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This Is Where Dysons Are Born

Dyson makes some of the prettiest vacuums, hand-driers, and air blower/suckers out there, so it should come as no surprise that the factory where they are born is as mesmerizing as its products. A new video from the Dyson team gives a little glimpse into the calculated insanity of swirling arms that puts Dysons together.…

Samsung Apologizes for Fatal Acid Leak in Factory

Samsung has officially apologized for a leak of Hydrofluoric acid in a Korean plant in January. The leak killed one worker, and injured four others. Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun told Yonhap News Agency, “We plan to overhaul the system in a bid to better make environmentally-friendly workplaces.” Unlike many other working condition misfortunes,…

Bring the Drive-Thru to Your Kitchen with this Instant Breakfast Sandwich Tower

Breakfast sandwiches are one of the best ways you can start the day (taste-wise, at least). But they tend to be logistically difficult. Either you’ve got to take the time to carefully assemble one, or pay some scruffy, minimum-wage employee to make one for you. Hamilton Beach’s Breakfast Sandwich Maker merges the best of both…

Two Distant Worlds: The Venus Shines Through The Rings Of Saturn

European Space Agency and NASA just released this stunning photo of our planetary neighbour made by Cassini last November when the spacecraft was placed in the shadow of Saturn. This allowed Cassini to look in the direction of the Sun and take a backlit image of the planet and its rings. That bright dot peeking…

Hold On Tight, Gizmodo Is a TV Show Now

If we made a Top Gear for gadgets, would you watch it? In two weeks, you’ll have your chance. Nearly ten years ago, when I first ran Gizmodo, gadgets were as niche of a topic for news and debate as could be. It was such an insider’s topic, in fact, that all it took for…

Canon Built An Image Sensor That Sees In the Dark

The one thing we always wish our cameras did better is take better pictures in low light. It looks like Canon is attacking the problem guns a’blazing, because its new 35mm image sensor spits in the face of darkness. Before we say more, you should know that this technology isn’t likely to turn up in…

How Your Smartphone Will Get Lytro-Like Superpowers

As neat as they are, the Lytro camera’s re-focusing tricks aren’t going to convince most of us to replace our highly pocketable cameraphones. So a California company called DigitalOptics has found a way to give us the best of both worlds with a new ultra-thin sensor that promises Lytro-like tricks. Instead of employing clever ‘light…

Google Has a Hip-Hop Sensation Working in Its New York Office, and This Is His Google Song

Andrew Fink is a New York-based Google drone by day, and an unsigned hip-hop artist from Baltimore by night. Today is his 25th birthday, and he just collapsed that Jekyll and Hyde existence into a music video. “Welcome to Google” is filmed in the company’s offices, but the rhymes are all Fink’s. We’re speechless. I…

A Giant iPhone Will Look Stunning

If you shut your eyes and listen closely, you’ll hear the clop-clop of the inevitable: an iPhone that keeps getting bigger and bigger. And as much as we generally hate phablets, if an iPhone Plus looked like this, we’d melt. Gizmodo reader Martin Hajek put together these gorgeous renders for Nowhereelese.fr, which imagine the iPhone…

Intelligent Tires Will Automatically Weigh Your Vehicle So You Never Overpack Again

Continental already sells tires packed with monitors that keep tabs on air pressure, automatically letting you know when it gets too low. But the company is planning to expand that technology with improved tire sensors that will actually be able to calculate and report the current load weight of your vehicle so you don’t exceed…

Got a Galaxy Note II? Ne’er-do-wells can use this trick to peek past your lockscreen for a second, but not much else.

An Even Better Oreo Separating Machine Blasts Hot Creme In Your Mouth

The world thought it had seen it all when physicist David Neevel’s Oreo-separating machine was revealed. But, Nabisco’s Cookie vs. Creme campaign is inspiring inventors from all over the country to come up with their own machines. Including Barry Kudrowitz and Bill Fienup, a pair of toy scientists from Minnesota who created a convenient auto-feeding…

Rethinking the New Yahoo Homepage

When was the last time you ever checked out Yahoo.com? It’s been a while, right? I’m sure by now you’ve at least typed that url in once to check out the new homepage design. How long did you stay and check it out? Probably not long at all. You see, Yahoo! needs to do a…

This Is Not a Painting

This beautiful orange swirl looks like it could be an oil painting—but it is in fact a low pressure system currently floating above the Southern Ocean, just west of Australia. The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra Satellite just yesterday. The orange hues are actually false color—MODIS detects…

No, the iWatch Isn’t Definitely Coming This Year

There are headlines this morning, in abundance, that an Apple iWatch will be coming in 2013. They are declarative. They are definitive. They are wrong. The iWatch might be coming this year, or might come in 2015, or it might not come at all. And nothing in this Bloomberg report changes that. Here’s what Bloomberg…

This Bluetooth Controller Is Fluent in Wii, Wii U, and Android

When you tire of all the fancy motion controls and just want to enjoy some classic button-mashing gameplay on your Wii or Wii U, consider this wireless controller—particularly if you’re an Android gamer too. In addition to playing well with Nintendo’s hardware, this gamepad also cozies up to your smartphone or tablet. The $40 controller…

Good news, iMac buyers: Apple has ironed out supply issues, so they’re now shipping in 1–3 days rather than 2-3 weeks.

Supposed Galaxy S4 Spec List Suggests Eight-Core Processor

Someone who claims to be in possession of a Galaxy S4 prototype decided it would be fun to benchmark it, giving us a look at how the phone might, possibly, perform and what might be inside Samsung’s next Android flagship. The Antutu benchmark test reports that the S4 is powered by Samsung’s own Exynos 5410…

Microsoft Might Owe Denmark More Than $1 Billion in Unpaid Tax

A new report by Denmark’s national broadcasting corporation, DR, suggests that Microsoft owes the country over $1 billion in unpaid tax. The report claims that Ballmer and co owe the Danish Treasury a total of 5.8 billion kroner, a hangover from the 2002 acquisition of Danish financial software company Navision. The OS giant sold rights…

How Word Processors Changed The Novel

Back in the 60s, novelists hired personal assistants to type and retype chapter drafts for their books, dozens of times over. When a technician at IBM heard about it in 1968, he decided to see if the word processor he’d been working on might help. Slate has a wonderful feature about how novelist Len Deighton…