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Behold a Batman helmet right out of the 1920s

If Batman hung out in the Jazz Age, his headgear might look like this helmet built by the Ukrainian costume crafters at Bob Basset. This Dark Knight reminds me of Paul Pope’s “Batman of Berlin.” I imagine this Batman spends his time punching out bootleggers moving barrels of rectitude-poisoning Jokerbräu to Gotham’s Tin Pan Alley,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Panic Button Light Switch Adds Drama To Conserving Electricity

They’ve been used to launch missile strikes, eject warp cores, and sound countless alarms, and now you can have a big red panic button of your own for the considerably less dramatic purpose of turning off the lights. Unless you consider saving electricity a life or death matter. Designed to replace the standard light switches…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Tin Foil Can Hold the Universe’s Largest Burrito

You are looking at the largest piece of tin foil in the planet, one of the James Webb Space Telescope‘s sunshield membranes. There will be five of these membranes, which will keep its core at 50 Kelvin (-369.67F or -223.15C). https://gizmodo.com/james-webb-space-telescope-boldly-peeking-where-no-man-259593 The sunshield is a new technology concept developed specifically for the Webb. It’s actually…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Kick-Ass 2 is really happening. Plus Leonard Nimoy and John Noble take you inside Fringe!

Find out how Avengers 2 will come out of a whole new raft of solo superhero movies. Chloe Moretz talks Dark Shadows and the Carrie remake. James Cameron still hasn’t abandoned Battle Angel Alita. New videos for Brave, Men in Black 3. Plus intriguing spoilers for the Once Upon a Time finale! Spoilers from here…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

TSA Finds Gun-Stuffed Mickey Mouse in Four Year-Old’s Luggage

The TSA does so many ham-fisted pat-downs of seemingly undeserving innocents—the old lady, the baby, the seven year-old with cerebral palsy—that it’s easy enough to think of its agents as big ol’ bullies. Then they find gun parts hidden inside a four year-old’s stuffed animals, and you realize they’re big ol bullies who have a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Dwarf Mammoths Used to Inhabit the Island of Crete

The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed has been confirmed to have lived on the island of Crete—and scientists believe that it was an adult which had evolved into a dwarf species of the giant beasts. A team of palaeontologists from London’s Natural History Museum suggest that the adults of this dwarf mammoth species…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

Sometimes, It’s Cool Not to Know Stuff

You guys are amazing. No, I mean it: you readers know so much stuff, pick up on the smallest problems and generally give us a real hard time. And honestly, that’s amazing. But sometimes, it’s neat not to know stuff—because finding out is so much fun. So next time someone doesn’t know something you think…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Oh Dear: The Most Exciting Thing About the New BlackBerry Is a Dedicated BBM Button

RIM’s latest update of its Curve BlackBerry series has all of the usual buttons we’ve come to expect from the QWERTY classic range, only now there’s a specific hotkey for instant access to the company’s BBM messaging service. Amazing. RIM’s selling this new model BB in two tech spec varieties, with the 9220 and 9320…

Gadgets Gary Cutlack - gizmodo uk

How Steve Jobs Came to Play FDR in That Crazy Apple Video

Last week, a bizzare WWII-themed short film made by Apple came to light, in which Steve Jobs played FDR. Now, filmmaker Michael Markman, who worked on the project, has written about how the video came to be. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-played-fdr-in-1984-and-its-impossibly-weird-5907064 Writing on his blog, Markman explains: “As Glenn and I listened to Mike [Murray, head of Mac…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

James Bond Has Dodged 4,662 Bullets During His Fictional Career

James Bond is the kind of man who gets shot at an awful lot. In fact, he’s lucky to even be alive because, during his 22-film Hollywood career, the secret agent has managed to dodge a total of 4,662 bullets. In New Scientist, some context is added to that number by working out the probability…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Google and Oracle Enter Round Two of Heavyweight Legal Fight

After the jury returned a partial verdict in the copyright phase of the Google-Oracle trial – unable to decide whether Google’s recreation of the Java platform constituted “fair use” of Oracle’s copyright – the trial has now entered the patent phase, where the same jury will seek to decide whether Google infringed on Oracle’s patents.…

Tech News Caleb Garling - Wired

With a Ceramic Transducer, You’ll Hear Voices Inside Your Head

Japanese electronics company Kyocera has developed an innovative new transducer to replace outmoded—and underperforming—speakers in a phone. Whereas conventional phone speakers transmit sound waves to your ear drum via a multistep process of vibrations and wave travel, stopping at various aural checkpoints along the way—with the pressed to your ear, Kyocera’s ceramic transducer will transfer…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Delta Calls Cops on Viber Exec for Using His Own VoIP App In-Flight (UPDATED)

