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The Tokyo Institute of Technology’s New Innovation Building Is Entirely Covered in Solar Panels

The Tokyo Institute of Technology, largely considered Japan’s most prestigious university, has unveiled on its campus an impressive new building that is almost self-sustaining in its power use. The Environment and Energy Innovation Building in Meguro Ward features solar panels all along its exterior facade and on its roof––4,500 panels in all, with a total…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Indian politicians place $2000 bounty on marauding vampires

The villages around the Indian town of Dharmapuri are in the midst of an unusual problem. Unsubstantiated reports of vampires draining cattle have frightened entire communities such that residents are staying off the streets after sunset. To quell the spread of this unmitigated bullpucky, local politicians have placed a price on these nonexistent vampires’ heads.…

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The Making of One of The Coolest Recent Special Effects: The Shred

Last December’s The Darkest Hour wasn’t exactly our favorite movie — but it did have a few really neat visuals, including the way the invisible electric aliens killed people: The Shred. For a movie that saved on its budget by having aliens that were invisible most of the time, Darkest Hour did find a cool…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A Fully Customizable Driver for the Pickiest Duffers

You can personalize a wide range of products online. Nike and Vans, for example, let you create your own kicks, down to details like lace color. Now Callaway is offering a customized golf club through its new udesign site. If you don’t want to hit the green with your own unique club, well, Callaway’s RAZR…

Gadgets Leslie Horn

Jimmy Kimmel Lets the Elderly Sound Off on Facetagram

Everyone has weighed in on Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. But one key demographic has remained silent—until know. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-buying-instagram-for-a-billion-dollars-5900352 Jimmy Kimmel sent a correspondant on location to a nearby farmer’s market to let senior citizens voice their opinions about the billion-dollar deal. FINALLY. As you would expect, they spoke with nuance and conviction. [Jimmy Kimmel Live]

Social Media Michael Hession

Pop Culture’s 100-year Obsession With Eugenics

Everybody knows Khan Noonien Singh. He’s one of the most famous Star Trek characters who isn’t a starship crewmember. But he’s also the poster boy for eugenics, the notion that you can improve the human race by rewriting our genes. For the past century, pop culture has told plenty of stories about eugenics. Some of…

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An Ultra-Tiny Synth Designed To Look Like Something Called a Mixtape

According to Wikipedia, at one time mankind used reels of thin flexible tape contained in plastic casings to store and share music. And that’s where the creators of the adorably tiny Mixtape Alpha 8-bit synth drew their design inspiration. Although it was created to be open source and easily hacked, the Mixtape Alpha’s not one…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Computer simulation reveals how we worked together to evolve bigger brains

Why do humans have such enormous brains for our size? One popular explanation is that we needed the added cognitive capacity to deal with large, complex social groups. And now, a fascinating new computer simulation suggests that cooperation really did make us smarter. A team of researchers at Trinity College Dublin simulated fifty very simple…

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The Greatest Cellphone Accessory Also Has the Greatest Promotional Video

You might not think you need a $15 sleeve accessory designed to slip on your finger preventing you from dropping your phone. But we guarantee the mad rhymes and funky beats in this promo video for the Feinger will have you whipping out your credit card faster than you can say “what the hell did…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Nano-Particles Could Manufacture Cancer-Killing Drugs Inside Your Body

MIT researchers have built a nano-scale, drug-producing factory that could provide precision cancer tumor-killing inside your body. Drugs made of proteins are good at killing cancer tumors, but the human body in turn is good at killing foreign proteins that show up our bloodstream. So protein drugs have trouble reaching their destination. But the nanoparticle…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Say hello to the Moon’s true “dark” side

If you’ve ever heard someone talk about the Dark Side of the Moon, there’s a decent chance they were actually referring to its far side — i.e. the face of the Moon that is permanently pointed away from Earth. If this was the case, they were actually using the term “dark side” incorrectly; the far…

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How I Fixed My Knees and Learned to Walk

When I was a kid, I had bad knees. Really bad. I’d run a mile and limp for weeks. Well past my teenage years and into my early twenties, I thought I was just stuck with these knees. But then I found a way to fix them. It was one of the hardest things I’ve…

