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Always Be Gaming: A Stylish Donkey Kong-Inspired Shelving Unit for Your Home

If when you close your eyes each night in bed you see visions of pixelated arcade apes performing game-like quests, you can be sure you are a true gamer at heart. And now that we’ve cleared that up, you might as well embrace it, and indulge yourself with a little Donkey Kong-inspired interior decor. LA-based…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Watch a Bunch of Fire Ants Destroy Technology

Fire Ants, those scorching stinging insects, have a strange attraction to technology but no one really knows why. From tearing up wires and creating short circuits, fire ants just love to destroy technology. Watch them in action in this video from BBC Earth. Even more amazing, the fire ants can avoid getting zapped by the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Why Is the Military So Shockingly Bad at Art?

When a military contractor is trying to sell some wacky superweapon to the Pentagon, or when the Pentagon is trying to sell some wacky superweapon to Congress, it draws a cool action picture. But why are they so horribly terrible? Take this brand new image cooked up my Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is working on…

Tech News Sam Biddle

An Automatic Pepper Mill for Lazy Spice Fiends

Grinding pepper yourself is so hard. Your little T-Rex arms are weak, and we have technology that means never exerting those wrists again for fresh seasonings. For $120 Tonga, a automated pepper/spice mill from Alessi, will do it for you. Just simply press the button on the side and you’ll have your nutmeg, your salt,…

Gadgets Leslie Horn

Eyeona: Cash in on a Sale Even After You’ve Cashed Out

Ever buy something only to see it on sale just a day or two later? You can stop kicking yourself and start cashing in on those price reductions with Eyeona, an app that monitors your purchases even after you’ve taken the tags off. What does it do? Scans the receipts of items you’ve purchased and…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Our Future Dystopia Looks Kinda Awesome?

Pleix (you know, the same group responsible for that dog vid) was asked to put together its visions of the future. What it produced was nothing short of frightening: Non existent beaches, never-ending traffic, human-animal hybrids, pink slime, green slime, red slime, raspberry slime, and screens! SO MANY SCREENS!!! But i’d be willing to live…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Windows Surface RT Tablets To Be Lighter and Thinner Than the iPad

Microsoft’s new Surface tablets were announced with a whole bunch of hype, but the specs pf the things have been practically non-existent. Now, some details have come out about the Surface RT tablets, revealing that they’ll not only be thinner and lighter than the iPad, but also play HD video for 13 consecutive hours. For…

Tech News Eric Limer

Blogger Invoices Local News After They Rip His Video From YouTube

Blogger Michael McKisson got a bit of a surprise when he turned on the TV and saw a familiar video. The clip, which McKisson had filmed and uploaded to YouTube for his own blog, Tucson Velo, was featured in a story on the local news. McKisson had not given them permission to use the video,…

Tech News Eric Limer

Is This the Best Video Chat Prank Ever? I Think So

The people who made this Chatroulette—yes, it still works—prank think it is the best one ever. I agree. They put a sexy girl on their end, looking for wankers while broadcasting the screen to the biggest outdoor city festival in Europe. Of course, the guys didn’t learn about it until they were waving their hard-on.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Come Intern For Gizmodo In New York

Hello Internet! We’re looking for some fall interns for our New York office. We’re pretty demanding of our interns, but in turn, you will learn a lot about this whole professional blogging enterprise. So, the ideal candidate is someone who’s looking at a career in media, but fairly geeky too. Oh, and you must be…

Tech News Gizmodo

You Will Never Look Better Drinking Coffee Than With This Cup

You could be dressed in rags, filthy from weeks of no bathing, reeking to high heaven. But I’m fairly confident that if you had the Wave Mug in your hand, the world would be so enthralled with that object that they’d be oblivious to your squalor. Utilizing a double walled porcelain design, the Wave Mug…

Tech News Adrian Covert

These NFL iHip Mini Earbuds Are Your Hippest-Footballiest-Headphoniest Deal of the Day

You know how you know something is really cool? When it uses the Apple naming scheme with an awesome, radical word the young kids use. So if you’re into American Football like I am, then you know that getting earbuds with your own team’s personal logo on them might be the hippest thing in the…

