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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Super Rope Solution

It’s a good business model, sure. I mean you’ve got a captive audience, which any infomercial host would kill for. But what’s with actually killing them? Pretty sure murdering your marketing base is going to hurt sales and next quarter’s growth.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey thinks Vine is so amazing that it’s changed art. Every picture should be a looped movie!

The 12 Types of People Who Use Social Networks

At this point, you’re almost weirder if you don’t use any social networks than if you were a social media obsessive who tweets, Facebooks, Instagram and hashtags the hell out of your vocabulary. It’s how weird the world is now. Social networks are real life. But who are the people who make up these worlds?…

This Guy Proposed to His Girlfriend with a Drone

When I think of romantic, when I think of heartwarming, when I think of being sweet… I don’t think of drones. But if I think of awesome and if I think of kickass and if I think of freaking cool… I do think of drones. So guy who used a flying drone to drop off…

Rancid (with Sol Lewitt) – Learn to Say F*ck You to the World

The world is brimming with haters ready and more than willing to tell you just how much you suck and can’t do a damn thing right. But never mind them. If you’ve got something to express, it’s your responsibility to express it. Sol Lewitt, an American artist at the forefront of the 1960’s minimalist movement,…

Akatu Fake Shower: Drown Out Embarrassing Bathroom Sounds With a Fake Shower App

Whether you just started dating someone or are hanging out a friend’s, you’re generally going to prefer that they not hear the symphony of sounds you’re making in the bathroom. Sure, you can turn the shower on as a ruse—but our planet is strained enough as is. Fortunately for both you and Mother Earth, Akatu…

Virgin America Installed a New In-Flight System to Help You Get Laid

Richard Branson: eccentric billionaire, adrenaline junky, sworn enemy of neckties, and now—matchmaker. That’s right; Richard Branson wants to get you laid. What’s more, he wants to get you laid in the sky. Yes, Branson’s Virgin America airline has just launched a new feature for its in-flight entertainment system that allows single (or not single, what…

Take These Slick Journals for a Dip

Makr’s sketchbooks aren’t the type of girl that goes to the pool just to catch some rays in a fancy bikini. They’re water-resistant, so a little splash won’t hurt them. And they look great too. Each one is five inches by eight inches and comes with 176 unruled pages. They’re available in a couple shades…

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Camera Versus the Competition

Last month, we tested the best smartphone cameras out there and declared the HTC One’s ultrapixel camera the master of all. Now it’s time to see how the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Sony Xperia Z measure up. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-ultrapixel-camera-versus-the-competition-5990360 Today, we’re comparing the cameras on five top smartphones: The Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Xperia Z, HTC…

What M&M, A&W, and Dozens of Other Acronyms and Initialisms Really Mean

As small businesses grow into large corporations that have to deal with mergers and hostile takeovers, their identities and branding similarly grow, evolve, and often end up being a mish-mash of various names which are then shrunk into acronyms and initialisms to make them easier to remember. A similar thing is done for companies named…

Ask This HTC Rep Whatever You Want About the HTC One Right Now

HTC really went for broke with the new HTC One. It’s got everything from an awesome camera to a big, bright display to excellent speakers. In short: if you’re an Android user, you’re gonna want to hold this phone. What else do you want to know? HTC Global Product manager (and all-around good-looking guy) JB…

The Futuristic Biology Tech at the Center of Iron Man 3

Do you know what Extremis is? Unless you’re an Iron Man nerd, probably not. But in the Marvel Universe, it’s basically the biggest biological breakthrough ever, and a huge part of Iron Man 3. Light spoilers ahead, obviously. In the comics, Extremis first appeared in Warren Ellis’s 2005 Iron Man story “Extremis” (seriously, read this).…

This Beginner’s DSLR Is Your Deal of the Day

Nikon’s D3000 came out in 2009, and even back then it was a cheap DSLR. It’s meant for beginners. In addition to the decidedly non-professional $500 price, the D3000 actually features educational menus to help a first time photographer learn the ropes. Still, it wasn’t cheap, especially for tyros or students—if you’re not sure you’re…

Here’s Your New and Improved Hundred Dollar Bill

The Federal Reserve is making it rain new hundred dollar bills on October 8, 2013. They’re more colorful, more secure, and easier to authenticate, but harder to replicate. Here’s everything that’s changed. Most of the benjamins you see today were designed way back in 1996. Sounds pretty old, right? An overhauled hundo was supposed to…

Get a Terrifying, First-Hand Look at What It’s Like to Ride a 15-Foot-Tall Bike

When’s the last time you really felt like a badass on a bicycle? Probably when your training wheels came off around the age of six. Well, fortunately for you, bike and oversized object enthusiast Richie Trimble has figured out a way to feel that sense of wobbly danger once again: a 14.5-foot, towering beach cruiser…

Technology Soothsayer William Gibson Couldn’t Help But Love Google Glass

William Gibson has long been known as something of a prophet, predicting everything from reality TV to “cyberspace” itself. Way back in 1981 AD, he imagined something very similar to Google Glass when he introduced us to Molly Millions, the badass cyborg with a screen-like digital eye augmentation. But we’d yet to see Gibson weigh…

This Is the Most Beautiful Way to Learn How to Code

These days, the sentiment of anyone who doesn’t know how to code being destined to a life of homeless ineptitude has become a fairly common (if mildly exaggerated) one. But of all the ways out there to save yourself from a derelict fate, Jon Duckett’s HTML and CSS: Design and Buil Websites, is, perhaps, the…

The Next Xbox Will Be Announced May 21

Microsoft just announced that it’s going to fill us in on the next Xbox, alias Durango, alias Nextbox, on May 21st. The event will take place at Microsoft’s home base in Redmond, Washington, but streamed on Spike TV. Here’s what we can expect. The full lineup of games, according to a post on Xbox big…

This Astronaut Music Video Will Make You Cry

Allen Laseter put this nice video to Vimeo one year ago. It clearly deserves more than the 2,390 views has gotten so far. Allen says: This is my senior thesis project for Watkins Film School that I wrote, shot and directed. It’s a music video for Dave Armstrong’s single, “Tambourine,” off of his album “Your…

Report: Amazon Has a Kindle TV Streaming Box on the Way

Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Amazon will soon be announcing its own streaming box to pair up with its Amazon Instant Video and video on demand. According to Bloomberg’s three unnamed sources, the box will be dropping sometime this fall. It will hook up directly to your TV (as streaming boxes tend to do) and…