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Kevin Kelly’s CoolTools is an indispensable resource for discovering the most important kind of gadgets of all: practical ones. Here are some of the site’s best recent finds. Hand Lights Headlamps are great for when your hands are tied and you need to see what’s in front of you, but what about the times when…
Web apps! They’re more and more like real apps. Take the new Twitter.com. It’s pretty damned amazing. Is it so good you can ditch desktop Twitter apps forever? The new Twitter feels a lot like an application, slapped on top of Twitter.com. That’s partly because it’s built like an application. It uses the same Twitter…
San Franciscans are among the likely folks in America to take to WiMax 4G. So why’d they have to wait so long to get it, despite indications that it was pretty much ready to launch months ago? Hooray, bureaucracy! https://gizmodo.com/signs-of-wimax-showing-up-on-evos-in-new-york-san-fran-5565489 Apparently the people who push pencils in the San Francisco government have among the strictest…
Infused liquors are the darling of high end mixologists everywhere—but the aging process required usually makes it a no-no for drinking at home. No more! Using only a cream whipper, you can shove flavor into drinks in minutes. The trick is the gaseous cream whipper—usually used to create whipped cream and other foams—which pounds nuanced…
“Danger! High Voltage. Do Not Touch. Death or Serious Injury May Occur,” reads the yellow sticker on the side of this 1.25 Kilojoule DIY coilgun. Watching this video of it in action, that sounds about right: The battery-powered projectile-blaster took 2 years to complete, according to its creator, YouTube user Larsplatoon, and it packs four…
This week on TreeHugger, fuel cells powered by rat blood, a bunch of badass bikes, oil rig turned into a SCUBA diver hotel, Avatar 2 filmed at the bottom of the sea, and more! 100-Year-Old Belgian Tree Is World’s Most Social Media-Savvy Plant This is begging for a “You know you’re a treehugger if…” joke,…
Because Google’s able to update individual core Android apps in phones running 2.2 without waiting for a large, bulky patch that updates the entire system, people with newer devices get a better Gmail app today. Besides “limited support” for Priority Inbox and better handling of replies and quoted text, you also have the improved UI,…
Today we’re featuring some sweet deals on an LG LED HDTV + Blu-Ray Player Combo, the HTC EVO 4G (Sprint), and some free Pancakes at IHOP. You might just get a cavity. Top Deals: • 42″ LG 42LE5400 LED-LCD HDTV + LG BD590 Blu-ray Player (WiFi, 250GB HDD) for $899.10 plus free shipping (normally $1,182…
For something so familiar, cooking is incredibly mysterious. Ask a home cook what happens to a steak in a pan—hell, ask most chefs. It gets hot. It gets brown. It gets juicy. How do you like yours, again? We burn, sear, boil, broil, grill and fry our food to make it appetizing, and, with any…
The Mark Hurd saga has taken a not-unpleasant turn: the suit that his former employer, HP, leveled at his new employer, Oracle, has been resolved. Hurd has apparently agreed to waive half his separation compensation in the settlement. HP initially filed the suit in the interest of protecting their trade secrets, after it had been…
The photos that follow are impossible. But they actually happened. The entries for this week’s Shooting Challenge are composites, stacking subjects from the same place at different moments in time. The results will bend your brain in the best ways: Lead Shot – Black Car, White Car The photo is taken on top of a…
Camera: Nikon D90 with 18-200 Nikkor Lens Focal Length: 18mm F-number: f/14.0 Exposure Time: 1/800 second Exposure: -1/3 ISO Speed: 2000 (no idea why I still had it on this, oops!) White Balance: Cloudy The actual detail for the “composite” is somewhat small compared to the scale of the photo, but I wanted to capture…
DigitalCameraReview got some hands-on time with the LUMIX DMC-GH2, Panasonic’s new Micro Four Thirds, and while they had some quibbles about it’s lack of true 1080p, 60fps video (or 3D video), they still think it’ll be best of class. [DigitalCameraReview] https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-gh2-a-superhero-micro-four-thirds-came-5643490
Not so long ago, you might have walked out of a restaurant that served you ludicrous-sounding creations like cream of mushroom foam, or spheres of olive oil that explode in your mouth like salmon roe. Not anymore. The greatest restaurant in the world, El Bulli, is closing. It’s the Mecca of the science-and-chemistry-and-crazy-shit approach to…
Twitter was going nuts this morning with a fresh exploit that had people inadvertently retweeting spam links left and right, but thankfully Twitter was quick to patch things up. And as it happens their fix didn’t just fix things, it improved them: the patch brought Reply to All and Auto-Complete features to the recently revamped…
For a device with a 3″ screen, the iPhone has a pretty impressive resume: Phone, map, camera, sketchbook, dedicated Doodle Jump playing machine. And for $1, the newly revamped Ruler 2 app makes it a pretty decent measuring thinger, too. Ruler 2, an overhauled version of an apparently less-good Ruler 1, offers a simple, functional…
We here at Gizmodo HQ love ourselves some HyperMac batteries, but apparently Cupertino doesn’t share our enthusiasm. Apple is suing parent company Sanho over six patents relating to MagSafe and iPod. And it looks like they may have a case. The crux of the matter seems to be that HyperMac products use “original Apple MagSafe…
A new book reveals that a member of MI6, the British spy agency, discovered during WWI that semen makes excellent invisible ink, and often deployed it in the field. The name of the man who discovered this? Mansfield Cumming.
Your most powerful cooking multitool is probably abandoned underneath your counter. Maybe you dust if off sometimes, maybe you don’t. But the next time you prep dinner, take a moment to reconsider the food processor. Mark Bittman did just that in the NY Times recently, and thank goodness. Because while I’ve processed some food in…
If I asked you to name three annoying things about the internet, two of them would probably be captchas and advertisements. The third would probably involve Justin Bieber, Twitter, or some combination of both. But back to these captcha advertisements… They’re the diabolical brainchild of Solve Media, a New York-based startup that’s looking to shove…
