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The 25 Best Movies Disappearing From Netflix Tonight

At the stroke of midnight—or somewhere around then—tonight, while you’re sloppily waving goodbye to 2014, dozens of movies will disappear from Netflix streaming. The good news is, you’ve got plenty of time to get to plow through them before The Great Vanishing. Here’s a list of the very best that won’t make it to 2015.…

Tesla’s Building Robotic Snakes That Emerge From Walls to Charge Cars

Elon Musk just tweeted some pretty exciting news. In the future, Tesla owners won’t have to worry about plugging in their cars. Robot snake arms will do it for them. No, seriously: He added in a follow up tweet, “This can be used with all existing Model S cars, not just futures [sic] ones.” The…

Over-Hyped, Misunderstood, Or Retracted Space Science From This Year

It’s been a good year for science with all sorts of awe-inspiring, beautiful, or weird discoveries. But not every story survived the followup. Here’s the space science stories that fell apart under scrutiny, faded on reconsideration, or didn’t make sense from the start. Image credit: Steffen Richter/Harvard University Gravitational Waves Continue To Elude Detection Image…

A Noir Webcomic About A Bioweapon Unleashed During China’s Civil War

The webcomic Moth City is set in a small Chinese island town that is manufacturing a deadly biological weapon for the Nationalist China army in the 1930s. But when the weapon gets loose, the town’s yankee governor and a Nationalist major fight for the island’s future while its people scramble to stay alive. While the…

There Are No Dangerous Metal Tips With This Unusual Magnetic Darts Game

There’s no denying a round of darts can be tremendously challenging and fun, but it’s definitely not a game for kids, and those pointy-tipped projectiles can really do a number on your walls if you’ve got terrible aim. Kooba promises a slightly safer experience, for children and walls, with darts that use magnets to stick,…

Pedestrian traffic deaths in NYC haven’t been this low since 1910 

1910 was just two years after the first Model T was produced by Ford, and cars were quickly taking over the New York City’s streets. It was also the first year NYC began keeping track of traffic deaths. And now, the number of deaths has dipped below that first year. According to city data released…

Our Best Original Photo and Video Posts of 2014

Gizmodo loves documenting its hi-tech or oddball adventures, and 2014 happened to be a year chock-full of them. Whether we were tagging along with King’s Distillery to turn Coca-Cola into whiskey or journeying deep underground into the 2nd Ave subway tunnel, Gizmodo always had its camera ready. Here are the best original photo and video…

Never Try to Blast Open an ATM in Flip Flops

This past Christmas eve, one industrious young man decided to use the empty streets and twinkling lights to his advantage for a round of some good, old fashioned ATM blasting. It did not go well. According to police, “In relation to sophistication it wasn’t something that was done by somebody who had expertise.” While his…

Brandon Sanderson Explains Why Superhero Books Are So Hard To Get Right

As the proud father of three boys ages seven and under, our household is a goldmine of improvised superhero costumes. Along with the quintessential blanket as a cape, I regularly encounter oven mitts as Hulk fists, boxes (sometimes with eyeholes, sometimes not) as helmets, and cardboard tubes over the hands to imitate stretchy arms. (Or…

Shaun Of The Dead Stage Show Trailer Is Absolutely Adorable

We’re due for a new audience participation stage show that’s a bloody good time. Enter Shaun of the Dead Live! As you can see from this stage play trailer, this adaptation is adorable. And it’s made with the blessing of Simon Pegg! Created by Almost Legal Productions, Shaun of the Dead Live has Queen singsongs,…

FBI: The Sony Hackers Also Targeted CNN (Probably)

According to an official FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept, the same hackers who broke into Sony Pictures and stole a devastating amount of data made threats against an American “news media organization” as well. (It’s probably CNN.) The bulletin also warns that the attacks “may extend to other such organizations in the near future.”…

The 20 Greatest Superlists That io9 Published In 2014

Every weekday, io9 has a list of strange, wonderful or ranty items. These top 10 (or 12, or 20) lists are a way to make our obsessive tendency to collect random stuff into something that can help distract other people. So here are the 20 most popular superlists that io9 published in 2014. Top image:…

Our 14 Most Interesting Stories About Architecture and Cities In 2014

We wrote hundreds upon hundreds of stories about the built world around us this year—ranging from the discovery of how Egypt really built its pyramids, to a tour of the building where NYC’s poop goes. Odds are good you didn’t see every last one, so take a look at the best of the year. Scientists…

An Electromagnet Makes This Iron Man Fly, Not an Arc Reactor

We’re still wrapping our heads around the whole ‘giant-headed figure’ fad, but we can look past the distorted proportions of this Iron Man Mark II because it’s the first Stark figure we’ve found that actually flies. Or floats, at least, thanks to an electromagnetic powered base that doubles as a lovely display stand. The Mark…

This Trove Of Original Star Wars Kenner Toy Photography Is Amazing

For children of the 70’s and 80’s, Kenner’s Star Wars lines are some of the most iconic toys ever made. A lot of what made them so memorable were the Kim David McNeill Simmons’ (and earlier Roy Frankenfield’s) photography which graced every box – and now you can see the High-Res original photos online. Header…

How Much Scarier Than the Original Will the Ghostbusters Reboot Be?

Check out some wild speculation about a major death in Avengers: Age of Ultron. A new clip shows Bruce Willis pontificating in his escaped-android movie Vice. And there’s a breakdown of the differences between the movie and TV show versions of 12 Monkeys. Spoilers now! Top image: Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron…

How to create the illusion of 3D using pencil and paper

A pencil and a paper is all you need to draw these magical anamorphic black holes that will make your brain think that there is a whole different dimension under your table. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Cool photos of iconic weapons cut in half

A collection of cutaways of AK-47, Colt .45, tanks, Russian nuclear submarines, rocket launchers, grenades… a fascinating look into the guts of 12 iconic weapons. Yankee 667M Andromeda: Russian submarine equipped with nuclear missiles. 9k113 Konkurse: Russian anti-tank missile. RPG-18: Russian short-range, disposable light anti-tank rocket launcher. Rheinmetall 35mm Oerlikon AHEAD airburst ammunition. British WWI…

The original Enterprise model from Star Trek is undergoing renovations before being moved to main entrance of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. You can read an interview with the conservator leading the preservation project, Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, at Trek Core.

Dad’s Illustrations Prove His 3-Year-Old Is Brilliant

Look, can any of us honestly say this isn’t how we’d rather spend our time? I could be working or I could be drawing pooping superheroes. Pooping superheroes win! Martin Bruckner’s collected and illustrated a number of gems from his daughter, the now-three Harper Grace, on Spaghetti Toes: Things Said By and To a 2…