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The Next Xbox: Everything We Think We Know

# 2013-05-21 02:27:00, Gizmodo
We're finding out about the new Xbox in just a few hours. But that doesn't mean we have no idea what's coming. Here's a rundown of everything we know, or think we know, about the next Xbox.Read more...

How to Book Travel Online for Less

# 2013-04-27 06:30:00, Gizmodo
With clear skies and rising temperatures around the country, the summer travel season is nearly upon us. And unless you've got money to burn or a first-born to offer, now's the time to book your travel plans. Here's how to get away without breaking the bank.

Stop Worrying, Your Internet Past Is Not Embarrassing

# 2013-04-26 11:22:02, Gizmodo
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.

Why Amazon Wants To Make You Pay Sales Tax

# 2013-04-26 09:15:42, Gizmodo
Our days of sales-taxless, free-love internet revelry may be numbered. Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted to approve a bill that could end tax-free online shopping once and for all. More

Michael Bay Is Why Transformers Got So Complicated

# 2013-04-26 06:00:00, Gizmodo
Have you tried to put together a Transformer lately? Without an instruction booklet, you stand a better chance of dismantling a nuclear warhead than making Optimus look like Prime, instead of a 16-wheeler with a robot head for a butt. That wasn't always the case.

An Introduction To Complications: The 21st Century Watch

# 2013-04-26 04:00:00, Gizmodo
Editor's note: This is the last in a series of introductory pieces on mechanical watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read the rest here.More

Silk: Nature's Homespun Supermaterial

# 2013-04-26 03:30:00, Gizmodo
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.

The NYPD Is Planning a Simulated Chemical Attack For New York Subways

# 2013-04-25 14:50:02, Gizmodo
A subway-borne chemical attack is one of those theoreticals that require the willful ignorance of regular passengers—for most of us, it's just better not to think about it. Not so for the NYPD, which yesterday announced a plan to test how a chemical or radiological attack would spread through the...

Step Inside the Mechanized Fun-House Wasteland of Artist Jon Kessler

# 2013-04-25 10:40:00, Gizmodo
Jon Kessler is an artist known for his kinetic sculptures formed out of ragged machinery and surveillance cameras. His latest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in New York, is a sensory rabbit-hole into to our hyper-connected world.

The Next Xbox: Everything We Think We Know

# 2013-04-25 06:19:03, Gizmodo
We're finding out about the new Xbox on May 21st. But that doesn't mean we have no idea what's coming. Here's a rundown of everything we know, or think we know, about the next Xbox.

Galaxy S IV Display Shoot-Out: How Does It Compare?

# 2013-04-25 05:36:22, Gizmodo
The Samsung Galaxy S smartphones are by far the most popular Android smartphones, and are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display technology. The display on the Galaxy S4 is a major enhancement and improvement over the Galaxy S III—it has a full HD 1920x1080 ...

The Systems That Power the Year's Most Sustainable Buildings

# 2013-04-25 04:22:02, Gizmodo
Only a decade ago, sustainable building techniques were fairly rare, a fringe culture on the periphery of mainstream architecture. But with Stephen Colbert interviewing radically green architects like Mitchell Joachim and Passive House buildings popping up in New York City, that's all changing very...

An Introduction To Complications: The Perpetual Calendar

# 2013-04-25 04:00:02, Gizmodo
Editor's note: This is part four in a series of introductory pieces on watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read part one here, part two here and part three here.More

Samsung's Galaxy S4 Camera Versus the Competition

# 2013-04-24 10:40:22, Gizmodo
Last month, we tested the best smartphone cameras out there and declared the HTC One's ultrapixel camera the master of all. Now it's time to see how the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Sony Xperia Z measure up.

Here's Your New and Improved Hundred Dollar Bill

# 2013-04-24 08:39:35, Gizmodo
The Federal Reserve is making it rain new hundred dollar bills on October 8, 2013. They're more colorful, more secure, and easier to authenticate, but harder to replicate. Here's everything that's changed.

