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Evil Parents Can Flick the Positive Reading On For This Monster Meter iPhone App

Kids are so mollycoddled these days, what with apps detecting monsters in wardrobes instead of just living through the fear like we did, so I’m not surprised the developer included a positive-reading option for this $1 app. [iTunes via AppsPlayground]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Get Schooled: Class Starts Tomorrow!

Are you ready to learn about electronics? You’d better be: Gizmodo University’s interactive video course, Discover Electronics 101, begins tomorrow, Saturday October 23rd at Noon Eastern! Have your thinking hats on and your Discover Electronics kits ready! We are very excited to be able to offer you Discover Electronics 101 via the good folks over…

Tech News Gizmodo University

The First Rickroll In Space

Hiding a Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up in a college paper? Small time. This is what it’s like to Rickroll the entire planet. https://jezebel.com/student-hides-rick-astleys-song-in-college-paper-5669317 The good, bored people over at Zug executed the prank with a weather balloon, a digital video camera, helium, and a very loud speaker. Through the course of the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Gizmodo Presents… Serious Bandz!

Silly Bandz are great fun, but they’re not really relevant to adults. So we made these Serious Bandz, suitable for anyone who has a dysfunctional marriage, a humdrum job, or a looming awareness of their own mortality. Get yours today! Silly Bandz, of course, are the variously-shaped rubber bands that all the kids are wearing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Apple: All New Macs Will Ship Without Flash

Turns out Apple shipping the MacBook Air without Flash pre-installed wasn’t just a one-time thing. From here on out, every Mac that’s sold will be Flashless. That makes more of a statement than a Steve Jobs open letter ever could. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-airs-faster-lighter-instant-on-30-day-s-5668810 Apple spokesman Bill Evans gave word to Engadget that while previous generations of Macs…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 Overclocked from 1GHz to Whopping 2GHz

Seriously, that’s got to hurt. Two forum-posters calling themselves Team DeFuse are claiming they successfully managed to overclock both the Droid 2 and Droid X, taking them from a decent 1.0GHz to spectacular 2.0GHz. We’d be concerned for their safety, if we hadn’t seen they survived the task at least long enough to upload video…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Introduce a Foot Pedal Into Your Computing Setup

Imagine if drum kits didn’t have kick drums. Music wouldn’t be nearly as great! Here’s how you can turn an old USB keyboard into a foot pedal and stomp stomp stomp your way through Google Reader (or whatever else). OK, yes, I understand, you’re not playing the drums with your fingers, so using your foot…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

12 Monumental Gadget Firsts

These clunky “firsts” will leave you hungry for a game of Duck Hunt and your favorite cassette. Or possibly send you scrambling to hug your sleek iPhone while giving thanks for the goodness that is modern technology. Disclaimer: These gadgets were chosen because they were the first available to consumers on the market—not necessarily the…

Gadgets Christina Bonnington

See the World’s Fanciest Nuclear Submarine Pathetically Stuck in the Mud

Aw, look at the poor British nuclear submarine, HMS Astute. The “world’s most advanced nuclear submarine” has run aground off the coast of the Scotland’s Isle of Skye, and it’s just sitting there like a sad mallard. The Telegraph says that the $5.5 billion sub’s rudder got caught in a bank and it’s currently waiting…

Tech News Adrian Chen

America’s Last Pinball Machine Maker Bringing Iron Man Home

Chicago-based Stern—last of the great American pinball makers—is releasing a new “home” edition of its Iron Man cabinet. It leaves out coin slot and some of the fancier geegaws, but it’s a lot better than previous home cabinets. Priced at $3,800, the Stern Iron Man cabinet is designed for hard core pinball fans who want…

Tech News Joel Johnson

There Will Be No More PCs Preloaded With WIndows XP

As of today, PC makers are no longer allowed to preload Windows XP on netbooks, the last type of machine to go. That means that no PCs of any type are rolling off the assembly line with Windows XP. On a separate but not unrelated note, today marks the 1 year anniversary of the launch…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

I Confess: I Have PSD

I must confess. I have PSD. I got it one crazy night. She was beautiful. We were drunk. She looked deep into my eyes and, without even thinking, I was over all her buttons and she was making me swoon. She was a PowerMac 8100, the first computer with a PowerPC RISC processor. It had…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How To Eliminate Facebook Like Buttons From All Web Pages

