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“Who’s that tripping over my bridge?!” roared the troll. “It is I, the creator of elevator and massage room muzak, and I’ve come to have a tinkle on your bridge’s underbelly-pipes!” With 600 pipes hanging from the bridge, located in Aarhus, Denmark, CZWG’s Chimecco sculpture must be pretty popular with billy goat gruffs, too. [Mark…
It’s an exciting time to be a Windows Phone User. The Mango update is coming this fall and a new rumor suggests Microsoft is working on two more releases, Tango and Apollo. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-windows-phone-its-pretty-great-5813901 There’s almost no information on Tango and Apollo so we have no idea what features they will add or when they will…
A South African anthropologist wants to dig up William Shakespeare’s bones to find out if the playwright smoked pot. He got this crazy idea from an earlier study which turned up pipe fragments in Shakespeare’s garden that were coated with a marijuana residue. Francis Thackeray from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg is asking the…
If you live in Seattle and use a Windows Phone 7 handset, you’re one of about 40,000 people that can take advantage of Amazon’s new AmazonFresh mobile application [Windows Marketplace]. AmazonFresh is the retailer’s grocery delivery service. It’s only available in Seattle and only available on the Windows Phone platform as a native app. iPhone…
Here’s a chalk portal created by an unknown artist in an unknown city of an unknown state. Despite all the unknowns, the sidewalk drawing is absolutely fantastic. [James Stowe via NerdApproved] Update: Thanks to some help from @izenmania and @Tom, we found the artist behind this chalk drawing. It’s James Stowe and he entered this…
Let the hackathon continue with Anonymous now in the driver’s seat after LulzSec called it quits. This time the target is not the small country of Anguilla, but the major media companies, Viacom and Universal Music. https://gizmodo.com/why-anonymous-isnt-lulzsec-5816176 The group of hackers released information they grabbed from Universal Music Group including company information and application data.…
It’s a desk chair! It’s an elliptical machine! It’s an embarrassment! Ye gods, Hammacher Schlemmer, what have you unleashed this time? And who on earth is going to pony up $8,000 for it? The latest contraption from the famed automated hammocks and sundries company combines a semi-recumbent elliptical chair and an desk of adjustable height,…
Mark Zuckerberg is so rich, he could carpet his house with $100 bills and still have more money than all the readers of this post combined. His net worth is now estimated at $18 billion, a figure that makes him the third richest tech leader in the world. On the rich guy scale, the Facebook…
If Earth could give humans the evil eye, it will look exactly like Eritrea’s Nabro Volcano. It began erupting last June 12 and not much information has been published about it. Since it began erupting emissions from have drifted over much of East Africa and the Middle East. Ash has displaced residents living near the…
Along with launching a new social sharing (don’t call it networking!) service and adding authorship view to search results, Google changed the way its iconic front page looked today. Phew! I’m tuckered out and all I did was blog. Poorly. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-google-changing-all-of-information-sharing-5816311 The new front page shrinks the logo a bit, and moves all the links…
71 Photos from Directly Above | The best bird’s eye views from this week’s Shooting Challenge https://gizmodo.com/71-photos-from-directly-above-5816262 Withings Blood Pressure Monitor Review: A Great Squeeze https://gizmodo.com/withings-blood-pressure-monitor-review-a-great-squeeze-5816043 Lists of numbers are hard to remember and boring like a 36 volt drill. So Withings takes dull health-related numbers and transforms them into useful data visualizations. More » This…
Blind veterans in Scotland have a new place they can hang out and not hurt themselves. Designed for the Scottish War Blinded, the New Linburn Centre has a curved spine layout with a wide, sweeping hallway that is easy to picture in the mind. Guests can grab the railing and use this mental map to…
After decades of sterling grins and nuclear juice, TEPCO is finally being realized as the crooked, careless atom-monger it is. Jake Adelstein and Stephanie Nakajima detail the Fukushima-botching monopoly’s glowing green underbelly over at The Atlantic Wire. The piece delves into TEPCO’s history of coverups, conspiracy, and outright lies to the Japanese government and public—the…
To answer our previous question (“Is there a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook?”), um, no. https://gizmodo.com/is-blackberry-planning-a-10-inch-playbook-tablet-5798834 RIM has reportedly axed production for a more vital project: It’s dedicating all of its resources to developing a “QNX BlackBerry superphone” (read: last ditch hail-mary to save the failing company). Not an unwise choice. [Crunchgear] https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-why-blackberry-is-screwed-5812832
Google+. It has a legitimate chance to be really good. But like any other budding social network, a good app is a requirement. Google+ for Android looks to combine features I use from other apps into one single portal. Awesome. The home page of Google+ acts as launcher for the four main features of the…
It’s been a busy day for Google. In addition to launching Google+ and Swiffy (a tool that lets you convert Flash video to HTML5) the company also updated Search so that it now shows content creators within the results. Two weeks ago Google announced a new authorship markup designed to let creators claim their content…
The good news: Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station is staying dry despite being surrounded by tremendous Midwestern flooding. The bad news: Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station is surrounded by tremendous Midwestern flooding, and a history of safety mistakes. Also unsettling, as Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker points out, is the fact that all our…
The FCC wireless communication report is out and what does it tell us? People under 30 hate landline phones. In fact, 51% of adults between 25-29 pledge complete loyalty to their cellphones. From the report: For adults aged 25-29, more than half (51.3 percent) lived in households with wireless-only telephones, which is the first time…
Fitting a tube kit, Allen wrench, tire tool, phone, and wallet into a pair of skinny jeans is nigh on impossible and carrying a backpack just to hold these small items is way inefficient. Instead, roll them up before you roll out. The Mopha roll measures 16″ by 7″ when opened and is constructed of…
You’re alone, driving your car down a windy road and dark doesn’t even begin to describe what it looks like out there. You slow down and make guesstimate turns with a 67% confidence that you’re going the right direction and not gonna die. Heart pounding, heavy breathing, goddamn it’s scary. TapNav GPS for iPhone fixes…
