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Ridiculous Home Theater Looks Like a Camaro Crashed Through Your Living Room Wall

Appealing to only die hard Gone In Sixty Seconds fans, this garish home theater system started life as a 1969 Camaro RS/SS that unfortunately now has to spend the rest of its life in someone’s tacky den. The only silver lining is that only one was ever created. What’s most peculiar about the setup is…

Russia Has More Diamonds Hiding in an Asteroid Crater Than the Rest of the World Has Combined

If you had more diamonds than the rest of the world combined hiding under an asteroid crater, would you tell anyone? Russia was happy to keep that knowledge a secret until now, finally revealing plans to begin tapping into a reserve containing trillions of carats worth of diamonds. It’s a treasure trove of unprecedented scope,…

This Portable Hard Drive Is Your For-Media-Hoarders Deal of the Day

Portable hard drives have never been called sexy. They’re simply not the most desirable gadget. You know what is worth lusting over? Ultrabooks. They’re skinny, tapered, and fast. They’re the sports car of the gadget world. But like sports cars, they don’t come with much space. The 128GB of flash memory in my laptop means…

These Are the Tiny Gorgeous Guts of Apple’s Improved EarPods

Jony Ive and Tim Cook made a big hubbub about all the design that went into improving Apple’s famously terrible earbuds such that they might actually be usable. We might disagree about how much better they really are, but take a look inside the tiny EarPods, and you can help but squeeeeeee at their adorable…

32 Photos Of High Velocity, Frozen Still

Bikes. Motorcycles. Roller derby. It’s all perfect fodder for this week’s Shooting Challenge, which freezes high velocity subjects in a blur of time. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-isolated-motion-blur-5942528 Winner: Tokyo Drift I recently build a “rig” for taking pictures of cars, and a couple of my friends and I went out the other night to test it out. We…

Shooting Challenge: Motion

Took this in HK this weekend! It was my first time there, loved the contrast of the old double decker trams and the ultra modern architecture. zofoto.net Info: Nikon D90 0.7 Sec at f/16 ISO 320 18mm – Lorenzo Fo On Sunday I came across a group of pigeons while driving. I recalled having seen…

Amphones Help You Shred In Silence If Your Neighbors Are Jerks

“If it’s too loud,” the saying goes, “the neighbors are going to call the cops and screw up your late-night shred session.” In an attempt to solve this eternal conundrum, the guitar amplification specialists at Vox have teamed up with the headphone geniuses Audio Technica to create Amphones. Yes, guitar amplifier headphones. It’s a preposterous…

Indentured Servitude, Money Laundering, and Piles of Money: The Crazy Secrets of Internet Cam Girls (NSFW)

If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right. Peel away the sex and pixels and money and you’re left with the cloudy truth about the Internet’s relationship status…

Microsoft Looks Like It’s Going to Make Original Shows or Movies for Xbox

The New York Times Bits Blog is reporting that Microsoft has hired former CBS executive Nancy Tellem to head up production of “original video content” for the Xbox. It’s not clear what kind of shows would be produced for Xbox, but it’s reasonable to assume that it probably has something to do with games or…

You Don’t Need an Engineering Degree To Transform This Sofa Bed

Your typical pull-out sofabed is a marvel of modern engineering, but with all those interconnected parts and a mattress that’s designed to fold away, they’re not exactly the epitome of comfort. At least not compared to Guido Rosati’s brilliantly simple Scoop sofabed which simply opens and closes like a giant pair of scissors. Its one…

Growler Car Seat Protects Your Most Important Passengers

When it comes to safely transporting an infant or toddler in a car there are hundreds of elaborately designed car seats to choose from. But when it comes to safely getting a trio of newborn growler bottles home from a brewery, you’re expected to just toss them in you trunk and hope for the best.…

Talking Measuring Cup Will Never Critique Your Kitchen Skills

Everyone can use an assistant in the kitchen, but not one that constantly critiques your cooking skills—or lack thereof. So instead of hiring a sous chef, just put that money towards this $60 talking measuring cup that announces the weight or volume of ingredients as they’re added. It works with either wet or dry ingredients,…

How to Root the Kindle Fire HD (Already!)

The crafty hackers from the XDA Developers forum have already figured out how to root the new Kindle Fire HD. Initially, some developers suggested that the new Kindles would be hack-reistant, but as the video above demonstrates, it’s already been done. Head over to RootzWiki for full instructions on how to execute the root. But…

RIM is licensing some patents from Microsoft to avoid an Apple/Samsung situation. Unfortunately, it’s REALLY BORING.

Keep Your Life on a String While Sitting on the Can

Ah, yes, the water closet: forever refuge from the inconveniences of life. Here’s a new way to hang—and hang out with—the many accouterments you use in your domestic temple of self worship. Designed by Josh Owen for Kontextur, these Hanging Lines are a novel spin on the boring bars we usually stock in our bathrooms.…

Ask a Photographer About the Photography Trick That Turns Your Friends Into Ghosts

She’s baaaaack: Seems like photographer Diana Levine survived her fast, loud, and mostly out-of-control hop to music Mecca Austin. Of course, she was there to participate in the latest installment of our Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge, where she shot music-makers My Jersusalem as they did their thing. So check out her cranked-up-to-11 shots in our…

The Most Incredible Volcano Video of All Time

“The most incredible volcano video of ALL time.” That’s how Geoff Mackley—the man in this film—has titled his latest production. After watching it, it doesn’t seem like an exaggeration at all. It’s truly insane. This guy and his two friends are cray. It’s not the first time that Geoff Mackley gets so close to a…

The Quest to Build a 128-Story, 5-Block Mega-Skyscraper in the Middle of Manhattan

If constructed in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, the Zhongshan Center would stand 2173 feet tall, provide 15,000,000 square feet, house 130 elevators, 3,000 cars, a revolving restaurant, a shopping mall, and a “super-galactic hotel.” But considering the proposal for this mammoth building—one that would occupy five square blocks—comes from a retired New York resident, it’ll probably…

Sprint May Take Away Your Only Shot at a Free, Unlimited Data iPhone (Updated)

As happens every time we get a new iPhone the prices of the older models were slashed. Apple announced that the 8GB iPhone 4 would be free with a two-year contract. Except Sprint doesn’t have the deal. Now a supposedly leaked document reported by 9to5Mac reveals that you might not be able to get a…

Britain’s Brand New £1 Billion Battleship Is a 152-Meter Mobile Missile Shield

With all the iPhone 5 hoopla lately, you might not have heard the news—Israel and Iran are fixing for a fight that could wipe both countries off the map. Twenty-six Western allies have already dispatched a flotilla of warships to the region to guard the Strait of Hormuz—among them is the brand new HMS Diamond.…