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Like the Chinese military shovel before it, the Crovel is a multi-tool shovel that doubles as an axe, triples as a crowbar, quadruples as a hammer, and does even more. Bottle opener? Check. Saw? Come on, of course. Paracord grip? Uh, duh. The Crovel has thirteen different tools jam packed in its sexy body and…
The AP says that a VERY small percentage (
I’ve never run a marathon, but I’d imagine it’s trying enough without thousands of volts of electricity coursing through your convulsing, naked frame. Yes, naked—as was the case for Ohioan Brett Henderson. He didn’t win the marathon. Henderson (seen above, clothed) was tased into a heap and charged with public indecency and obstructing official business…
Another quick bit from the National Journal’s rundown of yesterday’s Osama raid worth mentioning: U.S. Navy SEALs REPLICATED the one acre compound in an Air Force base so they conduct practice runs last month. [National Journal]
Bet you thought you were pretty slick there, using a tethering app to turn your Android phone into a mobile hot spot while sidestepping the additional carrier charges. What, you thought your carrier wouldn’t notice? Well, you’re not, they did, and now the free-mobile-hot-spot party is over. So far, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have all…
This image shows President Barack Obama and the members of the national security team in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1, as the operation was happening. Hillary Clinton actually looks genuinely horrified. Of course, even while the Secretary of State’s face—and everyone else’s—is quite telling, we don’t know the exact moment…
Pictures are meant to be shared, right? That’s why everyone uploads their pictures to Facebook, tags their friends faces and leaves funny comments for everyone else to see. But that takes work. Plugging in your smartphone, hopping onto a computer, uploading, getting everything right. Viewdle Social Camera for Android is an app that lets you…
This was inevitable: Twitter’s buying TweetDeck, meaning it’ll own the predominant Twitter apps on basically every platform. What that means for innovation in the ways people access Twitter, we’ll have to see. (Personally, I hope it means there’s gonna be a version of TweetDeck not written with Adobe AIR.) [TechCrunch]
At first we thought the white whale iPhone 4 was a fatty fatty fat fat compared to its black counterpart, but now Consumer Reports has whipped out the “lab-quality” calipers and says—gasp!—the two are exactly the same. BUT… https://gizmodo.com/white-iphone-4-possibly-fat-and-definitely-cursed-5796820 Engadget says otherwise! Scoffing at CR’s scientific caliper test, which found the two colors to be…
News updates have been flowing steadily since last night’s surprise announcement that the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Here are the latest news blips from this afternoon: Mixed Messages: Some reports indicate that Pakistan fully-cooperated in this mission, aiding U.S. forces where they could. Other reports indicate that Pakistan had no idea…
Everyone wants to know exactly how the take-out-bin-Laden-operation went down. Part of what we know for sure is that badass Navy SEALs did the shooting, and were carried to the site by another elite team—the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, or SOAR (aka the “Night Stalkers”). The bird of choice appears to have been specially…
Students from the University of Texas have built a screen that you can’t ever look away from because it follows your eye’s every move. Seriously! An eye-tracking camera tracks where your eye is looking and the motorized pico-projector shoots out the display to that target. If you glance off to the right, the screen follows.…
Non-surprise! The death of the most-wanted man in history rocked Twitter like a Navy SEAL double-tap to the dome: Between 10:45 PM and 12:30 AM EST, an average 3,340 tweets per second rang out. When Obama finished his announcement? Over 5,000. [Twitter] To check out our full coverage on the successful raid of Osama Bin…
Pens! Pens! PENS! Excited? No, of course not, because when was the last time a pen was remotely interesting? Here’s a nice exception to the rule: Turtle’s “SNAPback” pens expose their tips with a pistol-like cocking action (so much innuendo!) The next time you want to write a thank you note or some hate mail,…
The last time this happened it was during the first Gulf War two decades ago, so I got all giddy when I learned that someone actually had to shout “stop the presses” last night at the New York Times. This is what happened, according to their Vice President of Corporate Communications, Eileen Murphy: The news…
You know what I’m going to miss most about the Space Shuttles? Their names. Columbia. Challenger. Discovery. Atlantis. Endeavour. If I didn’t need a wife to make little children with, I’d definitely name all my kids after the Space Shuttles. Columbia and Atlantis can probably be the girls. Challenger will be reserved for my oldest…
Have you ever possessed the urge to walk around with an iPad tucked into your (enormous) pants pocket? No? Neither have I—but people hoping for a tablet nuzzled against their asses are out there. With really ugly pants. The Tactical Pants Blog catalogs these bizarre garments (what exactly about these is “tactical”?), with their latest…
I was only joking last week when I said I wanted to develop some film in vodka after seeing photos developed in lake water, but photographer Casey Holford beat me to the punch, by soaking his Kodak Ultramax roll of film into some rubbing alcohol for around 10 minutes before shooting on it. https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-photos-of-lakes-exposed-using-lake-water-5796537 The…
The National Review has sources telling them that the Joint Special Operations Command used forensics training, biometric analysis and NSA/CIA resources to help commandos survey, locate and kill Osama Bin Laden inside his secret Pakistan compound. While many of the technologies used are highly classified, it’s believed that the combination of training, equipment and real-time…
So this is something: according to one of Business Insider’s sources, Barack Obama watched the entire raid of Osama Bin Laden’s compound live via a helmet cam feed. Badass. Helmet cam feeds of military ops have actually become fairly standard practice these days; as The Atlantic points out, videos of live combat footage like the…
