A little like what phones and tablets looked like before the iPhone and iPad , laptops have been borrowing liberally from the design of the MacBook Air. The old days of giant plastic shells with a gazillion ports, even more stickers and uniform awfulness have been replaced with slick silver body and black chiclet keyboards. More
More
If you haven’t seen any of Above Average Networks’ Rejected Pitches series, here’s your chance to start with one of the best: Quentin Tarantino pitching Pulp Fiction to three 80s studio execs who just… don’t… get it. It’s wonderful. More
More
The world of juggalos—die-hard followers of the band Insane Clown Posse—is weird but super intriguing. They have a yearly festival in August, it’s weird, dark, and hard to wrap your head around, and it’s chronicled in this short documentary, American Juggalo . More
Transforming furniture is amazing (this is well-documented , BTW), and when I saw Boxetti’s line of transforming modules for every part of the home, I basically made a mess of myself. There’s a couch that turns into a table and a desk. There’s a kitchen that packs into a box. A desk that pops out of the wall. OMG. SO. GOOD. More
I really miss Lauryn Hill. I know, I know, you do too and everyone does and she sort of gets out to perform sometimes—but whatever. I miss amazing things like her Unplugged being semi-regular, not super rare events. More
I just moved into a new apartment, and I have no dinner table. We are eating like savages on the couch with plates perched on our laps. So I’ve been scouring the internet for just the right piece, and right now I’m crushing on this Emerson Dining Table from West Elm . More
Last year Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago partnered up to curate the technology for the Smart Home: Green + Wired . The exhibit recently re-opened for 2012 with new furnishings and a few our favorite new gadgets. MSI did an incredible job in 2011 creating a truly Smart Home that we wished we could live in, and this year’s refresh is no different. More
The Motorola phones that have leaked before its announcement event next week have mostly been varying degrees of meh . Droid Razr somethin’ or another who cares. How are they going to make some noise? How about a complete edge-to-edge screen, meaning the entire front of the device is the display? Whoa. More
Everyone wants to get bang for their buck, and if you’re on the hunt for a new winter coat, Stone Island’s 30/30 Multi Jacket features a reversible liner and shell that lets you reconfigure it 30 different ways. The catch? It’s priced at almost $2,200 which, as The Awesomer points out, is like buying 30 $70 jackets at once. More
iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone. We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! More
