Jamie Condliffe, Author at Gizmodo

This Timeline Shows the Entire History—and Potential Future—of the Universe

It can be hard to get your head around the long and complex history of the Universe. But this new timeline by Slovak graphic designer Martin Vargic does a wonderful job of describing the last 13.8 billion years of space—and what might happen in the next 10 billion, too. Vargic has crammed a lot into…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

These 3D-Printed Pictures Could Help the Blind Experience Classic Art

The majority of the world’s most famous artworks lie on two-dimensional canvas, which makes them impossible for the visually impaired to enjoy. But a team from Helsinki is trying to change that, with 3D-printed versions of famous works, that blind people can touch and feel. The Unseen Art project is intended to make art more…

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In Pictures: China Is Enveloped In Thick and Dangerous Smog

Beijing is currently choking on a thick smog, with air pollution in the city over 20 times the safe levels defined by the World Health Organisation. This is what it looks like. As the world’s governments gather in Paris to decide the future of our planet, there’s an all too obvious reminder of pollution hanging…

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Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Choose: Millennium Falcon or USS Enterprise?

If you could only choose one of the Millennium Falcon or Starship Enterprise, which would it be? Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked just that—and he has a very, very clear answer. We won’t spoil the surprise for you, though. Watch the answer yourself, which appeared on National Geographic’s Star Talk. [National Geographic]

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Swatch’s New Analog Watch Will Let You Make Contactless Payments

You’re looking at Swatch’s new Bellamy watch. It’s a simple-looking analog timepiece, without an LED screen, mobile OS or computational brain—but it does contain an NFC chip that will allow you to make contactless payments using the otherwise dumb device. Swatch has announced that it’s partnering with Visa to launch the watch in the U.S..…

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Zuckerberg, Gates and Bezos Launch Massive Clean Energy Fund

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have announced that they’re joining forces with other big names in the world of technology to create a new fund that will encourage private investment in clean energy. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, announced by Zuckerberg in a Facebook post, will “invest in ideas that have the potential to transform the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Map Shows Just How Long Travel Took 100 Years Ago

You might have battled queues, delays and cancellations while you travelled over the holiday weekend, but be grateful you’re travelling in 2015 when travel time is measured in hours—rather than in days, the metric used in this 1914 map. Intelligent Life magazine has unearthed this wonderful isochronic map, which shows how long it would take—in…

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Watch the City Melt Into Itself in This Experimental Timelapse

This week, the world’s great and good assemble in Paris to discuss the future of our planet. But, on a slightly less serious note, what if things on Earth got so hot that entire cities melted? Directed by Florian Rouzaud Cornabas, this video is an experimental time-lapse, with the forms taken from the urban realm…

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These Pantone Bags Put Some Designer Color on Your Back

If you need a little more color in your luggage selection, one of the Pantone bags from Redland London could be just the trick. Don’t worry: they come in more than just the primary colors. The new range of bags uses exclusively Pantone shades for their fabrics. They’re available in four different styles, and the…

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This Light Show in Tokyo Is Bewilderingly Pretty

Every year, the Caretta Plaza in Tokyo is adorned with an impressive light show to mark the end of another 365 days. This time, over 270,000 LEDs are being used to create an elaborate six-minute audiovisual light show that you can see in these images. These pictures show the frankly amazing structure, with its so…

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[Correction] Huge Piece of SpaceX Debris Washed Up in UK

A piece of the disposable fairing from a SpaceX launched washed up on the UK coast. While original reports identified it as part of the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that exploded catastrophically shortly after liftoff in June, closer investigation reveals it’s part of a successful cargo run from September 2014. The original version of this…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

These Amazing Immersive Models Help Scientists Understand the Structure of Forests

Tropical forest are large, complex and easy to get lost in—which isn’t helpful if you’re trying to study them. Now, scientists are using these amazing immersive mathematical models to understand the intricacies of tree canopies around the world. The team, from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, has been using sphere packing models to approximate…

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Scientists Can Now Establish Your Gender From a Fingerprint

