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Sony’s new console will be faster than Microsoft’s—but only nerds care

Sources close to the development of games for the PS4 and the Xbox One—Sony and Microsoft’s next generation consoles—say that the former is about 50% faster than the latter. But is it 50% more fun to play with it? (The answer is no, which is why normals consumers don’t care about these things at all.)…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That’s Already in Your Car

E-ZPass is probably the best thing that’s ever happened to paying tolls. Those plastic funnels you toss coins into are a close second. But E-ZPass has a bonus feature. It can be used to track you everywhere you go. E-ZPass uses RFID. It’s cool tech, but hackable and trackable in ways that the companies who…

Tech News Eric Limer

Dealzmodo: Breaking Bad, Xbox One, 1.5TB Portable, Chromebook, iTunes

Breaking Bad is approaching its much-anticipated conclusion, which means you can finally buy one of the best series on TV is one convenient set. Amazon has the complete series available for pre-order, and not only does the collection include both blu-ray and UltraViolet copies, but it comes in a cool money barrel and packs in…

Tech News Shane Roberts

Color-Changing Hard Hats Highlight Brittle Sun Damage

Over-exposure to the sun is of course bad for your skin, but that’s not the only thing adversely affected by its rays. Man-made materials like plastic will slowly degrade when left out in the sun, so 3M has developed a new line of hard hats featuring a color-changing UV sensor that tells the wearer their…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Making Nikola Tesla a Saint Makes Us All Dumber

Mike Rugnetta over at the PBS Idea Channel has an interesting video about how popular history is made. Specifically, our popular understanding of the late inventor (and internet folk hero) Nikola Tesla. He argues that there are essentially two Teslas: The historical Tesla who did things like promote eugenics, and had very human imperfections, and…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Art of the Hologram Is Alive in This Underground Laboratory

Holograms occupy a strange place in our visual culture. Encountering a genuinely innovative holographic image can elicit wonder and joy, yet the technology has struggled to transcend election night gimmicks and Tupac exploitation. But for those who run the Holographic Studios in NYC, creating 3D images remains an obsession and an art. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-dead-tupac-perform-as-a-hologram-at-coachella-5902274 Jason Sapan,…

Tech News Michael Hession

The contents of Humanity’s first space postcard and how to read it

Voyager I is now officially flying into interstellar space. In the future, an alien spaceship may come across it. When they do, they will find two things: a golden disc and a record player. These are the contents of that disc and how to interpret it. The original version of this post was published in…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Is the Long-Abandoned Astrodome Worth Saving?

When the Houston Astrodome opened in 1965, it was hailed as technological marvel, the first enclosed, air-conditioned stadium ever—and the “eighth wonder of the world,” according to some Texans. By 1995, it was so dilapidated that players refused to use it. Today, it’s an abandoned shell with a different nickname: “the lonely landmark.” And no…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Teen Tries to Buy WikiLeaks Server with $33,000 of His Dad’s Money

The eBay auction for the server that once hosted the WikiLeaks documents, including Cablegate, has finally come to a close with a winning bid of $33,000. There’s only one problem: the winner is a 17-year-old boy who used his dad’s account to bid and is in no position to cough up the cash. After the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Gymnast Bot Would Win Every Gold Medal at the Olympics

Gymnast bot has wowed us time and time again, but we just can’t get enough of its aerobatic antics. Every time a new video is posted this tiny robot is pulling off some impossible feat, but perfectly sticking a landing is nothing compared to what it can do now. https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-adorable-gymnastic-bot-totally-stick-the-lan-5959214 While we struggle with simple…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown

There was once a time when man looked to the skies and expected to see giant balloons rather than airplanes drifting above. The Hindenburg Disaster promptly put an end to those dreams. But nearly a century later, one company may have finally figured out how to build a dirigible suitable for the 21st century. Just…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Thanks to a New Spotify App, Twitter Music Is Finally Useful

Remember when Twitter bought We Are Hunted, whose creators then built Twitter’s #music app, which was initially super popular in part due to its cool design and the fact that everybody uses Twitter, but then it ran into a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem? Near the beginning of that process, We Are Hunted put its…

