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Nyan Cat cosplaying as all 151 original Pokémon is pure silly fun

Nyan Cat doesn’t want to catch all the Pokémon; Nyan Cat wants to be all the Pokémon. In this video, Simon Johnson dresses the Pop Tarted up kitty cat as each of the original Pokémon to the tune of PopaRocks‘ 8-bit Pokémon theme song. [via Geekologie]

io9 Lauren Davis

Robot Arm Builds Complex Sandcastles You Could Never Create With a Bucket and Shovel

If your only pursuit when visiting the beach is to construct the most epic sandcastle imaginable, you might want to leave your pail and tiny shovel at home and instead get your hands on this fantastic castle-crafting robot arm. Created by architects Petr Novikov, Inder Shergill and Anna Kulik, the Stone Spray robot features a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How American delicacy turned Belgium into a dirty word

Because all the Americans I know tend to think that we’re in a progressive, modern country, it sometimes surprises us to learn that other nations consider us big ol’ prudes. And it’s not just France! Our delicate sensibilities have been catered to by the English in a maneuver that gave us one of the better…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

This short cartoon about the cuddliest demon summoning deserves a run in theaters

If only more animation studios prefaced their feature films with short cartoons, we might get more fun romps like The Colors of Evil. In this film, which Phillip Simon and Alyse Miller created as their thesis project at Ringling College of Art and Design, a wicked little girl summons a demon to deal with her…

Movies Lauren Davis

Air Force Says Tight Vests Are What Has Been Grounding All These F-22s

For years now, the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptors have been relentlessly plagued by some mystery flaw that keeps threatening to suffocate pilots. The previous best guess had something to do with glue but now the USAF is saying it’s found the culprit: vests. https://gizmodo.com/surprise-150-million-f-22-fighters-are-shut-down-agai-5852804 According to Air Force Major General Charles Lyon, who presented…

Tech News Eric Limer

Photos imagine atomic bomb tests as a modern tourist attraction

What if iPhones and Facebook already existed by the dawn of the Atomic Age? Would your news feed be clogged with photos of vacationing friends staring out at not-too-distant mushroom clouds? That’s the alternate history imagined by Clay Lipsky’s Atomic Overlook photos. Lipsky explains that his photos offer a view of a population desensitized to…

io9 Lauren Davis

Light Bulbs Are the Best and Worst Balls For a Newton’s Cradle

Newton’s Cradle is well-known for its repeating clicks, and gracing the desks of executives everywhere. This fragile, but awesome installation by Yasutoki Kariya changes things up a bit by using light bulbs instead of metal spheres. Surprisingly, they manage not to shatter. If you’re choosing things to bang together, light bulbs should rank pretty low…

Tech News Eric Limer

Make an Emergency Flash Drive and Take it With You Whenever You Travel

You lost your wallet in Jakarta. You got hit by a car in Paris. You need to get online in a sketchy internet cafe in Reno. Getting stuck in a strange city with no ID, no money, no credit cards, and no medical or insurance documents can be inconvenient. In a medical emergency, it can…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Three children spin a fantasy epic in the webcomic By Moon Alone — but what if the story turns out to be true?

Melanie spends her days listening to her best friend Daniel spin wild stories about Sola and Lune, a pair of heroic beings fighting a strange and worlds-spanning war. But as she spends more and more time with Daniel and learns more about his characters, she begins to wonder: Why did Daniel start visiting her just…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

How @Gizmodo Got Hacked and How You Should Defend Yourself

If you follow Gizmodo on Twitter, you may have noticed our account started spewing some garbage last night. We got hacked. Here’s how it happened, and some steps you can take to keep it from happening to you. The weak link in the security chain turned out to be the seven digit alphanumeric password to…

Privacy & Security Eric Limer

Watch the First Doctor bid farewell to Susan — in color

The first color episode of Doctor Who aired in 1970, meaning that the first two Doctors spent their entire runs in black and white. One fan decided to give William Hartnell’s First Doctor a moment in color, colorizing 2,700 frames of the Doctor’s farewell to his granddaughter, Susan. YouTube user farfrombeingallover, who goes by MrBiscuitESQ…

Television Lauren Davis

Penis Snake is neither penis nor snake, but looks like both

When a crew of engineers stumbled across this critter while building a dam in the Amazon, many dubbed it the “penis snake,” and it’s easy to see why. But this phallic squirmer isn’t a snake at all but an extremely rare, limbless amphibian. Photo by Matt Roper from Mongabay. See another photo of the animal…

io9 Lauren Davis

Nobody Needs an Auto Measuring, Self-Cutting Tape Dispenser

Unless you’ve managed to parlay your Christmas gift wrapping service into a year-round business, there’s really no way to justify spending $200 on this unnecessary office accessory that can automatically measure and cut a pre-determined length of cellophone tape. The T-EM50 dispenser from Kokuyo S&T features a tiny LCD display and a small set of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Spider-Man fights a child, the Avengers go to prison, and a G.I. Joe flashback!

