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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Girls Watch Porn, Too

Consider it a public service announcement: while it may seem like pornography is entirely for men, women watch it too! At least, they do if this video is entirely sincere and in no way whatsoever intended to be ironic or facetious or anything that dispels the fine notion that ladies are every bit as into…

Tech News Splitsider

How To Get Gizmodo 24/7 On Twitter

Hoping to keep up with Gizmodo beyond the window frames of our site? You can also follow Gizmodo’s official Twitter account! Here you’ll get to enjoy different brands of our writers’ witty commentary, as a new Gizmodo staffer takes the helm and tweets from the account each week. By the way, if you’re also desperately…

Tech News Davey Alba

Random Dude Hijacks the Royal Wedding Color Feed

The Royal Wedding is finally goddamn over and now Will and Kate can look back at all the social media they foisted upon the Internet—YouTube videos, Facebook comments, and a Color account sponsored by The Telegraph. And in between pictures of stupid hats and kissing they can find this guy giving his Royal approval, complete…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Mathematician Can Predict How Shitty Your Tattoo Will Look in 20 Years

So you’re totally sure [insert significant other] is the one. You’re going to set it in ink, right on your flesh! There’s no way you’ll ever regret it. But how will it look down the line? Math has the answer! Ian Eames of University College London has developed a math model that can predict how…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Katy Perry Covers Rebecca Black’s Friday

Watch a really popular singer cover a song that nobody supposedly likes. AND YET EVERYBODY KNOWS THE WORDS. [via Mashable]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Pacemaker for Your Crotch Will Keep You from Wetting Yourself

As much as I’d love to spend paragraphs on jokes about being peeing their pants, it’s a serious problem that affects a lot of people! Pee problems are due to a defective sacral nerve—and now there’s a fix. The InterStim is a two-inch device stuck to your sacral nerve, jolting it when needed to prevent…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Straight Floorboards Are for Squares

The straight lines! They’re everywhere! They box you in and tell you where to walk and, like, if you step on one, you break your mother’s spine! I CAN’T TAKE IT. Sweet relief: Bolefloor Hardwood Flooring, which is cut along the grain of the wood to give your floor a little character—and your neuroses a…

Tech News Joe Brown

Confirmed: Apple Does Own iCloud.com

We’ve already stated what Apple’s cloud could be for and now, here’s even more definitive proof that it’s coming. Moving from “rumor” to “confirmed,” Digital Daily reports that Apple has indeed purchased the domain iCloud.com. [Digital Daily]

Tech News Davey Alba

ING Customers Can Now Pay Each Other By Bumping iPhones

Paying your friends with cash or talking them into PayPal is, like, ancient technology. Now you’ll be able to pay them from the source (if you’re both ING customers) just by bumping iPhones. IMG tapped into Bump’s API so now a phone-kiss swaps greenbacks instead of contact info.[iTunes via Mashable]

Tech News Husain Sumra

Is This That Thing You Lost In the Tornado? This Lady Found It.

After the surviving the tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and the rest of Alabama on Wednesday night, Patty Bullion began to notice random photos and documents washing up in her front yard. Figuring they belonged to somebody, she began posting them in a public Facebook group to see if anybody would claim them. They…

Social Media Adrian Covert

How Do You Kill a Tank Without Killing Civilians?

Concrete bombs. France has been dropping 660-pound concrete-filled training bombs on Libyan tanks to crush them while minimizing collateral damage, since “there is no, or very little, shrapnel thrown out,” according to French military spokesman Thierry Burkhard. The bombs aren’t dumb rocks, though—Defense Tech notes that they’re still just as smart as the explode-y kind…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This Alarm Won’t Scare You out of Bed in the Morning

When it comes to alarm clocks, there’s definitely no shortage. But one commonality amongst almost all alarms is that they are annoying. The Acoustic Alarm, however, takes a new approach to the wake-up call. Set the dials on the side, flip the switch, and when it’s time to rise and shine, the wooden alarm strums…

Tech News Max Behrman

Is Find My Mac Coming to OSX Lion?

