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The list of places we will be safe from robot attack continues to shrink, as the ROCR robot, courtesy of the University of Utah, can now efficiently scale walls. The diminutive bot can climb over six inches per second. https://gizmodo.com/wl-16rii-stair-climbing-robot-chair-102156 The ROCR is far from the first robot to pull off a wall climb, nor…
I’ve gotta admit that I was confused the first time someone told me that he “hearted” me for something. It felt a bit dirty to be honest. Turns out that “hearting” is how one adds friends using the Gizmodo commenting system. You just click on the little heart next to another person’s name and boom-ba-boom,…
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It almost sounds nice sometimes, right? Being totally off the grid, no technology whatsoever. Maybe just for one day. Here’s the winner of Good’s Doodle Project depicting just that. And if his vision doesn’t connect, try plugging into the runners-up: That last one? That’s by a six year old. Pretty incredible—thank goodness I was online…
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I can see the rationale for sticking the ports on the back of the USB hub: it keeps the cords hidden. But what if keeping them in plain sight meant you could cut the power to each device individually? That’s the idea behind Japanese company Elecom’s latest attempt to re-engineer the humble USB hub, a…
Bahraini Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa chimes in on the BlackBerry bans set to happen tomorrow in Saudi Arabia and the UAE over worries of encryption. Via his Foreign Minister’s twitter account, he’s quoted as calling the bans “Ignorant, short sighted and unenforceable.”
A 25-year-old moving to New York is willing to pay $1400 for a room in SoHo. However, there’s no way in hell he would put up with any iPhone or iPad user, so apartment sharing candidates must be Apple-free: The New York Observer says that Vince Thomas—the guy who posted the ad—is a big Android…
Images that MacRumors tipsters claim are the front LCD and bezel of the fourth-generation iPod Touch clearly show a front-sided hole just big enough for a front-facing FaceTime camera. And it looks relatively legit. The part is labeled “Apple (c) 2010” (check the full res version), which granted could have been done by anyone! But…
Patents! They are often completely fucking insane. But here’s my question about this one, “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force:” it’d work on helping me poop, too, right? Yes, this is an elaborate contraption that you would strap a pregnant woman to who was about to give birth. It would…
When I first saw the first screenshots of the early built of Lego Universe-Lego’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game-I got excited like a teen after finding his dad’s old Playboy stash. The final beta look just hardened the tingling sensation: https://gizmodo.com/lego-universe-first-in-game-screenshots-5345097 Can’t wait for the final.
Jalopnik has toured the largest wind tunnel in the world and got these beautiful photos. It was built 30 years ago inside GM’s Aerodynamics Laboratory, and it still looks amazing today. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/a-look-inside-the-worlds-largest-automotive-wind-tunnel-5605286
Fellas, how many times do we have to go over this: when you leave your wife and family in Ohio and go secretly marry a much younger woman in Florida, do not let her put the wedding photos on Facebook. Lynn France was a little suspicious when her husband claimed to have gone to China,…
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