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Lumia 900 Costs More to Build Than the iPhone 4S

The Lumia 900 is a hell of a phone. Plus, it’s cheap: just $100 regularly, and temporarily FREE while Nokia works out some software issues. But it’s not for lack of quality parts: iSuppli crunched the numbers and determined it costs $217 to build and manufacture. That’s more than the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-lumia-900-review-this-might-save-windows-phone-5898783 For comparison’s sake,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

You Will Never Be Too Old For Your Own Personal Swing Chair

You can now bring one of the simplest of joys from your childhood—enjoying a leisurely swing—into your office without having to hang cables from the ceiling, or move furniture out of the way. At least you can if Florent Coirier ever decides to actually sell her swinging Portique Armchair. Its metal tubular frame supports a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Tokyo Institute of Technology’s New Innovation Building Is Entirely Covered in Solar Panels

The Tokyo Institute of Technology, largely considered Japan’s most prestigious university, has unveiled on its campus an impressive new building that is almost self-sustaining in its power use. The Environment and Energy Innovation Building in Meguro Ward features solar panels all along its exterior facade and on its roof––4,500 panels in all, with a total…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

A Fully Customizable Driver for the Pickiest Duffers

You can personalize a wide range of products online. Nike and Vans, for example, let you create your own kicks, down to details like lace color. Now Callaway is offering a customized golf club through its new udesign site. If you don’t want to hit the green with your own unique club, well, Callaway’s RAZR…

Gadgets Leslie Horn

Jimmy Kimmel Lets the Elderly Sound Off on Facetagram

Everyone has weighed in on Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. But one key demographic has remained silent—until know. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-buying-instagram-for-a-billion-dollars-5900352 Jimmy Kimmel sent a correspondant on location to a nearby farmer’s market to let senior citizens voice their opinions about the billion-dollar deal. FINALLY. As you would expect, they spoke with nuance and conviction. [Jimmy Kimmel Live]

Social Media Michael Hession

An Ultra-Tiny Synth Designed To Look Like Something Called a Mixtape

According to Wikipedia, at one time mankind used reels of thin flexible tape contained in plastic casings to store and share music. And that’s where the creators of the adorably tiny Mixtape Alpha 8-bit synth drew their design inspiration. Although it was created to be open source and easily hacked, the Mixtape Alpha’s not one…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Greatest Cellphone Accessory Also Has the Greatest Promotional Video

You might not think you need a $15 sleeve accessory designed to slip on your finger preventing you from dropping your phone. But we guarantee the mad rhymes and funky beats in this promo video for the Feinger will have you whipping out your credit card faster than you can say “what the hell did…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Nano-Particles Could Manufacture Cancer-Killing Drugs Inside Your Body

MIT researchers have built a nano-scale, drug-producing factory that could provide precision cancer tumor-killing inside your body. Drugs made of proteins are good at killing cancer tumors, but the human body in turn is good at killing foreign proteins that show up our bloodstream. So protein drugs have trouble reaching their destination. But the nanoparticle…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

This 12V Oven Is Your Bake-It-On-The-Go Deal of the Day

Modern science has achieved many miracles, but keeping take-out hot is not one of them. Why does my pizza have to get cold after a 10-minute drive home? More importantly, why haven’t our nations braniacs solved this problem? I’m not asking much. And I can’t explain the emotional roller coaster it is ordering pizza just…

Tech News Andrew James

Man Steals Guns and a Taser and Goes on the Craziest Crime Spree You Can Imagine

This is William C. Todd. He may have just shattered the record for the craziest and fastest crime spree in American history: ten felonies in just nine hours. The list of crimes is so insane and absurd that it seems impossible: 1. Breaking and entering. Stopping in Nashville, Tennessee for a nine-hour Greyhound bus layover,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Shooting Challenge: Give Us Your Best Instagram

We all heard: Instagram sold to Facebook for $1 billion. And good for them; it’s a great product. To celebrate, let’s all bust out Instagram. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want your best Instagram shot. https://lifehacker.com/facebook-acquires-instagram-30791786 The Challenge Take a photo (on your cellphone) using Instagram (and only Instagram!). Make it great. The Technique…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Many Calories You Burn Having Sex, Eating Pizza and Smoking a Cigarette

The best thing about the Nike Fuelband is that it can keep track of any activity you do. Yes, any. You know what that means, right? Let’s find out how many calories we burn and how much Nikefuel we earn doing totally normal everyday things. https://gizmodo.com/nikes-fuelband-is-an-awesome-fitness-wristband-for-your-5877553/?tag=nike For reference, Nike considers a 3000 Nikefuel day to…

