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MacGyver: the Complete Series Is Your Build-A-Machine-Gun-Out-Of-Paper-Clips-And-Glue Deal of the Day

When I was growing up, I had heard of this man who can jumpstart a car with a twizzler and condom wrappers. A man who can defuse a bomb with cotton balls and toothpaste. He could stop a falling elevator with a juicer, olives and a ball of rubberbands. What a crafty man, that MacGruber…

Tech News Natt Garun

Watch a Death Luge Fly Down a Mountain with No Brakes

You know in The Temple of Doom when the mine cart’s brake gives out and obviously everyone is going to shoot out the side of a mountain and die? This is sort of that, except on purpose and in Austria. What we have here is a single-pipe alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria, and our hero…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Shooting Challenge Gallery: Soft Focus I

This is Norbert, the bearded dragon. Nikon D90, Nikkor 70-300mm VRII @ 185mm, f/5, 1/200, ISO 400. Used my SB-700 remotely to provide the lighting from the left. I wanted to try to put Norbert into the shoes of the Tiger from the example picture. Rawr! – Adam Biesenthal This photo of my friend was…

Tech News Michael J Kennelly

56 Images That Are Better Out of Focus

Most of the time, we want our photos perfectly in-focus. We spend thousands on better lenses and millions in R&D to pull off the feat. But some of the time? This week’s Shooting Challenge shows us softer can be better. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-soft-focus-5860080 Winner – Bay Bridge Hack When I saw this week’s shooting challenge I got…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge Gallery: Soft Focus II

Name of the picture: Around the lake Story of the picture: The subject of the shooting challenge was not very inspiring for me this week, but my girlfriend was pushing me to do something about it. Thanks to a nice Finnish weather, we went to a lake nearby and I tried to take different pictures.…

Tech News Michael J Kennelly

Forget Pepper Spray—Destroying Protestors Gets Even Easier!

The next time you need to incapacitate a bunch of people sitting on the ground silently protesting corporate greed, think outside the box—face-burning spray canisters are becoming passé. Mother Jones’ Dave Gilson wraps up the best eye-melters around. https://gizmodo.com/what-pepper-spray-does-to-your-body-5861773 There’s the fogger, the backpack sprayer, or, my favorite, PepperBalls, which combine the pain and accuracy…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Inflatable Robot Arm Would Destroy You in an Arm Wrestling Contest

You’d think that a robot arm made from air bags would sacrifice strength for being lightweight, but while Otherlabs’ prototype weighs in at just two pounds, it’s still strong enough to lift a human being. Instead of actuators, servos, pistons, or even a metal framework, the arm is composed of a series of fabric pockets…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Update: Apple Won Its iPhone Domains, But They Still Point to Porn

Apple has won its claim on seven iPhone-related domains that nefarious porn sites had gobbled up and pointed at, well, porn. Thing is, it sort of forgot to turn off the porn. https://gizmodo.com/apples-trying-to-boot-hardcore-porn-sites-from-iphone-d-5856061 The domains, which include iphone4s.com, iphonecam4s.com, iphoneporn4s.com, and others, are mostly timing out, but a few are definitely still pointing to the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How the Original Facebook Phone Failed

Facebook is working on a phone! But Facebook has been working on a phone. What’s new? Well, it’s a completely different project because their first top secret effort crashed and burned. It’s a sordid history of employee jealousy, secret plans, power struggles and just plain failure. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-facebook-phone-is-finally-coming-5861626 AllThingsD is reporting that about a year and…

Social Media Casey Chan

Apple’s Pro-Censorship Software Alliance Backs Down

The Business Software Alliance, which includes tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, has reversed its stance on the controversial (and awful!) Stop Online Piracy Act: now it doesn’t like it. Good. https://gizmodo.com/the-internet-crippling-bill-might-get-slightly-less-ter-5860449 PC World relays the BSA’s fortunate change of heart: Valid and important questions have been raised about the bill. It is intended…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Beautiful Stop Motion Toy Story Might Just Break Your Heart

Using stop-motion animation and imagery from Google Maps Street View, director Tony Jenkins provides a look at how a lonely desk toy manages to escape his confined world and take a cross country drive to the Pacific coast. Address Is Approximate was shot with a Canon 5d MkII, and all of the screen imagery was…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How Volkswagen Redesigned the All-New Beetle

Updating an icon is quite a challenge. But VW Group Design Chief Walter de Silva and VW’s Brand Design Chief Klaus Bischoff figured out a way to make the 2012 redesigned Beetle longer, lower, and wider—thus, sportier—while somehow retaining it’s visual cachet. They managed to create “a new original” by basing the redesign on the…

