http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-mostly-new-illusions-to-kick-start-your-brain-this-morning/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-mostly-new-illusions-to-kick-start-your-brain-this-morning/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:00:33 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=123111 After a Monday like yesterday, it’s not easy to get your brain back in gear for the rest of the work week. So consider this two-and-a-half minute collection of optical illusions a mental boot camp with Richard Wiseman serving as your overly-pleasant drill sergeant. Admittedly, some of these illusions are a little old. In fact, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-mostly-new-illusions-to-kick-start-your-brain-this-morning/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/another-ten-bets-youll-never-lose/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/another-ten-bets-youll-never-lose/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=122771 There’s no better time than the holidays—when everyone’s all together—to scam, grift, and alienate your friends and family. So Richard Wiseman has returned with another series of unloseable bets that guarantee you victory thanks to basic science and physics. Some of them you’ve probably known since you were a kid, like adding pennies to an [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/another-ten-bets-youll-never-lose/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-more-bets-youll-never-lose/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-more-bets-youll-never-lose/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:30:46 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119542 Richard Wiseman will probably go down in history as the accomplice to thousands of amateur grifters. He’s back with another collection of science experiments, physics demonstrations, and simple cons to impress your friends—if you have any left by now. But some of them can actually be kind of handy. Who would ever want to pick [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-more-bets-youll-never-lose/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/here-are-ten-bets-youre-guaranteed-to-always-win/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/here-are-ten-bets-youre-guaranteed-to-always-win/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:30:16 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=75915 Richard Wiseman is back with another collection of clever tricks and simple science experiments that you can finally use for profit — not just entertaining your friends. We just suggest keeping one last trick up your sleeve — namely the hasty retreat — since some of the solutions to these bets could very well upset [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/here-are-ten-bets-youre-guaranteed-to-always-win/feed/ 0