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The Greatest Wallet Ever To Fart In Your General Direction
Sep 27, 12:30PM
If you haven't started your holiday shopping yet (what are you, a communist?) here's a great gift idea that kills a whole flock of birds with just one stone. Perfect for Monty Python fans, anyone you want to get into British comedy, the wealthy, and especially those you passive aggressively hate, this wallet's adorned with Flying Circus artwork and of course plays multiple quotes when opened.
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Google's Piñata-Bashing Birthday Doodle: A Perfect Friday Time-Waster
Sep 27, 12:23PM
Today marks the confluence of Google's 15th birthday (sort of) and the first Friday of fall. What's that mean for you? Every excuse to waste the day playing with the search giant's celebratory interactive piñata doodle. Have at it!
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Beats Has Ended Its Relationship With HTC
Sep 27, 11:31AM
Beats has had enough: it's walking out of its relationship with HTC and buying back the 25 percent stake currently held by smartphone manufacturer.
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How to Choose, Buy, and Safely Use a Good Surge Protector
Sep 27, 11:00AM
Most of us have more devices than we have plugs in the wall, which is why you'll likely find a surge protector behind most people's televisions and under our desks. However, not all surge protectors are alike, and some even put your gadgets at risk. We talked to an electrician to sort out how to tell the good ones from the bad ones, and how to use them safely.
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Why Do We Live in Three Dimensions?
Sep 27, 10:51AM
How come we live in 3 dimensions? Not 2, not 4, not 7.3, but 3? Is there something special about that number of dimensions? This video tries to explain.
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An Armed Siege in the UK Was Caused by a Video Game Light Gun
Sep 27, 10:11AM
The next time you're waving your light gun out the window in celebration of another 1,000 zombie headshots in House of the Dead, spare a thought for your distressed neighbours peering through the curtains — you may look like a crazed gunman.
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Landmark UN Report Blames Humans For Climate Change
Sep 27, 9:25AM
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has this morning a landmark report which places the blame for climate change squarely at the feet of humankind.
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Iconic Photographs, Recreated Using... Play-Doh
Sep 27, 8:41AM
When Eleanor Macnair went to a pub quiz, she never expected to be inspired to create a new set of artworks. But when one round demanded she recreate an iconic photograph out of Play-Doh, that's exactly what happened.
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NSA Admits Analysts Used Its Databases to Spy on Lovers
Sep 27, 7:48AM
This is bad—understandable, but bad nonetheless. The NSA has been forced to reveal how its analysts used its terrifyingly database and spying tools to snoop on their lovers.
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Rumors suggest that Microsoft is planning to roll together its Windows and Windows Phone app stores
Sep 27, 7:21AM
Rumors suggest that Microsoft is planning to roll together its Windows and Windows Phone app stores into a single site. Convenient!
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Parking Lot
Sep 27, 4:00AM
That's it, I've decided. When I grow up I'm totally going to live in a house shaped like my head wearing a sombrero.
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Get the Entire Story Behind Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized
Sep 27, 3:08AM
Have you seen Helvetica, the documentary about typography? Or maybe Objectified, the doc that tackled design? And what about Urbanized, which dug into the design of cities? You probably have. If you haven't, few documentary series capture things Gizmodo cares about more than Gary Hustwit's Design Trilogy. Watch them.
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FAA Advisory Panel Says We Should Be Allowed to Use Electronic Devices
Sep 27, 2:26AM
As expected, the FAA advisory committee has recommended that airline passengers should be "allowed to use smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other personal electronic devices during takeoffs and landings". That means, yes, we can finally use our damn (innocent) electronic devices while on an airplane without looking like a criminal.
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How Mercedes Benz Uses Cameras to Stabilize the Road While You Drive
Sep 27, 1:30AM
The newest Mercedes Benz S-Class has a new Magic Body Control feature that basically stabilizes the road you drive on. Mercedes is cleverly using a chicken's self-stabilizing head to popularize the feature but explains how it works in more detail in the video above.
