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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…
What do you do when you used to have some songs that were on the radio a decade ago, but nobody really thinks about you anymore? Why, walk around the streets of Manhattan with a giant, conspicuous, idiotic iPhone handset. Maybe I just don’t understand Lenny Kravitz’s out of control rock lifestyle, and maybe I’m…
The sound of waiting for your dial-up modem to connect probably induces enough nightmarish flashbacks as it is. But when you slow that same smattering of scratches and clangs down 700%, you get the soundtrack to the scariest part of every Wes Craven movie ever. It’s agonizing. Don’t worry, there’s an antidote! It’s called Jurassic…
Christian at Military.com’s Kit Up! has heard an interesting rumor on one of the technologies that Seal Team 6 used to kill Osama bin Laden: Night vision contact lenses! Holy pants, Batman. https://gizmodo.com/how-osama-bin-laden-was-brought-to-justice-5797620 I heard a rumor that the Team guys who busted bin Laden might have been wearing “cat vision” contact lenses that literally…
You’d think a German chemicals company big enough to worry about people hacking their phones and eavesdropping on R&D meetings would have the budget to just invest in a Faraday pouch. But in the case of Evonik, they’re cheap, so they use biscuit tins. According to the AFP, “industrial espionage” is a trend on the…
Is your roommate like me, always stealing your food and clothes? Now you’ve got another way of catching him (or an actual criminal) with a Mac and iPhone duo from iVigilo. Keep tabs on your room and gear remotely. The setup’s pretty simple: install the iVigilo $5 app on your iOS device, ditto for your…
We knew it would take a while to see Thunderbolt products after the superfast new standard was unveiled back in February, but it’s pretty lame that it’s taken until now for even Apple to sell us a damn cable. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-thunderbolt-5769321 It’s an outlandish-but-sadly-predictable $50. Worse, right now there’s not much to connect it to. There’s…
If you could fly, life would look a lot like these 71 photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge. Well, we’re pretty sure, at least. No one on staff can actually fly to fact-check that point. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-from-above-5814887 Winner – Cruisin’ I grabbed this shot while cruising through the Ionian sea. It was my first day on…
If you were digging through the LulzSec Farewell Tour torrent, you might have stumbled upon a folder called BootableUSB. I hope not, because it had a malware landmine sitting inside, faking it as a version of WinRAR. Lulz? https://gizmodo.com/find-out-if-your-personal-data-is-part-of-lulzsecs-gran-5815551 Anonymous, now in charge of the AntiSec crusade, acknowledged the infection—intentional or otherwise—and promise a clean…
The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but law enforcement’s hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman’s home because of her connections to the group. At about 11 am last Thursday, 29-year-old Laurelai Bailey heard a knock at her Davenport, Iowa…
Canon 50D 16-35mm ISO 400 f/2.8 1/1000 This was a harder shooting challenge, being out in the suburbs of Chicago there’s not much height. Luckily, I managed come across this perfect scenario. This is a shot of a stairwell under construction at Oak Brook Mall, in Oak Brook, IL. -Michael Durr I set off for…
I didn’t really have any ideas for this contest, so I began to look around my room for inspiration. From where I live, there aren’t really anything that is too high above the ground so my initial idea of getting a high vantage point was out. When I saw my old dusty guitar on it’s…
Sunday’s BET Awards were a lot of fun. Particularly fun? Chris Brown, his ex-girlfriend and former assault victim Rihanna, and Rihanna’s current boyfriend Drake all being called onstage as winners at once. The culprit? A confused girl with a tablet. BET’s blaming “human error” (the most maligned of all possible errors) and its teleprompter for…
Google announced a new social sharing project today called Google+. It’s among the company’s most ambitious ventures to date, up there with Gmail, Android, Chrome and, yes, Search. It represents Google’s very future. It’s going to be huge. Google+ is a concerted effort meant to turn the ship around. Google famously has a poor social…
THINK FAST: It’s 3:30 in the morning. You wake up in the middle of an abandoned amphitheater. You don’t know where you are, or how you got there. You’re panicking. Calm down. Panic won’t help you here. An owl crosses above in the moonlight. The pale light suits her. Yes, it’s a her. You can…
If Spider-Man: The Musical taught us anything, it’s that you can never have too many airbags on hand. For their new Vegas show, Cirque du Soleil is using the largest one of its kind. During the 1977 filming of Hooper, stuntman A.J. “Big Brass Ones” Bakunas set a world record when he leaped 232 feet…
Sometimes I’m eating something so delicious that my slow fingers and small utensils can’t keep up with me. I need more powuh. These Bear Paw Meat Handler Forks will let me maul meat like a bear would. So perfect. More seriously, the Bear Paws look to be actually pretty good at pulling and shredding pork,…
Final Cut Pro X, a re-imagination of how video editing should be or a botched release beyond any usable recognition, has certainly incensed its share of professional video editors. According to EOSHD, Apple may be refunding copies to placate them. A user received this e-mail from Apple: “Moving forward, I understand that you are not…
LulzSec’s dead. They had their streak of chaos, hacker-on-hacker pissing matches, takedowns, limelight, laughs, silly Tweets, monocled mascots and general web frenzy. But it was just that—frenzy. And at least Anonymous will carry on the mad hacker spirit, right? Nope. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-calls-it-quits-5815546 LulzSec was a loose, self-contradictory blob. A mess, albeit an effective one. Despite their…
