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The Holiday’s Most Popular Home Audio Gadget Was a Cheap Turntable

This year, tons and tons of people will be bringing in the new year, not blasting tunes through a high-end audio system tricked out with all the latest Bluetooth tech and wifi capabilities, but rather with a $50 turntable. Don’t get me wrong, the Jensen JTA-230 is quite the steal. For the price of a…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 30 '15

Every Place in the World That Has Banned Hoverboards

Do you love your hoverboard? They’ve become so popular, you’d think they could actually hover. Well, enjoy them while you can, because everyone seems to be banning them — from the smallest universities to entire countries. Below, we have a comprehensive list of every place in the world that has explicitly banned hoverboards. We expect…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 30 '15

Watching a Truck Towing a Boat Drive Over a Flimsy Wooden Bridge Is So Stressful

I don’t know if these wooden planks can be considered a bridge or if they just constitute a poorly made death trap but I know that I wouldn’t even want to walk on the thing. And yet, this guy drives a truck that’s towing a boat over it! Nervousness alone would make me crash it…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 30 '15

Chewbacca Comic Finally Answers A Question Star Wars Fans Have Pondered For Years

Ever since Han, Luke, and Chewbacca triumphantly strode through crowds of Rebel soldiers to mark their roles in the Death Star’s destruction, Star Wars fans have jokingly wondered why the poor Wookiee was left out. Well the final issue of Marvel’s Chewbacca miniseries has an answer, all these years later. Minor Spoilers ahead for Chewbacca…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 30 '15

A Week After India Banned It, Facebook’s Free Basics Shuts Down in Egypt

Facebook’s “Free Basics” program in Egypt has been shut down, according to Facebook. It’s unclear why the new free internet service stopped working. However, the news arrives a week after the Indian government temporarily banned the program in the wake of ongoing net neutrality concerns. Free Basics is Facebook’s Internet.org project with a new name.…

Social Media Kate Knibbs Dec 30 '15

America’s Internet Speed Tripled Since 2011, Still Sucks Compared To The Rest of the World

America has long been the land of the free and the home of shitty internet. But according to an FCC report published today, things are at least trending in the right direction. Which is to say America’s internet is getting faster, fast. Since 2011, the United States upped its average broadband download speeds from 10…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 30 '15

How Cigarette Packaging Fools You

A new study shows we’re still suckers for canny packaging of cigarette brands, especially those claiming to be slightly less bad for us than the usual variety. A team of Australian researchers investigated the effects of plain packaging laws, publishing their findings yesterday in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Plain packaging…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 30 '15

This 360 Video Puts You Behind the Wheel of a Formula Drift Race Car

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift sucked, but that’s just cause it wasn’t shot with 360 degree cameras. This 360 degree video from the top of a Pro Drifter’s car does the art of drifting justice the way the movie never could. We took the 360fly to a Clubloose Slay Ride drift event and…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Dec 30 '15

CBS Suddenly Wants to Put a Stop to Axanar, the Crowdfunded Star Trek War Movie

Axanar has attracted a lot of attention since its hugely successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns raised over a million dollars to make a movie set decades before the events of the original Star Trek series. But after over a year of tolerating the film’s existence, CBS and Paramount have cracked down. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-axanar-the-star-trek-war-movie-weve-wait-1716037166 Axanar promised to…

io9 James Whitbrook Dec 30 '15

Maze Balls Are the Perfect Shape To Throw Across the Room in Frustration

It’s easier to dedicate yourself to solving a complex maze when in the back of your mind you know that should frustrations arise, you’ll be able to simply hurl it across the room for some instant stress relief. Shouldn’t all puzzles be as relaxing? Available in three different skill levels including easy, medium, and hard,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 30 '15

Check Out This Uncanny, Never-Before-Seen Back to the Future Poster

It’s almost impossible to think of Back to the Future and not instantly conjure thoughts of Drew Struzan’s iconic poster of Marty McFly stepping out of the Delorean. But we almost had a poster where the amazing time-traveling car wasn’t the star. Hell, it was barely even on the poster. This unused poster concept recently…

Movies James Whitbrook Dec 30 '15

Pointing at This Glowing Clock Isn’t Rude, It’s the Only Way to Display the Time

So how do you sell a standalone clock in a time when almost every electronic device already has one built in? You turn it into a magnificent piece of art like this Shadowplay clock that uses shadows from a pointed finger as its hour and minute hands. A ring of LEDs around the clock’s frame…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 30 '15

