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Leroy Leutscher, an 86-year-old man from Arizona, was out on his yard when he dropped his pruning shears. As he reached down to grab them, he slipped and fell, landing face down on the handle. The handle went through his eye socket and down into his neck. Amazingly, he’s okay. That x-ray above was taken…
The Samsung Galaxy S II is the blueprint for the next generation of Android phones. And now it’s finally coming to the US, on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-a-first-draft-of-your-next-android-5818202 Only Sprint’s announced the price and date so far, and they’re first out of the gate: Sept. 16 for $200 (with 2-year contract). AT&T’s saying Septemberish…
Safari on the iPhone is as good as it gets for mobile browsing. But it’s missing the deeper features, like true tabbed browsing, a full screen mode and a slew of other settings. Dolphin Browser adds all that. What’s it do? Dolphin Browser has been wildly popular on Android for quite some time already but…
The lid is off the Lenovo ThinkPad, touted as the first tablet for enterprise-level business. I just spent some time sizing it up, and you know what? It’s kind of exactly what the suits are looking for. Using It This tablet doesn’t try to be particularly sleek or sly; it’s just a big, businessy rectangle.…
War dogs fight! War dogs get shot! War dogs cry! War dogs rappel down walls! And soon, war dogs will be feisty canine war cameras. Their human pals in SEAL Team 6 want mobile, furry eyes in battle. https://gizmodo.com/a-wounded-war-dog-healed-in-an-aerial-hospital-5831422 DefenseTech reports that DEVGRU—SEAL Team 6’s formal name—requested the following hookup from the Pentagon: The contractor…
Some surfers reach great heights. Some stay up for great distances. And some, as of just very recently, attach freaking flares to the back of their boards in a fiery cataclysm of curl. Those last ones are my favorite. Sure, it amounts to not much more than a stunt. But what a stunt, especially in…
People really love this cheap TouchPad thing. So much, in fact, that HP set up an email alert system to let you know when TouchPads are back in stock. Today the emails went out, but it wasn’t for TouchPads. It was for printers. And ink cartridges. And literally everything but TouchPads: We are grateful for…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has its fascinatingly morbid fatality census report out! Are you a manager of some sort? Watch your back, because the study says if you die on the job, there’s a 10% chance it’s murder. That’s correct. Out of the 4,547 workplace deaths in 2010, 10% of the kaput management was…
When I was a child, there was a number that crudely measured how many people paid attention to something. It was called the Nielsen rating. Perhaps you remember it. Today it’s an unimportant relic that only reveals what was happening. The VMAs had its biggest show ever this year. A record-breaking 12.4 million people tuned…
Photographer Joao Silva lost both of his legs last year to an IED landmine explosion in Afghanistan. He kept shooting as he was dragged to safety and treated by medics. But to hear him tell it, he’s just an ordinary guy who ran into some bad luck. I heard the mechanic click. I knew: this…
Labor Day weekend is coming up, the last chance to let loose before fall. These seven devices will make the final road trip of the summer your most memorable yet. Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe I don’t know about you, but if I’ve got to be on the road for more than an hour, I’m going…
After killing the TouchPad and fire sale-ing them at a $100 to get rid of them, HP has announced that they’ll still make TouchPads through October. What in the deepest depths of hell is going on? Couple theories: According to analyst Shaw Wu of Strene Agee, HP’s deal with Taiwanese manufacturer, Compal, was for between…
If anyone deserves free phone calls to their loved ones, it’s the men and women that serve our country. Google has announced that U.S. service personnel with a valid US Military (.mil) email address can now place free Gmail voice calls to the United States from within Gmail. The free calls will available until at…
Holy shit! The house is collapsing! The entire house is falling apart! Laura—Laura, can you hear me? The roof is falling down! In chunks! Big chunks! Sweetie?? Can you hear this? This is incredible—everything is just falling down all over the place. The lamp! Oh sweet Christ, Aunt Ling’s lamp just crumbled before me. It’s…
It’s been coming into the spotlight more recently but NFL players have been dealing with brain injuries since the sport was first played. Combine the endless hard hits with the bigger, faster, stronger athletes and brains that weren’t meant to be jiggled like that? Serious problems. But the real problem is, no one knows exactly…
They’re funny because they’re terribly, awkwardly, sadly true. All due credit to Chris Kohler, who runs Wired.com’s very excellent Game|Life. Leave your best in the comments. (Or Twitter!) We’ll add them in. [Twitter] P.S. Click here if you hate galleries. https://gizmodo.com/top-signs-youre-on-a-date-with-a-gizmodo-writer-5835849 P.P.S. Please be funny! Have no fear. We won’t ban you. Probably. @jesusdiaz @kobunheat…
Boarding a plane is a completely miserable, time-consuming experience. How often are you left waiting for that oversized man jam his oversized luggage into the undersized overhead compartment? Ridiculous! That’s why every airline needs to try this new boarding method. It cuts the time in half. Amazingly, it was invented by Dr. Jason Steffen, an…
Underwater photography is inherently intriguing. Colors cool and gravity gives way to currents. Here are your 12 underwater entrants from this week’s Shooting Challenge. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-the-subaquatic-5833904 Winner – Goggles I was finally able to send in a photo for the shooting challenge. The picture was of my daughter at the community pool yesterday and was taken…
For Halloween, the iTunes storefront highlights scary movies. For Christmas, flicks about Santa Claus. For Valentine’s Day, Valentine’s Day. And for this Labor Day? Babies! Because hey, ’tis the season. For… pregnancy? There are 24 movies in the Labor Day section of iTunes right now, all of which about making babies or having babies or…
