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When the iPhone got native panorama function in iOS 6, people started sharing tons of sprawling views. 360s of stadiums, the whole visible coastline at sunset. Laudable Facebook wallpapers all. But the urge to capture really wide shots didn’t start a few years ago, it began in the 1800s when photographers like George R. Lawrence…
The other day I went to the Apple Store to pick up my computer and I felt like a celebrity. The person assigned to help me ran over and asked enthusiastically if I was Lily Newman. I nodded and immediately assumed that he recognized my name from Gizmodo and was about to tell me how…
It would be so convenient if all the clutter in life could just disappear. Only the essentials. Clean lines. If you replaced everything in your house with pieces from this series by Japanese architecture group NOIZ you would never need to worry about loose change under the couch cushions or crumbs on the table again.…
There are a ton of great monthly services out there, but if you’re signed up for a bunch of them the little costs may be starting to add up. And if a subscription music service is on your list, pay attention because Google Play Music All Access, Google’s fancy-shmancy new streaming service, is getting a…
University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly got jailed after trying to escape from undercover Alcoholic Beverage Control agents. They thought the sparkling water she bought was a 12-pack of beer. Daly and her terrified classmates thought they were being assaulted by thugs. Alas, absurd drama ensued.
This post originally ran 3/18/2013. We’re re-running it in celebration of DOMA’s demise, the overturning of Prop 8, and in solidarity with our LGBT brother and sisters. Plow through a couple of bowls of rainbow pasta today to be ready for whatever the SF Pride Parade throws at you. It’s been a brutal day at…
Photos of garbage or (fully clothed) people posing with fruit are big business. Stock photo sites, which provide images for news organizations, blogs, corporate campaigns and all manner of low-budget advertising, have been growing for years. And Shutterstock, founded in 2003 by Jonathan Oringer, has expanded from hosting 30,000 of Oringer’s own photos to distributing…
The internet is all about the free flow of ideas, right? Collaboration! Discourse! Sharing! The day to day reality of what we do online may not always be quite so idealistic and ideologically motivated, but the open underpinnings are there. Except, of course, when they’re not at all. This visualization, published by Sebastian Sadowski, uses…
This is Einstein, a pet fish that has a dysfunctional buoyancy bladder. Incapable of swimming, Einstein would sink to the bottom of the fish tank unless he wears that strange thingamajig all over him—a “life vest” invented by his awesome owner, Leighton Naylor.
A must-read for this weekend of celebration: John Weir’s beautifully written and terribly sad first-person account of how the AIDS worldwide epidemic of the 80s and 90s shattered the lives of countless New York’s gay men, their friends and their families.
If there was a list of people (and robots) that should avoid rapping—and maybe there ought to be—C-3P0 would be sitting pretty far up towards the top. Fluent in six million forms of communication and not an ounce of flow. Buzzfeed explains the clip’s bewildering existence: In 1986, to help promote the soon to be…
If you’ve seen one streetlight, you’ve pretty much seen them all. They’re important, sure, but they’re usually not much to look at. The lamps that popped up across Portland are a little bit different. A little more like giant, carnivorous plants. “Nepenthes” by Dan Corson is a collection of four, 17-foot tall light-up sculptures that…
I don’t have any superpowers. Neither do you. But we can both salivate with envy at all the marvelous flavors of superpowers we could have, if they were real. And to aid us in that noble pursuit, Pop Chart has put out their Giant-Size Omnibus of Superpowers, a (fairly) comprehensive menu of powers and their…
Not all of us turn to Netflix for our streaming fix; there are plenty of Amazon Prime members out there who lean on Instant Video instead. And if you’re one of them, you might want to fill up your Watchlist with these classics. They’ll be gone come Monday. And come to think of it, most…
Heads up: Instagram is weathering a bit of a spam attack right now, and as you may have noticed, it’s drowning in fruit. This rather large wave of juicy spam seems to be pushing some sort of “miracle fruit diet” and it could mess up your account if you fall for it. Initially spotted by…
The day we RSS fans have been dreading for months is almost here. On Monday, Google Reader dies. Forever. There’s no going back. Everybody’s been hawking their replacements, and we’ve brought you a little sampling, but now it’s decision time. Who you goin’ with? https://gizmodo.com/10-google-reader-alternatives-that-will-ease-your-rss-p-5990540
Instead of watching the terrible World War Z, the disappointing Man of Steel, or the downright dumb White House Down, treat yourself to Europa Report, Byzantium or any of these 25 low-budget sci-fi and fantasy movies. They are better than most summer blockbusters.
Scientists from the Syracuse University Lava Project melt 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of lava and poured it over a giant block of ice because 1) they wanted to see how it behaves—it’s hard to watch this phenomenon in nature—and 2) it’s fun. Obviously.
This week, we finally got a look at what the next version of Windows 8 has to offer, up to and including that long-awaited smart button. And on top of all that, we’ve got a slew of hidden passageways, a look into the iFuture through the iLens of iOS 7, some Google Reader alternatives for…
If you want your its battery to keep your phone working for as long as possible and have a longer life in general, here are two good tips: don’t expose it to heat and never let it discharge completely. Learn more about other battery magicks here.
