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Counter clutter can be even worse in a bathroom which is typically a lot smaller than a kitchen. And if you find yourself constantly battling to find room to store things around the sink, you’ll immediately see the genius behind this flippable cup that doubles as a way to rinse your mouth and a convenient…
Humans are all about pattern recognition: we want—and maybe need?—to believe that there’s order and meaning behind everything we see and do in life. The future is divined in teacups, superstitions are put on random objects, and—of course—we see ourselves in everything around us. Like the sky. Shinseungback Kimyonghun, a Seoul-based tech art collective, focus…
Have you ever had a problem with your car, but were left completely and utterly bewildered when you popped the hood in hopes of fixing it yourself? If this clever augmented reality app from Inglobe Technologies ever hits the market, even the most clueless driver will be able to easily maintain their vehicle, and maybe…
William Eggleston is a photographer who rose to prominence in the 1970s for his photos of American life, many of which are now iconic. Those decades of pictures have come from dozens of different cameras, and Eggleston himself was kind enough to share with the Wall Street Journal a picture of some of his tools…
Nothing’s worse than a dead battery—except maybe if you run out of juice while on patrol in the backwoods of Afghanistan. But until now, US forces have had to lug around a huge and heavy charger. Not anymore. Army research has just shrunk a mobile charging station small enough for any soldier to carry on…
You’ve never seen a bicycle collection so extensive and well-preserved as the one James MacDonald has obtained. Dean Saffron, an Australian photojournalist, discovered James and his bicycles earlier this year. Saffron originally visited MacDonald to shoot stills of him, but eventually returned to film this three-minute documentary short about MacDonald’s collection, and chat with him…
You don’t realize it at the time, but once you find yourself studying at a place of higher learning, you really miss your younger school days where playtime was actually a part of your daily routine. But imagine what life must be like for students of a school that was built and funded by Lego.…
Slingshots aren’t just good for firing toilet brushes and Oreos: with a little thought, you can even use one to cool a beer. https://gizmodo.com/weaponized-toilet-brushes-wipe-out-zombies-and-hard-wat-493104984 Everyone’s favorite slingshot expert, Joerg Sprave, explains in this video how a little bit of elastic—and effort—can be used to chill a beer to 6 celsius below room temperature. Sure, using…
Samsung has revealed that it’s holding an event in London on 20th June to unveil a new glut of Android and Windows mobile hardware.
Rumor has it that Yahoo is willing to stump up $800 million to take over Hulu. Marissa Mayer is one big spender right now.
Our universe being governed by the whims of a pair of rambunctious children in a higher dimension makes a surprising amount of sense.
Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are the couple that make up Amadou & Mariam, an afro-blues group from Mali. The pair has been performing for decades and have released seven albums, including last year’s Folila, along with a number of compilations. Both musicians are blind and they are sometimes called “the blind couple from Mali,”…
It feels nice to get points. It doesn’t really matter for what, but the more points the better. When you check into Foursquare you get points, and it feels nice. And sometimes you even get a badge and that feels like the ultimate vindication, even if the badge is for 10 visits to traffic court.…
Most people don’t take a trip to the Amazon looking for publicity opportunities, but if you stumble on one you have to run with it, right? At Smarter Every Day, Destin and his rainforest guides took advantage of the complicated process leafcutter ants go through to forage for salt and got the ants to carry…
The Netflix-only fourth season of Arrested Development went live at 3 a.m. EST this morning, and if you didn’t see the Twitter deluge coming, well, you’re one of these people: But you’re probably one of these people: Or you actually have to get sleep in order to work: So you hate this person: Or perhaps…
It’s hard to listen to music while you’re swimming because even waterproof earbuds that actually stay on try to conduct sound through air to reach your eardrums, and there’s not a lot of air underwater. The FINIS Neptune works on this issue by sending sound waves straight into your face. Total bombardment. In a good…
I would do basically anything to try a bananaberry, kiwigerine or pinegrape. No matter how varied and colorful nature is, I will always want more delicious fruit options. And Ogilvy Brazil knows. They sense my weakness. To sell Philips’s new blender, the Walita Avance, Ogilvy Brazil designed this ad campaign . . . and created…
Memorial Day is the first major patriotic holiday of the summer that demands grilling. You may use it as rare motivation to down some dogs and crack open a watermelon. You may interpret it as a directive to commence infinite cook outs. At Gizmodo we’re pretty big on grilling, because it’s hallowed ground at the…
The British Sky Broadcasting Group has removed their Android apps (Sky News, Sky Go, Sky+ and Sky Wi-Fi) from Google Play because of concerns that the Syrian Electronic Army has hacked the apps. Sky is advising users to delete the apps while they respond to the problem. The Syrian Electronic Army often targets news organizations…
Our superficial, beauty-obsessed culture is pretty scary. People starve themselves or have serious surgeries so they can look a certain way. But for better or worse (definitely worse) we’re all pretty used to hearing about those beauty interventions. Which is why it’s unusual to see a new wrinkle-reducer and immediately want to shit your pants…
