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Why Did All These Watermelons Explode?

Watermelons are delicious, especially during the summer. I search far and wide for the biggest, juiciest, perfectest watermelon around. But sometimes they can get too big, like this field of watermelons that’ve exploded like landmines. According to a news report, these exploded watermelons were ‘accidentally’ pumped with forchlorfenuron, a growth accelerator. Forchlorfenuron is legal, stimulates…

Tech News Casey Chan

Amazon, Sleeping Giant

FaberNovel calls it the Hidden Empire, but whatever you wanna call Amazon, after watching this slideshow, you’ll probably be surprised at just how vast it is. Like, it’s a big deal. Which kinda makes a Kindle tablet more interesting. Click to view [Slideshare via Joel] https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Google Docs Levels Up: Unlocks Pivot Table Powers

Google Docs went Ding! today and gained some additional functionality, rolling out natively-supported pivot tables. The pivot table, as any A/R Coordinator worth his salt can tell you, allows data from one workbook to be summarized in another, saving huge amounts of time and brainpower. This function been available on Excel since 1997 but has…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Shine for iPhone

You’d think it’d be easy to make a weather app but most are just terribly cluttered and vomit-inducingly ugly. Shine for iPhone actually cares about how you’re going to use it—it’s fast, gorgeous and super simple to use. What is it? Shine, $1, iPhone. It’s a weather app. And I didn’t care about weather apps…

Tech News Casey Chan

Inception Chair Blows Your Mind, Saves Your Ass

Admit it: You have no idea what happened in Inception. Maybe you should have a viewing party and see it again. I’ve got just the chair for you to plant your ass in while you watch. Vivian Chiu, a furniture design student at Rhode Island School of Design created these remarkable Inception Chairs. It’s like…

Tech News Mat Honan

Nazis Filmed the 1936 Olympics in 3D?

Apparently, Nazis were using 3D cameras before any of us thought 3D was dumb. According to Variety, Nazis had developed a ‘sophisticated stereoscopic camera’ to record athletes as they crossed the finish line in the 1936 Olympics. Philippe Mora, a filmmaker who has previously found evidence of Nazi using 3D in propaganda movies, believes Nazis…

Tech News Casey Chan

I Can’t Believe These Amazing Aerial Photos Were Taken with a Cellphone

Aerial photography expert Jason Hawkes—author of London at Night—takes really awesome photos from helicopters. Usually, he uses his Nikon D3S and D3X with lenses ranging from 14mm up to 300mm. These spectacular images, however, were taken with a cellphone. https://gizmodo.com/spectacular-night-photography-of-london-causes-awe-ver-5044747 Jason used a Nokia N8, a phone that has a great camera and a craptastically…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Must Be Where Superman Was Born

Krypton. You may think it’s in a remote galaxy, but no, it’s right here, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A place that I like to call “That Island Where Björk and Eyjafjallajökull the Dragon Live” and other people call Iceland. This outstanding image was taken by Stephane Vetter and it has won The…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch Origami Magically Unfold in Water

These micro-origamis are super tiny, only 2-3 centimeters long, with a ton of intricate folds. When they touch water though, they magically unfold and flatten out to become a lily pad of sorts. It’s an effect called capillarity. Capillarity is the ability to flow against gravity where liquid spontaneously rises in a narrow space. It’s…

Tech News Casey Chan

Diet Coke + Mentos + Stupid = Perfection

Tossing Mentos into Diet Coke is one of the oldest tricks in the MEGA CARBONATION EXPLOSION book, one you’ve seen around here once or twice. But those were major-scale productions. This? This is one man, one hilariously inept projectile. https://gizmodo.com/mentos-and-diet-coke-explosion-at-1200fps-casio-ex-f1-386936 It seems unfair that it’s the camera guy who bears the brunt of this failed…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Take Your Flash Photography Skills to the Next Level

Joe McNally is a small flash lighting pro. And now you shutterbugs can benefit from his 30-plus years of experience with a brand-new set of lighting DVDs from the lighting master himself. McNally’s Language of Light DVDs are a detailed road map drawn for you by one of the foremost small flash authorities in the…

