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The Amazing Studio Where Hot Wheels Designs the World’s Smallest Cars

Is it any surprise that the design offices of Mattel’s Hot Wheels division are stocked full of actual vehicle designers? After all, why spend a year of your life working on perfecting a sedan’s bumper when you can churn out countless hot rods, dragsters, and supercars? The folks at Cool Hunting got a sneak peek…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The 12 Most Popular Items From the Hammacher Schlemmer Catalog

When most people think of Hammacher Schlemmer, they probably think of zany inventions like the golf cart hovercraft or the hot tub boat. But true loyalists to the 160-plus year-old mail order catalog company know that the real magic happens where you’d least expect it. No, we’re not talking about the “Unexpected” section of the…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes

This Robot Can Write All the Thank You Notes You’re Too Lazy To Send

It’s good form to send a thank you note when given a gift, but how many of us ever really manage to find the time to do so? A New York company called Bond Gifts assumes very few of us, so it’s created an app-powered robot with perfect penmanship that can hand write a thank…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Fitbit Force Hands-On: Ahh, This Is More Like It

Fitbit did a lot of things very right when it madethe One, its tiny activity-tracking pod. But then the company—caving to peer pressure from the likes of Nike—made the Fitbit Flex wristband. There’s nothing wrong with that form-factor, but the Flex lost a lot of the functionality that made the One so great, and it…

Tech News Brent Rose

Dropcam Pro: A Burlier Webcam to Keep Watch Over Your Home

Dropcam, the worldwide leader in nanny cams, is following up its popular cloud-powered remote monitoring system with a greatly improved piece of hardware so that you can track your home-piece in more detail than ever before. Dropcam Pro doesn’t look different than its predecessor, but there’s a lot of good new stuff under the piano-black…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Raw Lets You Create Data Visualizations From Spreadsheets in a Snap

If you’ve always fancied trying your hand at data visualization but never really known where to start, Raw might just be the answer: a free tool designed to create vector-based visualizations from data that’s sat in a humble old spreadsheet. The brainchild of Density Design, it was originally conceived as a “tool for designers and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What the Hell Is a SQL Injection, Anyway?

When you hear about major web hacks, you’ll often hear the term “SQL injection” used like everyone in the world knows what it means. They don’t. But this video will help explain so you’re not confused in the future. It’s essentially a way of injecting some code into a data-driven web server that allows the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Xperia Z1F Confirmed: Sony’s Flagship Shrunk Down to Mini Proportions

We’ve had the regular sized one, we’ve got its oversized cousin, and now Sony’s Xperia Z1 is getting a little brother to boss around, in the shape of the Sony Xperia Z1F. And it ain’t half bad! Though the screen resolution and size takes a hit, dropping to 4.3-inches and a 720p resolution, the rest…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

This Insane Ancient Tomb Has Been Restored to Its Prehistoric Glory

You’re looking at the Soto dolmenin Trigueros, Spain—and you’re right to be amazed. This prehistoric tomb has been home to rituals of life and death since 4200 BC, and now after nine years it’s been restored to its prehistoric glory. Measuring 6o meters in diameter and 3.5 meters high, visitors troop down the 21-meter passageway…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How One Man Created a 1,000 Ton Coral Castle in 1923

Between 1923 and 1951, a diminutive Floridian single-handedly and without heavy machinery moved 1,000 tons of limestone, creating out of it a castle. This is his story. The Builder Very little is known of the mysterious creator of the Coral Castle, Ed Leeskalnin. Born in Riga, Latvia in 1887 to a family of stonemasons, Ed…

Tech News Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

Furloughed Employees During the Shutdown, Visualized

Sometimes a picture can help make sense of a situation. This viz shows the proportion of government employees who are currently furloughed. It’s as grim as the rest of the shutdown news. Put together by Dan Delany, it’s a simple yet striking visualization. The graphic breaks down employees in each department by those who are…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch Music Make Paint Dance Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Music is an experience, they say. A great song can serve as a time machine to send you to a particular moment, a specific feeling, a certain memory. You might hear music but you can also see it, feel it and touch it. Touch it? Well, yeah, if you’re filling a speaker with paint to…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Instant Tentacles

Congratulations everyone, your rampant consumerism has finally broken the Internet. Now where will I get insider beauty tips that my doctor doesn’t want me to know about and CHEEP V1AGR4!!!!!1?

