http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/whats-the-one-youtube-video-you-think-everyone-should-be-required-to-watch/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/whats-the-one-youtube-video-you-think-everyone-should-be-required-to-watch/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:30:20 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=157702 If you had the chance to decree that everyone—everyone—would have to watch one YouTube video all the way through and pay attention the entire time, what would it be? It could be something important, historic, funny, dumb, or just something that no one else seems to like nearly as much as you do and you [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/whats-the-one-youtube-video-you-think-everyone-should-be-required-to-watch/feed/ 49 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/get-a-speeding-bullet-eyes-view-of-anywhere-in-the-world-with-a-street-view-hyperlapse-maker/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/get-a-speeding-bullet-eyes-view-of-anywhere-in-the-world-with-a-street-view-hyperlapse-maker/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:30:35 +0000 Ashley Feinberg http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156990 If you have Google Chrome, a decent internet connection, and a strong stomach, cancel any meetings you might have had today. Because chances are you’re not going to want to tear yourself away from Teehan+Lax’s incredible new tool: a Google Street View hyperlapse machine. Describing their motivation, a post in Teehan+Lax’s “labs” section notes: Hyper-lapse [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/get-a-speeding-bullet-eyes-view-of-anywhere-in-the-world-with-a-street-view-hyperlapse-maker/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/harlem-shake-on-a-plane-could-put-lives-at-risk/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/harlem-shake-on-a-plane-could-put-lives-at-risk/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:15:24 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146972 An admittedly rather impressive shot at getting an entire plane load of passengers doing the Harlem Shake dancing meme has ended in trouble for all involved, with US aviation experts claiming the Frontier Flight 157 could’ve been put at risk by having so many idiots bouncing around inside. Virtually every passenger on the US flight [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/harlem-shake-on-a-plane-could-put-lives-at-risk/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/finally-a-proper-use-for-ar-porn/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/finally-a-proper-use-for-ar-porn/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:45:28 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=141121 Men’s “entertainment” magazine Playboy is trialing augmented reality features using popular AR tool Layar to handle the embedded business, with silicone enthusiasts now able to engage with their tawdry purchase better than ever. The new interactive features, which Layar and Playboy have launched in the Netherlands, sees users and abusers able to scan in the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/finally-a-proper-use-for-ar-porn/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/what-happens-when-a-900mph-ping-pong-serve-hits-your-paddle/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/what-happens-when-a-900mph-ping-pong-serve-hits-your-paddle/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:30:56 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=140488 There’s no shortage of plans online for building a simple ping pong cannon that can fire balls at hundreds of miles per hour. But you’re probably not going to find the details of Purdue University Professor Mark French’s cannon, since his creation can accelerate a ping pong ball to 900 miles per hour, or just [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/what-happens-when-a-900mph-ping-pong-serve-hits-your-paddle/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/creep-on-strangers-lives-six-seconds-at-a-time-with-vinepeek/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/creep-on-strangers-lives-six-seconds-at-a-time-with-vinepeek/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:00:43 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=138532 Some people are out there using Vine for pretty dumb things. Thankfully, others are capturing interesting six-second snippets from their actually-interesting lives. And you can creep on all of them, one after the other, in a constant fire-hose of anonymous, random video with Vinepeek. The new site has a simple premise: scrub public Vines from [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/creep-on-strangers-lives-six-seconds-at-a-time-with-vinepeek/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-weaponise-the-worlds-most-useful-tool-duct-tape/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-weaponise-the-worlds-most-useful-tool-duct-tape/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:31 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=135025 Taking a small break from expanding his insane rubber band-based arsenal, slingshot master Joerg Sprave turns his attention to re-engineering duct tape, and other random accessories, into a trio of improvised weapons. He still can’t completely shake his slingshot roots — using the tape and a small collection of pens to recreate his weapon of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-weaponise-the-worlds-most-useful-tool-duct-tape/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-is-lgs-terrible-low-resolution-ces-trailer-hiding/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-is-lgs-terrible-low-resolution-ces-trailer-hiding/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:45:29 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=132225 LG’s just released a teaser trailer for this year’s CES event. It’s going to have lots of black rectangles with edges and corners, by the look of it. There’s not much else to learn from this low-res trailer, which is getting some serious stick for being uploaded by the tech maker at a mere 360p [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-is-lgs-terrible-low-resolution-ces-trailer-hiding/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/watch-the-madness-of-a-truck-full-of-cows-spilling-onto-the-highway/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/watch-the-madness-of-a-truck-full-of-cows-spilling-onto-the-highway/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:00:17 +0000 Michael Hession http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=129082 Thank god for Russian dashboard cameras. What epic absurdity have they captured this time? Just another truck crashing in an unnamed town in Russia. That’s what you might think, until the cargo of said truck reveals itself to be piles and piles of cows—bovines spilling and scattering across the road. Remarkably, most of those cows [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/watch-the-madness-of-a-truck-full-of-cows-spilling-onto-the-highway/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/solar-snowboard-charges-your-gear-when-youre-done-carving/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/solar-snowboard-charges-your-gear-when-youre-done-carving/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:00:31 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=129700 The talented folks at Signal Snowboards are back with one of their most practical creations yet. Using a sheet of ultra-thin solar cells from a company called Powerfilm Solar, they created a board that harnesses the sun’s rays and turns them into usable electricity for charging a small device. Because the solar cells are actually [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/solar-snowboard-charges-your-gear-when-youre-done-carving/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/watch-peter-serafinowiczs-inter-dimensional-new-hot-chip-video/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/watch-peter-serafinowiczs-inter-dimensional-new-hot-chip-video/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:45:25 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=123072 Peter Serafinowicz, actor, comedian, and jack and master of many additional trades, has directed the new music video for synth pop band Hot Chip, with his promo for Don’t Deny Your Heart now available for viewing. It’s even madder than his one about the boy band, based around a football video game that turns nasty, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/watch-peter-serafinowiczs-inter-dimensional-new-hot-chip-video/feed/ 9 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/2012/10/watch-three-minutes-of-awesome-dogs-being-awesome-at-1000fps-during-your-downtime/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/watch-three-minutes-of-awesome-dogs-being-awesome-at-1000fps-during-your-downtime/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:30:27 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=110618 The world can be an upsetting place at times. But no matter how badly your day might be going, there’s one thing that can always bring a little cheer back into your life: dogs! Dogs fetching balls, dogs diving in pools, and dogs just being generally awesome at 1,000 frames per second. Sure, this is [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/watch-three-minutes-of-awesome-dogs-being-awesome-at-1000fps-during-your-downtime/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/3d-domino-mayhem-makes-dinosaur-extinction-way-more-adorable/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/3d-domino-mayhem-makes-dinosaur-extinction-way-more-adorable/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:30:46 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=107140 If you’ve ever wondered what exactly wiped out the dinosaurs and how quickly over 38 hours of painstaking domino stacking can be undone, check out FlippyCat’s latest tumbling creation. It’s particularly noteworthy this time not just because it’s educational, but also because most of the dinosaurs and the giant earth were actually created in 3D. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/3d-domino-mayhem-makes-dinosaur-extinction-way-more-adorable/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/how-jack-daniels-still-hand-crafts-every-ageing-barrel/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/how-jack-daniels-still-hand-crafts-every-ageing-barrel/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:00:13 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=106205 In a world where automation and assembly line robots have driven craftsmanship to near extinction, it’s nice to see a facility where humans still play an important role in production. Birth of a Barrel is a beautiful look at the factory where Jack Daniels’ employees are very much still involved in the creation of the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/how-jack-daniels-still-hand-crafts-every-ageing-barrel/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/youtube-is-trying-to-organise-its-videos-by-vibe-whatever-that-means/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/youtube-is-trying-to-organise-its-videos-by-vibe-whatever-that-means/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:00:26 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=97245 YouTube is a great place to go and find a specific video, but YouTube wants more from you. YouTube wants you to get trapped and bounce from video to video to video forever, and the new feature it’s testing aims to do exactly that. Called the “Moodwall,” this unusual interface is starting to pop up [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/youtube-is-trying-to-organise-its-videos-by-vibe-whatever-that-means/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/pontoon-treads-let-this-tank-tear-across-land-and-water/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/pontoon-treads-let-this-tank-tear-across-land-and-water/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:42 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=93722 Many wonderful things have come out of the US Military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—or DARPA— including the internet. But none are as insanely awesome as its new CAAT (Captive Air Amphibious Transporter) which is essentially a tank that floats on water thanks to its oversized inflatable treads. Created as part of DARPA’s Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/pontoon-treads-let-this-tank-tear-across-land-and-water/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/slow-motion-flaming-tennis-should-be-an-official-olympic-sport/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/slow-motion-flaming-tennis-should-be-an-official-olympic-sport/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:00:22 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=92004 It looks like the usual tennis superstars are going to walk away with all the medals at this year’s Olympic games—yawn. So to make it more interesting and unpredictable four years from now, perhaps the organisers of the Rio games should consider adding flaming tennis balls into the mix, and filming everything in super slow [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/slow-motion-flaming-tennis-should-be-an-official-olympic-sport/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/compact-hydroponics-cube-turns-an-extra-parking-spot-into-a-vegetable-farm/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/compact-hydroponics-cube-turns-an-extra-parking-spot-into-a-vegetable-farm/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:30:20 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=91554 Tired of paying the exorbitant markup for fresh produce at your grocery store? For a mere £50,000—and the cost of finding someplace else to park your car—this compact hydroponics container lets you grow a farm’s worth of vegetables on a minimal chunk of land. In fact, the creators of the aqua-cube claim it can successfully [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/compact-hydroponics-cube-turns-an-extra-parking-spot-into-a-vegetable-farm/feed/ 4