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Apparently, Mythbusters is going to film a segment to test the incredible case of the spinning bullet on ice. Many people are discussing if this is possible or not. After watching it repeatedly and reading the arguments, I believe it. Some people say that this is impossible. How can a .40 caliber bullet stop on…
If you considered that chicken nugget goop to be an aphrodisiac of the most romantic kind, then start looking up flights to Hong Kong for next year. McDonalds’ weddings may be alcohol-free, but at least Ronald will be in attendance. https://gizmodo.com/chicken-nuggets-are-made-from-this-pink-goop-5654066 Sure, some couples have ambushed McDonalds and even Taco Bell with their wedding ceremonies,…
Click to viewStreaming Netflix to your PS3 is about to get a whole lot nicer. Starting next week you’ll be able to stream Instant Watch content without the Netflix disc—Hallelujah!—as well as watch some content in 1080i with 5.1-channel surround sound. Starting Monday, PS3 owners will be able to access Netflix via a new app…
The first 90 seconds of this song are made entirely out of bee noises. Turns out there’s a whole lot of beauty lurking behind the buzz. Here’s how they did it. The Bee Project comes from Tonehammer, who recorded lots of bee sounds and modified them with tools like timefreezers, delays, filters, and glitch modules.…
This isn’t a sweded movie but a completely new short film showing what really happens when a computer crashes, without a single digital special effect. It’s all cardboard, wires, and a ton of ingenuity. [Stel de vragg via The Presurfer] https://gizmodo.com/sweded-tron-movie-is-probably-best-sweded-movie-ever-372771
It’s an entry in the GE ecomagination Challenge (in the Connect Power: Grid Efficiency category), where GE and its venture capital partners have made a $200 million commitment to invest in the best ideas to develop and deploy digital energy technologies. From the developer: User-friendly, energy management system that utilizes GPS technology to enable drivers…
First it was the iPod. Then the iPhone. And now those Chinese cloners are pirating Steve Jobs himself! Oh you Chinese scoundrels you! https://gizmodo.com/nextways-ipod-clone-8494 Watch Steve Jobs unveiling a new iPhone application for the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway. Well, he’s not Steve, but his twin. His evil Chinese twin. Or maybe the evil one…
The Astronomical Clock in Prague’s Old Square displays not only time but sunrise, sunset, zodiac, mean revolutions of the moon, and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff. It recently celebrated its 600th birthday with this incredible projected light show. According to a commenter at BoingBoing, the projection took 4 months to create and used…
Apple’s AT&T monogamy has officially ended, at least as far as the iPad is concerned. Because at the end of this month, the tablet is coming to Verizon. Well, Wi-Fi anyway. Verizon’s iPad is going to be Wi-Fi only, which means that for 3G access you’ll have to purchase a bundle with a Verizon MiFi…
It’s been a while since New York had a good UFO panic. Today, New Yorkers were frozen in their tracks by what must have been a swarm of aliens searching for the most expensive cigarettes in the Universe. (Or balloons.) According to the Daily News A mysterious shiny object floating high over Manhattan’s West Side…
This week on TreeHugger, a house made from 5,000 glass bottles, green jellyfish goo powers devices, father and son DIY an outer space film project, and how digitizing our world could be problematic. Weird Solar Device of the Day: Solar-Powered Cockroach Perhaps this little insect is really perfect timing for Halloween — it can easily…
True, you can charge some phones now without buying a special inductive-charging case (via their swappable batteries), but Powermat wants to work with manufacturers to put the technology into phones from the get-go. https://gizmodo.com/powermat-throws-out-the-cases-with-new-swappable-batter-5441465 Speaking to TechRadar, the Powermat spokesperson said it “is a complex process,” as “each phone has different charging needs so the…
Sure, there are plenty of painting apps for iOS already, but Remote Palette has a neat twist—it connects an iPad and iPhone so the iPad can be used as a canvas, and the iPhone as the color palette. The video above will be pretty awkward for anyone who’s not seen this video from 1982 of…
Meet HRP-4C, a singing “divabot” who mimics human singers’ facial expressions and breath patterns. What a beautiful song she’s singing! We can’t wait to hear it again, in the nightmares we will have about her and her creepy corpse eyes.
Twitter’s often used for passive-aggressive means, but a British police department is taking on the government in a 24hour-long display of how overworked they really are, by tweeting every single call they receive. 6hours in, that’s over 700 potential crimes. The Greater Manchester Police started tweeting from 5am GMT (12am EST) today, using three Twitter…
Good news for Sprint Boost Mobile customers—every six months, the network will reduce the monthly price of the contract by $5. That means anyone on a $50 contract could end up paying just $35 a month after 18 months. [Bloomberg] UPDATE: Apologies, there are no contracts with Sprint Boost, just a rolling pre-paid service.
Even though not all of you will understand what “superhydrophobic carbon nanotubes” actually are, everyone will appreciate this video of water droplets shot at varying frame-rate speeds of up to 3,500fps. Except for Martians, perhaps. Several water droplets were filmed in super slo-mo, as they dropped onto a “superhydrophobic” (massively water-repelling) arrangement of carbon nanotube…
The brilliant thing about Sony’s NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras is that they’re compatible with the company’s A-mount lenses (when using the $200 LA-EA1 Mount Adaptor). Thanks to a firmware update, there’s now AF support when using these lenses, plus users can customize the soft-key settings and maintain the aperture settings when recording video. [Sony] https://gizmodo.com/sony-nex-3-and-nex-5-cameras-receive-firmware-update-fo-5577116…
Big, brash and gold—I’d say these limited edition HDJ-1000s are the polar opposite of those understated Aiaiai headphones I reviewed, but I think we’ve all seen a pair of Dr Dre’s Beats Pro to know that’s untrue. https://gizmodo.com/aiaiai-tma-1-headphones-lightning-review-high-on-bass-5623686 First made available in 2008, Pioneer’s not just painted the HDJ-1000s in gold and called it a…
I say “won’t cost that much” because the Japanese price of the AG-AF100 converted to just under $10,000, which is a heck of a lot more than what it’ll really cost in the States when it goes on sale December 27th: $4,995. https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-compact-interchangeable-video-camera-will-co-5636422 It’s the first mirrorless camcorder that can use interchangeable lenses, so if…
