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| | | | | "These cables are used to detonate the charges in atomic bombs. It's perfectly legal to own these. They're relics from the atomic bomb development at Los Alamos National Laboratory." Only $5 at the Black Hole shop, in Los Alamos, NM. More »
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| | | | | 3D movies! They've been around, in one form or another, almost as long as cinema itself. But for every prestige film like Avatar that pushes the medium to new heights, there are a dozen Piranha 3Ds. Thank god. More »
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| | | | | Apple new patent application describes methods that may enable the iPhone and iPad to "sense" the user, detecting voice prints, faces, activity patterns and even heartbeats. If unauthorized use is detected, many security measures could be activated. More »
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| | | | | When Les "Survivorman" Stroud—the hardest-working cameraman in the business—says shooting his new show "Beyond Survival" was his most challenging shoot yet... More »
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| | | | | This woman claims to be magnetic. I mean, look at all those small, light, metal objects sticking to her! But you've gotta wonder if they're not just sticking to a thick layer of dried sweat. More »
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| | | | | No need to keep looking at that teaser page! The first live photos of T-Mobile's HSPA+ G2 have surfaced, courtesy of Engadget, who say the phone is essentially an American HTC Vision. More »
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| | | | | If you are tired of your Motion Pro II and want to upgrade to the best thing after a real Formula 1 car, here's the BRD 06, a 1:1 scale F1 with a fiberglass and carbon fiber composite monocoque chassis. More »
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| | | | | As sea levels rise, an extraordinary population shift will place immense stress on cities around the world. Where will global warming refugees go? One design team envisions an "Embassy of the Drowned Nations" to provide asylum, and a fresh start. More »
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| | | | | Those Facetime-based iPhone 4 ads sure are shmaltzy! This one is a little closer to what people are actually experiencing with the service. And yes, that's an older iPhone. Try to look past it. [Funny or Die] More »
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| | | | | I was curious how big the Great Wall of China was compared to New York City. Turns out the entire Eastern Seaboard is a better comparison. BBC's Dimensions lets you awesomely map historical happenings over any geography of your choosing. More »
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| | | | | This picture shows the hybridization of plastic garbage with marine life - algae and tiny invertebrates have made a home on plastic that has been floating in the North Atlantic for decades. Now scientists say the plastic is disappearing. More »
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| | | | | Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be that's required to see them the way they were thousands of years ago. More »
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| | | | | Swiping a phone to pay for a coffee is going to be one of the biggest advances in technology in the coming year, and from next month Bank of America and Visa will start testing it out in New York. More »
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| | | | | The basic premise of TechnoCRAFT, a new San Francisco gallery exhibition, is that something's gone wrong in the history of people making things. These days, designers have all the power—and maybe it's time to put users in control. More »
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| | | | | The basic premise of TechnoCRAFT, a new San Francisco gallery exhibition, is that something's gone wrong in the history of people making things. These days, designers have all the power—and maybe it's time to put users in control. More »
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| | | | | Sony figured out how to replace the 22-wire ribbon inside their mobile devices-the one that carries control signals, video, and audio data-with a single copper cable, capable of 940Mbps transmission. That could make for the best cup-and-string phone ever. More »
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| | | | | I get it, Magic Trackpad. You don't want any gaudy cords messing up the smooth lines of your industrial design. But some of us prefer USB power over batteries—and we will not be denied. More »
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| | | | | You've gotta admire the brazenness of this developer's balls. Offering "a brief, yet throughout [sic] introduction about Nirvana - the legendary rock band of US," the Nirvana: The Complete Biography iPhone app costs $40—and features copied-and-pasted Wikipedia content. More »
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| | | | | Use it in the car! Use it on the bus! Use it on the train! You can *even* use it on an airplane! So tells the creator of the SNAZZY NAPPER, a Snuggie/Burqa hybrid-breed for nappers. More »
