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Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy S 4 isn’t even on the shelves yet, but a team of dedicated tinkerers over at XDA Developers has already managed to root the thing. That means that those who can’t resist getting under the skin of their phones will be able to do so immediately with the new S 4.…
Sometimes, a new view of something you know well can make you stop and stare—like this beautiful image of New York at night, snapped by crew aboard the ISS. This picture was taken by one of NASA’s Expedition 35 crew members aboard the International Space Station on March 23, 2013. Just in case you’re confused,…
Hot on the heels of T-Mobile, AT&T has announced that it will be rolling out its own HD Voice service later this year.
Unlike the slow simmer, bubble and pop of running through honey, the hot ball of nickel just bursts into flames when it touches a chocolate bunny. After burning a hole into the bunny (sorry Easter), the goopy chocolate transforms the hot nickel into a burning ball of chocolate. I never wanted to eat chocolate more…
Whaddya mean you don’t swallow your own hair? The 19-year-old woman that inspired this twisted animation from David O’Reilly certainly did. Then again she also had a four-pound hairball surgically removed from her intestinal tract.
Game of Thrones season three premiered last night, and that’s kind of a big deal. If you’re a fan, you’ll need no convincing. But if you need proof of its potency, here you go: according to numbers collected by TorrentFreak, the Game of Thrones season three premier now holds the record for the biggest BitTorrent…
Here’s a wonderfully colorful photo project by photographer Robert Weingarten that shows how psychedelic our world can get. Weingarten took a photo at 6:30 in the morning of the same view of Santa Monica Bay from his home in Malibu for an entire year. Even with all that sameness, each photo captures something completely different…
Holy freaking smokes, almost getting hit by a train doesn’t get closer than this. A young woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil had apparently dropped her phone onto the metro tracks and foolishly jumped down to retrieve it. Couple of problems with this situation: she couldn’t get back on the platform, the train was coming into…
If you want to skip the build up to the aerial crash, fast forward to about the 1:15 mark on the video to see an 80-inch RC plane with 50cc gas engine hit a RC helicopter and then immediately nosedive to its destruction. The plane clips one of its wings when it hits the chopper…
Deep in lower Manhattan, embedded in the sidewalk, is a clock that’s been ticking since long before you knew what time was. Installed in 1889 with a single redesign in 1940, the timepiece has counted off hundreds of minutes, and tens of millions of seconds, all while withstanding the endless march of both time and…
Ed. note: Above is the SFW version of the video since Google has pulled down both uploads of the “NSFW” versions. Update and original version are below. Until last week, I’d never actually listened to anything that Robin Thicke had released. Then someone dropped Blurred Lines into our group chat. And, well, I liked it.…
There are plenty of knives out there you could feasibly carry around with you all the time—Gerber’s got a whole suite of them. The latest to join the crew is an especially tiny lil’ guy, but it could save your life. https://gizmodo.com/strap-a-tiny-toolbox-to-your-zipper-with-gerbers-daily-5992638 The Gerber Daily Carry Hook Knife is a itty-bitty, reliable, discreet little sucker…
Shoppers looking for the best price on Apple stuff recently may have noticed a mysterious Ebay store selling official Apple refurbs for less than Apple itself. Although Apple never confirmed their involvement, it was widely believed that they were behind Refurbished_Outlet because it sold official Apple refurbs with genuine Applecare. Today, there are no more…
A Piet Mondrian painting is unmistakable for its big blocks of primary colors set in grids of horizontal and vertical black lines on a white background. The Mondri 3 in 1 vase is very clearly inspired by the late De Stijl movement artist, and it breaks apart into three pieces so you can create your…
Winter’s slowly winding down, and no doubt, the warm weather is beginning to beckon, what with the birds and the sunshine and the joyful frolicking and whatnot. And we’d be out there enjoying it, too… if this past month hadn’t given us a whole slew of gadgets to stay inside drooling over. Ah well—the sun…
A supposedly leaked fake screenshot says AT&T pre-orders for the HTC One begin April 5th. Price starts at $250 for 32GB.
It’s Opening Day! America’s most popular boring sport is back. Great(?). If you have even a passing interest in baseball, you’ve probably ditched work to go catch a game already, but if not, here’s a bit of fun. A GoPro on a baseball. Yep, as silly and wonderful as it sounds. The video was taken…
So we used to have these things called landlines, which were phones that you didn’t take with you everywhere and that you actually used to talk to people. Some of them didn’t even look like phones. Here are some of our favorite incognito novelty handsets of yore. Warning: will cause extreme nostalgia. Garfield: Hates Mondays,…
Amazon Cloud Drive can now sync across OS X, Windows, web, and Kindle Fire. Watch out Dropbox, you’ve got competition.
Young-Deok Seo is a Korean artist who works almost exclusively with different kinds of reclaimed chains. His latest project—Meditation—is a series of impressively large faces, deep in thought. Per his statement on a recent show in Istanbul, Seo works in reclaimed metal materials in order to “reveal the amount of suffering it places on the…
