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Potato Head Dictators are Probably Smarter Than the Real Thing

While I doubt anybody ever called Kim Jong-Il a potato head to his face, I’m sure an awful lot of people thought it. Including artist Stephen Ives, who’s created these dictatorial toys. But it’s not just Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-Il who feature: Ives has created a whole range of the things, including Stalin and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Find a Planet Similar to Mars Outside Our Solar System

Someone call John Lithgow and pull French Stewart out of storage, a team of astronomers using the Kepler telescope have discovered the smallest exoplanets, in the tiniest solar system, so far. And their existence may show that our solar system isn’t all that unique. The planets orbit a single star, KOI-961, and range between .57…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

For Sale: Slightly Used Military Dark Room, Classified Microfilm Not Included

With the shift to digital cameras, old-fashioned photomats are getting harder and harder to find. But this portable, Army-issue dark room has everything you need to develop your own prints wherever you are. The dark room is actually a 12-foot by 7-foot aluminum box, slightly smaller than a standard shipping container, but large enough to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The New Windows 8 First Touch: This Is Windows?

It doesn’t sound like a particularly shimmery compliment, but the best thing that I can say about Microsoft’s Metro UI is that after well over a year of using it in various guises, it still feels new. Not like never-breached-my-eyeballs-before new, but new as in the promise of something better, something from the future. But…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Mushkin’s Speedy New SSD Drives Are at the Top of My Post-CES Buy List

My new years resolution—stop putting up with the interminably slow boot times of my desktop’s conventional hard drive. With these new solid state drives from Mushkin, I may actually keep my resolution past January. First up is the Chronos Go. It features 560MB/s sequential write-speeds and 525MB/s read-speeds with up to a 480GB capacity in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Say Hello to My Little Friend—the World’s Smallest Vertebrate

This minute fellow—the one being dwarfed by a dime—just earned the distinction for not only being the smallest known frog species but also the smallest known species of vertebrate. The Paedophryne amauensis is native to Papua New Guinea and measures a scant seven millimeters (.27-inch) from nose to tail. It beat out a slightly larger…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Pakistan Plans to Demolish Bin Laden’s Compound—With RPG’s

Osama Bin Laden may have gone out with a whimper but his secret lair in Abbottabad will soon be going out with a bang. A rocket-propelled bang, that is. Pakistani officials announced today that, in order to prevent the site from becoming a shrine, “We will hit it like an enemy fort,” the New York…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

There Are Actually Millions of Tatooines In Our Galaxy

Astronomers have found two more new planets orbiting binary stars: Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b. Their discovery, which follow the original Tatooine discovery back in September 2011, is quite important: now we know there are millions of planets orbiting binary stars. According to University of Florida associate professor of astronomy of Eric B. Ford, these planets seem…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Now You Can Totally Start That Barbershop Quartet Cover Band You’ve Always Wanted

A capella music – the kind that consists of just the human voice, was once strictly the domain of college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. Now, it is having something of a cultural moment. The mega-hit TV shows Glee and The Sing-Off are the most obvious proponents (Glee even inspired its own karaoke app), but…

Tech News Andy Cush - Evolver.fm

Who Wants a Video Lytro Cam?

The Lytro cam is probably my favorite piece of tech that has come out in the last couple of years. You never have to worry about a photo being in focus. Well according to The Verge, who interviewed Lytro’s Director of Photograpy Eric Cheng, a video-capable Lytro cam is totally possible. Cheng said there are…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Google Can Expect a Call from the FTC Over Its New Social Search Feature

Google changed the way its search works yesterday by heavily integrating Google+ social media content into its search engine results. Now, advocacy groups are up in arms about potential invasions of user privacy. What, like you didn’t see this coming. The Electronic Privacy Information Center announced today that it is considering filing a complaint with…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Watching Two Girls Listlessly Kick a Ball Is the Most Awkward Thing I’ve Seen at CES Today

Panasonic created the world’s most depressing soccer field in their booth. The two girls that stood on opposite ends of the “field” are charged with kicking a soccer ball back and forth. The ball isn’t even filled with air. From the sound of the kicks, it seemed like it was filled with sand or sawdust.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The One About The Las Vegas Per Diem (Updated)

“Just bought $50 of burritos to take home because I haven’t finished my per diem.” That’s the message we just got from Gizmodo editorial assistant Kyle Wagner, who clearly doesn’t quite get how Gawker Media per diems work. Update: Airport security took Kyle’s burritos away. Can someone meet Wagner at JFK with some burritos please?

