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Billionaire Richard Branson Will Be a Flight Attendant After Losing a Bet

In the richest of rich person problems, airline-and-Formula-One-team-owner Richard Branson just lost a bet to airline-and-Formula-One-team-owner Tony Fernandes. The stakes? He’s got to be a flight attendant on an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur to London. The two comically rich billionaires were betting on the aforementioned Formula One teams. Neither ended up being good…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Gadget Deals of the Day

Take advantage of today’s great deals on Laptops, Games, and HDTVs. You don’t see prices like these every day. Top Deals: • 15.5″ Sony VAIO E Series Core i3 VPCEB3QFX/WI White for $579.99 plus free shipping (normally $699) • The Sims Complete Collection (Mac) for $29.99 plus free shipping (normally $50) • Free Girl Talk:…

Tech News Adam Harris

How Would a Smart TV Change Your Life?

Think having a smart TV equipped with the Intel® Atom™ processor—meaning, if you are somehow not aware, that you’ll be able to watch TV and browse the web at the same time—will make your life easier? Tell us exactly how a smart TV would change your life and we might just make it happen. Gizmodo…

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Video: Tour Hotpot, Google’s New Restaurant Recommendation Engine

Google just launched Hotpot, a new service baked into Google Places that lets you rate restaurants, see which ones your friends are liking, and get recommendations of new places to check out. Let’s take a look. [Google Hotpot]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Shooting Challenge Steal Gallery

mixed with: I tried to steal Alfred Hitchcock profile picture and at the same time the technique from Kumi Yamashita, Building Blocks using birds to fit with Hitchcock theme. I started by doing some basic origami birds (I stopped at forty). Then, I installed my headlamp on the table as a light source and placed…

Tech News Adam Harris

Google Voice. For iPhone. It’s here.

Google’s official Google Voice app is here. For the iPhone. Hot. Damn. And guess what? It’s free. Updated. It has what you think an official Google Voice app has: push notifications for new texts and voicemails, something prior GV apps couldn’t quite handle without a third-party workaround. Get it now! Will update the post in…

Tech News Jason Chen

MySpace Has Separation Anxiety

Finally decided to leave MySpace behind once and for all? You girlfriend’s friend’s band is very sad to see you go. But not nearly as sad as MySpace itself, which makes leaving almost as unbearable as, well, staying. A reader encountered this terrifically unwieldy instruction list of how to shuffle off this MySpace coil just…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How Many Floppy Disks Do I Need to Load Photoshop, Again?

These brilliant posters spell out the number of floppies needed to load iTunes, Firefox and even Photoshop. I’m so glad we only have to insert one disc instead of 358 floppies for Photoshop CS4 these days. [Behance via Photojojo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A Message From Homeland Security: My Way or the Highway

Janet Napolitano—US Secretary of Homeland Security—has a word of advice for all of you who want to take an airplane but who don’t want to have your genitals groped by a TSA agent: It’s my way or the highway. http://gawker.com/5689925/man-threatened-with-10000-fine-after-refusing-tsa-grope Talking at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Napolitano said that TSA’s body scanners don’t violate…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Griffin’s iPod Nano Slap Bracelet Has the Early ’90s Totally Confused

What’s that, 2010? I mean, no, I’m not at all surprised that the slap bracelet is still around, but you say that there’s a miniature computer attached to the thing? That’s nuts! Does it run CompuServe? Now let’s see what’s going on here. Griffin’s combined cutting edge silly—a silver dollar sized MP3 player with a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

10 iTunes Announcements We’d Have Preferred to The Beatles

Feeling like this morning’s Beatles news was a bit of a letdown? A Bajillion Hits has ten iTunes announcements that would’ve been worth the hype, and then some: https://gizmodo.com/the-beatles-are-now-on-itunes-5691238 BajillionHits.Biz is the Internet’s leading social media and tech lifestyle site for influencing influencers with engaging, next-gen strat that’s disrupting the traditional paradigms of innovation. Headed…

