Google: How Google Really Places Map Markers (2)
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Don't let them deceive you with their fancy topographic buzzwords and smartypants search algorithms They just use these and have
World's Biggest Airport Opens in Beijing [Beijing Olympics Airport] (1)
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The world's biggest airport is now finished and ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The $3.5 billion gigantic dragon terminal, which is the centerpiece of the 501-square-mile complex capable of allowing 50 million passengers per year, looks even more impressive in the amazing, almost unreal photos. The new Terminal 3 has been designed to be energy efficient, allowing for natural lightning—whenever it is possible and the city smog allows, I guess—and packing all the facilities ...
Best Fireworks Ever Not Happening Today but in Three Days [The End] (1)
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If you think you are going to see some cool fireworks today, just wait three more days. Because we just checked the countdown and that's when the Large Hadron Collider will be activated in Geneva, Switzerland. Then we all will enjoy the mother of all fireworks. Well, not us, but the aliens, Tom Cruise, Elvis and the rest of what's left of the Universe. So enjoy your weekend, my friends (you conspiracy morons of the ...
Back to the Future McFly Sneakers Unboxed, Going for $2,000 [Back To The Sneaker] (2)
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The limited edition Back to the Future Nike basketball sneakers are available now. You can get yours on eBay, where prices are going from $600 to $2,000. That is serious dollar gigawattage for a pair of sneakers, even if they look great out of the box, as you can see in the mega-gallery. Only 350 pairs of these Nike Hyperdunks have been produced, with the color of the Nike shoes that Marty McFly wears in ...
How the New Mission to the Moon Will Work [Nasa] (2)
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The NASA 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class recruitment—for the first mission to the Moon in four decades—may be over, but if you didn't send your résumé, don't worry: you can still be a space couch potato and look at the pretty images and videos, like this newly-released NASA simulation showing how the whole thing is going to work. Rather than building a huge, expensive, and very complicated rocket carrying a smaller space ship—like the powerful Saturn ...
All Star Tailgating Trailer Is Dream Bachelor Flat on Wheels [Bbq] (2)
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This is the All Star Tailgating Trailer. Or as I like to call it, the The Get-Drunk-n-Stuffed Out of the Stadium Party BBQ Trailer. This thing—which you can order with custom paint, I'll take naked women in naughty positions and flames on a black background, thank you very much—has all the stuff you need to have a party anywhere, from a beer tap to a giant 60" LCD projection TV with surround sound to a ...
Waspinator 2 Eliminates Summer Wasps Quietly, Painlessly [No-tech] (1)
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Behold the Waspinator 2! It has an intelligent optical and ultra-sound directional microphone tracking system which identifies wasps flying near your house by their flight pattern and buzz. Then, the Waspinator 2 uses up to six retractable low-power laser mini-cannons to individually target and kill the wasps, virtually vaporizing them in mid-air. Or at least, that's what, with a name like Waspinator 2 should be. Instead, it's just a thing that simulates a wasp nest, ...
Crash Bandicoot Comes Racing to iPhone 2.0 [Apple] (1)
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It looks like the iPhone gaming scene is getting more solid by the day: Crash Bandicoot is the latest famous franchise that is going to appear at the app store in the form of Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart, a racing game that—looking at the demo video—looks smooth and quite impressive running in the iPhone classic. • Stunning, console quality graphics • Twelve beautifully crafted tracks • The famous Crash Bandicoot cast of characters • A ...
The Bill Gates Timeline (1)
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Here it is, the definitive Bill Gates timeline. It may contain some bugs and lack some features, but it works: from his parents to the last day of his work at Microsoft, the Bill Gates timeline shows his personal and business adventure—on the top—in relation to the tech industry—on the bottom—as his company takes over it all. Click on the image above to access the full high-resolution version. [Bill Gates' Retirement Party] Other Gizmodo timelines ...
