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VFX: Add Movie-Style Special Effects to Your iPhone Pics

“And here I am on an African safari, defending my camp from a pack of lions with my trident in the middle of a lightning storm.” None of that really happened, but you can make believe it did with VFX, an app that lets you add tons of special effects to your photos. What does…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Bottle Opener + Sunglasses = Beer Goggles?

We’re convinced they started life as nothing more than a hi-larious drunken joke at a bar one night. But believe it or not, these Brewsees are now an actual product, ready to protect your eyes from the sun while facilitating the destruction of your liver through booze. Unless you’re into the whole Oakley look, the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Who Cares About Slingshots When This Crossbow Fires Spinning Saw Blades?

We’ve got nothing but undying love for slingshot master Joerg Sprave. But if we had to select a weapon of choice, it would probably be Patrick Priebe’s saw blade-launching laser-sighted Blade Driver crossbow. https://gizmodo.com/the-slingshot-master-shows-us-how-to-turn-office-suppli-5903958 And it doesn’t matter that the blades it fires are only 2-inches in diameter. Anything larger and you wouldn’t be able…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Full Surface Induction Cooktop Gives You the Freedom To Place Your Pots Anywhere

They might be the future of cooking, but for some reason induction cooktops limit where you can place your pots, like the burners on a traditional stove. But Siemens is breaking free of those constraints with a new design that boasts an all-encompassing cooking surface. It’s not unlike Thermador’s Freedom stove unveiled at CES, which…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Woman Won a $1 Million Lottery Twice in One Day

Virginia Pike, from, heh, Virginia, is infinitely more lucky than you. In fact, she’s twice as infinitely more lucky because she won a $1 million lottery prize TWICE in the same day. What! Pike had two tickets with the same number on them and though she didn’t match all 6 numbers for a giganto-sized mega…

Tech News Casey Chan

It’s Hard to Believe These Impossible Buildings Aren’t Real

Architectural photographer Victor Enrich makes these impossible buildings using a combination of photography, digital retouching and 3D graphics. The results are so amazing that I can actually believe some of them are real. [Victor Enrich]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Single Best Way to Avoid Getting Screwed on Craigslist

Buying or selling anything of value on craigslist can be terrifying because bad people can steal your money or property. But one simple piece of advice can make buying or selling expensive things a million times safer: Meet in a bank lobby. Being in a bank takes care of the cash problem. You don’t have…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

10 People Who Actually Deserve To Be in the Internet Hall of Fame

Today at the Global INET Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, the Internet Society announced the inaugural inductees into the new Internet Hall of Fame. It’s a lofty endeavor, and the first batch of inductees includes 33 undeniable geniuses. You have probably not heard of most of them. For everything Tan Tin Wee has done for the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Adobe Nearly Blown Away By Winds of Change

Adobe unveiled CS6 and Creative Cloud in San Francisco today. It trucked in a bunch of enormous, branded balloons because, you know, cloud. But it’s really windy today! And even with giant anchors, its having trouble keeping its stuff grounded. The company had to get a bunch of guys to hang on to they guy…

Tech News Mat Honan

The Magazine of the Future (on floppy disk!)

In 1987, a small Dallas-based company launched a floppy disk magazine that was supposed to be a grand experiment in the future of the medium. At $19.95 an issue, The New Aladdin was a bi-monthly general-interest magazine that hoped to give readers an entirely new kind of interactive experience; complete with animated graphics, computer games,…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Philips AmbientLED Bulb Is Your Never-Worry-About-A-Bulb-Again Deal of the Day

Earth Day, the one day a year when the world gets motivated about making our planet a little cleaner. Some plant a garden, others wait 24 hours to take their trash to the dump. I spent the day inside with all my lights on, celebrating the my electro-savings with my Philips AmbientLED Light Bulb. This…

Tech News Andrew James

Transform Your Office Cubicle into a Roman Palace With a Chariot Chair

Have you ever noticed that the desks in your office form a cubicle version of Rome’s Circus Maximus? And since battling lions and gladiators to determine who gets the last donut was phased out before you joined the company, perhaps a winner-takes-all chariot race is more appropriate? They might not look like the most comfortable…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why Exercise Warm-Ups Might Be Even More Important Than You Thought

