Andrew Liszewski, Author at Gizmodo

Miraculous Spray-On Coating Protects a Watermelon From a 150-Foot Drop

Have you ever wondered if those miracle sprays that promise to protect the liner of your pickup truck from damage actually work? Here’s proof they do. The amateur scientists at YouTube’s How Ridiculous covered a watermelon in Line-X spray and dropped it off a 150-feet tall tower. Not only did the watermelon survive the fall,…

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Spend the Rest of the Summer Floating Around on a Giant Cockroach

If you woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night yesterday, panicked that there wasn’t enough time left this summer to float around on a giant six-feet long inflatable cockroach, do not worry. There is still plenty of time to disgust everyone at the beach or local your pool with this…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Melt Away in the Most Horrific Way Possible

These days all you need to recreate Hollywood-caliber visual effects is a fast PC and some expensive 3D software. But if you want to try your hand at recreating old-school special effects, find yourself a 3D printer, make a miniature version of Ghostbusters’ Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and go to town with a blowtorch. Watching…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

MIT Researchers Found a Way to Make Pesticides Stick to Plants

When farmers spray their crops with pesticides and other treatments to help ensure their survival, 98 percent of those chemicals bounce right off the plants and end up in the groundwater as pollution. It’s a waste, and harmful to the environment, so researchers at MIT came up with a cheap but effective way to instead…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch a High-Powered Cleaning Laser Annihilate Everything in Its Path

The next time you’re staring down a tough cleaning job—be it removing paint, rust, or lasagna off of a baking dish—don’t waste your time with harsh chemicals, sand paper, or scrubbers. Get yourself a 1,000-watt laser and blast away that filth and grime in just seconds. Judging by this video, the first company to make…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

How to Properly Wrap All Your Cables so They Don’t Turn Into a Tangled Mess

Did you know there’s a special way to wrap your cables that not only keeps them neat and tidy, but also makes them perfectly unfurl without tangling when you’re ready to use them? It’s the de facto way to store cables in the video, film, and music industries, and it can also help lengthen the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Jet Engine-Powered Merry-Go-Round Is the Ultimate Carnival Ride

You’re already accepting some level of risk when you climb aboard any carnival ride, from the Ferris Wheel to the bumper cars, and for little payoff. So if you’re going endanger yourself for some cheap thrills, why not go big aboard a merry-go-round powered by real jet engines rocketing you around in circles. Built by…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

This Transformers Short Film Is Every Kid’s Imagination Come True

In his latest short film called The Real Deal, Patrick Bovin uses some flawless CG to bring a five-year-old’s imagination and a set of Transformers toys to life. It’s as close as you can get to looking inside a kid’s brain while they play. We would happily sit through two whole hours of this, instead…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Watch a Helicopter Project a Video onto an Enormous Banner Towed by Another Helicopter

To help promote its Video Music Awards that aired last night, last week MTV employed a novel approach to aerial advertising. Instead of having a plane pulling a large banner, it used a pair of helicopters to create a flying movie theater that the Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed as the world’s largest…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Philips Hue System Adds a Motion Sensor That Will Turn Your Smart Lights On Automatically

Before the idea of a ‘smart home’ came long, people had to actually walk over to a switch to turn lights on and off—it was barbaric. Now you can illuminate your entire house with just a few taps on a smartphone app, but Philips wants to make life even easier than that with a new…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

3D Print Your Own Transformers Matrix of Leadership So Optimus Prime Doesn’t Have to Die

30 years ago, every kid who was lucky enough to see Transformers: The Movie in theaters must have had something stuck in their eye when Optimus Prime died. But if the Autobots had had access to a 3D printer, maybe Optimus wouldn’t have had to die before passing the Matrix of Leadership on to Hot…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Skateboarding With a Jet Engine Looks Dangerously Fun

After creating a near-perfect functional replica of Captain America’s iconic shield, YouTube personality the Hacksmith is trying to build his own flying Iron Man suit. To test a couple of compact jet engines the suit will rely on, he strapped them to his waist, hopped on a longboard, and lived every 10-year-old’s wildest fantasy. In…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The Gadget-Charging MOS Pack Is My New Favorite Travel Companion