We gave you many reasons to quit, but no, you had to keep sticking your head into that bucket of pain called Facebook. But perhaps you really dislike those like buttons popping in every web page. Here’s how to eliminate them. https://gizmodo.com/more-reasons-why-you-should-still-quit-facebook-5534736 Step 1 Before starting, if you are not using Chrome, Firefox or Safari,…

Social Media Jesus Diaz

These Crappy JPEGs Are Actually Paintings

A compressed, blurry image full of compression artifacts is pretty gross—one of the scourges of the internet. But offline, it’s a work of art. Andy Denzler creates captivating painted images that mimic the flaws of digital ones. It takes talent to reproduce something so awful in a way that renders it interesting and, dare I…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Vending Machine Sells Live Crabs

I thought the Japanese banana vending machine we saw last week was pretty weird. But compared to this Chinese vending machine which dispenses ACTUAL LIVING CRABS in little plastic containers, well, yeah, a banana machine seems pretty reasonable. https://gizmodo.com/5-strange-minutes-with-japans-vending-machines-5666794 The machine stores its Shanghai Hairy Crabs in a state of hibernation at 5 degrees Celsius.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

20/20 Headphones Use Tensegrity to Adapt to Any Head Automagically

Teague’s 20/20 headphones are one of weirdest and most intriguing industrial designs I’ve ever seen. Instead of using the usual adjusting mechanisms to adapt to different heads’ shapes and sizes, they use tensegrity. But, what’s tensegrity? It’s a term first used by Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller to define a structure type that uses flexible and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Galaxy Player Looks Like One Sweet Android iPod Touch

We’d gotten a quick look at the Galaxy Player before, but not like this: a nearly three minute video that shows that Samsung’s brought a gun to the iPod Touch gunfight. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-android-running-answer-to-the-ipod-touch-spott-5614371 The Galaxy Player is an Android 2.1 media player, and it looks like the first device to really go toe to toe with…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Apple to Sell iLife ’11 Apps Individually For $15 Each?

Plenty of people won’t be bothered by GarageBand or iMovie, and will want just iPhoto—and they’ll want to download it, too. If Apple does charge just $15 per iLife ’11 app as this photo suggests, that’s amazing news. When you zoom into an image on Apple’s website showing the Mac App Store on a MacBook…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Murdoch Scraps Digital Newspaper Tablet Project

News Corp‘s big “Digital Planet” newspaper app project for tablets has been killed off supposedly, due to lack of interest and cost. That means no one-stop app for all of their newspapers. Proper shame right there. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdoch-is-building-a-newspaper-for-your-ipad-5612184

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Over 7,000 People Tagged in One Facebook Photo Wins a Guinness World Record

36 ultra hi-res photos taken with two Hasselblad cameras at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in England were stitched together to create a 1.3-gigapixel image. Of the 70,000 people captured, over 7,000 dirty revellers have tagged themselves on Facebook. This has awarded the pictured, created by mobile network Orange, a Guinness World Record for most people…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Evil Parents Can Flick the Positive Reading On For This Monster Meter iPhone App

Get Schooled: Class Starts Tomorrow!

The First Rickroll In Space

Gizmodo Presents… Serious Bandz!

Apple: All New Macs Will Ship Without Flash

Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 Overclocked from 1GHz to Whopping 2GHz

Introduce a Foot Pedal Into Your Computing Setup

12 Monumental Gadget Firsts

See the World’s Fanciest Nuclear Submarine Pathetically Stuck in the Mud

America’s Last Pinball Machine Maker Bringing Iron Man Home

There Will Be No More PCs Preloaded With WIndows XP

I Confess: I Have PSD

How To Eliminate Facebook Like Buttons From All Web Pages

These Crappy JPEGs Are Actually Paintings

This Vending Machine Sells Live Crabs

20/20 Headphones Use Tensegrity to Adapt to Any Head Automagically

The Galaxy Player Looks Like One Sweet Android iPod Touch

Apple to Sell iLife ’11 Apps Individually For $15 Each?

Murdoch Scraps Digital Newspaper Tablet Project

Over 7,000 People Tagged in One Facebook Photo Wins a Guinness World Record

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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