Everyone knows they should warm up prior to exercise, but very few people actually bother. Turns out, that could be a real mistake: a new study suggests that warming up actually increases the maximum power a muscle can provide during exercise, as opposed to just shortening the time required to reach maximum output. The study,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Microsoft’s New SkyDrive Apps Include a Preview for Mac OS X Lion

Microsoft is launching a couple of new SkyDrive apps making the cloud storage service available to more users on more platforms. Starting today, a preview version is available for the desktop, so if you’re running Windows Vista, Windows 7, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and even Windows for Mac (OS X Lion), you can access…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Adobe Creative Cloud Will Be 40 Percent Off For Current CS Customers

Adobe is betting big on Creative Cloud. It gives customers access to all of Adobe’s Creative Suite apps, constantly updated. But it’s also a bit pricey at $50 a month. https://gizmodo.com/adobe-creative-cloud-and-creative-suite-6-are-out-today-5903914 So at the launch event today it just announced that current customers of CS3, CS4 or CS5 can snag it for $30 a month…

Tech News Mat Honan

Homicidal Lunatics Busted Rigging a Popular Trail With Deadly Medieval Booby Traps

A U.S. Forest Service Officer on foot patrol along a popular trail in Utah made a shocking discovery last week. A couple of crazy men rigged the entrances to a rudimentary shelter with booby traps. People could have died. According to the Utah Country Sheriff’s Office: On April 16, 2012, U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Air Force’s Secret Hypersonic Glider Flew So Fast Its Skin Fell Off

Last summer, the Pentagon’s Falcon HTV-2 glider—which the Air Force says can fly from New York to LA in under 12 minutes, disappeared. Nobody knew why! Now we know why: it went so fast it ripped itself apart. https://gizmodo.com/air-forces-experimental-hypersonic-aircraft-disappears-5830061 DARPA has a clean little mea culpa on what was certainly a very expensive accident: Larger…

Tech News Sam Biddle

We Finally Know What Really Causes Ice Cream Headaches

Everyone’s experienced that sharp, shooting headache as a result of stuffing their face with ice cream. Previously, scientists have suggested it’s just a result of the rapid cooling and rewarming of blood vessels in the sinuses—but a new study shows that the cause is actually buried much deeper. The research, carried out in part by…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Clever Leave-In Handles Let You Bake Up Self-Slicing Bread

Once the smell of freshly baked bread starts wafting through the house, there’s nothing more agonizing than having to wait to dig in. So designer Tal Zur has come up with an incredibly ingenius way to shave a few precious seconds off the wait for a freshly sliced loaf. Her Hallah Handles concept is a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Intel’s Ivy Bridge: Tri-Gate Transistors Bring Supercharged Performance

Today is the day that the full veil comes off Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors, which will be more commonly known as the third generation of Core processors. With that comes stats and specs about what Ivy Bridge is built on and what it will be capable of. Here’s everything you need to know about Ivy…

Tech News Adrian Covert

VFX: Add Movie-Style Special Effects to Your iPhone Pics

Bottle Opener + Sunglasses = Beer Goggles?

Who Cares About Slingshots When This Crossbow Fires Spinning Saw Blades?

Full Surface Induction Cooktop Gives You the Freedom To Place Your Pots Anywhere

A Woman Won a $1 Million Lottery Twice in One Day

It’s Hard to Believe These Impossible Buildings Aren’t Real

The Single Best Way to Avoid Getting Screwed on Craigslist

10 People Who Actually Deserve To Be in the Internet Hall of Fame

Adobe Nearly Blown Away By Winds of Change

The Magazine of the Future (on floppy disk!)

This Philips AmbientLED Bulb Is Your Never-Worry-About-A-Bulb-Again Deal of the Day

Transform Your Office Cubicle into a Roman Palace With a Chariot Chair

Why Exercise Warm-Ups Might Be Even More Important Than You Thought

Microsoft’s New SkyDrive Apps Include a Preview for Mac OS X Lion

Adobe Creative Cloud Will Be 40 Percent Off For Current CS Customers

Homicidal Lunatics Busted Rigging a Popular Trail With Deadly Medieval Booby Traps

The Air Force’s Secret Hypersonic Glider Flew So Fast Its Skin Fell Off

We Finally Know What Really Causes Ice Cream Headaches

Clever Leave-In Handles Let You Bake Up Self-Slicing Bread

Intel’s Ivy Bridge: Tri-Gate Transistors Bring Supercharged Performance

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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