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Gizmodo, the gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural.

How a Single Student Is Transforming Facebook's Privacy Policy in Europe [Facebook] To most people that know him, Max Schrems is a typical law student from Austria. To Facebook, he is a massive pain in the ass. Outsmarting their attorneys, bombarding them with legal complaints and forming activist groups, he plans to transform Facebook's privacy policy in Europe. More » Anonymous-Leaked Emails Reveal Syrian Presidential Aides' Disdain for Americans [Anonymous] An Anonymous-affliliated hacker group has stolen and leaked hundreds of damaging emails from Syria's Ministry of Presidential Affairs including a damning thread regarding the manipulation of American opinion of President Assad's dissent-crushing tactics. More » BreathalEyes Determines Your Drunkenness By Scanning Your Shifty Peepers [Apps] While some of us prefer to use the Stand Method (if you can still stand, you're not drunk enough), others prefer a more precise means of determining their level of intoxication. Thankfully, the BreathalEyes app should be able to accurately judge your inebriation just by scanning your bloodshot eyes. More » LG Teases Its Upcoming 4:3 Optimus Vu [Video] Is there a limit on how big your smartphone can be before it can be called a tablet? Looks like LG trying to find out. It just dropped this teaser vid for its upcoming Optimus Vu—a five-inch, 4:3 ratio, Android-powered behemoth. Why a 4:3 aspect ratio? The company suggests that this size will fit more comfortably in users' hands. [LG Blog via The Verge] More » T-Mobile Is Giving Away Its Stock of 4G Smartphones This Saturday [Video] If you're thinking of surprising your sweetie this Valentine's Day with a new phone, T-Mobile has an promotion you might be interested in. On February 11th, the carrier is offering every one of its 4G smartphones—and a few Android tablets to boot—for free. More » New Kinect Hack Could Help Relieve Phantom Limb Pain [Video] Approximately 70 percent of amputees struggle with psychosomatically-induced chronic pain in their missing appendage, known as Phantom Limb Syndrome. This has traditionally been treated with Mirror Therapy but with only mixed success. A new system utilizing a Kinect and VR goggles could help bring patients some much needed relief. More » Award-Winning Smoke Alarm Sounds Like a Bird and Could Save Your Life [Homemod] Smoke alarms may be essential life-saving devices but aren't exactly the most aesthetically pleasing electronics in your home. At least until now, that is. More » This Tiny Primate Uses Bat-Like Ultrasonic Communication [Science] The Philippine tarsier was once considered one of the quieter primate species. Turns out that's because we simply weren't listening hard enough. More » I Will Buy Your USB Shot Glass, Rad Power Hour Girl, and Then I Want to Marry You [Video] Musician Ali Spagnola tours around the country righteously promoting collective binge drinking with her Power Hour Concerts. Then she got sued. Now she's selling Power Hour USB Shot Glasses to pay her legal fees. Will you marry me, Ali? Or can we at least drink together? More » Stop Mangling Your Goggles and Behold the Power of Magnetic Lenses [Video] After a few seasons on the slopes, you realize that having a set of goggles with interchangeable lenses is a must. Then you realize that changing the lenses on those goggles is a huge pain in the ass. Well magical magnets are once again the answer to all of our troubles. More » Study: We Love Facebook Because It Tricks Us Into Thinking We're Doing Something Important [Science] When you're perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you're doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! More » See How Much Camera ISO Has Improved Over the Years [Cameras] The picture on the left (if you can't tell by the young and spunky Britney Spears) was taken at the 2001 Super Bowl with a Nikon D1H at 2.7 megapixels and 800 ISO. That was PRIMO technology back then! The picture on the right was taken at this year's Super Bowl with a Nikon D3s at 12MP and 12,800 ISO. Yep, thing's done got better. More » Olympus OM-D E-M5: The First Micro Four Thirds Camera Aimed at Replacing a DSLR [Cameras] The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is crammed full of impressive features: the fastest autofocus among interchangeable lens cameras (or so says Olympus). The E-M5 pushes a ridiculous 9 frames per second of 16-megapixel RAW photos. It's the first mirrorless camera with a magnesium alloy body—weatherproof and dustproof, yo!