Sunday, August 25, 2013

Aug 25 - New 'Gizmodo' feed email from feed2email.net

Hi there!
Here's the latest feed from Gizmodo.

Add feeds@feed2email.net to your contact list to make sure you receive all your emails
Make sure to visit feed2email.net to get more feeds sent to your inbox.
To find out which feeds you are subscribed to, or to get further help, just reply to this email.


Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real

Aug 25, 12:34AM

Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real

The hologram interfaces Tony Stark uses in Iron Man are awesome, no doubt. But they also aren't real. Yet. Elon Musk has been cooking up something very Stark-y, and he's planning to show it off soon.

Read more...


    









Jim White: Wordmule

Aug 24, 11:20PM

Do you watch Breaking Bad? If not, what is wrong with you and also you are missing out because—among many, many other fantastic things—it recently featured the fantastically weird "Wordmule" by Jim White.

Read more...


    









The AI Effects Team Controlled This Robo-Puppet While Buried Alive

Aug 24, 10:09PM

AI had its narrative problems, sure. But it didn't have a problem with the awesomeness of its practical effects, specifically the awesomeness of this fully kinetic, crippled android puppet. It's so good that the robo-carnage is almost disturbing.

Read more...


    









How Messy is Your Stash of Spare Cables?

Aug 24, 9:00PM

How Messy is Your Stash of Spare Cables?

Maybe it's a drawer. Maybe it's a shoebox, or a garbage bag, or a writhing, almost-sentient beast that is going to strangle you one of these days. But somewhere, you're bound to have a hideous mess of cords and wires stashed away. The question is: which one of us has the worst?

Read more...


    









The First Antarctic Sunrise After Months of Night is Breathtaking

Aug 24, 8:12PM

The First Antarctic Sunrise After Months of Night is Breathtaking

The sun just rose in Antarctica. And that's kind of a big deal since it set back in May. It's beautiful, sure, but it must also be a huge relief.

Read more...


    









DSLR Stolen By An Alligator Was Rescued After Eight Months

Aug 24, 7:08PM

DSLR Stolen By An Alligator Was Rescued After Eight Months

Dropping your phone is bad. Dropping your DSLR is worse. Dropping your DSLR by a bunch of alligators is even worser. And dropping your DSLR and having it stolen by an alligator is the worsetest. Just ask Mario Aldecoa. Luckily he got his gear back. After eight months.

Read more...


    









Why Gold iPhones Make Sense, A Head in a Particle Accelerator, and More

Aug 24, 6:00PM

Why Gold iPhones Make Sense, A Head in a Particle Accelerator, and More

You want a gold iPhone? Well it's probably coming regardless. But in the meantime, we've got plenty of other stuff to talk about. How about ancient jewelry from space, an optical illusion that lets you see your own brain waves, a jet that takes off like a UFO, the weirdest Russian hovercraft landing and more. Check it out!

Read more...


    









Building a Highway Is Way More Complicated Than You'd Think

Aug 24, 5:00PM

There's way more to building a road than just slathering some asphalt all over the ground. The process is actually pretty involved, with a bunch of steps you probably hadn't thought of. And even a little bit of art to it.

Read more...


    









The Most Bizarre Spacecraft Landings Ever

Aug 24, 4:43PM

Last week's test of an Orion space capsule splashdown recovery got me thinking. Surely not every time someone comes down from space it's not going to go according to plan, right? It turns out, it definitely hasn't.

Read more...


    



Surprise: NSA Agents Use All-Seeing Power to Spy on Their Crushes

Aug 24, 4:09PM

Surprise: NSA Agents Use All-Seeing Power to Spy on Their Crushes

It's only reasonable to assume that men or women with near unbounded power to spy on the public would eventually use that power to peek at people they are sexually interested in. Well, now you don't have to assume it, because the NSA is admitting it.

Read more...


    









How to Find Your Missing Phone

Aug 24, 3:00PM

How to Find Your Missing Phone

Oh boy, now you've done it. Not only are you supremely hungover from last night's rager, but your phone is nowhere to be found. Could you have left it at the bar, in a cab, in the gutter somewhere? Who knows! But don't panic, there's a host of apps that do. Here's how to find your phone when it goes missing.

Read more...


    









Where Exactly Did the Big Bang Actually Happen?

Aug 24, 2:01PM

When you think of the big bang, that cosmic explosion that jump-started the ever-expanding universe as we know it, it's only natural to imagine it as a single point. One corner of space that just blew up into the galactic being. But where was it?

Read more...


    









Watch This Dumbass Driver on His Cellphone Get Exactly What He Deserves

Aug 24, 1:00PM

Traffic accidents are annoying enough on their own, but they're even worse when they're caused by a complete idiot. This Russian man takes a little initiative by dispensing some righteous road justice. Not to the driver that (almost) caused the mess, but to the driver's cellphone.

Read more...


    









Genius Photographer Recreates Iconic E.T. Movie Poster in Real Life

Aug 24, 6:00AM

Genius Photographer Recreates Iconic E.T. Movie Poster in Real Life

Anyone who was a child once upon a time has probably dreamed about making their bicycles fly across the full moon like in E.T. Awesome photographer Philipp Schmidli actually did that. He recreated the iconic E.T. movie poster by snapping an awesome picture of a biker riding off a ramp against the backdrop of a giant moon.