Tech News J.D. Levite

What’s Really Going On With Apple’s New Dock Connector

Aside from a larger screen, one of the biggest rumors about the next iPhone is the idea that it will feature a significantly shrunken down dock connector. But how small will it get? And more importantly: why does it matter? https://gizmodo.com/report-ios-6-may-confirm-taller-4-inch-iphone-5932526 The iPhone in your pocket right now communicates with other devices—most notably your computer—with…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Five Biggest Myths About Saving Energy in the Summer

This summer has already set temperature records around the nation, and we’re still in the dog days of August. With money tight, and temperatures high, there’s a temptation to test out unconventional ways to beat the the heat. But these odd home remedies can end up wasting energy and costing more money. Here’s how to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Microsoft Might Be Rushing Out Its Windows 8 Sequel

Windows 8 is coming. But the next version of Windows might not be far behind. According to the super well respected Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft could release the next version of its OS within the next year—a turnaround time that would be pretty much unprecedented for Redmond: I’ve heard the next version of Windows is…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Here’s Who Your Windows RT Tablets Will Come From

Looks like Surface didn’t scare everyone off like Microsoft said it might, because today the company announced some official Windows 8 partners. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-totally-knows-that-surface-will-screw-over-pc-5929548 From the sound of it, we’ll see devices from Dell and Samsung all running the operating system. Lenovo is also on board, but we’ve already heard about the ARM-based convertible RT tablet…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Why Apple Won’t Sue Microsoft Over Surface

The latest revelation from the never-ending Apple vs. Samsung patent spat: Apple offered to license the contentious patents to Samsung and they declined, but Microsoft was offered the same deal—and took it. https://gizmodo.com/in-2010-samsung-declined-an-offer-to-license-apples-pat-5933860 There are, however, a few caveats to the cross-licensing deal between Apple and Microsoft. First, there’s an agreement between the two companies…

Tech News Eric Limer

iOS Encryption Is So Good, Not Even the NSA Can Hack It

When you think of an encrypted device that would cause the NSA to throw its hands up and give up trying to crack it, you imagine some industrial grade server, possibly made by IBM. What you don’t expect is a smartphone that can be purchased for a hundred bucks. But the rise of AES hardware…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Tape Dispenser You’ll Wish Was Drivable

It would probably be really fun to drive a steamroller. But you have to have a special license for those vehicles, and this awesome tape dispenser looks just like one, so you know, next best thing. Okay, so it’s not exactly the same as rolling around in a big pavement pounding piece of machinery. But…

Tech News Leslie Horn

F-35 Drops Its First Bomb Ever

This August 8, the F-35 has dropped its first bomb ever and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Watch this Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft completing its “first aerial weapons release,” as the Navy puts it. The plane dropped a 1,000-pound GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition from its internal weapons bay over…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Always Be Gaming: A Stylish Donkey Kong-Inspired Shelving Unit for Your Home

Watch a Bunch of Fire Ants Destroy Technology

Why Is the Military So Shockingly Bad at Art?

An Automatic Pepper Mill for Lazy Spice Fiends

Eyeona: Cash in on a Sale Even After You’ve Cashed Out

Our Future Dystopia Looks Kinda Awesome?

Windows Surface RT Tablets To Be Lighter and Thinner Than the iPad

Blogger Invoices Local News After They Rip His Video From YouTube

Is This the Best Video Chat Prank Ever? I Think So

Come Intern For Gizmodo In New York

You Will Never Look Better Drinking Coffee Than With This Cup

These NFL iHip Mini Earbuds Are Your Hippest-Footballiest-Headphoniest Deal of the Day

What’s Really Going On With Apple’s New Dock Connector

The Five Biggest Myths About Saving Energy in the Summer

Microsoft Might Be Rushing Out Its Windows 8 Sequel

Here’s Who Your Windows RT Tablets Will Come From

Why Apple Won’t Sue Microsoft Over Surface

iOS Encryption Is So Good, Not Even the NSA Can Hack It

A Tape Dispenser You’ll Wish Was Drivable

F-35 Drops Its First Bomb Ever

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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