Gadgets

Super Chill Gifties For Your Stoner Uncle

Hey, don’t judge, it’s for his back injury! Or something like that. Here are some great gifts for stoners. And yes, these are purely tongue-in-cheek, chillax.


August 13, 2011
Gadgets

7 Tools Survive Your Beach Holiday Unscathed

Summer is on its way, and that beach trip you’ve been wanting to organise isn’t going to plan itself. Bringing any or all of these seven tools will ensure that metaphorical sand won’t get you where it hurts most.


August 5, 2011
Geek Out

What Travelling Around The World Looks Like In One Minute

Rick, Tim and Andrew, three ordinary guys, decided to take a trip of a lifetime: 11 countries in 44 days. 18 flights and 61,000km later they have three one-minute videos showing what life is like around the world.


December 29, 2010
Cameras

14 Reader Family Portraits

Some of you, dear Gizmodo readers, have lovely families who celebrate the holidays with Hallmarkian rigor. Others…don’t you realise that duct tape wasn’t meant for lips?


December 26, 2010
Online

What Is Google’s Holiday Doodle?

In a goal to end the year with a bang, Google’s Doodlers have drawn up a creative, artsy doodle for this year’s holiday season. It’s 17 interactive portraits of holiday scenes around the world and took six months of work.


Entertainment

Didn’t Get Anything From Santa This Year? Here’s Why

Didn’t get any gifts from Santa this year? I think I know why. You see, last year a boy wanted to get some revenge on the old man in red and—well, let’s just say it wasn’t pretty.


December 25, 2010
Geek Out

The Santa Chronicles: A Look Into The Shady Life Of The Man In Red

You probably don’t give Santa a second look when you see him in a department store or on a street corner every December…but maybe you should.


December 24, 2010
Science

Can’t Make It To Dinner? Send A Robot Proxy In Your Place

Sometimes it’s just not possible to get your whole family together for the holidays. So why not bring avatars of family members together instead?


Geek Out

Santa’s Privacy Policy

At Santa’s Workshop, your privacy is important. What follows is an explanation of how Santa’s Workshop collects and safeguards your personal information; the kind of information it collects; and your choices regarding the use and disclosure of this information.


December 22, 2010
Computing

The Worst Part Of Coming Home For Christmas

I swear to fucking God, if I come home this Christmas and find out my parents are still unplugging their computer from the wall when they want to turn it off, I will fucking snap.