Knockoff City | China’s answer to Hallstatt, Austria.
https://gizmodo.com/china-is-cloning-this-entire-european-city-5813129
Uni-ball Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil: Stays Sharp Forever
https://gizmodo.com/uni-ball-kuru-toga-mechanical-pencil-stays-sharp-forev-5813045
If I had to go back to high school math class again, the Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil is the only pencil I’d take with me. Why? Because it has a twist and turn mechanism that automatically rotates its lead to keep a perfectly sharp point every time you write. More »
This Gaming Rig Fights for the User
The Acer Predator G5910 is not a desktop for posers, pansies, pedestrian players. It’s a serious desktop for serious gamers, with serious guts to match. Oh, and hey jeez it looks like Tron, everybody! More »
https://gizmodo.com/this-gaming-rig-fights-for-the-user-5813120
The LulzSec Manifesto: More Sec Than Lulz
In honor of its thousandth tweet — and on the heels of compromising the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony, and more — the crew of the good ship LulzSec has presented the world with a manifesto, of sorts. More »
https://gizmodo.com/woah-lulz-security-just-took-on-the-cia-5812380
The Atomic Bomb’s Golden Detonator
https://gizmodo.com/the-atomic-bombs-golden-detonator-5812709
When the nuclear bomb was being developed, no detonator precise or reliable enough to set it off existed. So, researchers at Los Alamos National Labs built one that was and dubbed it the Exploding-Bridgewire Detonator. More »
It’s Time to Abandon Passwords
https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-abandon-passwords-5812685
For months, there’s been a steady trickle of sites getting hacked, followed by their usernames and passwords being passed around publicly on the Web. It’s a real and growing problem that’s just going to get worse. More »
How Photos Lie
https://gizmodo.com/how-photos-lie-5812924
At first glance, this photo of two people kissing amidst the Vancouver hockey riots seems incongruous. You instantly assume they’re activists, following through with the old adage of making love, not war. More »
The Things Skeletons Do When You’re Not Looking
https://gizmodo.com/the-things-skeletons-do-when-youre-not-looking-5812818
Artist Marc da Cuhn Lopes offers up a reminder that the skeletons of imaginary, disproportioned creatures lead normal lives just like the rest of us. More »
What Does a 268MP Image Sensor Look Like?
https://gizmodo.com/what-does-a-268mp-image-sensor-look-like-5812877
Space photography requires a camera — a really big camera. One with 32 CCD sensors that snaps pictures at a mind-bending 268-megapixel resolution. More »
Ten Reasons Why BlackBerry Is Screwed
https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-why-blackberry-is-screwed-5812832
RIM, the maker of BlackBerry, was absolutely destroyed yesterday in the stock market. But that’s just part of the story. RIM is screwed. 1. No new products until the summer RIM’s current lineup of phones is subpar, to say the least. More »
Why Is This Deer Dangling From a Power Line?
https://gizmodo.com/why-is-this-deer-dangling-from-a-power-line-5812860
East Missoula, Montana wins the award for the weirdest power outage from natural causes. According to the AP report, an eagle may have bitten off more than it could chew and dropped the fawn when it was flying away with its prey. More »
