Rube Goldberg contraptions are cool no matter what—but getting one to mechanize dinosaurs, WWII, the Cold War, and the 2012 apocalypse is extra icing. Extra extra icing is the machine's 244 steps—a new world record for convoluted mechanisms. More »
A fun side-effect of the iOS secret-tracking fiasco is that a lot of other different types of location data and transmissions to and from your smartphone are being conflated into a huge pile of fevered paranoia. But! Don't freak out. More »
Engadget says that's the box for the white iPhone 4 shipping to Vodaphone retail outlets in the UK. Someone unwitting sales associate sold one to a customer before Vodaphone sent out a comapny-wide email halting sales until "next week." More »
Yevgeny Kaspersky, head of mega-antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs, probably has a lot of enemies in Russia—a country where cybercrime rakes in the rubles. So it's not entirely surprisingly that Yevgeny's son has been kidnapped and held for ransom. More »
Facial recognition was one of the purported Windows 8 features to surface last summer in a batch of leaked docs. Now, the login API in the latest build of Windows 8 is making that rumor seem more likely. More »
Gizmodo's own Kat Hannaford was recently pulled aside by the BBC to talk the upcoming Royal Wedding. How will it be different than others from the past? First, more fabulous. Obviously. Second? More social, and certainly more connected than ever. More »
Comparisons to the MacBook Air have already been made of the just leaked Lenovo ThinkPad X1, so we won't berate you with them here (ok, just one: It's slim too!). Instead, what's unique? More »
Fan of EA games on iOS devices? This weekend's your nirvana then, as the mega-publisher is having a 90% off sale for a number of their games. Dead Space, for example, is 99 cents. [Dead Space, App Store] More »
Baojun Yuan, the man pictured above, learned Photoshop at 60 years old. He's now 76 and for the past decade or so has repaired over 2000 damaged photos and done it all for free. Yuan bought a computer and scanner himself and doesn't charge people because he jokingly says, "My teacher just taught me how to repair the photos, but he forgot to tell me how to charge". What a guy. Check out all the work Yuan has done for people here. [The Design Inspiration] More »
I thought no one would ever use the iPad 2's camera after they realized how shitty it was. But I guess the crappy picture quality doesn't bother Spike Lee, a film director of all people, from using his iPad 2 3G to record a video (I'm guessing cause of his hand placement) of Barack Obama, POTUS. Some moments need to be documented, I guess! But at least put your iPad 2 in landscape mode Spike! [White House Flickr More »
Chao & Eero Jewel from Finland made these hilarious emoticon rings that show happy faces, smiling eyes and other forms of emoticons in ring form. Nothing like expressing your feelings right on your sleeve, er, finger these days, right? Though I do wish I could get a stone face or cry face ring for those darker days (they don't promote such negativity). More »
An Austrian man who has been identified as just Andreas K. is one lucky bastard. While digging around in his yard back in 2007, he managed to find a treasure trove of jewelry and ornaments buried 650 years ago. More »
Norio Ohga, a former Sony CEO and Chairman who helped make Sony the company we know today, passed away in Tokyo yesterday as a result of multiple organ failure. He was 81. More »
After watching this, I tend to think artist Sanela Jahic must have gone, "How can I create a masterpiece and look like an X-Man?" Fire Painting, the resulting project, makes art out of cybernetics, an Arduino, and lots of kerosene. More »
Peter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly, published in 1992, is supposed to be a great book for developmental biologists. But no matter how great and how rare it is (it's out of print), a new edition probably doesn't cost the $23,698,655.93 it was listed for on Amazon. The used book sells for only $35! How did this happen? More »
Some cops have a tendency to ticket fix, or in layman's, make tickets disappear. And though it's a sweet perk for their friends and family, it's sorta against the law too. So! The NYPD has come up with a new tracking system that's trying to stop tickets from magically disappearing. More »
The solar-powered Davis Vantage Pro2 is an uber-precise little system that connects to an array of sensors that monitor hyperlocal microclimate conditions. That means you get your own weather forecast, cutting out the middle man. More »
Space comedies run the gamut for all kinds of wackiness—Phil of the Future, am I right?—but Monochrom developed their sitcom, ISS, actually using International Space Station data they uncovered to give it that extra touch of realism. [BoingBoing] More »
