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I don’t know what’s better, watching the cymbal jiggle and shudder like I never imagined metal could or seeing the cute dog bust a rendition of the harlem shake. All I know for sure: life is better at 1,000FPS. [Fluke via OhHaveYouSeenThis]
Joe Dragt began painting on motherboards when he was tasked with the duty of recycling 30 old computers. Instead of seeing old, downtrodden and beige, he figured the circuitry of their motherboards would make for really great art backgrounds. And Dragt was right, there’s a character to the motherboards that’s unfound in canvas. I think…
An early victim of the AT&T / T-Mobile merger has turned out to be independent T-Mobile store owners. They’re already getting screwed by a merger that’s eventually going to be bad for everyone. The Wall Street Journal reports that there are some 9200 AT&T and T-Mobile stores nationwide, and 41 percent of AT&T stores have…
I never understood people’s need to trash streets, burn cars or destroy anything after their team loses (or sometimes wins) a big game. But I’ve always wondered what it would feel like. This 360-degree video of the Vancouver riots shows me. The 360-degree video, made by North Studio 360, can be spun around, moved away…
Breaking into an electrical substation to swipe copper cable is about as stupid as siphoning gas from a moving 18-wheeler, but if it’s botched, you only hurt yourself. Pennsylvanian idiot thieves tried the former and turned off the lights. Not only was their covert theft of all of the copper ground wire a desperate crime,…
The Android Market’s got lots of apps at this point, sure, but the question was always if it had the right apps. The addition of Hulu Plus today makes for a solid answer. Well, for six handsets, anyway. Hulu Plus has begun an “early rollout” on Android, a polite way of saying that it’s available…
We didn’t have to wait for some factory spy or corporate tipster to leak images of Nokia’s first ever Windows Phone 7 handset. Instead, CEO Stephen Elop naïvely asked a crowd not to take pictures of it. They did anyway. We don’t know much about the device, other than that it’s running Mango (!), has…
Animator Shawn Harris used his iPad and the Brushes app to create a unique music video for the band Blush. The entire video was hand-sketched frame-by-frame using the iPad. Each time Harris removed his finger from the canvas after a brush stroke, the Brushes app would record a frame. Thirty brush strokes created one second…
The latest rumor out of TechCrunch claims Electronic Arts may scoop up casual gaming company PopCap for a cool $1 billion. PopCap is responsible for mobile and desktop games like Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs Zombies. Yes, these games are popular, but this is an enormous amount of money that TechCrunch points out is over…
Say hello to the Mermaid, a self-propelled endoscopy device used to photograph your digestive tract. The Mermaid was created by a team of researchers from Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College in Japan. Not only is it kinda cute in a medical device sort of way, the Mermaid is a testament to Japanese engineering. It’s…
Audyssey’s new Lower East Side Media digital speakers pack a wallop thought they aren’t much bigger than your average paperback book. True to their name, they include both digital optical audio and 3.5mm inputs—craving that little black puck. They use Audyssey’s proven-terrific DSP tech to make your AirPlay tunes sound clear, crisp, and room-filling. Audyssey…
There’s a lot to like about the new Pentax Q digital camera. It has a slick retro look, five interchangeable lenses and many features of a dSLR packed into a body that’s the size of a point and shoot. The Q slims itself down by ditching the optical finder, mirror box, focusing plate and AF…
Men, take some advice from ForbesWoman and YourTango.com. If you want to find Mrs. Right, don’t bother looking until you have a job. It’s harsh, but seventy-five percent of women surveyed by ForbesWoman and YourTango said they would not marry a man who was unemployed. Some marriage and relationship experts say women still look towards…
Foursquare and American Express supposedly inked a deal that offers discounts to Amex card holders. Use your plastic in stores like Sports Authority and restaurants like New York’s Union Square Cafe and you can get as much as $20 credited back to your Amex account. This is just an early trial and limited in scope,…
You have to feel bad for these two motorcycle racers who crashed during a round of the promosport Championship at the Magny-Course circuit in France. The two riders watch helplessly as their bikes get tangled up and spin gracefully in circles while the rest of the race passes them by. All it needs is Beethoven’s…
This is a rendering the Beijing National Hotel, a planned 2.3 million square foot hostel for visitors to China’s capital city. It’s huge, sure, the biggest landmark in Beijing. But my goodness, did it also have to be so creepy? The hotel, the brainchild of Emergent, will have 1,500 rooms, sweeping conference halls, a restaurant…
Just when I thought I could get away with saying I was 25 and holding, scientists from UCLA had to design a test that can accurately predict my age from trace amounts of saliva. Just great. This breakthrough extracts DNA from residual saliva and examines the methylation pattern. This pattern changes as you grow older…
What has Lady GaGa done to the world? It seems all anyone wants to wear is meat clothes or bubble dresses. Now there’s this admittedly kind of flattering dress that dispenses milk and alcohol for playing truth or dare. http://gizmodo.com/5803717/an-oxygen-bubble-dress-for-those-who-crave-clean-air-and-infinite-attention Dutch fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht got together with (equally drunk) hacker and sculptor friends to…
I like Vizio. They’re an honest company that makes good products and sells them for cheap. But they sell TVs, and now phones and tablets as well. Makes sense. Selling lightbulbs doesn’t make sense. Why are you selling lightbulbs, Vizio? The lightbulb doesn’t really jibe with the “consumer electronics company” thing. Lightbulbs do use electricity,…
The Winklevii received a $65 million settlement in 2008 but they were never satisfied with it—until now. After years of futile appeals, they’ve finally decided to back down stopping just short of the Supreme Court. https://gizmodo.com/the-winkelvii-still-hate-mark-zuckerberg-5771198 Facebook released the following statement regarding the twins’ decision: “We’ve considered this case closed for a long time, and…
