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Good night, Amsterdam

There is so much more to Amsterdam than weed at a coffee shop and the red light district. Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those. But just check out this hyperlapse of Amsterdam and pretend that you’re biking around or going down the canal or just enjoying the quaint vibe of the lovely…

Sploid Casey Chan

Jumping on a trampoline has never looked this cool

I should have never grown up. Or at least, I should have never stopped jumping on a trampoline because these guys, brothers Sean and Eric Kennedy of the troupe Flippenout, make jumping on a trampoline so damn cool. It’s a combination of grace and synchronization with a splash of never growing up. The duo were…

Sploid Casey Chan

Netflix Under Pressure to Close Down The VPN Loophole

By this point, everyone and their internet-connected dog seems to know that you can access US Netflix (and its sweet promised land of rich video content) from abroad using a simple VPN, or even just a Chrome extension. Your streaming days might be limited, however: Netflix is reportedly under fire to shut the loophole down.…

Tech News Chris Mills

Short film: A lonely robot looking for friends is not what it seems

All this lonely robot wants is for someone to play with—but he doesn’t seem to have much luck. You’ll feel bad for the poor adorable robot until you see the film’s shocking final twist. It starts off feeling a little like Wall-E. The robot, L3.0, moves around a deserted world going about its business and…

Sploid Casey Chan

Apple Won’t Turn Over Your iPhone’s Data to Police If You’re Using iOS 8

Here’s a new feature of iOS 8 that we weren’t expecting: Apple announced tonight that the new software makes it impossible for Apple to turn over the data on an iOS 8-equipped iPhone or iPad to U.S. law enforcement, even in the presence of a search warrant. Chalk one up for privacy. With iOS 8,…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

The eyes of animals look a lot like alien worlds

Continuing his fantastic series of macro shots of the eyes of animals, here is Suren Manvelyan’s Animal Eyes 3. The close up shots of the fish and reptiles and other animals in this series look positively alien when seen up close. I thought they were artist’s rendering of deep space planets from a sci-fi movie.…

Sploid Casey Chan

This IFTTT-Enabled Panic Button Will Start Anything But a Nuclear War

Have you ever thought that everyday activities like, say, summoning your family for dinner, need a little more drama? Bttn, a giant, shouty, Wi-Fi-enabled button, is thinking yes. Bttn’s premise is very simple: you push the button (I mean, what else are you going to do with it?), and it sends a signal to a…

Tech News Chris Mills

Turning a chunk of wood into something beautiful is satisfying to watch

Here is Alan Holland performing his craft: woodturning. He takes a big chunk of wood, spins it on a lathe and shaves and cuts it down into something much more detailed. It’s painstaking work but it looks absolutely rewarding. Getting to the finished product is like discovering something that was hidden underneath. Phil Holland, the…

Sploid Casey Chan

BlackBerry Reminds Us It Still Exists With New Porsche Design Phone

The long-running Blackberry/Porsche hookup has just pumped another device onto the BB10 landfill, with the release of the catchily-named P’9983, which is like a regular BlackBerry, but with a Porsche logo and slightly more angles. The P’9983 basically seems to be a Q10 on the inside, with the same 3.1″ screen and 8MP camera, not…

Tech News Chris Mills

Guy removes harness to walk on a narrow plank in the sky

Mount Hua is a picturesque mountain that stretches 7000 feet into the sky in China with a plank walk that’s absolutely terrifying even with a harness on. So naturally, Mark Laurence decided to remove his harness and take a stresful stroll on the impossibly narrow path. Watching this makes me want to cry. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Keyboard Autocompletes Text to Emoji and Saves Your Favorite Combos

You downloaded iOS 8. You checked out the hidden features. We gave you some suggestions on cool keyboards to try, but ugh—who wants to use words? Keymoji is here to phase out the pesky letters from all your digital communication. It’s basically an autocomplete text-to-picture tool. Before, when life was hard, coming up with a…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

Kindle Voyage: This Is What a $200 E-Reader Looks Like (It’s Gorgeous)

It’s been a few years since e-ink Kindles took a big step forward. 2012’s Kindle Paperwhite was the last big splash. But now Amazon’s got a new, beautiful, premium e-reader for you to read words off of. This is the Kindle Voyage. The first thing to note about the Kindle Voyage is the design. Unlike…

