- Water Tower Chairs, Cloud City, and More [Most Beautiful Items Of The Week]
There's a smorgasbord of lovely things for you to feast your eyes on this week. From chairs made from an old water tower to a wooden surf board, you'll have plenty of to enjoy in this week's most beautiful items. More »
  
- Avengers Origins, US Weekly, and More [Ipad Apps Of The Week]
The best iPad apps of the week give you plenty of weekend reading material with comic books and gossip mags.There's also have a new way to explore works of art. Get ready to fire up your tablet. More »
- Foodspotting, The Weather Channel, and More [Iphone Apps Of The Week]
We're giving you the forecast, a diet tool, a fun photo app, and so much more in this week's best iPhone apps. You'll also be managing all your tasks better and feasting your eyes on all kinds of delicious food. More »
- Cipher Sender, CloudOn, and More [Apps Of The Week]
You'll be saving money and packing your social calendar with this week's best Android apps. Whether you're looking to fill your belly or rest your head for the night, we've got you covered. More »
- What if the iPhone Was Responsible for the Evolution of Man? [IPhone]
If the iPhone was the catalyst for human evolution, it probably would have looked something like this 2001-inspired iPhone dock, which combines Lego, Apple and Stanley Kubrick in a single, glorious entity. Consider it your alpha and omega, [Reddit via Wired Design] More »
- Can You Turn Cheap, Shitty Beer Into Good Beer? [Happy Hour]
You know what's great about cheap, shitty beer? The cheap part. The end. Sure, it's fun to be nostalgic about the first beer you ever drank or whatever, but if someone leaves a bunch of crappy beer in my fridge, I just want to use some kind of magic spell to turn it into something delicious. Could such a thing be possible? More »
- Insane Skywalking Russians Make Your Stomach Drop With New Daredevil Video [Video]
Remember those crazy, skywalking Russians?? The ones who fearlessly (and stupidly) scaled extremely tall structures with no safety measures. This video raises the fad to new levels. More »
- Gizmodo Internships in New York and San Francisco [Jobs]
Hello Internet! We're looking for some interns, in New York and San Francisco. More »
- Man Loses His Penis to a Flesh-Eating Bacteria After Failed Penile Implant Surgery [WTFriday]
A man is suing one of his doctors after a surgery that was supposed to improve his sex life resulted in the loss of his penis. More »
- How Many Screws Does It Take to Get to the Center of an Exploded Fuji X100? [Cameras]
Looking at this dismantled Fuji X100, it quickly becomes apparent that staring at exploded gadgets will never get old. Left for dead after suffering fatal water damage, the X100 donated it's body to the internet, providing eye candy for us all to ogle at. More »
- NSFW: The Sex Toys That Will Make the Future More Orgasmic [Video]
According to a new study that I just made up, sex and orgasms are fun. Fortunately, the evolution of technology doesn't stop at smartphones; it wants to make our sex-lives better. Here's a quick look at some of the latest tech-tastic sex toys. More »
- How Does an 800-Year-Old Giant Tree Go Missing? [WTFriday]
Enterprising tree poachers have stolen a gold, er, woodmine of a target: an 800-year-old red cedar tree that's one of the largest in the Vancouver Island area. It's gone now and it was stolen under a two-part operation that's been underway for the past year. More »
- How to Be Popular on Twitter [User Manual]
Whether you are or not, everyone just wants to be loved and envied. No, shh, it's true. And thanks to the ease of the internet, you can finally realize the dream. Here's how to be the center of Twitter attention. More »
- Microsoft Will Give Students a Free Xbox 360 If They Buy a Windows PC [Dealzmodo]
No one will like you if in college if you don't have a laptop. Kidding! But seriously, in college, a laptop is your life. Microsoft wants to help you kiddies out: Just like last year, if you buy a Windows PC, it'll throw in a free Xbox 360. More »
- This HP Touchpad Is Your Fire-Sale-Reborn Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]
I'm looking for a replacement for my laptop. It's not broken, just since starting this working-online thing, I've become feeble. I need something light to carry around with me. I'd be more than happy to just leave it all up to my phone, but there's only so much typing I can do on such a tiny screen. I'm in serious need of something now. And that one company's tablet looks great, but isn't it just a little pricey? Yeah. That's right. I'm cheap. It's OK. More »
- Apple FaceTime Over 3G Seems Closer Than Ever [Apple]
With my loved ones long away from me, I have missed the ability to use my iPhone's FaceTime over 3G a few times. Even if the quality would have been bad. Well, it seems that Apple is really getting ready for it, according to this screenshot that just appeared in iOS 5.1.1. More »
- Dominate the Waves Aboard This Gorgeous Wooden Honeycomb [Video]
Today's conventional polyurethane foam surfboards are lightweight, strong, and maneuverable. But that comes at the cost of a more jarring ride in rough seas—not to mention PU isn't exactly an environmentally-friendly material. So New Zealander Mike Grobelny is taking carving back to its roots with a CNC-milled, hollow wood board. More »
- Someone Put a Giant Soda Fountain Shower On a Beach [Video]
I can't wait to go back to Brazil and spend some time in Rio, the famous city where people dance in thongs while showering under giant soda fountains in the middle of the bea—wait. What? More »
- The Wonderfully Nerdy Intricacies of Brewing Good Coffee [Video]
Coffee is an extremely fickle drink when it comes to its creation. Weight, temperature, and time are all key factors in brewing a great cup, but those variables rarely stay the same for the making of any given cup. What you can master, however, is technique. And when it comes to brewing pour-over coffee with the Kalita Wave Dripper, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better how-to video than this. More »
- A List of Better Ways to Spend $41 Than a Share of Facebook [Facebook Ipo]