The 100 Most Popular io9 Posts of 2015

It was a year of splendid science fiction, some pretty strange science…and a little movie called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Somehow that dress made the cut too. These are the 100 most popular io9 posts from 2015, according to data from Google Analytics. This Animated Data Visualization Of World War II Fatalities Is Shocking…

io9 Katie Drummond Dec 30 '15

The 100 Most Popular Gizmodo Posts of 2015

From weird robots to headphone rants to the darkest, creepiest crevasses of the internet — and that goddamn fucking dress. These are the 100 most popular Gizmodo posts from 2015 as per Google Analytics. Revisit. Reread. Rejoice. This Site Will Make a Stuffed Animal Clone of Your Pet Saying goodbye to a pet is sometimes…

Tech News Katie Drummond Dec 30 '15

How to Sync iTunes Music To Your Android Device

Taking your iTunes library out with you on an Android smartphone or tablet is no longer the impossible mission it used to be—there are a number of apps and services that can help, including Apple’s first major Android app. We’ll go through the various options so you can choose the one that works best for…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 30 '15

Cheap Projector Uses Prisms to Create Color Images from B&W Source

Before LEDs and lasers came along, video projectors would shine white light through a rotating color wheel to produce full-color images. But researchers at Dartmouth College and Disney Research Zürich have come up with a more unusual projection approach using prisms and very precise computer-generated black and white images. What’s most remarkable about this unique…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 30 '15

Samsung’s Latest Transformative Gadget Is… a Smart Belt?

Samsung just revealed the first class of gadgets to emerge from its Creative Lab projects. They’re creative alright! Topping the list of shiny new things from the Korean electronics giant is a smart belt called WELT. Yes, you heard that right. Samsung describes WELT as “a smart wearable healthcare belt that looks like a normal…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes Dec 30 '15

DC Comics Wants You To Color In Its New Comic Covers

We’re in the middle of that already weird limbo-week between Christmas holidays and New Years celebrations. Are you stuck at work with nothing to do? Stuck at home and wanting to unwind after all that family togetherness? DC Comics’ might be able to help. Every January release from the company will have one “Adult Coloring…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Dec 30 '15

Here’s Some Crazy Speculation About The True Identity Of Star Wars‘ Mystery Villain

Check out brand new looks at X-Men Apocalypse and Ghostbusters. Benedict Cumberbatch almost didn’t manage to star in Doctor Strange. Kristen Bell heads to iZombie. Plus, tons of new glimpses of Shadowhunters, and the return of Supergirl. Spoilers Now! Star Wars Ever since The Force Awakens released, speculation has been rife about the true identity…

Television James Whitbrook Dec 30 '15

Facebook and Twitter Say They Ban Terrorism. Well, What the Hell Does That Mean?

Twitter and Facebook have both explicitly banned terrorist content this year. Yet neither will comment on how they define terrorism. Are they using the FBI’s definition in US code? Or something else? Twitter announced an update to its “Twitter Rules” today, changing the language in its “violence and threats” section to forbid “threatening or promoting…

Social Media Kate Knibbs Dec 30 '15

The Holiday’s Most Popular Home Audio Gadget Was a Cheap Turntable

Every Place in the World That Has Banned Hoverboards

Watching a Truck Towing a Boat Drive Over a Flimsy Wooden Bridge Is So Stressful

Chewbacca Comic Finally Answers A Question Star Wars Fans Have Pondered For Years

A Week After India Banned It, Facebook’s Free Basics Shuts Down in Egypt

America’s Internet Speed Tripled Since 2011, Still Sucks Compared To The Rest of the World

How Cigarette Packaging Fools You

This 360 Video Puts You Behind the Wheel of a Formula Drift Race Car

CBS Suddenly Wants to Put a Stop to Axanar, the Crowdfunded Star Trek War Movie

Maze Balls Are the Perfect Shape To Throw Across the Room in Frustration

Check Out This Uncanny, Never-Before-Seen Back to the Future Poster

Pointing at This Glowing Clock Isn’t Rude, It’s the Only Way to Display the Time

The 100 Most Popular io9 Posts of 2015

The 100 Most Popular Gizmodo Posts of 2015

How to Sync iTunes Music To Your Android Device

Cheap Projector Uses Prisms to Create Color Images from B&W Source

Samsung’s Latest Transformative Gadget Is… a Smart Belt?

DC Comics Wants You To Color In Its New Comic Covers

Here’s Some Crazy Speculation About The True Identity Of Star Wars‘ Mystery Villain

Facebook and Twitter Say They Ban Terrorism. Well, What the Hell Does That Mean?

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