Commerce Eric Limer and Leslie Horn

Amazon’s Got a Faster Kindle Fire HDX and a Fleet of $100 Tiny Tablets

Last year, Amazon’s Kindle tablets really grew up. They got fantastic and stylish new design, and a software update to back it up. This year, Amazon’s trotting out a new 8.9 Kindle Fire HDX with faster guts. You won’t find a 7-inch version if that’s what you’re looking for, but Amazon does have some staggeringly…

Commerce Eric Limer and Leslie Horn

Vimeo Will Be Re-Releasing A Dozen Classic Episodes of MST3K This Year

Every night is a good night to spend with the intergalactic gang stranded on the Satellite of Love. They’re out there in the not-too-distant future, enduring the worst, cheesiest films made on the planet Earth, and yet: They. Just. Keep. Riffing. Their high spirits have spared the world we know from Dr. Forrester’s domination, for…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

QuickType Could Be The Most Fun You Have With iOS 8

Since ancient times, iPhone owners have cursed the dreaded Autocorrect. They’ve lived in fear that the Apple monstrosity will get them fired, alienate them from parents, and generally destroy all forms of meaningful relationship. With iOS 8, however, the autocorrect function has a devilish new counterpart: Apple’s QuickType can spit out entire sentences by autocompleting…

Tech News Sean Hollister

This Storm-Hunting Drone Flew Into the Eye of a Hurricane

When Hurricane Edouard came whooshing over North Atlantic this week, one little drone was ready. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coyote is neither especially big nor especially tough-looking, but it flew where no pilot—and no drone—had ever flown before. This is the future of storm hunting. On Monday, this Coyote became the first unmanned…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

This Smart Cart Was Just Named the Year’s Best American Invention

Dyson is renowned as much for its inventions as the way it makes them—a process The New Yorker once described as “a second industrial revolution.” That’s why the James Dyson Foundation was created: To foster and promote young inventors. Today, the organization announced the national winner of its annual Dyson Award, and Gizmodo chatted with…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Just What Are These Groovy Generators Trying to Power Anyway?

And you thought the flying toasters were a sight to behold. This animated jam is a treasure trove of more marvelous machines that shouldn’t exist. But why are they all wired up like that? “Pride and Joy” is the latest joint from DJs Alphabets Heaven and Deft. Check the rest of their stuff on Soundcloud.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Doctors Could 3D Print Their Own Tools For a Fraction of the Cost

The cost of the instruments needed to run a hospital or a lab is often exorbitant—but what if doctors and scientists could simply print their own tools from an open library of designs? That’s what a paper published today suggests. What if a scientist could simply go to an open-source library of tools, select the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The First Driverless Transit System in the U.S. Starts Rolling in 2017

Since 2011, Honolulu’s been busy building a $5.2 billion solution to help alleviate the mind-blowing traffic congestion that’s come to define life on Oahu’s South Shore. The Honolulu Rail Transit Project is a 20-mile, 21-station elevated train—and it will be the first completely driverless rail system in the U.S. Fully autonomous transportation has been embraced…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Good night, Amsterdam

Jumping on a trampoline has never looked this cool

Netflix Under Pressure to Close Down The VPN Loophole

Short film: A lonely robot looking for friends is not what it seems

Apple Won’t Turn Over Your iPhone’s Data to Police If You’re Using iOS 8

The eyes of animals look a lot like alien worlds

This IFTTT-Enabled Panic Button Will Start Anything But a Nuclear War

Turning a chunk of wood into something beautiful is satisfying to watch

BlackBerry Reminds Us It Still Exists With New Porsche Design Phone

Guy removes harness to walk on a narrow plank in the sky

This Keyboard Autocompletes Text to Emoji and Saves Your Favorite Combos

Kindle Voyage: This Is What a $200 E-Reader Looks Like (It’s Gorgeous)

Amazon’s Got a Faster Kindle Fire HDX and a Fleet of $100 Tiny Tablets

Vimeo Will Be Re-Releasing A Dozen Classic Episodes of MST3K This Year

QuickType Could Be The Most Fun You Have With iOS 8

This Storm-Hunting Drone Flew Into the Eye of a Hurricane

This Smart Cart Was Just Named the Year’s Best American Invention

Just What Are These Groovy Generators Trying to Power Anyway?

Doctors Could 3D Print Their Own Tools For a Fraction of the Cost

The First Driverless Transit System in the U.S. Starts Rolling in 2017

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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