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Concocting the perfect cocktail can take years of practice, but everything in life has a shortcut, and for amateur mixologists it’s called the Cocktail Spinner. Imagine smashing a Magic Bullet into a salad spinner at the speed of light. This is what the resulting supernova would leave behind. Using the Cocktail Spinner is as dead…
Data visualization expert John Nelson has made a fascinating map of New York City. It portraits the gender flow of the city, showing where men (blue) and women (pink) live from birth to death. I had no idea that gender density changed so much as the population ages. Some of the reasons for these inner…
Here we have 24 GoPros recording at high speed, strategically arranged around a fire-breathing daredevil. When the footage is slowed down and spliced together, you get a sweet bullet-time effect—without using a bunch of crazy professional cameras. Sure, this is some $7000 worth of GoPro Hero 3s, but it’s pretty slick considering sometimes these rigs…
Last week, the internet was delighted and puzzled by Shep Smith’s introduction of the Fox News Rooms’ bizarre, jumbo-sized tablets, so naturally, we asked you to do a little investigative work and find out what was really going on. Friends, you did not disappoint. Fair and balanced though they may be, the Fox News Team…
Can you drive your car at full speed—with the police chasing you—crash against two trains and survive the collision? Of course you can, if you are this mad woman. https://jalopnik.com/woman-runs-from-police-gets-hit-by-two-trains-somehow-1446413450
Rumor has it Amazon is talking to HTC about making its smartphone, and according to a Bloomberg report, that phone might just be for Amazon Prime subscribers. https://gizmodo.com/report-amazons-talking-up-htc-about-making-a-smartpho-1445780486 Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg said Amazon wants a phone because it wants to increase the number of devices on which people could access Amazon Instant Video. So…
The skinniest tallest tower in New York will be a reality in 2016, after being approved by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. This shard of glass and metal will stand 1,350-foot-tall by 60-foot-wide on 107 West 57th, looking over Central Park. I hope this guy gets the top floor. https://gizmodo.com/the-skinniest-skyscraper-in-nyc-is-one-step-closer-to-r-1446563249
A building that could claim the title of the thinnest, tallest building in New York (and maybe the world) got a bit more real this week, after the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the proposed 60-foot-wide design. When it tops out in roughly three years, 107 West 57th will rise 1,350 feet above Central Park (next…
Those long dark stretches of highway out in the middle of nowhere without any streetlights might soon be a thing of the past thanks to the engineers and designers at the Netherlands-based Kaal Masten. They’ve created the Spirit, a standalone solar-powered streetlight that gets all the energy it needs from the sun, so it can…
Scream overkill all you want. The fact of the matter is that, whether you like it or not, hyper-realistic, ultra definition, get-as-close-to-being-in-the-action-as-you-possibly-can 4K TV is here to stay. So it’s no wonder that—just like everything else in life—it’s already being used for porn. https://gizmodo.com/4k-video-at-1-000-frames-per-second-will-melt-your-eyes-5994009 Just launched yesterday, the adult content website Huccio claims to be…
The Russians keep hunting for fragments of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. This space boulder—the largest piece so far—has just been found by divers deep in the Chebarkul Lake, about 930 miles east of Moscow. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 The meteor weighed 1,256 pounds (570 kilograms) before the balance broke. The analysis of the…
As ubiquitous as Wi-Fi and mobile data have become, there are still times when you’ll find yourself completely cut off from any and all wireless networks. And inevitably those will be the times when you need to transfer files between a tablet or a smartphone and your laptop. Bluetooth can work in a pinch, but…
A few weeks ago we confirmed reports that the iPhone 5S motion sensors were embarrassingly off. Some enterprising devs have investigated the problem, and figured out that at its root, it’s indeed a hardware design issue that Apple either overlooked or ignored. The good news is that there’s a fix coming—but not from Apple. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-motion-sensors-are-totally-screwed-up-1440286727…
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A lot of people celebrate the foods of spring—the first green things that sprout from the ground after a thaw. But if spring is about revitalization, autumn is about comfort—sweet and savory spiced foods that fatten you up for winter and pair perfectly with a nap. The Challenge Take a photo of a fall food.…
This is the first commercial ultra-high definition porn in the world—also known as 4k porn. That means it will look just like real life in televisions with 4,096 pixels of horizontal resolution. You will be able to see every skin pore and fluid drop on every single naughty bit. Check out these samples. The teaser…
Adidas is the latest company to hop on the ever-growing smartwatch train. It just showed off its fitness wristwear, which goes on sale November 1 for a whopping $400. The watch is a standalone device—you won’t use it with your phone or tablet. It has sensors to figure your pulse and GPS to track your…
Ever wonder what New York City sounded like in the 1920s? Not the music or even the individual people, but the ambient noise—that swirling mix of life in America’s biggest city? Thanks to historian Emily Thompson, that idle question now has an interactive answer. Thompson, author of the 2004 book The Soundscape of Modernity, worked…
One day, all spaceships will probably work like SpaceX’s Grasshopper, launching and soft-landing from a single base like in a spaceship movies. Tests are going incredibly well, as this amazing footage taken with an aerial drone shows. https://gizmodo.com/the-aerial-footage-from-the-latest-grasshopper-test-lau-1445046357
New York City’s iconic (and sometimes terrifying) manhole covers haven’t changed in decades, but they may be about to gain a whole new purpose—as charging stations for electric cars and trucks. https://gizmodo.com/this-manhole-cover-must-have-also-been-a-hellmouth-5723634 According to Wired’s Damon Lavrinc, a pilot program will test the possibility of turning ordinary manhole covers into wireless charging stations for electric…
