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Time to Enjoy: Find Activities That Fit Your Hectic Schedule

You’ve got a problem: you’re a very busy person, but you’d still like to find time for some fun. Time to Enjoy understands your dilemma, so it integrates with your iPhone calendar to help you find events when you’re available. What does it do? The app taps into your iCal, and searches for events in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion to Buy More

Just weeks after the Navy grounded its favorite fleet of unmanned spy copters, the admirals announced that they’re spending another quarter-billion dollars to buy even more of the drones. Manufacturer Northrop Grumman will get $262,336,248 to provide the Navy with six MQ-8B Fire Scout copters and test two more. The single-sourced contract comes two weeks…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Wrap Your iPhone In This Adorable 8-Bit Bumper

Does the iPhone 4’s Retina display make you nostalgic for the days when VGA was the equivalent of cutting-edge graphics? Well Big Big Pixels has the cure with its adorably pixelated 8-Bit bumper case that will transport your iPhone back to the Atari days. It’s just $25, comes with a matching pixelated Apple logo you…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Haiku Fan Is Perfect for Your Apartment or Zendo

Your ceiling fan is something you might not think about until it starts creaking in the night, keeping you from sweet sweet slumber. But it should be more than just a thing attached to your ceiling, collecting dust bunnies. The lovely Haiku is equally sleek and functional, a nice way to circulate the air in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Rocket to the Stars at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

At first glance, the cover of the April 1938 issue of Popular Science magazine looks like a particularly odd vision of the future. Is that a 1930’s rocketship, blasting off into space? What about the door on the right with a clearly marked “EXIT” sign above it? Our Depression-era rocketship is indeed indoors and claims…

Tech News Matt Novak

Textercuff: The Ultimate Sex Toy for Those Addicted to Bondage and Smartphones

It has already been established there are people out there who feel the need to use their phone during sex. And presumably, there’s a very narrow subset of people who also enjoy some kinky BDSM action. For those rare individuals, there is Textercuff, which combines handcuffs and a gag ball into a text-denying thumb guard.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Postal Service Shipped This Guy’s Package Across the Country Twice for No Reason

This fellow wanted to have something shipped to his house in LA. It started off in Union City, California. Should have only taken a few days, right? Try two weeks—because USPS sent it across the entire continent. Twice. Why was the package routed thousand and thousands of miles instead of a few hundred? Why would…

Tech News Sam Biddle

180 Beautiful Black & White Images

Our cameras have captured color for a long time, but we’re all still obsessed with black & white. How could that be? Participants to this week’s Shooting Challenge offer 180 reasons why: https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-black-white-5903368 Winner – Six Feet Under I was out doing some timelapse shooting at a plane spotting location outside the airport at Zürich…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Couple Busted Trying to Sell Meth and a Military Drone to China

Meth and drones, meth and drones—there’s hardly a more imaginable combo that pairs better. The PB&J of espionage. At least according to a Taiwanese duo, accused of an attempt to smuggle out military secrets and drugs to China. ABC News reports the couple—Hui Sheng “Charlie” Shen and Huan Ling “Alice” Chang—were “arrested after they told…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Carbon Fiber Bookshelves Are Novel Objects of Lust

You don’t see it used in furniture very often, but Davide Anzalone’s Aliante bookshelf, which took the top prize at Olympus RFP’s 2012 Carbon Fiber Design Contest, makes a strong case for using carbon fiber everywhere. Looking like it could serve alongside the stealth fighter in the U.S. Air Force, you can actually fill the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Professional Recording Studio in an Unbelievably Tiny Room

Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and The Foo Fighters have something in common with Brooklyn-based musician Neil Shah—they all made great music in a basic home studio. McCartney and Springsteen had a four-track cassette deck, and Dave Grohl used a garage. But Shah’s setup is even more limited—his whole studio measures all of 66 square feet.…

Tech News Amanda DeMatto

This Mini Bike Is Your Lance-Armstrong-Jr Deal of the Day

My apartment isn’t huge, but I believe it’s big enough to warrant some form of transit system. Walking is too slow. I want something small enough that I can pack away, yet robust enough that I can take a quick ride to the fridge, if the mood strikes me. On Sundays, I can take that…