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| | | | | Having built and damaged the world's longest-ever limo a few years back, crazy car DIY expert Jay Ohrberg is creating a new "world's longest," using Ron Paul's 55-foot election campaign limo as the base for a 105-foot long ride. More »
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| | | | | In an interview with the WSJ, LG's VP of Marketing made the bold statement that "our tablet will be better than the iPad." Why so confident, LG? It's "going to be surprisingly productive," apparently. More »
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| | | | | The folks of ArcAttack—a crazy group of performers who use singing tesla coils to create incredible melodies—have built a lightning-proof guitar for a performance on America's Got Talent. They've decided to tell us how they constructed the instrument and how it works: More »
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| | | | | Plain ol' chairs, couches, sofas, and similar furniture take up too much space and can be too costly, but you've gotta sit somewhere. The easy solution? Cut some holes in your floor and say that you've made an OOoo Chair. More »
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| | | | | First come the bullets charging through the jello. Then the hand crashing down on the stack of cement. And by the time you get to lighters in a blender, you realize that life is so much better in slow motion. More »
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| | | | | That's a fragment of a Wendy's spork that was removed from a man's throat last year. It is by far the least weird thing that shows up on a new, cringe-inducing list of bizarre things doctors have extracted from patients. More »
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| | | | | The folks over at Notcot were using a microscope to check out their old US Visa and Border Crossing Card, a document which features tiny portraits of every U.S. President, when they noticed something strange. Who is John Quincy Adames? More »
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| | | | | There's something thrilling about the movie scenes in which the hero is forced to shoot open a lock in order to rescue his leading lady, but how realistic is that whole gag? The answer may surprise you. More »
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| | | | | That may or may not what this bike shop in Altlandsberg, Germany had in mind when they decided to put up 120 old bikes instead of a sign. I'll take that red one by the vine, please. [Flavorwire via Notcot] More »
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| | | | | You know that potential employers check your Facebook profile, right? Here's the absolute worst-case scenario if that were to happen. [Wiseguy Pictures] More »
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| | | | | A lost scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? No, although it will go to space at one point. More »
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| | | | | The lake's lethal combination of methane and carbon dioxide has residents fearing for their lives, but it's also the country's most vital and promising energy source. More »
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| | | | | We've all seen the trailer for The Social Network (MARK!), but Zuckerberg's not the only rich nerd being played in a movie by someone more attractive than he really is: a Google movie is in the works. More »
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| | | | | Matt Katz is the fiancé every DIY girl dreams of. Here he explains how he painstakingly constructed a gorgeous engagement ring: bending the band, setting the gem, and polishing it all off. Think of it as "I Do-It-Yourself." More »
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| | | | | Sanyo, long-time expert in making small but powerful dual cameras (video + still), just made its first Flip-type camera. Yes! It not only has Sanyo's expertise, it also has a 3X optical zoom and dual-mics that look like shoulder pads. More »
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| | | | | The RMS Titanic has been sitting on the ocean floor since 1912, but scientists think we've only really surveyed 50% of the wreckage. A new expedition, using the most cutting-edge imaging technology available, will "virtually raise" the entire ship. More »
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| | | | | Thanks to a press release screwup, daylight has been shed on Canon's G12—the first anyone has heard it. The G12 will sport the same 10 megapixel sensor as the S95, manual exposure controls, and 720p video recording. [Canon Rumors via CrunchGear] More »
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| | | | | Gmail on the iPad: not as simple as it should be! At least it wasn't, what with those two toolbars to juggle. But now that there's a stacked card interface, all feels right with the world. Or at least, righter. More »
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| | | | | Oh Yasuhiro Suzuki, you clever man you! Thank you for adding some much needed absurdity to this world, in the form of your duchamptastic Zipper Motorboat: More »
