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In reality, it’s just a simple bowl made from cardboard honey comb and vacuum formed acetate. But in my mind, it looks like the shell of an alien egg. Imagine eating out of an alien egg. Mmm. The concept behind the bowl, made by Candra Lynn Provenzano, was to be lightweight and inexpensive. Amazingly, there’s…
According to this leaked slide, the Samsung Galaxy Tab will cost $399 with new 2-year contract on T-Mobile. As Sprint was rumored to charge that much too, 400 buckaroos will probably be the Galaxy Tab’s price on all the carriers. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-to-offer-galaxy-tab-november-14th-for-400-5659024 Admittedly, $399 on contract is priced just a tad higher than I’d like. It’s…
Honeybees have been dropping like flies for the past half decade, and the mass-death has been confusing the hell out of scientists. Was it because of cell phones? No. https://gizmodo.com/cellphones-wiping-out-bees-252381 Military scientists and entomologists (basically bug scientists) have teamed up to discover that it’s a combination of a fungus and a virus, a sort of…
Time lapse photography doesn’t get more epic than this video of the destruction of the EDF Tower and the construction of the Sequana Tower on its place. It took three years to make, summarized in three minutes in this video. It all started on January 2007, when Parisian videographer Ramon captured the first image of…
Amidst all the toy guns and super soakers, I see a very colorful Samurai complete with a fanciful mustache, an intimidating kabuto and thoughtful ball armor. I love the symmetry of it all. The sculpture was made by Hideki Kuwajima, a japanese artist who is known to create complex arrangements with ordinary objects. It sort…
The just released limera1n promises to jailbreak iOS 4.0-4.1 on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G, and iPod Touch 3G. It’s Windows only for now, with Mac & Linux support coming soon. Jailbreak at your own risk! Limera1n is a different jailbreak tool than the GreenPois0n jailbreak tool we were expecting to release…
So simple, really. The Italians just wanted to emphasize it a little more. I do that all the time. [Bits and Pieces]
The New York Times is independently confirming what the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week: a Verizon version of the iPhone 4 will be released in early 2011. People, this Verizon iPhone thing could finally, really happen. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-verizon-iphone-really-happening-in-early-2011-5657654 The Times says that what likely drove Apple to finally end their AT&T exclusivity is the…
This is not a Google Street View truck. It’s actually a self-driving car. The car is part of a new research initiative that Google’s been road resting: Artificially intelligent cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars are admittedly a lofty, almost far-fetched prospect. Even the most optimistic people behind the Google team say it’s at least…
This concept combines the best part of sleeping, your pillow, with the worst part of sleeping, your alarm clock. You pull the tab to set the alarm and when the time is right, the entire pillow vibrates to wake you up. I don’t know, though I love the two birds one stone idea, I kind…
After 66 days, the drill has finally reached the 33 Chilean miners trapped half a mile underneath the ground. If all goes well, the miners will be lifted out in a few days. This next phase of the rescue effort will actually be the most dangerous. Since the rescue shaft is only a little bit…
We think the Yellow Pages are useless and should go die already. But maybe not! A resourceful architect managed to build a shed using just yellow pages. Perhaps those tree killing monstrosities can be reborn as paper bricks. https://gizmodo.com/hey-yellow-pages-its-time-for-you-to-die-5567375 There’s about 7,000 phone books lining the walls of the shed and those pages of numbers…
The twisting pink mass that looks like frozen yogurt infected with ectoplasm might look disgusting. It might be mechanically separated chicken, chicken nuggets in their primordial form. And it is perfectly okay to eat. The goop freaked people out, not only because it looks weird, but because of the description that came along with it:…
Ah, why does wood look so good on modern gadgets? These Macbook woodgrain covers mimic the wonderfully warm look of wood. They’re only 10 bucks on Etsy. It’d be a perfect macbook cover if they were made from real wood, like these, but for only 10 dollars, I can’t complain. [Etsy via Design Boom]
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Ready for mass hysteria? Apparently the FAA has acknowledged that airplane cargo holds can get hot enough to cause lithium batteries to ignite. And there’s more! There was a large quantity of such batteries on a plane that crashed recently: The Federal Aviation Administration also acknowledged publicly for the first time Friday that a United…
The next time you ride NYC subway, you might notice an officer mounting one of four brand new T3 scooters. But the NYPD aren’t nearly the first cops to show off their sweet three-wheelers. Thank goodness. Hoover, Alabama Police Department Likes: Soundtrack; scooting in formation; raw speed. Dislikes: Shopping mall location limited for stunts; gaudy…
What better way to learn about the ocean’s depths than plastering this contraption on a wild seal’s head? This guy and 56 of his friends are gathering information about the seafloor to help scientists model the ocean’s reaction to climate change. The 57 elephant seals, which have an electronic tag (which looks more like a…
This weekend marks the celebration of the Vimeo Festival + Awards, which brings together experts and achievers in online video. And, some pretty spectacular visual artists, merging DIY tech ingenuity with brilliant sculpture. And we’ve got the highlights below. The exhibit consisted mostly of students from NYU’s famed ITP program—whose awesomeness we’ve covered before—and made…
I once dated a guy who thought that quoting a Flight of the Conchords song was incredibly romantic. While I didn’t exactly agree, I certainly would’ve swooned over an extra geeky parody of the tune. Like this one. If you’re not familiar with the original song, you can watch it here. If you’re not familiar…