Tech News Casey Chan

35,000 Photos Went Into This Mesmerizing Insane Asylum Video

Just when you though you had seen all there is to see in the realm of abandoned mental hospital photography, a video comes along that reinvents the game. Don’t worry: it’s still super creepy. Multimedia outfit The Voder undertook a 7-month exploration at an undisclosed abandoned madhouse and snapped 35,000 still images to create Asylum.…

Tech News Michael Hession

The Easiest Way To Check For And Remove the Mac Flashback Trojan

The Flashback trojan has infected more than half a million Macs (and counting!). But until now, detecting it and removing it hasn’t been dead simple. F-Secure, the same company that previously posted instructions for detecting and removing Flashback via the Terminal, just released a free app to diagnose whether or not your system is infected,…

Tech News Mat Honan

Can an Excavator Really Row a Freaking Boat?

Somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on the Saigon River floats the most insane, makeshift boat I’ve ever seen. Seriously. It looks like a floating concrete block being rowed by a construction excavator. Huh? I have so many questions for the guys in this video. How did they get the excavator? Where did they…

Tech News Casey Chan

We Are in Another Golden Age of Axe Design

When guns came along and became mankind’s primary weapon, axes were relegated to chopping firewood and other mundane tasks—ending the medieval golden age of axe design. But thanks to a recent spike in zombie popularity, designer axes have enjoyed a renaissance. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-loves-axes-5764227 You may never run into an actual zombie outside of a Halloween flash…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Animated Twitter Feeds Are the Best Twitter Feeds

In a wonderfully clever way of drawing attention to themselves, Smart—the company responsible for those silly-looking pygmy cars—turned their Argentinian twitter page into an animated flip book. Wanna check it out? Just click here and then hold down the J key once the page loads. It changed your life, amiright? [Twitter]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Let’s Strap a GoPro Camera To Every Professional Athlete

Sports equipment maker Easton strapped hundreds of GoPro cameras to athletes and their gear for this awesome short film titled Inside Out. Sure, it’s really just a commercial for the company’s equipment, but it worked on us. The video gives a unique first-person view of team sports that’s about a hundred times more compelling than…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Genius Artist Recreates 15th Century Portraits in Airplane Lavatory

Innovators: they walk among us, work near us, and sit in the seat across the aisle on airplanes. Though typical solutions to making a long flight go by faster include reading, watching movies, listening to music, or sleeping, pioneers like artist Nina Katchadourian aspire to a higher-minded way of easing the monotony: Recreating art. In…

Tech News Leslie Horn

What Is This?

Are these geodes? Is that a view from inside Hef’s grotto? Kate Bush’s brainmap? Nope! None of the above. Photojournalist William Miller picked up an old SX-70 Polaroid instant at a flea market, not knowing that the camera was finicky and damaged goods. Instead of scrapping it for junk, when he discovered the camera’s handicap,…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Lumia 900 Costs More to Build Than the iPhone 4S

You Will Never Be Too Old For Your Own Personal Swing Chair

The Tokyo Institute of Technology’s New Innovation Building Is Entirely Covered in Solar Panels

A Fully Customizable Driver for the Pickiest Duffers

Jimmy Kimmel Lets the Elderly Sound Off on Facetagram

An Ultra-Tiny Synth Designed To Look Like Something Called a Mixtape

The Greatest Cellphone Accessory Also Has the Greatest Promotional Video

Nano-Particles Could Manufacture Cancer-Killing Drugs Inside Your Body

This 12V Oven Is Your Bake-It-On-The-Go Deal of the Day

Man Steals Guns and a Taser and Goes on the Craziest Crime Spree You Can Imagine

Shooting Challenge: Give Us Your Best Instagram

How Many Calories You Burn Having Sex, Eating Pizza and Smoking a Cigarette

35,000 Photos Went Into This Mesmerizing Insane Asylum Video

The Easiest Way To Check For And Remove the Mac Flashback Trojan

Can an Excavator Really Row a Freaking Boat?

We Are in Another Golden Age of Axe Design

Animated Twitter Feeds Are the Best Twitter Feeds

Let’s Strap a GoPro Camera To Every Professional Athlete

Genius Artist Recreates 15th Century Portraits in Airplane Lavatory

What Is This?

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