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I know a lot of people like to throw on a lot of trinkets and flair and pizazz on your phone but would people really use this crystal dust plug? It’s a little cubic zirconia diamond that plugs into your phone’s headphone jack to add some bling and presumably protect the interior of your headphone…
If you’re interested in getting a tablet with Sprint (and now the iPad and iPad Mini are on Sprint), you have some okay-ish off contract plans: $15 for 300MB, $35 for 3GB, $50 for 6GB of data and $80 for 12GB. If you already have a Sprint smartphone though, you get something even better: you…
This is awful. Utterly, completely, corporate suit wearing, slicked back hair smelling, awful. Verizon stamped its logo on top of the new Samsung Galaxy Note II. Do you see it? Yes. That’s right, the Verizon logo is on the freaking phone’s home button. Covering it. Are you kidding me. It looks like a joke or…
Marc Evan and Chris Soria are amazing artists who can do more with a pumpkin than you can with a pen and paper and/or photoshop. In The Pumpkin Maestro, a short documentary about the duo by Tumblr Storyboard, you get to see what influences and motivates their work and the unique tools they use to…
Inspired by night surfers wearing LEDs, Switchback Entertainment made this video for Salomon Freeski TV showing skiers wearing their own light suits. Strapped with EL-wire on their bodies, the skiers slalom down the powder covered mountain like it’s The Grid. Awesome. https://gizmodo.com/does-anyone-else-think-these-light-up-surfboards-are-an-5868112 According to MAKE, the video was filmed with just small headlamps, the EL…
Those Shit Girls Says viral videos are no longer oozing with virility but this one’s plenty hilarious: Shit Android Fanatics Say. Made by MobilePhoneFinder, the video pokes fun at all the Android geekisms and nerdquotes you hear from someone who has an Android phone. It’s a response video to the equally hilarious Shit Apple Fanatics…
This wooden clock is great. It’s in the style of the ones you remember hanging over the chalkboard in your middle school classrooms, but the two-toned wooden design makes it fresh and modern. It’s $95 from the MoMa Store, and it’s kind of the perfect ticker because it’s so simple and clean. It’s also easy…
Remember that amazing lemon shrimp scampi pasta you had eight months ago? No? Well if you’re like most people and use Instagram to document your daily dining, you can order a 365 day calendar from Prinstagram and relive every meal you had over the past year. https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-people-spend-more-time-on-instagram-than-tw-5954308 The service turns your Instagram stream into a…
I was in a wedding a few months ago, and I admit I used Pinterest to decide how to do my hair. But there’s a whole lot of crap mixed into the online DIY purgatory. Enter Bloom Beauty Trends, an app that takes everything style and beauty and puts it into its own app. What…
The above photo is a real example of texting gone horribly wrong. Morbid and hilarious for us, but uncomfortable for the him (or her). And it just brings up so many questions. Maybe you can relate with your own texting mishap. Either you mistakenly sexted the guy you bought a blender from on Craigslist or…
The folks at Mac Mini Vault have benchmarked and torn down the new Mac Minis. The Mac Mini’s $600, 2.5GHz Core i5 Ivy Bridge configuration racked up a Geekbench score of 7433 straight out of the box. That’s impressive considering last year’s Sandy Bridge i5 Mac Mini refresh has a standing average of 6323 on…
Closing down a busy bridge for safety inspections is difficult because it can lead to traffic nightmares on either side. But at the same time, the last thing engineers want is for it to collapse with vehicles on deck. So a team of researchers has come up with a novel way to test a concrete…
Worried about your schoolyard chums pinching your colored pencils (you know, those pre-touchscreen graphite writing implements) from your desk? By stashing them in a dead gutted mackerel you’re all but guaranteed no one’s going to lay a finger on them. And probably guaranteed a trip to the principal’s office too. But it’s not an actual…
Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk created this cabinet to look like an antique sewing box. She really hit the nail on the head here, because it immediately reminded me of the rickety old piece my grandmother had. But van Eijk’s biggie-sized interpretation holds more than just needles and thread. It’s far bigger, so it’s a…
Good news—there are only 13 days left until the election! Bad news—there are 13 days left until the election. If you’re on political overload, you can use a handy Chrome extension called Unpolitic.me to remove all the politics talk from your Facebook and Twitter feeds. Like infant-eraser Unbaby.me (created by the same folks), it blocks…
MartinLogan: Because somewhere out there an audio obsessed nut needs $25,000, five-foot-tall electrostatic speakers. Or at least that was the case until recently. With the new Mikros 90 on-ear headphones, the legendary brand now makes two products that don’t cost thousands of dollars. That’s cause for celebration, and just look at these things. They’re so…
If the GOP wants to win big on election day, it’s going to have to do everything in its power to keep minorities from voting. But as The Onion rightly points out, its voter suppression methods are in drastic need of modernization. That doesn’t mean the jokesters can’t conjure up VoteRite, a fictional app that’s…
I just got invited to a Halloween party this weekend. That’s great; it means I have friends! But I don’t have a costume. This happens every year—I toss around great conceptual costume ideas, but then October 24th rolls around, a week before Halloween, and I’ve got nothing. Some of you are in the same situation.…
You’ve heard of TED—those conferences and lectures where interesting people talk about all the interesting things they’re doing. Maybe you’ve seen a video online. Maybe you’ve seen us make fun of them. https://gizmodo.com/proof-that-ted-is-past-its-prime-5915942 Whatever your opinion, TED is a huge thing—you don’t get made fun of by the Onion unless you have arrived. The conferences…
Just because winter’s coming on doesn’t mean you have to go full-blown Grizzly Adams simply to keep your face warm (they have scarves for that). But if shaving foam and water are too much of a hassle every morning and the thought of having a stranger flick a six-inch long blade about your jugular area…
