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Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo’s new weekly column on words—the ones you’ve heard, but can’t quite define, or the ones you haven’t, but might like to hear about. This week’s lesson: Thermocouples! (Huh?) You almost certainly own a thermocouple. You probably have at least a few, and may well command a small army of them,…

Space & Spaceflight John Herrman

Shooting the Moon With an iPhone 4 and a Telescope

We knew that the iPhone 4 had an excellent camera, but we hadn’t thought to try it on any non-terrestrial subjects. It turns out that when paired with a telescope, it can take some gorgeous shots of our only satellite: https://gizmodo.com/test-notes-iphone-4-camera-5572766 A clever stargazer paired his Planisphere-equipped iPhone 4 with a Pencil Borg telescope (175mm/F7)…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The evil mastermind version of a wildlife special

This video is a glimpse into the life of a man who was just sentenced to 30 months in prison for smuggling rare bird eggs. Dangling from a helicopter over a steep cliff, he risks his life during the theft. Jeffrey Lendrum, who hails from Britain, was arrested after he was caught trying to smuggle…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Nokia’s Leaked N9 Looks Strangely Familiar

Leaked images of Nokia’s N9 reveal just how eager the fading brand is for a hit. Our phone needs to be popular—why not make it look like another popular thing? The QWERTY slider is a MacBook Pro doppelganger. We already know a decent amount about the N9’s guts: a 4″ screen, 8MP camera, and a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Cosmo’s Sex Position of the Day App to Make Your Sex Life More Uncomfortable

Cosmo’s sex advice always seemed a little suspect to me ever since the time a girl tried to press a cantaloupe up on my grundle mid-coitus*. But hey, maybe I just wasn’t adventurous enough for her forward-thinking ways! Cosmo’s new Sex Position of the Day iPhone/Android app is just what it sounds like: a new,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Our giant guide to fall TV that will satisfy your science fiction cravings

Set your DVR’s: we’ve got the entire schedule of can’t-miss science fiction and fantasy television. The good news is, fall TV offers more of Fringe’s red-haired alternate Olivia Dunham. Plus rogue spies, weird conspiracies, superpowered families… and the Walking Dead. RETURNING: The Vampire Diaries What’s happening this season: Sounds like this season it’s the same…

Television Meredith Woerner

I Want These Guys to Take Us to Mars

Romain Charles, Sukhrob Kamolov, Yue Wang, Diego Urbina, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, and Alexey Sitev. Remember these names, because nobody is going to do it when other people go to Mars instead of them. Still, they are crucial to humanity’s next odyssey. They are the crew of the Mars 500, the Big Brotheresque project that is testing…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Happy 50th Birthday to Sputnik 5, Proof That Space Travel Is Survivable (And Adorable)

Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the Korabl-Sputnik 2 spacecraft—known as Sputnik 5 in the west—carrying two dogs named Belka and Strelka, along with mice, rats and flies into space. More surprising? Everyone came back alive. The success of Sputnik 5 came at a time when space didn’t seem particularly welcoming to anything…

io9 Sam Biddle

Ride a space shuttle rocket booster into space, then plunge back to Earth

In this film, taken a couple of years ago from a rocket booster on the space shuttle Discovery, you can see what it’s like to blast into space, shooting fire and whirling back into the upper atmosphere. The action starts heating up at about the 1:30 minute mark, when we blast off and start zooming…

io9 Annalee Newitz

EA Holding Out on Windows Phone 7

The announced list of Windows Phone 7 games was impressive! But noticeably absent was EA, who’s dragging their heals on officially committing to the platform. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-live-on-windows-phone-7-hands-on-mobile-levels-up-5614244 In a statement provided to Mobile Entertainment, EA had little to say on the matter: “We are constantly evaluating new platforms and opportunities, but have nothing to announce right…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Bullet Train Chopsticks Bring the Sushi to Your Mouth Faster

Available now at every Japanophile’s favorite export site J-List for $8, these bullet train chopsticks don’t *quite* travel at 224mph, but they do make futomaki pieces taste even better. Fact. [J-List via Laughing Squid] https://gizmodo.com/hell-on-wheels-japanese-bullet-train-billed-as-worlds-165536

Tech News Kat Hannaford

BlackPad Won’t Run OS 6, Will Run QNX’s OS?

