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Is that a stained glass window dedicated to man’s excess? Nope. A MoMA exhibit capturing our disposable lifestyles? Sorry. A corporate logo treatment for a recycling facility? Not exactly, but it is related to turning trash into something beautiful. The Cleanoscope was recently installed at a playground in Mumbai, India, and isn’t your run-of-the-mill public…
Cheerful, Apple spokesman aficionado John Gruber talks about four tweets that, according to him, “may” indicate an incoming Apple hardware upgrade, perhaps the introduction of new Retina Display-level Macs or displays. Given his intimately wet relationship with Apple, you better listen up to his “wishful thinking.” The latest update—which was pulled by Cupertino after dreadful…
This is not our usual Gizmodo Soundtrack song, but I loved it so much that I couldn’t resist posting it as today’s entry. Watch it. It will make you happy and hungry at the same time. At the very least, it will make you smile. And if not, you’re an insensitive blood-thirsty zombie. The song…
You’re driving south of St. Petersburg, listening to some John Lennon. The traffic is a little heavy. God, this song is so great—and now, let us pause for an enormous electrical explosion that dominates the entire horizon. The video comes along with this article from Fontanka.ru, so poorly Google-translated that I’m only able to ascertain…
Clocks that tell time in fascinating new ways are everywhere. I saw a clock that lit up the quarter hour the other day. It was beautiful. The Nooka app based upon their watches falls into the beautiful timepiece category. It won’t replace your regular clock, but it will make checking the time a more invigorating…
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer’s dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he’s taken on the tiny task of redesigning the operating system used by like a billion…
Ion Audio’s iCade Jr. may have beaten it to the punch, but since it uses the dock connector to talk to your iPhone instead of Bluetooth, the iAppCade cabinet doesn’t need its own power source. https://gizmodo.com/the-rad-icade-mobile-icade-for-iphone-and-icade-core-j-5874342 Of course that means iAppCase leaches off your iPhone’s battery which you also can’t charge while you’re playing classic…
Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it’ll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter’s first high profile case sooner than later because Brazil just sued Twitter…
The Chinese continue to upgrade their military to new levels. This is their new attack helicopter, the Z-19, a two-seater painted in badass black that looks a lot like the Eurocopter Dauphin. That’s because it’s based on the Eurocopter Dauphin. Like with previous designs, the Chinese licensed the designs from the manufacturer—for their previous helicopter,…
My wallet is a big leather repository for the millions of tiny pieces of paper I accumulate every day. I try to keep it clean, but somehow I’m still carrying years worth of membership cards, business cards, and even foreign currency. And until I saw this elegant little money clip, I never really thought I…
Iron Man’s HUD display is one of the cooler effects in sci-fi movies, and Google X is apparently pretty darn close to cramming similar tech in a pair of glasses you can buy in the real world. A 9to5google tipster got to see a prototype pair, and says that they look similar to Oakley Thumps…
Android apps such as Jetpack Joyride, Madden NFL 12, Pinterest and Batman Arkham City Lockdown are rife with malware. But these aren’t the official apps. No, they’re merely impostor apps that have snuck past the security gates of the Android Market. According to Android Police, a scam outfit calling itself Rovio Mobile Ltd. (yes, it’s…
Okay, my rave days are long, long over. But I still want some of these EmazingLights gloves that the dude in this video has (who is apparently and unfortunately named Skidz) because I’m sure they would blow my one-year-old’s mind. When I was going to raves people wore white gloves, without the lit up fingertips.…
Just when you thought it was over, the temperature at reactor number 2 at Fukushima’s nuclear plant has soared 26.7 degrees Celsius in the last few hours. Worse: they don’t know why the temperature is increasing after being stabilized for so long. https://jezebel.com/the-complete-japan-crisis-timeline-live-updates-5780998 The reactor reached 164 degrees Fahrenheit (73.3 degrees Celsius) after being stabilized…
Return to Nooka article. https://gizmodo.com/nooka-the-not-so-intuitive-but-still-cool-looking-clo-5882762
I’m really sorry dress pant sweatpants, but there’s only room in my heart for one amazing invention at a time, and you’ve just been replaced by these brilliant Free Key rings that open with a simple press. https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-sliced-bread-dress-pant-sweatpants-officially-5879654 I consider myself a fairly dexterous individual, but I’d rather be tasked with finding Atlantis than putting…
The Super Bowl is a national extravaganzaculturafanfreakingtasia. You’re forced to pay attention. Even if you don’t pay attention, you know you’re not paying attention so you still technically paid a little bit of attention (shout out to the people who really don’t pay attention though). And if you don’t like impossibly athletic giants who are…
Getting stuck in an elevator’s rare, but you assume the experience would fall somewhere between the opening of Speed and a late-night Cinemax flick. A Chicago man turn it into Groundhog Day when, after being rescued from one elevator, he promptly got stuck in another on the way back down to safety. https://gizmodo.com/groundhog-day-the-movie-it-makes-sense-to-watch-over-a-5881807 Firefighters initially…
Days fly by no matter what, and if you’re the type of stressed-out person who’s always counting every second, sometimes a watch just makes you feel worse. Denis Guidone’s “Sometimes” watch is intentionally disorienting, which might actually ameliorate your anxiety. The watch’s face is all black and it has no numbers on it, which makes…
Anonymous’ gutting of Puckett & Faraj, the firm that defended the Marines behind the Haditha Killing, might have been more than a major embarrassment. The hack attack might have killed the group entirely. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-leaks-marine-corps-massacre-case-updated-5882057 In an email released by Anonymous in the wake of the attack—suggesting they still had their hands inside the attorneys’ bowels…
