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.
Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats
Apr 04, 10:00PM
In addition to completely freaking us out , it turns out that the robotic snakes being developed at universities like Carnegie Mellonsome serve some practical purposes as well. A company called Medrobotics Corporation will soon begin marketing robot snake-assisted surgical device designed to crawl down a patient's throat. Yeah, that's far less creepy.
     |
Quakes, Brands, 7-Story Buildings: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week
Apr 04, 9:40PM
This week! Why a huge earthquake didn't actually cause all that much devastation in Chile. How a not-so-tall building could be the end of a New Orleans neighborhood. And where brands killed Manhattan. Let's take a look at What's Ruining Our Cities.
| |
This Rolling Bear Trap Makes Awkward Flat Materials Easy to Move
Apr 04, 9:20PM
A large sheet of plywood isn't necessarily heavy, but its massive dimensions can certainly make it unwieldy to carry. And since there's nothing wrong with the whole "work smarter not harder" mentality, this gravity-powered clamping trolley makes it super easy to just roll everything from sheets of wood, to drywall, to basically anything that will fit inside its grasp.
| |
A Weekend Of Dark Beer With The World's Greatest Stout Glass
Apr 04, 9:00PM
It's just not fair: every single grape varietal and wine style, including some that no one has ever even heard of (Kalterer See Auslese, anyone?), has its own specially designed glass. Even Coca-Cola now has one . But, for beer, your standard mouth-delivery vehicle is the same, whether you're drinking the wateriest Bud Lite or a limited edition, quadruple-hopped, barrel-aged brew: either a shaker pint glass (so-called because it was designed for making martinis), or, if you're super classy, the bottle itself.
| |
This Sink-In-A-Box Tucks Away To Keep Your Bathroom Tidy
Apr 04, 8:20PM
You know the old saying: the sink is the heart of the bathroom. But all too often that sink looks nasty, covered in toothpaste, and draped with a half-used container of floss. Here's a sink that can cleverly hide everything away when you're not spitting your mouthwash into it.
| |
Tour the Fish Farm Hidden in a Hong Kong High-Rise
Apr 04, 8:20PM
In cities as crowded as Hong Kong, there is nowhere to go but up up up—even for fish. So, on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, is a mini ocean in the sky: 80,000 liters of salt water where young groupers swim under cool, blue light. Could this be the future of urban farming?
| |
When Watching Baseball on TV Was the Future
Apr 04, 8:15PM
In 1939, the first Major League Baseball game was broadcast on TV—a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers—at a time when American TV was still very much an experiment. But this broadcast was a long time coming. In fact, years before practical TV tech had even been demonstrated, people were already dreaming about how they'd be able to watch America's pastime from the comfort of their own homes.
| |
An Ingenious Portable Sawmill Lets One Person Turn Trees Into Lumber
Apr 04, 7:40PM
Not knowing how to turn a tree into shelter is one of those life skills that I'm ashamed not to have—despite the fact that I'll probably never need to know. To my delight, a Swedish company has invented a sawmill that makes the process almost foolproof.
| |
Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now
Apr 04, 7:36PM
You knew it the moment your eyes snapped open this morning. It's Friday. The weekend is tantalizingly close.
| |
How Will Search & Rescue Work If A Plane Goes Down in the Arctic?
Apr 04, 7:20PM
It has been nearly a month since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar, and its ultimate whereabouts remain unclear. The complex international effort of searching for the plane in a remote stretch of the South Indian Ocean raises the question of what would happen if a plane were to go down in the Arctic: who would coordinate the necessary search and rescue teams, and where should they be based? Geographer Mia Bennett tried to answer this question on her blog, Cryopolitics.
| |
Why Roku Matters More Than Ever
Apr 04, 7:02PM
You have more streaming TV options than you could hope for, especially now that Amazon has entered the fray. And while Apple TV, Chromecast, and Fire TV all have their strengths, they also share the same crippling weakness: self-interest. That's what makes Roku so important.
| |
The Network Inside Tesla's Model S Is Just Like The One in Your House
Apr 04, 6:54PM
The Tesla car company isn't shy about breaking from automotive standard practice, building fast, near-silent , sleek electric cars in a world where most vehicles still sip dinosaur juice. So it probably shouldn't surprise you to learn that the complex electronic infrastructure supporting the car's many sensors and touchscreens doesn't quite resemble what's in your neighbor's Honda. In fact, as our pal Jason Torchinsky over at Jalopnik reveals , the Model S's internal network is strikingly similar to the one in your house or office, as a curious Tesla owner recently discovered.
| |
What's Your Favorite Notepad?
