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The First 6 People Who’ll Get Google Glass

Google’s finally starting to reveal the winners of its #ifihadglass promotion, and surprise! You’re not one of them. Not yet, anyway, unless you happen to be one of the following six golden ticket recipients. https://gizmodo.com/how-google-hacked-our-imaginations-with-ifihadglass-5989915 A quick reminder that being selected for your world-changing #ifihadglass idea doesn’t score you a free pair of Google compuspecs.…

Amazon Adds X-Ray to TV Shows To Tell You What You’re Watching While You Watch It

Amazon X-ray—the Kindle Fire feature that knows everything piece of information about a movie you’re watching while you watch it—is expanding to TV shows. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-x-ray-for-movies-knows-what-youre-watching-and-5941067 The service is pretty awesome and it keeps you from wondering who that actor is on the screen or what you’ve seen him in before. X-Ray slurps intel from Amazon-owned…

24 Facts You Didn’t Know About Beer

If you have the fun kind of drinking problem where the world spins happy songs when you’re buzzing, enjoy this 24-pack of beer facts. Did you know that you probably suffer from cenosillicaphobia? Or that the need for beer brought in awesome inventions? Or that drinking beer is like vitamins? These are all facts you…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Perihelion (NSFW)

Gird your loins and prepare for another bizarre expedition into Nick Cross’ warped imagination. As the animator explains, Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end. The idea being that you could start watching…

Awesome Accountant Made an Entire RPG Game Inside Microsoft Excel

Every accountant I know swears by the powers of Excel. But not every accountant can harness that power as beautifully as Cary Walkin, an accountant from Canada. Walkin made a full RPG game inside Excel. As in you can use Excel to actually have fun. The game, called Arena.Xlsm, can be downloaded here. It works…

Flipboard Update Lets You Create Your Own Magazines

Flipboard takes the news you want to read and organizes it into a wonderfully designed magazine format. And now, with an update to its iOS apps, it lets you create your own magazines for specific themes, topics, events, and so on. Want to create a magazine about, say, New York City public transit? It’s fairly…

Best Thing Ever: Classic Calvin and Hobbes Scenes Animated into GIFs

Short of a few seconds of homebrewed animations here and there, we’ve never seen Calvin and Hobbes animated. That’s fine—Bill Watterson’s panels are more lifelike than a kabillion hours of most shows—but seeing it done right is enough to make your eyes fall out from happiness. http://gizmodo.com/5991372/if-there-were-a-calvin-and-hobbes-cartoon-this-is-what-it-would-probably-look-like?tag=calvinandhobbes The Calvin & Hobbes GIFs Tumblr has been…

How to Get a Can of Soda for Free from a Vending Machine

If you’re ever thirsty for delicious carbonated sugar syrup and find yourself without any cash or quarters, maybe you’ll be wise enough to carry around a measuring tape with you. Turns out, the wild minds of Russia have developed a slick vending machine hack that’ll give you free sodas. And it only takes just a…

How to Shoot from the Surf Without Drowning Yourself

If you want to be a stand-out surf photographer, you’ll have to get into the water sooner or later. Morgan Maassen of Korduroy.TV explains the techniques and gear necessary to effectively ride the waves while capturing them on film. https://gizmodo.com/ask-a-pro-clark-little-on-photographing-waves-5340167

CheapAir: Search for Flights With Your Voice

Searching for flights can be frustrating. You go back over and over, tweaking your dates and destinations, trying to find the best fare. But a new voice-controlled app could help. What does it do? Lets you use your voice to search for airfare by simply speaking New York to Dallas, March 29 through April 1,…

You’ll Never Hunt For a Tool With Craftsman’s Whiteboard Toolbox

Craftsman is eschewing the traditional bright red paint job of its rolling toolboxes for a stark white finish that’s actually far more functional. The white paint used on its Limited Edition rolling eight-drawer tool chest is dry erase-friendly, so you can label the drawers as per what’s inside, take notes, or make calculations on the…

Here’s a Laptop Stand That’s Better for Your Back

Vool is a handsome laptop stand that might ease the strain on your back and shoulders. It’s designed in such a way that keeps you from hunching over your computer so much. Anyone who spends at least a couple of hours in front of a machine every day knows how hard it is to avoid…

11 Splendid Sand Sculptures Made For the Movie Geek

These sand sculptures were prepared as part of this year’s Hollywood-themed Weston-Super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival on March 26, 2013 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. All week, 20 award-winning sand sculptors from across the globe are working to create sand sculptures that include odes to Harry Potter, Marilyn Monroe and characters from the Star Wars films as part…

A Near Perfect Lego Recreation of the Commodore 64

Hot on the heels of his impressive Lego Leica M9-P and gorgeous bricked Macintosh, Chris McVeigh—aka Flickr’s powerpig—is back with a stunning Lego rendition of the Commodore 64. https://gizmodo.com/build-this-lego-leica-m9-p-hermes-and-save-yourself-49-5990400 If you grew up in the 1980s, the Commodore 64 was probably the first computer you owned. And since everyone played with Lego when they were…

Even LinkedIn Can Be Beautiful

I believe that what makes LinkedIn special is the actual content. I would like to propose a more “content driven” LinkedIn where users feel that it’s more engaging and relevant towards their own interests. Business sites do not need to be “stale”, and it could be a layout that is both professional and attractive. LinkedIn’s…

Wal-Mart is now testing lockers in stores for online orders and expects to have 50 stores outfitted this year. [Reuters]

Cheap Dreamhost Webhosting Is Your Dealzmodo-Exclusive Deal of the Day

Dreamhost, our sibling site Lifehacker’s favorite web host, is offering an exclusive deal for Dealzmodo readers. You can follow this link and get a year of Dreamhost shared web hosting for $19.40, plus a free domain name for a year. The plan comes with a couple of nice features, like user-friendly one-click installations for WordPress…

Pocket Scale Wallets Are For Drug Dealers, Right?

DigiWeigh boasts its DW-600W Wallet Scale is the perfect tool for measuring food at a restaurant when you’re following a strict diet, ensuring a letter has the proper stamps at the post office, and weighing “other small objects.” Which is basically marketing speak for: “drug dealers, this is designed and targeted directly at you.” It…

Crazy Guy Dangles Above the Earth at Terrifying Heights

“Mustang Wanted” is a crazy Ukrainian guy who loves having his photo taken as he dangles from buildings at preposterous heights. The resulting images will stop your heart. At first you wonder what compels somebody to want climb to these high places without any safety restraints. Just to show off? Is this just bizarre exhibitionism?…

McLellan Jacobs Kayak 1: A Luxury Yacht For One

Globetrotting millionaires can breath a sigh of relief because now when they abandon the comforts of their monstrous yachts for a kayaking day trip, they don’t have to leave the luxury or opulence behind. A company called McLellan Jacobs has crafted the Kayak 1, an over-the-top carbon fiber craft finished with teak, ash, and gold-plated…