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So you've joined the legion of standing desk users, and now you're
ready to level up to a higher plane of healthy office habits. It sounds
like a treadmill desk is right up your alley.
What happened to your favorite cartoon characters after they got famous
Like
most people who got too famous too fast or too rich too young, it's no
surprise that our favorite cartoon characters would burn out and get
fat, drunk and be out of work too. Well, if they were real. Steve Cutts made this short animation that imagined the harsh reality of cartoon characters past their prime.
Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Get Pumped in His Prime
You
haven't lived until you've seen the man who would become governor of
California talk about "the pump." In the now legendary 1977 documentary Pumping Iron,
a 28-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger describes the feeling in memorable
terms. Put more bluntly, the Terminator likens lifting weights to having
an orgasm.
Today's Best Music News Is About Songs That Came Out in the 1970s
George Harrison or Stevie Wonder? It was a total toss-up who would win tonight's coveted Soundtrack spot. The former's got a new box set coming out, which made me all kinds of misty eyed for the (best) Beatle; the latter just announced an upcoming tour where he'll play the entirety of Songs in the Key of Life. Who…
Old black and white photos come alive in disturbing ghostly GIFs
Droga5 art director Kevin Weir has lots of cool work in his portfolio, like his Flux Machine, a Tumblr in which he turns old photographs into nightmares thanks to some carefully crafted animation—sometimes crazy, sometimes subtle, always disturbing.
Last Chance: 36% Off Limefuel's Giant 15,000mAh Dual USB Battery Pack
What's the most important thing about a backup battery pack? How much juice it holds, right? Which is why we like the Limefuel — it holds 15,000mAh, which should be enough to recharge your phone around ten times, or an iPad Air nearly twice over. Now, Gizmodo readers can grab one for just $34.99 – that's 36% off.
The Quest to Resurrect an Extinct Animal Without Cloning
Before
there was the cow, there was the auroch, a sinewy beast that roamed
Eurasia by the millions. And over thousands of years, humans bred the
creature into the millions of milk-and-steak-machines we have today. The
last auroch, however, died in the 17th century. A group of scientists
now want to bring back the…
Extremely rare case of woman with no cerebellum puzzles doctors
A
24-year-old Chinese woman recently went to the hospital complaining of
dizziness and nausea. She was most likely not prepared for the cause of
the discomfort. The otherwise healthy grown woman does not have a cerebellum. Amazing—it's the ninth case in medical history.
This Laptop Can Voltron with Its Dock For an Extra Graphics Boost
If you want a laptop that can play graphically intensive games, you're in a tough spot. Generally you can opt for something crazy expensive but portable, or something hulking and a little but cheaper. MSI's new GS30 Gaming Shadow notebook offers a middle ground: Take a slim laptop on the go, and plug into a…
Latin America's New Tallest Skyscraper Will Look Like a Quarter Pipe
Argentina's planning to erect a new waterfront tower, and it looks like it belongs in a skatepark. President Cristina Fernรกndez posted the winning design on Facebook this week. It's wrapped in the same white and sky blue on Argentina's flag. And it's a quarter pipe.
The Sad, Inevitable Oculus Rift Boob-Grabbing Game Is Here
You can do some cool shit with the Oculus Rift: You can simulate what flying feels like, or use it to pick out your next car. And if you have less experience with the female anatomy than Steve Carell in The 40 Year Old Virgin, now you can use it to simulate grabbing a handful of boob.
Animated Tron-Like Paint Jobs Are the Perfect Aftermarket Upgrade
Last year a company called Darkside Scientific wowed us with an electroluminescent paint known as LumiLor
that was completely invisible under lights, but glowed with a bright
intensity in the dark. And now the company has revealed an even cooler application of LumiLor: Giving a Tesla S \ an animated, glowing paint job.
The NSA Was Going to Fine Yahoo $250K a Day If It Didn't Join PRISM
When
we first learned about NSA metadata collection, we wondered how readily
the biggest tech companies acquiesced to the government. Today we start
to find out. This is the story of how Yahoo was coerced into PRISM, as told by court documents cited by the Washington Post today.
Plankton Makes This Dinosaur Toy Glow, Batteries Not Required
As
the story goes, the folks at BioPop were trying to make a sustainable
light that relied on something other than man-made batteries. They tried
using a bioluminescent plankton called dinoflagellates, but the tiny
creatures required too much intervention to be a practical light source.
They would, however, make for a…
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The Top 100 Songs of All Time as Graphs and Diagrams
Billboard's top 100 list of all time—well,
of all time since the Hot 100 list began in 1958 anyway—is a nostalgia
trip through American music of the past half century. Even if you're a
cold-hearted music snob, Nathan Yau's charts and diagrams are a fun,
clever spin on these familiar old songs.
Candy Company Sorry Its Gummy Candy Came Out Penis-Shaped
You
know that excited, blissful feeling that comes when you're just about
to chow down on a fresh pack of gummy bears, but then you notice you're
actually holding a fistful of penises? Because after a little mixup at
the gummy bear factory, a whole bunch of kids in New Zealand do. And the company would like them to…
The Natural Moss on This Wooden Bookcase Is Preserved Forever in Resin
Your
usual piece of wooden furniture—cut, sanded, painted— bears little
resemblance to the tree it came from. So to create the Undergrowth
bookcase, Italian design duo Alcarol deliberately took the opposite tack, preserving the unhewn edges of their lumber—moss and lichen and all.
13 Sensational Staircase Photos
Stairs. They get us up. They get us down. And they're often so much
more beautiful than nature ever intended them to be. Here are 13 reasons
you may learn to appreciate the humble stair.
3D Printing Doc: This Is the Future, But What About That Gun Thing?
3D printing is a number of things, depending on who you talk to: It's the future! It's dumb! It's a dangerous tool for psycho gun enthusiasts! Print the Legend, Netflix's 3D printing documentary, explores all those topics.
Moto X (2014) Review: Still the Android Phone For Everyone
The
original Moto X, which debuted last year, was a different breed of
smartphone. Rather than trying to build a beast with the best screen and
the most horsepower, Motorola focused on the user experience above all
else. The result was a phone that was so intelligent and comfortable to
use that it almost didn't…
The Imitation Game Review: A Stirring Look at Turing's Tragic Life
Alan Turing's life story is unequivocally a tragedy. The Imitation Game, a new biopic that
focuses on his accomplishments as a codebreaker during World War II,
manages to recognize this while celebrating his formidable legacy.
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