Gadget News

One of the more annoying things about Facebook is how your News Feed gets clogged and spammed and smacked with stuff you don't care about. Facebook is trying to fix that by limiting what apps can post stuff to your Feed....

Considering how much time you spend staring at your computer, your desktop wallpaper is actually one of the most important aesthetic decisions you can make. There are infinite options. Will you choose a beautiful sunset ...

Before CGI, when a movie blew up a train, they either had to blow up a train, or build a model, film it at high speed and fill it with firecrackers. For this week's Shooting Challenge, we're exploring option 2. More �...

Gizmodo reader Codi Bonney had a cool idea to stop the paint of his iPhone 5 to chip off: take the whole thing off. "I'm still working on sanding it, this is what I've got so far," he said in his email. It looks pretty n...

Batteries are the Achilles heel of any portable gadget. It was NiCad that brought the downfall of Black & Decker's much-loved DustBuster vacs. Now, the company's new, updated Flex hand vacs have lithium-ion rechargeable ...

Apple was just granted yet another patent for slide-to-unlock, and it's even more general than the first two. More »

Privacy is becoming something that is more and more valued as technology seeps deeper into our lives, but is harder and harder to find in pure form. But as Buzzfeed's Russell Brandom points out, when you have two ex-Navy...

A big selling point of DVDs and Blu-rays are exclusive commentaries from the directors and actors. They explain the reasoning behind certain scenes, or how some crazy special effects happened. Movie buffs understandably ...

Having trouble justifying $600 for a winter coat that only promises to help you survive a cold winter? Perhaps a similarly priced jacket chock full of survival tools that promises to help you survive any situation might ...

I've got a confession: I've never much liked in-ear earphones. I've had several well-reviewed pairs over the years, but I could never get them to stay in, even though I tried pretty much every trick and insert. I couldn'...