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A lot of people try to take one picture every day of the year but fail after the first week. It’s hard to remember, life gets in the way, whatever. Photo 365 gives you daily reminders and keeps ’em lookin’ nice in a tidy calendar What’s it do? It’s a camera app that’s main focus…
The May 5, 1958 edition of Arthur Radebaugh’s Sunday comic, Closer Than We Think, showed off the high-tech school of tomorrow. With hordes of baby boomers flooding into public schools in the 1950s, it makes sense that this strip would focus on different solutions for overcrowding with that technological optimism we identify as being uniquely…
In a direct contradiction to China’s official line about their never attack nations or groups online, Chinese state television CCTV briefly displayed footage showing their military students training for cyberattacks. Just enough to get then in trouble. Oops! China’s involvement in cyberwarfare has an obviously sordid history, but their stance on the subject even in…
Inventors: You can stop trying now. Your laptops cannot feed the world. Your smartphones are not crunchy AND meaty. The masterminds behind Cherkees have beaten you. Cherkees combines two of my favorite things, beef jerky and potato chips. Let me be absolutely clear. These are NOT beef jerky flavored potato chips. Cherkees are real beef…
Welcome to college! Your dorm room will look nothing like the image above, but it doesn’t hurt to have something to aspire to. We’re here to help you make your place less of a condemned rat’s nest. Image via Shutterstock Nuwave Infrared Tabletop Oven You probably won’t be doing a lot of cooking during your…
Roy Stewart builds longboards fit for—or at least expensive enough for kings. But what in holy heaven could make his Baron surfboard cost $528,000? The 12-foot long, 45-pound Baron is modeled after the pre-colonial, “Olo” longboards—the boards reserved for royalty. Longer, heavier surfboards make for a sturdier, faster ride. When you really get going on…
Just to be clear: this does not purport to be anything like the iPhone 5. In fact, it almost certainly isn’t. But I can still hope in my secret heart that we’ll be seeing an iPhone like this someday, right? The only feature showcased in this CGI, just-for-kicks mockup by Aatma Studio here that may…
Earlier this month PBS ran a story about an unorthodox method of phone charging that Syrian rebels were using. It sounded strange to us, so we tested it. It didn’t hold water. Literally. So NewsHour followed up with the real story. https://gizmodo.com/are-syrian-rebels-really-charging-their-phones-with-bat-5830329 To recap: the video piece was produced by GlobalPost, originally appeared on PBS’s…
China’s got a new beastly toy to mow down the massses: the YLGA01 8×8 SWAT APC. It’s rugged, armored, and scary looking—exactly what you want from an APC. But on the inside? Pure comfort! Well, it still looks like the inside of an APC, but dig this: full central air, wall to wall carpeting, and…
If you use ESPN.com for fantasy football and use an Android phone, you now have an app to manage your teams. Unlike last year, when ESPN charged 5 bucks for the app, the 2011 version is free. You can manage multiple leagues, follow your pretend game in real-time, add/drop/trade players and gives you push notifications…
Every single iPhone has a unique number attached to that device. Devs like this number, because it lets them keep track of who’s using their apps. Apple’s realizing this might be a liability, and wants the numbers outta there. Digital Trends reports Apple’s telling devs to use their own (non-hardware) tracking methods by iOS 5,…
The Photoshop Rap Tutorial is back in all its remarkably educational glory. In fact, if anything it’s less funny than the first but more instructive, and I’m pretty sure I’m happier that way: https://gizmodo.com/photoshop-tutorial-rap-still-surprisingly-instructive-5713323 If nothing else good happens in your life today, you at least can tell your diary how you learned to make…
Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined MSNBC’s Tamron Hall During NewsNation on August 24, 2011. Watch the clip above!
Professional photographer John Heller got $9,000 worth of gear stolen in Los Angeles. Here’s how he got it all back. Heller, a Getty Images photographer, was on assignment at the Egyptian theater in Hollywood when his Nikon D3 and bag of lenses was stolen. Like most victims of gadget theft, Heller reported the crime to…
Ever wanted to own an actual Cylon? Of course you did, and this might be your best chance. The Official Battlestar Galactica Props and Costumes Auction has a ton of set-used pieces up for grabs. You can get your nerdy little mitts on costumes, production art, props, set pieces, and other relics from the beloved…
It’s easy to forget that a whole other world lives underwater, out of view. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture an image below the water’s surface…be it pool, pond, lake, ocean or bathtub. The Challenge Capture a photo under water. But wait, you don’t have an waterproof camera? Read on. The Technique First things…
Back in late March, NASA’s Swift satellite detected a strange and unusual energy explosion in the constellation Draco. NASA now knows what it was: “the awakening of a distant galaxy’s dormant black hole as it shredded and consumed a star.” https://gizmodo.com/space-telescopes-observe-mysterious-giganormous-explosi-5789808 This simulation shows how it works: As a star falls toward a black hole,…
You’ve seen the XKCD comic showing how tweets about an earthquake eventually spread faster than the quake itself, and now here’s the proof. https://gizmodo.com/why-earthquake-tweets-reached-you-before-the-earthquake-5833662 Yesterday’s earthquake rattled the East Coast. But if you were online, you may have read about it before you felt it. It completely lit up Twitter. Now here’s a look at…
That “home video” you recorded on vacation, that “home video” you recorded while bored on a rainy day, that “home video” you recorded in college. Yeah, you don’t want those landing in the wrong hands. But your digital hoarding, glory day re-living, libido of a teenage boy having self just won’t let you delete it.…
This is really strange and nobody is talking about it: the Russians are getting their Tu-95 Bear strategic nuclear bombers deep into European airspace without permission. This video shows how two Dutch F-16 intercepted one a few days ago. This is happening two years after Russia decided to re-deploy their Bear bombers in Cuba and…
