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Securing the Lines | The methods that let News of the World go on a phone hacking rampage. https://gizmodo.com/how-news-of-the-world-hacked-everybodys-phones-5822574 Facebook, Why Did You Screw Your Chat System? https://gizmodo.com/facebook-why-did-you-screw-your-chat-system-5822759 By now you’re probably one of the 500 million people who have noticed the new Facebook chat. Which means that one or more of these three words…
Getting caught in traffic sucks for everyone. So New York City Mayor Bloomberg and his crack team of engineers are working on a way to both monitor traffic and get you moving, involving more cameras and a lot of microwaves. The new initiative is called “Midtown in Motion,” and will cover 42nd to 57th Street…
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have successfully managed to create antibacterial stainless steel. By introducing silver, nitrogen, and carbon to the surface of the metal, it not only wards off germs but is resistant to wear and tear. The scientists hope that this new-and-improved steel will be quickly adopted by doctors and surgeons. Might…
I love monkeys and I love this cute video of Nala, a baby Capuchin who seems to be fascinated by a game called Lucky Coins on an iPhone. [YouTube, Thanks Karl and Vinnie Vici!] https://gizmodo.com/monkey-island-2-is-what-all-ipad-gaming-should-be-5584814
These stools, called Blast Stools by Guy Mishaly, look like scrunched up wads of paper. Why is that? Because the stools take their odd and wrinkled shape from being blasted with explosives. That’s right, they’re made with explosives. Mishaly shapes a steel model (usually a cylinder or cube shape) and then straps some explosives to…
For most people, working out at the gym isn’t fun. But that’s because you don’t know what to do. Gym Genie shows you exactly how and what exercises to do (in video) so you have no more excuses. What’s it do? It’s a fitness app that does everything but hold your hand when you work…
The only thing more embarrassing than the media awkwardly defining “lulz” like a sex ed teacher explaining blowjobs is mistaking LulzSec for an enigmatic woman named Louise. Who apparently has some sort of boat. It’s a “hacking thing,” you see. https://gizmodo.com/the-medias-awkward-attempts-explaining-what-the-hell-lu-5814889 The shockingly clueless team at Sky News scratched their heads as they watched The…
I probably lose track of my keys at least a couple of times a day, which is both pathetic and infuriating to anyone I’m with. It’s awful! But this Lego mastermind cooked up a simple, fantastic solution. You see, you just stick your keys to the Lego plate on your wall whenever you walk inside.…
This video follows a thief’s movements, using the data from the purloined iPhone itself. Sue Huang’s phone was stolen, and she recovered it five days later, ransoming it from the thief who took it. But the story doesn’t end there. She and Brian House used OpenPaths and Google Street View images to recreate the phones…
According to Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer, speaking on today’s earnings call, Mac OS X Lion—as rumored—will go on sale tomorrow. You’ll be able to pick it up in Apple Stores or download it at the Mac App store for $30. Unless, uh, you’d rather take a pass. https://gizmodo.com/apple-made-silly-gobs-of-money-selling-over-20-million-5822778
Porsche Design has done a wonderful thing. This is by far the sleekest hookah, narghile, whatever you really wanna call it I’ve ever seen. Aluminum, stainless steel, and glass. Simple and elegant. How could you not relax smoking from this? Only the most stylish of sticky need apply. [
Apple just reported the kind of mammoth earnings that most companies only dream of in these dreary economic days: $28.57 billion of revenue resulting in $7.31 billion earnings, profits that were more than double a year ago. Yowza. Apple moved 9.25 million iPads and 20.34 million iPhones in the last three months, although it’s not…
While walking her pet duck Duckie, Miss Love—these names aren’t made up—decided the poor dear must be uncomfortable on the hot sand. So after a mishap or two, she got him a pair of surf booties. In purple. Duckie actually wore duct tape booties whenever he and his lady walked to beaches in San Diago.…
The UK Guardian has the low down on how LulzSec’s primetime hack of the UK Sun went down. It happened in two phases: one was discovering an exploit in the “contact us” section. The other was the discovery of a retired server. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-hacks-the-times-with-brutal-murdoch-death-notic-5822392 The email vulnerability is thought to have been discovered by LulzSec hackers…
The Midwest weather is currently slightly warmer than the surface of the sun and headed straight for New York. While cows haven’t started spontaneously combusting (YET), these seven tools will help keep you colder than Ice Cube’s acting career. KewlFlow Circulatory Cooling Vest This vest has ice water in its veins. No, seriously. Chilled water…
The 2012 Nissan GT-R is a $90,000, 530Hp street rocket. The BlueDrone R/C car… not so much. But at least it’ll hurt less when you wrap it around a tree. The BlueDrone is an R/C car that pairs with any Android phone or tablet via Bluetooth. It runs a custom control app and commands are…
Hey ladies, you’re not the only ones who have to deal with creepy dudes trying to video your naughty bits in public restrooms. A Louisiana city planner was arrested for planting a hidden urinal camera that captured “photos and video of several employees penises.” According to the police report, Jeffery Larcade duct taped a small…
There are a lot of things I can’t believe I haven’t done in my life yet. Like skydiving, mushrooms, windsurfing, eating watermelon like a cereal bowl, finish a whole handle of whiskey myself, kill a whole gallon of milk, milk a cow, kill a cow, chop a tree down, ride a camel, do a rain…
My front tooth is fake. It’s a remnant of when I was a kid, and smacked into the jungle gym. That would never happen today, because kids’ playgrounds are so much safer. As it turns out, that’s a bad thing. The New York Times has a fantastic story today on the de-riskification of kids playgrounds,…
I’m pretty paranoid about losing my data to a hard drive failure, so the LaCie Rugged Mini drive is at once awesome and terrible for me. It’s great because the thing’s fast and basically indestructible, but I can’t help thinking I’ll just screw with it until I find a way to break it. The tiny…
