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Can You Spot All the Hidden Easter Eggs in This 20 Gigapixel Panoramic?
Jan 26, 6:00PM
Multi-gigapixel panoramas are rad. It's like peeping at the world through a telescope from the comfort of your own ground-floor living room. But Microsoft has made the concept even more fun with its 20 Gigapixel "ArtZoom," and has hidden a bunch of stuff for you to find.
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A Third of the Pirate Bay's Uploads Is Nothing But Porn
Jan 26, 5:00PM
You'd have to be crazy naive to think piracy flag-bearer The Pirate Bay is free of porn, but you'll be forgiven for underestimating exactly how much is hiding out there. It's 35 percent. The Pirate Bay's new uploads last year were 35 percent porn, second only to TV and movies which combined make 44 percent. Meanwhile music hardly even registered at a mere 9 percent.
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A 14,000-volt electrical shock gave this man star-shaped cataracts
Jan 26, 4:30PM
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers recount the fascinating case of an electrician who, after sustaining a 14,000-volt shock to his left shoulder, presented with "bilateral stellate anterior subcapsular opacities of the lens." Translation: Starburst-shaped cataracts.
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SNL's Hilarious Her Parody Is About Loving Yourself, Literally
Jan 26, 4:00PM
So maybe you're not too keen on the idea of falling in love with a completely artificial computer personality. Who could blame you? That's pretty weird. Maybe instead, the future will be a place where you can learn to love yourself. Wait, actually scratch that; that's super weird too.
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Watch Steve Jobs Show Off the Mac in Footage Unseen Since 1984
Jan 26, 2:04PM
30 years ago, the landscape of personal computing was vastly different. It hardly even existed, compared to what it is today. Footage of the Mac's initial unveil is out there, but this second, more polished run—a presentation for the Boston Computer Society—hasn't been available since the event itself back on January 30th 1984.
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Originally built as a supersonic strategic bomber for delivering nuclear strikes on Moscow, the B-1B
Jan 26, 1:59PM
Originally built as a supersonic strategic bomber for delivering nuclear strikes on Moscow, the B-1B Lancer has played a variety of roles for the Air Force in its nearly 30 years of service. And thanks to a newly upgraded cockpit—including four multi-function color displays and a modernized Fully Integrated Data Link (FIDL)—the B-One "Bones" of the 7th Bomb Wing are expected to remain in service into the 2030's. [Wikipedia - The Aviationist]
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: "Edited"
Jan 26, 2:00AM
The right editing can really make a video into something great. Just watch Sam and Martha's wedding. It's more beautiful than anyone remembers.
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Watch Soap Bubbles Get Demolished By Frigid Winter Cold
Jan 26, 1:00AM
I guess this makes sense when you think about it, but I never thought about it. Soap bubbles don't stand a chance when it's -4 degrees out, as YouTube's NightHawkInLight elegantly shows us.
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Scary Science Shows Sooty Air Is Even More Poisonous Than We Thought
Jan 26, 12:00AM
It's pretty obvious that breathing in sooty air is bad. But just how bad is it? Scary bad—as The Allegheny Front explains.
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Wikipedia's Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People's Biographies
Jan 25, 10:57PM
Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice. It would add such richness to the facts and dates about her or his life. Starting today, Wikipedia will make that possible with the Wikipedia Voice Intro Project, adding short voice recordings to the online encyclopedia. And that's truly awesome.
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New York City Is Using Data Mining to Fight Fires
Jan 25, 10:09PM
Helmets? Check. Breathing tanks? Check. Hoses? Ditto. Algorithms? Yep: the New York City Fire Department is using data mining to predict which of the city's buildings are at highest risk of catching fire. Now that's metadata we can get behind.
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I Finally Found the Song I've Spent Years Searching For
Jan 25, 9:14PM
Last Saturday, I asked you to name the one thing you keep searching for online, but can't find. The question was inspired by my unsuccessful three-year search for a song I'd heard once on a college radio station. Serendipitously, I stumbled across it this week—and hearing it again sent shivers up my spine. Here it is.
