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Lots of great deals are better than one. Today you’ve got your choice of several killer prices on new TV’s. As Corey Foster of Deals.Kinja put it, these are “Black Friday level,” especially in the case of the Westinghouse. • LG 60″ 120Hz LED 1080p TV ($800) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja • Westinghouse…
Google is a company that’s long stood up for the principles of net neutrality, the idea that all packets of information on the internet should be treated equally. But now that it’s an internet service provider, the company’s changing its tune. It’s not the first time. Google’s stance on net neutrality is being called into…
Let’s not beat around the bush: We all watch porn. OK? OK. And it turns out that while we’re doing that, we’re getting a full view of Ikea’s affordable, easily cleanable, porn-friendly furnishings. As Buzzfeed has discovered, a site that sounds totally SFW called Just Another Ikea Catalog isn’t actually very SFW at all. Sprinkled…
At the turn of the 20th century, the moving sidewalk was the future of urban transportation. As much as airplanes soaring in the sky and automobiles rumbling on the streets, the moving sidewalk represented a bold new vision for tomorrow. This idea of rolling pavement appealed to people in major cities who didn’t yet see…
Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been inside some of the most important and cloistered rooms in the world. But these aren’t science labs or political offices—they’re the opulent boardrooms of Europe’s largest companies, which Hassink photographed as part of a project called The Table of Power. During the boom of the mid-1990s, Hassink set out…
There’s been a lot of leakage about that rumored budget iPhone lately, from sneakshots of all-white “iPhone 5C” packaging to repeated WSJ mentions. We still haven’t seen one of the devices in color, though. Not yet. And these renders by Martin Hajek show off how positively delightful a nice splash could be. https://gizmodo.com/a-plastic-iphone-called-the-5c-may-really-be-on-its-way-943206014 These renders…
Russian Lego fan Egor Karshiev recently won the Lego Co-Creation Challenge, ‘You Design it, We Make it’. His prize? Lego built a 20,000-unit limited edition set of his awesome 4×4 technic vehicle and invited him to tour the factory in Billund, Denmark. https://gizmodo.com/this-secret-underground-facility-guards-all-lego-sets-e-5018990 https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-look-inside-the-lego-factory-5022769 Best. Day. Ever. (I can attest that visiting the factory is…
Check out Jalopnik’s ten awesome secret car hacks. It includes a complete guide to add secret compartments to your car—which is useful for criminals and innocent people pretending to be criminals. https://jalopnik.com/ten-awesome-secret-car-hacks-975213289
Facebook’s just taken the next step towards becoming an inescapable part of the very internet itself. Starting today, Facebook will be rolling out Embedded Posts, meaning that you’ll eventually be able to embed your status updates into all the third-party websites your heart desires. The embedded status updates will appear exactly as they do on…
Looks like Verizon’s launch date for the HTC One has been bumped back to August 15th. The device, originally slated for launch tomorrow, has already been available from other U.S. carriers for some time. [DroidLife via DroidForums]
When you’ve grown up with a movie since you were a kid, its characters can seem just as close and familiar to you as your own family. Maybe even more so, since they’re frozen in time. Which is why these early concept images of some of our most iconic cinematic friends are so jarring. That…
For world travelers with a need for LTE speed, Samsung’s newest version of the Galaxy S4 might be the answer to your jet-setting prayers. When they arrive, the updated Galaxy S4 and S4 Mini will be the world’s first handsets to automatically switch between the two different types of LTE networks used worldwide. While FDD-LTE…
Slowly but surely, the Facebook singularity approacheth. As of last month, Zuck’s Empire can proudly call itself the reigning social network in 127 out of 137 polled countries. That’s a lot of selfie uploads. What’s more, this a huge leap from where Facebook ranked just three years ago. As you can see below, it could…
Nike’s impact on both pop culture and the shoe industry is unrivaled. It’s consistently one of the most popular brands in the world and has an insane sneakerhead following. But of all the hundreds of shoes released since the 1970s, what are its most iconic designs? British designer Stephen Cheetham took it upon himself to…
If you thought things couldn’t possibly get any more ridiculous than the catcopter, you were woefully gloriously wrong. Now, the same disturbed minds that brought you flying cats have an all-new monster. Enter the OstrichCopter. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-you-cant-use-a-cat-as-a-quadrotor-5892623 Willed into being by visual artist Bart Jansen and technical engineer Arjen Beltman,the OstrichCopter is (obviously) a completely custom…
While Boeing’s Dreamliner can’t seem to stop blowing batteries, there’s a new breed of light aircraft emerging that hope to use them rather than jet fuel. This e-plane, dubbed the Long-EZ, aims to be the fastest of them all. https://gizmodo.com/future-stunt-pilots-could-train-in-these-all-electric-p-533027421 Developed by Chip Yates, the electric Long-EZ is based on the Rutan Long-EZ, a homebuilt…
Ha. In a pain-in-the-everything development for Microsoft, it’s agreed to change SkyDrive’s name because it infringes on a trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group, one of the largest media organizations in the UK. This is, of course, deeply funny. Last year, Microsoft had to rename its Metro interface after it lost a slapfight over…
Just when you thought the scale of the NSA’s surveillance programs couldn’t get more superlative, new details about a special software suite show that analysts can access “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.” If it uses HTTP, the NSA can get it. The software’s known as X-Keyscore, and it’s gnarly. Not only…
Travel Kinja Roadtrippers has a great road trip across horror film locations in the United States. It includes the hotel from The Shining, the house from Poltergeist, and the beach from Jaws. https://roadtrippers.kinja.com/fuck-this-one-is-great-im-loving-this-kinja-972809570 https://roadtrippers.kinja.com/americas-most-iconic-horror-movie-filming-locations-956464494
Until now, quadraped robots have been a bit like terrifying mechanical sprinters: They go and go and go, but if they run into an obstacle, they’re gonna fall like a tangle-legged AT-AT. So because the prospect of bots that can throw cinderblocks and climb buildings wasn’t terrifying enough, Italian researchers are teaching robots how not…
