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This slick looking concept, called Vertigo, warms a beverage and some food, by way of a hand crank, in just minutes. Just keep it away from airports. The shell is heat resistant up to 302 degrees, and includes a handy LED so you know when the food or beverage contained inside is ready for eating.…
I don’t know what this is and I don’t care. It may be a MacBook Mini concept. Or a crazy leak. Or just a perfect fake. Whatever. It’s beautiful. I want. [Updated with pictures]. According to a 9to5 reader, this perfect rendering, photoshop, or whatever the hell it is came inside a Russian magazine. My…
Did that headline get your blood pumping? Good. In the future you’ll make a great battery. This is because, in the future, scientists seem to think that piezoelectric nanowires could find a nice home inside our blood vessels. There, they’d use the energy created by blood flow to power our gadgets, pacemakers, or any number…
If Mike Tomich is to be believed, coloring, video games and keyboard use are crippling our children. According to Tomich, each of these activities is responsible for deforming the youngin’s hands. FOREVER. Take a look at mine. Just awful. I started playing Super Mario Bros. in ’86, and my digits just went downhill from there.…
When compasses and GPS fail the Catlin Arctic Survey expedition, they go with a low tech “gadget” to help them navigate the freezing wastes and find their bearing: A lacy pair of panties. The panties serve as a wind sock of sorts, as the team attaches them to a ski pole and uses wind as…
Yes, it’s true. I got a horrible virus on my beloved Dell laptop running Windows XP. My coworkers are having a field day. But seriously, I need some help. I’m willing to swallow my pride. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-cranky-windows-guys-day-ruined-by-really-nas-5188584 I don’t know how I got this thing, but it’s bad. I think it’s a variant of Vundo and…
Lawn Darts were a game from a simpler, more naive time. Sure, they could embed themselves in your little sister’s head just as easily as the lawn, but they were fun. Now they’re back. They’re back thanks to the unfortunately named Jarts In Your Heart web site, which sells the banned items thanks to a…
Unlike the deep sleep she experienced in the movie, when Snow White bites into this Apple, she spontaneously transforms into a Gizmodo editor. [noquedanbogs via flickr – Thanks, Sabino]
Japan’s eclectic taste (at least by my subdued, antisocial New England standards) has spawned this robot baby art project thing in the streets of Roppongi. When I pictured the Apocalypse, it looked, I dunno, different. Called Giant Torayan, this seven meter tall fire-breathing baby monstrosity is the work of artist Kenji Yanobe, who was obviously…
If you thought Cranky Windows Guy was angry now, this vast spy system we read about today—targeting 103 countries—is really going to be the piss in his corn flakes that ruins the weekend. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-still-use-windows-despite-the-peer-pressure-5018985 More seriously, the New York Times reports that this gigantic spy system has targeted and exploited computers in governments agencies around…
The article "Age Wars: The Coming Battle Between Young and Old" is from the January/February, 1986 issue of The Futurist magazine. Though the content isn’t necessarily funny, the piece makes me laugh every time I look at it, thanks to the amazing picture that complements the headline so well. 1986 Jan-Feb Futurist "Age Wars" 1986…
And you thought nothing could beat the Jesus Switch as the worst Wrongmodo ever, didn’t you? I said: DIDN’T YOU? Well, Jason and I did, but the Polish Penis Train has proved us oh-so-wrong. [DRB] https://gizmodo.com/jesus-switch-turns-on-off-359540
Take this with about a silo of salt: Jim Van, a Palm Pre beta tester, has Twittered that April 30th is the date of the highly-anticipated Pre’s release. Reasons why this should be believed: It’s reasonable that a beta tester would have more info than the rest of us on details like the release date,…
While you and I try to eat our plastic-wrapped dinner in cattle class, first class passengers in Swiss International’s flights would be able to chat up passengers and invite them to their table for two. The new design—which will debut in their new A330 airplanes—is quite a change from traditional my-cabin-is-my-oyster first class designs. According…
Google Street view has given us so much, especially in the realm of embarrassing drunken escapades. Here’s something new: A time-travelling torso from Victorian England captured “coincidentally” at the most supernatural site in Wales. https://gizmodo.com/google-streetview-captures-british-people-drunkenly-vom-5175366 Sure, some of you are probably thinking this is some kind of joke based on the one and only chance…
AppTOKYO (!!!) is offering their new “Happy Birthday Cake” iPhone app for free for one month, so you can literally do as little as possible to celebrate somebody’s birthday. The app provides a space to type in that sorta-lucky person’s name on the “cake,” and then he or she can blow out the “candles” by…
In Austin, creationists have managed to include several amendments aimed at casting doubt on the theory of evolution. The amendments may affect the content in science textbooks across the country. While the creationist groups did not manage to get the bulk of their agenda included in the State Board of Education’s legislation, they did pass…
Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney confirmed that Verizon will begin selling 3G-enabled netbooks by June, a statement no doubt encouraged by the leak of a possible Verizon sales sheet featuring an HP Mini netbook. Raney did not elaborate on price, exact release date, or which netbook models would be offered, but Boy Genius Report has a…
Gizmodo’s cranky Windows guy, Adam Frucci, just had the spring stolen from his dance step by a nasty trojan he discovered on his PC. I sure hope it’s not it’s not Conficker. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-still-use-windows-despite-the-peer-pressure-5018985 Are Macs still too pricey, Adam? Time—what you’re gonna spend getting that Trojan off your machine—is money, after all. [Twitter] https://gizmodo.com/cranky-windows-guy-apple-laptops-still-too-damned-expe-5063274 P.S.…
Sure, Planet Earth was great. But what if you want to get stoned and gawk at time-lapsed videos of your own garden? The Timelapse Garden Video Camera can make that happen. The Timelapse Garden Video Camera (henceforth TGVC) is a weatherproof digital camera that’ll take interval photos and combine them into a neat 1280×1024 video…
