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Nintendo Isn’t Bothered About Making a Cellphone

Scream all you want about Crash Bandicoot being one of the launch-games on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, but Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime doesn’t plan to gift you any of their retro titles on a Nintendo phone. https://gizmodo.com/xperia-play-hands-on-the-playstation-phone-is-a-button-5761147 Fils-Aime told CNN that they “have no desire to get into telephony,” adding that they “believe…

Book People Random House Teams Up With Games People THQ For Ebook and Game Creation

This will be one of those behemoth marriages where everyone benefits—a little like Brangelina, and we’re all the adopted kids. Ebooks, graphic novels and online/console/phone games are expected to come out of the partnership, which will see books spinning out of successful game titles. This comes a year after book publishers Random House started plots…

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Portrait of a star | Solar eclipse from space via NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. How will we dispose of spent nuclear fuel rods for centuries to come? https://gizmodo.com/how-will-we-dispose-of-spent-nuclear-fuel-rods-for-cent-5786857 How does humanity plan to permanently store high-level nuclear waste that can remain radioactive for several thousand years? The answer isn’t as simple as digging a hole…

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0000 creates the new facebook by hard-wiring right into your brain

Watch the stunning trailer for Eddie Alacazar’s heady film 0000 and witness one man’s dream of a collective consciousness (and the terrifying way he goes about realizing it). It’s gorgeous. 0000 We’ve been following Alcazar’s 0000 since the test footage and shocking poster (shown above) were released in 2010. Starring Aaron Behr, the film plays…

The Secret Rules of Terra Nova’s Time Travel

Steven Spielberg’s new TV show Terra Nova may look like Avatar, but actor Stephen Lang explained to us why his character is nothing like the hard-ass he played in James Cameron’s hit movie. And we learned exactly how the show’s time travel to 85 million years in the past will work, and saw a smidgen…

Watch the new ThunderCats footage from Wondercon now!

Watch the same footage of the rebooted ThunderCats series that was screened at WonderCon today. Cartoon Network has certainly given these space kitties a brand new set of claws. Let’s all say it together: Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats Ho! Before this footage was screened, we were lucky enough to get a few minutes with the…

“Dude, this synth music is killing me tonight!”

Meet the Ziggybox. By way of a few strategically-placed cigarettes, cigarette boxes and some sensors, it creates music that totally slays the people who listen to it. Designers Christian Losert and Paul Schengber even created a handy video so you can see how it works and what it sounds like. Driving the rig are light…

The Sleeping Beauty Bra Dubiously Attacks Chest Wrinkles

Hey ladies! Nothing worse for a gal than waking up with a bad case of “wrinkled cleavage,” amiright? Even if I’m not, négligée-creating La Decollete thinks I am, so they created the Sleeping Beauty Bra. It’s, ahem, certainly interesting? Interesting in that it doesn’t actually cover anything up—or support anything, for that matter—all it does…

Backwards stars are the last refugees of destroyed galaxies

The universe can be a brutal place, as entire galaxies are ripped apart in cataclysmic collisions. No traces of the old galaxies are left behind, except for a few out-of-place stars, stubbornly orbiting the wrong way in their new galaxy. All stars orbit around the center of their galaxy, and normally all of them should…

First Thundercats footage features sexier Cheetara and a badder Thundertank

One of the most beloved 1980s cartoons is returning to television this year — but will the Cartoon Network’s Thundercats reboot satisfy the rabid fans of the original? We watched a trailer and heard from the creators. Spoilers ahead! So between the brief trailer and the tons of concept art and stills they showed at…

Meet “Old Gray Guy,” the interloper who saved the wolves of Lake Superior

The wolves that live on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale are completely isolated from all other wolves…or so we thought. One immigrant wolf injected some much-needed fresh genes into the mix, and we know because of the poop he left behind. We briefly touched on this story in our recent epic poop treatise, but this is…

Vatican Claims the Nasty Internet Is Creating More Satanists

So anyway, the Vatican says the Internet is creating more Satanists than ever because it makes information so damn accessible or something, and the whole thing inspired me to write a new headline for the Telegraph piece where I learned of this terrifying phenomenon: “Organization responsible for spreading the word about an invisible man in…

DIY: Retrofit an Inkjet Printer with Invisible Ink

While I doubt the super serious stiff in this DIY video is actually a super spy, he does have the DIY know-how necessary to hack apart an inkjet printer and make it into an invisible ink-spitting espionage machine. Enjoy! [MAKE]

How centuries of flooding turned the ancient Chinese into seafarers

About 9,000 years ago, the Fuzhou Basin in southeastern China fell victim to rising sea levels, pushing underwater the marshy lands needed for rice farming. The marooned people there became seafarers, which eventually led to the colonization of Taiwan. The long-term flooding of the Fuzhou Basin completely changed the topography of the region, turning what…

Learn why this season of Doctor Who changes everything

We saw awesome new footage and a behind-the-scenes featurette of the new Doctor Who season — and you can too! Plus writer Neil Gaiman, actor Mark Sheppard and director Toby Haynes told us what to expect. Minor spoilers ahead! So above is the new one-minute trailer that BBC America put out yesterday, which is actually…

Great Timing: Scientists Fine Tune Two-Part Method for Password Protection

Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems recently published a paper describing a two-part method to improve password security. One part is all you: Memorize your password. The second is all computer: A stored, “CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system” is generated along with it. Of all the days to see this over…

To find intelligent life, look for asteroid belt mining operations

The search for alien intelligence has mostly centered on waiting to hear any interstellar radio signals, but we might now have a way to see aliens as well. We just need to look for mega-engineering projects on alien asteroid belts. The idea is the brainchild of Duncan Forgan of the University of Edinburgh and Harvard-Smithsonian…

Noise Pollution: Your life can get sucked out through your ears

The World Health Organization calculated deaths and disabilities caused by noise pollution. Turns out the numbers are second only to air pollution. Find out how noise kills. It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, you can talk someone to death. You can also honk, bark, bass line them to death. You just have to…

The Post Where I Turn a Kohler Transitions “Quiet-Close” Toilet Seat Into a Crime Scene

Gizmodo Detective’s Log, 3 April 2011 – The poor schmuck. Wife just couldn’t take it anymore. Seat up, seat down—didn’t matter. Was the loud late-night seat slam that did him in. Shoulda gone with the Kohler. At least with the Kohler Transitions “Quiet-Close” he might have stood a chance. A few more hours, at least.…