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The developer of aclever sticker pack for iOS has been told by Apple that he has to change how the stickers look and act or else the stickers will be pulled from the App Store. The sticker pack is called Phoneys and as iMessage sticker packs go, the idea is pretty clever: The stickers are…
A new microscope developed at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts is allowing scientists track the position and orientation of individual molecules in living cells. It has the potential to reveal unknown aspects of molecular behavior, including those that turn cells into agents of disease. Dubbed the “instantaneous fluorescence polarization” microscope, this new…
Our perpetually-dropped smartphones have pushed glass manufacturers to create stronger and more durable materials to survive our clumsiness. But if you’re curious just how advanced glass making techniques have gotten, someone has made a 30-foot working glass slide that’s completely transparent. The Vidre-Slide, designed by engineers at Eckersley O’Callaghan working with the glassmakers at Cricursa,…
Now, you might be expecting this to be a rant about how irritating sports and sports fans can be. Maybe one about how team loyalties are based solely on regional pride even though many teams’ players aren’t from that city or state. How fans argue constantly with one another about the most irrelevant minutia and…
The Samsung Gear VR is one of the easiest ways to experience virtual reality, but some users are learning that convenience comes with its costs. Owners of Samsung phones such as the S6, S6 Edge, S7, and S7 Edge are reporting that Oculus app is destroying their phone’s battery life. Samsung phone owners have been…
An outbreak of E. coli that caused 10 million pounds of flour to be pulled from shelves is finally over. Yet, cases continue to pop up, and the CDC says it expects to see even more. Here’s why, even when the outbreak is over, the illness still isn’t. The flour from General Mills was originally…
This wonderful photo series comparing the size of things by Kevin Wisbith is a really fun way to earn some brain wrinkles, because it gives you a better sense of the true size of random buildings, ships, machines, and other objects. You get to see things like the Death Star hover over Florida in space,…
A series of quakes under the Salton Sea may be a signal that the San Andreas Fault is on the verge of buckling. For the next few days, the risk of a major earthquake along the fault is as high as 1 in 100. Which, holy crap. The United States Geological Survey has been tracking…
Yesterday, we asked you, the Gizmodo readers, what problems you’re having with the iPhone 7 so far. We’ve received tons of emails so far, and we’re still taking submissions so email me. The most annoying issue to date appears to be problems with the new phone’s Bluetooth connectivity. So far, we’ve gotten 12 different email…
If you’re not careful, photography can become a black hole of never-ending accessories and camera gear that you can never escape. You don’t always need to bring along an entire studio’s worth of gear to get a great shot, and Betabrand is making it even easier to travel light with a new camera bag featuring…
Yesterday, a story about the origins of a beautiful cake that read “Sorry I Tased You” went viral. It was debunked last night, but the truth remained elusive. Today, we bring you the real story behind the infamous cake. https://gizmodo.com/that-sorry-i-tased-you-cake-thats-going-viral-is-totall-1787260865 The Pensacola News Journal, along with New York magazine and the New York Post, reported…
It’s been years in the making, and now, it’s almost complete. Apple first started working on its brand new offices—officially dubbed Apple Campus 2—back in 2006, when Steve Jobs announced to the Cupertino City Council that Apple was buying a huge swath of land one mile east of the company’s existing facilities. After hitting some…
Growing up, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 was one of my favorite games. The soundtrack, the frantic pace, and the ridiculous ragdolly special moves made it a joy to play—although I chalked that last bit up as video game magic that no actual skateboarder could ever pull off. Clearly, I’d never met Jonny Giger. Giger…
Yesterday, we looked at all of the crazy things that US Customs and Border Protection seized in Florida over the summer. There was everything from Humvees to Super Bowl rings to “cocaine vaginal inserts.” Over 4,100 items were seized over a three month period. But Gizmodo also got the lists for other states. Like Utah.…
Nintendo of America will be releasing an absolutely adorable mini NES in November, so it just makes sense that Japan is getting its own baby Famicom. The concept is essentially identical—miniaturized Famicom console that connects to your TV via HDMI. It has two wired controllers (and check out that classic Famicom red) and it comes…
After two years of science, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission ended today in a gentle crash-landing. But if you haven’t been tracking this spacecraft’s movements as obsessively as we have, you might be wracking your brain this morning trying to remember what the Rosetta mission was. It’s okay—we’re here to help. To start, you…
The historic Rosetta mission has finally come to an end. Over the past two years, the probe’s many instruments have scanned virtually every nook and cranny of this weirdly shaped rock, unleashing a treasure trove of new information about comets in general, and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in particular. When Halley’s Comet paid us a visit back in…
Sometimes you don’t want your messages to live forever. Maybe you have something secret you want to tell someone, or maybe it’s something time-sensitive. Or maybe you just don’t want to be trapped by the permanence of the digital age. Whatever the reason may be, here are three tools you can use to go all…
Have you ever been so pissed off in an Apple store, filled to the brim with obnoxious teens and clueless old people, that you wanted to smash all of the shiny devices on display? When this frenchman didn’t get his way with Apple customer support, he did exactly that. It’s not entirely clear why this…
Did you see that cake with the words “Sorry I tased you” scrawled on it? A cop in Florida tasered a woman, who’s now suing. The cop allegedly apologized by baking the cake, featuring crudely drawn stick figures. The only problem with the photo that’s being passed around? It’s from at least a full year…
