The Many Insane Flavors of Improvised Prison Weapons

Heading to the place where a prison’s homicide evidence is kept, you might expect to see a few sharpened objects—maybe a bludgeon or two. You would be underprepared. More »

Enough With The Ridiculous Product Code Names

You see that photo right above these words? That’s a fucking ice cream sandwich. You know what’s on the next generation of Android phones? An operating system. Android 4.0 to be specific. I defy you to eat it. More »

How To Make Your Apartment Buzzer Ring Every Phone in Your Home

You ditched your landline years ago. Smart! Because the one thing it was good at—buzzing people into your building—can be done better with your smartphone anyway. Here’s how to have that buzzer ring any phone you want. More »

Six Tools to Carry Out a Successfully Spooky Ghost Hunt

Halloween is just about here, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait a week to go ghost hunting. Those things scare the shit out of people year round. That’s why we’ve picked six essential tools to help you prove they exist. More »

The DIY Wizards of San Quentin

Prison Hacks are the big house’s answer to Gizmodo’s homemod. Prison is designed to be uncomfortable—it’s prison, after all. But even incarceration can’t lock up the spirit of human ingenuity. What prisoners do with extremely limited resources is incredible. More »

Technology in America’s Most Notorious Prison

Do prison inmates surf the Internet? Do they have gadgets? Do they make gadgets? Do they make weapons? Where do they get their porn and booze? More »

Steve Jobs in His Own Words: Life and the Afterlife

Part of 60 Minutes’ terrific interview with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson fixates, naturally, on mortality. As much as Jobs focused on perfecting the material, he always had an eye on the spiritual. Hear him talk about living and dying. More »

Six Tools to Survive the Rapture (Again)

Okay, so we sort of blew it back in May. False alarm! All of you non-believers with your funny jokes might have missed the part where THE REAL RAPTURE IS TODAY AND YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. But don’t worry (unless your worry is for your eternal soul)—Giz can get you through this. More »

Facebook Is Better Than Sex

A thoroughly scientific study by sociological journal Cosmopolitan says 20 percent of women prefer Facebook over penis-in-vagina activity. This number sounds low to me. In our era, Facebook’s made almost everything enjoyable and worthwhile about sex obsolete. Let’s get poking. More »

All the Best Leaks from the Steve Jobs Biography

Advance copies of the hotly anticipated Steve Jobs biography are already in some hands—meaning personal details we never knew about the man are exposed for the first time. Fights with Obama over food, diamond rings, and DNA sequencing. More »