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Eureka: 9 Stunning Lightbulb Designs

Without light, we’d spend 10-12 hours a day unable to function (by modern standards at least). And sure, we’ve always had fire and candles, but it wasn’t until the advent of electricity, and then the lightbulb, that man conquered the dark once and for all. That’s we went and dug up nine of our favorite…

Facebook Is Finally Deleting Your Photos When You Want Them To

It doesn’t change the fact that you should be careful what pics you post online, but Facebook is no longer saving your photos on its servers after you’ve deleted them. Finally! While Twitter, for example, would remove a pic from its content delivery network (CDN) pretty much as soon as you did, Facebook was holding…

Awesome Lego Lenticular Mosaic Turns Batman Into the Joker

Mosaic posters made with Lego bricks are a dime a dozen, but this one is different and absolutely awesome: a lenticular poster that makes Batman transform into the Joker as you pass by. And the Brian Bolland’s versions, no less. It was made by Arthur Gugick. I wish I could buy it from him and…

The Next iPhone’s Rumored Foolproof Dock Connector

How can you improve on Apple’s nine-year-old 30-pin dock connector? You might start by reducing the size. Ever-shrinking gadgets need smaller connectors. You could also reduce complexity. A simpler design would be easier to use, easier to make, less prone to failure, more sustainable, and cheaper. If those are the two big improvements, add one…

Your Friends Can Legally Narc on Your Facebook Profile

Bad news if you’re a drug dealer or murderer or some sort of sex criminal: a judge just ruled your “friends” can show cops your Facebook profile. And then you can go to jail, GigaOm reports. Time to start deleting! The ruling, handed down by US District Judge William Pauley III, showed that a suspect…

Carbonized Li-On Batteries Can Charge 100 Times Quicker

While lithium-ion batteries are the best we have, they often take an awful long time to charge. Now, though, a team of researchers has developed a new battery manufacturing technique which can cut charge time from hours to minutes. The way current li-on batteries are made, they have conductors feeding the charge-holding particles held within…

Sony’s New eReader Is Light, Pleasant, and Massively Late to the Game

Sony’s got a new ereader. It’s actually quite nice. It’s just not as nice as all the other ereaders that are either out or about to be out. And sadly, it’s more expensive than its direct competitors, too. Poor Sony. The PRS-T2 (real catchy, guys) is a 6-inch e-ink reader with a touchscreen. It’s also…

GeForce GTX 660 Ti: Nvidia’s Awesome Kepler Graphics Cards Are Finally Affordable

Nvidia’s GTX 600 series has finally hit the $300 mark, putting it in the acceptable price range of everyone who doesn’t have permanent WASD impressions stuck to their hands. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is out today, and will also come with a free copy of Borderlands 2. The GTX 660 should perform about twice…

Get Glue HD: Obsess Over Breaking Bad With Other Obsessives

Ever used your cable company’s TV guide app? Probably not because most of them are total abominations. GetGlue HD fills in what for what those god awful things are lacking, offering a totally personalized couch potato experience. What does it do? It’s kind of like Foursquare for the boob tube. Sorry if part of you…

Looks like the Google Play Store is getting gift cards and a wishlist. About time! Update: Yep, real!

Would You Want an Illuminated Trackpad?

A new Apple patent shows that the company has at least considered the idea of illuminated trackpads. The patent describes how they’d be able to vary in color and brightness to provide an extra level of feedback to the user. But is that inspired concept or an incredibly dumb idea? And what the hell would…

This Short Film Shows English Eccentricity and Engineering at Its Best

The Moulton Bicycle Company was established 50 years ago by the engineer who designed the suspension system for the first Mini. This video takes a peek at the inner-workings of the company at its headquarters in Bradford-Upon-Avon, UK—and shows off the kind of English eccentricity that is impossible to resist. I’ve been fortunate enough to…

Zynga Is Lobbying Hard For Online Gambling

Unsurprisingly, Zynga is keen to move away from in-game purchases and towards in-game betting. So keen, in fact, that it’s been spending upwards of $75,000 on lobbying policy makers over online gambling, reports The Wall Street Journal. In particular, it’s focussed on a bill introduced in the California state senate that would establish licensing for…

How Your Brain Cleans Itself

Your brain needs to clean itself. Not because it’s cluttered with inane thoughts or clogged by your filthy sense of humor, but because—like every other organ—it creates waste products. Now, scientists have worked out how it keeps itself clean. The rest of your body has this thing called the lymphatic system: a series of tubes…

Lenovo CEO: Microsoft’s Surface Is No Threat to Us

Many hardware manufacturers are none too happy about the imminent arrival of Microsoft’s Surface—especially Acer’s CEO. But Lenovo’s head honcho doesn’t seem fussed in the slightest. https://gizmodo.com/does-microsoft-even-need-hardware-partners-for-windows-5922460 In fact, Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing seems confident his company is going to wipe the floor with Microsoft. Speaking during an earnings call he explained: “[They’re] just one…

Reuters has had its blogging platform hacked twice in as many weeks. Somebody, please upgrade its security. [Reuters]

Dish Network Is Planning Nationwide Satellite Broadband

People living in the sticks, rejoice! Bloomberg is reporting that Dish Network is planning to roll out a nationwide satellite broadband internet service —and promises speeds of between 5 and 15 megabits per second. The satellite, EchoStar 17, is owned by Dish’s sister company and was launched on July 5th this year. People “familiar with…

US Suffers Another Blow in Its Case Against Kim Dotcom

Is it okay for me to say that I’m a little glad we’re doing so poorly in our case against Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom? I am. I am so glad. I miss Megaupload dearly and I’m truly pleased by this latest news: Judge Winkelmann of the High Court of New Zealand has upheld a ruling…

The Gadgets that Got Us Going, Back in 2002

Gizmodo is officially 10 years old! And, while we’ve been celebrating this all week, I thought it would be fun (and/or funny) to take a look back at the ancestor gadgets we would all be using if someone were to turn the dial back, way back, all the way back to 2002. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-is-10-years-old-today-sort-of-5926187 The Computer…

Would You Pay to Use Twitter?

App.net is a new fee-based, ad-free, realtime social feed—think Twitter, but with a price. But, you see, I already like Twitter. A lot. And I’m pretty comfortable with my whole profile: who I follow, who follows me, etc. I don’t quite feel like leaving for something newer, even if it is ad-free. And especially if…