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North Korea Army’s camouflage must be a prank on them or us

This has to be a joke, right? One played by that great buffoon that is Kim Jong-Un. It just can’t be real. Just look at the following images. I think that guy on the left is one of the stuntmen for the A-Team. https://kotaku.com/north-korean-camo-actually-isnt-that-awful-1455805558

13 Wonderful Posters That Capture San Francisco In a Single Image

San Francisco is not large, but it does contain multitudes. Though many have left their hearts in the seven-by-seven mile spot at the tippy-top of this Pacific Ocean-lined peninsula, each and every loyal local and on-the-road vagabond who’s made his way through the beautiful Bay Area hub forms a highly personal take on the place.…

Google Chromecast continues to improve piece by piece; the streaming dongle added Pandora today to its small but scrappy stable of apps.

Nexus 5 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

The Nexus 5 has been leaked so many times, it seems highly likely that it’ll be official soon—maybe even today. But why wait? Here’s what we think we know about Google’s next superphone: https://gizmodo.com/this-leaked-service-manual-lists-literally-everything-a-1441627612 Design If the rumors are true, this phone, like many of its Android brethren, is sizing up. According to a leaked…

According to AP, Edward Snowden has secured a “technical support” job with a “major” Russian website and will start work on Friday. Even big-time whistleblowers need to earn some dollar, right?

A Galaxy S4 Active Mini Might Be on Its Way

This phone here appears to be yet another miniature version of a popular full size model, with official filings revealing something we suspect might end up being known as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Mini. Could do with a smaller name, too. The phone popped up in regulatory filings on Chinese site Tenaa, which describes…

If you’ve a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display which has a temperamental keyboard and touchpad, don’t worry too much: Apple is working on a fix.

A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers

You’d think that given how pervasive the internet is, we’d be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team of Cambridge University scientists wants to shake things up—and remove servers altogether. A project named Pursuit aims to make the internet faster, safer and…

Will There Ever Be More Dead People Than Living Ones on Facebook?

Currently, there aren’t many dead people on Facebook, which is largely because its user base is so young. But time marches on and death is inevitable, so will there ever be more dead than live people on the social network? Long answer short: yes. And it’ll probably happen in either the 2060s or the 2130s,…

A Google Glass Accessory Store Is Here and Holy Crap It’s Expensive

Google is readying itself to churn out thousands of pairs of Glass, and now it’s also preparing an accessory store to accompany it. But holy hell, those extras won’t come cheap. https://gizmodo.com/report-its-going-to-be-a-whole-lot-easier-to-get-goog-1453558337 Apparently live to Explorer users, the new site offers up all kinds of extras for Google’s wearable device: microfiber pouches, clear protective shields,…

The creepiest photographs of things you can only see under a microscope

Nikon just announced the winners for its 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition. It’s basically a collection of the best images of things you can only see under a light microscope. Or better yet, it’s the best photographs of things you can’t actually see. Here are some fantastically creepy shots that were our favorites. The picture…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: Ake-Vono

See, the reason you spend the extra money on First Class tickets is so that when the airplane sloughs off its wings and transforms into an organic, hyper-dimensional rocket beast, you aren’t jettisoned along with the rest of the schmucks in Economy. Plus you get to board first and clink champagne glasses together as poor…

DARPA wants drones to have lasers too

Laser pods mounted on drones to shoot down missiles. Yeah, that’s science fiction warfare, right there. And that’s exactly what the US military wants. The US just gave Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop aircraft-mounted laser weapons to protect drones from getting hit by missiles. Or create a flock of drones that can…

Awesome computer software magically turns Star Wars quotes into GIFs

If you ever, for a second, wondered questions like what’s the purpose of life or why the Internet exists or what are you going to eat for lunch today, the answer is simply this magical software tool created by GitHub user LindseyB. It automatically turns any Star Wars quote into an animated GIF, complete with…

You can make man made rainbows with this giant LED glow stick

Rainbows are visual desserts, you’re always happier after you see them. But we don’t see them enough! Not with a Pixelstick though. It’s a giant stick that has 198 LEDs that can be programmed to display colorful rainbows, 3D cubes, pulsating magic carpets and so on in your light paintings. Basically wave, set your camera…

Amazing Lego Optimus Prime actually transforms from truck to autobot

Lego builder Alex Jones, AKA Orion Pax, has constructed an amazing Lego replica of Optimus Prime. The detail and functionality are phenomenal. Jones has been working on his Lego G1 Transformers series for over 10 years. Cybertron would be proud. He’s made various versions of Optimus Prime, Blaster, Starscream and Soundwave and with each iteration…

A Giant Tube of LEDs Can Turn Anyone Into a Glowing Graffiti Artist

Light painting is rad: a long exposure, a dark background, and a flashlight all come together to make an eerie, sci-fi effect. High-tech, LED-powered light painting is even cooler, but so far it’s been a fringe hobby for die-hard DIYers. Pixelstick, with a newly-launched Kickstarter campaign, wants to put crazy nighttime picture and GIF-making powers…

Here Is The Simpson’s Epic The Hobbit Couch Gag

When you smash the world of our favorite cartoon family from Springfield with what very well might be our favorite literary fantasy world, well, you get this epic winding tour of The Simpsons traveling through Middle Earth that passes by all your favorite Simpsons characters as Hobbit characters to reach The Comfy Couch.

What it looks like to get hit in the face with a tank shell

So this is completely terrifying. In a you will probably pee a little bit as you watch this GIF kind of way. In a holy crap wait a minute this isn’t a video game right kind of way. No, no it is not. This is what it looks like to take a direct hit from…

A Stubble Detector Lets This Razor Boost the RPMs For Thicker Beards

In the competitive electric razor market it’s more than just the number of blades that makes one model better than another. For example, Panasonic’s new ES-LV65-S packs a five-blade cutting system, but that’s not why those of us with impossibly thick beards will want one. The razor’s also got a built-in sensor that detects the…