Tech News Alex Blagg - A Bajillion Hits

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave…

Privacy & Security Joel Johnson

If You Like Everything Maybe You Don’t Like Anything

Now that everything’s got a Like button next to it, it’s hard to tell what you like and what you, like, like like. Another solid argument for the Meh button, from Natalie Dee. https://gizmodo.com/the-only-facebook-button-id-ever-need-5608046 Not including, of course, liking your friendly neighborhood Gizmodo staff. I know for a fact that those are from the heart.…

Social Media Brian Barrett

The Beatles Are Now On iTunes

It’s official: The Beatles are now finally on iTunes. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison’s families have agreed to sell The Beatles’ back catalog on the music service after years of wrangling with Apple. https://kotaku.com/wsj-reports-tomorrows-itunes-event-is-beatlemania-5690699 It’s the Beatles Box Set which is the big one. With 256 songs, documentaries, and other videos…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dell’s Hybrid Netbook-Tablet Might Be Flipping Your Way Next Week

The Dell Duo flip-top netbook/tablet hybrid is one of the most intriguing devices in recent memory. First it made a surprise introduction at IFA, then it was in a teaser video of high polish, and now CNET reports that it might be available next week. Specifically, the rumor has it, next Tuesday. https://gizmodo.com/dells-inspiron-duo-is-a-10-netbook-tablet-transformer-5637897 At this…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Why Didn’t Any of You Tell Me That Breville Does a Pie Maker?

Not just a pie maker, but a PERSONAL pie maker. I suppose that means I can eat all four pies myself, right? Perfectly-crimped pies for just $80, exclusively at Williams Sonoma. [Williams Sonoma via OhGizmo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Maps for Android Now Has Hotpot Local Recommendations

Hotpot, Google’s local social recommendation service, has been integrated into Google Maps 4.7 for Android, so you can read and write reviews of restaurants and pubs, plus rate places for personalized future recommendations based on your tastes. You can also choose to share your ratings with friends, so if they’re in the ‘hood and needing…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

First Dual-Core Phone Leaks from LG With Android and 1080p Video Camera

Engadget has received a leaked photo of LG’s 4-inch Tegra 2-toting Android “Star” phone, which will join their flagship Optimus line-up with an 8MP camera (1080p video recording) and forward-facing camera. [Engadget]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Baby Pouch Cooks Babies Alive. Sorry, Keeps Them Alive

This low-cost sleeping-bag keeps infants warm for between four to six hours, and once it cools down it can be plugged in or submerged in water for 20 minutes to heat up again. Not while the baby’s still inside, mind. Designed for developing countries where homes are not centrally-heated and children can’t afford the luxury…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to Cloak a Crime in a Beam of Light

The 14th member of Danny Ocean‘s team of thieves might just be a physicist, making use of an “event cloak” dreamed up by Martin McCall‘s team at Imperial College London. Unlike invisibility cloaks, which bend light around an object, an event cloak would open up a time gap in the light by controlling its speed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Billionaire Richard Branson Will Be a Flight Attendant After Losing a Bet

Gadget Deals of the Day

How Would a Smart TV Change Your Life?

Video: Tour Hotpot, Google’s New Restaurant Recommendation Engine

Shooting Challenge Steal Gallery

Google Voice. For iPhone. It’s here.

MySpace Has Separation Anxiety

How Many Floppy Disks Do I Need to Load Photoshop, Again?

A Message From Homeland Security: My Way or the Highway

Griffin’s iPod Nano Slap Bracelet Has the Early ’90s Totally Confused

10 iTunes Announcements We’d Have Preferred to The Beatles

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

If You Like Everything Maybe You Don’t Like Anything

The Beatles Are Now On iTunes

Dell’s Hybrid Netbook-Tablet Might Be Flipping Your Way Next Week

Why Didn’t Any of You Tell Me That Breville Does a Pie Maker?

Google Maps for Android Now Has Hotpot Local Recommendations

First Dual-Core Phone Leaks from LG With Android and 1080p Video Camera

Baby Pouch Cooks Babies Alive. Sorry, Keeps Them Alive

How to Cloak a Crime in a Beam of Light

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