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One of the best ways to teach kids how to ride a bike is with a balance bike. The pedal-less design lets them scoot along, tucking their legs when they feel comfortable enough. Kids grow quickly, though, and those balanc...

Accessorize yourself with this minimal yet sophisticated Big Diamond Ring for the next outdoor party with friends or family and make your style statement stand out from the lot. It's a simple, hollow diamond ring that ha...

Ever wondered how you can brew “loose leaf” tea at the Office without the unsightly tea basket dripping all over that saucer afterwards? Well, we came up with the KLiP tea infuser to solve this problem. Our unique te...

Call it an ultimate stationery or another beautiful piece of home decor, the Tabla Blackboard Wall Clock might just be the best thing you get for yourself this Back to School season. It's a clock, bulletin board, chalk b...

Most of us these days tend to use our smartphones as the primary outlet to tell the time, although a fair number of us still wear watches around our wrists. It is convenient to check out the time at a glance, but on the ...

If there ever was a famous astromech droid that has saved the galaxy many times over, not to mention being able to avoid getting eaten, crushed, and recycled, or even grazed by a laser blaster, then it would be the one a...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler isn't happy with Verizon's reply to his strongly worded letter, which chastises the company for its plans throttle some unlimited LTE subscribers. See, Big Red defended the move and reasoned that...

These days, data centers, portable USB battery chargers and all sorts of transportation are going green thanks to fuel cell technology. Now you can add submersibles to that list: Japan is developing a 33-foot-long submar...

Google added a sneaky little update to Android Device Manager this week: A new lock screen button implores whoever found your phone to call a number that you specify. Now just hope that they're not calling to ask for ran...

Remember the class-action lawsuit that Adobe, Apple and Google faced over no-hiring deals? Well, it turns out that the $324.5 million settlement the trio reached isn't going to be honored by the judge. As The New York Ti...

It's the lazy days of summer, and that means lots of time fooling around with your phone. Give it something new with these, the best new apps this week.

We've been following NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) program for awhile now, and finally have some HD video of it to share. The footage chronicles the LDSD's recent balloon-and-parachute-enabled test-fli...

For reasons that still aren't entirely clear, in July someone swapped in bleached-out U.S. flags on the Brooklyn Bridge. Almost immediately, Twitter parody @BicycleLobby claimed responsibility. Yesterday, according to th...

CBS might not have embraced internet video with open arms in the past, but it's certainly warming up to the concept this year. CEO Les Moonves has revealed that the broadcaster is producing shows for "major streaming com...

The picture above is not, unfortunately, the oldest bridge in New York City. It's a picture of the Manhattan Bridge, arguably the prettiest in the area, under construction in 1909. While that's plenty old, it's still not...

Happy weekend, friends! It's time to sit back, relax, and take stock of what we all accomplished this week. Here at Gizmodo, we learned some sweet photo tricks, learned the strange saga of the Army's new camo, got a 6-ye...

I've always thought it's better to spend more on something once than to buy cheap and replace time and again. Because of this, I've owned exactly two bags in the last nine years: a Wenger Soho backpack and now a custom, ...

A group of authors published open letter , wherein they detail their objections to the protracted assault Amazon has levied against Hachette. In response, Amazon published their own line of reasoning for the eBook cold w...

When you love something, you want to share it with the world -- or so the theory goes. Products exist to satisfy all varieties of fandom (have you seen the X-Wing knife block?), and that includes Super Mario fans. Just i...

California continues to dry up. The latest figures indicate more than 80% of the state is in extreme drought, or worse, exceptional drought. These are sobering numbers, to be sure, but for an even better perspective on t...

Amazon's fight with Hachette over e-book pricing just got extra-personal. Hot on the heels of writers attacking Jeff Bezos' "retaliation," the Amazon Books Team has posted a Readers United site that calls on you to email...

What happens when you look to get more out of your engineering knowledge? For littleBits CEO Ayah Bdier, that meant making electronics and programming accessible to everyone, regardless of skill level. The company's Lego...