Talmon Marco, founder of the VoIP app Viber, was met at La Guardia airport this evening by a waiting posse of port authority cops. What did he do? Well, it’s not quite as outrageous as Alec Baldwin getting in trouble for playing Words With Friends, but it’s still a bit ridiculous. Apparently, Marco had been…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Easily the most insane animal footage ever caught on an undersea camera

If you thought those submersible videos of swordfish and sperm whales were something special, here’s something right out of The Abyss. https://gizmodo.com/heartwarming-video-robotic-claw-saves-trapped-swordfis-5575591 A remotely operated underwater vehicle caught this creature floating around in the brine — commenters on YouTube are positing that it’s a specimen of the Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish, whereas other folks on Reddit…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

HP Spectre XT: HP’s Glass Wonder Now Has a Smaller, Cheaper and Aluminum-Clad Sibling

When HP unveiled the Envy 14 Spectre this past January, they offered up something that had been missing from the HP line in the past couple of years: a truly premium notebook. With the introduction of the 13-inch, aluminum-shelled Envy Spectre XT, what was once a single product is primed to become a line of…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Sexist Disney Cartoons, Agnostic Front Live from CBGB, and Exploding Mini-Meth Labs

Agnostic Front Live from CBGB Did you hear? CBGB’s owners are raising money and looking for a new venue to reopen! Happy day! https://gizmodo.com/portable-meth-lab-explodes-in-a-guys-pants-while-runnin-5905873 Portable Meth Lab Explodes In a Guy’s Pants While Running From the Cops Say want you will about stoner ingenuity, but I don’t see a lot of potheads rolling around with…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Will Facial-Recognition Software Finally Reveal Mona Lisa’s True Identity?

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, received an initial grant of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which they will use to explore the effectiveness of cutting-edge facial-recognition technology in centuries-old portraits and other fine art. The project, known as FACES (Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems), will make use of the…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Kisai Uzumaki Marks the Flow of Time with Swirling Vortex Hands

Japanese watchmaker Kisai has just released its newest user-designed timepiece. It may not be as famous (yet) as a certain other Uzumaki but it’s certainly just as awesome. “Uzumaki” translates roughly into whirlpool and is named so for the watch lens’ descending concentric circles. The hands also descend into the center of the watch—the hour…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Intricate Replica of Fenway Park Is an Awesome Example of 3D Printing

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park’s first game, 3D printing company Objet produced an incredible 1/200-scaled thermal-plastic park in miniature. To achieve closest accuracy, Objet referenced blueprints and pictures of the current park, then recreated the stadium in 3D software. The lil’ Green Monster measures 3′ by 5′, weighs 105lbs, and is comprised…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Electric Food Tricks Your Taste Buds

In an experiment conducted at the Computer Human Interaction conference, in Austin, Texas, a group of researches added electricity to different foods and beverages, to see how the added charge might manipulate the food’s flavor. A small wire connected to a 9-volt battery was threaded through a straw, and the straw placed in a cup…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Behold a Batman helmet right out of the 1920s

Panic Button Light Switch Adds Drama To Conserving Electricity

This Tin Foil Can Hold the Universe’s Largest Burrito

Kick-Ass 2 is really happening. Plus Leonard Nimoy and John Noble take you inside Fringe!

TSA Finds Gun-Stuffed Mickey Mouse in Four Year-Old’s Luggage

Dwarf Mammoths Used to Inhabit the Island of Crete

Sometimes, It’s Cool Not to Know Stuff

Oh Dear: The Most Exciting Thing About the New BlackBerry Is a Dedicated BBM Button

How Steve Jobs Came to Play FDR in That Crazy Apple Video

James Bond Has Dodged 4,662 Bullets During His Fictional Career

Google and Oracle Enter Round Two of Heavyweight Legal Fight

With a Ceramic Transducer, You’ll Hear Voices Inside Your Head

Delta Calls Cops on Viber Exec for Using His Own VoIP App In-Flight (UPDATED)

Easily the most insane animal footage ever caught on an undersea camera

HP Spectre XT: HP’s Glass Wonder Now Has a Smaller, Cheaper and Aluminum-Clad Sibling

Sexist Disney Cartoons, Agnostic Front Live from CBGB, and Exploding Mini-Meth Labs

Will Facial-Recognition Software Finally Reveal Mona Lisa’s True Identity?

The Kisai Uzumaki Marks the Flow of Time with Swirling Vortex Hands

This Intricate Replica of Fenway Park Is an Awesome Example of 3D Printing

Electric Food Tricks Your Taste Buds

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