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This photography illusion, made with a Samsung L100 camera and Photoshop, turns half of a person’s face into a picture of their profile too. Are they looking straight at you? Or looking to the side? I can’t freaking tell and it’s giving me brain sores. The project, titled 1/2, was created by Venezuelan student Jesús…
Unless you’re a Sprint customer—or you’re grandfathered into an unlimited data plan—you’ve only got 2GB of mobile data to play with before you go broke or get throttled. Here’s how to keep from going over your cap. The consequences of using more data than your carrier wants can be scary—and expensive. AT&T and Verizon start…
So Top Chef’s coming back tonight, and that means food drama, food crying, and food cutting—with knives. We like knives, and we figure you’re probably not strongly anti-knife yourself. So here are some great knives that we’d like to slice stuff with. Shun Classic: Chef’s Knife 6″ Your basic 6″ chef’s knife, but with 33…
As a complement to their portable RDTX detector which provides radiation warnings through your iPhone, Scosche’s HRDTX is designed to monitor the homefront, providing audible warnings and email alerts when radiation levels become too dangerous. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-detect-radiation-with-a-freaking-iphone-now-5848255 Using “fast photo sensor technology” the $330 detector accurately measures gamma radiation without the need for calibration, and provides…
You’re looking at Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica. It pushes more ice to the sea than any other glacier in the world. See that gigantic 18-mile-long canyon? That’s the birth point of a new gargantuan iceberg, larger than New York City. The huge crack has been discovered by NASA’s Operation IceBridge team, who took this…
There is something about blue eyes that can pierce another person’s soul while also acting as a revealing window into your own. Brown eyes? Not so much. What if you wanted blue eyes, though? Color contacts? Meh. Try this new laser surgery that’ll permanently transform your brown eyes to blue. Brown to blue, permanently. That’s…
All those problems with evaporating iPhone batteries? Looks like it’s not the hardware’s fault—Apple’s ‘fessing up to a buggy iOS 5 release that’s sucking more juice than it should, The Loop reports. https://gizmodo.com/whats-going-on-with-the-iphone-4s-battery-5854510 Apple confirmed the problem in a message to The Loop, stating “A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery…
You know what’s awesome? Wrist-mounted anything. Literally anything that’s a thing is probably cooler on your wrist. Clocks? Yeah. Phones? Maybe. Ice cream cones? Sure! And homemade, laser-sighted crossbows? Yeah, I want a piece of that, and you do too. The WristBow Crossbow Gauntlet fires carbon fiber bolts that are tipped with brass and steel.…
For the most part, itty-bitty satellite speakers are just all right—a compromise made for convenience. The new Boston Acoustics SoundWare S system looks like it might actually be able to blow up a room with sound. The SoundWare S package has five two-way satellite speakers and a subwoofer. The satellites have 3 1/2 inch woofers…
The One Laptop Per Child project has had a long, noble, bumpy road. The dream of getting computers into every small 3rd world hand hasn’t arrived yet, but now there’s a new plan: toss ’em out of helicopters. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte is done screwing around with pricing and shipping and distribution. For his new…
It’s probably never going to make its way into a Christmas carol like figgy pudding did, but this year Burger King is celebrating the holidays in Japan with an epic quad patty ‘Pizza-Size Burger’ that looks more appealing than any goose. Measuring 8.8 inches in diameter with a special extra wide bun, the burger will…
Despite representing different stages of human evolution, it looks like European Homo Sapiens might have had a penchant for a little Neanderthal booty. Or vice versa. Two new studies show that humans and Neanderthals overlapped by about 5,000 years in Europe, and, like, hung out, if you know what I mean. Scientists re-analyzed two teeth…
Breaking through the surface tension of water. Maybe it’s symbolic. Maybe it just looks cool. Either way, for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture plunging into water. But don’t worry. You can take a photo just like this lead shot. The Challenge Capture a photo of something or someone plunging into water (or other liquid).…
You need to get in shape. Or maybe you are in shape, and want to be… inshaper. These fitness watches will run you ragged, or at least track your heart beats, distance traveled, and speed until you win this thing. Off to the races! 4th Place: Timex Ironman Global Trainer GPS with Heart Rate At…
If you roll out of bed by yourself in the morning in an empty apartment, breakfast for one doesn’t always have to be just a bowl of cereal. Nostalgia Electric’s griddle packing toaster has just enough room to fry up a couple of eggs or a single pancake. Without having to mess a single frying…
The internet was briefly snorting up thick lines of hacker hype this week, abuzz over claims that Anonymous was going to attack bloodthirsty Mexican drug lords. Anonymous, the internet’s antihero, versus Los Zetas, drug scum. Too bad it’s completely bogus. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-on-a-warpath-with-zetas-drug-cartel-after-kid-5854754 The Guardian argues Anonymous “retreats” from their plan to expose members of the notoriously…
I like the new-car smell of electronics more than the new-car smell of cars. Why anyone would want to buy something refurbished is beyond me. It’s a crapshoot. A russian roulette of fried circuit boards and non-working wires. Spin and shoot and leave it up to fate. Seriously, you have no idea what you might…
Gmail came out for iPhone and iPad! Hooray! We’ve been waiting for this for years! Hooray! The app is so completely terrible that I wish I never downloaded it! Hoor… wait what? Yes. This new Gmail app for iOS is such a tragedy I don’t even know why it exists. In fact, it doesn’t any…
Citing employees at Hamburg Data Protection, Bloomberg claims that Facebook’s cookies will still actively track your online activity even if you’ve cancelled your account. But it mostly just seems like tin hat paranoia. According to the report, there’s “suspicion” and over the way Facebook is using cookies. What that means exactly is unclear, as they…
What if you were trying to get money out of the ATM, and instead you got a snake? That’s what happened to this poor bastard at a Caja Madrid bank on his way to work. But he reached past the slithering creature and grabbed his money anyway. Brave! Or he desperately needed the cash. Personally,…
