One hopes that the building is strong enough to withstand earthquakes; an internal landslide from the funnel giving way would be terrible.

"The launcher even has a realistic recoil."

Probably an old typo that already got silently fixed. Giz does that quite a bit.

Oh, you. :)

And yet, MacRumors claims that Gizmodo (and Diaz in particular) is ANTI-Apple after the iPhone 4 prototype/police raid affair. The mind boggles.

Does anyone know why it says "DO NOT CUT STEEL"?

This. This, a million times. Pity Gizmodo writers (and, evidently, the translators) aren't electrical engineers.

Didn't DisplayMate review the iPhone 3GS screen before, and found that it lost to the Motorola Droid? Did anyone make a fuss about that back then? No? Huh.

I always thought Jackie was a Mainlander...no?

Cleaver. Metahumor! ;)

You have to give props to a Japanese man making it even 90% of the way to a bland, 80s-style American voiceover, though.

The Verge agrees.

But it DOES; your neck provides the resistance to hold it in place.

Actually, it's more like Unsharp Mask.

It's been published in a journal, which implies that it has already gone through most of the "full scientific process" that you speak of, apart from "independently reproduce results".