http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Tue, 21 May 2013 23:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/silk-natures-homespun-supermaterial/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/silk-natures-homespun-supermaterial/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:00:54 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161322 Most of your exposure to silk probably comes in the form of uncomfortably sensual linens or cobwebs in a dusty old closet. In reality, though, silk is an incredible and overlooked material. While it may have roots in the ancient past, it could also form the building blocks of the future. Spinning a Good Yarn [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/silk-natures-homespun-supermaterial/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/stop-worrying-your-internet-past-is-not-embarrassing/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/stop-worrying-your-internet-past-is-not-embarrassing/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:00:53 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161458 There’s something on the internet that you desperately want to keep everyone from seeing. Something you’re deeply embarrassed of. That would show all your friends how you’re not actually as smart and fashionable and ironically self-aware as you pretend to be. And you really ought to get over it. We all have stuff like this. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/stop-worrying-your-internet-past-is-not-embarrassing/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-apple-is-taking-over-your-car/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-apple-is-taking-over-your-car/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:00:15 +0000 Laptop Magazine http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159629 It’s no secret that late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was keen on bringing the company’s technology to the automotive world. In fact, according to longtime Apple board member Mickey Drexler, “Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar.” Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Shiller, echoed those sentiments during the company’s [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-apple-is-taking-over-your-car/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-ancient-art-of-perfect-gin-our-visit-to-beefeater-and-plymouth/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-ancient-art-of-perfect-gin-our-visit-to-beefeater-and-plymouth/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:00:22 +0000 Brent Rose http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159651 Gin just happens to be one of our favourite beverages. It’s a versatile spirit with tons of variation between brands. And we were fortunate enough to see how two of the great gin producers of the ages—Beefeater and Plymouth—create it from scratch.   The Need for Better-Tasting Booze Distilling, in its crudest form, is only [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-ancient-art-of-perfect-gin-our-visit-to-beefeater-and-plymouth/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-tech-that-helped-take-down-marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhokar-tsarnaev/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-tech-that-helped-take-down-marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhokar-tsarnaev/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:00:53 +0000 Brian Barrett http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159666 The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended, after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies that spent the last week tracking him down, technology played as prominent a role as it ever [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-tech-that-helped-take-down-marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhokar-tsarnaev/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-catch-an-asteroid/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-catch-an-asteroid/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:55 +0000 Andrew Tarantola http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=158572 That pet rock of yours lose a bit of its luster over the years? Not to worry, NASA plans to put one big enough for the whole world to share in orbit around the moon by the start of the next decade. Here’s how.   You Should Do This If: You’ve ever wanted to study [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-catch-an-asteroid/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/digital-drills-the-monster-machines-that-mine-bitcoin/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/digital-drills-the-monster-machines-that-mine-bitcoin/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:00:31 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=158207 Bitcoin! It’s everywhere right now. Its value is dropping, spiking, dropping again. More and more new converts are hopping in, buying a few coins and trying their hands at the market, looking to make a quick buck with a profitable exchange. But all the while, there’s an ever-dwindling army of specialists working in the shadows, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/digital-drills-the-monster-machines-that-mine-bitcoin/feed/ 19 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/15-human-weapons-made-from-animal-weapons/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/15-human-weapons-made-from-animal-weapons/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:00:42 +0000 Andrew Tarantola http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157584 Lacking claws, armor, or stabbing teeth, humans are easy targets for predation. But thanks to our big, beautiful brains, we figured out early on how to co-opt the killing tools of nature’s top hunters for our own defense—and offense. Here are some of the best examples of technology mimicking nature. Or just straight up stealing [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/15-human-weapons-made-from-animal-weapons/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-do-we-get-emotional-when-we-drink/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-do-we-get-emotional-when-we-drink/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:00:34 +0000 Mental Floss http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157590 Drinking influences our personalities in a variety of ways. Some people get happy. Others turn combative or impulsive. At one time or another, though, we’ve all been the emotional drunk, a condition typically marked by ill-timed espousals of affection (or reprisal), acute introspection, and an uncontrollable urge to cry in the middle of a crowded bar. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-do-we-get-emotional-when-we-drink/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-most-badass-plane-ever-had-an-equally-awesome-flight-suit/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-most-badass-plane-ever-had-an-equally-awesome-flight-suit/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:41 +0000 Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157565 At the height of the Cold War, if you wanted a peek behind the Iron Curtain, it had to be a birds’s eye view from 63,000 feet—above the reach of Soviet SAM batteries. And to fly that high, America’s elite SR-71 pilots had to wear the most advanced flight suits this side of the Apollo [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-most-badass-plane-ever-had-an-equally-awesome-flight-suit/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/are-sane-adults-allowed-to-ever-use/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/are-sane-adults-allowed-to-ever-use/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:00:49 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157578 You probably haven’t regularly used smileys since your middle school days, when modems screeched and President Clinton rained ordnance against Bosnian war criminals. You’ve grown up since then, but the has remained inert, a relic of type. In our new modern age, is it ever okay to drop a smiley? In 1982, Carnegie Mellon computer [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/are-sane-adults-allowed-to-ever-use/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/what-is-bitcoin/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/what-is-bitcoin/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:01 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156676 Maybe you’ve heard of Bitcoin—it wants to shake the entire global economy, and has become the financial bubble du jour with a skyrocketing value. It’s online money—an alternative to pounds and euros. Well what’s that mean? It’s complicated, but we break it down.   Bitcoin is an anonymous digital currency… Bitcoin is not real money. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/what-is-bitcoin/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-do-we-keep-making-ebooks-like-paper-books/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-do-we-keep-making-ebooks-like-paper-books/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:00:21 +0000 Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=155558 Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach, and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book—nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-do-we-keep-making-ebooks-like-paper-books/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/north-koreas-nuclear-reactor-everything-you-need-to-know/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/north-koreas-nuclear-reactor-everything-you-need-to-know/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:00:40 +0000 Andrew Tarantola http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154720 After its third nuclear test in February drew a harsh rebuke from the international community and further tightened economic sanctions against the Hermit Kingdom, North Korea has once again doubled down on its nuclear rhetoric. The country also announced that it will soon restart the Yongbyon reactor, Pyongyang’s primary plutonium processing plant. You know. Where [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/north-koreas-nuclear-reactor-everything-you-need-to-know/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/battery-life-is-the-only-spec-that-matters/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/battery-life-is-the-only-spec-that-matters/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:30:51 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154387 Give basically any piece of tech you carry around the time machine test. Jump ahead 50 years, and show off whatever anachronism of a gadget you brought along to a native. They’d laugh, obviously. But within the confines of our traditional tech specs, you know what they’d probably find most egregious? The battery. Somehow, when [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/battery-life-is-the-only-spec-that-matters/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/5-brilliant-april-fools-products-we-hope-become-real/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/5-brilliant-april-fools-products-we-hope-become-real/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:00:37 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154360 Kind of like the anti-Christmas, April Fool’s Day is hands down the worst day of the year. Companies around the world come up with lame products and issue even lamer press releases in a misguided and utterly disastrous attempt to be funny. Except for ThinkGeek. The online store goes above and beyond the call of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/5-brilliant-april-fools-products-we-hope-become-real/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/what-is-facebooks-big-mysterious-phone-going-to-be/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/what-is-facebooks-big-mysterious-phone-going-to-be/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:00:15 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154031 Next week, Facebook is going to show us its “new home on Android.” What does that mean? We’re not sure—we could be days away from The Facebook Phone, or just a lovely new life-consuming app. But here are our best bets for what Zuck has up his Androidy sleeves. If we take off our cool [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/what-is-facebooks-big-mysterious-phone-going-to-be/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/vpns-what-they-do-how-they-work-and-why-youre-dumb-for-not-using-one/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/vpns-what-they-do-how-they-work-and-why-youre-dumb-for-not-using-one/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:30:22 +0000 Andrew Tarantola http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153491 For as ubiquitous as connectivity has become and how reliant we’ve grown on it, the Internet is still a digital jungle where hackers easily steal sensitive information from the ill-equipped and where the iron-fisted tactics of totalitarian regimes bent on controlling what their subjects can access are common. So instead of mucking around in public [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/vpns-what-they-do-how-they-work-and-why-youre-dumb-for-not-using-one/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-make-windows-8-look-and-feel-like-windows-7/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-make-windows-8-look-and-feel-like-windows-7/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:00:13 +0000 Laptop Magazine http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153940 If you have a PC with Windows 8 but miss Windows 7, there’s no need to downgrade. Following a few simple steps, you can make Microsoft’s current operating system look and feel almost identical to its predecessor. Here’s how to bring back the Start menu and the attractive aero glass theme how to hide other [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-make-windows-8-look-and-feel-like-windows-7/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/north-korea-photoshopped-its-hovercraft-fleet-to-make-it-look-less-terrible-and-sad/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/north-korea-photoshopped-its-hovercraft-fleet-to-make-it-look-less-terrible-and-sad/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:00:17 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153571 There’s nothing like a little Photoshop touch-up to make your navy look like more toned, suppled, and fearsome than it ever really could be. First Iran used a little editing magic to put its jets “in the air” and now North Korea is getting in on the fun as well. A recent glamour shot of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/north-korea-photoshopped-its-hovercraft-fleet-to-make-it-look-less-terrible-and-sad/feed/ 7