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Antique Steam Engine Rescues Passengers After Electric Trains Fail in the Bitter Cold

When a UK electric rail was disabled by the snow and cold, 100 passengers were left stranded. Until a Tornado came and whisked them home. That is, the steam engine named Tornado, built with 1940s tech. Speed isn’t everything. [BBC] https://gizmodo.com/the-fastest-train-in-the-world-5434582

Tech News Brian Lam

Your Coffee Is Ready

How do you sell the idea of hot coffee to people freezing in a bus stop? You don’t need much, but McDonald’s built a steam machine right inside the shelter’s marquee itself. Too bad that their coffee sucks. [DirectDaily]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

DIY Bathtub Steam Boat Is Authentic Right Down to Putt-Putt Sounds

Forget remote controlled and Mr. T rubber duckies. Actually, forget rubber ducks altogether. What I want is some bubble bath and this DIY bathtub steam boat. Yes, it’s a real, functional, bathtub-sized steamboat. And yes, it’s complete with putt-putt sounds. https://gizmodo.com/rubber-duck-with-remote-control-bathtime-gets-more-fun-370094 Just like a real steam boat, this six-inch version moves because of expanding steam…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Steam-Powered Dragon Poised to Invade, Revolutionize Transport

Most of us haven’t grown up to possess our own dragon, settling for the mundanity of riding a mid-class Ford, Hyundai or Toyota to work. What if I said that can all change for you? (What if I just exaggerated a bit for effect?) The German-crafted Steam-Powered Dragon is powered by a nickel-plated brass boiler…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fully Functional Steampunk Vibrator Might Scald Your Privates

Unemployed exhibitionist metal worker Ani Niow created this fine piece of true steampunk craftsmanship, which for once actually deserves the “steampunk” moniker. Yes, it works. Sort of. Just avoid touching any exposed skin. While it technically does run off steam, Niow cautions you’ll need to wear insulated welding gloves to handle it without getting burned.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

World’s Fastest Camera Uses Lasers to Boost Images

Keisuke Goda‘s team at UCLA have built the fastest camera ever, which takes an upwards of a whopping 6.1 million pictures per second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. Possibly the most frustrating part of photography is the age-old trade off between light sensitivity and speed. Using a fast shutter speed…

Tech News Odelia Lee

Steam-Powered iPod Charger Brings Back Memories of Locomotives and Cowboys

One of Boing Boing’s readers managed to build his own steam-powered iPod charger. When your iPod goes “up in smoke,” at least it won’t mean an emergency trip to the Genius Bar. A Lego Technic Motor was attached to a Jensen #75 steam engine to make a crude generator. He then added a 5V regulator…

Tech News Erica Ho

Dealzmodo: Left 4 Dead is Half Off, This Weekend Only

Steam has the much-loved zombie shooter Left 4 Dead on sale this weekend only for $25 instead of the usual $50. Did you guys know that Mike Patton (of Faith No More) does the voices for the "Infected" characters in the game? I’ve never played it, since scary games give me scary dreams, but since…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Amazon Game Downloads Store Offers ‘Try Before You Buy’ Titles for $10

Amazon has long offered music and movies for download and/or streaming. And now they’ve stepped into the wild world of video game downloads. Amazon Game Downloads, still technically in beta (though open to the public), currently offers 600 titles priced at $10 and less. For any title in the store, you can download the full…

Commerce Mark Wilson

Gadget Deals of the Day: Cheap iPods, HDTVs, Man Bags, and Games from Steam

Sure, it’s after Christmas, but the deals keep coming and you guys have a right to know what and where they are. Today we’ve got a solid crop, with deep discounts at PCMall and Steam. Gaming • Valve Complete Pack (includes Left 4 Dead, CounterStrike, and Team Fortress) for $74.99 (normally $100). • Call of…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Clothes Iron Bike Seat Warms Your Cheeks

If you’ve ever wanted to sit on a hard, flat, unyielding piece of metal while biking but your butt gets cold easily, we’ve got a solution for your ridiculous problem. This “heated cycling seat,” cleverly named the Iron Saddle, is made from a clothes iron with remarkably few changes. There’s no steam, because that could…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Giz Explains: Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM

