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The Real-Life King Kong Story of the Land Lobster
If you think this island looks like it might be the secret, centuries-old hideout of a gigantic creature, you’re absolutely right. Welcome to Ball’s Island, the ancient former volcano that’s also the home of the land lobster. At first glance, the land lobster (Dryococelus australis) looks like the nightmarish spawn of a cockroach and a … Continued
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Glowing Bubbles Turn Any Occasion Into a Kid-Safe Rave
I don’t know why black lights make everything cooler, but they do. And if your ten-year-old has been asking for a rave-themed birthday party, these Tekno Black Light Bubbles are the perfect favor. You know, instead of psychedelic drugs and alcohol. The $4 bottles are available in blue or gold colors, and have the added … Continued
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Even the Most Incompetent Chef On Earth Has No Need For a Stupid Banana Slicer
My immediate reaction of flying into a tirade against useless kitchen gadgets is probably going to end with me having a heart attack in Williams-Sonoma one day. But ridiculous crap like this Hutzler banana peeler needs to be called out. When ripe and edible, bananas are one of the easiest foods to cut. You could … Continued
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W-fi Sensor Gives Your Dying Plants a Voice To Plead For Help
If you’ve been using Koubachi’s iOS app to remember when it’s time to water your plants, the company’s new wireless sensor will give your greenery an even better fighting chance of survival if you’re lacking a green thumb. Whereas the app used your location, the local soil conditions, and the type of plant to make … Continued
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A Retro-Styled Trailer To Complement Your VW Camper Van
There’s nothing stopping you from pulling it behind a modern minivan, but with its retro-styled curves and paint job, the Dub Box camper trailer will look far more at home hitched to an iconic VW Microbus. Its standard configuration includes a dining area for up to four people, fold-down beds for two, a two ring … Continued
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How Do the Mysterious Floating Balls On This Watch Work: Sorcery?
If you want to slap a hefty price tag on a watch, fine craftsmanship and precious jemstones don’t cut it anymore. You need a gimmick, like a sprinkling of moon dust, or the magical floating balls in Christophe Claret’s new X-Trem-1. As you’ve probably already figured out, the secret, sadly, isn’t magic. Instead, the hollow … Continued
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Designer Tees Repel Mosquitoes While Keeping You En Vogue
The next time you hit the great outdoors, you don’t have to worry about packing enough bug spray to stave off mosquitoes as long as your pack is filled with these insect-repelling stylish shirts from 6 Legged Tees. The shirts are treated with a special process that binds an insect-repelling chemical called permethrin to their … Continued
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Mercedes Makes an Invisible Minivan: I Hope This Becomes an Official Option
Mercedes claims that its new fuel cell technology results in vehicles with no emissions, so it’s as if they’re invisible to the environment. And to drive this fact home, literally, they created a vehicle that was invisible to everything else. Well, at least on one side it is. Half of the vehicle was covered in … Continued
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Beef Straws Will Obviously Make Any Beverage Better
They’re designed to be used with more savory drinks like a bloody mary, but there’s no way these edible beef straws—made from hollowed out Slim Jims—won’t improve the flavor of any beverage. A pack of 30 will cost you $34, so Benny’s Bloody Mary Beef Straws certainly aren’t a cheaper alternative to regular plastic drinking … Continued
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The Instruction Manual For This Ikea Pre-Fab House Must Be an Encyclopedia
It turns out all that Ikea furniture you’ve been self-assembling was just practice for the company’s new line of pre-fab homes. Working with the US-based IdeaBox, the Swedish company helped design the aktiv, which of course comes filled with Ikea furniture. Just like their affordable dressers and beds, the 53 x 14 foot one-bedroom prefabricated … Continued
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Smoke Ring Gun Could Deliver Pepper Spray At a Blinding 90MPH
Smoke rings from a toy gun don’t do much more than entertain a child. But by giving them an electrical charge, a company called Battelle has discovered a way to make them more useful for firefighting and even crowd control. Its new gun has a special cylinder on the end that creates vortex rings that … Continued
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Show Off Your Savvy Investments With Stock Market Performance Jewelry
If you’ve recently made a particularly profitable stock investment and want to show it off, Paul Kweton has created a line of jewelry that turns a boring stock performance chart into fashionable wrist adornments. His Embrace-Stock pieces are made with the assistance of Shapeways’ 3D printing service, and are available in two and three stock … Continued
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Propane-Powered Nerf Gun Is Strong Enough To Dent a Whiteboard
Nerf guns are obviously designed with limited kick to be safe for kids. But if you’re older, and irresponsible, you crave something with a little more firepower. Which is what led Make’s Dan Spangler to build this propane-powered dart cannon. It’s assembled from PVC pipe and is fueled by a BernzOmatic propane torch, which gives … Continued
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Artists Give Siri Physical Form
Siri is a lot of things to a lot of people—unmotivational fitness coach, mildly-incompetent navigator, and tin-eared first runner-up in a two-AI contest to name just a few. But now a group of artists have given Siri a human touch by supposing what the automated assistant would look like in the flesh. These are actually … Continued
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Researchers Discover the Dolphin Handshake
Marine biologists have been recording the “signature” whistles of captive dolphins for decades but have never been sure of their function. However a new study suggests that these personalized calls are in fact the the cetacean equivalent of shaking hands and trading business cards. There are a lot of assholes in the ocean and just … Continued
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Slo-Mo Flybys, Big Guys Jumping Little Guys, and Some Smashing Pumpkins
Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for Gizmodo’s newest feature, The Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit to the left, yo. Click here for more hits from the … Continued
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How Auto-Tune and Digital Recording Suck the Life Out of Music
For the bedroom musician, recording was a pain until software gave them an option that was fast, flexible and sonically indistinguishable to the untrained ear. Then the pros went crazy with all of that power and turned making music into a mad science of sonic construction. The trouble is that the tools that turned the … Continued
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Yes, This Is a Neoprene Keg Coozie
Dude. Dude, Bro. Call Chet and the other pledges, tell them to stop cleaning the kegerator Ox threw up into. Tonight’s rager is back on. We’ll keep the ponies cold with these giant coozies, what are they called? KegSkins? Righteous. The KegSkin is constructed from neoprene and operates in precisely the same manner as its … Continued
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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: A Totally Unreasonable Will
I’m a simple man with simple wants. The simplest of which is to die a billionaire, just for the satisfaction of putting my heirs through inconceivably trials and tribulations for the rights to my riches. It’s the most fun you can have in the afterlife. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including an … Continued
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OLED Lights Will Make Future Audis Glow Like Jellyfish
Like a bioluminescent creature rising from the depths, these OLED lighting concepts from Audi are simply otherworldly. Eat your heart out, KITT. Audi demonstrated the new lighting today at the Audi Electronics Center in Ingolstadt. As you can see, the R8 and Q7 both feature flat-panel OLED displays running the length of the vehicle—eight segments … Continued