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| | | | | Apple is testing iOS 4.1 in the next-generation iPod touch, the iPad and a mysterious new product. The secret product is listed as ID 20547 and "Unknown" in the new version of the operating system, which will appear this fall. More »
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| | | | | The news of Intel's very expensive McAfee purchase raises one obvious question: why is security software worth over $7 billion to a chip maker? Intel has been short on specifics, but it's becoming clear that virus-killing silicon is the future. More »
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| | | | | It seems like an outlandish claim, but the brainiacs at MIT and the Texas Advanced Computing Center insist that they've created an Android app that is genuinely capable of doing supercomputing on a phone. Here's how they did it: More »
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| | | | | Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo's new weekly column on words—the ones you've heard, but can't quite define, or the ones you haven't, but might like to hear about. This week's lesson: Thermocouples! (Huh?) More »
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| | | | | The Moon is shriveling like baboon's testicles in an ice tea glass, NASA scientists said after analyzing new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Not with those exact words, mind you, but similar enough: It's shrinking because it's cooling down. More »
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| | | | | We knew that the iPhone 4 had an excellent camera, but we hadn't thought to try it on any non-terrestrial subjects. It turns out that when paired with a telescope, it can take some gorgeous shots of our only satellite: More »
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| | | | | Leaked images of Nokia's N9 reveal just how eager the fading brand is for a hit. Our phone needs to be popular—why not make it look like another popular thing? The QWERTY slider is a MacBook Pro doppelganger. More »
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| | | | | Cosmo's sex advice always seemed a little suspect to me ever since the time a girl tried to press a cantaloupe up on my grundle mid-coitus*. But hey, maybe I just wasn't adventurous enough for her forward-thinking ways! More »
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| | | | | Romain Charles, Sukhrob Kamolov, Yue Wang, Diego Urbina, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, and Alexey Sitev. Remember these names, because nobody is going to remember when other people go to Mars instead of them. However, they are crucial to humanity's next odyssey. More »
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| | | | | This piece of electronic art involves a microphone listening to 25 woodworms eating away at a log. Chomp, chomp, chomp. On exhibition in Ireland, currently. More »
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| | | | | Sharp's 60" PN-L601B Blackboard, announced today in Japan, ditches the SMART Board's projector in lieu of a 1,920×1,080, LED-backlit LCD display. It's almost awesome enough to make me want to draw sentence diagrams for Catcher In the Rye. More »
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| | | | | Not content with having the largest production OLED model on the market today, LG is doubling its size in time for the IFA electronics show next month, where it'll show off a 31-inch panel. More »
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| | | | | Perimeter fences are hard to maintain. Security cameras are expensive these days. Armed guards can be bought. Yep, it looks like there's really only one way to reliably protect your marijuana farm these days: lazy bears. More »
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Windows/Mac, iPhone/iOS: Want to stream music from your main stash to an iPhone, Android phone, or any browser? Audiogalaxy, once a Napster-like peer-to-peer service, seems reborn as a straight-up service for streaming your own music, and it's brazenly easy to set up. More »
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| | | | | Earlier this year, after almost a decade of exclusively using cellphones, I hooked up a landline and got myself a batphone. It's been fantastic. More »
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| | | | | In the 1970s, the heyday of lasers and holograms, holographic artist Jason Sapan, AKA Doctor Laser, was a rock star. Though his art form fell out of favor, he still tinkers tirelessly in holograms today. Here's his fascinating story. [Motherboard] More »
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| | | | | Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the Korabl-Sputnik 2 spacecraft—known as Sputnik 5 in the west—carrying two dogs named Belka and Strelka, along with mice, rats and flies into space. More surprising? Everyone came back alive. More »
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| | | | | Of all the celebrities you could search for on the web, Cameron Diaz is the most likely to give your computer something itchy. That's according to McAfee, who may just be getting back at her for Knight and Day. More »
