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The Amazing Quest To Preserve and Restore 52,000 Holocaust Testimonials
Dec 23, 5:00PM
From 1994 to 1999, some 52,000 testimonies from Holocaust survivors and eye-witnesses were recorded on Betamax SP tapes by USC's Shoah Foundation's Institute for Visual History and Education. Last year, a massive preservation project was completed that digitized all the inventory—but about five percent of the tapes were discovered to be almost completely unwatchable. Time and faulty equipment used at the outset had taken their toll, and many of these clips couldn't be visually parsed at all.
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A Guy Recreated Home Alone Starring Himself As Every Single Character
Dec 23, 4:30PM
Well, Merry Christmas. Some beautiful weirdo named Paul Little recreated Home Alone for his Christmas card starring none other than himself. As everyone. Now that is a Christmas card anyone would feel lucky to receive.
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Parts of New York City Are Built on the Ruins of English Cathedrals
Dec 23, 4:00PM
Last week, Jalopnik's Michael Ballaban posted about what is easily one of my favorite urban stories of all time, which is that parts of Manhattan are actually built on the wartime ruins of English towns—churches, homes, pubs, libraries, shops, and businesses—all shipped to the U.S. as ballast during World War II.
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A US Army Base Is Running a Bunch of Illegal Windows 7 Copies
Dec 23, 3:50PM
Given the United States' intolerance for copyright infringement and the piraters that propagate it, you'd think Uncle Sam would be a little more keen on making sure that his men were playing by the book themselves. As it turns out, a whole mess of computers running unlicensed, illegal copies of Windows 7 belong to none other than the US Army itself.
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The 100 Most Astonishing Images of 2013
Dec 23, 3:00PM
We post tons of great images on Gizmodo, from space to science to art to design. Here's a treasure trove of our very favorites that proves that 2013 was, if nothing else, eye-catching.
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Berkeley Researchers Create Robo-Muscles 1,000 Times Stronger Than Ours
Dec 23, 2:33PM
The world may be oohing and awing over all the wonderful uses we're finding for graphene, but there's another super-material vying for the spotlight. Vanadium dioxide might eventually become a household name because in addition to revolutionizing electronics, researchers have now discovered it can be used as an artificial muscle 1,000 times stronger than our own.
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12 Maps of America From Before We Knew What It Looked Like
Dec 23, 2:00PM
The island of California. A huge triangle of land called Florida. A great ocean that cut down from the Arctic into the Midwest. As the New World came into focus beginning in the 17th century, explorers and cartographers struggled to measure a massive expanse of land that would take centuries to accurately map.
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The World's Smallest Laptop Adapter Saves You From Carrying a Brick
Dec 23, 1:32PM
Laptops are supposed to be highly portable, right? But even with a built-in battery you're never leaving home without its power adapter—and that's usually a long cable with a hefty brick somewhere along its length. They're hardly compact, but this laptop adapter from FINsix is.
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Reddit's Earliest Days Were a NSFW Wonderland
Dec 23, 1:18PM
Reddit's come a long way since it first appeared online in 2006—but how has it changed over time? This visualization shows how the relative sizes of its subreddits have changed.
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Science Proves That Rudolph's Nose Really Does Glow
Dec 23, 10:50AM
It might not be bright red, but Rudolph's nose really does go glow. These thermal images of reindeer acquired by scientists show that Santa's flying friends have incredibly warm noses.
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To address the problem that 80 percent of new contributions to Wikipedia are abandoned before they'r
Dec 23, 10:29AM
To address the problem that 80 percent of new contributions to Wikipedia are abandoned before they're submitted, the online encyclopaedia now offers a drafting feature to help ease a little of the pressure.
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How the Domino Effect Has Shaped History
Dec 23, 10:15AM
When younger generations hear the word 'dominoes,' they usually associate it with the famous board game, while others–especially food lovers–might connect it with a delicious pizza. For those who are more politically aware, the word probably brings thoughts of the Cold War and the threat of the spread of communism. In addition, most economists today love to use the word when referring to the debt crisis in the Eurozone.
