Lifechanger

Lifechanger: Adam Carolla’s Electric Toothbrush

A lot of people use the shitty travel toothbrush that snaps together—the one they used in camp 25 years ago. It doesn’t get much fanfare, but people should get a good electric toothbrush. Toothbrushes aren’t really a gadget that’s fun to write about or even to talk about. But I mean, if you think about…

Tech News Adam Carolla Jun 8

United States’ First Megaplex Closing Before End of Year

In 1995, the AMC Grand opened in Dallas. It had 24 screens and it changed the movie theater industry: It was the United States’ first megaplex. Sadly, the theater will close on November 30. [Dallas News]

Movies Rosa Golijan Jun 3

Father Invents System to Help Autistic Son Communicate

As a result of severe autism and learning disabilities, eleven-year-old Callum Lodge is unable to talk. In order to allow his son to communicate with the world around him, his father has developed Speaks4me, an electronic communication system. As you can see in the video, Speaks4me appears to allow the user to choose images in…

Health Rosa Golijan Apr 23

From the Comments: Mind Blowing Equipment and the Best Computer Image I’d Ever Seen

So this week I saw some equipment in action that absolutely blew my mind… My 30 minute experience with it changed my life in a way that no other piece of tech has ever done before and all I know about it is that it’s made by GE. I don’t know the model number. I…

Tech News CrispyAardvark Mar 30

Goodbye Winter: The Stuff That Got Me Through

Saying hello to Spring is always bittersweet for me. I enjoy Winter immensely. Mostly because it’s surprising how fast you can get lost snowshoeing in a white out. Even only a few hilltops away from my back yard. Night was falling and my brain said go left. But my GPS said go right. Generally, I’d…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 23

Lifechanger: My Big Fat Music Collection

According to iTunes, I have 22,880 items in my music collection. That adds up to 70.9 days worth of music, taking up 145.26 GB of hard drive space. And thank God for it. When I was 12 or 13 years old, we had a family computer that everyone shared. It had a 1GB hard drive.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 16

Air Video, the Best iPhone Video Streamer $3 Can Buy

Media streamers aren’t exactly new, but there’s another entrant to the field that works so simply and easily it should be nearly mandatory for any iPhone user. It’s called Air Video—and it’s only three bucks. Here’s the scenario: I’ve got a NAS with about a terabyte or so of video sitting on my network. Some…

Tech News Joel Johnson Mar 8

What Hath God Wrought, Indeed

Dit-dat-dat. Dit-dit-dit-dit. Dit-dat. Dat. May 24th, 1844. Samuel Finley Breese Morse is sitting in the Supreme Court chamber in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. Dit-dit-dit-dit. Dit-Dat. Dat. Dit-dit-dit-dit. He has a message. And here it is in full-length: Click on the image to get a closer look of the entire outgoing message. Warning:…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 4

Cellphones Become Our Comfort Objects During Disaster

Two days after a 8.8 magnitude earthquake displaced them from their homes and separated them from dear ones, people gathered at a fire-station in Concepcion, Chile to charge their cellphones—their comfort objects during this disaster. Chile was becoming a trending topic on Twitter before even the fastest newscasters got a chance to talk about Saturday’s…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 2

Nikola’s Letterhead (And How Tesla Won the War of the Currents)

This was Nikola Tesla’s letterhead. It reminded us that along with the often overlooked little things which change our lives, we need the loud, filthy, slaughter-filled battles just as much. Like the dirty War of the Currents. Just in case you’re not familiar with the War of Currents—one of my favorite messes in the history…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Feb 24

How Roger Ebert Will Get His Voice Back

Years of battling cancer have left film ubercritic Roger Ebert without a portion of his jaw, and consequentially, his voice. Esquire’s superb profile outlined his efforts to regain a voice—his voice—but left us wondering: How will that work? From Esquire: Ebert is waiting for a Scottish company called CereProc to give him some of his…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 18

Two Important Updates to Gizmodo: #Broken and #Lifechanger

Gizmodo is a blog, yes, but it’s also become a more encompassing entity—one that’s dynamically enriched by its readership. And we can think of nothing more important for you to share than the real-world stories about your gadgets. Our larger commenting guide can tell you more about the ins and outs of commenting on Gizmodo…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 11

Lifechanger: Vintage Pyrex Colors

Lifechanger is a new section on Gizmodo in which we laud the everyday objects that make life oh so better. In its debut, we’re going to talk about a classic culinary icon: Pyrex Colors mixing bowls. Around 1900, way before silicone spatulas and carcinogenic lids, there was a company named Corning Glass Works. They made…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 28

Lifechanger: Adam Carolla’s Electric Toothbrush

United States’ First Megaplex Closing Before End of Year

Father Invents System to Help Autistic Son Communicate

From the Comments: Mind Blowing Equipment and the Best Computer Image I’d Ever Seen

Goodbye Winter: The Stuff That Got Me Through

Lifechanger: My Big Fat Music Collection

Air Video, the Best iPhone Video Streamer $3 Can Buy

What Hath God Wrought, Indeed

Cellphones Become Our Comfort Objects During Disaster

Nikola’s Letterhead (And How Tesla Won the War of the Currents)

How Roger Ebert Will Get His Voice Back

Two Important Updates to Gizmodo: #Broken and #Lifechanger

Lifechanger: Vintage Pyrex Colors

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