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Behold the Atomic Cafe: Where Mad Max Would Get Wasted

Surviving the apocalypse is thirsty work — so you’re going to need a place to get your drink on, after the collapse of civilization. Meet the Atomic Cafe, the bar where everybody knows the names of all your weapons. The Atomic Cafe was newly built for Wasteland Weekend, the annual Mad Max-themed event in the…

Our Giant Guide To Fall’s Must-See Science Fiction And Fantasy TV

Zombies, bloody face monsters, aliens, and swashbuckling anti-electricity villains — this fall TV has it all. Here’s the chronological list of the genre television shows you cannot miss this fall, including trailers for the new seasons of Walking Dead and Once Upon A Time, and clips from new series like Revolution. Currently Airing Grimm The…

Today Is Gizmodo Day! Come Celebrate With Us Tonight

Gizmodo Day is finally here! We’re excited. We just turned 10 years old, and tonight we want you to come help us ring in the double digits. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-is-10-years-old-today-sort-of-5926187 We’re celebrating the big 1-0 with mutli-city celebrations this evening. New York is having the biggest official Meetup—with most of Gizmodo staff—at the Magician. We’re partying in…

12 Magical Items and the Real Life Gadgets that Resemble Them

We were really sad to hear that you can no longer buy magical items on eBay — these amazing toys and miraculous devices are what make us love fantasy stories. We all dream of owning Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, or Harry Dresden’s magic duster. The good news? Science is working on creating these things in…

Therapik Bug Bite Relieving Gadget Review: We Can’t Believe This Actually Works

Are you being eaten alive by mosquitos? Is the itch driving you completely and utterly insane? Us too! So when we heard about this magic wand that supposedly takes the itch away, we had to call it in to make fun of it. We, uh… we were wrong. What Is It? It’s a small handheld…

Gizmodo Day Oxford Meet-Up Live Blog (Updating)

To celebrate Gizmodo’s tenth birthday in the UK, we’re partying at The Jame Factory in Oxford. Given that Gizmodo is a US-based website, how will it play out? This is the live blog of how it’s going. 8:00 PM: I am settled in at the bar with a Brooklyn Lager to celebrate the fact that…

What Happens When You Stare Directly at the Sun

Snow blindness, arc eye, welder’s flash, bake eyes—these all describe the common effects of staring at an intensely bright light source. But what actually happens to your eyes when you try to hold a staring contest with our closest star? It’s not pleasant, that’s for sure. Here’s a look at what you shouldn’t see for…

TheNextWeb says that Hipstamatic laid off all but 5 of its employees. Ouch. [TNW]

These Sennheiser CX 980 Headphones Are The Nicest-Things-You-Will-Stick-In-Your-Ear-Today Deal of the Day

Back in 2011 I bought a new snowboard. For some reason I’m still not completely sure about, that snowboard came with a free pair of headphones. They’re hideous and green and not all that great, but I still use them to this day. They’re in my ears right now. Before that, I used the free…

Soon you’ll be backing up your hard drive using DNA

Think the memory card in your camera is high-capacity? It’s got nothing on DNA. With data accumulating at a faster rate now than any other point in human history, scientists and engineers are looking to genetic code as a form of next-generation digital information storage. Now, a team of Harvard and Johns Hopkins geneticists has…

TIE Fighter: Free to a Good Home

Apparently a guy in Salt Lake City named Valter had no takers on his original price of $150 for a 1/3 replica TIE Fighter, because he’s lowered the price to a cool zero dollars. So if you’re in Salt Lake City, call Valter ASAP to get something totally amazing for absolutely no money. https://gizmodo.com/giant-tie-fighter-for-sale-fits-real-pilot-fires-part-5894859 Here’s…

An Untold Story from Supernatural Season 7!

Are you suffering from Winchester withdrawal? We are, too. It feels like aeons since Supernatural’s been on television. To help tide you over until the fall TV season begins, here’s an exclusive excerpt from the brand new Supernatural novel, which tells about a previously untold adventure of the Winchesters during season seven. Here’s the official…

Watch the composer from Blade Runner and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos have a synthesizer freakout

The measured electronic music of Vangelis evokes C-beams glittering in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate, but the famed composer was just as enjoyable when he was improvising. Here are approximately seven minutes of the musician wigging out on Spanish television in 1982. I wish Sagan was there to wax galactic over this jam. Those of…

Kat Hannaford’s Favourite Gizmodo Post

Like any good nerdlinger, Simon Pegg is one of my favourite actors. It just so happens that I frickin’ hate the unnecessary gimmick that is 3D too, so when I spotted Pegg mouthing off in a 10-tweet tirade (sample: “3D used in films not aimed at children is like seeing someone you respect trying too…

FujiFilm X-Pro1 Review: Serious Style, Serious Price (Updated)

Mirrorless cameras are generally geared toward the enthusiast or semi-pro consumer. Some companies, like Canon with its new EOS M offering, are seeking to cater to a broader market in features and styling. https://gizmodo.com/canon-eos-m-finally-a-tiny-camera-designed-to-slurp-h-5928129 But not one of them can match the astronomically expensive FujiFilm X-Pro1 for pure photo-nerdery. What Is It? A relatively compact,…

Discover Hops Aboard the Google Wallet Bandwagon

The achilles heel of Google Wallet thus far has been it’s inability to forge patnerships. MasterCard and Sprint have been the company’s only friends. But now Discover is also on board, which gets Google Wallet one step closer to being a thing normal people use. [Google via PhoneScoop via The Verge]

Judge in Samsung vs. Apple just accused team Apple of “smoking crack.” Apple attorney denies said act. [Nick Wingfield]

Canon Rebel T4i: Familiar Face With Some Welcome Additions

The Canon Digital Rebel series of cameras has always been a go-to choice for the entry-level DSLR seekers. So when the latest upgrade, the Rebel T4i, arrived at our office, we shredded cardboard and immediately started toying with all the new features. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-canon-t4i-a-future-mirrorless-camera-hiding-in-p-5917037 The image quality of the T4i is great, but not appreciably different…

Remember when baseball players attacked the Sphinx in 1889?

Ah, the good old days when entire baseball squads would descend upon ancient monuments and try to bean them into rubble. Such a scene unfolded in 1889, when former ballplayer Albert Spalding led the Chicago White Stockings and All-Americas exhibition team around the globe to promote the sport. And during a stop in Egypt, the…

How a RadioShack Computer and AOL Viruses Led to the Creation of GroupMe

I got exposed to computers in elementary school, where I learned to type and play games like Oregon Trail. I quickly fell in love with technology and unsuccessfully asked my mom for a home computer. I begged and begged and begged, and finally my mom broke down and got me a 25 MHz Tandy computer…