Top Tech News and Reviews from GizModo (April 2011 Diet)

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    Smart Home 2011 | Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago are teaming up to bring you something amazing this spring

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Source: Top Stories: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    You know what really sucks? When you come home and find you missed a package delivery from USPS, UPS or FedEx. Or you come home and find that $1000 gadget you ordered sitting on your front stoop where anyone could snatch it. The worst, however, is when you are actually at home and they assume you're not, and don't even bother ringing the doorbell. And considering many of us work during the day, it can be a pain in the ass to try and get to the shipping depot to try and pick up a package. So we're inevitably caught in an endless loop of missed delivery attempts and inconvenience.            More »

Source: Did You Miss Your Package Delivery AGAIN? [Rant]

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    There are times in which an airplane decompression may not be dangerous. But when your captain literally has half of his body out of one of the cockpit window, his face "banging against the window [from the outside] with blood coming out of his nose and the side of his head", all while the plane—with 81 passengers en route to sunny Málaga, Spain from Birmingham, England—is " spiralling down at 80 feet per second with no autopilot and no radio"... well, maybe then it is time to panic.            More »

Source: How a Captain Got Sucked Out Of a Exploded Cockpit Window and Everyone Survived [Airplanes]

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    Spring is here, and you know what that means?! It's time to end that messy winter hibernating and get your home ready for a busy spring and summer. Here are eight handy, dandy cleaning gadgets that will help save you time:            More »

Source: 8 Tools to Help Jumpstart Your Spring Cleaning [Toolkit]

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    Looking back on it now, the first time I truly felt the need for a note-taking app was when I started researching note-taking apps. I was just looking for a simple tool to save ideas about upcoming articles or jot down an occasional to-do list.            More »

Source: How Many Apps Is Too Many Apps? [Apps]

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    This summer, Netflix will add every episode of Mad Men to its Instant Watch collection. That will be swell! But the service's streaming library is already vast, and there's plenty of great stuff to watch right now. Or, better yet, this weekend, from 8:00am Saturday to 8:00am Sunday. So here, if you're up for a challenge, is a perfect day of Netflix, celebrating the breadth of content it has to offer.            More »

Source: The Perfect 24 Hours of Netflix Streaming [NetFlix]

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                     I want to ride the Mars Rover Curiosity. Sure, at a maximum of 90 meters (300 feet) per hour it would be a glacial ride, but the bloody thing is going to Mars. Where have I been lately? To the dog park two blocks from my house, that's where. Plus, there's no dog poop on Mars.            More »

Source: This Is the Next Mars Rover [Video]

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    Deep Flier | Sir Richard Branson wants to us see what's at the bottom of the ocean.

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Source: Top Stories: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 [Total Recap]

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                     Lightpainting requires a certain sort of skill to get the sort of marvellous results we've seen previously, but Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott went the whole nine yards and played an animation of a cross-sectioned human body on a laptop, which they then whizzed through the air and took long-exposure photos of.            More »

Source: Ghostly Lightpainting Uses a Cross-Sectioned Video of an Executed Convict's Body as Light Source [Video]

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    Astronomers have discovered a huge explosion that NASA qualifies as "unprecedented". They call it GRB 110328A, for Gamma Ray Burst. I'd call it Giganormous Deadly Ray Clusterfrak in Space.            More »

Source: Space Telescopes Observe Mysterious Giganormous Explosion In the Constellation Draco [Astronomy]