Mar 08
A man has had the first ever 3D-printed skull-replacement fitted, swapping out a whole 75 per cent of the bone in his head for a man-made replacement. More »
Mar 07
Gizmodo friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet recently swapped out his Canon 1D X for a Canon A2e—a film camera he hadn’t touched in 14 years. Restrained by only a roll of 36 exposures, Laforet actually loved going back to shooting with film. He writes about his experience below. More »
Mar 07
It seems it’s pretty much safe to assume that if someone has your phone in their possession they’ll be able to get through the lockscreen: now, the Samsung Galaxy S III has a security bug too. You can gain full access to a locked Galaxy S III with a series of simple button presses. More »
Mar 06
EU competition police have handed Microsoft an enormous $730m fine, after the software giant admitted that a “technical error” saw new Windows machines arriving without the option to choose a default web browser. More »
Mar 05
We’ve shown you 6D’s new helmet technology before – elastomeric dampers absorb the forces of low-speed impacts, an area where traditional styrofoam-and-shell helmets fail – now, that function is better explained in this new video. More »
Mar 05
The Romans were undoubtedly master engineers. They were experts at civil engineering, building roads, improving sanitation, inventing Roman concrete, and constructing aqueducts that adhere to tolerances impressive even by today’s standards. Perhaps the best evidence of their aptitude is the fact that many of those structures still stand today, almost 2000 years later. They even began dabbling in technology vastly ahead of their time. Hero of Alexandria drew up plans for a rudimentary steam engine in his Spiritalia seu Pneumatica. He called it the aeolipile. More »
Mar 05
Some briny deeps are brinier than others. The Atlantic Ocean has two huge “deserts” of extra-salty water, the result of little rainfall and lots of evaporation. More »
Mar 05
And not just a tennis ball from 15 miles away, but a tennis ball 15 miles away and moving at three times the speed of sound. That’s the sort of sensitivity the radar operators on the UK’s HMS Iron Duke will have the chance to work with when it returns to service next year. More »
Mar 04
BioLite CampStove: Charges Your Phone and Warms Your Tush, By Burning Twigs
Posted in: Today's Chili
Stoves have come a long way since the humble primus: turbo flames, jet boilers and ultra-light portables are just some of the options around. But now there’s the BioLite, a stove that burns twigs and charges your phone all at once. I know, it should erect your tent for you too. More »
Mar 04
Rethinking the New Yahoo Homepage
Posted in: Today's Chili
When was the last time you ever checked out Yahoo.com? It’s been a while, right? I’m sure by now you’ve at least typed that url in once to check out the new homepage design. How long did you stay and check it out? Probably not long at all. You see, Yahoo! needs to do a lot more than just simplify a few things here and there. They need change – exciting, surprising, bold change! You know, sometimes it’s really hard to believe that this site still has more than 700 million monthly visitors. What are they doing there? More »
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