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Honda’s Most Adorable Robot Is About to Go Nuclear

Asimo, the cutest durned robut you ever did see, is about to roll its precious sleeves and pitch in on the Fukushima recovery effort. PhyOrg is reporting about ASIMO’s new sense of purpose. Honda created ASIMO eleven years ago as a part of its research into robotics and human mobility. It has evolved a lot…

Tech News Brent Rose

This Emergency Bivvy Sack Not Only Keeps You Warm in the Wilderness, but Also Dry

The problem with the emergency bivvy sacks made of the heat-reflective space blanket material is that while they provide warmth, they don’t let moisture escape. Thus, you sweat. But a new material in AMK’s SOL Escape bivvy changes that. According to GearJunkie, the SOL bivvy is rain-, snow- and wind-resistant, but its material has a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Leukemia Patients Treated by Gene Therapy. Let’s Hope the Cure Doesn’t Kill Them This Time.

On Wednesday scientists announced an exciting new potential cure for leukemia using gene therapy. Yay. Let’s hope the test subjects don’t get sick and die. Because that’s what happened last time. Gene therapy has had a bumpy 20-year history of seemingly curing patients with various diseases, only to later cause side effects as bad if…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

This Is the Gizmodo Reader Correspondent Reporting Live from Lollapalooza 2011

RadioShack hooked a Gizmodo reader up with a free trip to Chicago to take in the sights, sounds, and slovenliness of the grandaddy of music festivals, Lollapalooza. Reader Mike was chosen to rep Gizmodo and below are a series of missives from the field that were filed using an assortment of incredible gadgets supplied by…

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30 Years Ago Today, IBM Released Its First PC Before Most People Had Any Idea What that Meant

No matter how you’re reading this, you’re reading it on a device unfathomably more powerful than the 4.77 Mhz IBM 5150 PC. But 30 years ago, that machine was so powerful, it defined what PC meant for the entire world. In 1981, the desktop computer was still mostly relegated to the business world. But it…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Will Apple Announce the iPhone 5 on September 7th?

Kodawarisan, a Japanese web site, is reporting that Apple’s Fall Event, which previously focused on iPods but will likely include the iPhone 5 announcement this year, is scheduled for Wednesday Sepetember 7th, 2011. The rumored date jives well with previous years. Apple has always targeted early September for their Fall Events. Last year, the Fall…

Tech News Casey Chan

Are Syrian Rebels Really Charging Their Phones With Batteries and Water?

Syrian freedom fighters claim to have come up with a new and creative way of charging their cell phones when they’re cut off the grid. It sounds too good to be true… and we think it is. Recently, The Atlantic reported on a very interesting interview that appeared on PBS News Hour. Syrian activist and…

Tech News Brent Rose

Police Now Tweeting Name, Address and Birthday of British Looters

The Greater Manchester Police is now tweeting names, birthdays and address of looters. While this information is public in England and it gets printed in papers, this is the first time Twitter is being used to broadcast this info. Perhaps the police is doing it to let people know they are doing something. Publicly humiliating…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Mad Man Builds Ridiculously Cool 40-inch iPhone

Benjamin Bachmeier turned a 40-inch LCD Full HD display into a perfect giant iPhone replica. It doesn’t run iOS but Mac OS X, but it’s gigantic buttons are fully functional. It’s computer, a display, a table and completely ridiculous. He calls it the iTableous. It’s not even a Mac, but a Hackintosh running Mac OS…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The World’s Fastest Roller Coaster Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Driving a Ferrari F1

You have a better chance of being mauled by a penguin than you have of driving a Ferrari F1 racer. You can, however, ride the next best thing—the Formula Rossa rollercoaster, which catapults riders around its track at 240kph. Located in Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, the world’s largest indoor theme park with over 200,000…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Fujifilm’s F600EXR Lets You Hunt the Best Shooting Spots via GPS

Fuji’s latest point and shoot isn’t anything particularly jarring—a 16 MP sensor, 15x optical zoom, and 1080p video capture—but the inclusion of built-in GPS navigation sounds pretty neat. Find great new vistas, and record your secret favorites. The Landmark Navigator GPS tech offers a collection of around a million spots, allowing you to trek to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Google’s Videos App Now Works with Android Phones

Google’s official video player for Android, long available for Honeycomb tablets, finally works with Android phones (2.2+). You can use it to watch videos you store on your phone or flicks you got from the Market. It streams over Wi-Fi and supports offline viewing too. [Android Market via TechCrunch]

Tech News Casey Chan

Why I Would Rather Be a Smoker Than an iPhone User

I’ve had relationships with many hand-held digital objects, but none as intense as the one I had with the iPhone. It became so addictive that I exchanged it for an iPod touch. Now I’m shopping for a new addiction. Although we had our good times, I eventually came to feel that I was losing something…

Tech News Anna Jane Grossman

Judge Rules That Students Can Slut It Up on Myspace. Legally.

