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“As we enter the 10s, the majority of top leaders at Microsoft are in their 40s and 50s.” That’s striking at a tech company, and Microsoft knows it—so they commissioned a study to help figure out what motivates these “millenials” (basically those aged 23-29) and how to attract and keep them. It’s a pretty interesting…
Regardless of your feelings about whaling, you have to admit the fight just got a whole lot more interesting. Check out this video of a Sea-Shepherd-manned (from Whale Wars) carbon-fiber, biofuel-powered EarthRace Trimaran blinding a Japanese whaling boat with lasers. https://gizmodo.com/earthrace-boat-carbon-trimaran-stabs-through-waves-vi-195323 Looks to us like the laser is mostly for warning and intimidation, which probably…
Convoluted? Yes. Naff? Probably. Cute? Absolutely. Flirting tool? I’m afraid so. Waterford Clink-Clink—a virtual toast application for iPhone that exchanges contact information—is one of those applications that you don’t really need, but that you know you absolutely want. It’s quite clever. The app responds to motion, clinking when you do the toast, with the champagne…
Here’s the “Homade” chococase I picked up at Tokyu Hands Department Store in Tokyo yesterday. It’s better than I expected. Because a) it not only looks like chocolate, it actually smells like chocolate and b) it doubles as a stand. https://gizmodo.com/chocolate-case-for-iphone-already-past-its-sell-by-date-5015334 It also comes with a free cleaning cloth and plastic screen protector (which I…
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to see a building completely reduced to rubble by a few precisely planned, powerful synchronized explosions. Which is exactly what is not happening in this video taken in the city of Liuzhou, China. Click to view The technical name for this is coitus interruptus.
The Air Force isn’t happy with some of the stories about the couple who got lost in the woods after following their SUV’s GPS. For some reason, a lot of people keep blaming innocent GPS satellites for the whole mess. https://gizmodo.com/evil-gps-leads-a-couple-to-the-frozen-wilderness-to-die-5435644 A spokesperson for the Air Force Space Command has made it a point to…
Radiohead’s “House of Cards” video was equal parts bizarre and beautiful, until you found out it was all data visualization. Then it was just mind blowing. This detailed Instructable teaches the technique with stuff you probably have around the house. Point Clouds with Depth of Field from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo. Those are the results…
Click to viewWe’ve had our hands on Google’s Nexus One phone, but weren’t allowed to take any pictures. This fellow, on the other hand, managed to capture his playtime in a crisp, clear video which blows away any previous blurry clips. https://gizmodo.com/google-nexus-one-hands-on-5432678 I think these ten minutes cover nearly the whole Nexus user interface and…
Kai-fu Lee, ex-president of Google China, is known for being well-connected with Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn, and lately he’s been blogging about the Apple Table. Apparently it looks like a big iPhone with a webcam and an incredible user interface. According to Gadget Mix’s translation of Lee’s microblog: The Apple Tablet looks like a bigger…
I’ve watched this video by photographer James Worrell four times now, and each time I find something new. His portrait of a work day mixes equal parts urban and domestic, creative and mundane. [Video via Cool Hunting]
Who knew? Although, as Jason Chen pointed out, this ad would be really effective without the “a.” [i.igmur via Digg]
Actor Patrick Stewart, best known for his role on Star Trek: The Next Generation has been confirmed as one of the individuals to receive Britain’s highest honor—a knighthood—this New Year’s. Let’s sing a song in celebration, shall we? Yeah, I can’t get this damned thing out of my head either. But anyway, many congrats to…
Chicago police officer Darren Pedota is at the center of a lawsuit filed by a diabetic man who was Tasered 11 times over the course of a minute while suffering from a diabetic seizure. This isn’t the first time an officer has found himself in a similar situation, although in many of those cases the…
We get the feeling that early 2010 is going to be big for Sprint’s WiMax. We came by one of these training slides for a new 3G/4G mobile hotspot, precisely like the Mi-Fi, for Sprint. Like many of Sprint’s wireless data cards, this one is also going to be made by Sierra Wireless. What we’re…
I demand only the most extraneous in genital wedgies, meaning even the uni-piece Star Trek uniform isn’t always tight enough. Thank goodness someone is manufacturing a snugger wetsuit version for $480. Perfect match for this Enterprise toy submarine. [Roddenberry, Geekologie] https://gizmodo.com/submarine-enterprise-going-where-no-swimming-trunks-hav-5433712
When Patrick McCarron received his new TiVo HD, he noticed something odd about the included instructions. They were explaining how to “setup TiVo Premiere or Premiere XL.” Could this be a sneak peek at TiVo’s newest hardware? According to McCarron, the DVR described in the instructions appears to be a “revised Series 3/HD model aimed…
Wearing a dress of the year 1960, Miss Futurama, Betty Crain, presents Harvey D. Gibson, chairman of the board of the New York World’s Fair, with the General Motors streamlined car of 1960 in these photos from 1940. The top photo is from the book Exit to Tomorrow: World’s Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005. The…
Oh oh Cybiko! Presumably born of an illicit union between a walkie-talkie and a Palm Pilot, this 2000-era gadget was for kids who wanted to send messages to nearby friends. But could it also make men erect and cows flatulent? The Cybiko, which was introduced in 2000, was an antenna’d handheld gadget that could send…
This time capsule was buried in a waterproof cement vault in Court Square in Coshocton, MO. The vault is supposed to be opened in the year 2011. 1961 July 18 Coshocton Tribune – Coshocton OH Time Capsuled Contents: Sesquicentennial book Special edition of The Coshocton Tribune Stories and photos of Coshocton county Scroll with names…
Even more impressive than the Droid’s quick rooting, the Nexus One has been conquered from the inside before Google has even officially announced it. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-has-been-rooted-5422094 The guy behind the rooting, a Modaco forum-goer named Paul, successfully rooted the coveted Nexus One and made a custom ROM called Superboot to ease the method for everyone else—not…