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| | | | | Intel is set to acquire venerable security firm McAfee for a whopping $7.7 billion. Intel claims the deal will lead to safer computing through security measures that integrate their hardware, rather than a strictly-software approach. [Business Insider] More »
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| | | | | Seabreacher X is a pretty tame name name for such a kickass bit of aquatic engineering. I don't know how you can call a shark-shaped submersible that can jump 12 feet in the air anything other than Jaws. Or AAAAHHHHHHH! More »
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| | | | | There's a rumor floating around Gamescom in Cologne, Germany this week, that selected VIPs are supposedly getting hands-on with the next PSP, which apparently features touch-controls on the back of the device for added gameplay input. More »
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| | | | | The PoGo instant printers have been given a size-increasing Mario mushroom, with the 3x4 model printing out larger photos on the eco-friendly Zero Ink paper. It connects via Bluetooth to phones, and works with the new Android app too. More »
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| | | | | As expected, the latest Facebook iPhone app has been released, bringing with it the Places check-in functionality that was demo-ed yesterday. Version 3.2 of the app provides on-the-go tracking methods for friends, and new additions to photo upload. More »
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| | | | | Other foldable, transportable bikes exist, but they tend to be of the city-commuter style which just makes them look foolish when riding. Wallpaper magazine commissioned the bike above, which is capable of folding down and squeezing into a leather tote. More »
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| | | | | 3DTV is still to catch on, but Sony's already churning out more Bravia models before the year is out—the NX713 and NX813. They're of that beautiful "monolithic" design (stand sold separately!) and are slimmer with smaller bezels. More »
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| | | | | Behold, the illustrious history of these here internets in convenient graphic timeline form. Who knew Pizza Hut played such a prominent role? More »
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| | | | | There's one kinda big problem with SunChips' new 100% compostable bag: It's noisy as Hell. An Air Force pilot says it's louder than the cockpit of his jet, and this video test pegs it at a potentially damaging 95 decibels. More »
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| | | | | An expensive mouse, fine. A premium keyboard, alright. Tools of the trade. But when it comes to gaming peripherals that seem as much decorative as they are functional, it may be time to draw the line. More »
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| | | | | The PowerShot S90 is our longstanding favorite point-and-shoot, and one of its few shortcomings was that it couldn't do HD video. The updated S95 shoots 720p video and does it in a slightly smaller body. More »
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| | | | | Canon just pulled the sheet off three new PowerShots: the S95, a 720p-shooting update of our good old friend the S90; the SX130 IS, a $250 ultra zoom; and the SD4500, a 1080p capable point-and-shoot with 10x optical zoom. More »
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| | | | | Nikon just made the cheap DSLR market interesting again: Their first DSLR with 1080p video, the D3100, is the first DSLR with real, constant autofocus powers during video recording. And it's only 700 bucks. More »
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| | | | | Wearable electronics are nothing new, but not looking like a complete idiot in the process is novel. The M-dress isn't perfect, but it might be the first time you can wear your phone without being laughed out of the room. More »
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| | | | | These lovely Homer Simpson iPhone decals might be pictured on 3GSes, but I'm sure they'd look just as fun on an iPhone 4. $10. [Etsy via NerdApproved] More »
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| | | | | Polaroid is looking to get a piece of the three dimensional pie, inking a deal with 3D tech firm RealD. This means the next pair of 3D frames you pick up in a movie theater could be Polaroid's curved-lens design. More »
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| | | | | Unbeknownst to this New Yorker, if you live in the Big Apple and don't have a 212 area code, you're a certified nobody. Says one privileged 212-haver: "I don't pick up 917, 646, and definitely not 347." Ughhhh. More »
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| | | | | So, everyone's excited about the new Facebook Places, right? The Facebook service that lets you check-in, Foursquare style, at whatever hip Sushi bar/bicycle repair shop you happen to be in. Oh, and also other people can check you in, too. More »
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| | | | | This handsome devil is not a hazelnut bong. It's a nutcracker. Or rather, a nut-smashed-by-gravity's-pitiless-fury-er. Your wrists will thank you every bit as much as your legumes will fear you. More »
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