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Pancakes! We love them. Pancakes with syrup! We love them even more. But sometimes, pouring syrup on top of your hot cakes just isn’t enough. You want to be able to conveniently dip ’em too. This plate, created by designer Jon Wye, is the perfect plate for pancakes: they have a slope and bank to…
If you’re in NYC or within a stones throw and you’re not planning on coming to our reader meetup on Wednesday at Gizmodo Gallery, you’re missing a killer opportunity to score a free Nerf Gun and to hang out with/shoot at your favorite writer. Did you get banned by Andrew Tarantola? Our fearless leader Joe…
I love potatoes as much as the next guy. Maybe even more than the next guy. But I cross the line at putting a bucket on my head to cook a few spuds. Well, unless I was cooking au gratin potatoes. Modern Mechanix found this gem in the February, 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics. According…
This holiday season, many kids will be glued to the TV, adding the toys they see in commercials to their wish lists. And Christmas morning, they’ll unwrap their presents, elated they got that super awesome Hot Wheels set. Then they’ll actually play with it. The ads made them seem so great. Look at how fast…
Some people just don’t do mornings. You know this guy. He’s always late for work, and he sleeps through the weekend. It’s not laziness, it’s an affliction. You love him, and he’ll love these gifts. 1. Phillips Wake-Up Light You know what someone who doesn’t like cacophonous alarm clocks does with them? Throws the buzzing…
I can’t imagine a better Christmas decoration. Well, unless that decoration is a different Calvin and Hobbes comic brought to life. Found in front of a house in Rocklin California, the display is a protest against the unfair practices of Calvin’s dad. The tyrant is far too strict, is unfair, makes Calvin take too many…
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. iTVs Might Come in Small, Medium, and Large That maybe-Apple iTV will maybe come in three sizes—32″,…
I’m glad someone turned something as boring and utilitarian as camping tents into something beautiful like FieldCandy’s Fully Booked tent, which is designed to look like an open book. Four people can comfortably sleep in this 11.65 by 5.57 by 4.6 feet tent. $869. [FieldCandy via Swiss Miss] I also like the circus model, for…
Sailing is nerdier than you think. You rarely have the wind at your back. The sails act as airfoils as the wind passes over them at certain angles. As the sail opens, lift is created. That lift drags the boat along the water. Pretty awesome right? Well, let’s throw another level of nerdy in there…
Wanna know what it feels like to be a cheerleader? Sure you do! Thanks to an LSU cheerleader who attached a GoPro camera to her head while performing her usual round of stunts, jumps, twirls and chants, you finally can. It’s dizzyingly impressive. The video was created during the LSU-Arkansas game last month and the…
While the Guppie looks more menacing than the Mo-Tool, this $40 multi-tool definitely looks more useful. It includes the usual Swiss Army-style stuff—screwdrivers, knives, can opener, wire cutter, file and wrench—but also adds pliers, a hammer and a bloody axe. Heck, you probably can build a little cabin in the woods with one of these.…
Zoom lenses are expensive. Telephotos lenses are really expensive. But if you want to shove a little extra optical oomph into you camera, this 2x $50 telephoto adapter is a killer deal. Just screw ‘er on and shoot. It’s as easy as it is cheap—each lens adapter is made for whichever lens you’re seating it…
Chatting with all your friends on your phone usually can mean switching between five IM clients at once. Well, today you can save a few bucks by chatting in the one IM client to rule them… okay, sorry about that. Plus: keep an eye on the stars for free and go hunting for Bambi and…
Meet Carter Emmart. He has spectacular hair and an unbelievably cool job title: Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History. And on Wednesday night at 7pm, he’s bringing his badass 3-D Atlas of the Universe to Gizmodo Gallery. Emmart’s job is to take the latest discoveries about the universe and figure out…
Even if you’re chock full of Christmas spirit, it doesn’t make putting up holiday decorations any easier. Particularly since you’ll just have to tear them all down in a month. So if you’d rather spend the next few weeks cozied up next to a warm fire than hanging ornaments and tinsel, here are seven tools…
Motorola’s impending LTE tablet is called the Xyboard. That’s an asinine name for anything. On the other hand, Samsung sells a beautiful 55-inch LCD TV called the UN55D8000, and Sony’s awesome 3D helmet is labeled the inscrutable HMZ-T1. What’s worse? A lot of products are given some pretty dumb names: the Xoom, the Bionic, the…
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All my life, I’ve known nothing but a world drenched in the spilt blood of once-friends and former loves. The gun is my only concubine. The silencer my only peace. I once knew the joys of childhood laughter-sunset matches of kick the can, the glimmer of a brand new heap of marbles. Jones and I…
A sporty hatchback crashing through 2,738 water balloons? Thankfully you don’t have to grow out your fingernails to secure a Guinness World Record these days. All you need is a healthy marketing budget and a clever PR stunt. That’s exactly how Alfa Romeo managed to secure the “most amount of water balloons burst by a…
A security flaw in Facebook reveals your private photos, reports Launch. Like these formerly private photos of company founder, amateur butcher, and generally creepy human being Mark Zuckerbeg, showing off his dinner both alive and deep fried. We weren’t able to duplicate it, but as described, the exploit that allowed the hacker to grab Zuck’s…
