Laser Scanners, the Death of Cavities, Space Drifting, Horrible Tweets and More... [The Best Stories Of The Week]

You might be on summer vacation, but there was plenty of news popping up when you weren't looking. Whether it was Digg selling for a paltry sum, the discovery of a molecule that can prevent cavities, the first picture posted on the internet, or the disturbing revelation that the government will track us with laser scanners, a lot happened this week. Check it all out below.

It's summer time. You want to look good. You want to feel good-especially after that hangover from the time you tried to drink all day without passing out. So how are you supposed to relax with an adult beverage on the beach, porch, or patio? By choosing one of the nine healthiest drinks you can pour up. More »

O, how the mighty fall have an asthma attack and roll off the side of a cliff. Digg, erstwhile king of the internet, just sold itself for a mere $500,000. In 2008, it turned down Google's offer of two hundred million. More »

A lot of the giant technology brands and companies you know and love today didn't look anything like they do now when they first started. Just look at their original logos: almost always butt ugly, but slowly grew into what they are now. Here are the humblest beginnings for all to see. More »

I hardly remember 2006. You probably don't either. But that's when Twitter first started! And looking back how we tweeted that fateful first year, it's probably better that none of us remember it. Just check out how awful everyone was at it. More »

This photo of aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is incredible-and it looks like a lot of fun too. I imagine the helmsman pushing the rudder and whispering "wowwheeeee!" More »

Smooth move, Dave. You've done pissed off the ship's Nav-com enough to warrant bailing out of an airlock. Now, find yourself in the cold embrace of interstellar space sans helmet. Here's what you have to look forward to during your last few moments alive. More »

Though this photo may look like a prom picture on Facebook that's been blingee'd, it's actually the very first photo that was ever uploaded to the web. The history of the picture-in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping-is amazing. More »

Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body-agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. More »

Scientists have discovered a new molecule that will make your teeth cavityproof and may change dental care forever. They have appropriately named it Keep 32-for your 32 teeth-and it can kill the bacteria that produces cavities in 60 seconds flat. More »

Today, we wirelessly sync our powerful, dual-core smartphones to our pencil-thin laptops, then go home and stream just about any album or movie conceivable to our TV. In HD. So why are people still selling dead tech from the past? More »

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Facebook Now Shows Everyone Every Stupid Comment You Edited [Facebook]

Jul 13, 2012 3:11 PM  

Facebook comments are a fireworks show of impulsiveness, like much else with Facebook. Mercifully, FB just gave us the ability to edit things we wish we might have said differently. But now, our screwup is open for everyone to see.

Usually we applaud transparency at Gizmodo, but isn't the entire point of an edit feature to clean your tracks, whitewash the past, and leave behind a better statement than the one you cranked out to begin with? Not anymore. Whenever a friend (or foe) edits any Facebook comment, an Edited button will be tacked on—click that, and you've got a big gaping window that shows the entire history of the comment. Every. Single. Change. Did you screw up a fact? Say something insulting? Hurt someone's feelings? Lie? It'll be there.

Of course, you can just delete any incriminating comment, but then we're just back to square one. Online editing is only good if it allows you to banish your inferior self expression to an unreachable internet vortex. Now we're all just going to make fools of ourselves.

[Thanks, Shane!]

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Extra-Long Tablecloth Instantly Turns Any Table Into a Fort [Design]

Jul 14, 2012 2:30 PM  

With a child-size dose of imagination anything can become a fort or a playhouse. But this custom tablecloth available from Etsy seller CoolSpacesForKids makes it incredibly easy to convert your dining room table into a miniature mansion, mission control, or Fort Knox.

It not only means you don't have to strip the beds to find enough sheets to cover the table, but you can also probably get away with eating a meal on it while your kids hang out inside. It's available in both stereotypical boy and girl colors for $85, and as a word of advice: you might want to remove that elaborate centerpiece before your kids move in. As I recall, forts and play houses are prone to frequent earthquakes.

