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It’s widely assumed that printer manufacturers make all of their money from expensive replacement ink cartridges, not the hardware. Perhaps the same can be said for smartphone makers, given how often their USB charging cables break. But you can put an end to constant replacements with these MOS Spring cables that are reinforced six ways…
Yesterday evening, NASA officially granted permission to a group of scientists and enthusiasts who want to do what NASA can’t afford: Make contact with a 36-year-old satellite called ISEE-3 that’s still capable of taking directions for a new mission. It’s the first agreement of its kind—and it could hint at where the space industry is…
Holy crap, somebody invented something that makes Google Glass seem cool. The augmented reality wizards at Metaio just showed off their Thermal Touch technology, a new kind of user interface that basically turns the whole world into a touchscreen. It looks pretty futuristic. The idea itself is surprisingly simple. Whenever you touch something, you leave…
China loves to counterfeit, and architecture is no exception. So it was no surprise when a massive, massive German-style castle popped up in the seaside city of Dalian. It’s exciting, however, that Starwood Hotels has announced that it will open a giant hotel inside of it. The new and appropriately named Castle Hotel will feature…
According to a tweet from @NYCityAlerts, a massive sinkhole has just opened up in lower Manhattan. The collapse was preceded by a water main break around 11am, flooding several restaurants including the famed Katz’s Deli (don’t worry, the pastrami is safe). We went down to check out the scene for ourselves and were told that…
The Sookie Monster Burger is the Southern equivalent of the Asian ramen burger: Instead of ramen as buns, it uses pan-fried pimento cheese grits. Inside: “Heirloom tomato, a Louisiana hot link sausage patty, cajun spiced shrimp, smoked jalapeño, and a Sazerac roux.” I just can’t take this Pornburger dude anymore. SPLOID is a new blog…
The fate of net neutrality has never looked bleaker, with the FCC’s proposed rules basically dismantling the free and open internet that we know today. You can thank the agency’s notorious revolving door for that; for years, FCC officials and the people they’re supposed to be regulating have been playing a horrible game of telecom…
Amazon is continuing its assault on your Android device with $10 in free Coins for downloading five free apps. Whether you keep the apps or not is irrelevant; the $10 is yours to use as you see fit on the Amazon App Store. If you haven’t yet downloaded GTA: San Andreas from Amazon, they’re still…
It’s probably related to our limited existence on this planet, but mankind has an unmistakable obsession with time. How else would you explain all the energy we put into building countless clocks designed to tick away the seconds, from a simple Timex watch, to this wonderful WaterColorBot that paints every passing minute? The folks over…
Close calls don’t get closer than this: A driver avoids a fairly minor accident, slows down and, suddenly, a fast cement truck appears out of nowhere trying to regain control. Miraculously, the skillful—and lucky!—truck driver manages to avoid a potential carnage. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Not even Ellen DeGeneres can beat this one: NASA asked people to take selfies on Earth Day and humans from Antarctica to Zimbabwe submitted more than 50,000 photos. Of those NASA selected 36,422 photos to create this fully zoomable 3.2 gigapixel image of Earth’s Eastern and Western hemispheres. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…
As you may already know, this past week, Gizmodo’s Home of the Future has been giving everyone a sneak peek at our imminent urban lives. And what sorts of things should you be looking forward to in your days to come? Why, ramming into people with a telepresence robot, of course.
Dana Keller is a colorizer. He takes old black-and-white photos and applies his digital paintbrush, transforming them into a new work of art. Colorization of old photos isn’t new, but it’s becoming increasingly popular on forums like Reddit’s r/ColorizedHistory, where people share their colorized creations. But how do these new works affect our understanding of…
The fact that Dan Brisse is a profesional snowboarder doesn’t make this any less nuts. Dan climbs to the top of a four story parking, puts his snowboard on, gets pulled by a truck to get speed and finally jumps landing on the rooftop of the building across the street. Crazy! SPLOID is a new…
When you hear the word camouflage, images of fake foliage, random brown blobs, or maybe even the US military’s failed pixelated fatigues come to mind. But researchers at MIT have developed a new algorithm that generates camouflage patterns that let an object blend into any surroundings, not just a jungle or the desert. https://gizmodo.com/us-armys-pixellated-camo-uniform-is-a-5-billion-failur-5921291 Designed…
To get up to top speed, bullet trains have to pull a huge amount of electrical current from the grid. typically through unsightly overhead power lines. But this newly debuted train prototype from South Korea sucks up electricity invisibly from the tracks below. Developed through a collaboration of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and…
Half a century ago, Fernando Corbató changed the world. He helped deploy the first computer password, transforming not only how we use technology but also how we think about privacy. Now, in the era of the web, the former MIT professor thinks passwords are a nightmare. He’s not wrong. Corbató recently sat down with The…
On May 22nd, 1960, Chile produced a massive magnitude 9.5 earthquake, the greatest monster of an earthquake ever recorded by seismologists. Foreshocks, aftershocks, tsunami, and even a volcanic eruption contributed to the chaos. In the days leading up to the earthquake, the foreshocks were bad enough that in any other time they’d stand alone as…
A lot of kids love iPads, to the point where they’re almost never just, y’know, playing with kids stuff. Osmo is a nifty little gadget that does both, encouraging kids to play with tangible, real-world toys that magically interact with games on the iPad’s screen. And you can pre-order one through Osmo’s crowdfunding campaign starting…
Colin Furze, the guy who built fully automatic Wolverine claws, has now turned his attention to Magneto’s power and made a pair of magnetic shoes. I was hoping that he found some way to make metal things levitate waving his hand, but this is still really cool. It’s amazing that the magnets hold his weight,…
