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Awesome Thermal Imager Turns Your iPhone or Android Into the Predator’s Eyes

This is so very cool: Andy Rawson has built a thermal imager for iPhone—and the Android version is coming soon too. It allows you to point your camera anywhere and have an instant temperature reading of your environment. The unit and accompanying application overlays 64 different temperature zones on your camera view in real time.…

The Awesome $5-Billion Airborne Laser Is in The Boneyard, Never to Fire Again

Despite being a total success, the USAF’s Airborne Laser was killed by the Pentagon back in December 2011. Now she’s resting wrapped in her death shroud with the rest of planes in “permanent storage” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. https://gizmodo.com/video-of-airborne-laser-destroying-a-ballistic-missile-5471926 The high-energy laser ballistic missile interceptor was developed by Boeing and the US Air…

Russia’s Unmanned Strategic Nuclear Bomber Is a Really Terrible Idea

Top aerospace and defense company Tupolev is developing a new stealth plane that will replace Russia’s mighty but aging nuclear strategic bomber fleet. Called the PAK-DA bomber, it will enter service in the mid-2020s, just in time to face the USAF’s new stealth strategic nuclear bombers. But that’s inoffensive compared to what’s coming next. The…

Scientists Discover Millions of Hidden Black Holes Eating Hot DOGs

Scientists have detected millions of previously hidden supermassive black holes surrounding us, some of them busily eating a thousand of newly discovered “extremely bright and extremely rare” galaxies called hot DOGs (Dust-Obscured Galaxies). Astronomy is fun! Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers have been able to locate a staggering amount of these supermassive black…

Adobe will release Photoshop with HiDPI and Retina display support in the coming months. Still not soon enough!

This Is How a Medical Scanner Looks Without Its Skin

When you look at them in hospitals, CT (Computer Tomography) scanners look like devices from Star Trek’s Enterprise. When you look at them without their smooth futuristic covers on, they look like tired engine parts from the Battlestar Galactica. But the most amazing thing is how it works. You won’t believe how fast this huge…

The Best Mars Panorama Yet Feels Just Like Being There

This morning Hans Nyberg sent me the most impressive panorama I’ve seen of Mars yet, made from images released by NASA on August 27. Put it at full screen and look around. It’s just like being right there, but with oxygen and air conditioning. The size of Mount Sharp—which is 12 miles (20 kilometers) from…

Deadly Virus Outbreak In California

The Center for Disease Control is warning of an unprecedented virus outbreak in California, with two confirmed deaths so far and two more ongoing cases. The virus’ ground zero seems to be in Yosemite Park: The National Park Service (NPS) announced that there were 3 confirmed cases and 1 probable case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome…

Smartphones Win Size Battle Against Human Penises

Gizmodo alumnus John Herrman’s penis size is unknown, but I’m sure it’s proportional to the size of his genius and this awesome chart proves it. Attenshun, people of the world with average genitals! Today is the day smartphones’ screens became larger than your penis, thanks to the Samsung Galaxy Note II and its 5.5-inch HD…

Watch This Fiery American WW2 Bomb Exploding In Munich Yesterday

Put up your headphones and pump up the volume, because you need to hear the sound while watching this American 550-pound (250 kilogram) bomb exploding in Munich, Germany. Can you imagine thousands of these falling and exploding all over the city? Hell on Earth. And this was a small one—the US Army Air Force dropped…

Amazing Image of Hurricane Isaac at Midnight

This image of hurricane Isaac illuminated by moonlight as cities glow in the middle of the night is unique and strangely beautiful. It was captured on August 28, 2012, at midnight. Down there, things are bad. Isaac is now seriously testing the new levees of New Orleans, a city still scarred by the Katrina nightmare.…

Let’s Think About This for a Couple Minutes Now

Right after Curiosity landed on Mars, someone—it may have been Adam Steltzner, I can’t remember exactly now—mentioned that this amazing two-year mission’s total cost was the price of one movie ticket to every citizen in America. https://gizmodo.com/talk-to-the-man-who-led-curiosity-to-the-surface-of-mar-5933049 So I’m just going to leave this here. Enjoy. [Trekbbs—Thanks Karl!]

The Sun Made This 5.2-Million-Mile Tall Light Bulb

For all its ruthless atomic power, the Sun does some really cute things sometimes. Other than making flowers grow and tan Kate Upton’s skin, I mean. Like this pretty good impression of a lightbulb, taken by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C2 instrument aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Of course, the…

What’s That Mysterious Metal Square On the Top of the iPhone 5?

According to rumormongers, this allegedly leaked iPhone part supposedly shows a Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna that would work with iOS 6’s passbook to turn your iPhone into a digital wallet. But is it really? https://gizmodo.com/rumor-new-iphone-5-leaks-show-nfc-chip-maybe-sorta-5938123 According to Anandtech’s Brian Klug and Anand Lal Shimpi, it’s not: Given the primarily metal backside of the new…

This F-18 Hornet Pass Just Froze My Gonads

Unless you have been right next to one in real life, it’s easy to forget how gigantic jet fighters are. They are truly huge mothers. Take a look at this image of a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet swooshing by a building in a low pass along the Detroit River in Detroit. Madness? This is THE…

Samsung Is Copying Apple’s Dock In Their Win 8 Machines Too: Will They Ever Learn?

I don’t know if Samsung is now just taunting Apple or if their user interface “designers” are the same lazy idiots who copied the iPhone icons. In any case, this is getting hilarious. Or pathetic. Or disgusting. Or all of the above. Check out the S-Launcher that will be included in all their Windows 8…

Apple Wants to Ban These Samsung Products

That was fast. After examining the verdict, Apple is now seeking to ban these Samsung products from the market: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-vs-apple-verdict-apple-wins-huge-5937762 • Galaxy S 4G • Galaxy S2 AT&T • Galaxy S2 Skyrocket • Galaxy S2 T-Mobile • Galaxy S2 Epic 4G • Galaxy S Showcase • Droid Charge • Galaxy Prevail Oh well, who cares.…

Apple Winning the Patent Wars Is Great for Innovation

I said this in August 24, 2011, exactly one year before a US jury declared that Samsung had intentionally copied Apple and then some: “We hope Apple wins the patent wars.” And happily, they did. https://gizmodo.com/we-hope-apple-wins-the-patent-wars-5833924 Yes, happily. Don’t listen to the obtuse apologists and the blind fandroids of the me-too—this is great news for…

The Only Photo of Neil Armstrong On the Moon

He was the first man to walk on the Moon, but Neil Armstrong didn’t have any good photos to prove it. He had the camera most of the time, so it was Aldrin who got all the awesome shots. Sure—he was on grainy TV and reflected on Buzz’s visor but—except for his footprint—there were no…

This Huge Red Dust Devil Is the Weirdest Meteorological Phenomenon I’ve Ever Seen

This is what happens when a (gigantic) dust devil forms over reddish orange soil and the light is just right: a red dust devil so vivid and tall that it looks like a cartoon. I wonder if the Tasmanian Devil is inside. Dust devils are not uncommon. You can seen them in the summer, especially…