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An Ingenious Camera That Splits in Two Turns Everyone Into a Subject

There’s one in every family or group of friends: A photographer who—willing or not—spends most of their time behind the lens, and ends up conspicuously absent from nearly every photo. It’s inevitable. Well, not anymore. The Duo, a working concept camera, splits in half to capture both photographer and photographee at the exact same instant.…

Looking For a Job? Your Potential Employer Is Spying On You

Have you ever done anything fun? Gone to a rave or a political protest? Maybe put a video of yourself naked on Tumblr? Called someone a jackass on Twitter? Potential employers hate fun, and if they find out you had some, you may not get the job.

Who Are You In This Chart of Car Owner Stereotypes?

BMW 5 Series’ drivers are rich assholes; Ford F-150’s owners are Wal-Mart zombies; and people who drive Buicks are old or Chinese. Jalopnik and its readers have a stereotype for every car owner in America. Find yours here.

20 Things You Might Not Know About Your Favorite Liquors

Jack Sparrow has his rum, Ron Burgundy has his scotch, and you probably have your own favorite liquor, too. But how much do you know about your beverage of choice from that magical shelf behind the bar? You spend more time with your booze than you do with most of our friends; isn’t about time…

Over-Engineered Speaker Cables? Nope, Actual Speakers

Do you live in a bizarre, warped, Escher-style home that’s made installing a booming sound system next to impossible? The Anakonda KAN200 might look like a well shielded audio cable, but it’s actually a flexible speaker designed to squeeze into spots where traditional boxy speakers don’t fit, but still require jam pumping. Flexible enough to…

Cave Hotel: The Perfect Headquarters for Any Evil Organization

This will be the $524-million Hotel InterContinental Shimao, near Shanghai. Built around the caves of an abandoned quarry’s cliffs, the 19-story structure will have a waterfall encapsulated in glass running across its façade.

How to Meet an Online Friend in Real Life Without It Being Awkward

You’re not looking to bang every person you meet online. Sometimes, you’re just looking for friends. But somehow, meeting someone you know online platonically has become a far more awkward endeavor than a random OKCupid date. You know her but you dont know her. Do you shake hands? Do you hug? Do you do that…

NASA Puts Its ‘Galaxy Hunter’ Out To Pasture

At 15:09 ET today, NASA sent a signal to decommission the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after ten years of tireless work shooting the galaxy in lower Earth orbit. NASA says GALEX will float around for another 65 years before it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially self-destructs. It appears as though funding issues are behind…

“Game Consoles” Are the Final Key to Digital Domination

Google might be building a game console, rumors say. Apple too. Actually, everyone’s building game consoles. It’s just, they aren’t game consoles, exactly. They’re puzzle pieces. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-google-is-making-an-android-video-game-console-and-603197957 Game consoles have historically been their own little colony off to the side of technology. For a while that’s because they were seen mainly as an expensive kids’…

Friday Afternoon Was Made for In-Browser Orcas

It’s Friday, and you’re just about in the home stretch. Well, assuming you’re not on Pacific Time, that is, in which case stop reading right now because your entire day is about to go pleasantly bobbing down the drain. Bobbing. Always bobbing. Just like our new whale friend here. Bestowed upon us by a friend…

These Fur Coats Are Made Entirely of Human Chest Hair Because… Milk?

If you were an advertising executive tasked with selling chocolate milk, what approach would you take? Fun cartoon characters? Promoting the health benefits of calcium? Touting its delicious taste? Wrong, wrong, wrong. The right answer is to commission the creation of a fur coat hand-woven from over a million strands of male chest hair. Because…

This Week in Time Capsules: Blackberrys, Booze and Best of Deep Purple

This week’s round-up of time capsule news includes some freshly buried capsules stuffed with cellphones, hair products and booze; some recently unearthed capsules that are so waterlogged they probably should’ve just stayed in the ground; and the hunt for quite a few capsules that have gone missing. Disgusting, Waterlogged Time Capsule Dug Up In Ohio…

This 266-Gallon Kiddie Pool Is Your Deal of the Day

Want to be cool this summer? Get a pool. Here’s a pretty big inflatable pool for a buck under $20. The pleading Facebook posts and tweets asking for a friend with a pool have already started. I’ve seen them. Sure, some could argue that a cheap kiddie pool is a waste of money, but you’re…

Your Wi-Fi Network Lets Spies Watch Through Your Walls

Using the wireless Internet signals bouncing around most every modern home, researchers have created a way to “watch” people moving inside the privacy of their own walls. The creepy new technology means we’ll never have privacy again. [related http://gizmodo.com/5372080/attn-n… http://gizmodo.com/5844560/wi+fi-…] https://gizmodo.com/attn-nerdy-pervs-see-through-walls-using-a-wireless-ne-5372080

Girl Invents Amazing Flashlight Powered Exclusively By Body Heat

15-year-old Ann Makosinski, from Victoria, British Columbia, has created a LED flashlight powered only by body heat. Zero batteries. Just hold it and it will start working. Look at her demonstrating it in the video.

Exploding Bullets Frozen In Plexiglass Are Hauntingly Beautiful

Just because a piece of glass might claim to be “bulletproof” doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s actually, well, bulletproof. But if your bullet-resistant glass is sturdy enough, that speeding bullet will usually just end up lodged in layers of polycarbonate. That’s what intrigues photographer Deborah Bay. She recently found herself struck by the unexpected beauty…

Starting on Monday, Facebook’s going to start stripping out ads from the more unsavory Facebook groups. No more worries about your wholesome ads popping up in “We Love Porno, LOL.” Phew.

Explore Twitter’s Hidden Landscape In These Gorgeous Interactive Maps

Twitter never tires of finding clever new ways to show off its mountains of tweets, it’s going literal with actual mountains of tweets. Twitter’s in-house data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte put together these new, interactive, topographical maps of tweet history, and the result is a digital mountain range like you’ve never seen. Drawing from the…

Desire Modification is on the way, with Anti-Addiction tech

I’ve argued before that the most profound change from cyborg technology will come not from upgrading our capabilities, but from changing our desires. Our desires form the core of who we are. They are literally why we get up in the morning. And there are many aspects of our desires that we’d like to change,…

Sky Fighter: Meet the Man Who Wants to Drone-Proof Your Home

Last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller finally admitted that the Bureau uses drones to carry out surveillance on Americans (say hi!). Meanwhile, the tweens next door are probably spying on you too, watching you pick your nose using a $300 drone they bought on Amazon. UAV use in America—and public anxiety over it—is exploding. And…