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Would You Drink a Cup of Death Wish Coffee That Has Twice the Caffeine of Normal Coffee?

Here’s something super bitter for you coffee fiends: Death Wish Coffee. It’s the world’s strongest coffee because it has 200% more caffeine than your normal cup of joe. That’s, um, a lot of caffeine in one drink. But then again, for those who pour multiple brews down your throat every morning it shouldn’t be a…

What the Next Google Play Redesign Is Probably Going to Look Like

If you’ve been itching for a redesigned Google Play on your Android phones, it’s apparently been leaked. Droid Life managed to get their hands on what looks like Google Play 4.0 and everything is brighter with bigger pictures. It’s nice looking! However much of the page layout has stayed the same. The redesign is a…

Watch a Laser Light Glass Bottles on Fire

The idea behind this video is pretty simple, it’s a laser igniting black flash paper to spark fire inside a bottle. But the execution of it is just mesmerizing. The Wicked Laser 100mW Spyder III Krypton burns through the paper in a pyro domino effect and the flame just explodes inside the bottle. You get…

Aladdin Killers: Conversation with Intellectuals

The groove is strong in this one. The latest music video from Polish musical quartet, Aladin Killers, Conversation with Intellectuals is equal parts funk, jazz, and hip-hop with a sound very reminiscent of The Beastie Boys’ The In Sound From Way Out! from 1996. Unfortunately, I have yet to find it for sale online. [FB]

Facebook for iOS Is Testing an Obnoxious New Feature That Harasses You Until You Update

Facebook is notorious for testing all sorts of wild and crazy ideas before implementing them site wide—assuming they ever even make it that far. So for the sake of everyone’s sanity, we hope that this newest venture will soon make its way to The Graveyard of Horrible Facebook Features Past and join the others. Because…

Picturelife: Protect Your Precious Pics

Losing photos is a heartbreaking tragedy that you never have to suffer through again, thanks to Picturelife. What does it do? Backs up your photos from your computer, iPad, iPhone, and various online accounts. Automatically organizes them based on criteria like date or location. Why do we like it? You might have photos dispersed on…

New NetNewsWire apps are finally coming, and Black Pixel’s also working on a sync fix after Google Reader’s demise.

Jetblue’s New Fly-Fi Brings More Wi-Fi to the Sky-Fi

There’s nothing quite as magical as surfing the Interwebs from cruising altitude, and now you can add JetBlue to the list of airlines that will let you do it. A few years behind everyone else, mind you. The company’s new, punny service “Fly-Fi” will be showing up in planes later this year. So far details…

The Compact Chopsticks: You’ll Never Dine Unprepared Again

Forks are for amateurs; if you’re going to eat you’re going to work for it, dammit—enter the chopstick. But all those splinter-laden, wooden eating-twigs don’t come without a price, you tree killer. The Compact Chopsticks, however, will let your live your life environmentally friendly and fork-free. Just like God intended. Half stainless steel and half…

Google’s Note-Taking Service Keep Is Live, And It’s Wonderful

Google Keep is live. You can go check out Google’s answer to Evernote at http://drive.google.com/keep. Google officially announced the note-taking product some time ago, and after it cropped up briefly over the weekend, Google Keep is now really truly officially a real thing on the Internet that you can use. Oh, and it looks terrific.…

Sony A99 Review: At Long Last a Real Flagship DSLR From Sony

Sony cameras have come a long way over the last few years—to the point that they’re competitive with the twin monoliths of Canon and Nikon. The company has accomplished this feat by making gear that’s different from other stuff out there. Until now, that success has been limited to point-and-shoots like the RX100 and the…

The official Twitter app for Windows 8 is now available for download. [Windows Store]

Watch This Lego Lathe Carve Any Contour Sketched On Paper

If Lego ever decides to build an industrial version of its building toy, there are countless designs outline that would let anyone build their own workshop. Even a computer-guided lathe, thanks to Arthur Sacek’s latest creation that can turn a chunk of foam into a curvaceous creation based on nothing more than an outline sketched…

These Otterbox iPhone Cases Are Your Deal of the Day

Most of us at Gizmodo like our phones naked, but if you decide you need a case, we’ll try not to judge. After all, a cracked iPhone screen is a huge pain in the ass. Not only are you going to have to spend about $100 to fix it, but you’ll have to find a…

How Many Tetris Pieces Would You Need To Build a House?

It was the game that defined a revolution in handheld gaming, but during the countless hours you spent playing Tetris and neatly organizing falling tetrominoes, did you ever stop and wonder how many of those pieces you’d need to build a full-size house? Probably not, after all what kid spends their time imagining about home…

Jeff Bezos Has Rescued the Apollo 11 Rockets From the Ocean Floor

Ever since July 16, 1969, the rockets that pushed Apollo 11 into the atmosphere—and mankind to the moon—have been laying at bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Jeff Bezos has been keen to get them back, and now, thanks to his hard work and vast fortune of book money, they’re seeing the light of day for…

I Went To a Samsung Event and All I Got Was This Incredible Eli Manning GIF

Today Samsung hosted an event at the American Museum of Finance. It announced pricing on some stuff they’d already announced and blah blah blah showed off smart TVs we saw two months ago at CES. But more importantly they had some special guests: Supermodel/professional breast-haver Kate Upton, brother of Peyton Manning Eli Manning, and Flo…

The Insane One-Man Computer Station It Takes to Cover Every Single March Madness Game

When March Madness kicks off tomorrow at noon Eastern time, thousands of sports fans across the country will be suddenly stricken with sore throats, coughs, or other excuses to ditch work and find a place to watch one or more of the 16 college basketball games that will tip off. I’m fortunate to have a…

Some Law Of the Universe Is Being Broken When This Chair and Stool Stack

There’s a recent trend in furniture with pieces that defy the impossible and by all logic shouldn’t exist. First it was that mind-melting distorted storage unit, and now we have Dave Ritinger’s chair and stool Mate set that somehow stack into a single piece. https://gizmodo.com/dont-refresh-your-browser-this-distorted-storage-unit-5990551 When separated, the chair and stool—built from reclaimed wood scraps…

Get New Music, Intentionally Ignore Everything Else Going on Around You

Want to drown out your roommate as he bellows “we are yoooooooung” from the shower, or as he sobs loudly into his pillow because him and his girlfriend are “never, ever, ever getting back together?” Simply take the short survey below, and you could win $150 worth of new music from the iTunes store —…