Tech news, analysis, culture, business, security, and more
If you’re into the whole autonomous vacuuming thing (this guy is), Roomba’s mastered the art to the point that it’s pretty much unnecessary to look elsewhere for your cleaning needs. But lo and behold, LG has popped up on the scene with their own robot vacuum. I’m not saying a little competition is a bad…
You’ve seen the robotic hog head dropper. But there’s still a lot of pig left to butcher. With bones and stuff. How do you make a boneless ham out of all that? The HAMDAS-R Ham Boning machine. https://gizmodo.com/how-your-bacon-is-made-the-jarvis-jr-50-super-pig-deca-5816277 After the ham thighs are separated from the rest of the hog, they travel on dual conveyor…
The year’s half over and summer is upon us. That can only mean one thing: it’s time for the young among us to sit in a dark room and stare at a backlit screen for 18-20 hours a day (and for the rest of us to be jealous of them). Here’s the newest batch of…
If you go to NBA.com or any official NBA team website, you won’t see any pictures of current basketball players, no Kobe, Lebron, Durant, nobody. Why? It’s because the NBA isn’t allowed to post pictures of any of their players. The NBA just kickstarted their lockout at 12:01AM today and players and owners are no…
In the timeless battle between fireworks and food, there’s only ever been one clear winner: those of us who get to watch them meet at a gloriously slowed down 2,000 frames per second. Jell-O! Mayo! Egg! All exploded for our pleasure, compliments of PopSci. The full video below, shot with the same type of Phantom…
This simply website ports your Instagram photos to a back-up folder, either for archiving or to upload to other social sites. Or for printing out and sticking them on your Mom’s fridge, if you’re a proud hipster. [Instaport via TNW]
It seems like only yesterday that they had about 14 apps—where does time go?! *sniffles* Like Android app downloads, the rate at which apps are being developed is churning faster and faster—good work, devs. [WindowsPhoneAppList via WinRumors via Gadgetsteria via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/android-app-downloads-now-total-4-5-billion-5816605
Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World” is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that’s been lost for centuries. Art historians have confirmed that deeper in the painting, you can see the “miraculous softness” and the “delicate paint” of Leonardo. It’s a painting of Christ blessing the globe (though it sorta looks like dude Mona…
You’d normally use a vacuum cleaner to suck up bits of paper, but instead, Vax’s next vacuum body will be made from corrugated cardboard, as a nod to the environment. The panels will actually pop out of the retail box it’s sold in, meaning there’s even less waste than you’d expect. Designed originally by British…
For Tropicana juice’s latest ad campaign, they went back to basics and filled billboards with hundreds of oranges, the acid of which generated enough electricity to light up the billboard. Advertising agency DDB may’ve wasted dozens of perfectly-good oranges, but in using the copper and zinc spikes to harness the acidic electrochemicals inside the oranges,…
House more Italian Renaissance than minimalist bachelor’s pad? You can’t buy any old speaker set, then. You may as well try and camouflage your home audio set-up using these resin statue speakers, which can be customized even in your own likeness. [Richard Grant via Unplggd via OhGizmo] https://gizmodo.com/i-think-my-dad-owned-these-new-g-series-sony-speakers-5817031
After a furious bidding process that saw Google and Intel’s hopes crushed, Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, EMC and Ericsson scooped up Nortel’s patents for $4.5 billion. The 6,000 patents span wireless, data networking, 4G and internet, and while we don’t know what the bevy of tech companies plan on doing with them, it’s notable that…
AntiSec leaves its trace. No Immigrants Allowed! Obama is the Devil. Obama is the Devil again. Tough crap…shoot ’em. Trigger-happy? A muslim torture leaves us speechless.
Anonymous hit the Arizona police force hard tonight and released some scathing emails and images from deep within the FOP. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-continues-its-fraternal-ownage-of-the-arizona-5817317 We scoured their booty and picked out some of the juiciest emails for you to read. A few of the images were way NSFW so you will have to find those on your own…
Wow, Anonymous has struck a third and deadly blow on the Arizona police. This latest grab includes personal information and emails for 1,200 officers including usernames, passwords, email addresses, credit card numbers and more. Some of the emails are ripe with racist remarks about torturing “ragheads”, crude Anti-Obama slurs, and pornography. Other emails discuss the…
How long does it take someone to compromise this HP laptop lock, and what sinister tools do they need? Fifteen seconds. Screwdriver. Uh… maybe it’s time to start looking into a lock for your lock. Check out the full breakdown of the break in here. [Forbes via Crunchgear]
TDSS is a trojan virus that infects computers and installs the TDL-4 program, which makes said computer part of a botnet 4.5 million machines strong. TDL-4 is extremely difficult to detect and eliminate. One expert at Kapersky Labs says TDL-4 is “practically indestructable.” What’s the magic behind TDL-4. It’s a combination two things. The first,…
If you want to make the best equipment to listen to underwater sounds, where should you look? Most people would point you to the sales department of a high-end audio company, but a group of Stanford researchers are looking to Orca whales for their inspiration. Orca whales have ears that can sense a wide range…
Getting shot in the face with nearly anything other than pixie dust or a Super Soaker usually brings about a pretty swift death. Not so for English teen Lewis Tavernier, who put a bolt into his skull by accident. Whoops! The misfire occurred so quickly that the kid wasn’t even sure what happened, the Daily…
Anonymous | The Ten Most Appalling Emails from their Latest Release. https://gizmodo.com/the-six-most-appalling-emails-found-in-anonymous-latest-5817331 Five Seats to Save Your Penis From Your Bike https://jalopnik.com/five-seats-to-save-your-penis-from-your-bike-5816286 Your bike is destroying your penis. Unless you are a woman. In which case it’s destroying your vagina. There is a solution. But nobody wants to use it because it’s embarrassing. More » The…