Apr 04, 6:40PM
We here at Gizmodo love pens. We're very particular about what we write with, and hey—we're pretty fussy about what we're writing on, too. We've got our personal faves, and want to know: What are your go-to notebooks, must-have pads, and never-without journals?
| |
Local Motors' Latest Is a Drifting, Electric Big Wheel for Grownups
Apr 04, 6:20PM
The crowd-design gearheads at Local Motors are at it again, with a Kickstarter project that will make your inner eight-year-old hyperventilate: the Verrado, a motorized, grown-up sized Big Wheel that drifts.
| |
Automated High-Speed Wire Inspector Takes 40,000 Photos Every Second
Apr 04, 6:00PM
Wires, pipes, and metal rails are produced at incredibly high speeds in factories. Often as fast as 33 feet per second, which makes doing detailed inspections as the materials are produced almost impossible. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg, Germany, have found a way using high-speed cameras and LED flashes brighter than the sun.
| |
Astronomers Publish Study On Extraterrestrial Zombies
Apr 04, 5:46PM
While some scientists fritter away their time searching for extraterrestrial life, two astronomers have performed a genuine public service for Earth by calculating the likely number of nearby planets inhabited by the undead.
| |
Start Action Camming For $72 Today, Get a Free Month of Xbox LIVE
Apr 04, 5:45PM
Their video quality won't blow you away, but Monoprice's action cams are solid low-end GoPro competitors with extremely attractive prices. Today, you can take an additional 10% off with promo code PHOTO10. If you opt for the GoPro-like Sport camera, be sure to get a T-Tip mount to use it with existing GoPro mounting accessories.
| |
The Floating Super-Factories Spawned By Our Insatiable Hunger For Gas
Apr 04, 5:40PM
The world's ever-growing demand for gas is driving companies deeper and further into the ocean to drill for it. And, to do so, they're building a new type of ship: small city-sized floating factories that drill, process, refine, and barrel gas while still out on the open sea. Think of them as one-stop gas shops that, crucially, can operate in international waters.
| |
An Always-Listening App That Alerts the Hearing Impaired To Alarms
Apr 04, 5:20PM
In an ideal world, every audible alarm would include a visual indication that something was wrong, so that the hearing impaired would immediately be notified too. Until that happens, a cheap $1 app called Deafalarm could serve as a viable alternative—keeping an ear out for alarms and alerting the user through text and vibrating alerts.
| |
Ditch Your Car And Grab A Bike For These 9 Open Streets Festivals
Apr 04, 5:00PM
Around the world, cities are transforming busy streets into public spaces, if only for a few blissful hours. These open streets festivals create safe, healthy recreation areas for residents and help cities carve out space for biking, walking, skating, rolling, strolling, stretching, and even dancing.
| |
Watch This Stream of An Artist Spending Two Weeks Inside Of A Bear
Apr 04, 4:55PM
Channeling equal parts Empire Strikes Back and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, French artist Abraham Poincheval has begun his performance art piece known as Dans La Peau de l'Ours (Inside the Skin of the Bear) by taking up residence inside of a hollowed out bear's body.
| |
Scientists Genetically Modified Trees So They Can Make Greener Paper
Apr 04, 4:20PM
Wood scientists just announced an exciting breakthrough in tree research. They've come up with a way to make more environmentally friendly paper—by genetically modifying trees. And it's not just the paper industry that will benefit.
| |
How Steve Jobs' Passion Shaped Pixar Into an Oscar-Winning Studio
Apr 04, 4:00PM
While Apple was Steve Jobs' first professional love, the Pixar animation studio that he helped foster was far more than a mere pet project. As Pixar President Ed Catmull explains in his upcoming book, Creativity Inc, Jobs' involvement with the studio proved a revolutionary experience for both parties. Here's a brief look at the Steve Jobs most people never got to see.
| |
This Russian Doomsday Plane Is President Putin's Personal Escape Pod
Apr 04, 3:40PM
America isn't the only superpower with a "Doomsday Plane " for its head of state. When Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to escape danger, he hops aboard this top-secret flying communications center.
| |
150 Years Ago, People Watched Competitive Walking Instead of Baseball
Apr 04, 3:20PM
If it was 1874, instead of hitting your local baseball diamond tonight, you'd be grabbing a few friends and heading to a competitive walking match. Yes, walking was a national pastime, according to author Matthew Algeo: "Watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport."
| |
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:
Post a Comment