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If you thought bath salts were bad, you should know about Krokodil. Gaining popularity in Siberia (at least as off 2011) Krokodil is a crazy, toxic mixture of eye drops, caffeine, and gasoline, that’s cooked and injected. Yeah. You want to know more? Of course you do, and that’s where Krokodil Tears comes in. Produced…
Off Justice’s 2007 debut †, DVNO is terrific dance of a tune. There’s really not much to say about it other than it’s a catchy, upbeat dance/disco/electro-house(?) joint with a fantastic bass-line. It came up on my shuffle and I had to pass along the love. Just listen to it. And then listen to it…
Get ready to welcome the newest addition to that long list of weird gadgets you really couldn’t possibly need, FireWood Pocket is here. Because who doesn’t want a keychain that emulates a lone, flaming piece of firewood? Produced by TakaraTomy Arts, the keychain not only looks like a piece of wood (duh) but it also…
If you’ve ever so much as held the good old-fashioned NES Zapper, you’ve probably had at least one fantasy about how cool it would be if it was an actual laser gun. Thanks to some modding from the guys over at North Street Labs, it is now. The custom piece consists of 445nm diode, batteries,…
Public transit can be both a blessing and a curse. It gets you where you need to go, but only pulsating herd of other coughing, sneezing humans. But maybe that wouldn’t seem so bad if you didn’t have to pay for it. There’s an app for that. Corey Benninger and Max Sobell, from the Intrepidus…
Really it was only a matter of time, but this was still surprisingly fast. What you see above is the iOS 5.1 version of Google Maps running—albeit a little jankily—in iOS 6. The porting was done by one Ryan Petrich, who says the port is working pretty well, but isn’t quite ready for release to…
There are many issues one can reasonably have with the iPhone 5. That overpriced dock connector. An inexcusably bad Maps app. Even the fact that it’s a little, well, boring. But there’s no way Apple could’ve anticipated this particular backlash: https://gizmodo.com/f-ck-that-goddamn-iphone-adapter-costs-30-bucks-5942710 That’s right. Just two days in, and iPhone 5 buyers have already decided that…
When someone asks to use my laptop for a minute, or borrow my phone to check something real quick, I’ll always say yes, but it drives me nuts. It probably dates back to my childhood, when watching my parents use the “kids’ computer” for one reason or another always terrified me because they might find…
There is a lot of data out there, and more is being created every day. It takes a lot of resources to keep it around, and make sure that you and everyone else can access what they want, when they want, with minimal downtime. Naturally this takes a lot of energy, but the New York…
If you want to get a wall clock, you have all kinds of options. There are big digital ones, classic analog ones, but if you want one that’s really clever, the Flat Life Clock might be the way to go. With the form factor of a picture, the Flat Life Clock is just the image…
It’s been the new millennium for over a decade now and not only do we not have personal jetpacks, but there’s also a distinct lack of robo-maids and robo-butlers. You might not be able buy a robotic house-slave tommorrow, but Toyota’s newly announced Human Support Robot is a step in that direction. The Human Support…
Let’s say you like drinking beverages out of bottles, and you also like being able to see when it’s dark. These awesome vintage beer bottle and gas pipe lamps are probably the best—and maybe only—marriage of those two “hobbies.” Each of these lamps by Peared Creation includes a real, pre-Prohibition era beer bottle as its…
A giant, heavy hammer seems like an easy weapon to wield, but if you’re not Thor, it turns out that it can be a little tough. Still, that hasn’t stopped slingshot virtuoso Joerg Sprave from using one—and a few of the slingshots from his collection—to utterly destroy a car with some help from a friend.…
NASA astronauts in July of 1962 (source: NASA) In 1962 Parade magazine surveyed American women about the sexiest profession for American men. Here at the dawn of the space age, they were shocked astronauts weren’t ranked number one, concluding “Astronauts are great for history, but not for current affairs…” Doctors were ranked the sexiest and…
Like one of the other movies I’ve Movie Night’ed before, Moon, Cabin in the Woods is one of those films that gets worse the more you really talk about it, so I’ll try to keep things brief. The main point is that if you have any vaguely intellectual interest in horror as a genre, or…
When I first heard this song, I was on a road trip with a couple of friends a few years ago. We were bantering over the music, of course, as a bunch of idiots in a car are wont to do. Then, a friend of mine put on Ocean by John Butler Trio warning that…
American Airlines has been making the move to digital by giving their pilots iPads instead of paper heavy manuals, and the upgrading doesn’t stop there. American Airlines wants their flight attendants outfitted with tech, but they won’t be handing out more full-size tablets. They’re going with the Galaxy Note. https://gizmodo.com/ipads-to-replace-paper-reference-manuals-in-all-aa-cock-5942118 The Note was chosen after…
From the minds who brought you the concrete sketch pencil comes the implement you’ve been needing to flesh out your concrete collection: a concrete ballpoint pen. https://gizmodo.com/chunky-concrete-sketch-pencil-is-a-weighty-way-to-write-5862600 Much like its pencil counterpart, the concrete roller ball pen has a number of sharp ridges intended to erode and fit your grip with everyday use. The end…
Apple’s new, buggy maps have been getting a lot of negative attention recently, but talk is cheap. Even with all that whining, iOS 6 has proven to be the most quickly adopted version of the operating system, 122 percent faster than its predecessor iOS 5. Where it took iOS 5 five days to gain a…
A lot of business is done on the Internet, but the model for making money there isn’t as straightforward as “sell a thing, make a profit.” So how do the web services you use every day make money? The aptly named “How Do They Make Money” has some answers. Often, the answer is subscribers, advertising,…
