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Beginning of the End: Scenes from the Allied Invasion of Europe

This is it. The Allied invasion of Europe and the beginning of its attempt to wrest control of the war-torn continent from Hitler’s Nazi regime and a faltering Italian southern front. In part 16 of In Focus’s 20-part photography series on World War 2, we see the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. These…

Tech News Jack Loftus

U.S. Forest Service, Science Save Baseball Spectators from Broken Bat Schrapnel

When MLB spectator Susan Rhodes was struck by a broken bat at a Dodgers game in 2008, it broke her jaw and set off an investigation into the alarming number of bats (750 in 3 months) that shattered that season. The investigation was headed up by the U.S. Forest service and cost a relatively cheap…

Tech News Jack Loftus

H-57’s IBDM USB Missile Explodes with Retro Design

USB drives are ubiquitous these days. They plug in. They store smallish amounts of info and make that info portable. We all know this. Getting noticed requires quirky design, like this Intercontinental Ballistic Design Missile from Milan-based H-57. Not only is the design a nice mix of retro and clever packaging (IBCM is of course…

Tech News Jack Loftus

GM’s Latest Airbag Tech Is A Step Ahead

How many airbags can car manufacturers stuff into their vehicles? Trick question! When it comes to my safety during rare automobile accident, the only correct answer is “whatever it takes to produce an impervious airbag marshmallow around my person.” This latest airbag design manages to fit some extra protection into the driver side seat itself…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus

Massive HTC Android Vulnerability Leaves Security Expert “Speechless”

“I am quite speechless right now,” begins Artem Russakovskii over at Android Police as he posts about a “massive” security flaw in HTC Android devices that allows malicious hackers to access phone numbers, GPS, SMS, email addresses and more. The affected devices include EVO, 3D, 4G and Thunderbolt and apparently the flaw goes so deep…

Tech News Jack Loftus

SNL’s Seth Meyers Skewers Barely Born Kindle Fire On Its Clueless Parent Appeal

The Kindle Fire isn’t out yet and it’s future is by no means certain, but nevertheless SNL’s head writer Seth Meyers managed to make a funny last night during Weekend Update: “It’s expected to sell well among parents who always buy the wrong thing,” Meyers said of the $199 Android-powered tablet. If nothing else, a…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Don’t You Dare Open This Animatronic Axe Murderer Door…

Sure, the axe murderer presented in this door prop is about as lazy as they come, but you have to admit the overall attention to detail is pretty intense. As the tired, weary axe murder meanders down the darkly lit hallway toward the door, the lights flicker. Soon, eventually, he shambles close enough to swing…

Tech News Jack Loftus

DPS Attempts to Reinvent the Deep Powder Ski with Cleats and Fat Spoons

When skis when concave, that was a big deal. Aggressive skiers were soon carving deep lines into the hardpack and beginners were getting up and at ’em faster than ever. DPS wants to do that again with their funky Spoon. The Spoon 150 ski eschews the hourglass shape that its cousins have worn for years…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Gizmodo Exclusive: Looks Like There Will Be a Cheaper iPhone 4, Made in Brazil

Our Brazilian brothers, Gizmodo.com.br, got their hot little hands on a few photos of a new iPhone, to be announced next week. How? Well, there’s a Foxconn factory in Brazil, and Pedro & co got one of their men inside. Inside, they found a new-SKU iPhone that looks just like the old iPhone 4. Most…

Tech News Joe Brown

Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street

This is some old-school soul for you. A friend of once said that you ought to walk like you’ve got someplace you’ve gotta be. Bobby Womack’s classic Across 110th Street is the song for that occasion. It’s obvious, no? Anyone who’s watched their fair share of Tarantino knows this from the intro to his homage…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Chicago’s Giant Marilyn Monroe Statue Is a Giant Upskirt Umbrella

In the months since this gargantuan statue of Marilyn Monroe was erected in Chicago, it’s met plenty of sidelong glances and even vandalism. The only good thing? Her undercarriage will keep you plenty dry. This is form finding function by accident, people. …But why do I feel so dirty? [Buzzfeed]

Tech News Kwame Opam

These Are the Postal Service’s Sad Ads Against Email

The Post Office is dying, kids, hemorrhaging money while you fritter away your time with those emails. Don’t you know that paper mail is safer? Friendlier? And can’t be hacked… by terrorists?! That’s what the USPS’s new ad campaign wants you to think. https://gizmodo.com/the-post-office-is-dying-because-we-dont-need-it-anymor-5837512 It’s… pretty pathetic, actually. They’re painting it as though we’ve lost…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Will the iPhone 5 Be Available on Prepaid Plans?