—and packs the world's first 5-axis image stabilization. That's up from 2-axis in the PEN E-P3 and the E5 DSLR. But what does any of that mean to a regular person? More » Apple TV Now Has Genius Recommendations [Apple] Apple has recently integrated its Genius recommendation system, already an iTunes staple, into the Apple TV environment via a silent update. The service will be available for both episodic content as well as movies, based on your previous content purchases. It's accessible from the new Genius menu option for the 4.2 million or so households that have purchased the Apple TV so far. [Apple Insider] More » 30,000 NY Hotel Maids Getting Anti-Rape "DSK Buttons" [Crime] Temporarily-accused sex criminal and Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be safely back in the motherland, but the spectre of hotel rape remains. The threat is apparently disquieting enough to justify mandatory rape alert buttons for New York's hotel employees. More » Why Lady Gaga Deploys a Sound Only Your Smartphone Can Hear [Apps] Audio tags are looking more and more like the new QR code - not only are they way less ugly than those jagged black-on-white squares, but you don't need to take a picture of anything in order for them to work. (See also: Shazam and the Super Bowl.) More » 'Used' Music Service Won't Shut Down Because of Lawsuit—Yet [Lawsuits] Capitol Records failed to halt the operations of ReDigi, a service which sells "used" digital music, in advance of their looming legal battle. And even if you've never heard of ReDigi, this case holds important consequences for digital media of all kinds. More » How to Make Fancy Homemade American Cheese with Science [Food] Mark McClusky, special projects editor at Wired, just showed CHOW his go-to recipe for making fancy schmancy homemade Velveeta-style cheese which means you can steal his recipe and do the same thing. So instead of eating delicious processed cheese, you can gorge on delicious homemade cheese! More » Another Reason Your K-Cup Coffee Machine Is a Terrible Thing [Coffee] I think the coffee that comes out of single-serving coffee pod machines is not very good. But, putting that aside, it can be obscenely expensive, as Oliver Strand points out in the NYT: More » TripLingo Romance Edition: Love Abroad [App Of The Day] There are a ton of apps headed down the ol' App Store highway that will make Valentine's Day magical for you and your significant other. But what about the lonely people of the world? And what's going to happen to folks in other countries during this, the cruelest of holidays? Don't worry lonely travelers. I got your back. You'll find love even if it means you get slapped in the face a few times. More » Every Bus Stop On Earth Should Smell Like Fresh Baked Potatoes [Advertising] As part of the UK promotion for the company's new microwave pre-baked potatoes (called jackets there for some reason), McCain has outfitted ten bus shelters with giant 3D spuds that release the aroma of a freshly baked potato. More » Google Voice on Android Is Now Much, Much Prettier [Android] The Google Voice app for Android got a significant update today, unveiling a fancy UI facelift for Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and finally implementing offline SMS queueing. More » The Olympics Will Have Bombproof Trash Cans with LCD Screens [Olympics] Trash cans are the eye sores of city life, like the grimy physical manifestation of popped pimples overflowing with bags and Chinese takeout ooze. The Olympics? A magnifying glass on a city's life. That's why it's not surprising to see a city (in this case, London) introduce new, stylish trash cans as a quick makeover. For London 2012, new bombproof trash cans that have dual giant LCD screens and Wi-Fi hotspots will brighten up the dreary London fog. More » The Softer Side of Chainsaw-Accentuated Rifles [Video] Rifles augmented with chainsaws designed to cut through zombie hordes are old hat, so when Guns & Gardens set about making theirs, they wanted it to be different. Cuter, more adorable, and more appealing to your stereotypical tweenaged girl. More » Your Next Piece of Furniture Could Be Made From Your Old Refrigerator [Video] The huge, incredible DIY Maker Bot is almost as impressive as the beautiful furniture it assembles from the melted-down refuge of discarded kitchen appliances. You have to watch this for yourself. More » How a Smart Photographer Beat