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This Slingshot Can Kill Humans—With Style

The $100 Montie Gear Y-Fork Slingshot—designed by Nichols Pennington—is made of aluminum, with a paracord-wrapped handle and a Thera-Band Gold flat band with a leather pouch. It can throw 0.5-inch ball bearings or .44 cal lead ball. If you buy this, be sure to be careful with it. It’s certainly not a toy and you…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Mar 22 '12

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Researchers say they’ve succeeded in giving mice a “hybrid” memory that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. They forced the mice to recall memories while they were already busy forming new ones, by reactivating specific neurons in their brains. This could even represent a step towards implanting full-blown false memories. And this could mean…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 22 '12

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

In author Joshua Hale Fialkov’s rad horror comic I, Vampire, bloodsuckers both good and bad regularly run afoul of the DC Universe’s superheroes. For example, the series’ heroic vampire Andrew Bennett recently had a run-in with Batman, and the upcoming story arc — “Rise of the Vampires” — guest-stars the magic users of Justice League…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22 '12

Can You Recognize These Products Even Without Their Branding?

Some products are so ingrained into the mushy greyness of our brains that we can spot their branding on just the shape of the product alone. It’s kinda sick, isn’t it? Within half a second, you already knew that that packet above was Heinz ketchup. Why is that? Is it because we use it everyday?…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 22 '12

Flying Bird Man Admits Flying Bird Man Is Fake

You’re looking at the Internet Bird Man, who captivated the web’s attention for dozens of hours and divided us between skeptics and the faithful. It was a hoax! It turns out he even made up his name. https://gizmodo.com/man-flies-like-a-bird-flapping-his-own-wings-update-6-5894904 Jarno Smeets—actually a Dutch CGI artist named Floris Kaayk—fessed up to the hoax on De Wereld Draait…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

This Wireless Spy Tank is your Spy-On-Everyone-No-Matter-Where-They-Go Deal of the Day

I’ve always wanted a robot. One that can maneuver over complex terrain, shoot video, and record audio. Maybe dismantle a bomb. And with minimal assembly required. By minimal, I mean I don’t want to have to do anything more than unwrap it. The building part never struck me as much fun. Who wants to toil…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 22 '12

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Break out your overalls — there’s a new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 on the horizon. The world’s most famous dystopian narrative is coming back to the big screen. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s production company (Imagine Entertainment) is teaming up with LBI Entertainment to bring back the Ministry of Truth. But the real mastermind…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 22 '12

Stunning Rivers of Lava Making an Ocean of Lava

I get transfixed watching rivers of lava flow, either fast and fluid, or growing in slow motion, like the living rocks at 1 minute and 53 seconds in this video. And that terrifying crackling. A surge of lava spews out of a rupture in the lava tube system and is heading down steep cliffs, or…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 22 '12

Netflix Updates iPad App for HD!—But Just the Buttons

Hooray! Netflix has updated their iPad app for HD. That’s what they say in the update… but it’s just the buttons! Boo! the video is still in low resolution, not Full HD, so there will be no difference in the new iPad. Which is weird, because Netflix streams in 1080p to Roku and Xbox 360.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 22 '12

The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

Sandia National Laboratories cooks up some of the craziest new technologies you’ll ever see—and some you’ll never see. That’s the fate of a secret method for driving drones with nuclear power, abandoned by its creators. https://gizmodo.com/this-bullet-from-the-future-flies-itself-5880537 The tech was uncovered in a document acquired by the Federation of American Scientists, which outlines a study Sandia…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

The wildest ride in the galaxy is found on hypervelocity planets. These worlds got too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and have been flung away at a twentieth of the speed of light. While rogue planets are common enough, these hypervelocity planets represent a much rarer case and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 22 '12

Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs

Using an automated teller machine is inherently risky. You stand there, your back turned, signaling to everyone around that you’re about to have a wad of twenties in your pocket. If you’re lucky, there’s a security guard on duty. But usually it’s just you and whoever is lurking in that little convex mirror. ATMs themselves…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Mar 22 '12