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Here’s Ice Cream Sandwich Running on an Asus Transformer Prime Tablet

All in all, we think Android Ice Cream Sandwich is pretty good. But we only got to play with it on a phone. What’s it like on a tablet? That’s still to be determined, but we can get a rough idea from this Nvidia video. https://gizmodo.com/android-ice-cream-sandwich-review-its-man-versus-machi-5860502 The general look of the UI isn’t radically different…

Tech News Adrian Covert

High-Energy Guru Is Building the World’s Biggest Tesla Coils

You don’t have a Tesla coil? And you call yourself a mad scientist. You should take a lesson from electrical engineer Greg Leyh and build yourself a pair of 118-footers. That’ll show those fools who laughed at you in evil medical school, that will show them all!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!! *Lightning Crash* A Tesla coil is, essentially,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

$7.4 Billion of Your Tax Dollars Are Upgrading the Never-Used F-22

The F-22, America’s favorite multi-multi-multi-billion dollar gun with no trigger, is getting a new paint job! TIME’s Mark Thompson reports the fleet of unused warplanes will get one hell of an upgrade. Too bad we don’t need it at all. The Pentagon’s paying out $7.4 billion for “system upgrades to existing requirements, incorporate new requirements,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

What Pepper Spray Does to Your Body

When Lieutenant John Pike casually hosed down a line of seated protesters with pepper spray, a lot of weird stuff immediately followed. No, we’re not talking about the evolution of the meme. Or even the nationwide backlash. We’re talking about what happened to the protesters’ bodies immediately after they got hit. Pepper spray takes your…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

Facebook Says Literally Everyone Is Only 4.74 Degrees Away

Privacy, the concept of friendship—add one more thing to the list of notions Facebook’s smashed. The old assumption that we’re all connected by six degrees of separation is outdated, Facebook says: now it’s 4.74, across the globe. Granted, the new law applies only to the social network itself, not the entire planet’s population. But Facebook’s…

Social Media Sam Biddle

PowerBalance Scam Lawsuit Forces Company Into Bankrupcy

After admitting that their PowerBalance bracelets are worthless pieces of plastic in Australia, the company has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States following a class action suit filed in a Los Angeles’ federal court. https://gizmodo.com/powerbalance-admits-their-wristbands-are-a-scam-5723577 What a surprise. Citing “sources with direct knowledge of the situation,” TMZ claims the settlement…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

360 Panorama Now Lets You Stitch Together Sweeping Landscapes with Android Phones

When 360 Panorama hit the iPhone last year, we liked being able to spin in a circle and have the phone create a panorama in real-time. Now Android users can do the same, thanks to some impressive trickery. https://gizmodo.com/app-of-the-day-360-panorama-for-iphone-5719041 According to 360 Panorama developer Occipital, the Android version of 360 Panorama app is actually more…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A South Korean Politician Threw a Tear Gas Canister During a Parliament Vote

The United States Congress has been sort of a cluster-doodie this week, but at least they’re not lobbing tear gas canisters at each other. South Korean Parliament on the other hand? Not so much. During a vote concerning a free trade agreement with the United States, a politician opposing the deal set off a tear…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

MacGyver: the Complete Series Is Your Build-A-Machine-Gun-Out-Of-Paper-Clips-And-Glue Deal of the Day

Watch a Death Luge Fly Down a Mountain with No Brakes

Shooting Challenge Gallery: Soft Focus I

56 Images That Are Better Out of Focus

Shooting Challenge Gallery: Soft Focus II

Forget Pepper Spray—Destroying Protestors Gets Even Easier!

This Inflatable Robot Arm Would Destroy You in an Arm Wrestling Contest

Update: Apple Won Its iPhone Domains, But They Still Point to Porn

How the Original Facebook Phone Failed

Apple’s Pro-Censorship Software Alliance Backs Down

This Beautiful Stop Motion Toy Story Might Just Break Your Heart

How Volkswagen Redesigned the All-New Beetle

Here’s Ice Cream Sandwich Running on an Asus Transformer Prime Tablet

High-Energy Guru Is Building the World’s Biggest Tesla Coils

$7.4 Billion of Your Tax Dollars Are Upgrading the Never-Used F-22

What Pepper Spray Does to Your Body

Facebook Says Literally Everyone Is Only 4.74 Degrees Away

PowerBalance Scam Lawsuit Forces Company Into Bankrupcy

360 Panorama Now Lets You Stitch Together Sweeping Landscapes with Android Phones

A South Korean Politician Threw a Tear Gas Canister During a Parliament Vote

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