#imagecache

This Is How a Heavy Storm Looks Inside a Cruise Liner

09/07/10
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#gizexplains

Giz Explains: Why Everything Wireless is 2.4GHz

You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen. More »
Feature
09/07/10
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By John Herrman
#slingshots Click here to read How Not To Fire a Watermelon Out of a Huge Slingshot

How Not To Fire a Watermelon Out of a Huge Slingshot

If successfully launching a watermelon out of a person-sized slingshot means sending it soaring away from you at an incredibly high speed, then I guess this is pretty much the exact opposite. "Ouch" doesn't even begin to describe it. [Reddit] More »
12:20 PM
73,86373,863 views on this post, 19,763 new visitors
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By Kyle VanHemert
#sex

The Real 'Stuff White People Like’

What makes a culture unique? How are whites, blacks, Asians, whoever different from everybody else? What tastes, interests, and concepts define an ethnicity? Is there any way to make fun of other races in public and get away with it? More »
Feature
11:00 AM
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By OKCupid.com
#photography

The Year's Best Smallest Photography

Every year, Nikon's Small World photomicrography contest collects the very best in microscopic photography, and every year the results are strange, beautiful, and basically impossible to identify. This tiny cosmos, for example, is soap. Soy sauce looks even crazier: More »
09:20 AM
30,06230,062 views on this post, 11,592 new visitors
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By Kyle VanHemert
#sextoys Click here to read Man Replaces Ex-Girlfriend With Silicone Clone

Man Replaces Ex-Girlfriend With Silicone Clone

Some men buy sophisticated, ultra-realistic sex dolls choosing face models, body types, bust sizes, and even adding sensors that make them moan. This is the first time, however, that I've heard of a man cloning his ex-girlfriend in silicone. More »
01:20 AM
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By Jesus Diaz
#blockquote

Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter

Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has "racks of servers dedicated to him. I'm sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more. Updated More »
09/07/10
79,24979,249 views on this post, 19,338 new visitors
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By Jesus Diaz
#googleinstant

What Is Google Instant?

Google's just announced Google Instant! They say it's going to transform search forever—making it faster, better, stronger. But what is it, exactly? More »
01:40 PM
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By Brian Barrett
#digitalcameras

Nikon's First Pro-Worthy Point-and-Shoot

Oh, I've been waiting for this little camera for a long time: A pro-worthy Nikon point-and-shoot. After the bizarre melange of features in Nikon's last flagship camera—uh, ethernet jack?—the P7000 is nakedly all about performance. More »
12:01 AM
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By matt buchanan
#apple

Five Takes On the New Apple iPods

With the latest iPods shipping this week, you'll be wanting to know whether an upgrade is necessary—or whether to take the plunge into the wild world of iPoddery. So far, this is what the reviews are saying: More »
05:40 AM
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By Kat Hannaford
#review

Samsung Fascinate Lightning Review: When Greedy Carriers Ruin Decent Phones

Samsung's Galaxy S phones, like the Fascinate on Verizon, represent everything that's good—and bad—about Android. More »
09/07/10
89,38789,387 views on this post, 12,143 new visitors
552
By matt buchanan
#google

This Article Was Fully Composed On Google's New Automatic Writing System

From now on, instead of using the usual two dozen baboons to randomly write Gizmodo's articles, I am going to use Google Scribe, a new Google Labs application that suggests the next word or group of words as you write. More »
09:13 AM
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251
By Jesus Diaz
#hybrid

Origin's Big O Stuffs an Xbox 360 Into a Gaming Desktop Hellbeast

The ingredients that went into Origin's Big O monster are decidedly prime: six-core Xeon 5680 processor, overclocking up to 4.3GHz, crazy graphics power. And the cherry on top is an integrated, liquid-cooled Xbox 360 slim in every rig. That's nasty. More »
09/07/10
46,71246,712 views on this post, 10,478 new visitors
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By Brian Barrett
#howto Click here to read Master the Essentials: 29 Crucial PC Skills

Master the Essentials: 29 Crucial PC Skills

Do you consider yourself a power user? It's a tough question. After all, where do you draw the line? Hardware hacking? Command-line skills? Unix? These 29 essential PC skills define the core competency of any power user. More »
10:00 AM
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By Maximum PC Staff and Paul Lilly
#google Click here to read Google Is Streaming Results, No Search Button Required

Google Is Streaming Results, No Search Button Required

More »
10:54 AM
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By Brian Barrett
#googleinstant Click here to read Live: Google Instant Streaming Search Results Eliminate the Search Button

Live: Google Instant Streaming Search Results Eliminate the Search Button

The Google streaming search results are here. Already leaked, and seen in the wild by users, the new Google search updates on-the-fly, as-you-type, without you having to hit the search button when you're done. They call it Google Instant. More »
01:21 PM
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By Jason Chen
#music

How OK Go Built the Craziest Rube Goldberg Machine Yet

03/03/10
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#blockquote

NASA: Two Asteriods (sic) Passing Near Earth, No Worries

NASA tweet, just now: "Asteriods (sic) passing Earth near moon tomorrow morning..no worries." Well, I hope the guys who calculated the trajectory of the two asteroids passing "within the distance of the moon to Earth" didn't make any typos. More »
09/07/10
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By Jesus Diaz