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How Has .com Changed Your Life? Share Your Story and Win $10K

Show your love for all things .com and you could win $10,000. Click here for more about the HowDoYou.com contest and peruse the entries that yours will be up against. Don’t wait to tell your story: Enter the HowDoYou.com contest now by submitting a short video or essay that explains how .com has changed your…

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Have Google and China Resolved Their Issues?

Last week Google’s Chinese Internet Content Provider license came up for renewal, but according to a Google spokesperson, the Chinese government hasn’t got back to them yet. Now though, a Chinese site is reporting on some new features being added. https://gizmodo.com/google-search-will-cease-to-exist-in-china-by-friday-5576092 MIC Gadget, who helped us out hugely with the ongoing Foxconn suicides saga, has…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Show Them More of Your Naked Body With the Wide-Angle Webcam Mod

If you have a face or body that’s wider than the national average due to some ongoing “glandular” issues, you might want to modify your webcam to help fit it all into one wide-angle shot. Here’s how. A DIY guide over on Instructables tells you what to do—and it’s not the most challenging piece of…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Definitely Turn Left at Next Intersection

Artist Garvin Nolte really doesn’t want to get lost. His art piece Crossroads consists of 25 various satnavs suckered to his car windscreen—all screaming out directions to the same destination. In German. According to Nolte, the piece deals with the “influence of others onto one’s own path of life in an abstract way” so we’re…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

LG’s Optimus One and Optimus Chic Phones Will Ship With Froyo

Two fairly-sedate Android phones from LG, both with larger-sounding names, have been announced: the Optimus One, and Optimus Chic. LG informed us “Optimus” means “best” in Latin, but as Latin’s a dying language, that’s not quite having the desire effect. However Transformers-sounding the name may be, the Optimus One is the leader of the pack,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

European Antitrust Guns Now Pointing at Apple?

As well as facing possible antitrust claims in the US, the European Union is now taking a look at Apple’s closed-shop practises—with EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes claiming makers “cannot just choose to deny interoperability with their product.” https://gizmodo.com/us-targets-apple-in-iad-antitrust-probe-5560247 The locked-down nature of Apple’s App Store was specifically mentioned by Kroes, who also said that “consumers…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Is This HTC’s Android-Sliding Vision Phone?

A prototype of what’s been dubbed the HTC Vision has turned up in Croatia, with a 3.7-inch touchscreen, 1GHz processor and Android 2.1. Well, it wouldn’t be running Gingerbread yet, would it? https://gizmodo.com/rumor-android-3-0-gingerbread-out-october-for-highe-5576478 You’ve no doubt already clocked the keyboard, and how it’s just a four-row affair, compared to the G1’s five rows. If this…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dissect Virtual Frogs Every Day of the Week, Not Just When Mr. Haycroft Tells You

Being a vegetarian (or pescetarian, if you will), I tried my hardest to get out of dissecting frogs during biology classes. Had I been born 10 years later, I could’ve cut up virtual amphibians on an iPad instead. Now, I’ve no idea how much those frogs cost schools, but with all the utensils and chemicals…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

From Sea to Sky: Submarines That Fly

Guillemots and gannets do it. Cormorants and kingfishers do it. Even the tiny insect-eating dipper does it. And if a plan by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) succeeds, a remarkable airplane may one day do it too. Plunge beneath the waves to stalk its prey, before re-emerging to fly home. The DARPA…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Selfless Nuns Pray to RSS Feed of Bad News

The Poor Clares, an isolated group of non-speaking nuns, have taken it upon themselves to pray for the ills of the world—praying made easier thanks to a live link to world-at-large bad news. This rapid-reaction crack prayer unit has been enabled thanks to an art project by students at South London art college Goldsmiths, who…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

FarmVille Groceries are Real, and Tastier Than Pixels

Snapped by reader Owaeis, these FarmVille groceries are ready and waiting for your soft mouth to envelop them, in your nearest 7-Eleven. Just don’t spend too many Farm Coins on them now. Those crops don’t plow themselves. [Thanks, Orwaeis!] https://kotaku.com/farmville-coming-to-a-convenience-store-near-you-this-5535585

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Other-Korean Company LG is Getting Into Android Tablets Too

