http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/when-is-call-of-duty-going-to-look-this-good/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/when-is-call-of-duty-going-to-look-this-good/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:53 +0000 Jesus Diaz http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168772 If you told me this image was a frame capture from the next Call of Duty game for Xbox One, I could almost believe you. Ish. Thanks to the digital camera and postprocessing work, its unrealistic perfection, dramatic illumination and striking mix of colours make the photo look like a computer render. But still, real-time [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/when-is-call-of-duty-going-to-look-this-good/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/cockroaches-are-evolving-to-avoid-poison-will-rule-us-all/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/cockroaches-are-evolving-to-avoid-poison-will-rule-us-all/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:54 +0000 Ashley Feinberg http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168764 Think twice before stomping the lights out of the next cockroach you come across—you’re going to want them to return the favour after the takeover. Thanks to new research on this most vexatious blight of mankind, we can now say more or less definitively that the despised cockroach will, in fact, come to rule us [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/cockroaches-are-evolving-to-avoid-poison-will-rule-us-all/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/you-dont-hate-the-xbox-one-youre-just-jealous/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/you-dont-hate-the-xbox-one-youre-just-jealous/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:06 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168532 Gamers seem to hate the Xbox One. If you wade into a comments section or ask a man-on-the-street at your corner shop, you’ll hear a variety of reasons why the Xbox One is not for gamers—why it’s a horrible misstep, presumed dead on arrival. Some of these criticisms will ring a little truer than others, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/you-dont-hate-the-xbox-one-youre-just-jealous/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/it-definitely-looks-beautiful-inside-the-ring-nebula/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/it-definitely-looks-beautiful-inside-the-ring-nebula/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168580 The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, reveal that the glowing gas shroud is actually a rather different shape to what’s previously been observed. Robert O’Dell of Vanderbilt [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/it-definitely-looks-beautiful-inside-the-ring-nebula/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/iran-has-hacked-us-energy-companies/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/iran-has-hacked-us-energy-companies/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 18:00:03 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168537 According to the WSJ, Iran has hacked US oil, gas and power companies. The hackers were able to gain access to control-system software “that could allow them to manipulate oil or gas pipelines”. Basically, the hackers are far enough inside that people are starting to get worried. US officials say that these break ins from [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/iran-has-hacked-us-energy-companies/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-ad-gets-eaten-away-by-bugs-to-show-the-dangers-of-crack-cocaine/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-ad-gets-eaten-away-by-bugs-to-show-the-dangers-of-crack-cocaine/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 17:30:50 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168732 In an attempt to illustrate the harmful effects of using crack cocaine, Talent, a Brazilian ad agency created a series of posters featuring images of addicts that are slowly eaten away and destroyed by Flour beetle larvae—or mealworms. The posters were actually made of thin sheets of dough instead of paper, to encourage the larvae [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-ad-gets-eaten-away-by-bugs-to-show-the-dangers-of-crack-cocaine/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sound-bulbs-are-vintage-speakers-that-screw-right-into-light-sockets/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sound-bulbs-are-vintage-speakers-that-screw-right-into-light-sockets/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:52 +0000 Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168724 Dominic Wilcox has a knack for the absurd. He’s designed gold-plated luxury skipping stones, anti-theft bike stickers, and a post-it note tattoo for hand-written notes. His latest design, though, is both absurd and incredibly useful: a conversion system that makes it possible to screw old sound systems into light sockets. Wilcox calls them Sound Bulbs, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sound-bulbs-are-vintage-speakers-that-screw-right-into-light-sockets/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sixth-form-student-builds-working-submarine-possibly-wants-to-defect/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sixth-form-student-builds-working-submarine-possibly-wants-to-defect/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:53 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168715 A sixth-form sub usually means your teacher’s sick and you get a free period to screw around. But for one student, its meaning is a little more literal. Eighteen-year-old Justin Beckerman could be considered the reincarnation of Thomas Edison. In his brief life, Justin’s created a remote controlled cleaning machine, a helmet home theatre, and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/sixth-form-student-builds-working-submarine-possibly-wants-to-defect/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-favourite-boozy-beverage-of-classic-movie-characters-in-one-chart/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-favourite-boozy-beverage-of-classic-movie-characters-in-one-chart/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:56 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=167347 The Big Lebowski’s The Dude? White Russians. Silence of the Lambs’ Hannibal Lecter? Chianti. This awesome cocktail chart maps the drinks of choice for characters in classic books and movies. On an 18-inch by 24-inch print you’ll see a catalogue of 49 different drinks from classic literature and film — everything from The Great Gatsby [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-favourite-boozy-beverage-of-classic-movie-characters-in-one-chart/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/live-action-destiny-trailer-shows-game-footage-and-a-real-human-man/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/live-action-destiny-trailer-shows-game-footage-and-a-real-human-man/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 15:30:18 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168637 Halo-maker Bungie has released a bizarre new trailer for its forthcoming open-world shooter Destiny, which combines a live-action narration with your usual generic space marine action. The real person is Giancarlo Esposito, the smooth-talking manager of Los Pollos Hermanos in hit TV series Breaking Bad, who puts in a pleasingly menacing performance while reading Jungle Book