[Etsy via The Fancy]

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Indecision Game, Sworkit, and More [Iphone Apps Of The Week]

Jul 13, 2012 6:00 PM   Got the summer blues? This round of the best iPhone apps of the week will cheer you up. We've got one to ease your election season fatigue, a new version of a popular game, and more.

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Who Wants a Quad-Core Computer for $130? [Guts]

Jul 13, 2012 4:20 PM  

When Raspberry Pi released their diminutive, ARM-based PC for $35, people were rightfully chomping at the bit to get their hands on something so cheap and small and hackable. But the 700 MHz, single-core ARM 11 processor it wasn't exactly a powerhouse. Enter Hardkernel's ODROID-X, which packs a quad-core Samsung Exynos chipset on a 3.5 inch motherboard.

With each Cortex-A9 core clocked at 1.4 GHz, the ODROID-X also has 1 gigabyte of RAM, a Mali 400 GPU, six USB ports, ethernet, audio in/out, Micro HDMI and an SDHC reader. Plus it's capable of running Android or Ubuntu, giving you computing flexibility. Sure, it's no Ivy Bridge, but the Exynos processor is pretty amazing for its size. And for $130, this little chipset could become the heart of your next DIY project. [Hardkernel via Ars Technica]

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Dogpile's Autocomplete Suggestions Are Bonkers [Humor]

Jul 13, 2012 3:40 PM  

Before Google there were many search engines worth trying out on the Internet. Technically, many of them still exist. What, you haven't visited Dogpile recently? Well maybe you should, if only to see what its puny algorithm thinks you're searching for.

Punch "Am I," "does," or "can you" into the search box and Dogpile serves up wonderful, nonsensical suggestions. Ahem:

• "Can you get arthritis in thr face"
• "Am i required to attend sc divorce mediation hearings?
• "Am I evil?"

Who searches for this stuff? Judging by the results, either something's funky with Dogpile's algorithms or its users are seriously confused about whether they've murdered a bunch of people. Head over to Geekosystem for more autocomplete madness. [Geekosystem]

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Is Chewing This Spiky Rubber Disc Really As Effective As Brushing Your Teeth? [Health]

Jul 14, 2012 9:00 AM  

Designed for those times when you've just had a meal but can't sneak away to brush your teeth, the Rolly is a small rubber disc covered in 276 spiky bristles that promises to be as effective at cleaning your teeth as brushing, when chewed like a piece of gum.

Besides reaching into every nook and cranny of your mouth, and gently stimulating your gums while you chew it, the Rolly contains Xylitol and Fluoride which are claimed to fight plaque and strengthen tooth enamel. And using the small disc doesn't require toothpaste, a mirror, or even water to rinse your mouth out afterwards. When you're done, you just spit it into the garbage like a piece of gum. The Rollys come in multi-packs for about a dollar a piece, making them a little too expensive to use for all your daily brushing needs. But in an emergency, they could be far more effective than the go-to toothpick or piece of gum. [Rolly via bookofjoe]

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What Horrible Web Browsers Do Your Parents Use? [Chatroom]

Jul 13, 2012 5:20 PM  

Google is doing something interesting at Best Buy stores that seems positively ass backwards: they're giving away copies of their Chrome browser on CD. What is this?! 1998?! But when you think about it, it makes sense; they're trying to get less tech savvy users—like our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles—to switch over to a proper browser that won't load their computers with as many trojans and malware.

But alas, we still all have horror stories of friends and family members using archaic browsers on their Compaq Presarios. So what are the worst web browsers you've found on other people's computers? [via HackerNews]

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Camping Cutlery Adapters Make Your Marshmallow Stick Far More Useful [Cutlery]

Jul 14, 2012 7:00 PM  

Most campers don't have the outdoor skills necessary to build a shelter, set a trap, or even start a fire. But there's one thing even the most amateur outdoorsman can make—a marshmallow stick. And with these cutlery adapters, that primitive tool can then be used to consumer more than just s'mores.

Designed by Sharon Myoung, the S&S cutlery simply requires a camper to find a stick, shorten it to a usable length, and then sharpen the point so it can be twisted into a threaded bolt. Assembly really only requires pre-teen skill levels, but the final product can vastly improve your outdoor dining experience. But if this still seems like too much effort, you can probably just pack a regular spoon and fork—but where's the fun in that?

