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Putting 50 mirrored balls in a semi-lighted room seems like a terrible idea. Actually it seems like a great idea for a rave and a bad idea for an art installation. But it worked out pretty well at the CLICK Festival in Denmark. Light Leaks by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan is an installation that…
The Internet is always hoppin’. Maybe parts of it will be slowing down just a little as everyone and their hermano tunes in to watch season four of Arrested Development, but it’ll still be humming along. This little video put together by BuzzFeed breaks down exactly what you can expect to be going on in…
Not content to just launch an encrypted file-sharing site, get stranded in the middle of nowhere, or claim to have the patent for two-step authentication, Internet dude Kim Dotcom is also apparently coming out with an album of dance music? Yeah. https://gizmodo.com/kim-dotcom-is-stranded-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-and-liv-5979406 It’s not Dotcom’s first foray into music. You might remember that star-studded MegaUpload…
OK, you want to try it? Then watch the video above—the whole thing, preferably full-screen—before you read any further. Got it? Good. Let’s see how smart you (maybe) are. In a study run by researchers at the University at Rochester and published in Biology, researchers had subjects watch that same video you just did. They…
Who needs lamps when you can make your walls literally light up on their own? They can if you cover them with a coating of LED wallpaper. Wallpaper might be a little past its prime, but with a little infusion of tech and some neat geometric designs, maybe it’s time to reconsider. Made by Mestyle…
When you think of hackers, your mind might jump to something like a Boris Grishenko (aka “that dude from Goldeneye”) typing away on a keyboard one-handedly with virtuosic skill. A criminal mastermind. Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) paints a bit of a different picture, for last year at least; most of these guys…
There’s no denying the global connectivity literally changed the world, and most of are lucky enough to have been alive and conscious when that paradigm shift was rolling out. You might not remember your first real interaction with the digital behemoth, but you have to have a first recollection. What is it? It’s worth noting…
We’ve seen a few crazy bullet time rigs in our day, but this one might take the cake both for “coolest” and “most over the top.” For the music video of London Grammar’s “Wasting My Young Years” photographers put together a setup that used a whopping 625 pinhole cameras to awesomely stop time. It’s ridiculous.…
Hey guys. There was a new Xbox revealed this week. Oh you heard? We’ll we’ve got some nice icing to put on that cake. And along with it we’ve got gems like the world’s largest Lego model, the Subway worker who made a massive math innovation, how sunscreen actually works and much much more. A…
It’s getting dangerous just to walk and text at the same time much less do so behind the wheel of a car. But with Siri being just slightly less helpful than HAL, how are you supposed to surf the web and simultaneously travel safely? All you have to do is ask. https://gizmodo.com/sadly-people-who-walk-and-text-could-actually-use-this-486000701 Become a Dictator:…
The Apple 1 is a little piece of history, the first in a lineage that’s taken the world by storm since its birth in 1976. And that piece of history is worth a lot. An anonymous collector just picked up a still functioning(!) one of the suckers at auction for a cool $671,400. And you…
As if the Sydney Opera House wasn’t already striking to behold, a group of Australian artists called “The Spinifex Group” have made it even wilder. As part of Sydney’s “Vivid” festival—which started on Friday—the Opera House will be home to a crazy projected light-show for the next several weeks. And it’s awesome. The Spinifex Group…
A flashlight is a crucial thing to have around the house, but even though it can be super useful, it’s probably plastic and/or filled with D batteries. Not exactly elegant. The Paper LED Torch Light on the other hand, is the picture of simplicity. Designed by Kazuhiro Yamanaka, the Paper LED Torch Light is as…
Rumor has it that sometimes sane people enjoy the thrill of an adrenaline rush, but Six Flags Over Texas’ new SkyScreamer seems reserved for the insane. The Texas SkyScreamer officially opens today and stands a whopping 400 feet tall, dwarfing its second tallest brother in Georgia which seems tiny at a mere 242 feet. While…
When a laptop or a phone blows up it’s usually because of some dangerous exploding battery. But what if you want to make a laptop self destruct and blow up on its own? You’ll have to make something that Q from James Bond would invent, basically. The genius Caleb Kraft did just that. Caleb from…
The Gaga plane-dog has a point. It’s not Justin Bieber’s fault he’s a shrill, spoiled, cheap-shotting little bitch, it’s all of ours for paying attention.
When we saw a ‘We the People’ petition to the White House to make the US move to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen: The imperial system is archaic, irrelevant, doesn’t scale easily and to be honest, there are just too many damn units to keep track of.…
For YouTube’s comedy week, Dane Boe created this music video ‘We Didn’t Star the Viral’ (riffing off Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Star the Fire) that recaps pretty much all the viral videos that became infamous on YouTube over the last 8 years. You know the usual suspects: Keyboard cat, Star Wars kid, evolution of dance,…
This is beyond sad. If you’ve been keeping up with the tornado that leveled Moore, Oklahoma, you probably saw the destruction it left behind. It looked like a movie set war zone or the aftermath of the apocalypse. But it was real. Google released satellite imagery showing what the destruction looked like from above. It’s…
If you’re busy this weekend with trips to the beach and delicious barbecues and drinks with umbrellas in them, I feel bad for you. Memorial Day 2013 is not about enjoying the weather or spending time outdoors or kicking off Summer, nope, it’s about having a day off so you can watch the new season…
