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For the longest time Just Born, the maker of Peeps, has been on the forefront of novelty seasonal marshmallow technology. But the company’s monopoly ends now, here, with a mug-friendly Frosty marshmallow. What would you rather have dissolving away in your hot cocoa? A gooey yellow baby chicken covered in sugar, or these adorable snowmen…
Jetbeam’s Digital Display series of flashlights incorporate a simple screen that provides more accurate info on the torch’s current mode and remaning battery life—at least compared to just a color-changing LED. A ‘9’ means the battery is at full capacity while a ‘0’ means it’s time for new batteries. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-led-flashlight-5952940 The addition of a display…
Cosmo the God, teen leader of a hacker collective that fell second only to Anonymous in terms of notoriety, just got a whopper of a court sentence: six years without any computers or Internet. Wired’s Mat Honan reports Cosmo, who resides in Long Beach, California, and had organized attacks against targets from 4chan to the…
Thanks to our every four years orgy of public decision making, we finally know what president we’ll be stuck with for the next four years. Well, at least technology can still set us free! Here’s a week’s worth of iPhone apps for you to enjoy! Sayonara: You’d probably have a thing or two to say…
Lego fans are always making truly amazing models, but lately I’m getting obsessed by sci-fi creations, like the greatest Lego mecha I’ve ever seen. Or this formidable starship, called the Tesseract. It reminds me a bit of the old 70s and 80s spaceship illustrations by Chris Foss. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-greatest-lego-mecha-ive-ever-seen-5957729 While the Tesseract is not as bit…
So, you like drinking wine, but hate heading outside to get more of it? Good news: You can now buy wine from Amazon. It’s a perfect mix of internet and alcohol. But is any of it any good? https://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-buy-wine-from-amazon-5958806 We went shopping with our friends at Wine Spectator to find the best bottles in Amazon’s…
If you’ve ever thought it would be cool to have a miniature figurine of yourself—or maybe a loved one—just hanging out on your desk and doing it’s thing, your day has come. The first 3D printing photobooth is due to open in Japan later this month. From November 24th to January 14th 2013, those who…
The Lumia 920, lauded and yearned for as the very savior of Windows Phone, goes on sale today for $100. It’s a pretty sweet phone! Not quite what we hoped it’d be, but a solid handset. But is the lower price a problem rather than a selling point? https://gizmodo.com/nokia-lumia-920-the-great-windows-phone-hope-5940599 Nokia—and really anyone trying to sell…
The top secret labs at Facebook are in overtime right now: another experimental FB feature has been spotted in the wild. Soon we might be commenting on comments. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-next-thing-youre-going-to-hate-about-facebook-5959182 As it stands now, the best way to talk to someone else within a status comment thread (mouthful!) is to tag them in your reply. But…
Last week, an internal memo from Cisco was leaked to the press. It was in response to reports that Cisco had overcharged California State University $100 million to use its network. Well, the leak made people at Cisco angry, and that anger has materialized into a bizarre manhunt, executed by one vice president, in his…
This is dumb. This is so goddamn dumb. Dumber than a bag of hammers. So dumb it’s making my ears bleed. Dumb, dumb, dumb. DUMB. But I love it. Perpetual energy wasting machine, I love you. [Thanks Karl!]
It’s no secret we think Wicked Lasers are wicked cool here at Gizmodo. The problem is that they’re always a luxury; never a necessity. Sure, it would be really awesome to play with the LaserSaber, but nobody’s head is going to pop if they don’t (some balloons might, though.) But that’s also what makes a…
The last time we checked in on the state of robot gymnasts they performed admirably on the horizontal bar, but fell out of medal contention with a laughably horrible dismount. https://gizmodo.com/robot-gymnast-needs-robot-bela-karolyi-5435377 Three years later it looks like they’re moving closer to Olympic glory with this little bot that can perfectly stick a landing after performing…
I love this house, built in Rotterdam by Dutch architectural firm Shift. What a wonderful and perfectly executed idea: to build an entire four-story-high house around a gigantic bookshelf that goes across all floors. It really looks beautiful—and useful too. They call the project vertical loft.. It was part of the restoration of an old,…
We’re beyond over-sharing—we’re perma-sharing. Between texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we have more vessels for venting than we have thoughts worth sharing. So you might assume, with all these ways to communicate, that a friend in trouble will make it obvious to everyone. Don’t. Don’t assume anything. If you had any pals or family anywhere near…
If you find the practice of Instagramming natural disasters to be a bit of a moral quandry, get ready for a whole new level of appropriateness-questioning. Dronestagram churns out Instagrammed shots of places where people were killed by drone strikes. https://gizmodo.com/don-t-instagram-natural-disasters-5956294 The project is the brainchild of UK writer and artist James Bridle who uses…
As if RIM wasn’t already having enough trouble struggling for relevance with BlackBerry phones, there’s yet another thing about the handsets that makes them a bit less appealing compared to iPhones and Android devices: you could actually be allergic to a BlackBerry, in the most literal sense. According to a recent study, around one third…
According to Conan O’Brien, Wes Anderson is the latest director to throw his hat into the ever-growing ring of potential future Star Wars directors. Check out his audition tape which is somehow even more Wes Anderson than Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums combined. [YouTube via Coudal]
Realizing that lots of people pretend they’re holding a deadly weapon when wielding a flashlight, the makers of the Dogstar designed it to look like a handheld cannon straight out of a sci-fi epic. The beam is even turned on using a trigger instead of a button, so you can pretend those harmless photons it…
Samsung’s allegations of jury misconduct in its huge loss to Apple will have their day (December 6th) in court.
