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Ford recently unveiled the world’s first front-wheel-drive electric bicycle at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Huzzah! Then they promptly explained that this concept will never make it to the showroom floor. Oh Ford, you’re such a tease. The E-bike concept uses a trapezoidal frame profile made from a carbon-aluminum alloy that weighs just 2.5 kg. It’s…
“You’re going to be a Dad” is probably the last thing this unsuspecting husband expected to discover when he fired up his wife’s iPad to play Angry Birds. And if that isn’t shocking enough, he now faces the most difficult task of his married life. No, it’s not becoming a father, it’s telling his wife…
Mistaken as an endorsement for the delicious citrusy beverage of the same name, Orange Crush serves as a reminder that R.E.M. wasn’t relegated to songs about unrequited love and people that were shiny and possibly happy. When the album Green was released in 1988, I lived in a small town with two radio stations. One…
Do you remember that mysterious safe hidden behind a wall inside Bill’s Casino in Reno? Well, it’s been opened. Cool! Not really, since it was opened and filmed by Oprah’s people for a TV special. So no one knows what’s inside still. TV drama! https://gizmodo.com/a-man-found-a-mysterious-possibly-mafia-connected-safe-5833964 Remember, there was a slight possibility that the safe was…
YouTube added several new features to its video streaming service including the ability to convert your 2D video to 3D format. I’m not sure why you would want to, but now you can. YouTube users will also be able to mix it up with two new video editing tools, vlix and Magisto. Vlix lets you…
Clever: follow this video to see how to take a giant panoramic photo, turn it into a huge 5-foot-long metallic print and frame it using an inexpensive large mirror from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Impressive results. [RL Morris via Petapixel]
I’ve never had this much fun reading the alphabet since I was a kid and finally conquered the L, M, N, O stretch of my ABCs. But this video is way cooler—the letters actually animates itself to represent a word it begins with. It’s so goddamn clever. For example, B is for biscuit and it’s…
Surfing has been around for centuries, because all you need is a piece of wood. But it’s evolved into one of the most high-tech sports in the world. This is the cutting edge of board design, according to three of the top 32 surfers in the world. You might not think it, but every bit…
KCRW, if you’re not familiar is a LA-area public radio station. KCRW, if you are familiar is a wonderful place to discover new music and new bands. It’s like the corner of the radio that hasn’t been pummeled with noisemakers and hype machines. What’s it do? KCRW Music Mine app is more about the music…
All hail the mighty Roboto, come to conquer our desks and lay siege to our peripherals! Bow before his diminutive wrath! Standing a towering four inches tall, it really does wind up and stomp about your work space when it isn’t commanding your accessories with its four USB slots or controlling your mind with its…
Want your wife or girlfriend to remember that you need the car on Saturday, drop your voice a few octaves. NPR reports that research conducted by Kevin Allan of the University of Aberdeen King’s College in Scotland determined that women are more likely to remember something when spoken to in a low-pitch voice. In the…
You’re on your way to out of the office, free as a bird for the next two weeks. Except that you forgot to set your Gmail auto-response and your phone keeps blowing up with messages. The Google webapp adds features that will help keep you sane. The much-needed additions are multiple-user sign in, mobile signature,…
Surfing is difficult enough during the day when you can actually see the waves (and sharks) coming. To do it at night, you need a big brass pair like professional surfer Aritz Aranburu. And a self-illuminating surfboard doesn’t hurt. Shot at Mundaka in Northern Spain, this Pukas board is one of only four currently in…
What’s better than Facebook, or Google+, or Twitter, or any other social network you can join? How about: not that. Or more specifically, how about Not Google Plus, an antisocial network we can all get behind. To help ease the transition, maybe just see if you can’t get all your friend groups to stand around…
AT&T just announced their new international SMS plans and they’re ridonkulous: 200 messages for $30 and 500 messages for $50. Hah! 50 bucks! Just for sending texts! Who in the half brain hell would sign up for that? Okay, it’s a better deal than what AT&T previously offered, which was $0.50 per text (50 texts…
I just came back from California. Sunny Cali-for-ni-ay where the absence of weather means it’s always great weather. I ate In N Out a bazillion times. I drove in traffic. I listened to Dr. Dre. I watched Clayton Kershaw pitch. I didn’t surf, but I could have! I didn’t smoke out, but I should have!…
If you own a smartphone, the possibility of tweeting a photo via SMS probably means nothing to you. But, if you’re still rocking a regular mobile phone, or in a country that has no mobile Internet access, sending photos via SMS is exciting news. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-might-be-the-most-important-photo-sharing-servi-5807449 Twitter announced the new “share a photo via text” feature…
Mango, you sweet juicy OS update you. We can’t wait to taste you. When are you going to come to Windows Phone? According to Microsoft, we can expect Mango to start rolling out “in the next week or two” When Microsoft starts rolling out Mango, they’ll update their Where’s My Phone Update? page for you…
Wool from Yorkshire in Northern England is so fabulous that bad guys want to counterfeit it. So wool merchants are shooting it up with proprietary DNA to prove it’s the real thing. Applied DNA Sciences provides the anti-counterfeiting service, which involves a proprietary method of injecting the fabric with a unique botanical DNA during manufacturing.…
