Eric Limer

You might want to hold off on buying that Moto X. According to the often reliable Evleaks, its price is going to drop to $100 on contract later this year. And apparently it’ll have four new wood-back options too. If you’re into that.

The One Trick Dumbphones Are Still the Best At

We all love our smartphones. Who could ever go back to a time before having an all-knowning internet brick on hand at all times? But there is one trick dumbphones were better at: flipping. I don’t know about you, but I miss it to this day. Lolnein sums it up expertly. A killer feature if…

You Can Get 10TB of Free Cloud Storage If You Trust This Random Company

Cloud storage hotshots will give you a few GB to get started, but a Chinese tech company called Tencent is offering an insane 10TB. For free. All you have to do is trust them. To get your free space, you just have to sign up for an account with Tecent’s QQ instant messaging service, download…

Look at the Insane Number Button Layouts Our Telephones Could Have Had

The year was 1960, and phones were changing. It was the beginning of the end for rotary dialing, and buttons were the future. But engineers faced an important, looming question: what order do you put those buttons in? Turns out there were a lot of options. Note: A ton of these are super wrong. What…

Thank God Famous Art Doesn’t Have YouTube Comments

There is some fantastic art on YouTube. There are also some hideous comments on YouTube. Probably more of the latter than the former. But hey, at least there aren’t YouTube comments on all art. The folks over at Buzzfeed decided to gaze deep into that horrific alternate universe and whip up this amusing glance into…

I Can’t Stop Staring at These Mesmerizing Robot Arms

Forget playing with toy cars; I just want to watch robots do it. In this GIF. For the rest of my life. What you see here—other than an impeccably looped GIF of infinite watchability—are two of DENSO Robotics VS-Series 6-axis articulated robot arms that use a proprietary system called b-CAP to watch their surroundings and…

Add a Button to Any Android Phone With This Genius Headphone Jack Plug

Wish your Android phone had one more hardware button, maybe for the camera? Of course you do; hardware buttons are great. With up-and-Kickstartering gadget called Pressy, you can add one yourself at the cost of clogging one headphone jack. The concept is simple: you just slam the Pressy “button” into your headphone jack, start up…

The Best Future Android Features You Can Get Right Now

It feels like we’ve been waiting for a big new version of Android forever; Jelly Bean is great, but it could do so much more. Surprise: it actually does! All you have to do is take matters into your own hands. Fandroids will tell you—loudly and at length—that one of the best features of Android…

NASA’s 3D-Printed Rocket Injector Spits Fire Like a Dragon

Last month, NASA successfully tested its first 3D-printed rocket injector. The test was successful and the pictures were great, but now we’ve got video. Nothing like a good science inferno. https://gizmodo.com/nasas-3d-printed-rocket-injector-test-a-beautiful-infe-746527818

Watch a Red Hot Nickel Ball Destroy a Box of Crayons

Watching the Red Hot Nickel Ball destroy various materials just never gets old. So here’s a Red Hot Ball of Nickel turning a box of crayons into a rainbow of destruction. https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-you-drop-a-hot-ball-of-nickel-into-a-1007593662 The spectacle pretty much speaks for itself, but you have to wonder what that giant pool of wax would look like if left…

Scientists Have Grown Tiny Human Brains in Test Tubes

For the very first time, scientists have managed to create tiny, embryonic brains in test tubes. Say hello to baby Frankenstein. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science have successfully created “cerebral organoids,” little balls of brain just a few millimeters in size that actually have the same distinct,…

Watch NASA Crash a Helicopter on Purpose Right Here, Right Now

Want to watch a copter crash live and guilt-free? Of course you do. Well you’re in luck: NASA is serving one up right now. Today the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will be dropping a 45-foot-long CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter fuselage—complete with 13 unlucky crash dummy passengers—and watching it smash into the ground. NASA’s…

Whoa, Graphene Can Make Other Metals 500 Times Stronger

We’ve heard about plenty of promising electronic applications for miracle material graphene from headphones, to super-fast transistors, to crazy camera sensors, and even solar-powered paint. But now scientists have found a way to leverage its raw strength, by using it to make metal up to 500 times stronger. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-made-graphene-earphones-and-theyre-ama-5990520 By taking a thin film of…

Kindle Paperwhite Is Out of Stock, So Get Ready for a New Model

Amazon’s got something cooking. First, we saw a huge fire sale on Kindle Fires, now the wonderful Wi-Fi Kindle Paperwhite has gone out of stock on Amazon’s website. Looks like someone’s trying to clean house. http://gizmodo.com/preview/is-amazon-making-room-for-its-next-e-ink-kindle-1214296487 The 3G Kindle Paperwhite—$179 to the Wi-Fi Paperwhite’s $119—is still in stock, but it’s probably a safe bet to…

Now Is the Worst Time to Buy an iPhone

In the market for a brand new iPhone? We’ve got an important piece of advice for you: WAIT! Now is the worst time to buy. You’re probably well aware by now, but in case you aren’t, here’s the PSA: iPhone-land is about to get a big shake-up, and there is no reason for you to…

The Invisible Radar Force Field That Saved Great Britain

When you think about World War II tech, chances are your mind leaps right to the atomic bomb. But there was another less explosive tech that complete changed the defensive game: Radar. And this map outlines exactly how it saved Great Britain. During the the summer and fall of 1940, Great Britain was being pummeled…

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Software Hack Lets Feature Phones Jam Calls, Texts Within 75 Miles

There’s something uniquely scary about the idea of your calls being jammed. Good news! It turns out blocking calls and texts to certain phones is pretty easy. Hackers have figured out how to turn a feature phone into a “jammer” with just a few software modifications. The hack was developed by a security research group…

Google Is Crippling Chromecast’s Best Feature

We love us some Chromecast, but it’s got its shortcomings. While there are more and more services snuggling up to ‘casting, the ultimate dream is being able to cast everything. We almost had a third-party app that could do exactly that, until Google put a stop to it. https://gizmodo.com/google-chromecast-review-a-little-dongle-with-big-pote-898743646 According to AllCast developer Koushik Dutta,…

Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real

The hologram interfaces Tony Stark uses in Iron Man are awesome, no doubt. But they also aren’t real. Yet. Elon Musk has been cooking up something very Stark-y, and he’s planning to show it off soon. https://gizmodo.com/the-making-of-tony-starks-incredible-interfaces-5578966 Musk isn’t sharing any of the nitty-gritty details yet, but he mentioned his grand scheme on Twitter. This…