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Did You Know Your Trash Is A Treasure Trove Of Weapons Waiting To Happen?

Our favourite, crazy slingshot maker, Joerg Sprave, can seemingly turn anything into a weapon. Recently, his scavenging skills were put to the ultimate test when a magazine challenged him to turn everyday rubbish into an improvised arsenal.


May 28, 2012
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Goal-Line Tech Gets First Major Trial in Next Month’s England Friendly

The goal-line sensor technology that could’ve made Frank Lampard even more pleased with himself is about to get its highest-profile test yet, with the Hawk-Eye system set to get a full workout next month in an England friendly.


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Lifehacker Meetups Are Back!

We staged some great joint Gizmodo/Lifehacker reader meetups last year, and everyone has been asking if they’ll happen again. The answer is YES! This time around Lifehacker is running the show, and the focus is squarely on developers. We’re offering readers with a developer bent the chance to socialise, drink beer, take part in trivia and win some cool prizes. Register now!


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Whitenoise: Gizmodo Community Talkback

Welcome to Whitenoise, where you can come to talk about anything you want with other Gizmodo readers. I don’t want to complain about the weather, but man, is it just me or is it crazy cold? Going by the Bureau of Meteorology, nope, it’s most people too.


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Blade Runner Superfan Recreates Dystopian Magazines From Scratch

You might think you love Blade Runner — and if you don’t, you should! — but do you love it enough to track down and digitally recreate a prop that most people have never even noticed? This amazing viewer did.


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Buy A Handwritten Note By A Young Steve Jobs

Sotheby’s is auctioning off a little piece of Apple history: an engineering memo penned by an unbearable teenage Steve Jobs before Apple even existed — the earliest known document the man produced.


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This Is What It Looks Like When Fighters Fly Directly At You In Anger

For much of the world, the Falklands War seems like a historical blip — but not if you were part of this insanely daring (or insane) attack against the HMS Broadsword, where two A-4 Skyhawks made a shockingly low run.


May 27, 2012
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Sydney And Melbourne: Bring On The Sci-Fi Skyways

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At dinner in tonight, my friends got talking about the proposal to turn 3.6km of doomed monorail track into an elevated walk/cycle way. When floated in April, the idea drew comparisons to New York’s high rail line retrofit. It’s unlikely to get past the drawing board, but you have to admit it’d look kind of futuristic (albeit impractically narrow, as Crikey points out). That’s why I’m excited to hear that Melbourne has its own very different plans for an elevated cycle freeway.


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15 Human Cocoons

See, unlike human-centipedes, human-caterpillars spin gorgeous human-cocoons like these to protect themselves as they grow into human-butterflies. It’s the circle of life and it moves us all.


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There Needs To Be An Adult Version Of This Transforming Seesaw Bench

We completely disagree with the notion that one day everybody has to grow up. We will never get tired of enjoying playground equipment, and quite frankly, are a little sad that this transforming seesaw bench was only designed with tiny tots in mind.