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Gorgeous Modern Rocking Horse Is Reason Enough To Have Kids

The crying, the diapers, the terrible twos, the teenage angst—these are all valid reasons not to have kids. But they’re all rendered moot when you realize young’ns are an excuse to buy beautiful items like this Rocky rocking horse made just for children. Designed by Marc Newson for a company called Magis, the un-inspiringly named…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole

We’ve seen people take some serious spills because they’re all walking and talking or texting and not paying attention, but what happens to this poor girl is just horrible. That had to hurt. https://gizmodo.com/girl-falls-on-her-face-while-texting-during-live-news-5885775 The teenage girl in the video above was walking quickly down the street, enraptured by her conversation. She was so caught…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

An Anti-Catcalling App Is a Silly Way to Waste $20,000 of Government Money

Nobody likes sexism or the obnoxious jerks who jeer women walking down the street. But there’s a pretty good chance that New York’s new $20,000 “research” investment in an app to report offending males might not be the best way to do something about it. According to the Daily News, New York politicians just greenlighted…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Flexible Solar Panels Stack Cells on Sheets Printed Like OLEDs

Solar panels are finicky devices—they have to be specially mounted, angled, and presented with the precisely correct environmental conditions to function at capacity. The complexities make it hard for the technology to gain mainstream appeal. A German startup could change all that with flexible solar cells built using OLED production techniques. Developed by Heliatek in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Is Selling Hardware Again

Even though Google failed miserably and shut down the old Google phone store, it looks like they’re giving it one more go. Right now, Google is selling an unlocked Galaxy Nexus that works on both AT&T and T-Mobile for $400 on Google Play. https://gizmodo.com/okay-googles-new-way-to-sell-a-phone-is-a-failure-nex-5539189 It’s being sold in the new ‘Devices’ section of Google Play.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Stylish Vac Compresses Your Dirt Into Easily Disposable Cubes

Gtech’s AirRam cordless vacuum certainly has the looks to challenge Dyson’s rein over the industry. But it actually manages to one-up its competition with a neat system that turns the dirt you suck up into tiny dust-free bales that are even easier to dispose of. On a full charge the AirRam’s lithium-ion battery is good…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China

This sewer runs along Zhengshang Road, in Zhengzhou, China. On April 21st, the strangest thing happened overnight: it got covered with pill capsules. Pill capsules everywhere, gazillions of them, turing the water into a gross soup of colorful molecules. Nobody knows how this happened. There are no pharmaceutical factories nearby. Months ago, there was a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Will the IKEA TV Be as Hard to Assemble as Conan’s Parody Is?

IKEA recently broke into the consumer electronics industry with the launch of its Uppleva TV set. Most of us have probably experienced the pain and suffering that can go along with assembling IKEA products. The team at Conan is no different, and their parody ad illustrates the logical conclusion of the IKEA do-it-yourself tradition. Look…

Tech News Michael Hession

If You Tweet and Delete Your Crimes You Will Still Go To Jail

Everyone screws up and occasionally tweets something they shouldn’t. Thanks to services like Topsy, deleting your 140 character flub has never been a foolproof way of erasing your misdeed, but we always thought it was good enough to keep us from getting busted. Now a judge says even deleted tweets can be used against you…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

This Video Has a Frightful Secret That Only Your Digital Camera Can See

To the naked eye this video looks like nothing but a TV screen covered in colorful random static. But there’s a secret message hidden in there that only your digital camera can reveal. Specifically, your digital camera with adequate manual controls so you can set your f-stop to 5.6 and your shutter speed to one…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

North Korea Might Blow Up a Nuke Very Soon

North Korea, not wanting to look like a bunch of inept jerkoffs who can’t enter a space race that’s already over, is desperate. The putzy new Glorious Leader looks weak. The solution? Blow up a nuclear bomb to scare the world. https://gizmodo.com/north-korea-defies-the-world-and-launches-menacing-rock-5901325 Reuters is reporting, based on an informed “source,” with “close ties to Pyongyang…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Android Trojan Can Track Your Keystrokes Using Motion Sensors

