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1923 Comic Predicts a Time When Humans Dine on Electric Vibrations

May 06, 11:40PM

1923 Comic Predicts a Time When Humans Dine on Electric Vibrations

With the rise of household electricity in the early 1920s, people were making all kinds of predictions about the way that it would affect our lives. But it looks like one comic artist from 1923 thought that one day even humans might need volts to stay alive.

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Trick Your Boss Into Thinking Your Computer's Still Busy

May 06, 11:20PM

Trick Your Boss Into Thinking Your Computer's Still Busy

We've seen prank screensavers and even fake viruses before, but this one, specifically aimed at image professionals, makes your boss think your computer is bogged down, plugging away at rendering... who knows what, but it must be huge. And it just might take all day.

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Play Architectural Jenga With These Awesome City Blocks

May 06, 11:00PM

Play Architectural Jenga With These Awesome City Blocks

Budding town planners and mini-architecture aficionados should enjoy sitting down to get handsy with these Blockitecture sets from Areaware. Lest you think they're easily stacked, the pine pieces aren't actually perfect squares; the different angles make for a fun, Jenga-like assembly of make-believe city-blocks.

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This Pop-Up Chair Would Make Long Layovers So Much More Tolerable

May 06, 10:40PM

This Pop-Up Chair Would Make Long Layovers So Much More Tolerable

With the blazing speed of the internet mitigating our every expectation—especially wait times—it's no wonder we get impatient so easily. Delays at the airport are particularly maddening, because there never seem to be enough seats to accommodate the many fuming passengers who all need to get their destinations more urgently than you.

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Inside the Hidden Escape Tunnel for the World's Longest Under-Sea Tube

May 06, 10:20PM

Inside the Hidden Escape Tunnel for the World's Longest Under-Sea Tube

We love huge tunnels here at Gizmodo, whether we're watching them being built or pondering the mysteries they unearth . So when The Telegraph got the chance to explore the service tunnel that supports The Channel Tunnel, our ears perked right up. Check it out—it's astoundingly huge.

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What City Has the Best Brand?

May 06, 10:08PM

What City Has the Best Brand?

When we think about cities and branding we might think of a logo on a t-shirt, or perhaps a slogan that's slapped onto banners. But a city brand now encompasses much more—it's selling a lifestyle. The Guardian has ranked 57 global cities with the best brands. The winner might surprise you.

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Gawker Monica Lewinsky Has Returned From the Clintons' Nightmares | Jezebel Seth Rogen on Justin Bie

May 06, 10:03PM

Gawker Monica Lewinsky Has Returned From the Clintons' Nightmares | Jezebel Seth Rogen on Justin Bieber: 'He's a Bit of a Dick' | Kotaku Florida Man Wants To Marry His "Porn Filled Apple Computer" | Lifehacker The Best Life Lessons Learned from Stand Up Comedians | Kinja Popular Posts

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A Backpack With a Three-Prong Outlet Might Actually Be a Great Idea

May 06, 9:45PM

A Backpack With a Three-Prong Outlet Might Actually Be a Great Idea

GoPlug is a Kickstarter project aiming to cram backup batteries, USB charging ports, and—for the first time—a true three-prong outlet (or Euro-style two-prong, if that's your jam) into backpacks and luggage. Sounds pretty convenient! But is it something you'd actually use?

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It Took 19 Huge Earthmovers To Carve Dodger Stadium Out of a Mountain

May 06, 9:41PM

It Took 19 Huge Earthmovers To Carve Dodger Stadium Out of a Mountain

Many of us non-Angelenos think of L.A. as a fairly flat place, but it's taken serious manpower to build this sprawling city on such rugged terrain. Among the more Sisyphean projects was the construction of Dodger Stadium—which, as Southland shows us today, required 19 earthmovers to excavate eight million cubic yards of earth.

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Would You Have Sex With a Robot?

May 06, 9:20PM

Would You Have Sex With a Robot?

Time and time again, humans have proved their willingness to make the beast with two backs with a cornucopia of inanimate objects . But what happens when that inanimate object starts to, you know, animate (albeit mechanically)? Yep, it's time to talk about robot sex.

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The LA Police Wants to Use Crowdsourced Photos to Solve Crimes

May 06, 9:01PM

The LA Police Wants to Use Crowdsourced Photos to Solve Crimes

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has launched a new website and companion mobile app that allows people who are witnesses to large emergencies can submit photo or video evidence they might have recorded. On the surface, it sounds like a good idea—but like all mass information collection, the idea has a dark side.

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Hilarious Ebook Scanning Error Replaces "Arms" With "Anus"

May 06, 8:40PM

Hilarious Ebook Scanning Error Replaces

Well, this is awkward. You're reading a 19th-century romance novel where the plucky heroine is finally reunited with her lover, so she joyously flings "her anus around his neck." Wait, what? It turns out this is a surprisingly common turn of events in Google Books search. OCR, you sure have some kinky tastes.

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The New Vita Is An Improvement, Mostly

May 06, 8:30PM

The New Vita Is An Improvement, Mostly

There's a new PlayStation Vita handheld out today. It's called the Vita Slim, and while for the most part it's unchanged, it does improve on a number of small things compared with the original Vita. Though there is the issue of that new screen…

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Animals Are Eating Other Animals to Get High

May 06, 8:20PM

Animals Are Eating Other Animals to Get High

What, you think that man alone actively seeks the sweet release of chemical intoxication? Child, please, the need to get tanked is ubiquitous throughout nature, and has been since we first crawled out of the primordial ooze and realized life on land wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. From frog-licking horses to puffer-chewing dolphins, here are four animals that just love to get lifted.

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Walk Manhattan's Entire 32-Mile Shoreline In 25 Images

May 06, 8:00PM

Walk Manhattan's Entire 32-Mile Shoreline In 25 Images

This past Saturday, people from all over the world gathered for an event known as the Great Saunter: a 12-hour walk around Manhattan's perimeter. The 32-mile pilgrimage in the midst of spring's bloom brought us through 20 waterfront parks, a surprise farmer's market, underneath historic bridges, and within parting and welcoming gazes of the Statue of Liberty.

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You Can Control Anova's New Precision Sous-Vide Cooker With Your Phone

May 06, 7:40PM

You Can Control Anova's New Precision Sous-Vide Cooker With Your Phone

Causal sous-vide cooking has been on the rise over the last couple of years, and Anova's water circulating tools are often cited as the best. Today, the company announced an overhauled, iPhone-controlled cooker that looks very promising.

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The Future of Cars Will Be Awesome for Enthusiasts (and Everyone Else)

May 06, 7:20PM

The Future of Cars Will Be Awesome for Enthusiasts (and Everyone Else)

Hang out with an old-time car enthusiast, and you're bound to hear some serious grousing about the state of modern cars. "Can't fix 'em with a screwdriver like you used to," et cetera, ad nauseum. Perhaps that's true. But that doesn't mean that a world of electric-powered, computer-controlled , self-driving cars will put an end to the hacking and hot-rodding that some of us so deeply enjoy. In fact, tomorrow's car technology opens up a whole world of opportunity for gearheads. And Jalopnik's Damon Lavrinc is here to explain exactly how awesome that future will be.

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30 Odes To The Humble Brick

May 06, 6:46PM

On its own, the brick is an unimpressive chunk of clay. Mortared alongside a few thousand of its friends, though, the brick becomes a molecule in the urban ecosystem. Here are 31 photographic odes to the humble brick.

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11 More Fake Viral Images

May 06, 6:30PM

11 More Fake Viral Images

Another day, another fake image getting passed around as real. Today we have everything from posing puppies to sketchy satellites to underwater trains that are just too good to be true. Always remember the first rule of viral image safety: be aware before you share.

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What Actually Happens When You Put Metal in a Microwave

May 06, 6:24PM

What Actually Happens When You Put Metal in a Microwave

The rule is as simple as it is ubiquitous: don't stick aluminum foil in the microwave if you don't want to have to buy a new microwave. Everybody knows that, right? But, turns out, that old adage might be wrong.

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How Adopting A Dog Saved My Life

May 06, 6:15PM

How Adopting A Dog Saved My Life

When Wiley first came home last February, I was barely able to walk, desperately single and exploited at work. No more, in large part thanks to him.

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First video of the US Army flying truck in action

May 06, 6:05PM

First video of the US Army flying truck in action

Remember that crazy-looking helicopter-drone-truck we showed you a few months ago? Now it is real and it is here. Advanced Tactics has released the very first video showing the Black Knight Transformer flying through the desert.

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Welcome to the Bedroom of the Future

May 06, 6:00PM

Welcome to the Bedroom of the Future

In sci-fi movies, people of the future live in impossibly futuristic houses full of screens and robots and dreams. We see them wake up as an automatic curtain opens, and they saunter over to a closet where their clothes move on a conveyor belt. It's a real world facsimile of a Jetsons episode. But it's not the real world.

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We Reviewed a Scratch-and-Sniff Guidebook That Included Horse Manure

May 06, 5:57PM

If you've never visited the city of York in North Yorkshire, England, you could just pick up any old guidebook, sure. But the nose always knows best. So to help immerse you in this medieval city, York has put out the very first, scratch-n-sniff guidebook—stinking horse stables and all.

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Sony 65" 4K HDMI 2.0 LED TV, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Klipsch

May 06, 5:45PM

Sony 65

Amazon is currently carrying the Sony XBR 65" 4K 120Hz 3D HDMI 2.0 Smart LED TV for $3289, plus 2% back in rewards and enhanced delivery. That was the lowest price we had seen so far, but BuyDig is now selling the same set for $2799 with free shipping (go all the way through checkout to see price). Amazon will then match BuyDig's price, so you can get the $2800 and enhanced delivery from Amazon, and the 2% back in rewards. [Amazon]

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