http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Sat, 25 May 2013 10:13:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-make-a-better-sand-castle-that-can-hold-the-weight-of-a-human/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-make-a-better-sand-castle-that-can-hold-the-weight-of-a-human/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:30:01 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160820 Here’s a relatively useless yet undoubtedly impressive trick you can pull the next time you go to the beach: make a sand castle that’s so unbelievably sturdy that it can hold up an entire person. Seriously. What’s it take? Unfortunately, it takes a wee bit more than just wet sand.The scientific reasoning is to create [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-to-make-a-better-sand-castle-that-can-hold-the-weight-of-a-human/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/who-knew-people-could-jump-rope-like-this/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/who-knew-people-could-jump-rope-like-this/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:00:40 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159271 You’ve probably been impressed with playground kids jumping rope (or is it jump roping?). You’ve already seen boxers whip the jump rope fast enough to create a wormhole. But you’ve never seen a person jump rope like this. This woman is absolutely incredible. Adrienn Banhegyi, the woman doing all the tricks with a jump rope [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/who-knew-people-could-jump-rope-like-this/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-spotify-master/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-spotify-master/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:00:40 +0000 David Nield http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=155677 The digital music revolution continues at a frenetic pace — we’d only just turned in our CDs for MP3s when streaming services came along to upturn the apple cart again. There are now a whole host of streaming apps to choose from, but the original pioneer Spotify remains the biggest and the most well-known. Despite [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-spotify-master/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/sidewall-skiing-the-hot-new-thing-with-saudi-arabias-bored-youth/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/sidewall-skiing-the-hot-new-thing-with-saudi-arabias-bored-youth/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:45:33 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=154559 You know how the heat drives you mad? Makes you all itchy and impulsive? That’s the only explanation for the trend known as sidewall skiing, which sees bored youths flipping their vehicles onto two wheels then standing on the sides. Occasionally, for an extra thrill, someone leans out of the door and takes one of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/sidewall-skiing-the-hot-new-thing-with-saudi-arabias-bored-youth/feed/ 20 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-dropbox-master/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-dropbox-master/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:00:23 +0000 David Nield http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=143676 Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy) that recently hit the 100m user milestone. It’s arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for good reason. One of the key advantages of Dropbox is that it’s so easy to use—you simply set it up and then forget about [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-dropbox-master/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-the-hell-who-knew-you-could-ride-scooters-like-this/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-the-hell-who-knew-you-could-ride-scooters-like-this/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:30:07 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137516 Scooters, as a whole, aren’t exactly the coolest thing a person can ride. Maybe you had some ‘fun’ with them when you were a fifth grader but if you brought your scooter to the skate park now? The insults hurled at you would re-arrange the English dictionary. Well, unless, you rode scooters like these guys. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-the-hell-who-knew-you-could-ride-scooters-like-this/feed/ 20 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-finally-put-newsstand-to-good-use-as-your-crap-app-folder/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-finally-put-newsstand-to-good-use-as-your-crap-app-folder/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:00:36 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137401 If you’ve got an iPhone, then you’ll have a junk folder. The place where you store all the Apple apps you can’t actually delete, but would never use in a million years like Apple Maps. Unfortunately Newsstand won’t fit into that. But wait, you can now actually use Newsstand as your junk folder, no jailbreak [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-finally-put-newsstand-to-good-use-as-your-crap-app-folder/feed/ 24 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-cheat-and-look-like-you-can-solve-a-rubiks-cube/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-cheat-and-look-like-you-can-solve-a-rubiks-cube/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=132520 I can’t solve a Rubik’s Cube. All the spinning I do, all the rejiggering I try, all I end up with is a mess of colors with no idea how I got there. It’s okay though! I can now fake it like I know how. Matt Parker has figured out a way to cheat and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-cheat-and-look-like-you-can-solve-a-rubiks-cube/feed/ 7 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/2012/08/paul-daniels-and-his-bizarre-magic-calculator/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/paul-daniels-and-his-bizarre-magic-calculator/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:15:58 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=91388 Not-quite-forgotten magician Paul Daniels has released an iOS app he describes as being a calculator, only it’s a bit more exciting than that. It’s a MAGIC CALCULATOR. Or, in fact, it’s more like a simple trick, designed to let users fool their friends into thinking they have a mastery of magic. Once you’ve been through [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/paul-daniels-and-his-bizarre-magic-calculator/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/nine-bar-bets-youll-never-lose/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/nine-bar-bets-youll-never-lose/#comments Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:00:37 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=84596 You know what’s better than an evening bar crawl where you drink yourself silly? An evening bar crawl where you recoup every last penny you spent on booze with this series of nine pub bets you’re always guaranteed to win. They were cooked up by R. Paul Wilson, the writer and host of one of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/nine-bar-bets-youll-never-lose/feed/ 4 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 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/how-to-use-android/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/how-to-use-android/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 14:00:39 +0000 Brent Rose http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=68248 Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you’re not a baby. Android may require a little effort to learn and set up, but you get a tangible return on that [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/how-to-use-android/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-ultimate-annoying-email-deflector-shield/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-ultimate-annoying-email-deflector-shield/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:30:06 +0000 Brent Rose http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=31483 Marketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click 'report spam' (as if that actually does anything...), but wouldn't it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether?]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-ultimate-annoying-email-deflector-shield/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/twisted-gifts-for-the-merry-prankster/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/twisted-gifts-for-the-merry-prankster/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:00:53 +0000 Brian Barrett http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=21102 It's the flat-mate who keeps saying your ex-girlfriend called. The teacher who loves a pop quiz fake-out. We all have prankster friends, but let's face it: their acts are getting stale. Here are some gifts that should jumpstart their jokes.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/twisted-gifts-for-the-merry-prankster/feed/ 7