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First Dredd trailer shows off Judge Dredd’s futuristic urban hellhole

We saw a snippet of it the other day — now check out Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) enforcing full dystopian justice upon the residents of Mega City One. Looks like they dialed back the camp of the 1995 Sylvester Stallone flick by a massive degree. Here’s the synopsis — Dredd is out September 21: https://gizmodo.com/dredd-trailer-shows-off-the-bloody-slo-mo-goodness-ins-5919966…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

The Galaxy S III Is Trying So Hard It Catches Fire

The new Samsung Galaxy S III is a great phone that’s just trying too hard. So hard, in fact, that it’s bursting into flames under the pressure. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review-a-great-phone-that-tries-t-5919730 Engadget is reporting a case of the phone catching fire while being used in an in-car holster. Apparently the device sparked into white flames, before making a…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Can Now Grow Functioning Liver From Stem Cells

Scientists have promised a lot of regenerative medicine will come from stem cells, but so far progress has been fairly slow: they can stimualte regrowth of heart tissue, make incredibly expesnive artifical blood, or—at best—construct a short piece of vein. Now, though, scientists are claiming they can grow functional liver. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-regenerate-muscle-tissue-5905734 Nature reports that a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Welcome to the World of Gigapixel Photography

If you feel that your pictures sometimes lack fine-grained detail, they probably do. At least, they do compared to photographs taken with a new supercamera developed at Duke University, which is capable of instantly acquiring images that pack in a staggering 960 million pixels. The 93-kilo device—pictured below—stitches together images from 98 separate 14-megapixel sensors…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini: Leaner, Meaner, Faster, Thunderbolt-Equipped

The Drobo family of products are generally respected amongst professionals and tech nerds, but the one complaint was that the dynamic storage arrays were too slow. Drobo listened, and now they’re answering back with the Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini, two devices designed to handle the most demanding of file transfers. For the uninitiated, Drobo…

Tech News Adrian Covert

How to Pronounce Uranus Without Laughing

Uranus. Your anus. You’re in us. As hard as you might try, it’s almost impossible to avoid smirking when you hear the name of the seventh planet. This video, by GCP Grey, takes a look at the history of its name, how it could have had a monicker that made fewer children laugh and—most importantly—how…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

The Retina MacBook Pro Can Drive Four Screens Simultaneously

The new Retina MacBook Pro is an incredible piece of hardware. On its spec sheets, Apple claims it can support “up to two external displays”, but it turns out that’s bull. In fact, it can support three external monitors. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-with-retina-display-meta-review-gorgeously-5918439 Hey now. That’s some impressive graphics performance from a laptop. This set-up has been tested…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch This: Grandma Blows Bullets Clear Through MacBook and iPhones

This completely ridiculous video of an elderly lady shooting a loaded rifle at a hoard of pristine Apple gadgets will make you feel many emotions: confused, horrified, skeptical, surprised, amused, etc. Certainly not the most high-concept spot, as an ad for Clearplex screen protectors its success is in the absurd and the arbitrary. Let’s take…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Monsters Go to College, Anonymous Won’t March, and the GOP Blocks MMJ

Monsters U Granted, every movie Pixar does turns to gold, Monsters U the prequel sequel to 2001’s Monsters Inc (wait, it’s been 11 years already? Bummer), looks to be even funnier than the first. Next summer needs to hurry up and get here. Former L.A. Deputy Calls for Across the Board Legalization Stephen Downing is…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Do You (y) Facebook’s New Like-Button Emoticon?

Facebook has added probably the facebookiest emoticon imaginable to its chat service menu. Yup, a twee, tiny Like button can now be inserted into conversations by typing (y). As it turns out, the tiny thumbs-up doesn’t show up on Facebook for iOS—yet—so, best to just stick with the plain old English word, if you want…

Social Media Molly Oswaks

If This Isn’t the Best Phone Stand Ever Created By Mankind, I Don’t Know What Is

“Dear Gizmodo,” the email started, “I would like to introduce our new product.” I could have never imagined that such a neutral phrase was hiding the best phone stand ever created by mankind, one that can store your headphones and act as a keyring and make your phone look like a duck face. Yes, that’s…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Look Cool and Keep Dry in This Wind-Proof, Water-Proof Shirt

When it’s hot as hell outside (as it is right now, everywhere), a little sun shower is literally a gift from the heavens above. But a soaking wet shirt, when you’re out and about and not in the habit of carrying around a spare just in case, is less than ideal. The Supermarine Rain Shirt,…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Here it Is: The World’s First Remote-Controlled (LED) Light Bulb

