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Eating Nails And Metal Not The Best Way To Turn Into A Cyborg
6:00AM Sean Fallon | A Peruvian man named Requelme Abanto has a new identity — the “hardware store”. That’s because he recently had surgery to remove more than 0.5kg worth of 5-inch nails, rusted copper wire, scrap metal and coins from his stomach. More »
Online
See our bending technique, Bend like iMac MacBook Pro Cinema Display
2:20AM John Mahoney | This is how it’s done. We can offer a wider range of services. Are you interested? More »
Science
Polished ‘Universe’ Ring Models Our Insignificance
6:00PM Elaine Chow | The #5 Universe Ring is a beautiful piece based on a theory that our universe is actually shaped like a donut. See that tiny little speck on its side? That imperfection is us. More »
Design
Metal ‘Portraits’ Make an Optical Illusion Out of Your Face
8:04PM John Herrman | Sculptor Brian Cox has made a hobby out of turning people’s faces into a real-life, stainless steel Rubin vase illusions. Novelty gifts, as a whole, now have a new standard for, well, novelty. More »
Gadgets
Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
5:40AM Brian Lam | If there’s one thing that makes me vomit in my mouth, it’s plastic gadgets painted silver. More »
Entertainment
Electric Guitar Played Through a Tesla Coil for Added Metal
4:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Japanese guitarist Merce Death set up his Tesla coil to output the frequencies of his electric guitar so even the wussiest John Mayer song would sound badass. He busts out a little ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ at 1:05, but alas, not a hint of ‘Your Body is a Wonderland.’ [OYKOT, thanks John!] More »
Design
Metal Bar to Serve Space Cocktails at Home, Travel to the Future
11:20AM Jesus Diaz | How much do I like this home metal bar, this beautiful sculpture/unidentified drinking object created by architect Zaha Hadid for London’s Home House? Let me count the ways: More »
Science
What Is the Orion Spacecraft Going to Smell Like?
7:10AM Jesus Diaz | As the Constellation program (kind of) goes forward, Nasa is asking itself some really weird questions that may affect the life of the astronauts as they advance towards their three-year mission to Mars. One of them has been commissioned to Steven Pearce, chemist and managing director of fragrance manufacturing company Omega Ingredients: What is life in the Orion spacecraft going to smell like? More »
Design
Lifesize Scopedog Mecha Towers Over Iron and Steel Celebration
5:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation got ironsmithing genius Kogoro Kurata to display his insane 1:1 scale model of the Scopedog mecha from the 80s anime series VOTOMS. Weighing in at two tons and standing a full four meters tall, it dwarfed everything else at the exhibition. The cast iron structure was actually finished in 2005 and has been on display before at other Japanese conventions, but it still thrills every time it rears its mechanical head. Look at the detail on this thing! More »
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