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How This Artist Uses a Climate-Controlled Room to Make Indoor Clouds

It starts like a fog machine, deploying its vaporous mist into the air—until the cloud it emits holds its exquisite shape and silently hovers mid-room for hours. This is the drama and allure of Nimbus, the physics-defying work of Dutch sculptor Berndnaut Smilde. A video crew from NeueHouse captured the artist in action while preparing…

Be Your Own Action Hero

It’s Action Hero Week on Gizmodo and IO9 right now; a fun look at at the the tough guys we all like to watch in movies and on TV. But you don’t have to watch that stuff and look on in envy, you can be one of those heroes. Here’s how. The Will To Act…

Stitchers Is A Show About A Woman Who Hacks Into The Brains Of Corpses 

ABC Family is debuting crime show Stitchers in June, and it has two elements of note: some majorly science-fiction leanings (“We work for a secret government agency that hacks into the brains of corpses and reads their memories”) and a star whose acting skills seem a little … uneven, maybe? Unless that’s some kind of…

The Air Force’s Mysterious Space Plane is Going Into Orbit Again

If all goes well, the U.S. Air Force’s mysterious X-37B will blast off into space for the fourth time on May 20. But for the first time, they’re actually telling us what the space plane will be doing—well, some of it anyway. The Air Force currently has two of the X-37B planes, which look like…

Yes, You Can Actually Type On a Smartwatch

But not just any one. You’d need the iType Smartwatch, a crowdfunded Android wearable coming this July for $235. I’m always skeptical of Kickstarter projects, and smartwatches, and honestly I’m just kind of a skeptical guy! So when the keyboard actually worked, I was pretty surprised. How the heck does anyone tap on all these…

In This Game, You Make Your Own Fun (And Completely Crazy) Comics

If you’re looking for cartooning inspiration, or just like making goofy comics, you’ll want to gather your friends and try Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics. There’s a crowdfunding campaign currently running for the game, and we got a chance to play it. Cartoonist, writer, and io9 contributor Jason Thompson created Mangaka…

Largest-Ever Rhino Airlift Recently Released First 10 Rhinos In Botswana

Beverly Joubert and her husband Dereck are spearheading a relocation project, called Rhinos Without Borders, that aims to move 100 rhinos from poaching hotspots in South Africa to safer parks in Botswana. It’s the largest rhino airlift ever attempted, and the first ten transportees have been successfully released. Above: One of the first ten rhinos…

You’re Looking at an Insect Penis Inside its Mate

One of the biggest challenges for scientists studying the anatomy and physiology of genitalia is the fact that much of the real functional action happens deep inside females. It’s hard to see what’s going on in there. That’s why I love studies that rise to the challenge of giving us a peek inside. In a…

Breaking Bad expertly recreated with GTA V graphics is just fantastic

That’s it. GTA V is such an amazing world that it can be used to create anything. Let’s make movies and full seasons of TV shows using just GTA V graphics because this is just stunning. Here is a Breaking Bad tribute done completely with GTA V and it sums up a decent amount of…

Which Great Author Do You Re-Read, A Single Page At A Time?

Some authors are so great, you re-read their books from cover to cover, every few years. But then there are the authors that pack such a great punch, you just want to read a page or two, when you need to wake your brain up or remind yourself of a great scene. Which author do…

The 10 Most Dangerous Jobs In the US Aren’t What You’d Expect

When we think of dangerous jobs, most of us think about firefighters or ice road truckers. But Bloomberg crunched the Department of Labor’s newly-released stats, and came up with a few disturbing and surprising facts about who really has the most dangerous gig. Which professions have the highest fatality rates? Fishers top the list, followed…

Author Ian Tregillis On Why Fictional Worlds Need Fictional Technologies

The fictional worlds we love wouldn’t be the places they are without the fictional technologies that populate them. Here, author Ian Tregillis explains just why it’s so important for fiction to catalogue those technological deviations, and why fiction and technology are so inextricably linked. Tregillis joined us today to answer questions about his new novel,…

A Gorgeously Detailed View Of Antarctica’s Churning Ocean Currents

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a highly detailed visualization showing ocean currents and eddies around the frozen Antarctic continent. The high-res simulation, courtesy of the Lab’s MPAS-Ocean Model, includes 90 million grid cells ranging from 6 to 19 miles (10 to 30 km) in horizontal width. Colors are representative of current…

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Is it really Friday? You promise? What a week. Road warriors of Gizmodo, start your engines. Everyone I know is talking about Mad Max: Fury Road with glowing, ecstatic praise that verges on hysterics. My feeds are full of superlatives and people saying they feel the way they did when Raiders of the Lost Ark…

This french fry bun cheeseburger flips my stomach inside out

The end is here. The pinnacle has been reached. Gimmicky hamburger buns no longer need to exist. Stop creating. Because nothing will ever top The Vulgar Chef’s French Fry Burger Bomb because it makes a bun out of french fries, the hamburger’s natural mouth slush and womb co-inhabitant. Instead of taking a bite out of…

Action Heroes We Love: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the greatest special effect of all time. And I know that sentence seems weird. “Darren,” you say, “Arnold is a person, not a special effect.” Is he though? Let me explain. Arnold Schwarzenegger— or Ahnold, Arnie, the Austrian Oak, Governator, or whatever term of endearment you prefer—began as an action hero star…

As the owner of an occasional coprophage (moments after this photo was taken, Lucca lunged out of frame to partake of a heaping pile of cow dung), National Geographic’s explainer on why animals eat other animals’ crap is relevant to my concerns. Perhaps it’s relevant to yours, as well. See also: Contact the author at…

THC-Infused Coffee Pods Are Apparently a Thing Now

Coffee pods generally produce pretty awful coffee. However, a burgeoning number of companies now sell coffee pods that come with a dose of THC! So now these coffee pods produce awful coffee that also gets you high. https://gizmodo.com/stop-buying-coffee-pods-1703073159 Obviously, the home of weed-powered coffee pods is Seattle. One spot is Uncle Ike’s pot shop, where…

No, Pirates Can’t Upgrade To Windows 10 For Free

There’s been a lot of confusion about Windows 10 recently: first Microsoft said it would be a free upgrade. Then, it suggested even pirates could upgrade to genuine versions of Windows. That’s not actually true. Microsoft’s Terry Myerson took to the Windows blog to try and clear things up. Here’s the deal: if Windows can’t…

DC’s Pinup Superhero Statues Are Getting Their Own Comic Book

Well, that’s not something you expect to hear. But yes, DC’s Bombshells — alternate re-imaginings of DC’s cast of female heroes and villains as 1940s pin up sketches that have graced collector shelves as statues and variant comic covers in the past — are teaming up and heading to digital comics. The female-focused series will…