Don’t you hate getting all bundled up under the covers, your pillows in the perfect scrunch position under your head, only to realize you didn’t turn out the lamp on the opposite end of the room and there’s no way you’ll be able to sleep with that bright bulb shining in your eyes all night?…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Most Thrilling Bollywood Superhero Training Montage You’ve Ever Seen

Disney got into superheroes in a big way when it bought Marvel — but Disney also brought us the fantastic Zokkomon, a Disney Bollywood movie. Check out this awesome superhero training montage, complete with 1980s Kenny Loggins-esque rock song about how nothing’s impossible if you know how. Awesome “spinning inside the spinny thing” moment included.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

GoT Iron Throne Reviewed by Those Who Know it Best

We were pretty excited when HBO added to its online shop a life-size replica of the iron throne from Game of Thrones. And if anyone at HBO is interested in having us review one of these $30,000 “office chairs” (ahem…), we’d certainly not turn down a review unit. https://gizmodo.com/rule-your-office-kingdom-with-this-30-000-game-of-thro-5915864 For the time being, though, we’ll…

Reviews Molly Oswaks

Stephen Colbert Chucks an iPad and Sucks On an iPhone. Any Questions?

Joy comes from the abuse of fetishized gadgets, especially when they start with the letter “i”. When it’s one of the most terrific people on TV doing it, well just watch. On Monday’s Colbert Report, Stephen found himself talking about Sweden and Twitter and, well, some topic that ended with him using an iPhone as…

Tech News Michael Hession

Make the Most Geographically-Correct Playlist for Your Roadtrip

One of the best things about road trips is all the music you get to listen to. So. Many. Good. Jams. But if you’re on a long trip, you might find yourself running out of good songs to play. Roadtrip Mixtape is here to help build a playlist for your drive based on each city…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Our New Favorite Online Community: A Place for Finding Forgotten Books

Sometimes you read a book and bits of it stick in your mind years and years later — but you can’t remember the title, the author, or enough details to place it. We’ve tried our best to help out when this problem strikes. But there’s actually a whole online community devoted to just this problem…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Paolo Bacigalupi: Science fiction “thrives at uncertainty points, when questions about our future are unanswered”

Wind-Up Girl author Paolo Bacigalupi’s essay over at Wired is both a must read and a quick read. The essay is mostly about how Cyberpunk saved science fiction by shaking up the complacent view of the future that had dominated for decades — but then he broadens out into a more general theory of science…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Eat From Bamboo Cutlery So Graceful, It Looks Like It Was Designed by an Aeronautical Engineer

Designer Makoto Koizumi might not be an aeronautical engineer, but the organic flowing curves of their bamboo Minotake cutlery set look makes it look like they started life as a revolutionary new propeller design. Bamboo kitchen ware, including plates and cutlery, has become a recent trend because the material’s both strong and lightweight. But Makoto…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

First Dredd trailer shows off Judge Dredd’s futuristic urban hellhole

The Galaxy S III Is Trying So Hard It Catches Fire

Scientists Can Now Grow Functioning Liver From Stem Cells

Welcome to the World of Gigapixel Photography

Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini: Leaner, Meaner, Faster, Thunderbolt-Equipped

How to Pronounce Uranus Without Laughing

The Retina MacBook Pro Can Drive Four Screens Simultaneously

Watch This: Grandma Blows Bullets Clear Through MacBook and iPhones

The Stoner Channel: Monsters Go to College, Anonymous Won’t March, and the GOP Blocks MMJ

Do You (y) Facebook’s New Like-Button Emoticon?

If This Isn’t the Best Phone Stand Ever Created By Mankind, I Don’t Know What Is

Look Cool and Keep Dry in This Wind-Proof, Water-Proof Shirt

Here it Is: The World’s First Remote-Controlled (LED) Light Bulb

The Most Thrilling Bollywood Superhero Training Montage You’ve Ever Seen

GoT Iron Throne Reviewed by Those Who Know it Best

Stephen Colbert Chucks an iPad and Sucks On an iPhone. Any Questions?

Make the Most Geographically-Correct Playlist for Your Roadtrip

Our New Favorite Online Community: A Place for Finding Forgotten Books

Paolo Bacigalupi: Science fiction “thrives at uncertainty points, when questions about our future are unanswered”

Eat From Bamboo Cutlery So Graceful, It Looks Like It Was Designed by an Aeronautical Engineer

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