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This Trippy Music Video Is Made of 3D Fractals
What you’re watching isn’t organic, but a computer-generated visualization of complex mathematics. It’s a three-dimensional fractal. The clip is a new music video for the song “Eternal Recurrence” by electronic music group Birds of Paradise, created by Dutch fractal artist Julius Horsthuis. Producing the visuals to accompany the soundscape required rendering mathematical formulas in the … Continued
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Pornhub Is Making Smart Sex Toys That Sync With Porn and, Strangely, Look Like Power Tools
As the biggest porn site on the internet, Pornhub already dominates the landscape when it comes to what people get off to. Now the company is also making a push to control how people get off, with a new line of interactive sex toys that sync with Pornhub videos. Smart sex toys have been around … Continued
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I’d Actually Consider Going to a Spin Class If I Could Ride Schwinn’s Retro-Styled Exercise Bikes
Pour through an old album of your parents (or grandparents) and you’ll probably find a photo of them riding a classic Schwinn bike that looks like it was designed by an aerodynamics-obsessed Oldsmobile engineer. Schwinn has long since updated its bike designs, but the company pays homage to its past with an indoor bike that’s … Continued
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A First Look at the Incredible Future of 8K TVs
Do you remember back in the 90s, when high-definition TVs first started to become popular? Seeing that HD for the first time, the sharpness seemed almost impossible compared to existing technology. But this year, several top tech companies showed off 8K screens with 16-times as many pixels as those old 1080p HD TVs. For me, … Continued
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I’m Sorry Kodak Wants How Much For Its New Super 8 Camera?
The original Super 8 camera inspires nostalgia in every graying beardo with aspirations to make a film. The format was introduced back in 1965, and before VHS camcorders killed it in the 80s, it was the film stock of choice for budding filmmakers and family life chroniclers. A new Super 8 camera released 30-some years … Continued
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Pretty Soon a Smart Assistant Won’t Be a Choice
This winter I bought three Google Home Minis—two for me, and one for my lovely parents. At home, my pair works like a deeply discounted Sonos setup. I can tell Google’s Assistant to play a song on “both speakers,” and it’ll pipe tinny, still-decent-sounding music into my bedroom and living room. At my parents’ house, … Continued
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The Pin Art on This Bluetooth Speaker Dances to Your Music
One of the recent trends in Bluetooth speakers is the addition of colorful LEDs that blink and flash along with whatever music’s playing. But a company called Victrola has done something way out of left field by putting an animated Pin Art display on top of its new wireless speaker. We’ve all played with those … Continued
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What Is Technics Doing?
The new, modular Technics SP-10R turntable plays records just like any other turntable. But, according to Technics, it plays records really, really, really well. It better since it’s priced at $10,000 and up depending on just how you configure it. But the introduction of yet another Technics tribute model—or collector’s item if you’re being honest … Continued
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5 Design Trends We’d Like to See More of This Year
Looking ahead to 2018, there’s plenty to be excited about when it comes to design. From technology companies who are finally starting to own their responsibility, to the rest of us saying goodbye to boring hardware—here are five design trends we’d like to see more of this year. Explained algorithms If 2016 was the year … Continued
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We’re Going to Write More About Design
We’ve always written about design at Gizmodo, usually in the context of how gadgets look and work. Over the last fifteen years, we’ve gradually expanded our coverage to include the many ways technology is transforming almost everything in the world, and it makes sense for us to take a broader view of design as well. … Continued
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Here’s Why You Can’t Find Fingerlings: How a Company Engineered the Perfect Viral Holiday Gift
You’ve seen Fingerlings. They’re the colorful monkey, sloth, or unicorn clinging to all those prepubescent fingers. Their sensors and AI allow them to react to gestures and sounds, so they can chat, kiss, snore, and even fart. They’re a hell of a lot cooler than a fidget spinner and at $15 they’re about the same … Continued
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Here Is Snapchat’s ‘Disruptive’ New Redesign
Snapchat, the photo-sharing app the olds can’t seem to figure out, is getting a facelift this week in a do-or-die attempt to win over new users. Snap, the social app’s parent company, said this redesign was coming earlier this month. And today we get see their vision of an “easier to use” Snapchat. The new … Continued
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Can We Talk About Kickstarter’s New Squishy, Podgy Blob?
Kickstarter revealed the Amorphous Blob responsible for eating its old logo eight days ago. Eight! And hardly anybody has noticed. The Globby Thing, dark greenish-blue and oozy, was created by New York design studio Order and type designer Jesse Ragan, and it has perched atop the crowdfunding site for more than a week, seemingly overlooked … Continued
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Some People at the Emoji Group Have Had Enough of This Goddamn Poop
While most of us only take note of the work being done at Unicode when it drops a new set of emojis, the organization is responsible for standardizing the way computers around the world display characters. It’s serious business, and some Unicode researchers have had enough of this stupid emoji shit. https://gizmodo.com/go-download-your-69-new-iphone-emoji-right-now-1820020681 On Thursday, Buzzfeed … Continued
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All Manner of Photoshop Evisceration Befalls Spoon Singer Britt Daniel in New Music Video
The new video for rock band Spoon’s “Do I Have to Talk You Into It” consists of lead singer Britt Daniel being rapidly morphed, deformed, beautified, clone-stamped, liquified, and peeled apart in Photoshop. At one point, Daniel is transformed into a coyote, the Photoshop interface drops away for a split second, and we just see … Continued
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This Free App Adds an iPhone X Notch to Your Android Phone
Android smartphones with edge-to-edge screens, like the Samsung S8 or the Essential phone, have found elegant ways to deal with the devices’ forward-facing cameras and sensors. But if you’re an Android user who’d rather have a garish notch up top like the iPhone X, a new app called XOutOf10 will add a screen-blocking bar to … Continued
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This PR Email Sure Is Weird [Updated]
This morning I received a press email with the subject line “A water bottle designed for Women in Tech.” Does it provide optimal hydration for women about to ascend the glass cliff? Will it induce hyponatremia when your male colleague passes off your idea as his own during the team meeting? Does it include an … Continued
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The Most Realistic Robo-Lincoln Yet Proves the Future Is Going to Be Weird as Hell
Honest Abe is lying about being human. The people who handle Walt Disney World’s Animatronics have built an all new, slightly frightening Lincoln that makes the perfect facial expressions for reacting to the upcoming talking Trump in the Hall of Presidents. https://gizmodo.com/disney-says-president-trump-will-speak-at-the-hall-of-p-1796412771 Garner Holt Productions [GHP] has built thousands of animatronic figures for theme parks … Continued
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Fancy Chair Maker Herman Miller Is Making Creepy Software Now
Do you ever sit down at your desk and wonder why the elevated surface doesn’t have more sensors to record and analyze data about your movements and habits? Well, wonder no more, my ergonomically-minded friend. Herman Miller, the manufacturer behind the Aeron chair, has invented a solution to the problem you never knew existed. That … Continued
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The Greatest Scientific Breakthrough of Our Time Is This Drip-Free Wine Bottle
There are several ways to prevent those inevitable wine bottle drips from staining your tablecloth. You can wrap the bottle in a napkin while you pour, just skip the wine glass altogether and drink straight from the bottle, or use your physics degrees to re-engineer the bottle’s spout so it never drips again. As a … Continued