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How are you feeling today? Happy? Heartbroken? Like you’re about to punch someone? We can’t fix it, but Nick Cave’s new Spotify app can help in the tunes department. What does it do? Choose a feeling and it generates a playlist of Nick Cave tunes, based on the moods they reflect. Why do we like…
A company called UD Replicas—known for making bike leathers based off movie costumes—has brought to life one of Batman’s more obscure accessories from the recent Christian Bale films. First seen in The Dark Knight while Batman stands atop a skyscraper in Hong Kong, Batman’s backpack can now be yours for about $300. Crafted from leather,…
The new Kendall Bluetooth speaker from Furni looks just like a sleek 60s sound system. Isn’t it purty? Honestly, why would you want some garish new plastic thing, when you could buy something understated and beautiful like this? It has a solid walnut case with a laser etched grill that hides 2 x 5 watt…
Simply re-organizing a room is the easiest—and cheapest—way to give it a fresh look. And the same applies to this Babele layered wooden lamp created by a studio calling themselves Manifattura Italiana Design, or MID for short. Like a glowing version of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, the central support of the Babele lamp lights…
When I see a fire hydrant, I selfishly hate it because it hogs a perfectly good parking spot. When I see an exploded fire hydrant, I absolutely love it because it’s the urban sign for summer. When I see the schematics behind an early 20th century fire hydrant? I’m in awe of how beautiful the…
Did you think a 420-square-foot apartment sounded impossible to live in? Try 240-square-feet. Somehow, New York City architect Tim Seggerman renovated an Upper West Side space to make that postage stamp-sized space feel like work like magic. And he even made room for a washing machine! https://gizmodo.com/the-tiny-transforming-apartment-that-packs-eight-rooms-5967622 Seggerman started with a one-room studio that was…
You can now reply or archive Gmail messages straight from notifications on your Android device running OS 4.1 or higher.
You don’t usually see kitchen gadget makers falling back on blatant sexuality to sell their products. But after watching this oddly seductive promotional video Savora created for its recently released garlic press, maybe more companies hawking kitchenware should consider this approach. For some reason, I just ordered 10 of these. The $30 glass, plastic, and…
Because there can never be too many Steve Jobs biopics coming out at essentially the exact same time, we now have a third feature-length film to add to the czar of Apple’s roster. Unlike the others, though, this one took considerably less time to complete. So in a mere matter of weeks, Funny or Die…
Today’s Best Buy deal is one to pick up: it’s offering $100 iTunes gift cards for $80. Shipping’s free too. The card works like any other iTunes gift card: you can redeem it for music, apps, movies, or whatever, all at 20% off. So instead of monitoring the app deals or digital media deals in…
Guaranteed, your tub is nothing compared to the Oveflow Bathtubs. You might not be dirty, but after gazing at these new sunken whirlpools from Käsch, it’s totally natural to want to spend the rest of your day soaking until your toes shrivel. Water drips into the pools in the line from a nice little fountain.…
By now you’ve heard that our special is airing tonight on BBC America after the season finale of Top Gear UK. If you haven’t, please see this, this and this. Oh, and this. Now, to make things easier for you and everyone else you’re going to share this link with, we’ve started a handy guide…
Believe it or not, artist and wood-savant Paul Grundbacher doesn’t draw up a rough schematic or do any kind of planning before he starts building his amazing marble machines. He just dives right in, crafting the components he needs out of maple, ash, and linden wood. That approach also means he spends a lot of…
Face it, you’re no mountaineer. Unless you are, in which case congrats. But for the rest of us, there’ll be no mountain-top revelations to make our souls take flight. Not in real life anyway. But Google Map’s new summit shots are the next best thing. Google’s Dan Fredinburg, program manager and mountaineer, lead Google Mountain…
Like it or not, Facebook is a pretty good barometer if what people like. So it’s fun when it gathers up its considerable data troves and spits out maps of stuff we like. Today it broke down the fans of teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The data uses simple Likes for the team…
A lot of people wrote T-Mobile off when its big merger with AT&T fell through last year. The pink carrier had no iPhone, no 4G. But with yesterday’s announcement of the company’s official LTE rollout, it may have just put itself in a position to offer something no one else can. For the past few…
Your feet in a front of a sunset. Your feet sprawled on a grassy knoll. Your feet surrounded by cats. Whatever the situation, Instagram’s about giving your friends and admirers a chance to peer through sepia-colored glasses at the fun and exciting life of your feet. But photographer Joe McNally may have just taken the…
BlackBerry 10 is here at last and so, of course, there’s another BlackBerry-tastic music video from VP of Developer Relations, Alec Saunders. Now that BlackBerry’s actually delivered on those promises from the first song, you can’t fault ’em for wanting to take a victory lap, even if it’s really hard to watch. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-rim-is-going-down-5946253 You gotta…
I’ve never wanted an iPhone in different colors. Black with a tint of gloss or white with a silver lining has always been plenty enough. But then I saw these renders of what an iPhone in different colors would look like and man, a red iPhone looks like so much fun. People want choices! People…
Add it to your calendar. Set an alarm. Set a reminder using this thing the kids told me about called Facebook. Tie a string around your finger, ask your mom to remind you, write it on your arm, whatever—just tune in tonight! Tonight! Join us for the premiere of Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, our all-new…