This week in the world of cartoons, we revisit the era of the VHS tape on Regular Show, the Avengers release a few deadly prisoners, and Finn smooches with the Flame Princess. Tired of the Olympics already? I don’t blame you. To make up for the Michael Phelps love fest on television, I’m including a…

io9 Keith Veronese

Double-Duty Axe Saw Turns Forests Into Firewood

A few years ago Zippo decided to expand its product offerings so the company’s wares appealed to more than just smokers, arsonists, and action movie heros. Recently they’ve made a strong push into outdoor gear, and this brilliant four-in-one axe proves that Zippo’s not just slapping its logo onto any old product. The Woodsman, as…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Do You Delete Tweets?

Our Twitter account was hacked a few hours ago. We have the situation under control, don’t worry. But Gizmodo really hates to delete tweets. Really. It’s an actual policy: do not do it. Not for typos, not for nothin’. In this case, though, the tweets were grossly offensive and hugely misrepresentative. We deleted. I’ll admit:…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Octopipes, Hobbit Pipes, and the Fortress of Solitude as a Steaming Pile

Zelda Medley- Lindsey Stirling Wait, what the fuck did I just watch? https://gizmodo.com/is-this-a-half-spoon-or-just-a-small-spoon-or-just-ridi-5931597 Is This a Half Spoon or Just a Small Spoon or Just Ridiculous? Small spoon, half spoon, who cares? The real question is, how much coke can it hold? How to Make a Hobbit Pipe This Instructables video series by user handcraftsup…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Here’s an Internal Email Thread from Apple About a 7-inch iPad

Today in court, during the current ongoing legal battle between Apple and Samsung, an internal email thread between four Apple execs—Eddy Cue, Tim Cook, Scott Forstall, and Phil Schiller—was released into evidence. The subject of the email: size matters. No, really. Those are Cue’s words, not mine. The point Samsung’s team was trying to make…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Happy 35th Birthday to Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Personal Computer, a Leader in Its Day

35 years ago today, at a press conference held inside New York City’s Warwick Hotel, Radio Shack unveiled in TRS-80 personal computer, Model I, arguably once of the most import gadgets to be born in the latter half of the 20th century. Coming with 4KB of memory and a cassette-tape deck with which to load…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: KFC Loves Gays

We all know where Chick-fil-A stands on gay marriage. But what about that other chicken fast food joint? Don’t worry, folks, the Colonel’s here to make his stance known. With the help of some fabulous friends. https://gizmodo.com/did-chick-fil-a-pretend-to-be-a-teenage-girl-on-faceboo-5928926 Also, regardless of your stance on gay marriage (although seriously yay gay marriage!), can’t we all just agree…

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Nyan Cat cosplaying as all 151 original Pokémon is pure silly fun

Robot Arm Builds Complex Sandcastles You Could Never Create With a Bucket and Shovel

How American delicacy turned Belgium into a dirty word

This short cartoon about the cuddliest demon summoning deserves a run in theaters

Air Force Says Tight Vests Are What Has Been Grounding All These F-22s

Photos imagine atomic bomb tests as a modern tourist attraction

Light Bulbs Are the Best and Worst Balls For a Newton’s Cradle

Make an Emergency Flash Drive and Take it With You Whenever You Travel

Three children spin a fantasy epic in the webcomic By Moon Alone — but what if the story turns out to be true?

How @Gizmodo Got Hacked and How You Should Defend Yourself

Watch the First Doctor bid farewell to Susan — in color

Penis Snake is neither penis nor snake, but looks like both

Nobody Needs an Auto Measuring, Self-Cutting Tape Dispenser

Spider-Man fights a child, the Avengers go to prison, and a G.I. Joe flashback!

Double-Duty Axe Saw Turns Forests Into Firewood

Do You Delete Tweets?

The Stoner Channel: Octopipes, Hobbit Pipes, and the Fortress of Solitude as a Steaming Pile

Here’s an Internal Email Thread from Apple About a 7-inch iPad

Happy 35th Birthday to Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Personal Computer, a Leader in Its Day

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: KFC Loves Gays

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