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This Website Can Guess the Movie You're Thinking of After 30 Questions
Sep 27, 12:01AM
Fun time waster alert: Filmillion. It's a movie guessing machine website that can figure out the movie you're thinking of by asking you 30 yes or no questions. You can be asked about the genre, the acting, if it's a blockbuster, how you feel when you watch it and so on. Some questions can get too revealing (what year the movie was released) but you have a range of answers that include probably yes, probably no and not sure, along with yes and no.
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How South Dakota's Human-Cow Hybrids Are Helping Modern Medicine
Sep 26, 11:20PM
A rapidly growing field of disease treatments now revolves around the use of antibodies. These immune system foot soldiers identify and neutralize foreign objects like bacteria and viruses, but producing them en mass for modern pharmacology is no simple task. That's why a team from Sanford Applied Biosciences in Sioux Falls, SD has recruited a small bovine army to help.
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Would You Eat Chop Suey From White Castle?
Sep 26, 10:42PM
Times were tough for American businesses during World War II. Rationing by the U.S. government made conducting business a lot harder, but Americans largely understood that it was a necessary sacrifice if they hoped to win the war. But with tight restrictions on certain foods, restaurants like White Castle had to get creative when designing their menu.
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Recycle Your Old microSD Cards Into an SSD Drive
Sep 26, 10:20PM
Instead of giving your unwanted memory cards away to your parents, or putting them someplace safe where they'll inevitably get lost, this easy-to-build kit lets you turn a bunch of unused microSD cards into a far more useful SSD drive.
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Lego United Nations HQ seems way more functional than the real one
Sep 26, 10:16PM
The United Nations is gigantic bureaucracy in which different tribes fight each other for power and dollars, incidentally helping the world from time to time. But they have awesome headquarters in New York City's East River, designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. Now it's available in Lego form.
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io9 NASA has just made an incredible discovery about water on Mars | Jezebel Reddit Users Offer Hila
Sep 26, 10:04PM
io9 NASA has just made an incredible discovery about water on Mars | Jezebel Reddit Users Offer Hilariously Bad Advice on How to Train a Woman | Lifehacker Here's a Massive List of Stuff You Can Ask Siri to Do in iOS 7 | Jalopnik This Corvette, 911, And Ferrari F12 Showdown Is One For The Ages
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Aluminum Leaves Give This London House a Groovy Geometric Facade
Sep 26, 10:00PM
Vine-covered homes are charming, but the fast-growing plants can get unruly if left untended for even a short time. When London-based architecture firm Squire and Partners set out to convert an 18th-century public house into an incredible five-story private residence, they developed a unique facade of folded aluminum leaves to take the place of the au natural variety.
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Transforming the Old Bay Bridge Into a Park for Adventure Tourists
Sep 26, 9:40PM
Now that the new Bay Bridge is here, what to do with the old one...? Is the slow and expensive demolition of the iconic structure really the best or even most cost-effective answer? A handful of local proposals have emerged, both earnest and speculative, hoping to find perhaps at least some useful future for the now obsolete mega-span, currently just a ruin strung uselessly through the air.
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These Former Uranium Mines Claim They Can Cure Chronic Illness
Sep 26, 9:33PM
Screw gluten-free diets, homeopathy and aromatherapy! Sufferers seeking relief for arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic illnesses are all about radioactive byproduct therapy these days. Alternative medicine aficionados are flocking in droves to these former uranium mines!
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Sony QX100 Teardown: The Beautiful Guts of a Weird Camera
Sep 26, 9:33PM
The QX100 is a freaking bizarre camera. It looks like just a big lens barrel, but it's actually a whole camera. No matter what you think of its odd appearance, though, on the inside, its guts are indisputably glorious. Here's a look at what's inside.
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Your Final Fashion Decision: Clothes That Let You Decompose With Grace
Sep 26, 9:20PM
Whether or not you're someone who would take great care in selecting a deceased loved one's clothing prior to burial, chances are that you probably wouldn't think too much about what those actual clothes are made out of. But the garments worn into the great beyond have become designer Pia Interlandi's entire career.
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