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Jellyfish-Inspired Microchip Captures Cancer Cells

The mesmerizing movements of jellyfish have inspired researchers to design all sorts of things, from mechatronic jellyfish that function as autonomous robots to artificial jellyfish built from rat cells and silicone. Now scientists have built a jellyfish-inspired microchip that can capture cancer and other rare cells in human blood. A jellyfish captures floating food particles…

Apartment Hunting Is the Worst Thing, But iOS App Lovely Eases the Pain

No matter how you look at it, apartment hunting sucks. You could just drink your way through it or you could manage with Lovely, a new apartment search app. Oh, and you can still drink. When you’re looking for a new place to live, you probably typically search Craigslist or Trulia or something similar, but…

Camera Bag Six-Shooter Provides Easy Lens Access

Not only is Kata’s Revolver 8 backpack a safe place to carry your camera gear when traveling, it’s just as useful in the thick of things when you’re snapping away and need quick access to your lenses. Up to five lenses can be stashed inside a rotating barrel, making it easy to grab just the…

How to Fix Your iPhone 5’s Crappy Wi-Fi

The iPhone 5 is pretty good, and for most folks, its Wi-Fi is actually very good. It was in our tests. But a lot of people have been reporting in that the Wi-Fi is actually awful, and can’t hold a signal at all. This should fix that right up for you. First off, this isn’t…

NASA’s Beautiful Climate Picture Makes You Forget Extreme Weather Is Possible

The world is utterly beautiful, especially when seen through the lens of picture of global aerosols—the solid and liquid particles that float around in our atmosphere. You’re familiar with dust, but what do it and all the other floating bits look like from the heavens? We notice these particles when they scatter and absorb sunlight.…

Samsung Ativ Smart PC 500T: Don’t Expect Any Miracles

Samsung’s Ativ Smart PC tablet is supposed to be a tablet-sized tablet that can run all of your desktop apps. It is all that, sort of. But it’s also a mix of things that are impressive, tolerable, and totally unacceptable—sometimes all at once. Let’s get this out of the way first: The Ativ is less…

7 Deadly Crazy (But Fun!) Urban Ideas

Robert Rickhoff. You are a cruel bastard but I love you. Your sick Photoshop manipulations—from the slide that ends on a street to the half-pipe across a road to the volleyball court in a highway—are all great ideas. Keep them coming! [Robert Trickhoff—Thanks Karl!]

Expedia: Book Hotels and Flights in One App

It’s fun to dream about where you want to travel next, but it’s even better to actually go on a trip. There’s a lot of planning that goes into a vacation—flights, hotels, cars, reservations, etc.—and now you can take care of at least two of those in Expedia’s new app. What does it do? Lets…

Pinterest just added simplified business accounts. OH GOD NO PINTEREST MIGHT SUCCUMB TO CONSUMERISM, he snarked.

A Highly Scientific, Medically Detailed Discussion of Why Men Get Morning Wood

Yeah, you’ve woken up with it, or been woken up by it. But despite what you might think, morning wood isn’t caused by dirty, sexy dreams. It’s actually just nature’s way of protecting your penis. While in REM sleep, your body turns off some neurotransmitters to regulate body functions. And one of those neurotransmitters, Norepinephrine,…

Israel Announces War Campaign via Twitter (Updated)

We’ve seen NATO bicker with the Taliban, and even had Libyan rebels call in airstrikes in under 140 characters, but this has to be a first: Israel’s announced its latest military offensive with a single tweet. https://gizmodo.com/nato-and-taliban-engage-in-harrowing-twitter-pissing-ma-5840595 After blowing up a car carrying Hamas bigwig Ahmed Al-Jabari, Israel told the world the attack is part…

Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch

You might not have ever heard of Misfit Wearables but you’ll want to pay attention starting now that its first gadget has made its debut. Founded by Agamatrix founders Sonny Vu and Sridhar Iyengar, the Redwood City-based company also credits former sugar water peddler and Apple CEO John Sculley as a co-founder. And its backed…

Win a $150 Gift Card to Best Buy, Upgrade Your Man Cave

Or your lady cave. Take the equal-opportunity, one-question survey located down below, and you could win a $150 gift certificate to Best Buy. Just email the last question to [email protected] with “Best Buy Gift Card Contest” as the subject line. You could get new speakers, or a TV, and finally have the “alone time space”…

Iran’s “New” Hovercraft May or May Not Have Been Built in the 1970s

Coinciding with the start of its massive Velayat 4 air-defense maneuvers and amid rising tensions over its nuclear program, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi unveiled Iran’s newest weapon on Monday—a recon drone-launching, missile-firing, all-terrain-travelling hovercraft. One that looks suspiciously just like the ones they bought from the UK decades ago. Dubbed the Tondar (or, “Thunderbolt”),…

Definitive Proof That Robots and QR Codes Are Not the Future of Bartending

It’s generally assumed that robots will eventually take over all jobs currently staffed by humans. But tending bar could be one of the hold outs, if this Social Drink Machine is any indication. It lets patrons place orders through a combination of social media, mobile apps, and QR codes, but in this case the whole…

This Keyboard’s Numpad Doubles as a Gesture-Friendly Touchpad

If you want to take advantage of all the handy gesture shortcuts in Windows 8, but would rather skip the tablet or touchscreen display, Elecom’s got a new space-saving keyboard that’s right up your alley. It’s a full-sized wireless keyboard complete with a dedicated number pad that does double-duty as a gesture-compatible touchpad. When it…

The Stupidest Copyright Suit Ever Complains That Download.com Hosts BitTorrent Clients

A group of musicians, producers, and labels is going after CBS-owned Download.com for hosting BitTorrent clients like uTorrent. This, after the same group has been trying to sue the company for profiting from the distribution of LimeWire. Ugh, why, absolute foolishness. TechDirt reports that a group of music industry interests is trying to get an…

Scosche Now Has Lightning Accessories for Damn Near Any Situation

Think about anything you need to do regarding your gadget charging needs. Need to power an iPhone 5? What about a fourth-gen iPad? An Android phone? Some weird gadget with a strange USB port? Need to charge at home? In the car? Hate tangled cables? Scosche has addressed all of these scenarios with its latest…

John McAfee Disguises Himself as Murderer

The manic bath-salted odyssey of antivirus magnate John McAfee has taken another sad, strange bend: he’s adopted what sounds like the worst disguise in criminal history. Wired reports that McAfee, wanted for questioning with regards to a jungle murder, “claims to have dyed his hair, eyebrows, beard, and mustache jet black.” How can we turn…

The Onion Tackles Its Most Important Topic Ever: The History of the Internet

From the first microbial ooze to your most recent Facebook poke, the internet’s history is as vast and varied as any major civilization’s. Since a subject of this importance deserves only the most stringent satirical savaging, The Onion has—thankfully, blessedly—turned its gaze towards the bits and bytes that have been our ruin and salvation. The…