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A Flatpack Portable Night Stand Is a Brilliant Travel Accessory

If you travel a lot and live life from one hotel room to the next, this collapsible portable night stand will bring some much needed consistency to your nomadic lifestyle. Forget toiletries, this is the first thing we’re packing for our next trip. When folded, the $15 Urban Shelf is just a half-inch thick so…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Credit Card Thin Battery Is Perfect For Other Kinds of Emergency Charges

If you thought the American Express card in your wallet was the perfect tool for solving all of life’s little emergencies, think again. This wallet-friendly backup battery can charge your iOS devices or serve as an emergency sync cable. With just a 400mAh battery tucked inside its 7mm thick case, the card’s not going to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

You’ll Need To Appease This Porcupine Chair Before You Can Sit On It

Tired of having to deal with people’s asses being shoved in its face, the Wild Chair has developed a set of spiky quills, like a porcupine, allowing it to finally fight back against aggressive sitters. Actually, it’s just a far out design project cooked up by a couple of designers and MIT folk, but that…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Flip-Book Business Cards Are an Incredibly Tedious Way To Promote Yourself (Updated)

Handing someone a well-designed business card that’s clever, even humorous, is a great way to promote yourself. But handing someone a giant poster and asking them to slice it up into 100 cards to create a flip-book animation? That all but guarantees you a spot on the unemployment line. It’s not that we don’t think…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Philippe Starck Designed the Most Beautiful Fitness Equipment You’ll Ever See

When he’s not finding ways to get you drunk in mere seconds, Philippe Starck spends his time designing some of the most beautiful everyday objects we’ve ever seen. From juicers, to hard drives, to now a set of stunning fitness gear including free weights and jump ropes. https://gizmodo.com/this-spray-will-get-you-instantaneously-drunk-but-just-5907153 Created for Italian brand Alias, the HGO…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Couch Is the Only Place It’s Ever Ok To Fall Asleep At the Wheel

At some point in your life you’re going to have to give up the dream of sleeping in an awesome car bed. We still totally support you, but the rest of society won’t be as accepting. So as an alternative, you might want to consider a car-shaped couch instead. Created by design and fashion studio…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How Yahoo Killed Flickr, Facebook IPOs, MacBook Pro Rumors, and More…

This week was a busy week! We gave you the inside scoop on how Yahoo ruined the best photo sharing site on the web, All the excitement and drama surrounding the Facebook IPO, the death of unilmited data on Verizon, and a TV news mystery we can’t quite wrap our heads around. Here are our…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Inflatable Meat Balloons Are the Perfect Decorations For Your Next BBQ

Last week’s cupcake-filled sausages put a damper on our appreciation of all things meat. But our mood has been considerably improved now that we’ve discovered these fantastic hand-made balloons that look exactly like cuts of meat. They’ve even redeemed sausages for us. https://gizmodo.com/cupcake-filled-sausages-are-beyond-gross-5911189 The incredibly unique decorations were created by a Chicago-based design shop called…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Insanely Detailed Lego Land Rover Even Includes Working Disc Brakes

If you needed yet another reminder that you’re far from being a Lego master builder, check out ‘Sheepo’s’ mind-blowingly awesome 1:8.4-scale Land Rover Defender 110 built from over 2,800 pieces. It could probably endure an off-road adventure better than your compact car. As with any Lego creation that’s worth its weight in bricks—in this case…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Stylish Sun Shade Is the Easiest Way To Harness Solar Power For Your Home

If you like the idea of getting free energy from the sun, but don’t want to deal with the complications of installing a solar array on your roof, Umbrosa has created a lovely backyard sun shade that does double-duty—turning those rays into electricity. As umbrellas go the Eclipse’s design is striking, but it isn’t really…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How To Turn PVC and Hairspray Into a Force of Destruction

Wish you had a way to fire projectiles in your backyard but lack a firearm and/or the proper permit? Not a problem! With $40 in plumbing supplies and an hour of your time, you too can launch Russets with extreme prejudice. You should do this if: You enjoy controlled explosions and fast-moving tubers. Moment of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Kick Off Your Weekend With Piranhacondas, Steaksaws, and Alan Rickman

Your brain can melt trying to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day. That’s why we are here to ease your fatigue with the best videos of the week. Enjoy! Piranhaconda Will Quite Possibly Be The Greatest Movie of All Time Is it even scientifically possible for a…

Tech News Michael Hession

Drinking from this Stemware, You’ll Be Less Apt to Spill

Prague-based Boad Design‘s “Izolator” collection of stemware is more than just a quirky take on an every-day item. These ridged wine stems are ergonomically designed to fit comfortably and securely in your hand—meaning few spills and shattered glasses. Which is lucky, because good-looking glasses like these would be a shame to break or crack. [DesignBoom…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This Twitter-Powered Road-Painting Printer Wants to Hear From You!