If a student chooses to represent his/herself as a whorebag, that’s no business of their school, a federal judge has decided. This follows two teenage girls who posted slutty photos on MySpace and were dealt with aggressively by their school. The two students posted the pictures back in 2009, in case you were curious about…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Jeff Bezos Wants to Put an Airbag on Your Smartphone

It must be nice being an enormous millionaire like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Maybe it affords free time to sit and cook up strange, fascinating patents like this one: tiny, tiny little smartphone airbags. They’re cute! Does this make sense? The patent, in dry patent-talk, is the following: A method for protecting a portable device…

Commerce Sam Biddle

If Life Had a Slow Motion Mode, It Would Look Like This

Next Level Pictures took a Phantom Flex camera around Brooklyn and captured regular ordinary life in slow motion. But as we all know, slow motion transforms regular ordinary life into EPIC AMAZING LIFE. Getting tattooed in slow motion is my favorite. https://gizmodo.com/the-camera-that-goes-to-one-million-fps-5829031 From breakdancing and basketbal to playing with the fire hydrant and skateboarding, all…

Tech News Casey Chan

Why You Really Shouldn’t Trust App Store Ratings

Four stars? That app must be something special! Until you remember that those ratings are just a simple average, that people, by and large, don’t know what they’re talking about, and then the tornado hits. [xkcd]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Braincar Records Its Journeys For Intense Nighttime Lightshows

Before you ask, yes this is a real car, and yes it is roadworthy. It should also come as no surprise that it’s the work of a Dutch artist, Olaf Mooji, who must be smoking something reeeeaaal strong. As it goes about its daily travels, a camera takes photos and video of its surroundings, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

OkCupid Adds Grindr-Like Location Feature For Quick Shags or Romantic Dates

Last month we discovered that OkCupid is pretty much the only dating site you should consider if you’re an American hipster/nerd. If you’re particularly after the nerdlinger demographic, their new geolocation feature for Android and iOS apps will aid you in your search for true love. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-online-dating-profile-5809560 True love, or a hetero-shag a la Grindr,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Vigor to be First Beats by Dre Phone?

I really like this rumor: apparently the HTC Vigor will be the first handset HTC’s new acquisition, Beats by Dre, will show up on, but apart from that it’s tipped to have a 4.3-inch screen with 1280 x 720 resolution. https://gizmodo.com/htc-buys-beats-all-your-bass-are-belong-to-them-5829983 According to the rumormill, it will resemble the HTC Thunderbolt (pictured), but will lack…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Honda’s Most Adorable Robot Is About to Go Nuclear

This Emergency Bivvy Sack Not Only Keeps You Warm in the Wilderness, but Also Dry

Leukemia Patients Treated by Gene Therapy. Let’s Hope the Cure Doesn’t Kill Them This Time.

This Is the Gizmodo Reader Correspondent Reporting Live from Lollapalooza 2011

30 Years Ago Today, IBM Released Its First PC Before Most People Had Any Idea What that Meant

Will Apple Announce the iPhone 5 on September 7th?

Are Syrian Rebels Really Charging Their Phones With Batteries and Water?

Police Now Tweeting Name, Address and Birthday of British Looters

Mad Man Builds Ridiculously Cool 40-inch iPhone

The World’s Fastest Roller Coaster Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Driving a Ferrari F1

Fujifilm’s F600EXR Lets You Hunt the Best Shooting Spots via GPS

Google’s Videos App Now Works with Android Phones

Why I Would Rather Be a Smoker Than an iPhone User

Judge Rules That Students Can Slut It Up on Myspace. Legally.

Jeff Bezos Wants to Put an Airbag on Your Smartphone

If Life Had a Slow Motion Mode, It Would Look Like This

Why You Really Shouldn’t Trust App Store Ratings

Braincar Records Its Journeys For Intense Nighttime Lightshows

OkCupid Adds Grindr-Like Location Feature For Quick Shags or Romantic Dates

HTC Vigor to be First Beats by Dre Phone?

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

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