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The Best Kitchen Drawer Drill

A cordless drill used to be a poor choice as a power tool—too heavy to take up a ladder and too weak to do the job. Then batteries got better, drills got smaller, and everything got cheaper. Cordless went from just a decent alternate to a viable replacement. Now, some seriously powerful hardware comes in…

Companies that paid over $1 million to stop GMO labels on foods

If you live in the U.S., it’s likely that you eat a lot of GMO foods, and there is plenty of scientific evidence that these foods are perfectly safe. Still, many consumers want GMO foods to be labeled, simply because they want to know whether their food is the product of genetic engineering or not.…

Prometheus’ list of deleted scenes reveals an ending we never saw

The Blu-ray release of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is right around the corner — and while we can’t wait to see the lovely scenes from Scott in glorious Blu-ray, we’d also like a few more answers. Thankfully a list of deleted scenes coming with the disc reveals there’s a ton of extra material, that might offer…

Dine Among the Peaks in This Aluminum-Scaled Alpine Eatery

After a long day scaling the Matterhorn, even the most sturdy of mountaineer is apt to be a bit peckish. Luckily, the Gipfelrestaurant is open for business—8700 feet above sea level. The Summit Restaurant, as it’s translated, is located atop Arosa Weisshorn and was designed by Swiss architect Tilla Theus. Built by Scherrer from a…

Fall Movie Preview: 5 Movies We’re Sure Will Rule, and 21 That Could Surprise Us

This might be the strongest fall movie season we’ve ever seen. Almost every week has a movie coming out that we’re either excited about or curious about. After a pretty entertaining summer, the movies are giving us a mix of crazy action movies and thought-provoking weirdness for the fall. Here’s our list of 26 movies…

Researchers Might Have a Way to Beat Heroin Addiction

Morphine is just about the best painkiller out there, as any doctor or any person who’s ever been in an accident will tell you. There’s just one small problem—it’s incredibly addictive. But thanks to some researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Adelaide, we may have outsmarted that propensity for dependency. They’ve…

These anatomical food sculptures are gruesome and lunch-meaty

Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov has an unsettling knack for sculpting and arranging everyday foodstuffs into forms that would be more at home in a gross anatomy lab than a kitchen. Cauliflower takes on the appearance of undulating folds of grey matter. Lunch meat is transformed into the muscles of the head. A meticulously carved watermelon…

This Lego Star Wars Sith Fury-class Interceptor Is Your Lego-Is-My-Ally Deal of the Day

I’ve been a fan of these little building blocks since I was a kid and threw a temper tantrum when my weeks of saving allowance and doing extra chores turned out to be one week short of the money I needed for a Lego Space Shuttle. In the last two decades or so, Lego has…

Come Toast Gizmodo’s Tenth Birthday on Thursday, August 16

Gizmodo is 10 years old, and we want you to join us to celebrate hitting the double-digit mark. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-is-10-years-old-today-sort-of-5926187 We’re ringing in the big day with multi-city celebrations on August 16. New York will have the biggest official Meetup with most of Gizmodo staff at the Magician. We’re also having events in a few other…

Butterflies in the Fukushima region plagued by “genetic damage” and “severe abnormalities”

A study of the pale grass blue butterfly in the regions around the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, site of the 2011 radiation disaster, has revealed that the insects are giving birth to mutants at an alarming rate. Indeed, the butterflies collected from younger generations have more abnormalities than butterflies born directly after the power plant…

What Is Medium?

There is no shortage of platforms to post your ideas, photos, videos—whatever—online, but today we got another high-profile one. Medium announced itself with a lofty manifesto about publishing and media. But, um, what makes it different and why should anybody use it? Medium is a new publishing platform from the creators of Blogger and Twitter……

A Geiger counter, in the style of H.R. Giger

After the release of Prometheus, craftmaker Steve was so inspired by a tweet by Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait that he went out and constructed his own “Giger Counter” using a half-scale model skeleton (and not other simulcra of the human anatomy). And luckily for Steve, his home made for a poor testing ground: Here’s a…

Ask the Director of Sundance Sensation Robot and Frank Any Question You Want

Jake Schreier directed Robot and Frank, our favorite movie from Sundance 2012 — and now he’s here to answer your questions. Want to know how Schreier went about creating an indie movie about a former burglar’s relationship with his robot companion? Or how hard it was to create a convincing robot character on film? This…

What Do You Use Flash For on Your Android Phone?

Today is the last day that Flash will be supported on Android in any sort of official capacity. Once seen as a killer feature for mobile devices, HTML5 has all but decimated the web standard on portables and is making Flash increasingly irrelevant in the PC space. But there are some of you who certainly…

The perfect song for a crashed computer

We love this new tune about drunk computers from Futureboy 5000, a DJ who mashes up old science fiction with newfangled beats. And yes, that is a very strange Michael Jackson impersonator playing the role of the drunk computer’s brain. Take a break, plug in your earbuds, and groove to the beat of space computer…

Big Windows Phone 8 news coming soon—we’ll be posting live from a fancy Nokia/Microsoft reveal in NYC on September 5th.

Beautiful Image of Russians Fighters Piercing the Sky

Flight Global has a beautiful image of the Russian Knights—the equivalent of the US Navy’s Blue Angels, the USAF’s Thunderbirds, or the RAF’s Red Arrows—celebrating the Russian Air Force 100th anniversary with a perfect, flare-riveted dance in the sky, riding their Sukhoi Su-27s fighter jets. It’s a great desktop background too (make sure to zoom…

Yesterday’s Tomorrows: How a Smithsonian Exhibit I Never Saw Changed My Life

Twenty-eight years ago this month an exhibit called Yesterday’s Tomorrows opened to the public at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. I wasn’t even a year old yet, but this 1984 exhibit would have a profound effect on my life many years later after I discovered the exhibit book by Smithsonian curators…

Dell Customer Support Uses Fake “Sweepstakes” To Push Unnecessary Warranty

Don’t dial up Dell’s slimy tech support unless you hate yourself. Laptop Magazine did some undercover sleuthing and in a simple call about a battery issue, a rep claimed that they had won a sweepstakes that entitled them to pay Dell $317 for a four-year extended warranty. What luck! In fact, Laptop could hardly get…

Is Gotham City really in New Jersey?

Like Tintin’s age, Wolverine’s daily lager intake, and the number of birthmarks on Popeye’s body, the exact location of Gotham City is one of those comic book mysteries we will likely never receive a firm answer to. We can however look to a litany of conflicting and dubiously canonical sources to get a rough idea…