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The iPad accessories are flying in thick and fast, with the Quirky Cradle being the latest replacement for…your lap? It features a circular plate which rotates the iPad; certainly a nice touch and makes the $52.50 a lot more reasonable. Made from bamboo, it’s lightweight and won’t be cramping your thighs as the underside has…
The US military is gonna need some new fighter jets at some point, probably after 2025. It’s never too early for Boeing to start pitching for their business! The two twin-engine concepts can both fly either with a pilot or without, and they definitely bear a strong resemblance to the famous stealth bomber. They’ll be…
Portion control is the most obvious means to eat better, but how much is too much? This Wheel of Nutrition dinnerware makes it as simple as putting food on your plate. In Diet, Extra Ordinary and Super Size configuration, disregarding your health is as simple as shattering the proper strategic place setting—unfortunately, it doesn’t look…
The XM25 is the deadliest hand weapon in the army arsenal. Why? Because it can fire 25mm rounds that explode at any distance set by the soldier, killing people protected behind walls or trenches. Here it is in action. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-and-full-details-on-the-xm25-the-most-letha-5055602 This is how the gas-operated semi-automatic XM25 system works: • Imagine there is an enemy…
You’re looking at the first integrated circuit. The heart of every gadget and computer around you. This crude blob of components and germanium was created by Nobel Prize winner and Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby. But it wasn’t his idea. The original idea was formulated by someone who never got the Nobel Prize, a radar…
Click to viewPart dreamcatcher, part lamp, part nocturnal flower: that’s Morning Glory, a project by Wendy Legro recently showcased in Milan. During the day, it allows natural light to flood in. At dusk, it unfolds to brighten the night. It’s beautiful. [FastCompany]
Measuring just three-inches, that strange plastic doohickey the woman is holding there can detect 3,000 different viruses in under a day. This bio-detector could end up saving your life, in other words. 388,000 individually-sequenced probes are contained in the glass slide, and are capable of analyzing and detecting over 2,00 viruses and 900 different forms…
You might think that fresh air would be essential for a sewage treatment plant, but some bacteria cannot stand the stuff. These bugs could clean waste water so efficiently that the process could generate power rather than consume it. In conventional sewage plants, micro-organisms digest solid waste in “activated sludge”. They convert the organic matter…
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Everybody have a good week? Doesn’t really matter because the weekend is here! What are your plans? Dealzmodo is going to relax, enjoy the beautiful weather and say hi to Dealzmomdo. If you still need a gift, search the list! Top Deals: • Sony BDP-N460 Network Blu-Ray Player (Netflix & Pandora Streaming) for $129.99 plus…
Are We Winning? is a laugh-out-loud yet ultimately moving love letter to baseball—and to the fathers and sons who share the game—from Will Leitch, one of today’s hottest young sports writers. Are We Winning? opens with a letter to Will Leitch’s yet-to-be-conceived son, Bryan, in which Will spells out precisely how important baseball will be…
In this week’s churlish app roundup: Fruits, thwacked! Fingers, hacked! Golf balls, smacked! Quiz questions, cracked! Three dimensions, tracked! Your personal translator, sacked! These apps are fantastic: Fact. If you’d like to view this gallery as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-10-best-iphone-apps-5533620 Qrank: Bar quiz-style trivia played against other people, in real time, online. You…
The iPad Camera Connection Kit may be selling itself short with its name; turns out you can also use it to hook your iPad up to an external hard drive. Here’s how it’s done. The video above, from Maxwell Shay, walks you through part of the process. It only works after you jailbreak your iPad,…
First, it was the wide-mouthed can. Then, it was a can that changed color when it was cold. Most beers, most companies, most icons, heck, most gods would’ve stopped by now. But Coors Light went and changed the world again. They created a 12-pack case with a tiny opaque window that turns transparent in cool…
This man, former TSA screener Rolando Negrin, apparently has a tiny penis. It was revealed to his TSA coworkers by the TSA’s fancy electronic no-hands strip searcher. They mocked him for nearly a year. Then he snapped. https://gizmodo.com/nudists-fully-support-peeping-airport-scanners-5447163 According to the arrest report, Negrin said “he could not take the jokes any more and lost…
According to a Times’ report, Nintendo’s boss Satoru Iwata now says that Nintendo should treat Apple as “the enemy of the future.” According to him, they won against Sony, and their new nemesis is the iPhone and iPad maker. [Times]
See, a guitar made up of phones isn’t just about the music. It’s about bringing people together. And by “people” I mean mobile operating systems. Presenting two Android and WinMo devices and an iPod Touch, united to play Cracklin Rosie. More information on the project, from the artist himself: I decided to create the same…
The Black Dwarf reminds me of those old 3.5″ floppy cases from the 90s. Except it uses eight 2TB hard drives. 16 terabytes. RAID 5. 266 megabytes per second reading. 88 megabyte per second writing. All custom-made. Good. God. The homemade NAS—perfect for editing massive video files or copying the whole internet—was created by Will…
The Borders-backed Kobo eReader is officially on pre-order to be delivered by June 17. It’s not as flashy as a Kindle or nook, but the barebones platform is only $150. Drop that price to $99, and Borders may find itself a market. [Borders]
This oil catastrophe off the coast of Louisiana is seriously bad news, something they’ll be forced to deal with for years. Who is to blame?! We need some scapegoats, and fast! Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Oil Disaster in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k…