Facebook is now a publicly traded company, weeeeeeeee! What you didn't buy in? We didn't either. Here's what to do with your $41 instead. More »
- The One Place That Needs More Censorship [Video]
This week's Internet-based teapot tempest swirled around the venerable TED talks, which were accused by one presenter of censoring his talk because he spoke truth to power and talked about income inequality. More »
- SpaceX Falcon 9: The Future of Commercial Space Flight Blasts Off Tomorrow [Monster Machines]
Until just a few years ago, manned spaceflight was the exclusive sandbox of not just nations, but of the world's select superpowers—the countries with enough disposable income to say, "F-ck it. Let's go to the Moon." Those days are over, sadly, slowly smothered by shrinking budgets and realigning priorities. More »
- 15 Awesome Art Installations Painted in Light [Video]
With the proper projector, the world is your canvas. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 15 of the most innovative building facade projections since MIT employed one as a giant Tetris board. More »
- Badass Fitness Weirdo Runs 13 Miles on Treadmill Attached to Hot Air Balloon [Video]
Rob Ginnivan just performed a batshit fitness publicity stunt. The Australian just ran a half-marathon on a generator-powered treadmill floating on a hot air balloon. Unconventional! At least it's for charity. More »
- The Mark Zuckerberg Wealth-O-Meter: Sad, Absurd, And You Know You're Curious [Facebook]
As a species, we are very stupid and fascinated with things that have nothing to do with us. It's what drives ordinarily sane people to, say, stand in Times Square and take photos of rich people doing rich people things on jumbotrons. And also what drives us to follow, minute-by-minute, the outrageous wealth of a 28-year-old billionaire. More »
- Your Brain on Facebook [Facebook]
Today is all about Facebook's big $100 billion IPO. But how did the social media titan get so titanic to begin with? Harvard Business Review's David Rock explains that Facebook is so far ahead of human practice, it actually hacks our brains. More »
- Facebook Stock Traded at a Record-Breaking 2.7 Million Shares Per Second [Facebook Ipo]
The Facebook IPOcalypse continues, free falling first, now barely recovering. We don't know if it's going to be the most successful opening IPO in history but, right now, it seems they may have broken the record for the fastest traded record in history. More »
- Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It's Public [Facebook]
Facebook is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it's already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can. More »
- Watch How This Time-Expanding Car Commercial Was Painstakingly Stitched Together [Video]
It turns out Phantom cameras are useful for more than just destroying household items and blowing stuff up. This Fiat Abarth spot made use of the slow-motion wonder cam in this fantastical "still moving image," and the behind the scenes is pretty amazing. More »
- The Censorship Towel Blurs Out Your Naughty Bits [Wish You Were Here]
Nudity: it can make things uncomfortable in the gym sauna and the FCC does not condone it. But hey, it's funny! And it's even funnier when it's covered up by shoddy pixelation. The Censorship Towel brings to life the familiar blur used to conceal butts on television. More »
- The 11 Funniest Tweets About Facebook IPOpocalypse [Facebook]
Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There's a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let's laugh today. More »
- All Models This Photoshopped Should Come With a Toolbar [Image Cache]
H&M has apologized for ads that critics say depict an unrealistically tan and skinny model. Sure Isabeli Fontana looks emaciated and fried, but she's Brazilian, so that makes sense right? Bullshit. This person could never exist. A Hamburg street artist shows us how Photoshop has destroyed our ideal of beauty with the cleverest adbust we've seen in years. [Newser and Imnotbogusky via Buzzfeed] More »
- These Mac Pro Updates Are Not What We Were Expecting [Video]
Yes, these Mac Pro updates are not what you and I were expecting, but they are the only updates you are going to see in a very long time anyway. Or ever. More »
- Kanye's Epic, Seven-Screen DONDA Movie Coming Next Week [Kanye West]
Remember when Kanye went on an epic rant back in January about his new technology-fueled initiative DONDA? Remember the talk of his quasi-sci-fi short film set in 2016, which would be projected onto seven screens? Yeah, he wasn't lying. It's happening, and it'll see the light of day next week. More »
- Mark Zuckerberg's Newest Facebook Status: I'm a Real Billionaire, You Bitches [Image Cache]
In case you just woke from a coma at the center of the earth's core, Facebook's IPO blasts off today. And here's a casually obnoxious reminder from Mark Zuckerberg, who has something to do with this, if you weren't sure. More »
- Can't Afford the Synthesizer of Your Dreams? Draw It Instead [Video]
You spend days at work in the studio, cranking out track after track with your trusty MIDI controller. On a whim, you decide you're tired of using it, so you wad it up into a ball, throw it away, and draw a new one. Wait, what? Yeah, SketchSynth will someday make this a reality. More »
- Man Tries to Sell Six Dead Babies On the Internet [WTFriday]
The police have arrested a man for trying to sell six dead babies on the internet. The babies were being sold to be used in witchcraft. The ignorance and cruelty of the human species never ceases to disgust me. More »
- Poor People Photograph Rich People on Times Square Jumbotron [Facebook]
Today is Facebook IPO day, which means a select group rich people will become richer beyond our ability to comprehend wealth. Outside the NASDAQ money castle, the peasantry has lined up, cameras in hand. Look, son—billionaires! More »
- How to Temporarily Blind Yourself [Science]
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be temporarily blind? Of course you have. In fact, there is a way to trick your body into becoming blind, at least for a few minutes. More »
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