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BoxyTunes Turns Dropbox into a Cloud Music Player for iPhone and iPad

There seems to be no lack of options for cloud music players on Android these days, but what about your neglected iPhone? If you have a Dropbox account and use it to store music and podcasts, BoxyTunes makes it easy to grab those audio files on the go. BoxyTunes syncs up with your Dropbox account…

Tech News Adam Dachis

Secret Behind iPhone4 Noise Canceling Revealed

The iPhone4 has fantastic noise cancellation. But how it pulled that off had been a mystery, as teardowns couldn’t find an audio processor. Turns out, it’s a familiar piece of hardware we’ve seen before. The sleuths at iFixit found that a mystery part labeled 10C0 01S8 0077 that matched nothing in their database is in…

Tech News Mat Honan

Epson and E Ink Joining Forces to Make a 300dpi Display

To compete with the tablets and 300dpi-display-equipped smartphones, Epson and E Ink are collaborating on a 300dpi display of their own (2400×1650 resolution on a 9.7-inch screen). The Kindle, by comparison, has a 160dpi resolution. [ZD Net]

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Is Not a Painting

What you’re looking at isn’t a painting. It’s not a Photoshop job or an artist’s rendering. It’s a photograph, taken by National Geographic’s Frans Lanting, that captures the camel thorn trees of Namib-Naukluft Park at the most perfect moment imaginable. Click the image to biggie size for the full effect. That orange backdrop? That’s a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Former NSA Genius Apologizes for His Super Spying Software

Long before 9/11, brilliant NSA crypto-mathematician Bill Binney had developed an algorithm to make sense of the unbelievably massive amounts of data American spies were pulling in—he called it ThinThread. And then it went very, very wrong. ThinThread, the New Yorker reports, proved to be too good: designed to track foreign enemies via their electronic…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

The Best Deal of the Day

The best part about online gaming is the people. Everyone you meet is friendly, mature, and highly likable. They never complain, or do irritating things, or yell racist slurs, or anything like that all. They play fair, they’re decent, and they’re respectful. Just kidding! Everyone you meet online is a horrible brat with any annoying…

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Cables Don’t Have to be Hidden Away When They’re This Pretty

This is just another thing to add to the list of “if I lived in Japan, I would buy one for every room.” [Iida via Blstrawberry via SwissMiss]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Wants Teenier SIM Cards for Tinier Phones

Most GSM phones use regular SIM cards. Which are small. The iPhone 4, iPad and uh, not many other devices use next-gen micro SIM cards. Which are smaller. Apple’s just proposed a new SIM standard. Which is smallerer. https://gizmodo.com/micro-sim-cards-just-like-a-sim-card-but-a-lil-smalle-5462472 Reuters reports, via massive telecom Orange’s head of devices Anne Bouverot, who says that “Apple has…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Shooting Challenge: Macro Gallery 2

One mushroom was harmed in the making of this photo. Shot Details: Nikon D3000, with a reversed 50mm 1.8. Cheers, – Anup Hi Gizmodo, it was raining buckets and i thought it would be great to take a shot of a raindrop. Sadly i have no macro lens. So i took my old Canon 18-55…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Why Did All These Watermelons Explode?

Amazon, Sleeping Giant

Google Docs Levels Up: Unlocks Pivot Table Powers

Shine for iPhone

Inception Chair Blows Your Mind, Saves Your Ass

Nazis Filmed the 1936 Olympics in 3D?

I Can’t Believe These Amazing Aerial Photos Were Taken with a Cellphone

This Must Be Where Superman Was Born

Watch Origami Magically Unfold in Water

Diet Coke + Mentos + Stupid = Perfection

Take Your Flash Photography Skills to the Next Level

BoxyTunes Turns Dropbox into a Cloud Music Player for iPhone and iPad

Secret Behind iPhone4 Noise Canceling Revealed

Epson and E Ink Joining Forces to Make a 300dpi Display

This Is Not a Painting

Former NSA Genius Apologizes for His Super Spying Software

The Best Deal of the Day

Cables Don’t Have to be Hidden Away When They’re This Pretty

Apple Wants Teenier SIM Cards for Tinier Phones

Shooting Challenge: Macro Gallery 2

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