[Sharon Myoung via Notcot]

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The Hugest, Most Verbose, and Least Grammatical Cache of Spam Comments, Ever [Spam]

Reading it straight through you will feel at first mild amusement, then subtle disorientation (as the reading-voice in your head starts to repeat itself, in variations of topic, like a loony tune), then resentment as it simply keeps going, and finally a simmering rage that such a thing just took up valuable minutes of your life. Because, really, reading this seems like an important thing to do—at first. All of the spam! Ugh. All of the spam :(

The full text appears below, for those late-night masochists interested in slogging through it...

Dump from a single spam submitted to a WordPress instance hosted
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This Outdoor Table's Recessed Grooves Stop the Wind From Blowing Away Your Meal [Wish You Were Here]

Jul 14, 2012 10:00 AM  

When the weather is beautiful you want to spend as much time as you can outdoors. And that includes enjoying meals on the patio, which designers Marco Marotto and Paola Oliva make even more enjoyable with their conceptual dining set that stops the wind from blowing everything away.

The Bye Bye Wind set of table and chairs look like your typical plastic patio furniture, but the table's surface features recessed areas for plates, cups, and serving trays that prevents them from being swept away by even the strongest of backyard winds. And for each guest's sitting comfort, the back of the chairs feature small pockets for stashing a phone, keys, or anything else that's uncomfortable to keep in your pockets during a meal. The center of the table even has a plastic bottle crusher so you can keep empty beverage containers safely stowed, and from the looks of the design the Bye Bye Wind set should be fairly easy to produce using the same techniques as other plastic furniture. So let's make it happen already.

[Behance via HomeChunk]

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The First Nexus 7 Is Shipping Today [Android]

Jul 13, 2012 2:47 PM  

Surprise! The Google Nexus 7 tablet—aka the best way to spend $200—is shipping today. If you are looking for a tablet of this size, you should be cheering right now. It got a four-star GizRank in our review:

Totally. At $200 there is pretty much no reason to buy a Kindle Fire at all. If you love reading Kindle Books and listening to Amazon MP3, you just install those apps and you're good to go. It also gives the iPad a good run for its money. You can argue that the iPad is a better tablet, but is it really $300 better? As useful as tablets are, they're still kind of luxury items. $200 for a full-fledged, seriously-spec'd, fully-capable tablet is an absolute steal. Get it. Seriously.

The units shipping today are the pre-orders, according to Google Play.

Locked and loaded, ready to play: we've started shipping +Nexus 7 pre-orders today! google.com/nexus/#/7

You can order at [Google Play]

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Let's Talk About Anything You Want for the Next Hour [Chatroom]

Jul 13, 2012 4:00 PM  

Hey there. It's the end of the week and I'm sure you're dying to get out of the office, so we're gonna try and help make the rest of your day bearable. For the next hour, the entire Giz staff will be hovering around this thread, willing to shoot the shit about whatever your little hearts desire. What do you all want to talk about?

Image via Shutterstock/IR Stone

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The Stoner Channel: Hair Emergencies, Silly Willy Joints, and Bob Marley's Blood-Sucking Namesake [Video]

Jul 14, 2012 12:00 AM  

This is a worse disaster than Hairoshima. But still not as bad as that Hair Spray disaster with the cross-dressing John Travolta. [Cartoon Brew]

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Watch This: POV Footage of Pilot's Crash Landing Proves a Valuable Learning Tool [Video]

Larry Hockensmith—a licensed power pilot for over 40 years, but still a student glider pilot—was flying over the Cleveland National Forest, a few miles southwest of Lake Elsinore, CA, when he executed a rather dramatic and unfavorable outlanding, effectively "totaling" his Schweizer 1-26 sailplane, valued at $8,500.

The entire event was captured in eery, HD silence—the GoPro video providing an invaluable after-the-fact learning aid, from which Hockensmith and fellow pilots can watch and determine what went wrong and how better to handle a similar such situation in future, should that ever become necessary.