Condensed explanation: Digital rights management is a corporate pain in the ass that stops you from doing whatever you want with music and movies in the name of fighting piracy. But there’s more to it. Straight up, you run into DRM pretty much every day. Bought music from three of the four major labels or…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Valve’s Steam Cloud Brings Cloud Computing to Gaming Masses

In the next update to Valve’s Steam client, which distributes and manages PC games, and is probably the best digital distribution setup around (other software companies wish they had a setup half as good), Valve will be throwing cloud computing into the mix. Called Steam Cloud, the update will let you store profiles, keybindings and…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Steam Powered Electronic Newspaper Makes Us Ask If This is Really Necessary

Does the world really need another steam powered anything? And if it does, would an electronic newspaper be the most appropriate thing to be steam powered? We don’t have any answers for these questions. All we know is that this Japanese setup can turn a page in all of 15 seconds, making it a whole…

Gadgets Jason Chen

A Steam-Powered Battery Charger Seems Really Practical

You read that right. It’s a steam-powered battery charger. Yeah, this is something we can picture everyone building on their own. Before you go and ridicule these people with emails they’ll probably never read (because they’re insane mountain people), the charger doesn’t charge your standard AA batteries. It charges a 48V battery bank. You know,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Steam-Powered Car Goes 200MPH, is Steampunk Batman’s Ride

This crazy Batman-esque steam-powered car is an entry to the British Steam Car Challenge, which intends to both break the land speed record for steam records and give a lot of people steam burns in the process. This entry has four boilers and can go up to 200MPH in the Utah Salt flats, some of…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Steampunk Office

Not content with just making steampunk monitors, steampunk guitars and steampunk turntables, the offices of Three Rings Design decide to make their entire workplace steampunk. https://gizmodo.com/modding-an-lcd-monitor-the-steampunk-way-266721 Located in SoMa, San Francisco, the office looks like The Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, complete with pool table, levers, switches, light fixtures, Dreamcasts, Xbox 360s, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Get Facial Steam Massages From Your Overpriced Cup of Joe

I can’t find the words to properly express how strange of an invention this is. It is a device that attaches to the top of a Starbucks cup and will give facial steam massages … with the steam from the coffee. Seriously, what the hell. Take away steam massage [WMMNA]

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Luxury Multi-Function Steam Shower – $22,587

This is out of range for most of us, so we’ll just have to gawk and drool like the plebes we are. The shower is made of silicon-free safety glass in either clear or tinted blue. With great wealth comes great lack of shame. You can lift up the two seats to form a bench…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Whirlpool’s Pret-a-Porter Clothes Revitalizer

Whirlpool, known for its innovative range of home appliances, has unveiled Pret-a-Porter, the clothes revitalizer. It has the size of a vacuum cleaner and is fully portable. You can use the device for removing odor, sweat and smoke stains from the clothes that do not need a full, proper cleaning. It is designed to look…

Gadgets Johnb

Antique Steam Engine Rescues Passengers After Electric Trains Fail in the Bitter Cold

Your Coffee Is Ready

DIY Bathtub Steam Boat Is Authentic Right Down to Putt-Putt Sounds

Steam-Powered Dragon Poised to Invade, Revolutionize Transport

Fully Functional Steampunk Vibrator Might Scald Your Privates

World’s Fastest Camera Uses Lasers to Boost Images

Steam-Powered iPod Charger Brings Back Memories of Locomotives and Cowboys

Dealzmodo: Left 4 Dead is Half Off, This Weekend Only

Amazon Game Downloads Store Offers ‘Try Before You Buy’ Titles for $10

Gadget Deals of the Day: Cheap iPods, HDTVs, Man Bags, and Games from Steam

Clothes Iron Bike Seat Warms Your Cheeks

Giz Explains: Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM

Valve’s Steam Cloud Brings Cloud Computing to Gaming Masses

Steam Powered Electronic Newspaper Makes Us Ask If This is Really Necessary

A Steam-Powered Battery Charger Seems Really Practical

Steam-Powered Car Goes 200MPH, is Steampunk Batman’s Ride

The Steampunk Office

Get Facial Steam Massages From Your Overpriced Cup of Joe

Luxury Multi-Function Steam Shower – $22,587

Whirlpool’s Pret-a-Porter Clothes Revitalizer

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