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How do you define a hero? It’s easy. It’s anyone who takes the time to scan all 636 pages of the 1982 JCPenney Christmas catalog and posts those images on Flickr so that all of us who grew up in the ’80s can spend a Friday morning taking a nostalgic browse through our childhood. The…
The Guardians of the Galaxy are no strangers to the world of cutification, considering they’ve already transition over to the world of Funko’s pop vinyls — but these new vinyl toys take it one step further into turning the gang of snarky (and slightly surly) rogues into heart-cloggingly-cute little things. D’aaw! The new range of…
Music streaming finally surpasses CDs, life on Earth may not be that uncommon, and Aussie’s take bets on IE’s new name. This is all the news and rumors you missed on BitStream. In 2014, streaming services—which can be everything from Spotify, Pandora, or XM Radio—surpassed physical CD sales in revenue for the first time ever,…
We all get a little hangry from time to time, and if you want to show your support for Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson and his recent ‘disagreements’ with the BBC, you can now 3D-print some replacement heads for the popular Hungry Hungry Hippos game turning each animal into a ravenous miniature version of Jezza.…
This man was fishing in Australia when he lured a massive fish in. Or so he thought. Instead, a much bigger fish—a hungry white shark—suddenly emerged from the water to steal his catch right off the line. Far from being scared, the fisherman seems to enjoy the scene—if it was me I would have to…
Pilot Sebb Stratta put together this video showing every time his friends joined him in one of his insane acrobatic flights. Their scared faces and uncontrolled reactions are hilarious. Check them out: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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A report acquired by the Wall Street Journal reveals that the Federal Trade Commission staff found, back in 2012, that Google had been skewing search results in such a way that they wanted to sue the search company. While FTC commissioners settled a multi-year anti-trust investigation into Google’s manipulation of search results in 2013, with…
Your email address can tell your recipient a lot about you—and not just your name. Your choice of domain can mark you out as tech-savvy, behind the times, nerdy, old or just plain lazy. Do you agree with Doghouse Diaries’ analysis? [Doghouse Diaries]
Being buried alive in a snow avalanche is a terrifying end to a lovely day of enjoying the slopes. When an avalanche hit a group of skiers in the Alps, the disaster was caught on video. After watching it, you’ll either never want to go back-country again or be motivated to finally take that avalanche…
When you’re building a skyscraper with triple-digit numbers of storeys, there are some rather unusual building challenges to face — like the fact that the entire building can sway with the wind, fast enough to make people sick. The Shanghai Tower solves that problem in a scientifically awesome way: using magnets. The problem of winds…
If those nesting USB plugs look familiar, you’ve been reading Gizmodo for a long time. Back in 2010, the stackable USB plug wasn’t much more than a big-spoon/little-spoon concept, but now it’s almost real—by which I mean it’s on Kickstarter. The idea behind Infinite USB is simple: plug one USB cable into your computer, another…
It’s almost springtime! (You laugh hollowly, as you dig out your car for the fiftieth time this winter.) But this year, as it’s been for centuries before, spring is coming just a little bit later. Spring starts at 1845 Eastern, Friday evening. That’s not a random time pulled out of the air by a groundhog…
The generous intelligence giver that is Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting is back again with another detailed look at the nuance of filmmaking. This time he focuses on master director Akira Kurosawa’s use of movement in his films (Seven Samurai, Ran, etc.) and how it can tell a story within a story. I…
I don’t know if I’m quite having a breakdown, but I’m certainly sitting at my desk having some kind of adverse physical reaction to the fact that will.i.am has pumped another wearable device into this consumer electronics landfill we call Earth. Yes, Mr I.Am has made another smartwatch. https://gizmodo.com/will-i-ams-puls-smartwatch-so-bad-im-actually-kind-of-1685130042 The thing is being produced in…
Here’s a pretty neat photo of US Navy sailors working on a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter that gives you an inside look at what’s “under the hood”. For some reason, all those wires and boxes and more wires and more boxes makes me think we’re getting a peak at the inner workings of a Transformer.…
One of the reasons I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy so much was because I got to explore a world in which I had no expectations. Take that crazy city Knowhere, which is inside a giant Celestial head, I didn’t even know it existed, let alone know what it “should” look like. Here’s the VFX…
In the world of watchmaking, MB&F has always had a soft spot for creating the occasional mechanical marvel that can’t be strapped to a wrist. Such as the company’s latest creation, a robot named Melchior that can’t vacuum floors, clean windows, or open doors, but can keep track of the time while serving as an…
An NYPD officer has been arrested for hacking NYPD and FBI databases so he could pose as a lawyer and profit off tricking traffic victims. Yehuda Katz, an NYPD Auxiliary Deputy Inspector based in Brooklyn, allegedly hacked into restricted databases and ran thousands of queries to find out enough information to start hardcore conning people:…
Government agencies are currently in the process of secretly testing new surveillance and monitoring at points of entry into the United States, according to leaked documents obtained by Motherboard. You’re going to want to hear about this. The leaks detail three programs that use different parts of your body to identify you. One of the…