Many assumed—rightly so—that RIM would be using some form of OS 6.0 on its upcoming “BlackPad” tablet, but the word on the town is that they’ll actually be using a completely new tablet platform, based on QNX’s microkernel-based OS, which they acquired from Harman International back in April. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-blackberry-tablet-blackpad-to-cost-499-5607993 Added to that is the concern…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Concept art pays tribute to the richness, as well as the realism, of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros

For those of us who can’t wait for the HBO series to start seeing every little detail of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros, artist Xavier Garcia has started creating A Song Of Ice And Fire concept art. Here’s his Jon Snow. And yes, that’s The Wall that Jon’s standing on. I have to admit, this isn’t…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Sound of Woodworms is Art

This piece of electronic art involves a microphone listening to 25 woodworms eating away at a log. Chomp, chomp, chomp. On exhibition in Ireland, currently. [Zimoun via BLDGBLOG]

Tech News Brian Lam

I Want To Teach in a School of the Future With Sharp’s 60-inch LCD Blackboard

Sharp’s 60″ PN-L601B Blackboard, announced today in Japan, ditches the SMART Board’s projector in lieu of a 1,920×1,080, LED-backlit LCD display. It’s almost awesome enough to make me want to draw sentence diagrams for Catcher In the Rye. Teaching once seemed like a potentially-noble, probably-miserable future profession, before the allure of high tech blog world…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

31-Inch OLED TV Will Be Shown Off by LG

Not content with having the largest production OLED model on the market today (pictured), LG is doubling its size in time for the IFA electronics show next month, where it’ll show off a 31-inch panel. https://gizmodo.com/lg-15-inch-el9500-oled-tv-arrives-in-u-s-later-this-ye-5471403 A couple of years ago, Samsung showed off a 31-inch OLED at CES, which was just 4.3mm thick and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Ultimate Marijuana Farm Security System: Bears

Perimeter fences are hard to maintain. Security cameras are expensive these days. Armed guards can be bought. Yep, it looks like there’s really only one way to reliably protect your marijuana farm these days: lazy bears. That was apparently the proprietorial philosophy of one recently raided Western Canada marijuana farm. The attending police were flummoxed…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The insectoid monsters of the Russian subway system

In a series of doctored photographs called Metronomicon, artist Alexey Andreev recreates the world of H.P. Lovecraft in the Russian subways. It’s the perfect place for Cthulhu and his spawn. Check out our gallery. See more Alexey Andreev’s blog, via Feuilleton (Note: Yes, we’ve posted some of these images before, so consider this an unofficial…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Steve Jobs Gets To Tear His House Down

In this episode of Home Makeover: Mansion Edition: Steve Jobs finally, officially, gets to demolish his house to build a new one. There had been some scuttlebutt over Jobs-occupied Jackling House was a historic landmark, but! It seems that Jonathan Ive can finally get cracking on those iHouse blueprints. [Almanac News via 9to5 Mac] https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-permitted-to-bulldoze-historic-mansion-5252151

Tech News Brian Barrett

Doug Jones explains how to bring humanity to an inhuman character

Nobody is better at playing bizarre creatures of the imagination than Doug Jones, who’s probably Guillermo del Toro’s most frequent collaborator. We asked Jones the secret of bringing creatures to life, and whether we’ll ever see Hellboy’s Abe Sapien again. We asked Jones the secret to playing a memorable non-human, and whether this was different…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

Shooting the Moon With an iPhone 4 and a Telescope

The evil mastermind version of a wildlife special

Nokia’s Leaked N9 Looks Strangely Familiar

Cosmo’s Sex Position of the Day App to Make Your Sex Life More Uncomfortable

Our giant guide to fall TV that will satisfy your science fiction cravings

I Want These Guys to Take Us to Mars

Happy 50th Birthday to Sputnik 5, Proof That Space Travel Is Survivable (And Adorable)

Ride a space shuttle rocket booster into space, then plunge back to Earth

EA Holding Out on Windows Phone 7

Bullet Train Chopsticks Bring the Sushi to Your Mouth Faster

BlackPad Won’t Run OS 6, Will Run QNX’s OS?

Concept art pays tribute to the richness, as well as the realism, of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros

The Sound of Woodworms is Art

I Want To Teach in a School of the Future With Sharp’s 60-inch LCD Blackboard

31-Inch OLED TV Will Be Shown Off by LG

The Ultimate Marijuana Farm Security System: Bears

The insectoid monsters of the Russian subway system

Steve Jobs Gets To Tear His House Down

Doug Jones explains how to bring humanity to an inhuman character

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