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Oh So This Is Why Progress Bars on Videos Get Stuck So Often

Even though our Internet speed is light years faster than what it was before YouTube, it still seems like videos don’t load as fast as they should. Even on YouTube or Vimeo or Netflix or any streaming video website worth a damn, you run into hang ups and a stubbornly stuck progress bar for no…

Tech News Casey Chan

A 5-Year-Old Crying Because NASA’s Website Is Shut Down Is So Sad

Well, this is just horrible. Summing up how sane people feel about the government shutdown and hopefully making Congress feel like imbeciles, a 5-year-old boy is in tears because NASA’s official website no longer works because of the idiotic government shutdown. Squabble all you want but don’t rob kids of their space game dreams! The…

Tech News Casey Chan

Satiregram Is the Only Instagram Account You Need to Follow

The best Instagram that everyone should go follow right now, Satiregram, doesn’t have any pictures at all. Or well, that’s not completely true. It obviously has pictures but all of its Instagram pictures is just text captions describing terribly cliche pictures you always see on Instagram. It’s riot-inducing hilarious because it’s absolutely true. If you…

Tech News Casey Chan

Government shutdown ongoing coverage: Day 9 (updating…)

We’re now entering the ninth day of the government shutdown. America continues to be held hostage by extremist neanderthal Congressional asshats, who refuse to back down until their ridiculous demands are met. Here’s a recap of where we’re at now: Day 9 Republicans are still bitching about entitlements…And Fox News continues its massive trolling campaign…

Sploid Tatiana Danger

Debunking 30 Life Hacks That Don’t Actually Make Your Life Better

Our obsession with hacking life to become more efficient beings of human knows no end. We bookmark links that promise to make picnicking more enjoyable, we scour the internet for kitchen tricks and watch endless videos that promise anywhere from 7 to 101 life changing tips. But how often do these life hacks actually stick?…

Tech News Casey Chan

Control Ellen Page with this Simulation Video Game

Using scenes from PS3’s Beyond: Two Souls actual gameplay, Kotaku created this fake trailer for a simulation video game where you control America’s sweetheart, Ellen Page. It’s like Being John Malkovich meets The Sims. You can dress her up, make her play with dolls, and have her first kiss. Nothing creepy about that!

Sploid Tatiana Danger

DARKSIDE: Random Access Memories Memories

Remember Daft Punk? The robots that pwned the music charts a few months ago with their more-poppy-than-usual new album? Thanks to Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington—collectively known as DARKSIDE—you can discover Random Access Memories all over again. Actually, the original Daft Punk album is almost unrecognizable in this sea of minimal sounds. Like Jaar’s solo…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Amazing Studio Where Hot Wheels Designs the World’s Smallest Cars

The 12 Most Popular Items From the Hammacher Schlemmer Catalog

This Robot Can Write All the Thank You Notes You’re Too Lazy To Send

The Fitbit Force Hands-On: Ahh, This Is More Like It

Dropcam Pro: A Burlier Webcam to Keep Watch Over Your Home

Raw Lets You Create Data Visualizations From Spreadsheets in a Snap

What the Hell Is a SQL Injection, Anyway?

Xperia Z1F Confirmed: Sony’s Flagship Shrunk Down to Mini Proportions

This Insane Ancient Tomb Has Been Restored to Its Prehistoric Glory

How One Man Created a 1,000 Ton Coral Castle in 1923

Furloughed Employees During the Shutdown, Visualized

Watch Music Make Paint Dance Like You’ve Never Seen Before

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Instant Tentacles

Oh So This Is Why Progress Bars on Videos Get Stuck So Often

A 5-Year-Old Crying Because NASA’s Website Is Shut Down Is So Sad

Satiregram Is the Only Instagram Account You Need to Follow

Government shutdown ongoing coverage: Day 9 (updating…)

Debunking 30 Life Hacks That Don’t Actually Make Your Life Better

Control Ellen Page with this Simulation Video Game

DARKSIDE: Random Access Memories Memories

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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