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It’s sorta amazing how little has changed with the iPod app on iOS. Not to say it’s not good but it’s hardly perfect. Like It’s slow! Side sweeping screens are fun to play with at first but I JUST WANT MUSIC ALREADY sometimes. Panamp Music Player gets you there faster. What’s it do? It’s an…
Not happy for ripping off Apple’s iPad design, Samsung is now selling this blatant copy of Apple’s Smart Cover. It’s manufactured by Anymode, a Korean company with a “strong affiliation with Samsung Electronics” as a “key accessories supplier”. Called Smart Case—really—the Smart Cover clone comes in the same pastel colors as Apple’s own and is…
Okay, preemptively, enough giggling. Feminine hygiene is serious business—and booming business, too. Which is why Summer’s Eve has dropped this big budget yonic ode to the female genitalia, which they say shaped the course of history. It’s not often that you get to reflect upon both vaginas and ninjas at once, but when offered the…
Internet superhero and sometimes-Gizmodo contributor Dave Pell has identified the Catch-22 of jumping from one social network to the next, to the next, to the next. We want people to follow us, but we also find it sort of creepy! Because our social graphs aren’t really portable, we end up having to ask people to…
Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. The the hack was first announced…
The iPhone 4 may shatter too easily but apparently its guts can sustain plenty of damage, as 37-year-old Minnesotan Jarrod McKinney discovered while skydiving at 13,500 feet (4.1 kilometers). https://gizmodo.com/design-test-note-fragile-beauty-5572546 His phone had previously shattered when his 2-year-old son dropped it from a bathroom shelf, so when it fell from 13,500 feet, he thought it…
I’m all for spending money anyway you want to—grills, watches, boulder-sized rings, blinging chains—but come on, paying $15,000 for diamond and gold contact lenses is stupid. When did sacrificing your eyes become cool? Conceptualized and designed by two guys with too much time and money, Dr Chandrashekhar Chawan and Sanjay Shah, the contact lenses are…
I just want to eat sushi at the same speed as these fish other smaller fish. Which, mind you, it’s not far from my usual speed. Nom nom. [Thanks Oscar!]
The JediBot, created by students at Stanford University, is a robotic arm that tests your skill with a lightsaber-ized foam sword. By using a Kinect, it’s able to home in on its enemy’s weapon and attack or defend accordingly. Robots that can attack each other have already been demonstrated, but a system that can react…
At 330 miles in diameter, Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt. On Friday 15, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft entered its orbit firing its ion thruster to reduce its speed. Then it captured this image. This is the first time a man-made object has visited the main asteroid belt and entered orbit…
Washington’s got debt ceiling fever!—and the prospect of the US defaulting on its giant shitheap of foreign loans is becoming scarily real. So what happens if no deal is struck? MONEY CHAOS. Time to gear up for econo-hell. Bitcoin Right now, Bitcoin’s a pretty fringe internet phenomenon—unbacked digital currency used mostly by hackers and drug…
Not only do girls have to deal with assholes like us guys but their bathroom lines are ridiculously long. You know what would make the lines faster? Urinals for girls. I’m serious. It’s a thing. Called the Pollee, it only exists in concept form but there’s three different prototypes: Pollee Shy, Pollee Topless and Pollee…
People are always talking about how they’re green with envy. Except when I look at them, they’re never green. And what does that even mean anyways? Do they turn green when they’re within proximity of envy? Or does this envy grow inside them and turn their skin green as a result? I don’t get it.…
Is there anything that says ‘I’m in paradise’ more than sleeping on a hammock? But there’s no back support! That’s why Exped invented a Hammock with a flat back. Sleeping on a hammock never felt this good. Lounging around with an umbrella drink on a hammock is perfect! Hanging with girls in bikinis? Lovely. Even…
The Daily today tells the story of Robert Cornelius, an American chemist, metallurgist and photography pioneer who was successful in not only creating the first candid photographic self-portrait but also one of the first portraits of a human ever taken. Cornelius’ shot was a giant step forward from the daguerreotype, the wildly popular photographic method…
The Droid 3’s been out for a month in China, but we’re just now getting our obligatory look under the hood via an iFixit teardown. The big surprise is that Motorola’s new handset is packing a SIM card. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-doesnt-think-well-notice-they-launched-the-dro-5812988 SIM-less phones had put a damper on Verizon’s international capabilities, so the inclusion of the card…
Researchers have found a 22-year-old woman with a full grown nipple on her foot. I don’t know if a foot nipple is considered not safe for work, but I’m getting a strange tingling sensation thinking about the possibilities. Click to enlarge. While it seems straight from the pages of National Enquirer, the case was recently…
No-one need know you’re packing an iPad—unless you unzip that front pocket and reveal your weaponry. Versetta has a range of male and female-friendly bags with iPad pockets, with this Norino Attache priced at $229. [Versetta via Engadget]
Spotify is great—like having an angel pour delicious gravy into your ears with a golden baster. And now it’s finally in the US! Want an account? Yes—so we’re giving some away 100 of ’em to our Twitter followers. https://gizmodo.com/is-spotify-really-your-streaming-music-savior-5821267 The Goods 100 free (the ad-supported flavor) Spotify accounts. One could be yours! And there’ll be…
