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With a Smartphone Dock For a Heart, This Teddy Bear Will Terrorize Your Kids

If Teddy Ruxpin had tried harder to keep up with technology he wouldn’t have risen from the grave using proprietary digital cartridges. Instead, he’d have a smartphone dock embedded in his torso like this Japaese Cocolo Bear does. https://gizmodo.com/teddy-ruxpin-is-back-109304 Available sometime this month for about $62, Cocolo connects to almost any phone using its headphone…

Red Marble: Unreal Portrait of the Sun Eclipsed By Earth

This beautiful, unreal portrait of the Sun was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory as it was moving into its eclipse season: Twice a year, for three weeks near the vernal and autumnal equinox, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft moves into its eclipse season-a brief spell when Earth blocks its view of the sun…

Your Account Probably Wasn’t Hacked, Twitter Is Just Paranoid

If you got a password reset notice from Twitter last night or this morning, don’t worry, your account wasn’t hacked. When Twitter notices suspicious activity indicating that an account might have been compromised, it resets the password just to be on the safe side. That’s a good thing! But last night the system spazzed. According…

This Prosthetic Hand Could’ve Been Ripped From a Terminator

While we’re still a few years away from Ghost in the Shell-level cybernization, losing an appendage to illness or injury is no longer a liflong condemnation to hook-handedness. And with the recent release of the beBionic 3, we’re all a step closer to being Maj. Kusanagi. Designed and built by UK firm RSL Steeper, the…

Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness

As dawn broke over the interior of Belize on April 30, an elite team of 42 police and soldiers, including members of the country’s SWAT team and Special Forces, converged on a compound on the banks of a jungle river. Within, all was quiet. The police called out through a bullhorn that they were there…

Here’s the New Stuff You’ll Get Next Time You Update Your iPhone

The beta version of iOS 6.1 is out, which means the real deal will be yours for the downloading, soon-ish. Get a load of all the kinda-minor updates you’ll be enjoying and/or freaking out over, right now. Let’s break ‘er down. You can now buy movie tickets through Siri. Ask about a movie, if it’s…

The 9 Biggest Wastes of Google’s Time and Money

Google just put out JAM, for Chrome, which is basically Garage Band for your browser. It’s pretty cool! And after today there’s basically zero chance you’re ever going to think about it again. https://gizmodo.com/jam-with-chrome-turns-your-browser-into-a-garage-band-5958771 That seems to happen to Google a lot; it comes up with some novel ideas, throws a ton of money at…

Come to the Mother of All Shooting Challenges’ NYC Gallery Event

Well, it’s time to bid adieu to our fun and photo-filled Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge. In case you were keeping score, we brought you six incredible photographers, six mystery locations, six shooting styles, and six totally free Intel-Inspired Ultrabooks™. But before we say goodbye, we’d like to leave you with this supercut of our photographers’…

The Cardboard Box Finally Gets a Genius Upgrade

If you’ve got a big move coming up, you might want to take some inspiration from this Red Dot Design Award-winning update to the lowly cardboard box. The Corner Box adds a small indent to one of the bottom corners giving you a spot to easily lift or drop a box without squashing your fingers.…

You can keep your Pinterest board private now, finally. Related: Pinterest boards are about to get way more pervy.

You’re the CEO: Which Company Should Buy What Other Company?

Facebook bought Instagram for a bazillion, Digg sold itself for a Quizno’s gift card, and countless startups are hoping to get copped too. But if you could make it happen, which company would buy out which? I’d love to see Apple pick up the BBM division of RIM, the only wonderful slice in an otherwise…

How Those Beautiful Long-Exposure Nighttime Photographs Come to Life

If you’ve ever marvelled at gorgeous long-exposure shots of the night sky that seem to reveal every star in the heavens, you’ll want to set aside part of your lunch break for photographer Kamil Tamiola’s excellent 20 minute primer on how he captures such stunning imagery. But his tips aren’t for the feint of heart.…

Romney Staffers Publish Sad Victory Website by Mistake

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was re-elected, which means, of course, that Mitt Romney lost. But if Romney had won, the president-elect would have needed a website. It makes sense that his staffers would have prepared one. But if the fool who accidentally published it wasn’t already out of a job, well, he should be…

Was This the World’s First Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock?

As long as you don’t take the sun into consideration, this 18th century contraption could very well be the world’s first alarm clock that uses light as a wake up trigger, instead of sound. A spring-loaded mechanism triggered by its built-in clock releases a flint-lock that lights a pop-up candle. So if you needed to…

Colbert Tackles the Very Real Dangers of Wind Turbine Herpes

One of the things you can expect from another four years of the Obama administration: wind turbines. Lots and lots of wind turbines. And with them as Stephen Colbert reports, come a slew of illnesses. Or at least, accusations of such: https://gizmodo.com/what-obamas-victory-means-for-tech-5958429 The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video…

You Can Now Buy Wine from Amazon

Books, hahaha! Streaming video? Whatever. But wine, the blood of Bacchus, harbinger of groping and maybe more? Now that’s what we’re talking about, Amazon—get dirt cheap bottles of wino sent straight to your door, you lush. Starting today, anyone in California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and the…

Starting today, you can pay for your latte with Square Wallet at about 7000 Starbucks locations. [The Verge]

Walmart Moves Black Friday into Thanksgiving Dinner Time

Black Friday is a big freaking deal. But is it big enough to cut out on Thanksgiving dinner and go stand in a cramped, sad line outside of your local Walmart? Walmart thinks yes, of course it is, so it’s moved its Black Friday start time to 8PM. Last year, Walmart opened its doors at…

Canless Cleaner Blasts Away Crap At 200 Miles Per Hour

There’s no better way to rid your keyboard of the disgusting horrors lurking between every key than with a blast of clean air. But if you’re tired of buying endless cans of compressed air, this handheld Hurricane air pump promises 200 mile per hour blasts without chemicals or other questionable gases. On a fresh charge…

A DNA Test Can Predict How Good Beef Will Taste

One cow looks much like another, but some provide meltingly tender meat while others are as tough as old boots. Fortunately, a team of researchers has devised a series of DNA tests that can predict how good beef will taste by the time it hits your plate. Usually the meat industry takes a bit of…