Tech News Andrew James

Intel’s Ivy Bridge: The Maximum PC Review

You are, no doubt, quite familiar with Intel’s CPU-release “cadence” of tick-tock by now. If not, the short story is that every tock brings a major breakthrough, while ticks are decent upgrades but nothing to Twitter home about. hat’s not necessarily the case with Intel’s latest tick, the Ivy Bridge CPU. Sure, the performance enhancements…

Tech News Sam Biddle

You’ve Never Seen Your Console Controllers Like This Before

Who cares about console controllers? They sit on our floors, are thrown against our walls, and do our bidding. Boring chunks of plastic. But when you x-ray them, they look downright gorgeous, like cyborg jellyfish. Redditor Diabolikal49 (kewl name) alleges to work with some industrial-grade x-ray machinery, and cooked up these fantastic images of console…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Why You Should Be On A Cargo Bike

I used to care about weight. I’m one of those OCD types who meticulously weighed components out on my gram scale. I’m the jerk with the hollow pin chain and all Dura Ace on his carbon fiber LOOK 595. I stripped my mountain bike down to its frame, and replaced every. single. part. Every one.…

Tech News Mat Honan

If a Truck Loaded With Sulfuric Acid Crashes, Does It Melt the Road?

This truck carrying 1,000 gallons of sulfuric acid crashed in Bartow, Florida, spilling its cargo over State Road 60. The driver was burned, people and animals have been evacuated, and a hazardous materials team in on the scene. But my question is: if sulfuric acid drops on a road, would the road melt? I always…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

You Think More Clearly in a Foreign Language

If you find that you’re forever making foolish decisions, there might be a solution. A team of researchers has found that thinking in a foreign language sees people make more rational decisions. During the study, carried out at the University of Chicago and published in Psychological Science, researchers asked volunteers to make a hypothetical choice…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Make Silly Webcam Faces to Scrunch Up a Nike Sneaker

Making stupid faces on a webcam is pretty close to a natural state of being. It’s the first thing kids, old people, and idiots do when they sit down at a computer. And the evil geniuses at Nike somehow managed to make it even more fun. Nike Free Face actually launched in Japan this week,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Vase-Shaped Stand Lets Your TV Blossom

Breaking free from the traditional boxy designs of entertainment centers, the Bloom TV Stand features a curvy outline designed to look like a large vase with your LCD blossoming like a high-tech flower. The numerous layers of birch that go into its construction create a natural striped pattern on its outer surface, while a cut-out…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Koss Striva: Wi-Fi Streaming Headphones That Free Your Ears From Wires

Wireless music systems like Sonos and Apple’s AirPlay technology are crazy liberating, but so far no one’s managed to do the same thing with headphones—at least not in a way that’s both convenient and sounds good. Could this new system from Koss be the future? The new Koss Striva comes in both in-ear (Stiva TAP)…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Time to Enjoy: Find Activities That Fit Your Hectic Schedule

Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion to Buy More

Wrap Your iPhone In This Adorable 8-Bit Bumper

The Haiku Fan Is Perfect for Your Apartment or Zendo

Rocket to the Stars at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Textercuff: The Ultimate Sex Toy for Those Addicted to Bondage and Smartphones

The Postal Service Shipped This Guy’s Package Across the Country Twice for No Reason

180 Beautiful Black & White Images

Couple Busted Trying to Sell Meth and a Military Drone to China

Carbon Fiber Bookshelves Are Novel Objects of Lust

A Professional Recording Studio in an Unbelievably Tiny Room

This Mini Bike Is Your Lance-Armstrong-Jr Deal of the Day

Intel’s Ivy Bridge: The Maximum PC Review

You’ve Never Seen Your Console Controllers Like This Before

Why You Should Be On A Cargo Bike

If a Truck Loaded With Sulfuric Acid Crashes, Does It Melt the Road?

You Think More Clearly in a Foreign Language

Make Silly Webcam Faces to Scrunch Up a Nike Sneaker

Vase-Shaped Stand Lets Your TV Blossom

Koss Striva: Wi-Fi Streaming Headphones That Free Your Ears From Wires

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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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

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