These objects seems to vary from shapeless blob to chaotic scribble—but they are in fact short-lived structures that have been captured in fine 3D detail for the first time. Can you work out what they are? More »
Noah Zerkin spotted Sergey Brin riding New York’s downtown 3 train last night—and the man from Google happened to have a pair of the company’s glasses strapped to his face. Quite why he needs to wear them on public transport is unclear, but combined with his outfit they make him look like he should feature in the next Mission:Impossible movie. [Noah Zerkin via TNW] More »
You probably have seen the extreme smog in Beijing, so bad that you can observe it from space. But this shot blew my mind just because it looks like a frame from Blade Runner. So awesome—if you don’t live there. [Twitter] More »
Here’s a dinner party where it would be fun to pull up a seat: a pizza banquet that brought together twelve of the biggest names rattling around Silicon Valley, including Jony Ive, Marissa Mayer and Dick Costolo. I wonder what they talked about? More »
If you plotted out all the check-ins made on Foursquare, you should be able to get a pretty good handle on the geographic layout of a city. It’s like modern day map making or check-in cartography. So do you think you can recognize a city just by its Foursquare check-ins? More »
Beijing is choking – as these two pictures vividly demonstrate. On the right is the city’s skyline on Monday; on the left the same view on 4 February 2012. The suffocating smog is not just bad for health, it may also have a more potent effect on climate change than previously thought. More »
Facebook, home of the Like, News Feed and Timeline, is now a social search company. Or at least it desperately wants to be. AllThingsD Senior Editor and friend of Gizmodo Mike Isaac snapped a picture of the new front sign at Facebook HQ and it’s now the Graph Search logo. Before it was the ubiquitous thumbs up Like logo. More »
Last night in Saltsjöbanan, Sweden, a young woman decided to try her hand at driving a train. It didn’t end well: she careered off the end of line and straight into this house. More »
We’re a massive fan of the invisible Chinese artist Liu Bolin, and he’s at it again. A new exhibition at Galerie Paris-Beijing is showcasing his latest work and our favorite—unsurprisingly!—is this one, where he’s hiding in front of a wall of mobile phones. Can you spot him? [Galerie Paris-Beijing via Design Boom] More »
The Onion joked about people getting phones with shattered screens but, if my screen breaks, I will set this background and keep using it until I bleed to death through my fingers. So cool. [Imgur via Reddit] More »
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