Finding a backpack designed to protect and carry all of your tech isn’t terribly hard these days. What sets the MOS Pack apart is that it can can also help keep all of your gear charged. Available in either black or gray, the MOS Pack features a cleaner look than most backpacks that are designed…

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Pelican Built an Indestructible Cooler In Case Your Beer Falls Off a Cliff

If you travel with a lot of expensive camera, video, or music gear, there’s a good chance you stuff it all in a Pelican case to ensure it arrives unscathed. The company is known for its nearly indestructible cases, and now that it’s made a cooler, you’ll never have to worry about something happening to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Website Full of Nothing But Blank Windows to Move Around Is Incredibly Addictive

Do you have a deadline looming in the next 20 minutes or so? Do yourself a favor and avoid BlankWindows.com at all costs because despite being a website filled with nothing but empty randomly sized windows, it’s surprisingly addictive if you try to move them off-screen and dig down to the bottom. You have developer…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Life-Size R2-D2 Figure You’ve Always Wanted Is Almost Here

After seeing Star Wars for the first time you undoubtedly wanted an astromech droid to call your own. But building your own fully-functional prop required skills you don’t have, and a tiny two-inch action figure leaves something to be desired. But an Artoo figure as large as the real thing? Now we’re talking. Starting on…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

The Genius Nail Capsule Captures Flying Finger Shrapnel

For every genuinely clever device that manages to succeed on Kickstarter, there are 1,000 other ridiculous crowdfunding campaigns that thankfully don’t succeed. There’s a chance you might roll your eyes at the Nail Capsule, unless you’re not a monster and hate the thought of fingernail clippings flying all over the place. It doesn’t take a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Water Beads Are Completely Invisible When Submerged

Using a super-absorbing chemical compound called sodium polyacrylate, you can turn boring old H2O into a magical blob-like substance. There’s a lot of fun you can have with these water beads, including deep frying them, but watching them turn invisible when submerged is easily the best trick. Self-billed chemist and science enthusiast Andres Tretiakov posted…

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This Guy’s Gadget-Packed Batman Costume Earned Him a Guinness World Record

By now, there’s a Guinness World Record for just about any random accomplishment you can think of, including “most functional gadgets on a cos-play suit” which is currently held by Ireland’s Julian Checkley who managed to cram 23 different contraptions into his impressive Batsuit. His costume isn’t quite as impressive as Batman’s actual getup, but…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watching Ice Cream Melt Up Close Will Make You Want Ice Cream Real Bad

Time-lapse footage has the power to turn mundane things into the most fascinating video you’ve ever seen. Aside from making sure you don’t step in it, you’d probably barely notice ice cream melting on the sidewalk. But when the hours long process is sped up so it takes just a few seconds, you’re left with…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Andrew Liszewski

Miraculous Spray-On Coating Protects a Watermelon From a 150-Foot Drop

Spend the Rest of the Summer Floating Around on a Giant Cockroach

Watch a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Melt Away in the Most Horrific Way Possible

MIT Researchers Found a Way to Make Pesticides Stick to Plants

Watch a High-Powered Cleaning Laser Annihilate Everything in Its Path

How to Properly Wrap All Your Cables so They Don’t Turn Into a Tangled Mess

A Jet Engine-Powered Merry-Go-Round Is the Ultimate Carnival Ride

This Transformers Short Film Is Every Kid’s Imagination Come True

Watch a Helicopter Project a Video onto an Enormous Banner Towed by Another Helicopter

Philips Hue System Adds a Motion Sensor That Will Turn Your Smart Lights On Automatically

3D Print Your Own Transformers Matrix of Leadership So Optimus Prime Doesn’t Have to Die

Skateboarding With a Jet Engine Looks Dangerously Fun

The Gadget-Charging MOS Pack Is My New Favorite Travel Companion

Pelican Built an Indestructible Cooler In Case Your Beer Falls Off a Cliff

A Website Full of Nothing But Blank Windows to Move Around Is Incredibly Addictive

The Life-Size R2-D2 Figure You’ve Always Wanted Is Almost Here

The Genius Nail Capsule Captures Flying Finger Shrapnel

Water Beads Are Completely Invisible When Submerged

This Guy’s Gadget-Packed Batman Costume Earned Him a Guinness World Record

Watching Ice Cream Melt Up Close Will Make You Want Ice Cream Real Bad

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!