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Glowing Mountain Dew Trick is a Hoax


We had our doubts about that Mountain Dew that glowed like a lightning bug when the guy in the video you see here added a bit of baking soda and peroxide. Sho' 'nuff, it turns out to be a hoax. The intrepid mythbusters at Snopes.com (in addition to many of our Giz readers) tried the trick and applied a bit of keen scientific expertise to the problem, and discovered it to be false. Sorry to get your hopes up. As for this video, well, the guy must be palming some glow stick goo and slipping it into the bottle, or it could be a simple edit or off-camera substitution. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. [Snopes]

9:20 AM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Charlie White
27,720 views, 14 comments

Latest by Scarred4lyfe: ok i just tried it and it didnt work but i used the contents of a glow stick with the peroxide and baking soda and it still glowed so when they zoomed in on the spoon he switched the bottle more »

double blind

Pear Cable CEO Calls James Randi's $1 Million Offer a Hoax

Last week, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi (pictured above left) offered the makers of Pear speaker cables $1 million if they could prove in double-blind testing there was a difference between their $7,250 cables and ordinary Monster Cables. Now, Adam Blake (pictured above right), CEO and co-founder of Pear Cable, has called Randi's offer "a fake" and a "joke". We've contacted James Randi, asking if he'd like to get together with these Pear dudes for some double-blind testing. We've also contacted Adam Blake, asking if Pear planned to participate in Randi's double-blind test. After the jump, see the full text of Pear Cable's accusations that Randi's million-dollar offer is a hoax. We'll keep you posted if anyone responds. More »

8:26 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Charlie White
24,497 views, 138 comments

Latest by n/a: Guess what? Randi has now banned Transparent Opus cable from his "test" because of the R/C network as I predicted he would. Either a major cop-out or he's just plain ignorant and chose that cable because of it's ludicrous (see, more »

hoax

Russia's "Father of All Bombs" Not Quite That Manly


To our innocent eyes, the video of Russia's "Father of All Bombs" looked pretty impressively explosive, but US big-boom experts are now questioning Russia's hoax-y claims about the weapon's size and power. For one, it might not even be a shockwave-generating thermobaric bomb—one expert says it actually looks like a fuel-air bomb, which is just a smaller explosive device strapped to lots of fuel—not exactly a marvel of Russian military science. More »

7:10 PM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Matt Buchanan
4,787 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: "Who cares if China owns the debt, the truth of the matter is the money is funny from get go, and the real resources that keep the communist at bay have sidewinders underneath their wings (not just good will and more »

gadgets

Jack Bauer vs. Boston's ATHF Scare

If there's one man that can take down the threat to national security that is the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mooninites, it's Jack Bauer. – Jason Chen

5:20 PM on Thu Feb 8 2007
By Jason Chen
1,478 views, 9 comments

Latest by king_of_fools: Proper Pwned. more »

gadgets

Promotional Gadgets Grip Boston in Fear and Loathing

Gadgets practically turned the entire city of Boston upside down yesterday. Fourteen of these horrifying and obviously dangerous devices were found throughout the city, and it turns out they were light boards depicting a "Mooninite," an outer space delinquent who shows up on the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. More »

8:30 AM on Thu Feb 1 2007
By Charlie White
3,024 views, 94 comments

gadgets

Fortune Ball: Elaborate Way to Part Fools and Their Money

Enter the exact time of your birth into the Fortune Ball, and it goes through its colorful permutations, using "computers" to tell your "fortune." This would be great for those occasions when a coin-flip just doesn't seem to be elaborate enough. More »

1:34 PM on Thu Aug 3 2006
By Charlie White
124 views, 6 comments

gadgets

ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer: Be Afraid

For those living in fear of unseen forces all around them, here's the ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer, an electromagnetic frequency (EMF)-blocking blower that will keep those villainous magnetic fields away from your catastrophisizing hyper-vigilant chickenshit vulnerable brain. That's right, all of this technology around us just can't be good. It's all too easy, this technology stuff. There are rays, killer rays lurking in the shadows, ready to smite us. Indeed there are. More »

12:11 PM on Wed Jun 21 2006
By Charlie White
1,215 views, 10 comments

peripherals

Dear World: Laser Pen is Kind of Real, Don't Send it to Us

Every so often we get an email containing some exciting hyperbole about some kind of laser keyboard computer pen with a smiling Asian man winking at us mysteriously. This product does exist in a very nascent form and does not work. It is a promising technology, not ready for prime time, and I foresee foldable LCDs and epaper taking over for this technology. Please refrain from sending these along or Intern Travis will be sent to noogie you.

11:58 AM on Fri Jan 27 2006
By johnb
1,457 views, 13 comments

Latest by mkant: I own the i.Tech bluetooth virtual keyboard and also the Celluon version. Both work quite well. I'm able to achieve 60 wpm on the i.Tech. That isn't as fast as on a real keyboard, but it is much faster than more »

pcs

PowerMac G5...Cubed?

Like the rest of the world, I thought the Mac Cube died off with Tony Danza, but some images have appeared in our tips inbox. These are obviously fake. Regardless, the hoaxer has done a phenomenal job of either A. Photoshopping, or B. Modding. It still looks cool as hell, though. There is some information in an Asian language about it and we relied on good ol' Google to do its usual handywork with a translation: More »

4:37 PM on Wed Jan 25 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,653 views, 10 comments

Latest by Navin R Johnson: Does anyone read the previous posts before posting? By the way, this is real. It's a case mod. I don't read japanese, but I can read, and I read the last 25 posts. It's a case mod, done by a more »

pcs

Live From CES: Atom Photo Swirl


Gizmodo Noah is at the Atom booth right now and getting some good shots. This guy has been showing up at CES for years now dumping all sorts of super-ninja PC components and has never let anyone—at least anyone he hasn't paid—touch his toys to validate his claims. I'm calling bullshit. Above: Inventor Dr. Shimon shakes hands with an invisible quantum dwarf.
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6:20 PM on Fri Jan 6 2006
By johnb
13,175 views, 14 comments