The admirably eloquent write-up accompanying his YouTube post appears in full below:

Complacency has no place in soaring. I was trained better than to have lingered on the lee-side of a ridge over rough terrain. The dramatic outlanding was due to my actions exclusively.

While tight turns over roofs, brushing treetops and dodging street signs are not desired flight maneuvers, they do make for interesting viewing. An almost perfect (for a power pilot and plane but not a sailplane) landing until an unnoticed mailbox catches the right wing of the sailplane about 8 inches from the tip.

The original is 16 minutes of Full High Definition Video and shows every second of the events leading to this out-landing/ crash. It has been closely reviewed and much learning has taken place. My instructor, safety officer, FAA and NTSB were all outstanding professionals in helping grow skills from this experience.

More videos on this are coming. See if you can spot how the differences between a power pilot's training and a glider pilot's training could have contributed to this outcome.

[CNET]

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We Need To Stop Developing These Creepy Pole Climbing Robot Snakes Immediately [Video]

Jul 14, 2012 4:00 PM  

Watching this robotic snake almost effortlessly slither its way up a pole and onto this researcher's arm leads to one obvious conclusion—this research must be stopped. Like immediately.

Robotic versions of almost any other living creatures are just fine, and I have no issue with the possibility that I might one day cross paths with robotic sharks, or cybernetic cockroaches. But the idea of a robot snake creeping its way up my leg? That's not cool. And if anyone from this research team is reading this, I highly recommend keeping a loaded shotgun in your lab at all times for the day when your creation suddenly becomes self-aware and decides you're no longer needed.

What do you think?

[YouTube via Modsnake via Automaton]

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Lego Star Wars Rancor Pit Set Needs a Slave Leia Minifig—Urgently [Lego]

Jul 14, 2012 12:30 PM  

At last, one of the most iconic Star Wars scenes is out in Lego form: the Rancor Pit set. It will be available next January for $60.

The coolest thing: it's made to fit perfectly underneath their Jabba's Palace set!

The worst thing: no sign of slave Leia minifig yet.

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How to Become an Aquanaut [Video]

So, you want to become an aquanaut? Do you have the right stuff? What is the right stuff? Do you even know what an Aquanaut is?

According to Saul Rosser, Operations Director at Aquarius undersea research base, An aquanaut is a diver that lives under the water for 24 hours or more using saturation diving techniques and an underwater habitat to sleep, eat and work between dives.

The normal max bottom times don't apply when you're an Aquanaut as they do in normal divers. This is because a saturation diver doesn't try to avoid their blood and tissues filling up with inert gasses that can kill or maim a diver if they rise too quickly. Saturation divers don't rise at all for many days. Instead, they saturate their body with these inert gases under the high pressure environment and they stay under pressure, resting between dives in a pressurized home like Aquarius that does not allow blood to bubblr as it might if a diver tries to swim to the surface without slowly decompressing over the course of a day.

To become an Aquanaut you've got to have a hot research proposal that requires steady, long periods of time studying the ocean itself or its inhabitants. Then, you've got to make sure you can work and live underwater without dying.

That means getting medical sign off by a doctor and being able to swim 25 meters underwater on one breath, with no fins or mask. And cross 400 meters in 12 minutes. Then there's the dive experience requirement: at least 50 dives at approximately the 60 foot depth that Aquarius Reef Base exists at. And you must be comfortable diving at night, which is the aquanaut-ical equivalent of an evening stroll. Ultimately, Rosser says you must be "comfortable in the water with the gear and procedures required so that aquanauts aren't surprised."

The divers on the mission next week will be using helmets with tethers that pass audio and a nearly unlimited supply of air through a heavy duty helmet, so they have been practicing using these hats, too. The photos and videos above are of the training session where the Aquanauts were required to flood their helmets and vent them. This is a bit tougher in a 30 pound helmet that, unlike a scuba mask, will probably make the average diver feel claustrophobic when it fills up with water.

The Aquarius Reef Base's dive specifications are a combination of standards AAUS (The American Academy of Underwater Science) and OSHA, which combine the heavy duty standards of hardhat divers who will be lifting, welding and building things with the more intricate work of scientists which is still more demanding of civilian diving.

