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Seven women suffering from osteoporosis got the chance to avoid their usual visits to the doctor for their injected medicines. Instead, their physician administered treatment remotely through an implant that pumped meds into their systems on demand while the patients rested at home. As part of a clinical trial, the women received abdominal implants made…
We hope you aren’t too averse to the Mac App Store, because it’s going to be the only way to upgrade your computer from now on. That’s right—no more USB option, Pocket-Lint reports. Forever. After a bit of hand-wringing and whining last time around, Apple reluctantly offered a disgustingly-overpriced thumb drive copy of Lion for…
Choosing a domain name can often lead to drastic compromises in name recognition. Only the lucky few who acted quickly, or who have truly unique names, can claim lordship over theirname.com. I pity the John Smiths of the world. Nobody feels the hurt more than Jack Donaghy when, on last night’s 30 Rock, he tries…
You’re running through a desert wasteland. It’s hot, it’s dry. And there’s no where to plug in your gadgets. You’re like a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. Your phone is dying. You’ve got emails to check, people to see, deadlines to meet, directions to map… and you’re down to 5%. What you wouldn’t give for…
“We’re doing things a little bit differently,” Heather Champ told me.1 No, wait. That’s not right. “We’re trying to stay under the radar,” is what she said, which I interpreted to mean she was doing something new and different that they didn’t want anyone knowing about. We were sitting in my office, in a comfortable…
I took a trip to Seattle a little while ago. Actually a long while ago. And I shot a bunch of video of cool stuff. Then it got lost, because I am a terrible person. But I found them, so here they are. It’s kind of striking just how much this room looks like every…
Food is confusing. It’s on a plate, and somehow, I’ve got to get it into my stomach. These plates remind you that you need to transport it to your body somehow—preferably, with some man-made delivery technology. These Boguslaw Sliwinski ceramic plates feature fun illustrations of different cogs in the shipping and transportation system. The plates…
In advance of the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has been showing us bits and pieces of its newly redesigned UI. Now, we’re getting our first look at the newly redesigned logo, the latest in a lineage of iconic symbols for the operating system. https://gizmodo.com/designing-windows-8-or-how-to-redesign-a-religion-5882797 The new logo keeps some heritage elements of the Windows…
John Cleese is one of the funniest humans ever to grace Earth. From Flying Circus to Fawlty Towers—perhaps the funniest show ever made—to Wanda, this man is the epitome of comedy. Logically, he doesn’t disappoint in his replies to YouTube commenters. They are simply hilarious, especially the part in which he talks about how truly…
No one wears ties anymore. Even fewer people wear bow ties. They’re really freaking hard to tie, for one. And the resulting aesthetic is, shall we say, unusual. But when Brad Goreski, fashion stylist to celebrities and designer Kate Spade, chose his outfits for the Fall and Winter 2012 fashion shows this past week in…
The gun totin’ boys at the Broxton Bridge Plantation hunting ground were planning on having themselves a good old fashioned pigeon hunt. South Carolina’s unfortunately named S.H.A.R.K. animal rights group planned to expose them via aerial drone. Guess what happened. The Times and Democrat reports that once the hopeful hunters knew they were going to…
This has to be one of the best special effects displays I’ve seen in a long time: amusement park rides on invisible tracks barreling through the gorgeous architectural backdrop of Buenos Aires. The short film, directed by Fernando Livschitz, doesn’t have much in the way of plot”—though it does seem to take some inspiration (or…
We just learned that the FBI might shut off the internet for millions of people in an effort to rid the country’s Internet infrastructure of the DNSChanger Trojan. You should really check if you’re infected—here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-might-cut-off-the-internet-for-millions-of-peop-5885716 In the possible-but-unlikely event that the FBI decides to cut off the internet to infected systems on March…
Why should iPad 3 rumors be the sole provenance of established blogs and news outlets? It’s time we turned to the masses. And who better to shed light on Apple’s next device than YouTube’s best and brightest? https://gizmodo.com/ipad-3-everything-we-think-we-know-updated-5882001 We’ve done all the legwork for you, scoured the Youtubeosphere, and rounded up the most enlightening bits…
As New York City’s buildings sprouted toward the heavens in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was a concern that people on the ground would be deprived of sunlight. The buildings were blocking out the sun for those on the ground and it looked like a problem that was only going to get…
If you are a juror and you try to use Facebook to contact a defendant, you will get be dismissed. And if you’re an imbecile like the guy in this photo, then you will get in jail. He is 29-year-old Jacob Jock and he has been sentenced to three days in jail by Circuit Judge…
What begins as a seemingly cheesy commercial for the Central Institute of Technology in Australia quickly devolves into a morass of extremely dark silliness. But yes, it’s actually a real ad for a real school. Very creative, twisted, and funny. [Henry and Aaron via Reddit]
You can try out the beta for the new Messages app that’ll be in OS X Mountain Lion right now, but once the release rolls around, you’ll have to install Mountain Lion to use the full version. That’s totally reasonable. It just stinks if you’re one of the unfortunate few who can use the beta…
Just a week after hacking the CIA, Anonymous continued its onslaught of attacks on government websites early this morning by hacking several websites belonging to the Federal Trade Comission. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-says-theyve-killed-the-cias-website-updated-5884119 The Associated Press reports: The loosely organized collection of cyber rebels said it attacked the FTC’s consumer protection business center and the National Consumer Protection…
When was the last time you got a 25% raise out of nowhere? Probably not recently! Then again, you probably haven’t been laboring for half a day at a time in a Chinese iPad factory under allegedly godawful work conditions. Reuters reports that Foxconn workers are getting a pay bump to “1,800 yuan per month…
