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Electric Shock Study Shows We’d Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Strangers

How much money would you pay to prevent a complete stranger from being administered an electric shock? And how would that compare to what you’d give up to prevent your own pain? A fascinating new experiment suggests we may be more altruistic than we think. When it comes to experiments involving electric shocks and moral…

How to (easily) become a Lego VIP and get some free cool stuff

Last Saturday I went to an official Lego store one hour before the doors opened to the public. I got a lot of free cool stuff. I got to roam the store in peace to check out special holiday offers before anyone else in the planet. How? I’m just a normal Lego fan—with a Lego…

This iOS Keyboard Finally Lets You Draw Your Own Texts

GIF keyboards. Typo-busting keyboards. Even just Swype. App developers have been going wild since iOS 8 finally gave us the ability to install third party keyboards, but this might be the most fun: It’s called DrawType, and it lets you sketch responses right in your texts. For .99 cents, DrawType gives you access to a…

Google Searches Now Come With Interactive Gadget Porn

We spend a lot of time on our tablets and smartphones. You probably also spend a lot of time thinking about buying new ones. You know it. I know it. And of course, Google knows it. That’s why they’re augmenting your gadget searches with 3D renders of the stuff you’re lusting over. When you use…

Why Do We Force Weather Forecasters to Lie to Us?

Ever hear of “wet bias”? It’s the tendency of forecasters to over-estimate our chances of feeling the wrath of the weather gods. Why do they do it? Basically, we force them to. Ever notice that when the local weather channel predicts a 15% chance of rain, you can plan on there being, essentially, no chance…

The Weirdest Things You Never Knew About Star Trek Season 2

No matter how much you already know about the original Star Trek, there’s still undiscovered territory out there. And just like with season one, the new book series These Are The Voyages by Marc Cushman uncovers loads of surprising secrets. Here are a dozen things you probably never knew about Star Trek’s second season. Season…

Alienware Says Alpha Is Still in Alpha

The Alienware Alpha is smaller and more powerful than an Xbox One or PS4, but the $549 Windows-powered game console shipped a little half-baked. Not to worry, says Alienware: updates are on the way! “We’re in the alpha phase of Alpha,” admits the company. https://gizmodo.com/alienware-alpha-review-close-but-no-game-console-1662525995 When I confronted Alienware Alpha product boss Marc Diana about…

X-Men: Apocalypse Has Found Its Titular Villain

The third installment of the trilogy begun in X-Men: First Class has found its Apocalypse — it’s Oscar Isaac, who’s just finished filming another possibly villainous role in Star Wars: Episode VII. Clearly, Isaac is pretty good at being bad. Apoclaypse is of course also known asEn Sabah Nur, the blue-lipped, 5,000-year-old mutant who is…

After The Sun Incinerates Earth, Life Could Evolve On Titan

In about 4 billion years, our sun will become a red giant star, engulfing the inner planets and basking the outer planets in its ebbing heat. When the happens, according to a NASA scientist, Saturn’s moon Titan, which resembles a frozen version of Earth billions of years ago, could evolve its own indigenous life. In…

The Biggest Airlines, Ranked By Thanksgiving Delays

Holiday travel is hell. Combine early winter weather with hoards of angry passengers rushing for their childhood twin beds, and delays are pretty much a given. So how long will you yourself get to spend sightseeing around a crowded airport terminal? Depends on who you fly. Since not all airlines are created equal, we’ve averaged…

Why James Gunn Is Right About Shared Universes

We’re living in the age of the Shared Universe – more and more studios want a snifter of Marvel’s money, and we’re due for even more Cinematic Universes in our moviegoing future. But over the weekend James Gunn raised an excellent point on Facebook that really highlights the potentially ruinous flaw in this new boom.…

Behold The Real-Life Goosebumps Monsters For The Insane Goosebumps Film

The Goosebumps movie stars Jack Black as real-life Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. Apparently, Stine’s books were also magical prisons that keep his monsters out of the real world. Ha! Take a look at the classic monsters from the series that have been recreated for the film. The Goosebumps movie released a meme maker or something,…

Holy Crap! It’s a Gold Spider! But Why?

Here’s a picture that’s beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. It’s a spider coated in a very fine layer of gold. We’ll tell you why people have made this gorgeous monstrosity, and what happens next. This is actually a preparatory step to creating an even more incredible image. This spider, put on display as it…

This Cheap Little Circuit Could Double Data Speed on Your Next Phone

Wireless technology is already amazing. It’s any data you could ever want through the air. But some exciting innovations are hiding on the horizon. This cheap little circuit that allows a wireless antenna to send and receive data at the same time is one of them. It stands to double the rate at which your…

Constantine Should Team Up With Papa Midnite More Often

We had a glimmer of a more interesting, more bastardly John Constantine last week, but this week, it was his rival Papa Midnite who got to be the morally complex character. There is something fun about watching these two characters work together to solve a supernatural problem and insult each other all the way. Even…

Confirmed: Batman And Superman Are Off-Limits For Arrow And The Flash

It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but The Flash and Arrow producer Andrew Kreisberg has confirmed that the Emerald Archer and the Scarlet Speedster won’t be stopping by Gotham City or Metropolis anytime soon. Just like the Smallville TV series wasn’t allowed to incorporate Batman or Wonder Woman, but had full access to the…

The 3 newest crew members have gotten safely aboard the ISS — and, as is traditional, that new crew came bearing some gifts, including some New Year’s caviar, and the very first space-compliant espresso machine. In other news, your housewarming gift idea of a potted plant is officially unimpressive.

How a Typo May Have Turned a Drum of Radioactive Waste Into a Bomb

In February, a drum of radioactive waste exploded at U.S.’s only underground nuclear waste repository. The Santa Fe New Mexican has released a bombshell report on the comedy of errors, which seems to have all started with a typo specifying the wrong type of kitty litter. Yup. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad,…

Computers Wrote the Caption for This Photograph, and Changed Everything

Computers at Google now have a machine-learning system that can analyze images like the one above and generate captions for them. The phrase used to caption this image? “A person riding a motorcycle on a dirt road.” It might not seem like much, but it’s actually one hell of an accomplishment. First, let’s get you…

3D-Printed Toy Parts Will Finally Make Kids Love Fruits and Vegetables

Did you know that originally Mr. Potato Head was just a box full of random body parts that kids were supposed to jab into actual potatoes? It sounds like a crazy idea, but Mr. Potato Head went on to become an incredibly popular and iconic toy—and we can only assume the creators of these Open…