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If you thought Disneyland’s Hall of Presidents was awesome before, imagine how great it would be if you could play catch with Abraham Lincoln or Richard Nixon? That’s seemingly the goal behind this latest engineering—err, imagineering—breakthrough that let will let the park’s non-human characters now interact with guests. Using external cameras on a Kinect-like sensor,…
I just started yelling about license limits on Kindle books in Gizmodo’s chatroom… until someone reminded me that I have like 15 registered devices on my account (not counting the ones someone else has activated since, which get wiped out). Although I guess it could be worse—it could be Brent’s Google Play registration page. But…
When Evernote pushed out Skitch version 2.0, a lot of users were pissed that some of the screenshot app’s popular features had been pared down. Two months later, many old-school Skitch users are refusing to come back, so Skitch co-founder and chief designer Keith Lang has posted an admission that Skitch really screwed up. When…
Tomorrow, you could spend six hours cooking a stuffed 18-pound turkey for a bunch of ungrateful family members. Ugh but so much waiting—not to mention the tedious preparation. Instead, spend considerably less time on following the step-by-step instructions for this 102-piece Lego build just posted by international man of bricks Chris McVeigh. Just, you know,…
Billion, with a B. An email to every single one of its users—so actually a little over a billion at this point. In other words, one seventh of the entire Earth’s population is getting hit with one message. The blast—the largest email dispatch Facebook has ever sent out in its history, and certainly one of…
In a triumphant victory for the producers of Hoarders, the city of San Francisco gave developers the go-ahead on Tuesday to enter a trial run of 375 “micro-apartments.” At 220-square-feet, these Lilliputian dream homes were planned with the utmost efficiency in mind — space-saving hydraulic furniture, included — in order to follow the Board’s stipulations:…
Sparrow for iPhone just got iPhone 5 support and can send Passbook files right to the Passbook app. [Sparrow]
This fascinating timepiece, dubbed the Quarderdeck Striker, is an electromechanical marvel designed and hand-built by John Hilgenberg, inventor of the air-driven Pneumachron. It is a mechanical clock at heart—just look at all the wooden gears—but its functionality is supplemented with electric servos that drive the rolling odometer time display, the power-maintaining winding mechanism (which Hilgenberg…
Sony is trying to sell their new Nex e-mount camera by telling most DSLR users that they are dumb and stupid and clueless. According to their data, two thirds of all DSLRs users never take their camera out of the full-auto mode. And almost three quarters admit they purchased it “for fun” and “family snapshots.”…
Are you tired of getting drunk on wine during dinner and then spending the rest of the evening trying to keep your balance and not spilling your libations everywhere? Well there’s now a simple solution to that problem that doesn’t require 12 time-consuming steps. These $15 Vino2Go wine glasses look like sophisticated stemwear, but are…
Wicked Lasers’ $200 torch beams out 4100 lumens of blinding light. That’s very intense light! From the video above, it would appear six of the flashlights can cook a whole turkey in about 2.5 hours. Considering a turkey takes 20-minutes a pound in the oven, that’s incredible! In fact, it’s actually kind of unbelievable, so…
There’s no better topping for a green bean casserole than crispy fried onions. But when you’re serving up a matherole, you need something more cerebral as a garnish. And Vihart has just the thing with a recipe for borromean onion rings. https://gizmodo.com/a-green-bean-matherole-sounds-deliciously-educational-5962105 Each serving is like three onion rings in one, but the mathematical magic…
The Onion’s TED parody series rolls on, with what may be the best—and most scathing—round yet. The target this time? Social media, a joyous place where ideas are a waste of time, and talent is irrelevant. https://gizmodo.com/the-onion-s-ted-talk-parodies-keep-getting-better-and-5956248 Sounds about right to us. Oh by the way, could you be a doll and share this on…
The Roomba’s autonomous cleaning routines changed vacuuming forever since it could be just left to run and eventually would clean almost every inch of your home. But its pseudo-random approach takes a while to be effective, so Sharp’s new Cocorobo line lets you map out a room and plan a custom route for more efficient…
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Sadly, Thanksgiving comes but once a year. Which means all that amazing food you’re about to encounter is but a fleeting experience. You want to get the most out of it, but you can only eat so much, right? What if you could eat more? Nobody is better at eating more—a lot more—than professional eaters.…
For people who are obsessed with music—no matter what kind—the gear they use to listen to hot tunes is sacred. Good headphones, speakers, and accessories make a big difference when it comes to sound quality. And that stuff doesn’t have to cost a fortune! Here’s a batch of Giz-approved gear for your audiophile friends and…
The Verge reports that Microsoft will release a set-top box next year alongside its next generation Xbox. The “Xbox TV” will deliver the popular Xbox Live streaming entertainment services currently available on the Xbox as well as some basic gaming. In other words, it’ll bring you Netflix and Angry Birds but not Call of Duty.…
Univision comes to Xbox with the new UVideos app. Novelas whenever you want? Sobresaliente!
The most important part of your Thanksgiving meal is the bird. It’s the centerpiece of every Turkey-day related piece of pop culture from Norman Rockwell illustrations to Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. But just because it’s traditional, doesn’t mean the way you prepare it has to be. Here are seven totally techie ways to get your delicious…
