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Modern Man Starts Fires With an App, Not Flint

You already have a remote for controlling your TV, one of the focal points in your living room, so why not your fireplace as well? Escea asked the same question, but then went ahead and answered it with their new DX5100 model. In addition to an ultra wide design—which is apparently quite an engineering feat…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

These Tiny Snails Are So Small They Look Like Cute Little Boogers

Unlike the world’s biggest bugs, these Partula snails are so small they look like little ants wearing a Halloween snail costume. And even though I usually hate bugs, when you miniaturize them, they look kind of cute! The sad thing is, the Partula snail is pretty much extinct. The Marwell Wildlife Park in Hampshire, UK…

Tech News Casey Chan

Microwaves Destroying Everything. Slowly.

If mankind can ever reconcile its determination to construct edifices with its lust for things exploding in slow motion, we will have unlocked our essence as a species—tête à tête with God herself. Until then, enjoy shit bustin‘. Wikipedia tells me the microwave oven was invented by Raytheon shortly after World War II. I’m pretty…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Netflix Ditches Video Game Rentals

Oh come on! The best part about the mess that was Qwikster was the possibility of renting games from Netflix. Now they take that away from us too? That new season of Arrested Development better be amazing. During today’s earnings call with investors, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that the company no longer plans to…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Those Bloody Nazis From the Dark Side of the Moon Are Invading Earth This February

The Nazi UFOs are landing first in Berlin on February 11, 2012. That is Iron Sky’s premiere date at the Berlinale international film festival, the movie that is going to rock or suck. If they kill a lot of the Moon nazis, it will be good no matter how bad it is.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Pharmacists Who Suck at Their Job Tell Teens They Can’t Have Morning-After Pill

Teenagers across the country are being wrongly denied Plan B by pharmacists who are apparently terrible at their job, according to a new study. Pharmacists are either blatantly lying or they don’t know that it’s perfectly legal for girls 17 or older to buy the drug over the counter. Either way, they should be ashamed.…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Scientists Create Star Matter In California

You’re looking at the heart of the most powerful X-Ray laser machine ever created by humans, billions of times stronger than anything before it. It’s the Linac Coherent Light Source and it has made something that nobody has made before in this planet: the kind of matter that you can only find in the heart…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google Created Gmail’s Perfect Logo the Night Before It Was Due

Every one of us knows the stomach terror of starting a project right before it’s due. But what if your assignment is Gmail’s logo, your teacher is Google, and it’s due tomorrow? Suddenly school doesn’t seem that bad. Former Google designer Kevin Fox shared the tale of the iconic logo’s hurried genesis on Quora: Dennis…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How Is This Supercharged MacBook Air Editing Crazy HD Video? (Updated)

The peppy Air has come a long way from its birthday, when it crawled out of the Apple womb scrawny and anemic. Now it’s got serious processing muscle—but not enough to edit insanely high-res video, right? Wrong! Now, to be fair, this particular MBA is cheating—sort of. The rig is using an external graphics card…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Shazam Player: Have an iPhone Sing-A-Long

We all sing-a-long to our favorite songs. Maybe it’s in the car. Maybe it’s in the shower. Maybe it’s at your company’s karaoke party and you’re trying your best to sing Once Bitten, Twice Shy even though you don’t really like the song. Wherever you’re singing, there’s a good chance you’re singing it wrong. Here’s…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The Little Glass Bowls I Can’t Cook Without

If you’ve ever worked in a professional kitchen, you’ve probably heard the term “mise en place” (meez•on•ploss). I don’t speak French, but I’m told the phrase means “put in place.” Makes sense, because that’s the whole idea with these bowls. They’re made by Pyrex, and they’re officially known as 10-oz Rimmed Custard Cups. They can…

