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What to do when you’re not quite the most popular girl but so desperately want to be prom queen? Start trashing Ms. Perfectpants behind her back! Normal enough for high school. Kind of pathetic if you’re Facebook. The Daily Beast reports today that the mask has been pulled off of the Scooby-Doo monster that’s been…
Mind you, if I were TM Wong’s wife, I could happily put up with the clutter if I got to try out a new instant camera every day for close to three years. And that’s if the Hong Kong-resident doesn’t keep adding to the collection! According to The Mijonju Show, TM Wong set a Guinness…
Who here recognizes any of the Coke bottles in that rack? We should all be familiar with the far-right one, which has been in production since 1916, but do you recognize the other three, which were on shelves from 1899? The far-left “Hutchison” is my favorite, which was their first-ever glass bottle created in 1899.…
Oh, so you still send snail-mail? Boobytrap envelopes by recording 10-second-long messages on these rewritable talking envelopes, which cost $4.75 for a 10-pack. Be sure to address them in pencil only, though! [SoundExpression via RedFerret]
You’re not allowed to see the CIA’s postmortem photos of Osama bin Laden. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be described to you! Sen. James Inhofe got a chance to see the pictures today, because he is a fancy boy, and the Oklahoma Republican was very excited to tell everyone about it. In, uh, detail.…
Holding a can of Coke in one of your photos? You can now tag Coke’s official page, so they can see you drinking it. Had a late-night stumble with a C-list actress, and snapped it? Tag her official page. I can’t imagine using this new feature seriously. Maybe I’d consider tagging something for humor-value (like…
Tasked with the assignment of explaining something modern or internet-related to to someone who died before 1900, Rachel Walsh decided to demonstrate the Kindle to Dickens. Creating 40 mini books of Dickens’ favorite titles, they were placed inside a hardback. “I made the book start to finish over five days, and it took about 35…
Panasonic’s newest Micro Four Thirds cam is a mostly-incremental boost over its predecessor, the G2. But improved specs on an already solid base is good news. The G3 brings a new sensor, faster shots, less noise, and a touch-heavy interface. We’ll get to that interface—but everything else is a numbers game. The G3 hops up…
It’d be so easy for them! But alas, Google has “no plans at this time” to follow Amazon’s route of selling a product for $20 less (well, we’d hope for more of a discount obviously), with ads displayed on the screensaver. [The Telegraph] https://gizmodo.com/this-sponsored-gadget-is-the-beginning-of-the-look-fre-5791056
You can literally roll Visual Drugstore’s MMOV and stage a party anywhere, with the multimedia off-road vehicle bringing along a stage, speakers and a projection lighting system. Sure beats turning up to a party with some onion dip. With its rugged 6×6-wheel drive transmission, the MMOV looks more like a military transport vehicle than a…
A team from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland is hoping to take to the skies in their human-powered helicopter tomorrow. The students are competing for the $250,000 Sikorsky prize, a competition started by the American Helicopter Society in 1980. The prize requires competitors have to fly a homemade helicopter for…
Google’s CR-48 Chrome laptop was a rough draft of the kind of computer people will be using eventually—lean, fast, utterly and completely connected—but it had its problems. (Oh lord, the trackpad.) Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook is like version 1.0. https://gizmodo.com/using-googles-chrome-os-laptop-of-the-future-5710532 It’s not a netbook, Google will tell you. (Vocally.) But your hands will tell you…
Oh no. A Swiss Research team conducted 83 experiments and found that mobile phone calls cause bees to leave their hive, become disoriented and die. The researchers measured the reaction of a bee hive to a mobile phone when it was actively in a call, in standby mode and turned off. According to the article…
And here I thought my New York apartment was small! Christian Schallert lives in a 258 square foot space and maximizes the hell out it by hiding everything behind walls, cabinets and clever design. Seriously, watch this. It’s freaking amazing. Schallert said he was inspired by boat living and I’d say he did a pretty…
Michael Justin Porco was enjoying a beautiful Spring Day in New York City and decided to make a time lapse in Central Park. When he looked back at the time lapse he spotted a man proposing to his future wife. Aww. It’s a pretty awesome story. He only managed to capture 12 pictures (one picture…
Fortune is reporting that Joe Britt and Matt Hershenson, co-founders of Danger, have joined Google and Andy Rubin, the other Danger co-founder, to work on a new wing within Android called ‘Android Hardware’. That means Danger, the company that made the uber-popular, original Sidekick, is back together at Google. So does that mean the Danger…
Cystic Fibrosis is a hereditary disease that causes excessive buildup of thick mucus in the lungs and digestive tract. Marshall Zhang is an 11th grader from Toronto that may have just cured it. For his entry to the 2011 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge, Zhang leveraged a Canadian supercomputing network to identify an interaction between two drugs…
We’ve been waiting forever and a half for NFC technology to take over our lives and rid ourselves of silly wallets and credit cards. Visa is creating a digital wallet service that’ll make all that real this fall. https://gizmodo.com/fourteen-ways-nfc-will-let-your-phone-replace-your-wall-5768471 Visa’s idea is to let you store your Visa accounts, non-Visa accounts and even online payment…
The internet is a cruel place. We’re all pretty well caught up on that by now, yes? More so, anyhow, than this unfortunate LSU Tigers fan, who asked a message board at Tigerdroppings to fix up a picture of his blessed mum. You can probably guess what happened next. The torrent of Photoshops and gifs…
War is hell on your ears. The thuds of artillery, choppers overhead, screams, constant gunfire—it’s a sensory nightmare. So how do you get ready for this sonic brutality? Desensitize yourself in this extremely sophisticated audio war simulator. Kaboom. The soundstage, created by and located at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, uses 64 surround…