Well, this is surprising. A reader over at TUAW saw both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S pop up on the Cincinnati Bell website. Not only is Cincinnati Bell not a big carrier like AT&T and Verizon, but it in the prepaid section. What the? Although this should be taken with a helping of salt,…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Happy 40th Birthday, Disney World!

Today marks the 40th birthday of the largest, most visited amusement park in the world, Walt Disney World. Part of Walt Disney’s dream for the theme park was a planned community where people could live with the technology of the future, today. Although that dream was never literally realized, the spirit of technology runs strong…

Tech News Michael Zhao

50 Cent Will Make Dr. Dre Proud with These Headphones

It’s been ages since I’ve mentioned Dre and 50 Cent in the same breath, but 50’s new SYNC headphones remind me that he was once one of his proteges. These cans are pretty much his answer to the Beats by Dre headphones. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-dr-dre-and-monster-headphones-vs-a-5033864 That may not be a bad thing; they just look like black…

Tech News Kwame Opam

TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned

Lori Dorn, the wife of Laughing Squid’s Scott Beale, recently submitted to a backscatter scan at JFK airport. The TSA pulled her aside for a breast patdown, even though she stated she had breast implants in place after her bilateral mastectomy. Of course, that didn’t stop them. They didn’t even let her take out the…

Tech News Kwame Opam

How Do You Shut Down the Second Most Powerful Particle Accelerator?

The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated highly charged particles through 4 miles of electromagnetic coil and vacuum tubes to discover the secrets of the universe. How do you turn a beast like that off? https://gizmodo.com/farewell-to-one-of-the-greatest-physics-experiments-of-5845134 Two buttons, both specially designed for the…

Tech News Kwame Opam

iPhone 4S Details Show Up in the Latest iTunes Beta

According to 9to5 Mac, the iPhone 4S popped up in all its glory in the 9th beta of iTunes. It also looks like the Verizon iPhone. That means two things: either Apple hasn’t changed the iTunes placeholder image, or the 4S really is an updated 4. It might also be an indication of an iPhone…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Turns Out You Might Be in Love With Your iPhone

With iPhone day upon us, plenty of us are waiting with bated breath for what the iPhone 5 will truly be like. Even though, heh, we kinda already know. The New York Times has it that you’re in love with your iPhone. Really? https://gizmodo.com/why-wait-the-worlds-first-iphone-5-review-5844836 All told, it reads similarly to an older study conducted on…

Tech News Kwame Opam

With Kinect, Robots Are One Step Closer to Copying Everything About You

Asimo, the Honda humanoid, one of the world’s most loved robots, was showing off its dance moves this week at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco. The robot was here to demonstrate some new tricks it’s been learning from scientists at the Honda Research Institute in Mountain View,…

Tech News Erico Guizzo - IEEE Spectrum

Beginning of the End: Scenes from the Allied Invasion of Europe

U.S. Forest Service, Science Save Baseball Spectators from Broken Bat Schrapnel

H-57’s IBDM USB Missile Explodes with Retro Design

GM’s Latest Airbag Tech Is A Step Ahead

Massive HTC Android Vulnerability Leaves Security Expert “Speechless”

SNL’s Seth Meyers Skewers Barely Born Kindle Fire On Its Clueless Parent Appeal

Don’t You Dare Open This Animatronic Axe Murderer Door…

DPS Attempts to Reinvent the Deep Powder Ski with Cleats and Fat Spoons

Gizmodo Exclusive: Looks Like There Will Be a Cheaper iPhone 4, Made in Brazil

Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street

Chicago’s Giant Marilyn Monroe Statue Is a Giant Upskirt Umbrella

These Are the Postal Service’s Sad Ads Against Email

Will the iPhone 5 Be Available on Prepaid Plans?

Happy 40th Birthday, Disney World!

50 Cent Will Make Dr. Dre Proud with These Headphones

TSA Pats Down Breast Cancer Survivor Even After Getting Scanned

How Do You Shut Down the Second Most Powerful Particle Accelerator?

iPhone 4S Details Show Up in the Latest iTunes Beta

Turns Out You Might Be in Love With Your iPhone

With Kinect, Robots Are One Step Closer to Copying Everything About You

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