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How to Awaken Your Lawn from Its Winter Slumber

Whether your lawn is the emerald crown jewel of the neighborhood or has more brown spots than a cheetah, now is the time to give your yard a spring cleaning. If you’re just trying to get rid of the dead spots or starting over from scratch, here’s what you’ll need to do to ensure your…

This Interactive Music Video Is an Insanely Fun Tribute to the Mouse Pointer

The new crowdsourced video for “Kilo” by Light Light is a game that you absolutely need to go play right away. Go check it out immediately at donottouch.org. Produced by Amstersdam-based design studio Moniker, the video provides you with instructions of what to do with your cursor, records your mouse movements, and then adds them…

These Brain-Hugging Transistors Will Make Real-Life Cyborgs

Transistors were one of the most revolutionary developments in modern computing. And that was without directly implanting them in our brains. Now, the first microscopic organic transistor arrays promise to let us do just that. https://gizmodo.com/65-years-ago-the-transistor-jump-started-the-world-of-m-5968857 Developed by French scientists building off prototypes designed by the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, these new flexible…

Digital Drills: The Monster Machines that Mine Bitcoin

Bitcoin! It’s everywhere right now. Its value is dropping, spiking, dropping again. More and more new converts are hopping in, buying a few coins and trying their hands at the market, looking to make a quick buck with a profitable exchange. But all the while, there’s an ever-dwindling army of specialists working in the shadows,…

Enjoy Marshmallow Superiority With This Air-Compressed Bazooka

It might not bring a complete end to your office warfare, but like with nuclear weapons, this marshmallow-blasting Mazooka should bring an uneasy truce for fear of it actually being used. Six AA batteries power a built-in air compressor that generates enough pressure to fire a large marshmallow up to 40 feet—making those manual pump-action…

A Flow Chart Explaining All Time Travel in Movies

Ever wonder how the time travel theories in one movie line up with every other movie about time travel? Here’s a pretty great flowchart that susses out exactly which type of of temporal chaos a movie wreaks. Although even with this thing, I still don’t know what the heck was going on in Twelve Monkeys.…

This Natural Gas Plant Is Turbo-Charged by the Sun

With the decreasing popularity of coal and increasing volatility of petroleum prices, natural gas is emerging as a major energy resource in the the United States. And while we have plenty of reserves, an estimated 318 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf), it’s still a non-renewable resource that must be used sparingly whenever possible—like this new natural…

Test Your Touch Typing Prowess With a Murdered Out Keyboard

Targeted at gamers, developers, and anyone who spends a lot of time pounding on a keyboard, Cooler Master’s new CM Storm QuickFire Stealth features mechanical switches for that old-school feeling, and black keys that are only labeled on the front side. It’s not impossible for a non-touch typist to use the $95 Storm QuickFire Stealth,…

Every Apple Exec’s Face Combined into One Jobsian Ideal

While the news of four out of the five highest-paid execs in the US being from Apple isn’t entirely surprising, it’s hard not to marvel at their collective success. Which leads to the question, “Who are these gazillionaires? And what does it look like when you blend all of their faces together?” We’re so glad…

Shake This Curvaceous Spice Grinder For Perfectly Pulverized Seasonings

If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin—or shake—on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. The…

This Power Glove Oven Mitt Guarantees You’re a Wizard In the Kitchen

Taking inspiration from one of Nintendo’s most useless peripherals, the Power Mitt is an awesome riff on the Power Glove that promises to turn anyone into a wizard in the kitchen—with or without the help of Fred Savage. For $15 it can withstand the scorching temperatures of fire flowers, or piping hot baking sheets. And…

Reconcile Your LHC Shutdown Sadness With a Higgs Boson Watch

Are you having a hard time dealing with the Large Hadron Collider’s two-year maintenance shutdown? Do you miss waking up every morning to the potential of another big particle discovery in the news? Then strap this awesomely animated Higgs Boson watch to your wrist as a reminder that in no time the LHC will be…

Hearing the World’s Tallest Building Creak in a Storm Is Terrifying

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind’s love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It’s very shiny! And in a bad storm, it sounds like it’s about to fall apart. Gizmodo friend (and Dubai documenter) Gerald Donovan says the city was hit with an enormous storm…

Turn a Printed Page Into a Touchscreen With This Brilliant Concept

Realizing that the oft-promised ‘paperless office’ may never actually come to fruition, researchers at Fujitsu are working on a backup plan that gives printed documents similar tablet-like touchscreen functionality. Using a tabletop projector, webcam, and other sensors, the system can precisely detect finger movements and motion in 3D, allowing a user to interact with a…

Why Does the Earth Have Rain Forests and Deserts?

You’d think with all the tumultuous weather and winds the Earth experiences, the planet would be covered in a fairly even mix of green space. But it’s not. Some parts are covered in fertile rain forests, while others are barren deserts. And it’s all because of a weather effect known as Hadley Cells. Named after…

Four of the Five Highest-Paid Execs in the US Work for Apple

If you already feel a little hard done by when it comes to your pay check, brace yourself. Bloomberg reports that four of the five best-paid executives across the whole of the US are employed by Apple—and just wait until you hear how much they earn. They each, apparently, receive a base salary of $805,400.…

How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal

A very ingenious new kind of high-tech scam has been going down in China, where clever thieves are returning fake iPhone components to Apple and claiming they’re broken official parts, receiving genuine Apple-made pieces in return. And making a nice profit in the process. The scam, reported by TechWeb, sees people involved in the mobile…

Dish has kicked off a $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint—to try and derail a purchase by Japanese carrier Softbank.

This Desk-Bed Makes Snoozing at Work a Cinch

The mid-afternoon lull is a common problem. But if you often find yourself dribbling upon your keyboard during a short power nap at work, maybe you need something like this convertible desk, designed for specifically for snoozing, in your life. A concept by Studio NL, it provides enough room for you to stretch out and…

Technology Has Sure Moved On in the Last 20 Years

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how much technology has changed over the last few decades. Fortunately, Redditor ImTheGuyWhoLoveGems decided to remind us all—and, boy, should we be happy about the progress. ImTheGuyWhoLoveGems assembled a selection of gadgets from 1993 that have now all in 2013 been ably replaced by a single smartphone. There are…