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What’s The Coolest Tech You’ve Ever Dreamed About?

Last night I dreamed that I was packing for a trip by googling my stuff and clicking on it to put it in my suitcase. For socks I could either select certain pairs or just enter the number of pairs I wanted and have them chosen at random. I really got into the logistics. Another…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Fire Printers Seem Like The Best Terrible Idea Ever

Inkjet printers are incredibly annoying, and if this one didn’t print with fire there would be no making over the inkjet’s image. But it does. It’s called the FireWriter. Built by Lucien Langton at ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, the FireWriter uses an Arduino Uno programmed with Wiring and Processing to integrate…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Print An Interactive Robot On The 3D Printer You Totally Have

Look, you probably don’t have a 3D printer. But if you do and you want to really scare the crap out of your friends you need a humanoid robot head like MAKI, the “emotive robot” that you build with 3D printed parts plus third party tech. Designed by HelloRobo, the idea is to provide a…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

8,000 Sheets Of Rice Paper Can Organize Into Art

I know you’re all wondering how many sheets of rice paper is a lot. And I’m going to tell you. 8,000. When I think of a lot of rice paper I am thinking of 8,000 sheets of rice paper. Apparently, so is Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, who used rice paper, 800 bamboo rods and cotton…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Sequence Your DNA In An Hour On This Tiny Chip

Diagnosing genetic disorders and devising personalized therapies just got a lot easier, or at least quicker. Panasonic and Belgian research lab IMEC have created a small chip that tests DNA in under an hour. The researchers believe that having such quick access to base pair sequences will not only help doctors detect disease-causing abnormalities, but…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Third Eye Blind: Losing a Whole Year

Third Eye Blind has no shortage of hit singles. “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Jumper,” “Never Let You Go,” “Deep Inside of You,” etc, etc. If you were around and had ears in the late 90s, you know these. But one that’s not usually listed up there with the rest, but still a damned good tune, is “Losing…

Tech News Eric Limer

These Are the Secret Sounds of All Your Electronics

We all know the telltale hum of a computer’s fan kicking on, or the barely-there buzz of flourescent lights. But even the most whisper-quiet devices are singing their little songs of daily life; you just can’t hear them. At least not without some help. Redditor TheDanielHolt took to uncovering some of these tuneless tunes, and…

Tech News Eric Limer

What’s the Jankiest Gadget You Love Despite All Its Flaws?

No piece of tech runs perfectly, but some run less perfectly than others. It’ doesn’t mean they’re totally worthless; it just means they’re harder to use. Sometimes the jank comes hand in hand with utter awesomeness. What’s the glitchiest, jankiest, freeziest, aghhhhhhhhhh-iest device that you loved through and through, even when it was making you…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Most Awesome Camera Stabilizer, Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing First Website, Boobies on YouTube, And More

Rough week? We’ve got everything you need to unwind. How about a very NSFW YouTube music video, a list of weird celebrities who are getting Google Glass, some Microsoft nostalgia, Mark Zuckerberg’s secret AngelFire shame, or the most awesome camera stabilizer—and most awesome GIF—we have ever seen. All that and more below. Officially NSFW: YouTube’s…

Tech News Eric Limer

This Pretty, Portable Fireplace Looks Fit to Burn Rocket Fuel

Sure, it’s easy to whip yourself up a old-school backyard fire-pit with a ring of rocks and whole lot of ugly. But wouldn’t you rather have a portable, modular fireplace that looks ready to blast off to the stars? Who wouldn’t? Faro is a stark, simple-but-beautiful test-kitchen for you pyromaniacal tendencies. Designed by Rui Pereira…

Tech News Eric Limer

What Could Be Cooler Than a Sleek Watch Made From Dead AK-47s?

Smart watches fart watches. Why would you want to have your email on your wrist when you could have an impossibly badass—and doubtless expensive—analogue sucker made of reclaimed AK-47 steel wrapped around your arm. Though it’s certainly a kickass watch, with a gold rifle-sight inspired frame set inside sapphire crystal, the Inversion Principle Tourbillon is…

Tech News Eric Limer

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Spotify Master

The digital music revolution continues at a frenetic pace — we’d only just turned in our CDs for MP3s when streaming services came along to upturn the apple cart again. There are now a whole host of streaming apps to choose from, but the original pioneer Spotify remains the biggest and the most well-known. Despite…

Tech News David Nield

MotoGP Live Experience 2013: Full Throttle Racing is Back!