It Takes a Small Artistic Army to Bring a Pixar Film To Life

# 2013-04-24 06:00:00, Gizmodo
Monsters Inc blew more than a few minds when it premiered in 2001. Sully's coat comprised a million rendered hairs, and Boo's oversized pink shirt moved with such a natural flow it appeared nearly life-like to audiences. And while advances in technology during the twelve years between the original f...

An Introduction To Complications: The Tourbillon

# 2013-04-24 04:00:42, Gizmodo
Editor's note: This is part three in a series of introductory pieces on watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read part one here and part two here.More

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: Better, But Not Best

# 2013-04-23 18:01:00, Gizmodo
Since it arrived last year, the Galaxy S III has been the world's best-selling smartphone that wasn't born in Cupertino. An impressive feat, but one that—along with Samsung's Megatron-sized hype-machine—has made for sky-high expectations for the sequel. More

10 Terrible Tech Frustrations My Toddler Will Never Have

# 2013-04-23 07:00:00, Gizmodo
When I was growing up, my parents would tell me about all the ancient technologies they had to use in their youth. Whether it was a car with a manual choke, a phone that required you to ask an operator to connect you, or a record player with a hand crank, mom and dad experienced a ton of tech frust...

Charging Gadgets While You Bike Is About to Get a Lot Simpler

# 2013-04-23 05:55:14, Gizmodo
Ever gone for a long bike ride in unfamiliar territory? Probably used your phone's GPS to help navigate, right? Convenient. However, that also makes running out of juice more than just a small annoyance. Siva Cycle's Atom might just solve that, and a host of other battery issues for the tech-bound ...

An Introduction To Complications: The Chronograph

# 2013-04-23 05:40:00, Gizmodo
Editor's note: This is part two of a series of introductory pieces on watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read part one here.More

The Only Thing Apple Really Sells

# 2013-04-23 04:21:17, Gizmodo
A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep meaning for the analysts who evaluate the company's worth. It's framed as an identity crisis, one with dangerous implications ...

Archaeologists Are Unlocking a 1900-Year-Old Burial Chamber's Secrets—With Drones

# 2013-04-22 09:59:09, Gizmodo
Teotihuacan, an ancient, abandoned city about an hour north of Mexico City, was once one of the largest cities in the world. It collapsed in the centuries ago (thanks either to an internal uprising or foreign invaders, depending on who you ask), but it's never been completely deserted, since the ru...

The 8 Types of Shovels Everyone Should Know

# 2013-04-22 08:00:00, Gizmodo
Humans have been digging in the Earth since the dawn of the Neolithic Revolution, some 12,000 years ago. While the earliest agriculturalists had to make do with shovels crudely fashioned from animal bones—shoulder blades were a popular choice—later material advances (namely stone, wood, and met...

Where the Toys Come From: Inside Hasbro’s Model Workshop

# 2013-04-22 07:06:54, Gizmodo
Designing toys takes sketching and planning and imagining, sure. But what's even more impressive is the actual making—still a much more industrial and craftsmanlike process than you'd imagine. It requires, essentially, a whole factory condensed into a few rooms of Hasbro's headquarters outside of...

Google Might Change Google.com and Make Using the Internet Way Better

# 2013-04-22 06:42:12, Gizmodo
As a fashionable internet denizen, you do not use a homepage, probably. You open a new browser window or tab, and you're met with your Chrome apps, or Safari favorites, or whatever the hell Firefox is doing now. And if you do have one, it's probably a legacy media hub like MSN, AOL or Yahoo, or a s...

Incredible Thermal Imaging Video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Hiding

# 2013-04-21 05:30:11, Gizmodo
While we had previously seen the stunning thermal images that helped police confirm that Boston Marathon bombing suspect was indeed hiding in a boat, under a tarp, in Watertown, Massachusetts, now the raw video of the camera in action has been released. More

How to Make Money on Your Lunch Break

# 2013-04-21 05:00:00, Gizmodo
How do you spend your lunch break? Taking a turn round the park? Checking Facebook? Catching up on the work you should've done in the morning? All of these options have their place, but here's something else you can be doing: Making money.