Fingerprints may be unique, but without an existing record they can’t help identify a person. Now, though, researchers can use chemical analysis of the prints to identify the gender of whoever left them behind. A team of researchers from the University at Albany has developed a technique which uses the chemical composition of a fingerprint…

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This Satellite Image Looks Like Some Kind of Impossible Staircase

This mind-bending image looks like something out of Inception, but in fact it’s a view of fields in the south Khartoum area of Sudan. How the hell do they grow anything on that? Just joking, of course: while the fields may look like a Penrose staircase, we are actually looking straight down at the land,…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Amazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5

If you need some cloud-based storage in which to squirrel away your files, Amazon has just announced a tempting option: for a limited time, you can snag its unlimited online storage for $5. The company is cutting the price of a subscription to its unlimited Cloud Drive option, which allows you to back up anything…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Most Complex Cash Register Malware Ever Is Out to Steal Your Money and ID

A new kind of point-of-sale malware, which uses multiple layers of obfuscation and encryption to cover its tracks, has been identified by security researchers—and is being help up as the most complex software of its kind yet to be identified in the wild. Security researchers at iSight have identified the malware which they’ve dubbed ModPOS,…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Sugar-Producing Bacteria To Be Tested in Space as Food Source for Astronauts

Right now, astronauts have to subsist on supplies they take with them to space. But a new project is set to test whether sugar-growing bacteria could create sustenance for space travellers in low-gravity situations. If The Martian taught us anything, it’s that relying on supplies can sometimes be risky. But while NASA is already flirting…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Watch 25 Years of Glacier Movement in Under a Second

Ever wondered just how much glaciers move over the decades? Well, this gid shows 25 years of motion of glaciers on the Karakoram mountain range of Asia in just 0.7 seconds. Created by Frank Paul, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, the gif uses images taken by three different USGS/NASA Landsat satellites,…

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The LHC Is Now Colliding Lead at the Highest-Ever Energies

The Large Hadron Collider has been back online and pushing the limits of physics again for a few months now. But it’s about to enter a new phase, colliding lead ions at twice the energy that any collider has ever achieved in the past. The equipment at the LHC was readied for the new collisions…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Tiny Bubbles Can Help Ultrasound See Blood Vessels in Amazing Detail

A new ultrasound technique that uses tiny micro-bubbles to help improve the contrast of its images is capable of producing highly detailed pictures of blood vessels inside living animals. The new technique, developed by researchers at the Langevin Institute in Paris, uses gas-filled bubbles that are just a couple of microns in diameter. While injecting…

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This Timeline Shows the Entire History—and Potential Future—of the Universe

These 3D-Printed Pictures Could Help the Blind Experience Classic Art

In Pictures: China Is Enveloped In Thick and Dangerous Smog

Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Choose: Millennium Falcon or USS Enterprise?

Swatch’s New Analog Watch Will Let You Make Contactless Payments

Zuckerberg, Gates and Bezos Launch Massive Clean Energy Fund

This Map Shows Just How Long Travel Took 100 Years Ago

Watch the City Melt Into Itself in This Experimental Timelapse

These Pantone Bags Put Some Designer Color on Your Back

This Light Show in Tokyo Is Bewilderingly Pretty

[Correction] Huge Piece of SpaceX Debris Washed Up in UK

These Amazing Immersive Models Help Scientists Understand the Structure of Forests

Scientists Can Now Establish Your Gender From a Fingerprint

This Satellite Image Looks Like Some Kind of Impossible Staircase

Amazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5

Most Complex Cash Register Malware Ever Is Out to Steal Your Money and ID

Sugar-Producing Bacteria To Be Tested in Space as Food Source for Astronauts

Watch 25 Years of Glacier Movement in Under a Second

The LHC Is Now Colliding Lead at the Highest-Ever Energies

Tiny Bubbles Can Help Ultrasound See Blood Vessels in Amazing Detail

Game to Lose Online Mode After Its Server Partner Pivots to You’ll Never Guess What

This $400 (Not) AI Keychain Is Pointless, Extravagant, and Weirdly Lovable

New Getaway Means Subaru Has an Electric SUV in Every Size

pCloud Easter Special: One Payment, Lifetime Storage for Entire Family (68% Off)

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

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DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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

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

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?