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Don’t even act like you’re too cool for this. You aren’t. The family portrait—taken at Sears in front of a gray backdrop or in your immaculate, Rococo-inspired living room—will be around long after the fossils of cockroaches decay. The Challenge When you’re home (or not) this Christmas, take a family portrait. It can be earnest,…
Well, this is more interesting than that whole cache of shots that were sprayed all over the internet yesterday: A close up of what’s—presumably—the Incredible HD, clearly showing Four Gees of El Tee Eze for Verizon. [Thanks tipster!] https://gizmodo.com/what-is-htc-trying-to-leak-5715836
Nevermind that banknotes are less than a millimeter thick, they’re soon going to be stamped with electronic circuits for yet another anti-counterfeit measure. The notes will be traceable thanks to the semiconducting organic molecules, potentially putting a stop to bank-heists. The research was undertaken by German and Japanese scientists, who used gold, aluminum oxide and…
This week on TreeHugger, an app that rats out bad drivers to the DMV, an elliptical commuter bike, $980 solar powered pants (yes, pants), hands-on with high-tech LED bulbs, hand-powered table saws, and more! $1,260 Jacket, $980 Pants Prove Solar Fashion Has A Long Way To Go Despite the fact that solar cell technology is…
You’re spent, literally. Holiday shopping has thoroughly ravaged your wallet and soul. That means it’s time to rein in the discretionary expenses for the New Year. There’s no better place to start than that grotesque $180 cable bill. Getting Started Yes, you could simply give up on cable, cut the cord, or whatever the kids…
After months of roosting on the Symbian version of Angry Birds, the Mighty Eagle character has flown onto the HD iPad app—but it’ll cost you. That’ll be 99 cents please, gamer. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-cheat-at-angry-birds-purchase-the-new-mighty-ea-5637455 The 1.5 update also brings along 15 new levels, and Game Center support. [iTunes via Tipb via 148Apps] UPDATE: Thanks to commenter Mipakr,…
If you are a kid living at the United States Air Force’s Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, Santa Claus doesn’t come in a sleigh and goes down chimneys. He uses a HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopter. And then descends to the ground using a fast-rope, saying ho-ho-ho. Or holy-f*ck-I’m-gonna-die-here, looking at…
If you’re immersing yourself in 3D world, you don’t want that world to be anything like our own, right? Because then you could just go outside! Instead, dive deep into this beautifully dystopian city in the sky. Tobias Keith and Christopher Keller’s “Eden” was created using Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Blender, and Adobe After Effects.…
God knows you’re not making stuffing, so make yourself useful this Christmas Day by whipping up a playlist the whole family can gorge themselves to. Take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win an iPod nano from which you can blare said playlist. Standard contest rules apply.…
My current system for packing pens, cables, earphones, and generally anything else smaller than a paperback book: cram that shit in the front pouch of my backpack! It doesn’t exactly make unpacking easy. Nau’s folding Fluent Stash can restore sanity. Think of it as a trapper keeper for all your odds-and-ends: cables, toiletries, notebooks, sunglasses—whatever…
This is the Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany. Those giant tubes are slides to go from the top floor to the ground level patio. Why? It doesn’t matter. This is an example to be followed all around the world. [Thanks Karl!]
The Central Intelligence Agency has created a new group dedicated to analyze the impact of WikiLeaks on the United States’s foreign relationships and the agency’s operations. The name of this new department is the WikiLeaks Task Force. WTF indeed. CIA officials say that they are already making an “extensive inventory” of all the information released…
Okay, so it’s maybe not the most efficient credit card fraud ever: a UK teen and friends upload their songs to iTunes, downloaded them 5,000 times with stolen credit cards, and reaped $773,000 in royalties. Kids! 19-year old Lemar Johnson was part of a group of 10 men who embraced the scam in 2008-2009, although…
This office prank—probably created by Satan himself—is so evil that it would make me punch the screen. Heck, even the Dalai Lama would get a hammer and destroy his computer, foaming at the mouth. Watch how to do it. See what I mean? SEE? Can you imagine the face of your victim? I can. And…
There are heaps of Bluetooth-to-FM transmitters for iPhones, but for Android? Not so many. Tunelink Auto‘s free app and $100 DC adapter streams music wirelessly to the car-stereo—and charges via USB. On sale January. [Tunelink via AndroidCommunity]
Now you’ve fattened yourself up, and aged yourself by 60 years, what other body-dysmorphic photos can you upload to Facebook? The same developer has just released the Bald Booth app, for turning everyone into mini Jack Nicholsons. [iTunes via Recombu]
Haven’t noticed that we’re running a 3D theme-week? Maybe this book will make you pay attention. Aptly titled 3-DD, this 86-page book comes with a pair of anaglyph glasses for viewing…well, I’ll let you work it out. [3-DD via Uncrate]
If I had $1,000 spare, I’d buy one outfit for the winter months: a First Ascent Peak XV down-suit. I could save money from not having to heat my house, I suppose. Sorry, visitors. [EddieBauer via DoobyBrain via Likecool]
What to do with all those leftover oil booms that BP used to mop up its oil? If you’re a car manufacturer, you could recycle all of the oil-slicked plastic tubes into new Chevrolet Volts. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fix-the-bp-halliburton-louisiana-oil-disaster-ki-5531910 Around 161km of this plastic will be recycled and turned into the Volt electric cars, saving landfills from 45,359kg…
After polling the U.S. a few months ago, Nielsen conducted a worldwide poll to gauge interest in 3DTV displays. SPOILER ALERT: less than 10 percent of those asked said they’ll buy a 3D television in the next year. https://gizmodo.com/study-consumers-less-interested-in-3d-tv-after-experie-5635518 Another 15 percent polled said they might buy a 3DTV, but that’s not so promising when…