Tech News Mat Honan

All These Waterproof Gadgets Are Making Me Wet!

We’ve been beating the drum for waterproof gadgets for some time now. (That our fearless leader Joe Brown is a fly fisherman may have a little bit to do with this.) Well, they’re finally starting to arrive in promising numbers. While you can’t exactly say that it’s overwhelming, they’re here, sprinkled throughout the show floor…

Gadgets Mat Honan

They Wouldn’t Let Me Sit on the Car-Sized iPod Dock So I Danced with Their Booth Babes

When you encounter something as absurd as an iPod dock the size of a pony, what else is there to do but climb on it? Sadly, the fellows at Behringer’s CES booth said no. So I danced, danced, danced. https://gizmodo.com/this-ipod-dock-is-the-size-of-a-car-5865914 The Behringer Attractive Paid Booth Attendants looked a little morose. They were standing next to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Haier’s Brain-Controlled TV Doesn’t Actually Control Anything

On the floor of CES, tucked away in Haier’s booth is a TV set advertising BRAIN CONTROL. I was immediately intrigued. Could I think about wanting to watch the latest episode of Teen Mom and have it automatically flash on screen? I had to find out. Well sadly, this psychic link with our TVs is…

Tech News Adrian Covert

I Don’t Know What Suntel Electronic Does But Its CES Booth Is BLINDING

SUNTEL ELECTRONIC OPEN OPEN OPEN PHONE CARDS COFFEE VINTAGE PHONES OH GOD MY EYES MY EYES THEY BURN PIZZA COFFEE OPEN.

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ericsson Wants to Use Your Body as a USB Cable

In Ericsson’s future, you’ll be able to transfer information between two gadgets by sending it directly through your body. The demonstrations of the technology are really cool, but what will it actually be good for in real life? During today’s Ericsson keynote at CES, the company’s “capacitive coupling” tech was demoed as a way to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Best New Speakers

Bang & Olufsen is known for two things: high quality sound and high quantity price tags. The AirPlay savvy BeoLit 12 Wireless Speaker don’t disappoint in either regard. Oh, and it looks like a pic-a-nic basket! https://gizmodo.com/bang-olufsen-joins-the-airplay-party-with-the-beolit-5874857 Bang & Olufsen based the speaker on its old transistor radio designs. It’s portable, it plays nice with…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The Best New Ultrabook

Engineers at Dell must be on a Fast and Furious kick too! They’ve clearly decided to live life a quarter-mile at a time, and swaddled their XPS 13 with carbon fiber. https://gizmodo.com/dell-xps-13-a-carbon-fiber-ass-makes-this-ultrabook-li-5874980 The composite-material base not only makes the XPS lighter, it actually adds rigidity and cuts down on the heat being transferred to your…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Potato Head Dictators are Probably Smarter Than the Real Thing

Scientists Find a Planet Similar to Mars Outside Our Solar System

For Sale: Slightly Used Military Dark Room, Classified Microfilm Not Included

The New Windows 8 First Touch: This Is Windows?

Mushkin’s Speedy New SSD Drives Are at the Top of My Post-CES Buy List

Say Hello to My Little Friend—the World’s Smallest Vertebrate

Pakistan Plans to Demolish Bin Laden’s Compound—With RPG’s

There Are Actually Millions of Tatooines In Our Galaxy

Now You Can Totally Start That Barbershop Quartet Cover Band You’ve Always Wanted

Who Wants a Video Lytro Cam?

Google Can Expect a Call from the FTC Over Its New Social Search Feature

Watching Two Girls Listlessly Kick a Ball Is the Most Awkward Thing I’ve Seen at CES Today

The One About The Las Vegas Per Diem (Updated)

All These Waterproof Gadgets Are Making Me Wet!

They Wouldn’t Let Me Sit on the Car-Sized iPod Dock So I Danced with Their Booth Babes

Haier’s Brain-Controlled TV Doesn’t Actually Control Anything

I Don’t Know What Suntel Electronic Does But Its CES Booth Is BLINDING

Ericsson Wants to Use Your Body as a USB Cable

The Best New Speakers

The Best New Ultrabook

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