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Here’s what it’s like to rent a MiG-29 to fly you above the clouds in the stratosphere

It’s good to be rich. Because when you’re rich you can easily justify the $18,000 necessary to rent—yes, rent—a MiG-29 fighter jet that will take you on the flight of your life to the edge of space. You fly above the clouds in the stratosphere at 70,000 feet in the air, you reach supersonic speeds,…

The 1950s “Miracle Kitchen” of the Future Had Its Own Roomba

In July 1959, the magazine Look ran an article describing the “miracle kitchen” of the future, ostensibly about the amazing advances that Americans would see in their own homes. In reality, it was part of a much larger propaganda battle of the Cold War–and it involved a proto-roomba. Last year we looked at the American…

Google’s Latest Hire Has a Creepy Plan to Track Your Mental Health

Google’s parent company Alphabet has just hired Thomas Insel, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, who has some pretty weird ideas about what his new job will entail. Insel told a crowd at Chicago Ideas Week that he still isn’t sure what Alphabet wants him to do. But then he explained…

Serial Killer Drama Wicked City Delivers a Full Dose of 80s Kitsch

ABC’s new serial-killer drama, Wicked City hopes to capitalize on your 1980s nostalgia. It’s set on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip in the early 80s, and it’s chock full of Billy Idol. But is it worth your time? We’ve seen the pilot, and here are our spoiler-free impressions. The “80s Los Angeles” setting is the main…

An Unreleaed Ol’ Dirty Bastard Track Comes Loaded On This Bitchin’ Speaker

Ol’ Dirty Bastard was taken from us before his time in 2004. As with most artists who die (relatively) young, ODB left behind some work we never got to hear. But ODB’s definitely the first artist to posthumously release music on a Bluetooth speaker. That snazzy speaker above is the limited edition Ol’ Dirty Bastard…

The Best Geeky Halloween Costumes For Your Pet

Halloween isn’t just a time to wear trashy costumes and collect candy. It’s also an opportunity to dress the animal in your life up, as fantastically as you want. Here are our favorite geek-centric costumes for pets. https://gizmodo.com/this-years-trashiest-store-bought-halloween-costumes-1736063653 DARTH VADER PUG VADER. Darth Bark??? BANTHA WITH SANDPERSON Let’s hope bantha fodder tastes good to dogs.…

48 Photos Of Autumn Around The World

It’s the most beautiful time of the year: Fall. And luckily for us, all of you pulled out your cameras to give us a look at the beautiful leaves ranging from Calgary to Croatia. Winner: Minnesota Canopy My photo submission is from a recent drive near my home in Minnesota. I headed out early in…

This Star Wars Game Trailer Is Everything We Want From Life

EA just released a new trailer for their upcoming Star Wars game, and it looks amazing. Well, we already thought it did—but if you didn’t know Battlefront was a video game, this just looks like a crazy Star Wars trailer. Boba Fett! Leia! The Emperor! Oh, this looks fun. Battlefront will be out November 17th.

Watch crazy guys in wingsuits fly right next to the face of city buildings

There’s a holy crap moment in this wingsuit video where you hold your breath and wonder if the guys flying in the air are actually going to crash into the side of the building and if you should turn off the video. But then they make a perfect turn move and basically zip right next…

Good News for superhero fans! Supergirl’s premiere last night was the most watched debut of the fall season so far. The pilot, which we loved, was watched by 12.9 million viewers last night, also making it the most-watched superhero show of the 21st century.

We Will Never Find All The Dinosaurs

There’s never been a better time to be a dinosaur hunter — or, if you can’t get your boots out in the field, a fossil fan. Paleontologists are announcing a new species of dinosaur at the rate of about one every two weeks. But are we ever going to find them all? No. There are…

Startup Names Conference Rooms After Famous Sites of Human Suffering 

Unbearably cute, self-congratulatory conference room names are a startup office cliché, but money collection app Tilt takes home the prize for most simultaneously lofty and bizarre choices: Famous sites of human suffering. Bloomberg talked to Tilt about its unusual conference room names: Want to get together with colleagues to discuss app upgrades, mobile marketing strategies,…

Google Now Has a Second, Even More Expensive OnHub Router

Over the summer we got a first look at Google’s plans to fix you crappy home networking situation. The first OnHub router, manufactured by TP-Link, was pretty cool–and very expensive. Now Google’s got yet another OnHub router, this time made by Asus. It’s even more expensive. Google OnHub is a great idea on paper. For…

Theranos CEO Agrees to Publish Data Proving Reliability of Its Blood Tests

Elizabeth Holmes, the beleaguered founder-and-chief of Theranos, has agreed to publish scientific data that will supposedly affirm the accuracy and reliability of its blood tests. But as a recent FDA inspection report points out, things don’t look good. Theranos, the makers of an innovative needle-free blood test, has been under intense scrutiny since the recent…

The Droid Turbo 2 Is a Verizon Superphone That Can Handle Some Punishment

Creating the Verizon Droid is a simple formula at this point: Take Motorola’s latest and greatest, in this case the new Moto X Pure Edition, and supercharge the specs in every direction. Bigger battery. Bigger processor. So on and so on. But for the Turbo 2, Verizon has a whole new trick—the display is shatterproof.…

FAA Is Doing Nothing About Continued Boeing Dreamliner Battery Failures

In 2013, the troubled Boeing 787 Dreamliner was grounded for nearly four months because the plane’s lithium-ion batteries caught fire. It’s had at least three more cell failures since the plane was allowed to resume flying. While the Federal Aviation Administration dismisses these new failures, the fact that these battery malfunctions continue to happen is…

Some “Ghosts” May Be Sound Waves Just Below Human Hearing

There are many possible explanations for hauntings, not least that humans are highly suggestible creatures, especially when we want to believe. But some ghost sightings might actually be the result of sounds — sound waves that vibrate just below our range of hearing, dubbed the “fear frequency.” Sound is basically mechanical energy in the form…

The EU Tried to End Roaming Fees and Ended Net Neutrality Instead

The internet is a global network. That means if one part of the world decides to start pulling the wrong levers, we could be dealing with the consequences. And the European parliament just pulled a very big lever by voting down amendments to net neutrality rules that include dangerous loopholes. The European Union’s net neutrality…

Glorious NSFW Letterforms Inspired by a Recent Translation of the Kama Sutra

When Penguin Books US hired French artist Malika Favre to illustrate the cover of its 2011 edition of the Kama Sutra, she created letterforms that highlighted the erotic nature of the text, riffing on the two thousand-year old manual’s recommendations for sex positions. O: The Orb Favre’s original commission was for just the six letters…

This Walking Dead Rick Grimes Figure Has Leaped Straight Out of the Apocalypse and Onto Your Desk

The Walking Dead has a whole host of walker-killing badasses—Carol, Michonne, Morgan, Daryl, and so on—but none moreso than Rick Grimes. There’s been action figures based on the show and the comics before, but Threezero have finally revealed a new figure in their 1/6 scale Walking Dead line: and it’s finally Rick’s turn! ThreeZero’s have…