A lot of you participate in Gizmodo’s weekly Happy Hour, but most of you (intelligently!) aren’t taking photos of it. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, let’s celebrate the beauty of booze. Photograph a cocktail (and get us the recipe!).
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Christmas may be over, but there’s always next year. And if it is treats under the tree and tweets on the tree that you want, you can prepare for next December right now. Instructables member Gelotology will show you how to make this Tweetball. That’s right. It’s an ornament that displays a stream of tweets from a certain username, hashtag or keyword.
It is especially handy if you are waiting for a tweet from Santa. Gelotology made it with an Arduino controller and two PHP scripts. If you want to make one for yourself, you can find step-by-step instructions at the link above. You’ve got plenty of time to get it done, so you have no excuse.
Santa will be very impressed with you next Christmas.
[via Hack A Day via Neatorama]
With the Christmas season behind us, and the new year here, it’s time to
look at the coolest businesses that helped make the holidays magical
this year. Take note because these businesses made for a successful 2013
holiday season, and might just help make it a little more merry and
bright when it rolls around again in 2014. And what better time to think
about Christmas businesses than now – as we cross the threshold into
the no longer appropriate to have a tree up, or lights on – territory.
Botanists have been busy trying to iron out the pesky needle drop from Christmas trees for years by crossing different species of fir. But now, scientists are getting involved—and the results could mean that your next tree looks or smells completely different.
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We’ve seen our share of gingerbread TARDIS, but this one takes the cake, er, gingerbread – because it is decked out in holiday decorations. It has Christmas lights, a wreath and snow all over.
Redditor Fortunekitty really went the extra mile (or is it years – or light years when you are talking about a time machine that can travel through space?) with this gingerbread TARDIS.
Say, when a TARDIS gingerbread house goes stale, can it just go back in time and be fresh again? For that matter, can it even become stale? Does it get all timey wimey? These are questions for a mind much sharper than my own. All I know is that this TARDIS is just waiting to be devoured.
[via Neatorama]
It’s Christmas Day. You’ve carefully wrapped the Beats headphones your daughter’s been dreaming of, and she’s just about to see that dream become reality. Looking on with glee, you watch as she tears the paper from her brand new set of cans only to find that these were cans of a markedly different sort. Tuna, specifically. Chunk light.
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Keep seeing tweets with people giving out because they didn’t get the right iPhone.. Shut up and be greatful you shower of bastards.
— Todd Kraines (@_girl_3_) December 26, 2013
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It’s a lovely thing when a chorus of voices comes together to perform that Christmas classic, Carol of the Bells. But hey, who needs humans? This season’s audio-visual holiday card from the Glasgow School of Art is an electronic masterpiece, bringing together a selection of vintage Mac computers, a Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum + 1, and a SEGA Mega Drive to make beautiful music together.
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The 4th of July is great, but every holiday is improved by explosions. Every. Holiday. And slow motion? Even better. So here, for your Yuletide pleasure, are some Christmas baubles blowing up in festive slow-mo.
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Christmas is upon us—finally, huzzah!—but that just might mean that even the most avowedly pro-holiday people out there are tired of hearing the same old festive standards again (and again and again…). If you’re looking to mix up the playlist
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