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If you don’t love Google Doodles, you have no soul. If you love Google Doodles like the rest of mankind, you can now BUY Google Doodle gear! Hooray! T-shirts! Coffee mugs! Posters! Your favorite Google Doodle will live on forever now. I was always sad when a great Doodle disappeared after one day, now I…
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has issued a weird warning: if you have to irrigate your sinuses with water for some medical reason, don’t use tap water. The reason: your brains may get eaten by the Naegleria fowleri. That’s the scientific name of the brain-eating amoeba, the gross thing in the picture above.…
We see a lot of gadgets. We play with a lot of gadgets. We write about a lot of gadgets. So we thought you might like to see the few gadgets that we really want for Christmas. 1. Joe Brown: SousVide Supreme Demi Sous Vide Water Oven “I have been dropping hints like a motherfucker,…
The National Institutes of Health has halted all new funding for studies using chimpanzees, humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, as scientific models for humans. Though it should have been done long ago, and it’s not a ban on chimp research, it’s great news. A new study spurred by pressure from animal rights activists resulted in a…
Facebook for Android gets Timeline. Take your Google Hangouts with you wherever you go. Get the best Office suite, and a concierge app that was so good, Google bought it. If you want to see all the apps on one page click here. Facebook: Facebook released its new Timeline feature this week and guess which…
Flipboard for iPad is huge, both in terms of use and the actual size of the app. Well, the iPhone version just snuck up behind the iPad version and took its flipping mojo. Plus, rate the worls, get the best Office suite, and start dressing like an adult. If you want to see all the…
Remember the first time you played Grand Theft Auto III? You could go anywhere! You could beat up the cops, start a riot, shoot dock workers. It was like running around inside Quentin Tarantino’s head. Now all that magic is on iOS, and dammit I couldn’t be more excited. Plus, take out your annoying Facebook…
So brilliant writer and Iraq War apologist Christopher Hitchens died last night. Almost immediately, #GodIsNotGreat started trending on Twitter. It’s the title of one of Hitchens’ books, of course, but it made a lot of people angry. Many people, presumably of faith, had no idea that this was a book reference. So they got upset,…
The Stop Online Piracy Act has hit a major snag, with the House Judiciary Committee adjourning before it could send the bill to the floor—and setting no date to continue proceedings. It’s not a deathblow—not by a longshot—but it’s a welcome pause for consideration for a bill that has the potential to grow into a…
The last time we visited the lovely realm of hyperspectral imaging, it was with regards to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Now, researchers at the University of Vienna are toying with it for learning. A hyperspectral camera—which picks up chemical traces and electromagnetic marks invisible to the human eye—is typically the kind of thing…
Thanking Sprint for turning off Carrier IQ’s invisible spy software seems a bit like thanking someone for no longer pissing on your leg at a picnic, but, hey kudos to them for doing the right thing. Way too late. Sprint confirmed to MobileBurn that diagnostic data will no longer be collected across its 26 million…
This holiday season you’re going to play Monopoly. You shouldn’t even try to stop it. It’s going to happen. Instead of dusting off the ol’ board game, you can get an updated digital Monopoly for free. This should keep dad from ripping off the bank when he’s in financial trouble. We’ve also found a cheap…
This is what KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is doing: their incoming check-in system will allow passengers to choose seat mates based on their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, so he or she would be someone who shares your interests. That’s not a bad idea. However, people will also be able to select seat mate based on…
Look, I am not very good at Soccer, although I always wanted to be. Nor, do I imagine, would I be that effective were aliens to attack. But I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun getting to do both playing Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo. It’s a total kick, even if you’re using…
Wh-wh-who-whoa! What just happened? A couple of us at Giz just woke up from some Inception-like mind warp this week. Did we just overrun a Lower East Side gallery, fill it with the best, most coveted gear and exclusive exhibitions before clearing everything out, painting over the walls, and sweeping up mountains of broken glass,…
iPad 2. Kindle Fire. Android Tablet X. Popular gifts, all. In fact, odds are a bunch of you are stuffing stockings with them right now. But if we define popularity as how many casualties the war between supply and demand leaves behind, only one tablet stands out this month. It’s slow, it’s bulky, it has…
I hate being sick. I hate being sick on a Friday. Of all days, right! I hate being sick when the sun is out. Why not pound my head on a rainy day? I pretty much hate everything when I’m sick. So my solution is to make these foolish pacts with myself that I’m going…
One could argue that everyone in the 80s dressed like total douchebags. That’s probably true. I’m guilty of that (thanks mom!). But you can also argue that Apple users wearing Apple gear looked extra-douchebaggy with vagina cleaning foam on top. I still have a few of those striped Apple pins myself. I also had one…
You wouldn’t think Sweden, land of beauty and prosperity, would have trouble attracting visitors. But the tourism status quo wasn’t working, it appears, and the country is now letting ordinary folk run the Twitter account. It’s already a bad idea! Meet Jack. This week, he’s in control of @Sweden, the official Twitter handle of Sweden’s…
Like a lot of folks, you might be considering buying a loved one some fancy coffee gear to make fancy coffee as a Christmas gift. By which I mean, you’re probably thinking about buying somebody a French Press. Please don’t. It looks classy. Neatly sculpted glass or metal or both. It sounds classy. It has…