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This Trippy Animated Video Is a Roller Coaster Through the Internet
Jan 25, 8:00PM
Whoa. Austin Motion Artists Group's computer-animated space warp is the grooviest 3 minutes you'll witness today. It's positively mesmerizing.
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Motorola's Knocking $100 Off Unlocked Moto X for One Hour on Monday
Jan 25, 7:28PM
Holding out for a better price on an unlocked Moto X? Keep waiting until Monday—then scramble like your hair's on fire, because Motorola's cutting off-contract prices by $100 between 3 and 4PM EST on January 27th.
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The NSA's website for kids isn't creepy. Nope. Not creepy at all.
Jan 25, 7:00PM
Just a friendly reminder that the NSA's children's website, "CryptoKids," is an actual thing that exists.
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SodaStream Boycott, Fake Viral Photos, Oculus Rift Gender Swaps, More
Jan 25, 7:00PM
From the serious and unexpected geopolitics of a kitchen gizmo to the utterly terrifying notion of a drifting boat full of cannibal rats, Gizmodo brought you some shocking, fascinating, and compelling stories this week. Let's review, shall we?
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This week in Tech Reads: Twitter, YouTube, Her, and much more!
Jan 25, 6:00PM
This week in Tech Reads: Twitter, YouTube, Her, and much more!
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Four Ways to Winterize Your Bike Before Next Week's Commute
Jan 25, 5:00PM
So what if the East River is iced over and the mercury refuses to climb into the double digits? Commuting on your bike through snow can still be faster and more enjoyable than waiting on an overcrowded subway car. Here's how make sure your two-wheeler is ready to face Old Man Winter.
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Riding the RYNO: When Two Wheels Is Too Many
Jan 25, 4:00PM
This sci-fi electric unicycle is the RYNO, a future-badass alternative to the Segway that looks like it got beamed down from the year 2114. But it's here, and it's real, and I got to ride it.
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Report: Apple's Expanding Mobile Payment to Physical Goods
Jan 25, 3:00PM
The Wall Street Journal is hearing rumors that Apple wants to expand its mobile payment capabilities beyond iTunes purchases, moving into the space dominated by names like Square, PayPal, and Google.
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A U.S. Company Now Owns This (Probably Fake) Cold Fusion Reactor
Jan 25, 2:00PM
Cold fusion is a theoretical (and highly doubtful) reaction that makes huge amounts of energy. Last year, the inventor claimed his Energy Catalyzer fusion device could produce electricity at 1% the cost of coal. This week, a North Carolina company bought the rights to the tech. Did they get bamboozled?
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The Night Ziggy Stardust Rocketed Back to Mars
Jan 25, 5:00AM
David Bowie enjoyed a number of flamboyant Rock-n-Roll personas during his musical career but none as well-known as Ziggy Stardust: the science fictional, androgynous, eyebrowless diva. Here's Ziggy-Bowie shooting the lights out of Hammersmith Odeon theater in 1973 just before his big announcement
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Most Beautiful Items: January 17 - 24, 2014
Jan 25, 1:00AM
All you see from your window might be ice, but from this screen you're eyes will catch nothing but beautiful things. From the worlds of art, architecture, and design, here are the most lovely things we found this week. Don't you dare go outside; it's way too dangerous.
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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
Jan 25, 12:00AM
Oh hey, look at that! Another week in the bag. Whether it was a great one or a crappy one, it's Friday, so you can celebrate/commiserate with a whole slew of brand-new apps. Download, upgrade, and thumb-swipe your way to the weekend.
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Using A Centuries-Old Printmaking Technique To Immortalize A New Museum
Jan 24, 11:16PM
Photogravure is a printmaking technique that requires a hell of a lot of prep, but the ghostly effect of the finished work is awesome: it's like part etching and a bit charcoal drawing, with the spirit of an old timey black-and-white.
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