of the World’s Oldest (and Most Beautiful) Typewriters

Some people collect baseball cards and others collect coins. Martin Howard, however, collects century-old typewriters. And boy is he good at it. The Toronto-based enthusiast has typewriters that looks like navigation instruments and typewriters that look like scales. But they all have one thing in common: They’re beautiful. The Martin Howard Collection includes dozens of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 23

What’s the Best Logo of All Time?

People tend not to like big changes, either in celebrity hairstyles or branding, which explains why so many major logo unveilings of the past few years have ended in disaster. But rather than harp on Yahoo’s spicy meatball of a new logo, let’s dig into the neglected category of the well-designed ones. For most consumers,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 5

A Brief Tour of Canon’s Massive Showroom of Wonders

Canon USA’s brand-new Long Island headquarters doesn’t just house boardrooms, cubicles, and water coolers. It’s also where the venerable camera company maintains its giant showroom, in which every current Canon product—plus a plethora of other imaging technology tidbits—is on prominent display. We took a trip out there last week; here’s a taste of what we…

Tech News Michael Hession Aug 26

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This Guy Is Selling a Whole Mess of Apple Prototypes on Ebay

This Guy’s Hot Wheels Collection Is Worth Over $1 Million

Rent-A-Center Customer Horror Stories Allege Harassment at Home and Work

What Precious Items Have You Collected?

The History of Rain Jacket Tech, From Intestines To Gore-Tex

The History of Rain Jacket Tech, From Intestines To Gore-Tex

I Can’t Stop Buying Ridiculous Keyboards

Who Needs a Weatherman? These Buildings Tell You the Forecast

The Bedpan Whisperer

11 Incredible Smartwatch Apps That Don’t Exist Yet

5 Selfie-Enabling Devices That Deserve a Permanent Ban

The 9 Deadliest Minerals We’ve Ever Mined

5 Important Artifacts That Were Lost—And Found—In Museum Storage

Yep, Harvard Really Does Have a Book Bound in Human Skin

These Modular Cabinets Are the Coolest Way To Display Precious Things

The World’s Largest Toy Car Collection Has Over 30,000 Tiny Vehicles

What do you think this goblin is saying on Jim C. Hines’ book cover?

13 of the World’s Oldest (and Most Beautiful) Typewriters

What’s the Best Logo of All Time?

A Brief Tour of Canon’s Massive Showroom of Wonders

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