Smartphones work very hard to keep your keystrokes secure, but now there’s a new way for malware to get at them. Researchers at IBM and Penn State have developed a new kind of trojan that tracks what you type into your phone using only your phone’s motion sensors. TapLogger is the app they’ve put together…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Tiny Skis for Wheelchairs Tackle Snow With Ease

The small and thin front wheels on a wheelchair or stroller might roll easy on hard surfaces, but on snow and ice they sink right in like a hot knife through butter. So a Swedish inventor has created a simple ski accessory that lets smaller wheels easily slide over frozen conditions. The Wheel Blades—created by…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

10 Outdated Gadgets You Can Still Buy Today

No matter how transformative the technology, sooner or later its time will pass. Change is good! It means we’ve moved on to something bigger and better. But our friends at Laptop Magazine found 10 technologies way past their expiration dates that you can still purchase today. Obsolescence is a measure of tech progress. That’s why…

Gadgets Davey Alba - Laptop Magazine

Meet AMD’s New Laptop Graphics Monster

Not to be outdone by Intel’s giant splash yesterday, AMD is trotting out its next-gen mobile GPU line. And while they still might be outdone, the Radeon HD 7900M series does look pretty damn terrific. The top of the line mobile chip packs 1,280 individual video acceleration processors, 2 GB of memory, and can power…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Here’s How Much Money Facebook Makes Off of You

We’d gotten a glimpse at Facebook’s financials when the company first filed for an IPO in early February, but now an amended S-1 filing has shed even more light on the giant pile of money hoarded by the Zuck dragon. Including, reports TechCrunch, how much he made off of you. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-files-for-5-billion-ipo-fb-should-trade-this-5881424 The details in the…

Social Media Brian Barrett

This Crazy 1970s Fisheye Lens Could Be Yours For $160,000

If you have a taste for wild fisheye shots, here’s the ultimate lens. It’s claimed that it can “see behind itself”, was made as a proof-of-concept for a trade show in 1970, and can be yours. If you have $160,000 lying around, that is. Officially called the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8, the lens was unveiled at…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Dropbox Morphs into Megaupload With Direct Sharing of Anything in Your Account

There’s no more fussing about with shared folders when using Dropbox any more, as the cloud storage service has just added the ability to share ANY file in your Dropbox account. It works with a simple right-click through the Dropbox menu (or icons within the web and mobile apps), where a new “Get Link” tab…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - gizmodo uk

Google Drive to Offer Up to 100 GB of Storage and Launch Today?

Rumors about Google Drive have been circulating for a long, long time. But now Reuters is reporting that Drive will launch today, and also offer users up to 100 GB of online storage—for a fee. https://gizmodo.com/does-this-leak-hint-at-google-drives-imminent-arrival-5901661 Their report, tapping a “source familiar with the matter”, suggests that while 5 GB of storage will be free,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Stanford Feeds Silicon Valley—At a Cost

Stanford is a hot house for the technology industry, producing a constant stream of graduates who have gone on to set up and run the great and good of Silicon Valley. But while such a close working relationship has seen many successes, the sheer quantities of money involved make the set-up increasingly tense. In The…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Gorgeous Modern Rocking Horse Is Reason Enough To Have Kids

Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole

An Anti-Catcalling App Is a Silly Way to Waste $20,000 of Government Money

Flexible Solar Panels Stack Cells on Sheets Printed Like OLEDs

Google Is Selling Hardware Again

Stylish Vac Compresses Your Dirt Into Easily Disposable Cubes

Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China

Will the IKEA TV Be as Hard to Assemble as Conan’s Parody Is?

If You Tweet and Delete Your Crimes You Will Still Go To Jail

This Video Has a Frightful Secret That Only Your Digital Camera Can See

North Korea Might Blow Up a Nuke Very Soon

Android Trojan Can Track Your Keystrokes Using Motion Sensors

Tiny Skis for Wheelchairs Tackle Snow With Ease

10 Outdated Gadgets You Can Still Buy Today

Meet AMD’s New Laptop Graphics Monster

Here’s How Much Money Facebook Makes Off of You

This Crazy 1970s Fisheye Lens Could Be Yours For $160,000

Dropbox Morphs into Megaupload With Direct Sharing of Anything in Your Account

Google Drive to Offer Up to 100 GB of Storage and Launch Today?

How Stanford Feeds Silicon Valley—At a Cost

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

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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