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NYC Residents Can Vote at any New York State Polling Place Tomorrow

If you’re a resident of NYC or Westchester, Long Island and Rockland counties, you can submit an affadavit ballot for the presidential and US Senatorial elections at any polling place in the state of New York you like tomorrow. You can’t vote in local elections, but it’s still useful for those who’s living and transportations…

Settle It: Get Your Facts Straight Before You Vote

The election is tomorrow. Go vote. But be sure you’re informed first. Politifact’s Settle It app is one way to do that. What does it do? Gives you fact-checks on all the issues you’re voting on. Why do we like it? Politicians are politicians—they talk a lot of crap. If you want to know what’s…

Why Gizmodo Isn’t Endorsing Anyone

A) Not everyone on staff agrees who should be the next president of the United States, and we act as a team. B) I think it’s weird when media organizations (especially ones not politically focused) endorse political candidates. Feels like a cry for attention when they should be helping people come to their own decisions.…

This Pocket Change Stealing Chair Will Eventually Pay For Itself

The only silver lining to losing pocket change in your couch cushions is the windfall you’ll discover when you finally get around to cleaning it. But at best you’ll just recover all your losses; there’s no profit to be had there. Unless you encourage visitors to only use Sam Lomingshum’s brilliant change-stealing Artful Dodger rocking…

The First Third-Party Lightning Accessories Are a Car Charger and a Stupid Dock

The authenticator chips in Apple’s new Lightning connectors put a stop to unauthorized third-party accessories, at least for a little while. In the meantime, authorized third-party accessories are on the way. The first pair are a car charge and a dock from Belkin. The car charger is pretty run of the mill. One end plugs…

Starting tomorrow at 6p EST, stories on the NYT and WSJ sites will be free until Wednesday night. Election! [Mashable]

A Dozen Ways to Heal Yourself with Light

While tanning beds are now the domain of irresponsible parents and young white women looking for some skin cancer, their UV rays were originally designed as a (quasi) legitimate medical treatment. Get your dose of vitamin D with this Oobject-assembled collection of illuminating medical devices. Be sure to also check out these light pipes, pocket…

A Flashing Touch-Sensitive Business Card All But Guarantees You’re Hired

In order to make a big impression at an upcoming job fair, electrical engineering student Jay Kickliter created this interactive business card that lights up a flashing ring of LEDs whenever it’s touched. The cards were designed and manufactured in just two weeks, and even include a low-power mode so that the battery life is…

Writer Wanted for Gizmodo en Español

Gizmodo is launching Gizmodo en Español! We are looking for a talented writer for the site. Do you love reading and learning everything there is to know about gadgets and technology? Do you anxiously follow new gadget releases and updates? Are you familiar with the hardware and components that make these devices tick? And you…

New Facebook for iOS Adds New Chat Features, Multiple Photo Uploads, and Gifts (Updated)

A new update to the iOS Facebook app rolls out today, and it’s bringing some handy new features with it. Now, you’ll finally be able to add friends to favorites, upload multiple pictures at a time, and as a bonus, you can swipe left anywhere to open up chat. The updates to the chat and…

Report: Apple Might Ditch Intel Chips for Its Own

According to a report form Bloomberg News, Apple is considering switching away from the Intel chips that have been powering Mac computers for years, in favor of chips designed in-house, like the A6 and A6X powering the new iPhone 5 and iPad 4. Apple’s shown a renewed interest in chip building recently. In September, it…

Foursquare now shows a 1-10 rating for places in its newly updated iOS app. Your move, Yelp.

How to Make a Sandy Disaster Image Look Even Worse

I thought there was not way you could make a Sandy disaster image look even worse that what they normally are but, as it turns out, it is possible. Just add a freaking puppet to it. Reader Josef Abramov sent this image to us today: I walked out of my house in Rockaway (one of…

How To Vote (Updated)

The right to elect one’s public representatives is the foundation upon which our democracy is built. So if you think Hurricane Sandy is going to stop Americans from choosing the next leader of the free world, demand a recount. Here’s a look at the technology everyone over 18 can expect to find in a voting…

Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 07 – The Flying Suit

This is the seventh in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The seventh episode of “The Jetsons” premiered on American television November 4, 1962, and was titled “The Flying Suit.” In this episode we’re introduced to Mr. Cogswell (we don’t learn until the 1980s…

This Contraption Pops Just a Single Piece of Popcorn

Popcorn is already considered a healthy low-cal snack for dieters, but when you seriously need to shed the pounds, you’ll want to replace your hot air popper with the Oncle Sam. It makes just a single piece of popcorn at a time, providing a four calorie snack that won’t leave you feeling guilty at your…

The Ultimate Gallery of Flooded New York

We saw it in countless movies, but the reality is grittier and more miserable than any overblown disaster flick. Smudge everywhere, small hills of dead rats, stairs that descent into tunnels full of filthy water… New York City flooded after Sandy is a dreadful place. South Ferry & Whitehall Street subway station flooded Another photo…

This Surge Protector Is Your Power-To-The-People Deal of the Day

Who would’ve guessed that the hero gadget of Hurricane Sandy would’ve been the lowly power strip? Connected Manhattanites, lacking power for their phones and laptops (or streetlights), staggered uptown to find a place to charge up, only to find any free outlet already taken. But good samaritans plugged in power strips, and brought the power…

Holograms of Dead Famous People: Yay or Nay?

Tupac performed as a hologram alongside Snoop Dogg Lion at Coachella. The Republican party has created a Reagan hologram. And now TLC wants to resurrect the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in hologram form for a reunion tour. Okay, so it was weirdly realistic and unbelievably hilarious with Tupac, but really? Is this super exploitative…

This Ridiculous Adult Pacifier Gives Your Tongue a Creepy Workout

If you prefer your exercise routines to be incredibly brief and awkward, Japan once again delivers with a contraption designed to tighten cheeks and eliminate double chins. The Kuwaete Sukkiri actually works out just your tongue, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a machine at your gym that can tighten facial muscles with just a…