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Star Trek LED DIY Boldly Goes Where No Menorah Has Gone Before

It’s almost time for Hanukkah, and what better way to celebrate the Festival of Lights than with Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the the gang? The answer is none. There is no better way. If you want to make your own, all you’ll need are some Star Trek Pez heads, a Deluxe LED Menorah Kit, and…

The 5 Bestest of the New York Times’ Best Ideas of the Year

The New York Times’ Year in Ideas is one of my favorite end-of-the-year lists because it’s smart. I mean, they’re the best ideas of the year. Here are the 5 bestest ideas of the year. Like getting liquefied when you die. There’s a ton more ideas—not just tech ones—at the full spread. Read it, it’ll…

Who Is The Greatest CGI Character Of Them All?

There have been countless characters in movies and television generated entirely using computer effects. But which one was the most believable as a character? This isn’t a poll about which CGI creature looks the coolest – instead, we’re aiming at which one felt the most like an actual character in the movie. In other words,…

Problematic Weapons

Brotherhood of the Wolf’s Bone Sword A super sharp bone sword you can throw around on a chain. Marvelous. Maris Brood’s Lightsaber Tonfas Putting lightsabers right next to your arms. Gogo Yubari’s Meteor Hammer Even if you’re an expert one slip of the wrist and this balls back in your court. Blade Trinity’s UV Arc…

Ruppy is the world’s first fluorescent dog, who looks normal until he’s under ultraviolet light, and then he glows all red. That’s because he’s also the world’s first transgenic dog, with the genes of a sea anemone. Yes, we’re all going to be splicers, like in BioShock. Seems like a good idea to me! Well,…

Free iPhone Apps

Amazon: Amazon’s usually the first place I look during a fit of impulse buying, which their iPhone app now makes stupidly easy. Product searches, comparisons and account management are a given, but what really pushes this one over the edge is a new feature called “Remembers.” Just snap a picture of a mysterious product or…

The 3 Best Netbooks Right Now

Yesterday, we saw the best laptops at any price. But what about their little brothers, the netbooks? Quite simply, here are the three best models that you should choose from, provided by Mark Spoonauer from Laptop: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-windows-laptops-from-400-to-1500-5421823 Toshiba mini NB205 Starting Price: $399.99 ($382.36 now at Amazon) If you’re going to be staring at a…

iPhone-Controlled Music Bot Improvises Just Like Your Favorite Jazz Master

We’ve seen the Shimon robot playing some music and also bobbing its head, but this video shows it doing both at the same time, all while being controlled by an iPhone. And wowee zowee, is this thing impressive. As you can see in the video above, you use the iPhone to make some simple initial…

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today’s Dealzmodo brings more free holiday MP3 tidings and a multitouch laptop to take your Facebook poking to a new, literal level. Also, find big savings on the Spykee spy robot to take your stalking to a new, robotic level. Top Deals: • 14″ Lenovo ThinkPad T400s Laptop with Multi-touch for $1,699 with free shipping…

A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind

By placing electrode grids inside patients’ skulls, researchers at the Mayo Clinic have created a way for people to type words using only their brainwaves. It’s a major breakthrough for brain-computer interface research. The experiments were undertaken on patients who already had electrodes in their brain to monitor epilepsy. Readings were taken via electrocorticography (ECoG),…

Your Wish for a Ridiculously Large Television Granted Today

Save $330 on an LG 32″ Full HD LCD HDTV at CompUSA.com, thanks to AMEX Daily Wish. Sale starts today and only 100 are available, so snap one up now!

Aircraft Crash-Absorber Shield May Save Your Life One Day

NASA has came up with a rather simple and clever idea that may save a lot of lives: An expandable Kevlar honeycomb cushion that would absorb the impact force in an aircraft crash. NASA’s Karen Jackson is hopeful about it: I’d like to think the research we’re doing is going to end up in airframes…

Werewolf-Vampire Threeways Upgraded To Angels In A Ménage à Trois

We called the “angels are the new vampires” trend months ago, and already the facts are stacking up to bolster our claims. Disney’s purchase of Lauren Kate’s tween againsty angel book Fallen adds fuel to the sexy angel fire. https://gizmodo.com/could-angels-be-the-new-vampires-5360906 THR reported that Disney has picked up the rights to the brand new YA series…

100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got

In Your Flying Car Awaits, author Paul Milo discusses “robot butlers, lunar vacations and other dead-wrong predictions of the 20th Century.” Here are 10 calamitous tech failures. Even the ones that did make it aren’t anything like their original visions. Cities Under Domes The architect and all-around visionary R. Buckminster Fuller believed that one day,…

Evil Gets Steampunked With the Gaslight Legion of Doom

Following up his steampunk Justice League of America, custom toymaker Sillof has unveiled their villainous counterparts, the Gaslight Legion of Doom. Sinestro gets a high-class ruffle, Black Manta gets a little less sleek, and Gorilla Grodd gets a clockwork arm. https://gizmodo.com/the-justice-league-of-america-goes-steampunk-346954 Sillof showcased his latest set of figures as part of this week’s virtual Custom…

Huge Iceberg Drifting Towards Australia

A 54 square-mile iceberg that broke free of an Antarctic ice shelf ten years ago is headed straight for Australia, and similarly large icebergs have been sighted off the coast of New Zealand. Are we heading for ice disaster? While the situation is quite weird – few icebergs this large have ever drifted so far…

Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality

The car’s come a long way since Ford started mass production 100 years ago, but science fiction takes transportation even further. Here are six scenarios for the future of driving, and the real-life developments that could make them happen. The Fiction: The Motorway In Martha’s second trip on the TARDIS in the new Doctor Who,…

Ballerina Sweetspot: A Chair Designed Specifically For Audiophiles

There is just something about chairs. Just look around the office—they are not just places to sit anymore. Chairs have become super-engineered status symbols. Now audiophiles can have their own high-tech throne. https://gizmodo.com/herman-miller-embody-review-the-best-chair-weve-ever-s-5071571 The Ballerina Sweetspot is designed to be the ultimate music lover’s chair. It features a thin headrest to accommodate headphones and prevent…

Cabin Fever 2 Picks Up Right Where It Left Off, At Prom

The trailer for Cabin Fever‘s sequel is finally out, which means we’ll all know what happened with the fancy bottled water factory that was shipping out the flesh eating disease to the rest of the world. It looks much campier then Eli Roth’s original, which could be either a bad or a good thing, depending…

Steve Wozniak (Or His Twin) Singing and Dancing in NYC Subway

http://youtu.be/oCq4Jsda7H We all got our evil twin, and here’s Steve Wozniak’s, singing and dancing in NYC’s subway, on the L line Bedford Avenue station. https://gizmodo.com/this-looks-like-you-ha-ha-ha-5393952 Anna Jane Grossman—author of Obsolete—wants to believe he’s the real one. I do too. Jump to 1:45 and see. [Obsolete]