Tech News Joe Brown

95,200 Pieces of Chewed Gum Make Up the World’s Largest and Grossest Gumball

That gigantic yellow stained ball of goopness? It’s made from 95,200 piece of chewed Nicorette gum. It’s the love creation of Barry Chappell, who started rolling his chewed gum into a ball back in 2006. Six years later, it’s now 62 inches in circumference and weighs 175 pounds of rubber, saliva and nastiness. People are…

Tech News Casey Chan

Netflix Isn’t Doing As Bad As We Thought It Was

Netflix had a pretty bad 2011. And that might be underselling it since the company pretty much destroyed all the goodwill it developed over the years and became a laughingstock. No matter! Netflix just announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 and things are looking good. To sum it up: Netflix is actually…

Tech News Casey Chan

Shove a Bacon Tampon Up Your Nose and It Will Stop Bleeding

From the Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology comes news that fashioning a strip of cured pork into a nasal tampon will help prevent nosebleeds for those suffering from chronic episodes. More specifically, it was used in the “treatment of [a] life-threatening hemorrhage.” From the Annals: Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Daily Desired: The Pocket-Sized Survival Kit

I carry around a lot more stuff than I should. Today’s ancillary crap? Five USB cables, an emergency DSLR (no battery), and, um, an iPod Nano that I didn’t know I still had. This tool-loaded key chain, however, might be the most useful thing I’ll ever own. The EDC Kit is inspired by the legions…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Take Better Notes, Draw Your Thoughts, and Rock Out With Your Finger

Someone told me about a study that determined that doodling enhanced your comprehension of what’s going on around you. I think it’s bunk, but what do I know? If you’re the type of person who sketches rather than writes, we have a free app for you. We also tracked down a written-note taking app and…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets

Friend-of-Gizmodo Tonx.org has a cute little comic today bemoaning Keurig K-Cups—the little coffee pods designed to brew single servings of coffee. They’re convenient, but they’re ridiculously overpriced, and don’t make very good coffee. You can do better. You may have seen Matt or I square off over coffee, or Kristen talk about how she loves…

Tech News Mat Honan

Cut the Rope Is More Addictive Than Ever Thanks to IE9

You’ve definitely seen it. You’ve most likely played it. And now the web version of Cut the Rope, the addictive game that follows the kinetic challenges of a candy-loving monster named Om Nom, is available online for free. The hugely popular game (it’s been downloaded more than 60 million times) is about to get a…

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Yes, You Can Also Recycle Jeans

Generally when I blow through a pair of denim, I just toss it out and never think of it again. But apparently, that pair of old, shredded jeans can be ground down to a pulp and reconstituted into a fresh pair of pants. Hypebeast says that Swedish denim manufactuer Nudie Jeans and the fashion retailer…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Open WebOS 1.0 Coming in September

When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavor, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they’ve partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September. Along with news of the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Modern Man Starts Fires With an App, Not Flint

These Tiny Snails Are So Small They Look Like Cute Little Boogers

Microwaves Destroying Everything. Slowly.

Netflix Ditches Video Game Rentals

Those Bloody Nazis From the Dark Side of the Moon Are Invading Earth This February

Pharmacists Who Suck at Their Job Tell Teens They Can’t Have Morning-After Pill

Scientists Create Star Matter In California

Google Created Gmail’s Perfect Logo the Night Before It Was Due

How Is This Supercharged MacBook Air Editing Crazy HD Video? (Updated)

Shazam Player: Have an iPhone Sing-A-Long

The Little Glass Bowls I Can’t Cook Without

95,200 Pieces of Chewed Gum Make Up the World’s Largest and Grossest Gumball

Netflix Isn’t Doing As Bad As We Thought It Was

Shove a Bacon Tampon Up Your Nose and It Will Stop Bleeding

Daily Desired: The Pocket-Sized Survival Kit

Take Better Notes, Draw Your Thoughts, and Rock Out With Your Finger

How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets

Cut the Rope Is More Addictive Than Ever Thanks to IE9

Yes, You Can Also Recycle Jeans

Open WebOS 1.0 Coming in September

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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