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Though it’s growing incredibly rare to find occasions to wear tuxedos, it’s also growing incredibly common to pop bottle of champagnes when one wears a tuxedo. But though champagne and tuxedos get along swimmingly, champagne on tuxedo is not as nice a combo. That’s why Proof NY decided to make a techy tuxedo that can…
NYU recently sent out a seemingly innocuous e-mail to all of its students asking them to opt for paperless forms. People in college get those kinds of e-mails all the time! But when one student decided to ask his mom if he should enable the paperless forms, he accidentally triggered a method that allowed him…
Our readers are pretty spectacular. And on days like today, a couple were particularly on fire, with a few awesome jokes. Here’s a clever response to the guy behind the Apple Maps debacle getting canned: https://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-apple-fires-guy-responsible-for-crappy-apple-5963651 Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Richard! That’s not the door! Rich… Richard! For the…
Need an immersion blender for a recipe? Or maybe you need a drill to hang a few things around the house? Don’t worry about buying those things when there’s an app that makes it fairly easy to find them for free. What does it do? Request the items you’d like to have, and post the…
There’s a Google Mail feature you have to use. Seriously. You must. Because copying an entire chain of messages after your reply doesn’t make any sense when people can scroll down to see all the messages, chained one after the other. What makes sense is to only provide the snippet that you are actually replying…
It’s a sad day for the once thriving bookend industry. Already reeling from the fact that consumers are buying less and less printed books every year, suddenly this brilliant angled shelf comes along and does away with the need for bookends altogether. The Lean bookshelf’s symmetrical design angles downwards on both sides so it’s virtually…
This is so totally epic. Go to QSView.com and start typing in an address, place name, or location. The site will automagically go to the address it predicts you’re thinking of, complete with Google Street View images. Amazing, right? I just lost myself on this site typing in random places. And then as it autocompleted,…
Whether you’re sick of looking at the same silver letters on your keyboard every day or you’re just a fan of an all-natural look, Lazerwood’s keys for your Mac are pretty awesome. They’re a typing makeover for the Mac keyboard in walnut or cherry for $40-$45, and they’re going to make your keys slightly taller.…
Microsoft has sold 40 million copies of Windows 8 so far—faster than Windows 7 did out of the gate. [Microsoft]
Nerf’s miniature basketball hoop changed indoor sports forever when it was introduced in the 1970s. But Franklin is revolutionizing lazy athletics once again with the Shoot Again Hoop that automatically returns a shot, apparently at cannonball speeds, so you never even have to get out of bed. The product shot makes it look like the…
Today in things that will never happen, Republican Representative Darrell Issa has proposed a new bill called the Internet American Moratorium Act (IAMA) that would put a stop to any internet-related lawmaking for the next two years. By the way, the bill was proposed on Reddit. And by the way, this is never going to…
The iPhone 5 isn’t the biggest or fastest, but it’s held up to physical standards of perfection that make the immaculate womb of Mary look like amateur hour. The phone is supposed to be a consummate beauty. But after two months of constant use, it’s already showing wear and tear. Scratch-phobes, beware. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-impossible-design-comes-at-a-very-real-pr-5949429 Below are…
There’s now an official Outlook.com app for Android 2.x and up devices.
The tiny corner of the internet where folks parse and discuss deals seemed a bit tired this morning. Makes sense—everyone’s still recovering from the deluge of bargains and sales from Cyber Monday. There are a bunch of prices still on the internet which unscrupulous retailers jacked up for Cyber Monday so their coupon codes and…
Nexus devices are finally starting to receive Android 4.2.1 — along with the month of December.
Good news Gmailers with outsized attachments; you can now append files up to 10GB through Google Drive. Load ’em up!
Why is the International Olympic Committee wasting its time on introducing new events like Kitesurfing at the 2016 games in Rio when any sport played on this 170-foot long trampoline would be far more entertaining to watch? Created by Salto, a Russian Estonian architecture firm, the Archstoyanie art festival installation looks like just about as…
Some Shooting Challenges are crazy-popular, others, usually falling over the holidays, are eerily quiet. So this week, for our Rockwell remake results, we’re going to highlight our favorite of a small bunch, by Andrew Drozd. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-the-full-rockwell-5962146 I am a graphic design teacher at the Academy of Urban Planning, a public high school in the Bushwick…
Die-hard first person shooter fans might swear by the accuracy and precision of their PC keyboards. But those digital keys don’t provide as much finesse as the analog joysticks on console controllers. So Ben Heck levels the playing field with this analog keyboard hack. Using a sacrificed Xbox 360 controller and a few other components,…
The world hated his creation, and now Apple is giving him the boot: Bloomberg News reports Apple exec Richard Williamson, the name behind the ill-fated, Internet-ridiculed Apple Maps just got fired. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-3d-maps-are-an-apocalyptic-horror-show-5944672 The canning comes just after the ouster of Scott Forstall, another high profile Apple figure whose name was unfortunately associated with many of…