LG is working on an Android tablet due out by the end of the year, which will come up next to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab which has already seen a bunch of leaked photos and info hit the web. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-samsung-galaxy-tab-tablet-caught-on-video-5564760 LG’s will launch later than Samsung’s tablet, sometime in the fourth quarter compared to their mate-up-the-road’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

LCD Pinball Machine Can Play Any Table You Want

Can a digital pinball machine capture the charm of the classic game? Nike’s machine, which uses a giant LCD screen as the playfield, a soccer ball-style pinball and virtual Nike shoes as flippers, comes pretty darn close. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-inside-the-last-pinball-factory-in-the-world-384020 Nike’s digital pinball machine, located in Spain, is part of their ‘Write the Future’ campaign for the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Forest In a Box

In a public plaza in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam, DUS Architects installed the Unlimited Urban Woods. On the outside: a non-descript white box with a few square meter footprint. On the inside: a forest as far as the eye can see. Using a series of strategically angled mirrors, DUS made the illusory forest from just a single…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Worst Fireworks Safety Advice You’ll Ever Get

Happy Independence Day! Before doing your constitutionally mandated duty of blowing things up—or watching things get blown up by professionals, if you live in a boring state—make sure you’re caught up on these finer points of fireworks safety. https://jalopnik.com/the-fireworks-laws-of-every-state-5578637 Thank you Back of the Class! You have reaffirmed my love of America and mayhem. [YouTube…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Lance Armstrong’s $15,000 Bike Helmet

First, Giro Helmets spent $15,000 to build a lifelike replica of Lance Armstrong. Only then did they start to develop his helmet. Hundreds of prototypes and wind tunnel tests later, they ended up with the most aerodynamic helmet ever. As tough as real Lance Armstrong is, testing out helmets in wind tunnels can’t be any…

Tech News Casey Chan

Which Social Network Goes With Your Kind of Crazy?

A Venn diagram that maps social networks against various behavioral disorders? Yes, please. Although surely anyone still using MySpace has troubles running much deeper than what’s listed here. [Despair via TNW]

Social Media Brian Barrett

BGR Says Last Week’s Steve Jobs Emails Are Real

Last week, BGR posted a Steve Jobs email exchange in which the CEO told an irate iPhone user to “calm down.” Apple said the messages were fake, but BGR is standing by his story, offering the email headers as proof. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-to-angry-iphone-4-user-calm-down-relax-5577316 The exchange was an unusual one to begin with—Jobs has been brief in the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

I Left My iPhone 4 On The Roof Of My Car

Gizmodo reader Ryan Davis made a mindless mistake we could all make: he left his iPhone 4 on the roof of his car, and drove off. This is his story of how a normal day turned into, well, panic. My story begins one Tuesday morning (June 29th 2010 – exactly 4 days after I had…

Tech News Ryan Davis

The Making of Tony Stark’s Incredible Interfaces

More than his vast fortune or rocket-soled boots or even Pepper Potts, the thing I envy most about Tony Stark are his computers. Here’s a video of how motion design company Prologue perfected Tony’s fantastic holographic interfaces. Motionographer has a veritable treasure trove of photos and video from Prologue, showing how every element of Stark’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How Has .com Changed Your Life? Share Your Story and Win $10K

Have Google and China Resolved Their Issues?

Show Them More of Your Naked Body With the Wide-Angle Webcam Mod

Definitely Turn Left at Next Intersection

LG’s Optimus One and Optimus Chic Phones Will Ship With Froyo

European Antitrust Guns Now Pointing at Apple?

Is This HTC’s Android-Sliding Vision Phone?

Dissect Virtual Frogs Every Day of the Week, Not Just When Mr. Haycroft Tells You

From Sea to Sky: Submarines That Fly

Selfless Nuns Pray to RSS Feed of Bad News

FarmVille Groceries are Real, and Tastier Than Pixels

Other-Korean Company LG is Getting Into Android Tablets Too

LCD Pinball Machine Can Play Any Table You Want

Forest In a Box

The Worst Fireworks Safety Advice You’ll Ever Get

Lance Armstrong’s $15,000 Bike Helmet

Which Social Network Goes With Your Kind of Crazy?

BGR Says Last Week’s Steve Jobs Emails Are Real

I Left My iPhone 4 On The Roof Of My Car

The Making of Tony Stark’s Incredible Interfaces

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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