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The Math Behind the NSA's Email Hacks
Dec 23, 9:20AM
We're all outraged by the NSA's invasions of privacy, sure—but we don't perhaps understand exactly how it managed it. This video explains the maths behind the agency's surveillance.
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Samsung's 2014 Smart TVs Will Be Controlled By Your Pointed Finger
Dec 23, 8:40AM
Kinect may have been at it for years, but it's taking most companies a fair old while to really get to grips with gesture control. Now, Samsung is planning to offer more fine-grained, finger-sensitive functionality in its 2014 smart TVs.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Systematic Disease
Dec 23, 5:00AM
If the eyes are a window to the soul, are cataracts their Venetian blinds?
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Deafheaven: Dream House
Dec 23, 2:07AM
In highschool, I took it upon myself to learn how to enjoy scream-y music. It started innocently(?) enough with slightly-abrasive-but-still-pretty-tame Linkin Park, and moved on to Refused and Underoath, and somehow, Cap'n Jazz. It was a lot of work, but tracks like Deafheaven's Dream House make it all worth while.
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This Tricycle Is Headed Across the South Pole
Dec 23, 1:00AM
Right now three people are competing in a bike race from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. The winner will be the first person to bike there ever. And 35-year-old Maria Leijerstam is attempting to trike there on a really weird/badass-looking tricycle.
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Knives Aren't Generally For Klutzes, But This One Kinda Is
Dec 22, 11:58PM
It's always better to have control of a knife you're using, sure, but everyone makes mistakes. And you shouldn't lose a perfectly good knife just because it sinks to the bottom of a lake or the shaft cracks on your tile floor. Is the solution bouncy knives? Sort of.
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Here's What Marketing Could Look Like in 2014
Dec 22, 10:52PM
Since 2014 is only a few days away, design aesthetics probably won't be stunningly different come the new year. So that's all the more reason to make some predictions! Let's do this.
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The Year in Amazing Photos from Reuters
Dec 22, 9:46PM
Of course the year's best photos can't all come from the same place, but with photographers all over the world Reuters certainly gets some amazing stuff. And it's kind of cool to watch three minutes that visually sum up 2013.
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Scientific Data Is Disappearing All the Time
Dec 22, 8:36PM
When a study gets published and its results enter our collective body of scientific knowledge it feels like it's there to stay. But without the raw data behind the study, it's hard to revisit the research and use it to take new ideas to the next level. Which is why it's such a problem that old data is disappearing.
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This Bewildering Samsung Ad Shows How Cool Galaxy Gear Isn't
Dec 22, 7:00PM
Do not take dating advice from this 2.5-minute Samsung ad for Galaxy Gear. It's a hot mess of social interactions and it inadvertently proves the exact myth it's trying to dispel: smartwatches are still in their early, awkward years.
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Google's Newly Acquired SCHAFT Robot Walks Away A Winner
Dec 22, 5:20PM
The teams have broken down their robots and packed them up in crates and suitcases, loaded them into trucks and taken them on airplanes and gone home. Some will lick their wounds and rebuild to fight another day. The lucky ones will get a million dollars each from DARPA to continue developing their bots.
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People Are More Scared of Hacking than Tracking
Dec 22, 4:33PM
According to a November survey of 1,000 voters, people are more creeped out by the possibility of a person or group ascertaining their personal information, than the idea that someone might be following their online movements and habits.
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This Is What Happens When You Drive Through Three Miles Of Mars
Dec 22, 4:18PM
NASA's Curiosity rover has been on Mars for over a year now, and in the time has traversed nearly three miles. While its wheels are made of high-grade aluminum, they're not strong enough to last forever. NASA announced this week it was taking an extra-long look at the wheels, and boy are they in rough shape.
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