Cant remember if you left your MBP with Kandalaria or Sauceray? Well, you’re in luck! It looks like a Mac-specific version of the popular Find My iPhone app, which locates and locks your iOS device remotely, could roll out with the release of OSX 10.7 Lion. While there’s already been plenty of speculation that Apple…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Super Roasting Coffee With 600 Mirrors and a Giant Ball of Fire in the Sky

A not atypical coffee roaster, like an old-school Probat favored by Stumptown, looks like this (or this). Not a small machine. Unless you compare it to Dave Hartkop’s Helios 4, a solar-powered coffee roaster. Composed of more than 600 mirrors, it’s around 11,000 pounds and takes up over 1000 square feet. Sounds crazy complicated, but…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How To Measure a Shark (Safely)

Measuring a shark. You could do it by catching one and holding up a tape measure from its fin to its head. Or you could use a camera and keep some distance between yourself and jaws. That’s what Dr Mark Meekan and Gabriel Vianna are doing in the shark sanctuary at Palau: Using two cameras…

Tech News Brian Lam

This Is Your Brain on Cocktails

Marcos Luytens’ FlavourCollider is a hell of a party trick: Using a Neurosky MindWave EEG headset to measure brain activity, it translates the subconscious experience of tasting an intense cocktail into a kaleidoscopic spray of real-time visuals. [Marcos Luytens, Future Everything via Underwire]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google’s Secret Class System

Life in the Googleplex has a fairy tale allure: gourmet food! Ski trips! Giant dessert statues popping up out of nowhere every six months! And if working for the company seems like some alternaworld fantasy dreamscape, well, it kind of is. Just not, it turns out, for everyone. https://gizmodo.com/google-makes-giant-froyo-statue-to-feed-android-alien-5538475 Google drones work under a caste…

Tech News Brian Barrett

PopSci’s Retro DIY Archives Are Bizarre and Amazing

PopSci’s a forward thinking place, but their vintage stuff is worth a check too—harkening back to a simpler time when a magazine could teach you how to build a crossbow without fear of litigation. Also: homebrew tractors. [PopSci]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Depleted Uranium Could Be Used to Create MASSIVE Hard Drives

Uranium that’s been depleted isn’t necessarily waste, according to researchers at Nottingham University. They think—besides making ammo and tank armor—it could be used as the basis for future hard drives thousands of times larger than current ones. You see a molecule comprised of two Uranium atoms has magnetic properties at low temperatures, making the element…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Girls Watch Porn, Too

How To Get Gizmodo 24/7 On Twitter

Random Dude Hijacks the Royal Wedding Color Feed

Mathematician Can Predict How Shitty Your Tattoo Will Look in 20 Years

Katy Perry Covers Rebecca Black’s Friday

This Pacemaker for Your Crotch Will Keep You from Wetting Yourself

Straight Floorboards Are for Squares

Confirmed: Apple Does Own iCloud.com

ING Customers Can Now Pay Each Other By Bumping iPhones

Is This That Thing You Lost In the Tornado? This Lady Found It.

How Do You Kill a Tank Without Killing Civilians?

This Alarm Won’t Scare You out of Bed in the Morning

Top Stories: Friday, April 29, 2011

Is Find My Mac Coming to OSX Lion?

Super Roasting Coffee With 600 Mirrors and a Giant Ball of Fire in the Sky

How To Measure a Shark (Safely)

This Is Your Brain on Cocktails

Google’s Secret Class System

PopSci’s Retro DIY Archives Are Bizarre and Amazing

Depleted Uranium Could Be Used to Create MASSIVE Hard Drives

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

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You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

Amazon Echo Dot Sees Its Last Price Drop in the Spring Sale, Final Hours Tick Down Ahead of an Uncertain Prime Day

Artemis 2 by the Numbers: Breaking Down NASA’s Big Return to the Moon

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

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