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Anyone who grew up with a tiny garage full of Hot Wheels cars must remember those plush playmats featuring roads, parking lots, and parks. You were free to cruise around anywhere you liked—but what kind of message does that send to future drivers? These IVI 3D Play Carpets are a much better alternative, featuring a…
Ice skating is great and all, but it’s downright magical if the ice is crystal clear. Youtuber Doc Martin got lucky with a crazy invisible lake of in Swan Lake, Montana. Don’t you wish you were skating on that right now? Whether water freezes wonderfully clear or all gross and cloudy all has to do…
Twitter will now let you include photos in direct messages. What could go wrong? (Hint: unsolicited nudes).
You’ve broken a dish; it’s in bits and pieces on the floor. You pick up the shards. You forage for glue. You try to stick them back together but, dammit, the cracks don’t quite align. You look at this Franken-ceramic and decide that it will always bug you, just enough, when you see it there…
Let’s be honest: Most robots look pretty dumb these days. Whether it’s the little disk-shaped Roomba that cleans your floor or the jumble of rods and wires that builds your car, these machines seem—for lack of a better term—rudimentary. Not the Valkyrie. NASA’s Johnson Space Center just pulled back the curtain on its entry in…
Here’s some good news. Harlem is about to get the biggest free public Wi-Fi network in the entire country, spanning a whopping 95 blocks. Soon there won’t be anywhere in the city where you can’t get online. Mayor Mike Bloomberg—clearly on his farewell I promise I made New York better tour—just announced the initiative today.…
Proving that all press is good press when it comes to real estate, Rafael Viñoly—the architect behind two recent death-ray skyscrapers—revealed plans for a new skyscraper in Lower Manhattan today. It’ll be his second tall building in NYC, and like the first, this one is conspicuously free of curved surfaces. https://gizmodo.com/the-construction-of-432-park-located-a-block-south-of-1475871473 The tower will add…
According to NASA’s Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton “if Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, ‘Take us home, Scotty,’ this is what the crew would see.” It’s truly an incredible sequence—the first time ever that the Moon has been captured orbiting Earth. Bolton describes the video: “In the movie, you ride aboard Juno as…
With the Super Bowl now less than two months away—Groundhog Day!—the disparate mass transit organizations around New York City are gearing up for more than 400,000 new visitors. And what do out of towners always need in New York? They need maps. Beautiful, useful maps. For the first time ever, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is…
Here’s the nuclear aircraft supercarrier USS Nimitz—the lead ship of its class—exhibiting a tiny fraction of its air power in a December 7 photograph taken over the Pacific Ocean. The US Navy has ten more of these nuclear titans, plus another ten carriers for amphibious assault. And then, here’s a brief list of the squadrons…
Did you know your salt and pepper grinders could, and should, be doing more than just dispensing seasonings? Just take a look at this pair of grinders featuring a set of posable wooden artist’s hands on top. The possibilities are endless. In addition to making your Instagrammed meal shots even artsier, they can be used…
This one bedroom, one bath cabin in the hills above Malibu is nothing fancy: It was built in the 1940s, it’s serviced by dirt roads, and it needs “major remodeling.” In fact, you have to get all the way into the second paragraph of the listing to see the cabin’s biggest selling point: The cabin…
Big holiday meals beget ambitious New Year’s resolutions, so you should treat yourself or your loved ones to a tool that helps you shed a few pounds and live a healthier lifestyle. The Fitbit Flex, normally $100 and rarely discounted, is available for $68 today from Best Buy using code bloggers15off. [Best Buy via 9to5Toys]…
Thanks to recent confirmation that your every online move is being monitored, trust in the internet seems like it’s at an all-time low. In fact, as we can see from an article published in 1973, we were acutely aware that the future of our interconnected world depended on confidence in the privacy and security of…
I also predict that in the year 2000 no male child will be allowed to attend a Utah elementary school unless his hair falls two inches below his ears. — 1975 prediction by Utah humor columnist Dan Valentine.
You don’t think it’s only laptop, tablet, and smartphone designers that go the extra mile to make their devices thinner and thinner do you? Watch makers are constantly battling each other for the same notoriety, and now Piaget has reclaimed the title of ‘world’s thinnest mechanical watch’ with its new Altiplano 38mm 900P that measures…
China has abig smog problem. A huge smog problem. And when the country isn’t embracing the noxious clouds as “great for defense,” it’s trying to get rid of them with crazy tech. First artificial rain, now supercomputers. China’s Tianhe-1A—literally the most powerful supercomputer in the world for some 8 months back in 2010-2011 and predecessor…
Sure, we’ve been told that ubiquitous computing is just over the horizon for decades—at least since the days of The Jetsons. But over the past 12 months, the Internet of Things has come of age, from smart fire alarms to app-controlled door locks. If you’re looking for a gift for the resident home automatist in…
Oh nice. NICE. If you slept on your chance to sign up for Adobe’s Photography Program—which gets you access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5—for only $10 a month, there is a bit of good news. Sony has decided to extend the offer until December 31st. This is a seriously good deal, so put it…
Gizmodo’s Mario Aguilar recently sat down with Sony COO Phil Molyneux to discuss the company’s approach to the consumer electronics market. Much of the conversation led back to cameras, which Sony has been getting a lot of attention for in the last few years. Their NEX and new A7 seriescameras have led the charge in…