Health Brent Rose

How to Suspend Liquid Water in Midair

YouTuber mrbibio calls the optical illusion you see here “the static flow of water.” The description, of course, is an oxymoron; how can something that is static also be flowing? And yet, the water in this video — which you can hear trickling, and surely must be flowing — appears to be suspended in midair.…

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This 12V Oven Is Your Bake-It-On-The-Go Deal of the Day

Modern science has achieved many miracles, but keeping take-out hot is not one of them. Why does my pizza have to get cold after a 10-minute drive home? More importantly, why haven’t our nations braniacs solved this problem? I’m not asking much. And I can’t explain the emotional roller coaster it is ordering pizza just…

Tech News Andrew James

Exclusive Photos from Doctor Who‘s New York Set

The Doctor and his pair of married companions (Amy and Rory) were spotted mid-picnic atop the rocks of New York’s Central Park. Doctor Who’s new season has been filming all around New York City, we’ve already spotted The Doctor with a few familiar villains at a couple of places NYC spots (warning: spoilers). https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-filming-weeping-angels-gallery-5900197 But…

Television Meredith Woerner

Man Steals Guns and a Taser and Goes on the Craziest Crime Spree You Can Imagine

This is William C. Todd. He may have just shattered the record for the craziest and fastest crime spree in American history: ten felonies in just nine hours. The list of crimes is so insane and absurd that it seems impossible: 1. Breaking and entering. Stopping in Nashville, Tennessee for a nine-hour Greyhound bus layover,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Crumpler Nhill Heist Lightning Review: Keeps your Laptop Safe Without Getting in Your Way

Your morning commute is trying enough without having to muscle a huge bag along with you. The Nhill Heist from Crumpler holds everything you need without getting in the way. What Is It? A secure laptop pack that fits you like a shadow. Who’s it For? Agile commuters, urban ninjas, corporate spooks, NASA employees, and…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola

Shooting Challenge: Give Us Your Best Instagram

We all heard: Instagram sold to Facebook for $1 billion. And good for them; it’s a great product. To celebrate, let’s all bust out Instagram. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want your best Instagram shot. https://lifehacker.com/facebook-acquires-instagram-30791786 The Challenge Take a photo (on your cellphone) using Instagram (and only Instagram!). Make it great. The Technique…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Many Calories You Burn Having Sex, Eating Pizza and Smoking a Cigarette

The best thing about the Nike Fuelband is that it can keep track of any activity you do. Yes, any. You know what that means, right? Let’s find out how many calories we burn and how much Nikefuel we earn doing totally normal everyday things. https://gizmodo.com/nikes-fuelband-is-an-awesome-fitness-wristband-for-your-5877553/?tag=nike For reference, Nike considers a 3000 Nikefuel day to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Scientists created a pain measurement scale by burning the hands of women in labor

In the 1940s, a group of doctors at the University of Cornell set out to create a unit of pain intensity. Using the “dol” as a unit, the physicians created a 21-point quantitative scale, but through unusual means — testing pain reactions on medical students and women in labor between contractions. They did this by…

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The Tokyo Institute of Technology’s New Innovation Building Is Entirely Covered in Solar Panels

Indian politicians place $2000 bounty on marauding vampires

The Making of One of The Coolest Recent Special Effects: The Shred

A Fully Customizable Driver for the Pickiest Duffers

Jimmy Kimmel Lets the Elderly Sound Off on Facetagram

Pop Culture’s 100-year Obsession With Eugenics

An Ultra-Tiny Synth Designed To Look Like Something Called a Mixtape

Computer simulation reveals how we worked together to evolve bigger brains

The Greatest Cellphone Accessory Also Has the Greatest Promotional Video

Nano-Particles Could Manufacture Cancer-Killing Drugs Inside Your Body

Say hello to the Moon’s true “dark” side

How I Fixed My Knees and Learned to Walk

How to Suspend Liquid Water in Midair

This 12V Oven Is Your Bake-It-On-The-Go Deal of the Day

Exclusive Photos from Doctor Who‘s New York Set

Man Steals Guns and a Taser and Goes on the Craziest Crime Spree You Can Imagine

Crumpler Nhill Heist Lightning Review: Keeps your Laptop Safe Without Getting in Your Way

Shooting Challenge: Give Us Your Best Instagram

How Many Calories You Burn Having Sex, Eating Pizza and Smoking a Cigarette

Scientists created a pain measurement scale by burning the hands of women in labor

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