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

You’ve seen the slick-as-hell trailer for Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon War prequel Blood and Chrome. But even though the trailer has revived the world’s fervor for frakking toasters, it didn’t change Syfy’s postion on demoting Blood And Chrome to the status of webseries. But there’s a silver lining! https://gizmodo.com/totally-badass-trailer-for-battlestar-galacticas-cylon-5895080 According to the President of Syfy’s original…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 22 '12

Five Reasons Why the Stupid 4.6-Inch iPhone Rumor Won’t Happen

No—stop it. Close that tab. Stop reading that. The Apple rumor de jour—a 4.6-inch iPhone 5—is the same reheated broth some filthy cook serves yearly. It wasn’t true last year, or the year before. Here’s why it’s still BS. Reuters, usually a staid, reliable entity when it comes to not spreading gleeful crap rumors, dove…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

For the 2012 Maker Faire, five high-school students from the Bay Area have embarked upon an awesomely ambitious project: to construct a homemade flight simulator depicting the cockpit of a Viper from Battlestar Galactica. After launching a successful Kickstarter campaign, the team produced this video showing off their progress: The basic idea is to mount…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22 '12

How Gizmodo Decides Which Laptop to Buy

Earlier today, Gizmodo Brit Jamie Condliffe asked us for advice on his next laptop purchase. We had some opinions! Enough that we thought we’d share how we work through it with you, dear readers. So without any more ado, here’s Gizmodo talking laptops: From: Jamie Condliffe Subject: Laptop advice Date: March 22, 2012 12:00:29 PM…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 22 '12

The World’s Biggest Nuclear Submarine Is Also One of the Sneakiest

While the Red October may not have been an actual submarine, the Russian Typhoon class that it’s based on certainly is. Turns out, Hollywood didn’t have to embellish many details for the film—Typhoons really can sneak up on you. The Typhoon is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines developed by the USSR and deployed…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 22 '12

10 of the Most Awesome Sword Fight Scenes Ever

Let’s face facts. No weapon is more badass than a sword. Fight scenes are often great in science fiction and fantasy movies, but fight scenes with swords? They’re the stuff of legend. Here are ten of the very best sword fights in cinematic history. Since we’re all about facing facts today, I’m just going to…

Movies Annalee Newitz Mar 22 '12

I Have a Magnet Implant In My Finger

Let’s talk about magnet implants. I don’t really bring it up much, but I have a small rare earth magnet implanted in the pinkie finger on my right hand. I’ve had it for around three years now. Whenever someone finds out that I have this implant, they’ve always got a ton of questions. Usually the…

Tech News Dann Berg Mar 22 '12

Facebook Photos Just Got Bigger and Prettier

Facebook’s photo viewer just got two overdue improvements. First of all, Facebook now supports high-resolution photos. When you click on an image in the photo viewer, it will display images at the highest resolution possible, which could be up to four times larger than the old size depending on the size of your display (the…

Social Media Mario Aguilar Mar 22 '12

This Slingshot Can Kill Humans—With Style

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

Can You Recognize These Products Even Without Their Branding?

Flying Bird Man Admits Flying Bird Man Is Fake

This Wireless Spy Tank is your Spy-On-Everyone-No-Matter-Where-They-Go Deal of the Day

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Stunning Rivers of Lava Making an Ocean of Lava

Netflix Updates iPad App for HD!—But Just the Buttons

The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

Five Reasons Why the Stupid 4.6-Inch iPhone Rumor Won’t Happen

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

How Gizmodo Decides Which Laptop to Buy

The World’s Biggest Nuclear Submarine Is Also One of the Sneakiest

10 of the Most Awesome Sword Fight Scenes Ever

I Have a Magnet Implant In My Finger

Facebook Photos Just Got Bigger and Prettier

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