to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/live-action-destiny-trailer-shows-game-footage-and-a-real-human-man/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-the-best-drinking-game/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-the-best-drinking-game/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 15:00:51 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168728 In this week’s random off-topic ‘Ask the Audience‘, we have a question from Stuart Henderson: he (and his liver) are dying to know what the best drinking game is? Given that we’re allegedly a nation of pissed-up students and alcoholic middle-class problem drinkers, this one should be easy. Welcome to Chatroom+, your opportunity to put those [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-the-best-drinking-game/feed/ 26 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-bbc-wasted-98m-of-your-money-and-then-binned-the-project/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-bbc-wasted-98m-of-your-money-and-then-binned-the-project/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 14:30:00 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168709 The BBC’s Digital Media Initiative was meant to modernise the way the BBC worked, produced content, and used and shared video and audio. Unfortunately, despite being labelled as “critical” to the BBC’s future, it simply wasted money and ended in failure. And a £98m-of-licence-fee-payers-money failure at that. The BBC’s chief Technology Officer, John Linwood, has [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-bbc-wasted-98m-of-your-money-and-then-binned-the-project/feed/ 24 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/your-choice-of-nintendo-wii-is-your-i-like-cheap-child-like-gaming-deal-of-the-day/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/your-choice-of-nintendo-wii-is-your-i-like-cheap-child-like-gaming-deal-of-the-day/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 14:15:41 +0000 Andy Dawson http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168717 So, the PS4 and the Xbox One are real and happening and almost certainly definitely coming to the UK sometime this year. In the meantime, let’s turn our attentions to Nintendo for a few seconds. The much-maligned Wii U console refuses to go away and the latest ‘special’ offer designed to entice you will get [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/your-choice-of-nintendo-wii-is-your-i-like-cheap-child-like-gaming-deal-of-the-day/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-to-set-up-your-microsoft-surface-pro/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-to-set-up-your-microsoft-surface-pro/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:06 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=167251 At long last. Microsoft’s giant tablet-shaped gamble has come to our sunny shores. With Windows 8 being new to many people, and the Surface needing a helluva lot of tweaking to fulfil its (buttloads of) potential, we thought we’d put together a guide to spare you the pain of working it out for yourself.   [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-to-set-up-your-microsoft-surface-pro/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/cheese-rolling-under-threat-as-police-brand-event-dangerous-and-bully-old-lady-into-submission/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/cheese-rolling-under-threat-as-police-brand-event-dangerous-and-bully-old-lady-into-submission/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:02 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168646 An 86-year-old lady has been warned not to provide her usual cheese to a Gloucestershire cheese-rolling event, after police told her she’d be the one held responsible should anyone hurt themselves during the traditional event. The historic cheese-rolling event has been taking place since the 1800s, and sees locals running down the 200-yard Cooper’s Hill just outside [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/cheese-rolling-under-threat-as-police-brand-event-dangerous-and-bully-old-lady-into-submission/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-future-of-chrome-on-your-phone-is-the-desktop/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-future-of-chrome-on-your-phone-is-the-desktop/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 13:00:39 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168683 Chrome 28 beta for Android has just hit Google Play bringing with it built-in Google Translate among other things. But what it really shows is where Google’s awesome mobile browser is going. Chrome on your phone and Chrome on the desktop are headed for a collision, and it’ll be awesome for all your phones and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-future-of-chrome-on-your-phone-is-the-desktop/feed/ 30 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-is-kim-dotcoms-latest-attempt-at-a-song/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-is-kim-dotcoms-latest-attempt-at-a-song/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:45:44 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168696 The Mega-maestro is back again, this time unveiling his latest ensemble in his undoubtedly awesome upcoming album. Listen to this and tell me it doesn’t make you laugh. An instant classic right here. I’m not sure if Dance is better or worse than his previous effort from the same album, Party Amplifier. It’s certainly catchy, but it just makes [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-is-kim-dotcoms-latest-attempt-at-a-song/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-your-least-favourite-buzzword/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-your-least-favourite-buzzword/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:30:10 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168630 I hate buzzwords. I especially hate buzzwords when they’re used by people who don’t even know what they mean just to jazz up a presentation so it sounds like their disruptive crowd-sourced social media 3-D printing platform will be a viable business idea. Mashable’s got an amazing infographic of the worst 30 contenders, but that’s [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/whats-your-least-favourite-buzzword/feed/ 34 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-glass-gets-a-custom-recovery-software/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-glass-gets-a-custom-recovery-software/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:15:15 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=168615 Since Google Glass is basically just a smartphone taped to your head, it’s no surprise that one of the staples of Android hacking, ClockworkMod Recovery, has been ported to Glass. The recovery# should let aspiring modders mess with their Glass without having to bother with the command line. This is excellent news for everyone who’s [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-glass-gets-a-custom-recovery-software/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/engineering-the-next-generation/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/engineering-the-next-generation/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:31 +0000 Commenter Indy Sidhu http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165441 January came and went this year in a jiffy. It was also this same month which saw hundreds of thousands of ambitious young people plough their way through the circuitous online methods in order to apply for admission to UK universities. Most of the eager applicants got their submissions in before the Christmas period, while [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/engineering-the-next-generation/feed/ 11