Tech News Eliot van Buskirk

This Endless Staircase Is an M.C. Escher Drawing Come to Life

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to climb around M.C. Escher’s never ending staircase, you can give it a try right now on the lawn of the Tate Modern in London. Architecture firm dRMM has set up on installation that combines 15 wooden stairways, creating a dizzying maze designed to confuse visitors.…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Inside the Restoration of Brooklyn’s Glamorous Temple of Cinema

Kings Theater, in Flatbush Brooklyn, is more like a palace than a theater. This 1920s building dates back to a time when seeing a movie was an event—and both the people and the architecture was gussied up accordingly. Kings deteriorated quickly when in closed in the 1970s—but now, a small army of specialists is hell…

Tech News Nicholas Stango

These Hand-Painted Helmets Make Your Head a Work of Art

Bikes have a long history as beautiful specimens for human transport—fun to ride and damn good looking, too. Helmets, however? They’ll protect your skull from being smashed on the pavement, but are pretty widely reviled from a fashion standpoint. People often don’t wear ‘em because, well… they just don’t look cool. So, question: would you…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

Unluckiest Trip Ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

Think you’ve been on some bad flights? At least they weren’t Flight 666 to HEL, departing Friday the 13th. It’s a very real trip, and it’s actually pretty crowded. Finnair flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki (HEL) will actually be taking off twice on Friday the 13th, but that doesn’t seem to have unnerved many…

Tech News Eric Limer

Life-Size. Stormtrooper. Action Figure.

The notion that less is more has no place in the world of action figures. At least, that’s the only reasonable conclusion you can come to after you see this life-size six-foot-tall Stormtrooper you can make your very own. https://gizmodo.com/this-life-size-skeletor-action-figure-is-the-ultimate-c-486217160 Who cares if you’ve got the original ultra-rare rocket-firing Boba Fett figure? That plastic projectile…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Canon’s Experimental Video Sensor Sees the World in Utter Darkness

Back in March, Canon showed off an in-development video sensor that could capture the details of a scene in almost no light. The results were primitive, but impressive. A new video clip of fireflies in a dark forest shows the progresses Canon is making, and it’s pretty amazing. https://gizmodo.com/canon-built-an-image-sensor-that-sees-in-the-dark-5988361 The new clip was shot with…

Tech News Michael Hession

The Self-Powered Self-Balancing Skateboard, for Lazy Ass Tony Hawks

The Segway is probably never going to change the world the way Dean Kamen had hoped, but at the least it encouraged humanity to dare to dream of a world where we’d never have to balance ourselves ever again. And keeping that dream alive and well is the S-Walker Board. It’s like you tossed a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Ginger’s heartbreaking story: the dog who forgot how to walk

It’s hard to believe, but this deformed hairy thing is a dog. Her name is Ginger, a “4-pound, 14-year-old poodle who had been the victim of a hoarding situation.” Her hair was so matted that some of her body parts were trapped by it. So much that the poor thing had to learn to walk…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Sony’s new console will be faster than Microsoft’s—but only nerds care

E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That’s Already in Your Car

Dealzmodo: Breaking Bad, Xbox One, 1.5TB Portable, Chromebook, iTunes

Color-Changing Hard Hats Highlight Brittle Sun Damage

Making Nikola Tesla a Saint Makes Us All Dumber

The Art of the Hologram Is Alive in This Underground Laboratory

The contents of Humanity’s first space postcard and how to read it

Is the Long-Abandoned Astrodome Worth Saving?

Teen Tries to Buy WikiLeaks Server with $33,000 of His Dad’s Money

Gymnast Bot Would Win Every Gold Medal at the Olympics

The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown

Thanks to a New Spotify App, Twitter Music Is Finally Useful

This Endless Staircase Is an M.C. Escher Drawing Come to Life

Inside the Restoration of Brooklyn’s Glamorous Temple of Cinema

These Hand-Painted Helmets Make Your Head a Work of Art

Unluckiest Trip Ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

Life-Size. Stormtrooper. Action Figure.

Canon’s Experimental Video Sensor Sees the World in Utter Darkness

The Self-Powered Self-Balancing Skateboard, for Lazy Ass Tony Hawks

Ginger’s heartbreaking story: the dog who forgot how to walk

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

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