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The Most Popular Seats on an Airplane Are At the Very Back
Where do you like sitting on an airplane? At the very front or the very back? At a window or an aisle? According to research by British Airways, the most popular seats on a Boeing 747 are 51B/51C, 52B/52C, 51H/51J and 52 H/52J. That’s all the way in the back of the plane. Those seats … Continued
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Iran’s New Uranium Production Facility: Because the Rest of the World Wasn’t Pissed Off Enough Yet
Taking a page from the North Korean Handbook for Successful International Diplomacy, Iran has recently announced that it is inaugurating a new addition to its Ardakan Yellowcake Production Plant. The facility will handle the processing of the 60 some-odd tons of uranium excavated from the nearby Saghand uranium mine after the latest international round of … Continued
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Instagraph: Your Instagram Workaround for WP8
Instagraph is an app that posts your photos to Instagram from Windows Phone. Sure, it’s not the official app. But it’s about as close as you’re going to get for the foreseeable future. What does it do? The makers of Instagraph have figured out a way to get photos queued up to post without using … Continued
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The Best Way to Paint Is with Slow Motion Explosions
Blowing stuff up is a blast in more ways than one, but only occasionally can you venture to call it art. This is an edge case. Ever an explosive duo, the Slow Mo guys have moved from pans of gasoline to bottles of paint and firecrackers and made some pretty colorful explosions. https://gizmodo.com/kicking-a-pan-of-flaming-gasoline-is-the-best-and-worst-5968751 The results … Continued
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This Credit Card Sized Backup Battery Is a Different Kind of Charge Card
Unless you’re completely killing your smartphone’s battery on a daily basis, you don’t need to haul around a massive backup battery. A single emergency charge is all most of us need for those days when we talk or stream more than we intended, which makes the Tarot’s 1,500 mAh capacity the perfect balance of size … Continued
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Ultra-Slim Multitools Are a Smuggler’s Dream Come True
Stat Key, makers of fine novelty-shaped keys, is expanding its brand to include a line of ultra-thin and ultra-simple tools called the Every Day Carry Multitools. Made from stainless steel covered in military grade anticorrosive ceramic, there’s a good chance the Stat EDC tools will outlive you. Available in four different versions depending on your … Continued
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The Science of Rocket Fuel Explained With Soda Bottles and Slo-Mo
Rocket engines require two important ingredients to fire: fuel, and an oxidizer. And to get the most bang for your buck with those ingredients, you need to find the perfect recipe. As the BBC series Bang Goes the Theory demonstrates with three plastic soda bottles, maxing out on either ingredient doesn’t produce as effective a … Continued
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Stolen Laptop Is Sending Its Owner Secret Photos From Its New Home in Iran (Updated)
Dom Del Torto is an animator currently living in the UK. Dom Del Torto’s laptop is a MacBook Pro currently living 3,000 miles away in Iran. This was not a planned separation. In fact, Del Torto would desperately like for his laptop (and iPad, at that) to return, but both were stolen in early February … Continued
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What Happens When You Push Concrete Beyond Its Limits?
Common sense dictates that you don’t want to be anywhere near a concrete pylon when the load it’s bearing is too much: when all that weight comes crashing down, you’ll find out quickly how much weight your body can shoulder as well. But if that wasn’t reason enough to stay away from structurally unsound foundations, … Continued
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The Most Over-Engineered Flask Known To Man
Finding ways to stealthily transport alcohol has been a long-time obsession for man. We’ve used just about anything imaginable to do so, too, including fruit and animal bladders. Around the 18th century, though, we found a more refined and possibly more sanitary way to do so with the hip flask, which, at the time, was … Continued
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Monoprice’s 27-Inch Hi-Res Monitor Is Your Deal of the Day
Monoprice is taking pre-orders on a 27-inch, 1440p IPS monitor. It runs at 2560×1440—the same resolution as a 27″ iMac. The panel is even made by LG, which is Apple’s supplier for both the Thunderbolt Display and the iMac. This is a big, beautiful, pixel-dense screen. Fans of big, beautiful displays first noticed cheap WQHD … Continued
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Watch the Mind-Bending Mathematical Films of an Early Computer Artist
Before there was Adobe Creative Suite, digital art degrees, and New Aesthetic, there was Manfred Mohr grappling with ideas of logic, programming, and what he could make computers do in the early 1970s. Now, you can watch some of Mohr’s beautiful experiments on YouTube. Access to computing equipment wasn’t easy 40 years ago, let alone … Continued
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Did The US Mars Orbiter Just Find The Soviets’ Mars 3 Lander?
According to the fresh news from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory there is a chance that four pieces of hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 appear in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Vitali Erogov from Russia is the founder and administrator of the largest Russian Internet community about … Continued
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This iOS Remixing App Lets You Pump Up the Ninja Jamms
The legendary electronica label Ninja Tune has done what many have contemplated, but no one has crushed: It launched an app, Ninja Jamm, that lets anyone remix music with (relative) ease, using a variety of high-quality releases from world-renowned DJs, producers, and other artists. If this doesn’t start you remixing music, nothing will. By simply … Continued
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The Science of Six Packs
If you’ve always yearned for a washboard stomach, and you can do a thousand crunches but you still aren’t seeing results, you’re not alone. But never fear! Everyone has a six pack under there (somewhere), you’ve just got to know what to do to get it out in the open. Welcome to Fitmodo, Gizmodo’s gym … Continued
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The Old DVD Player Sitting in Your Garage Can Test for HIV
Remember DVD players? Well, looks like they won’t be going the way of VHS tapes and cassettes (ask your parents) just yet. Because researchers have just figured out a way to turn them into affordable, blood-analyzing, cellular-imaging, laser-scanning microscopes capable of completing HIV tests in mere minutes. To demonstrate the power of his new “Lab-on-DVD,” … Continued
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Philips’ Prototype LED Could Replace Fluorescents and Save the US Billions Annually
Office parks and convenience stores across the country rely on fluorescent lights. These flickering gas-filled tubes suck down far less energy than the incandescent bulbs they replaced but still consume some 200 TWh of electricity every year. This new super-efficient LED prototype from Philips, however, puts florescents to shame. It’s a matter of lighting efficiency—how … Continued
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How to Deal With Your Google Data After You’re Dead
Google just launched an “Inactive Account Manager” to help you deal with your data after you die. The tool lets you decide what to do with you data after your account has been inactive for three, six, nine or 12 months. This is Google’s death tool. The Inactive Account Manager is designed to either grant … Continued
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One World Government and the War of Tomorrow
A bright rainbow hangs in the sky, descending just over the horizon. The many people of Earth march slowly toward it, leaving behind the crumbling fist of war, oppression and international borders. Nothing less than the future is over that horizon; a future that is defined by a new world order where people are able … Continued
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