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This could really be happening. Just weeks after a baby girl was functionally cured of the HIV virus, early treatment has been found to put HIV into seemingly permanent remission in 14 adults. It’s breathtaking progress in the fight against HIV. https://gizmodo.com/a-baby-has-been-cured-of-hiv-5988205 The 14 patients were part of a group of 70 examined at the…
With an endless supply of streaming media at our fingertips, who in their right mind would spend money on a radio these days? That’s probably the same question Lexon’s designers were asking themselves, just before they came up with the stunning design for the company’s Flow FM radio. Yep, you read that right. The Flow…
We can’t get enough of these tiny but impressive robot gymnasts who flip through the air and stick their landings. We’re probably only seeing the one time it lands upright in about 100 attempts, but who cares? They’re only going to get better and better. And one day the summer Olympics might actually be worth…
Turns out, sitting hunched over a desk for eight hours a day isn’t all that great for a kid’s posture, and the spinal contortions needed to lean over a flat desk certainly do nothing for a student’s ability to focus on the day’s lessons. However, this rolling chair from Dublin-based industrial design firm Perch aims…
Always be nice, and cool. That’s the motto around here. But sometimes you just want to make someone wildly uncomfortable. Or maybe you want to avoid social nightmare! Either way, here is some sacred social media advice. Heed or perish. It’s customary, when courting a potential sexual partner or vetting an employee, to go through…
Microsoft Office — y’know, Word, Excel, Powerpoint et al. — is the software that work happens on. You’ve most likely used it before. Well, there are big changes afoot in Microsoft Land: you don’t buy the newest version of Microsoft Office, you rent it. That means monthly or yearly fees. Sure, the cloud aspects of…
Everybody always imagines the future looking way cooler than it actually does. The Los Angeles Times just re-proved the point by republishing a 1988 issue in which it made a slew of guesses about 2013. Some of them were right, but unfortunately cars still don’t look that cool. The issue is chock full of general…
The makers of the Mighty Mug claim their mugs and travel cups are completely untoppleable. In fact, that’s the basis of the company’s entire marketing strategy. So you have to wonder what its backup plan is now that Kathy Lee Gifford has completely undermined its claims. Some kind of untoppleable toaster perhaps? Sold! [Boing Boing]
Even though giant ocean-going freighters are able to float atop the waves, were your home ever to flood you probably wouldn’t be able to take refuge in this 3,500 pound stone bathtub boat from Antonio Lupi. But that’s ok, because if you blew your decorating budget on a $75,000 bathtub, the rest of your home…
Reports have surfaced that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will announce an expansion of the United States’ west coast missile defenses in response to a perceived threat from North Korea. The move is a response to recent North Korean missile tests. This is mostly public relations. As we know, North Korean missiles have the range,…
Mailbox, the iOS mail app that caused quite the splash when it burst on the scene with 250,000 users ready and waiting, has just been acquired by Dropbox. The announcement comes by way of a Dropbox blog post, in which Dropbox says it was impressed by how Mailbox actually delivered on its promise to simplify…
The early criticism of Google Glass—that it’s for assholes, that it will lead to a dystopian Panopticon nightmare—is mostly well-founded. But what everyone has glossed over in their opening salvos is, I think, the most immediate and obvious problem Google Glass will precipitate: Once these things stop being a rich-guy novelty and start actually hitting…
In an effort to further differentiate their high-end products, luxury watchmakers are continuing to move farther away from precious metals and jewels, and focusing more on wacky novelty features. So instead of just chiming at the top of every hour, Ulysse Nardin’s Stranger watch plays Frank Sinatra’s 1966 hit Strangers In the Night on a…
Funny story. When we were dreaming up tests for Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, our upcoming special on BBC America (Monday at 10:20/9:30c!), I wanted to test noise-cancelling Bluetooth earpieces by strapping the hosts to the front of a moving train. I was told that would be “too dangerous.” https://gizmodo.com/how-to-watch-or-record-gizmodo-tv-5991137 Then I got out to California…
There’s often beauty to be found in simplicity, and these playing cards are a great reminder of that. Called EZC—for obvious reasons—these cards are beautifully bold and crystal clear. They were originally designed for the visually impaired, but their clarity—bought about by striking use of color and a strong san-serif type—make them a delight for…
We already know why all plants appear green: it’s because they’re full of the light-absorbing chemical known as chlorophyll. But since they appears green—bouncing back green and yellow light waves—it means it’s not 100 percent efficient at absorbing all of the sun’s rays. So why aren’t all plants black instead? It turns out that scientists…
The Internet is jam-packed with images for the taking, but thanks to pesky copyrights, you aren’t allowed to use most of them. The Los Angeles Community Museum of Art just put a bunch in the pile you can use, Twenty thousand, to be exact. The LACMA has been offering free, hi-res downloads of some of…
Enjoying a nice, refreshing Red Bull as your morning pick-me-up? Swallow now. Because apparently, your energy drink of choice has found itself the victim of some good, old-fashioned poop extortion. For the last several weeks, the fecal-minded perpetrators have, according to Red Bull, been threatening to replace untainted cans in supermarkets with their own shadooby-stained…
Can you build a potato gun that’s faster than a Dodge Viper? Jalopnik and the Gizmodo TV show figured it out.