Brainstorming Room Accelerates Ideas to Warp 9 [Smart] (1)
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This is Kage Roi, a room that listens to conversations using speech recognition. It identifies keywords and constantly searches the web for related material, displaying information and images to help brainstorming sessions. In theory, combined with lighting that simulates the changes in sunlight, boosts people's creativity. An amazing idea that, for obvious reasons, we would never be able to use here at Giz. [Pink Tentacle]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Lego [Giz Goes To Lego] (1)
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You sent the questions and here you have the answers. Do you wanted to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What's the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? How they survived the crisis which almost bankrupt them? How successful is Mindstorms? Here's the definitive mega-reference, straight from Lego. I have organized all your questions in groups: about the company, environment, ...
iPhone 3G to Sell Out in Japan Within Hours [IPhone 3G] (1)
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According to Softbank's founder, Masayoshi Son, the iPhone 3G will sell out completely within hours of its debut in Japan, despite its contract-binding $214 (8GB) and $316 (16GB) price. I wonder if it will be the same in the rest of the world. Apparently, the rumors are that the iPhone 3G will start selling first thing in the morning in the UK and the US, although there are no official times yet. [Impress via Tokyomango, ...
iPhone 2.0 Golden Master Could Be Complete By This Friday [Breaking] (1)
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According to a sources inside the Cupertino's iPhone software development effort, it is "highly probable" that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will be done this Friday. The final version could arrive to developer hands two weeks before the introduction of the new iPhone 3G and well in time for the promised July 11 release to the public. Update: for some reason, this morning I saw the original "end of June" release date and copy and ...
Girl Spins On Escalator Thanks to Physics or Magic [What?] (1)
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There are moments in which, for whatever reason, being it a scientific discovery, a voyage into the unknown, or somebody's excessive alcohol intake, humanity advances one step forward into its destiny, a final state of clarity and peace that will take us all to the stars. This moment complies with the three reasons. Ah, you Ms. Spinning Blonde in Jeans you. We love you.
Lego Airbus A380 Is Biggest Lego Airplane in the World [Giz Goes To Lego] (1)
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Behold the biggest Lego airplane in the world, made after the largest passenger airplane in the world, the Airbus A380. Made at a 1:25 scale-9.5-foot long, 10.5-foot wingspan, 3.2-foot tall—the Lego A380 uses 220 pounds (100kg) of bricks. That's a mindblowing 75,000 pieces in eight colours—15 Lego Millennium Falcons. With that amount of bricks, and knowing how long my Falcon is taking, I'm not surprised that it took 600 hours for the entire team of ...
Ferris Bueller Wannabe Faces 38 Years in Prison After Changing Grades [Save Ferris] (1)
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The Orange County District Attorney has charged 18-year-old student Omar Khan with 69 felony counts—including identity theft, computer fraud, falsifying a public record, second degree burglary and watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off and War Games 5,405 times—after allegedly getting into Tesoro High School's computers to change his grades. The Matthew Broderick wannabe was not very subtle, though, leaving a trail the size of the Exxon Valdez's oil spill. According to the DA and the Orange ...
3,800-Piece Death Star Diorama Is Coolest Star Wars Lego Ever [LEGO Star Wars] (3)
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Move over Millennium Falcon, because there's a new Best Lego Set Ever in town: the $400 Death Star. Almost 4,000 pieces of absolute nerdgasmic technological terror now available to order, showing 14 scenes that happened in the no-moon during the original trilogy. We have all the official information and three high definition photos that show every angle of this amazing set, with 21 amazing mini-figs, including Han and Luke dressed up as Lego Imperial Stormtroopers. ...
3D GIFs Made from Old Stereo Cards Are Stupidly Simple, Effective [Cool] (1)
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Joshua Heineman is obsessed with old stereo cards, those old photographs from the 19th century that contained two different views of the same subject to give the illusion of depth. He converts them into pseudo-3D GIF images that can be seen without glasses, on your monitor. The method is extremely simple, and while the jerking result may seem silly, surprisingly, it works: Johsua just gets his images from the New York Public Library, and combines ...
Wall Cars Will Race Automagically for Eternity [Wall Racers] (1)
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This is what happens when you get a couple of cheap RC cars and add proximity sensors, extra batteries, robot brains, and name them Steve McQueen and Burt Reynolds: totally-automated racing all around your house. These electric robocars can detect the walls around them and race against each other for as long as the batteries last. The resulting Tron-lightcycle-like action is impressive. The cars use a CPU called Picaxe 28X, running the Picaxe operating system. ...
Emperor Workstation Belongs in the Death Star, My Office [Emperor Workstation] (1)
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Behold the Greatest Workstation of All Time: the Emperor. I mean, come on, anything that looks like it can control a turbolaser battery or fire a giant anti-matter death ray must be the greatest workstation of all time, period. But according to Patrick Laflamme Duval—business developer for manufacturer Novelquest—the name is not a Star Wars nod, but a reference to the emperor scorpion's tail: At the press of a button, the Emperor’s tail section (the ...