Out a Bunch of Abusive Cops [Video] Accredited Journalist Carlos Miller was arrested while covering the Occupy Miami eviction, following orders by Miami-Dade police's Major Nancy Pérez. Then they deleted his footage, which is illegal and may lead to a federal lawsuit. More » Logitech Cube Lightning Review: This Is Not a Mouse [Lightning Review] Logitech arguably makes the best mice you can buy. I guess it tires of doing so, as the Cube mouse-plus-PowerPoint-clicker is an ergonomic war crime and peripheral abomination. At least it's small enough to purge from memory. More » Take Pictures Quicker, Sync DropBox Music, and Open Almost Any File [App Deals Of The Day] Apple says the camera on the iPhone 4S is quick. Well, quicker, anyway. You still have to launch the app, then take a photo. Sometimes it's super fast. Other times, it's so slow you miss your chance to take a picture of the Yeti that just ran off with your backpack. Next time, capture that thieving Bigfoot with an app that takes a photo right when it launches. Plus, sync music from DropBox and download YouTube videos on your iPhone, all in today's app deals. More » The Best Laptops Under $500 [Laptops] Looking for the best bang for your PC buck? Our friends at Laptop Magazine and Laptop Mag—who oversee 140+ notebook and netbook reviews every year—have rounded up the top performers under $500. More » DigiTech's iPhone Guitar Pedal Lets You Shred Without Your Phone [Video] The Digitech iStomp isn't the first iPhone-controlled guitar effects pedal, but it's the first one that feels more like a legit guitar accessory than an iPhone toy. More » Path Uploads Your Entire Address Book to Its Servers Without Your Explicit Permission [Path] While searching for a way to create an OS X app for Path's social network, hacker Arun Thampi stumbled on to something that could raise privacy issues with the app. More » Everything You Need To Exercise Without Getting Off the Couch [Toolkit] Just because your life revolves around your living room couch—whether you whittle away the hours playing video games, blogging, or buying and selling action figures on eBay—doesn't mean you can't have the body of a chiseled supermodel. More » Ferris Bueller And Broderick Superbowl Ad Side By Side [Video] This is very neat: someone took the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off and ran all the parallelisms with Matthew Broderick's reprise for the 2012 Super Bowl. It was a great job, although Ferris is not Ferris anymore. [Thanks Brent!] More » How Letterman Gets Around NBC's Super Bowl "Fascism" [Video] David Letterman loved the Super Bowl, and was heated that he couldn't show his audience highlights from the big game due to NBC's iron grip on usage rights. So last night, Dave had some choice words for NBC—he called the network "fascist"—and then took matters into his own hands with a super high-tech simulation of the touchdown that put the Giants ahead. Can I get that in 3D? [The Late Show] More » The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Is Your Moddable Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo] I have not played Skyrim yet. Why is that? Because I currently have L.A. Noire, Gears of War 3, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars all sitting on my coffee table, unopened. It's a long list! And even if I did have Skyrim for Xbox 360, I'd ignore it. Snub it. Turn down its elaborate prom invite with a slow shake of my head. Why? Because the PC version so much better. MODS, people. I mean, you can wield a friggin lightsaber against dragons. There's also a high resolution texture pack. But the absolutely best addon is the Skyrim Creation Kit. This will allow modders to pretty much do ANYTHING. At $40, you won't find a better time to embrace PC Skyrim via Steam. And attention modders: I want a dragon-shooting tank asap. Get on that. More » Float Your iPad Next to Your Monitor With an Unsightly Tentacle [Ipad] I like the idea of an iPad as a second (or maybe third) screen, and an articulating arm that can position a tablet just so sounds great. But staring at Twelve South's new HoverBar, I feel like I'm staring at something that would be at home in a cubical at any sterile office building. More » Facebook's (Huge) New Photo Viewer Is Its Best Ever [Facebook] Facebook is the place we look at photos online. And for years, those photos have been constrained to tiny boxes and ugly, low-resolution uploads. No more! Facebook's new picture browser is here: your life is now giant and pretty. More »