Read more...


    









What It's Like to Live Without a Phone

Aug 24, 5:00AM

You know, it's not that you wouldn't miss having the Internet on your fingertips, text messages constantly flying through the sky and a camera to document every waking moment when you live without a phone. You totally would miss all that. But what would be even more annoying is how life would turn incredibly lonely without a phone because you start to notice how everyone else is so obsessed with theirs. Ban phones. [charstarlaneTV]

Read more...


    









The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Scare Me

Aug 24, 4:00AM

When the mountain of muscle wearing a bandoleer of mics with a laser cannon for a right hand asks you a question, you're going to want to think long and hard about how you answer. And remember, Major Lazer can smell you lie.

Read more...


    









Moto X Teardown: So This Is What Made in the USA Looks Like

Aug 24, 2:53AM

Moto X Teardown: So This Is What Made in the USA Looks Like

If you're curious as to what the lovely Moto X looks like on the inside, the surgical team at iFixit has exposed its designed and assembled in the USA innards for all to see. Apparently, you can see right through the woven black case on the Moto X. iFixit also found some other unique choices inside the Moto X too: the camera flash is its own assembly, the vibrator motor is soldered onto the motherboard and what they call the most modular headphone jack iFixit has ever seen. Oh and there's a whole glob of glue too.

Read more...


    









This Week's Top Comedy Video: I Hate San Francisco

Aug 24, 2:00AM

This Week's Top Comedy Video: I Hate San Francisco

Most people love San Francisco! Well, except for that one startup guy. But the rest of us can find something about SF to love from its vibrant culture, wonderful food, open minded people, close proximity to the ocean, charming architecture, the Golden Gate Bridge, most excellent burritos, Colin Kaepernick, occasionally very beautiful days, lovely in theory public transportation system, once in a while world changing ideas and so on. Here's Funny or Die's take on the crabby people who hate on the city by the bay.

Read more...


    









Learn Everything About the Solar System with This Awesome Animation

Aug 24, 1:00AM

Now this is fun. Kurzgesagt made a fantastic animation video detailing our solar system. Perfect for anyone who's space curious (and that should be everyone), perfect to sit down and show your kid, perfect to learn everything about astronomy that you probably forgotten by now. It's like taking a trip through a beautiful minimalist solar system to understand the universe around us. [Kurzgesagt]

Read more...


    









Most Beautiful Items: August 17 - 23, 2013

Aug 24, 12:00AM

Most Beautiful Items: August 17 - 23, 2013

You're in the homestretch. The weekend, my friends, is at hand. But before you disembark, check out some of our favorite finds from the worlds of art, architecture, and design over the past week. It's plenty to tide you over before you hit happy hour.

Read more...


    









io9 The 50+ Greatest Tweets about Ben Affleck's casting as Batman | Gawker 15 Unmistakable, Outrageo

Aug 23, 10:36PM

io9 The 50+ Greatest Tweets about Ben Affleck's casting as Batman | Gawker 15 Unmistakable, Outrageously Secret Signs You're an Extrovert | Kotaku This Guy Beat Ocarina of Time In Less Than Twenty Minutes. Record! | Deadspin How ESPN Pulled A Bullshit Colin Kaepernick Story Out Of Thin Air

Read more...


    









Realistic game gets you right inside Gitmo to torture prisoners

Aug 23, 10:34PM

Realistic game gets you right inside Gitmo to torture prisoners

One of the biggest games of the year—Tom Clancy's new Splinter Cell: Blacklist—takes players right into Guantanamo Bay prison camp to torture an inmate—and then lets them "decide to spare or kill their interrogated target."

Read more...


    



iPhone Apps of the Week: Human Body, KeWe, and More

Aug 23, 10:00PM

iPhone Apps of the Week: Human Body, KeWe, and More

Welcome to the weekend. The sun may or may not be shining, but you'll always have the warm glow of your mobile applications to keep you company. And that's all that matters after all, right? Here's a few more friends to add to your ever-loyal gang.

Read more...


    









iPad Apps of the Week: YouTube, Quick Graph, and More

Aug 23, 10:00PM

iPad Apps of the Week: YouTube, Quick Graph, and More

It's been a long week, you deserve to take it easy for the next few days. Which is why we've rounded up the iPad apps that will do all the dirty work (e.g. "thinking") for you, leaving you free to kick back and let your mind wander.

Read more...


    









Android Apps of the Week: SwiftKey Cloud, Minuum, and More

Aug 23, 10:00PM

Android Apps of the Week: SwiftKey Cloud, Minuum, and More

Happy Friday, friends! What better way to celebrate the week's ceremonial end than by bestowing your phone with a brand new keyboard?

Read more...


    










If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_gawker_com_gizmodo_full+unsubscribe-zeit_zeit.hightech01=blogger.com@mail.feed2email.net.
To stop all future emails from feed2email.net you can reply to this email with STOP in the subject line. Thanks

No comments: