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Tech NewsThe Secret Tech Behind Disney’s Haunted Mansion Illusions
“Perhaps Madame Leota can establish contact,” the Ghost Host decides. “She has a remarkable head for materializing…the disembodied!” As the Ghost Host is speaking, the Doom Buggies make their way into a dim parlor and take their place around a large seance circle. This is Part One of a two-part excerpt from The Unauthorized Story … Continued
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A “Smartwatch” For Kindergarteners Is the Only Smartwatch You Need
Smartwatches: So much futuristicness promised, so little delivered. They’re clunky. They’re frustrating. They’re just not quite there yet. But what if there was a smartwatch out there that was just plain fun to use? There is—it just happens to be built for four-to-nine-year-olds. https://gizmodo.com/the-joy-and-misery-of-life-with-a-grotesquely-large-sm-1637632048 Yes, in the interest of science, reader service, and the dogged … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple’s iPad Event Is October 16th: “It’s Been Way Too Long”
As predicted last week, Apple will officially reveal the next iPads to the world on October 16th. Invitations have just been sent out, with Apple’s tradition of a coy, hint-y tagline. This time: “It’s been way too long.” That’s true in the calendar sense, perhaps—it’s been just under a year since the last iPad event. … Continued
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Reviews
My Wobbly Ride on the Self-Balancing Unicycle of the Future
To a surprising number of engineers and innovators, the future of transportation has only one wheel. But the future, at least when I’m driving, is pretty wobbly. This is the third generation of Focus Designs’ Self-Balancing Unicycle. It’s a 27-pound, $1,800 personal mobility device with a 12.5 MPH top speed, a range of up to … Continued
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The Ford 24.7 Concept Car Predicted Apps Years Before Smartphones
Take a look at that dashboard: It’s clearly presenting the driver with a selection of apps, each with a simple, readable icon. This isn’t some 2015 future-mobile, though. It’s the Ford 24.7 concept, a design exercise from January 2000—seven years before most folks came to know the concept of “apps.” Despite being dreamt up at … Continued
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The #1 News Station in Memphis Accidentally Tweeted a Pornhub Link
If you’re wondering about the rain and storms in Memphis, you might have gotten a big surprise in your Twitter feed today. WREG News Channel 3 briefly directed its Twitter followers to a link that not only had zero radar information about the #memstorm—it was a PornHub user’s profile. As often happens, whoever runs WREG’s … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Horrible Consequences Of Sharing An Un-Funny Video With Your Friends
You know that crippling feeling of doubt you get when your friend doesn’t get the funny YouTube video you’re watching? It’s your brain warning you that you’re playing a dangerous game. One with potentially deadly consequences. For the rest of this week’s top comedy videos, head on over to Splitsider. Now for the news: We … Continued
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Tech NewsSteve McQueen and Analog Synths Make a Music Video I Can’t Stop Watching
There are few things I love in life more than Steve McQueen movies. And there’s nothing else out there that sounds like analog synthesizer music. So when my Giz coworker Andrew Liszewski turned me on to this TRS-80 music video combining the two, I couldn’t take my eyes or ears off it. The footage, for … Continued
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Potato Chip Boat Proves There’s Far Too Much Air In Your Bag of Snacks
We all know the frustration of tearing open a huge, tantalizing bag of chips or nachos or Funyons or whatever and realizing the bag’s 2/3rds air. Two South Korean college students just proved how empty our snack vessels are, by paddling a raft made of unopened potato chip bags across a river. As our Kotaku … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogleGoogle Glass App Gives Conversations Real-Time Closed Captioning
Georgia Tech researchers have come up with an app that turns Google Glass into a real-time closed-captioning display for the hearing-impaired, using the voice recognition in the user’s Glass-paired smartphone. Now this is a face-computer use we can get behind. Captioning on Glassuses a Glass wearer’s smartphone as a remote microphone. The Glass wearer simply … Continued
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io9Movies
Do You Still Watch TV Shows When They Air?
This morning, we woke up to a post-Saturday-Morning-Cartoons America. That got plenty of us talking about our former TV watching routines, and that made me wonder: In an era of on-demand, mobile, streaming content, do you still watch TV shows when they air? Not long ago, that would’ve been a foolish question. If you liked … Continued
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Redbox Instant Will Shut Down Streaming Video on October 7th
Redbox Instant, Verizon’s Netflix-battling streaming movie service and the companion to the automated DVD rental kiosk in your grocery store’s entryway, is shutting down on October 7th at 11:59PM. Better get your binge-watching out of your system now. Redbox Instant first hit the scene in December of 2012, tempting users with lower-than-Netflix pricing and a … Continued
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Bending iPhones, Windows 10, GoPro, Ikea, Space Elevators, and More
It was a big week here at Gizmodo! We brought you a review of the most badass Nerf gun ever created, a ride on the new Uber for private airplanes, and a guest post from Steve Wozniak about a beloved friend and computer innovator who needs your help. And so much more! The Quest to … Continued
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The Underwater Search for Malaysia Air Flight 370 Resumes This Weekend
After a four-month pause to scan the ocean floor, search ships will once again launch in the Indian Ocean to look for wreckage from the lost MH 370 flight. The first of three ship, the GO Phoenix, will reach the search field on Sunday, the AP reports. The search was paused so that scientists could … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightHumans First Saw the Far Side of the Moon 55 Years Ago Today
The side of the moon that faces Earth is familiar to anyone who’s stood outside at night. But it wasn’t until this day in 1959 that mankind was able to glimpse the dark side of the moon, thanks to a grainy-yet-distinct photo sent back by the Russian spacecraft Luna 3. Space historian Amy Shira Teitel … Continued
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io9Television
This Is the First Weekend in America With No Saturday Morning Cartoons
Saturday morning American broadcast TV was once animation’s home field. Filling a cereal bowl with artificially colored sugar pebbles and staring at the tube was every kid’s weekend plan. Not any more: For the first time in 50-plus years, you won’t find a block of animation on broadcast this morning. It’s the end of an … Continued
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Tech NewsHomestar Runner’s Back With the Most Bulbous Music Video This Year
Aside from a brief glimmer of a teaser this past April Fool’s Day, the Homestar Runner website has been a ghost town last updated in 2010. That all changed today, when Strong Bad and Coach Z dropped (drapped) what will undoubtedly be the best music video this year. Oh man, this is every ounce of … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Report: Apple’s Showing Off Its New iPads on October 16th
Re/code saysApple will show the world its newest iPad updates on October 16th. Rumor has it a new Retina iMac will also make an appearance, as will the public release of OS X Yosemite. Apple will use the event to reveal two new iPads—the sixth-generation full-sizer and the third-generation iPad Mini. Reports indicate that Apple … Continued
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Nobody has any idea who drew the Sriracha rooster logo
Sriracha hot chili sauce isn’t just a condiment, it’s a food nerd culture movement, and the nuclear red goop’s rooster logo serves both as visual shorthand and a nickname—”rooster sauce.” But nobody knows who first penned that iconic cock, not even the man who founded the company. Modern Farmer sat down with David Tran, founder … Continued
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