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The 100 Most Popular Gizmodo Posts of 2013

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We all have our personal favorite posts from this year—and we’ll be sharing those tomorrow—but it’s also worth taking a look at the 100 posts you clicked on most in 2013. Some are funny, some are heartfelt, and some I honestly don’t understand. Just remember, above all else: You did this.


Justin Timberlake Shows Us How Dumb We Sound When We Use Hashtags


This Ad Has a Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See


I Never Want to Stop Watching This Incredible Vine Compilation Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHyi2IiT-Ls


Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone


How To Take Care of Your Smartphone Battery the Right Way


Watch This Girl With Telekinetic Powers Freak Out Coffee Shop Patrons


Prankster Photoshops People Into Ads While They Wait for the Bus


The World’s Tallest Waterslide Better End In the World’s Deepest Pool


Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free Right Here


How an Engineer Earned 1.25 Million Air Miles By Buying Pudding


NASA’s Curiosity Rover Just Found Water in Martian Soil

How to Easily Capture Images In SnapChat Without the Other Person Noticing

The Tiny Transforming Apartment That Packs Eight Rooms into 420 Square Feet

HTC One Review: The Beauty Is a Beast

A State by State Map of America’s Filthy Porn Searches

The 20 Best Movies Disappearing from Netflix on New Year’s Day

The Builders of This Spanish Skyscraper Forgot the Elevator

This New Camera Stabilizer Could Change Cinematography Forever

11 Photos of 1980s Malls That Will, Like, Totally Blow Your Mind

Beat By Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World

The Xbox One Just Got Way Worse, And It’s Our Fault

Porn Star Internet Memes: Naked Harlem Shake (NSFW)

9 Reasons to Root Your Android Device

Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Lightsaber

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: Better, But Not Best

Archaeologists Uncover Hundreds of Mysterious Orbs in Ancient Temple

How to Take Flawless Phone Pics of Your Naked Body

An iPhone Lover’s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.

4k Porn Is Here and Shows You Every. Single. Detail. (NSFW)

Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents

10 Photoshop Alternatives That Are Totally Free

The Pirate Bay Is Down Across the Globe

Forget It, This Toddler Just Won Halloween

20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind

The Chicago Tribune Has Made the Best Internet Mistake of the Day

Xbox One: Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s New Console

Why the Moon Landings Could Have Never EVER Been Faked: The Definitive Proof

This Magical Pair of Underwear Can Filter Out Your Fart’s Smell

Meteorite Explodes Over Russia, Panic Spreads

How to Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Now That Graph Search Is Here

China Accidentally Built a Housing Complex in the Middle of a Highway

First-Ever Incredible Footage of a Thought Being Formed

Now Is a Horrible Time To Buy a Laptop

Apple iPhone 5S: Everything You Need to Know

Apple iOS 7: Everything You Need to Know

The Prettiest Way to Find Out What iOS 7 Features Your iPhone Won’t Get

Senators Are Trying to Rush Through a Massive Online Sales Tax Hike

What We Found at Hart Island, The Largest Mass Grave Site In the U.S.

Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone

Stabilized Footage of the JFK Assassination Is Unsettlingly Real

Jobs, Reviewed by Steve Wozniak

5 Apps to Turn Your Phone into a Universal Remote

What Is PRISM?

How to Make Money on Your Lunch Break

How to Beat Time Warner’s Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee

The Pentagon’s Super-Fast Robot Now Runs on Its Own

PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One: A Feature by Feature Showdown

Apple’s Most Important New Product This Month Won’t Be an iPhone

Bill Gates Has $100,000 For Anyone Who Can Invent a High-Tech, Next-Gen Condom

Woman Drives for 900 Miles Instead of 90 Thanks to GPS Error

Digital Drills: The Monster Machines that Mine Bitcoin

How to Lock Down Facebook Privacy Now That Old Posts Are Searchable

How Google Is Finally Fixing Android’s Deepest Flaw

Hands On With Kim Dotcom’s New Mega: This Service Could Dismantle Copyright Forever

Samsung Galaxy S IV Hands On: Everything New Is Old Again

How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to the Old One?

The PlayStation 4 Is Here (Update: Sort Of)

iOS 7: Instead of Flatness, We Got Depth

This Interactive Map Lets You Spy on Insecure Webcam Feeds

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Dropbox Master

The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up

The Crazy Accurate Thermal Images That Saw Dzokhar Tsarnaev Through a Boat Tarp

Six Hidden Windows 8 Features You Can’t Live Without

The Brilliant Insanity Behind the New Mac Pro’s Design

How Keys Work Explained in One Perfect Animated GIF

Hello Touch May Be the Best Sex Toy Ever Invented

Man Forgets About Buying $27 of Bitcoin, Is Now Worth About $1 Million

A Hilarious Woman Photoshopped Herself Taking Pictures with Her Cell Phone Camera into Old Photographs

The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown

The Best Free Apps in Apple’s App Store Anniversary Fire Sale

What the Most Famous Brands Are from Each State

The Single Creepiest Thing You Can Do on Facebook

Guy Builds a Bomb Just With Stuff You Can Buy After Airport Security

All the New iOS Features Your Old iPhone Won’t Get

Report: Apple’s Next iPhone(s?) Coming September 10th

7 Uses for Your Outdated iPad

A Guy Hacked Zuck’s Wall After Facebook Ignored His Bug Report

Sony PS4: Everything You Need to Know

Why I’m Getting the Xbox One, Not the PS4 (Ugh)

iOS 7 Review: Pretty Is as Pretty Does

iPhone A7 Chip Benchmarks: Forget the Specs, It Blows Everything Away

iPad Air: Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s Svelte New Tablet

Officially NSFW: YouTube’s Naked Lady Problem (NSFW)

How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?

Whoa, Did Google Maps Just Reveal a Bloody Gruesome Murder?

Louis C.K.’s Daughters Can’t Have Smartphones Because of Sadness

You’d Be Crazy Not to Buy Google Chromecast (SUPER SAD UPDATE)

New Iron Man 3 Trailer: So. Much. Badass.

10 Google Reader Alternatives That Will Ease Your RSS Pain

Why Daylight Saving Time Is Pointless

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