We might not cover sports all that much on Gizmodo but when we do, we go with the best. This weekend sees the return of MotoGP, the premiere class of motorcycle racing—think of it as the two-wheeled equivalent of F1. The opening race in Qatar also marks the return to Yamaha for seven-time premier champion…

Tech News Peter ha

Did Google Accidentally Announce Its Next Fiber City?

We’ve all been quietly—or loudly—hoping that our town would be the next to get Google’s speedy fiber. In the wee hours of the morning, Google announced the next lucky metropolis. And then immediately took it back. As reported by Engadget, Google’s Fiber site started displaying a banner congratulating Austin, Texas as home to the newest…

Tech News Eric Limer

What The Special Effects in The Walking Dead Looks Like

Unlike other shows who sneakily add special effects without you realizing, The Walking Dead is so overtly gruesome and bloody and gore-y that we’re completely aware that what we see is being spiced up with visual effects. Still, it’s awesome to see how the effects are added. Stargate Studios shows off the reel of effects…

Tech News Casey Chan

If Going to a Party Was Like Playing a Video Game

Let’s face it, for some gamers going to a party is harder than playing a video game. And for partiers, playing video games is harder than partying. So what if we combined the two worlds and made a video game just for partying? It’d be a lot tougher than you think. Balancing getting drunk, meeting…

Tech News Casey Chan

What Verizon’s Nokia Lumia 928 Will Probably Look Like

We’ve heard about the thinner, lighter and better variant of the Nokia Lumia 920 that Verizon is expected to get and now we get a look of what it’ll look like. Probably. The reliable leak happy @evleaks Twitter account has posted pictures of a black Lumia 928 and it looks great (it also looks like…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Between Beasts

A young girl’s flights of fancy take a turn for the frightful in her pursuit of a mysterious glowing butterfly. Between the mythical dangers and deadly adversaries, it’ll be a small miracle if she can make it out of these woods alive.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: American Psycho With Huey Lewis and Weird Al

In one of the most iconic scenes from American Psycho, murderous young turk Patrick Bateman waxes psychotic about Huey Lewis and the News. It’s funny, it’s weird, it’s unsettling. But watching Huey Lewis and Weird Al Yankovic create the bizarro world version of that scene? Well, okay, it’s all of those things, too. The rest…

Tech News Splitsider

The Old World Translations for Modern Day Social Networks

You know all the social networks we use? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, hell even LinkedIn and everything else? They’re all just replacing old stuff we used to do by ourselves at our desks. Twitter would be Post-Its, Skype would be a phone call, Foursquare is your globe and YouTube is the distracting window to the…

Tech News Casey Chan

What’s The Coolest Tech You’ve Ever Dreamed About?

Fire Printers Seem Like The Best Terrible Idea Ever

Print An Interactive Robot On The 3D Printer You Totally Have

8,000 Sheets Of Rice Paper Can Organize Into Art

Sequence Your DNA In An Hour On This Tiny Chip

Third Eye Blind: Losing a Whole Year

These Are the Secret Sounds of All Your Electronics

What’s the Jankiest Gadget You Love Despite All Its Flaws?

The Most Awesome Camera Stabilizer, Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing First Website, Boobies on YouTube, And More

This Pretty, Portable Fireplace Looks Fit to Burn Rocket Fuel

What Could Be Cooler Than a Sleek Watch Made From Dead AK-47s?

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Spotify Master

MotoGP Live Experience 2013: Full Throttle Racing is Back!

Did Google Accidentally Announce Its Next Fiber City?

What The Special Effects in The Walking Dead Looks Like

If Going to a Party Was Like Playing a Video Game

What Verizon’s Nokia Lumia 928 Will Probably Look Like

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Between Beasts

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: American Psycho With Huey Lewis and Weird Al

The Old World Translations for Modern Day Social Networks

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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