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Google Image Search Has Never Looked So Good

Stop what you’re doing right now and start scrolling through this Tumblr of colorful images of planes and bridges and mats and packaging and other everyday items morphing into each other. It’s called I’m Google, an ongoing art project that finds beautiful patterns in otherwise benign and boring images Google Image search results. Dina Kelberman,…

Every Episode of Every Season of Some Good Shows Are Free on Comcast

If you’re a Comcast customer, congrats. Every episode of every season of some shows you’ve probably been meaning to catch up on are free on Xfinity until the 31st. Through Sunday, you can peep shows from more than 31 different networks, including premium ones like HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Cinemax, as well as broadcast networks…

Yes Yes Yes. 3D Print Your Own Real-life N64 GoldenEye Remote Mines

Ask anyone who was an avid gamer in the 1990s what the greatest console game of all time is, and a vast majority will say GoldenEye on the N64. Many of us lost a good chunk of our childhood to the game’s fantastic multiplayer mode and its wonderful weaponry, including the dastardly remote mines which…

T-Mobile’s HD Voice Hands On: A Sweeter-Sounding iPhone

T-Mobile just announced its very own iPhone 5 and no-contract plans. One of the little subplots was that this would be the first iPhone to support HD Voice. We just went ears-on with to see if it’s a difference you can actually hear. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-hd-voice-5899424 Calling from one T-Mobile iPhone to another, my caller’s voice came…

What’s the Best iPhone Data Plan?

T-Mobile has the iPhone now. It’s only a hundred bucks! There’s no contract! Unlimited everything! But before you get too excited about the prospect of jumping ship for forgotten carrier, let’s take a look at how exactly that its iPhone 5 data plans compare to the other big dogs. Following is a chart that compares…

The Pope of Foam Explains the Science of Beer Brewing

Crack open a bottle of suds and prepare to be amazed as Professor Charlie Bamforth leads a tour of the UC Davis Brewery, revealing the astonishingly complex chemical process—and artisanal origins—behind making beer. [PopSci]

Don’t Buy the Verizon T-Mobile iPhone 4 5 (UPDATE)

The day that Verizon T-Mobile gets the iPhone will be remembered as glorious by everybody who’s dropped 12 calls in a row, been taunted by meaningless signal bars stared lecherously at all their friends’ nubile iPhones and just plain had a miserable AT&T T-Mobile Sidekick experience. But they shouldn’t buy one. https://gizmodo.com/the-t-mobile-iphone-is-here-at-last-5992438 Let’s keep in…

This SoCal Water Treatment Plant Is Powered by Poop

The Inland Empire’s cadre of water treatment plants clean millions of gallons of waste water every day. But what to do with all that left over poo? Normally it’s unceremoniously dumped in a local landfill but at Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1, that massive pile of crap is put to a better use—making electricity…

The New Ford Fusion Is Sexy and It Knows It

Two weeks ago on The Fusion Project, Top Gear’s Rutledge Wood surprised two Jalopnik commenters who wrote about the new Ford Fusion with the ride of their lives down Mulholland Highway in a Fusion driven by Tanner Foust. Then, last week, Rutledge surprised two more commenters with a ton of engine choices and a ton…

T-Mobile LTE went live today in seven cities, including Baltimore, Houston, Vegas, KC, DC, Phoenix, and San Jose.

Report: Intel Almost Has Key Broadcasters on Board for Streaming TV Service

One of Intel’s biggest challenges to its upcoming streaming TV service has been getting content providers to sign on. But according to Bloomberg, many key deals are almost in place. https://gizmodo.com/intels-streaming-tv-ambitions-are-real-and-huge-5983712 Apparently Intel has made serious headway with Time Warner, NBC Universal, and Viacom for some “broad outlines” of Intel’s service. Not every detail has…

The T-Mobile iPhone Is Here at Last

We knew it was coming sometime this year, and yesterday we heard murmurs that “sometime” could be today, and at last, it is. T-Mobile has an iPhone 5. Yes, it’s the same iPhone 5 that was announced five months ago, but maybe (just maybe) it’s better. https://gizmodo.com/report-t-mobile-is-finally-getting-the-iphone-tomorrow-5992355 Since T-Mobile announced this weekend that it would…

Of Course This Stunning Building Is an Aquarium

Blue Planet Aquarium is the most aquarium-like aquarium you’ve ever seen. Cloaked in aluminum shingles that evoke fish scales, it’s shaped like an ocean wave. Located on a waterfront in Copenhagen, Blue Planet just recently opened up to the public. It’s now the largest aquarium in Europe, housing more than 450 species of fish and…

Fighter Jet Lamp Carpet Bombs Any Room With Light

Packing what appears to be a couple of bombs capable of wiping out a small city, this fighter jet-themed pendant light will hang from the ceiling and provide air superiority—and soft illumination—to any room. It requires six 40 watt bulbs in total—installed inside and outside the frosted fuselage and bombs—and when compared to the hundreds…

Why Paid Email Will Never Beat Gmail

Much has been said over the demise of Google Reader and what it should mean to users. A popular position advocated by many tech bloggers is that you should pay for services rather than trust your data to companies offering services for free. They argue that paying for services will give you more control over…

This Man Crafts Some of the Most Intricate Ship-In-a-Bottle Dioramas You’ve Ever Seen

Throughout his entire life, Ray Gascoigne had a connection with the sea. He’s worked as a shipwright, a sailor, and now that he’s retired he still spends his days working on boats—just on a smaller scale. When it comes to the ship-in-a-bottle, Ray is a master craftsman who makes designing tiny boats that can slip…

We All Want To Live In Monaco’s Odeon Tower, But We’re All Too Poor

Holy crap, look at the Odeon Tower, a slick new skyscraper in Monaco set to be completed in summer 2014. But good luck affording a unit—the place is expected to be the most expensive building per square meter in the world. Dreamed up by architect Alexander Giraldi in a style inspired by belle epoque design…

A Beautiful Minimalist High Chair Your Baby Won’t Outgrow

Not only do you have to buy a bunch of new furniture when a baby arrives, you have to keep re-buying it as they get older and larger. Except for the wooden Froc chair that cleverly transforms from a high chair to a regular old seat to accomodate kids of all ages. Of course, once…

Humongous 55-Inch Windows 8 Touchscreen Computer Is a Wonderful Thing That Exists in the World

How great is this? 55 inches of touchscreen magic for a classroom or a Wolf Blitzer or a droll, droll conference room. Sure, it’s $5,000, and sure, it’s “only” 1080p, but WHATEVER. This is great. Other than being gigantic, the InFocus BigTouch is basically a regular computer. It’s got a Core i5, a 120GB SSD,…

The Bay Bridge’s Crazy Light Show Has an Illuminating Documentary

Whether you think it’s a fantastic expression of creativity, or a horrible waste of money, for the next two years San Francisco’s Bay Bridge will be illuminated every night with 25,000 animated white LEDs. And that like all large-scale projects, there’s a fascinating story behind it. The folks behind the light installation actually raised $8.2…