An advocacy group known as One has designed a sorta genius giant towable inkjet printer that prints messages of peaceful protest, in non-toxic water-soluble paint, on city streets. In anticipation of the upcoming G8 Summit, the One Street Tweeter, as it is known, has already begun printing messages around Maryland and Washington D.C. And, if…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

ICBMs Blowing Up, Tenacious D Rocking Out, and a Muppet Triple Treat

Ode To Joy – Beaker Whaddya mean these aren’t the actual lyrics? https://gizmodo.com/tenacious-d-rize-of-the-fenix-5907867 Tenacious D: Rize Of The Fenix Truly a pair of Rock Gods https://gizmodo.com/the-muppets-take-ibm-5552815 The Muppets Take IBM This has got to be the best employee training film of all time. But during the ’60s even the stuffed shirts over at IBM had…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Hollywood Movie Marketing Makes For a Great Use of This Abandoned Paris Metro Station

Station Saint-Martin along Paris’s Metro Line 8 & 9 was closed in 1939, at the start of WWII, and although reopened once the war had ended, the station was ultimately shutter for good due its close proximity (100m) to another Metro station. Since then, it has sat empty and unused, a seeming ghost land, another…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Internet Troll

As much as we all complain about trolls, have you ever really taken the time to get to know one? Or, better yet, to get to know Patton Oswalt’s hilarious rendition of real-life, under-the-bridge type internet trolldom? You should! You can: The rest of this week’s top web comedy videos, including TMI, Fifty Shades of…

Tech News Splitsider

Posting Pictures of Her Terminally Ill Son Got Grieving Mother Banned from Facebook (Updated)

The day Grayson James Walker was born, his parents—Heather and Patrick Walker, of Memphis, Tennessee—knew their time with him would be brief. Grayson had been diagnosed in utero with a rare neural tube birth defect called Anencephaly, in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. To honor the memory of…

Social Media Molly Oswaks

World’s Worst Parents Put Kid Through Spin-Cycle at the Laundromat

“Gee, Honey. I’m all done loading the dirty laundry, but I don’t want to stop and hey look there’s an empty machine right here.” “I know, let’s put our precious toddler inside!” “Yeah, okay.” …I mean, what were these morons thinking?! And no, they don’t get even a little sympathy for (hopefully?!) not anticipating that…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

White House Hires a New Cybersecurity Boss

Cybersecurity and the government have been a volitile combination lately, with proposed bills like SOPA, PIPA, and the still-up-in-the-air CISPA at the center of on-and-off internet outrage. So it’s kind of a big deal when the White House replaces its chief of cybersecurity affairs. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-sopa-5877000 Last week, longtime chief Howard Schmidt stepped down. He’s replaced…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

A Flatpack Portable Night Stand Is a Brilliant Travel Accessory

Credit Card Thin Battery Is Perfect For Other Kinds of Emergency Charges

You’ll Need To Appease This Porcupine Chair Before You Can Sit On It

Flip-Book Business Cards Are an Incredibly Tedious Way To Promote Yourself (Updated)

Philippe Starck Designed the Most Beautiful Fitness Equipment You’ll Ever See

This Couch Is the Only Place It’s Ever Ok To Fall Asleep At the Wheel

How Yahoo Killed Flickr, Facebook IPOs, MacBook Pro Rumors, and More…

Inflatable Meat Balloons Are the Perfect Decorations For Your Next BBQ

Insanely Detailed Lego Land Rover Even Includes Working Disc Brakes

Stylish Sun Shade Is the Easiest Way To Harness Solar Power For Your Home

How To Turn PVC and Hairspray Into a Force of Destruction

Kick Off Your Weekend With Piranhacondas, Steaksaws, and Alan Rickman

Drinking from this Stemware, You’ll Be Less Apt to Spill

This Twitter-Powered Road-Painting Printer Wants to Hear From You!

ICBMs Blowing Up, Tenacious D Rocking Out, and a Muppet Triple Treat

Hollywood Movie Marketing Makes For a Great Use of This Abandoned Paris Metro Station

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Internet Troll

Posting Pictures of Her Terminally Ill Son Got Grieving Mother Banned from Facebook (Updated)

World’s Worst Parents Put Kid Through Spin-Cycle at the Laundromat

White House Hires a New Cybersecurity Boss

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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