How many Aquanauts have existed? Rosser estimates that over 117 Aquarius Reef Base missions, there have been 500 or so. And if you count all the aquatics through the last 50 years of bases—perhaps 60 bases in total—he estimates the numbers in the thousands.

I'll be diving to Aquarius a few times this weekend, but I won't saturate, which requires a day of decompression. So, I can't technically change my title on my driver's license to Aquanaut.

Brian Lam is an ocean exploration journalist and the editor of The Scuttlefish and The Wirecutter. He is a Gizmodo alum and a Wired Magazine contributor. Videos provided by One World One Ocean, a campaign dedicated to telling the story of the ocean through multimedia.

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You Can Bend and Contort This Flexible Ribbon Lamp Into Any Position Imaginable [Lighting]

Jul 14, 2012 6:00 PM  

Ideal for makers and tinkerers who often need a light source as close to what they're working on as possible, this beautiful LED desklamp was designed by Alberto Fraser with an incredibly flexible transparent PVC neck making it almost infinitely adjustable.

The touch sensitive base also lets you turn the lamp on or off with just a tap, and adjust its brightness with a swipe of your finger. Which is certainly slick and convenient, but a far cry from justifying its ridiculous $500+ price tag. Particularly when you can only get it in black or white. You offer this thing in a hot rod red option, and maybe we'll talk.

[Lumen Center Italia via HomeChunk]

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Perfect Sandwich Review: Go to Hell, Sogginess [Video]

It's lunchtime. (Somewhere.) You've worked hard. Or maybe you haven't worked hard at all, loser. But either way, you're probably pretty hungry—and nothing ruins the moment more than a damp sandwich. This container could banish wet sandies forever.

A plastic box that separates sandwich bread from the moist components of a sandwich.

Those who enjoy sandwiches but are bothered by their tendency to become soggy by lunchtime.

Materially superb—super sturdy. But how are you supposed to manipulate the container's myriad panels and sections? The instructions do nothing to help.

Put your bread on top of this plastic part that separates the wet ingredients from everything else. Insert a cooler pack to keep things fresh. Snap the whole thing shut. Forget about it until noon.

The Perfect Sandwich truly does keep bread from soggifying.

You have to reassemble your sandwich at work, school, or wherever else you might be eating said sandwich. Double the sandwich labor, and messy fingers.

Why does one of the plastic panels take such strength to snap shut? What is it sealing against? Ghosts?

Tested with cheddar cheese, sliced roast beef, mustard, white bread, and a fresh sliced tomato.Meat, cheese, mustard, and tomato slices were stored and sealed together, but had become goop by the time they were ready for extraction and reassembly.Sandwich tasted OK. Bread was in perfect condition. Not sure how old that cheese was.

You have to take your sandwich components out of the fridge, put them in a box, and build your sandwich from scratch again. You could make two soppy sandwiches in the time it takes to use this product.

The question is: Is this something that matters to you? Some people separate the bread in wax paper, then build the sandwich again at lunch every day. If that's you, this is a must buy. If you will just eat any soggy sandwich to stave off hunger, don't bother.

• Price: $13
• Material: BPA-free plastic
• Microwavable? No
• Gizrank: 3.5

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Toys Playing with Toy-Size Apple Gadgets Will Make You Either Sneer or Coo [Apple]

Jul 13, 2012 9:40 PM  

Toys playing with their own overly-engineered, brand-name, Apple gadgets is what could probably be called—quite accurately—the pinnacle of pretension. Still, anything made miniature is automatically cool. And these tiny iPods, iPads, iPhones, and MacBooks are no exception. Not even when Woody from Toy Story is posed with a doll-size iPhone to look like he's Instagramming his sushi dinner.

[CultofMac via Webstagram]

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Blottr, Amazing Alex, and More [Android Apps Of The Week]

Jul 13, 2012 6:00 PM   We've got lots of new apps to occupy your time in this week's round of Android apps. Whether it's the latest from Rovio or a tool to help you sniff out scams, we've got your back.

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