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The Story Behind the Brooklyn Bridge’s Most Famous Photo

You know that ubiquitous photo of workers hanging off the Brooklyn Bridge’s wires? The one plastered on every coffee cup, poster, and pint glass sold in NYC? It wasn’t always so famous. In fact, its photographer was completely unknown until the late 1990s. The formal name of the photo is Brooklyn Bridge showing painters on…

Amazon’s Fire TV just got some new apps and games, most notably good-Amazon-Prime-Music-alternative Spotify, and season two of Telltale’s fantastic Walking Dead game series.

Seek Thermal Review: Cheaper Predator Vision For Your Smartphone

What’s better than having a thermal camera capable of finding the freshest cinnamon buns — among other prey? The FLIR ONE accessory gave iPhones Predator-like thermal vision which turned out to be as awesome as it sounds, and now a company called Seek Thermal is promising the same with an iOS and Android-friendly smartphone accessory…

This Powerful New Microscope Will Transform The Way We See Biology

Just weeks after winning a Nobel Prize for his work in microscopy, Eric Betzig has done it again. He and his colleagues have developed a revolutionary new microscopy technique that allows scientists to observe living cellular processes at unprecedented speed and resolution. https://gizmodo.com/the-2014-nobel-prize-for-chemistry-has-been-awarded-for-1643908437 It’s called lattice sheet microscopy, a new imaging platform developed at the…

This Tiny Pocket Drone Flies For Two Hours With a Thin Wire Tether

Living in a mostly wireless world is a fantastic experience: were it not for constant connectivity issues, competing wireless protocols, limited ranges, and terrible battery life. That last issue is of particular concern for tiny reconnaissance drones like this hexcopter from Cyphy that work best when remaining aloft for hours. So its creators decided to…

Welcome, GIFs! Here Is Your Party.

Drop on by and stay awhile, GIFs. We’re having a party. What have you been up to this week? Do you have news to tell? Updates to share? Plans to unfold? And just what combination of GIFs will you choose to express it all? That (and more!) all awaits below, in your party.

Man, the Original Star Wars Trilogy Was a Bloodbath

When I think back on watching Star Wars as a kid, I remember it as a pretty tame. After all, those stormtroopers had terrible aim. Turns out that maybe I’m misremembering. That original trilogy was kind of a bloodbath, and this supercut from Digg turns it into a tidy little 3-minute snuff film. Aside from…

“Kung Fu” Stegosaurus Had Deadly Fighting Moves

Stegosaurus are often portrayed as lumbering plant eaters. But they were lethal fighters when necessary, according to paleontologists who recently uncovered evidence of a carnivorous Allosaurus who was mortally wounded in combat, 147 million years ago. The wound — in the conical shape of a Stegosaurus tail spike — would have required great dexterity to…

A Hacked Lamp Turns Multiple Mobile Devices Into a Single Giant Display

How many mobile devices do you carry with you on a daily basis? A couple of smartphones, and maybe a tablet? When you get to work that makes for quite a few displays floating around, and researchers at MIT have come up with software that can let them all function as one giant touchscreen, no…

Mystery Archival CERN Photos Are Fascinating Glimpses of Past Science

https://gizmodo.com/can-you-help-cern-identify-whats-happening-in-these-arc-1650207259

Two Of the Greatest Movies Of All Time On One Fantastic T-Shirt

Do you know what’s better than dinosaurs and toys? Nothing. It’s why the Dinobots were the best thing to come out of the Transformers toy line, and why this wonderful Toy Story meets Jurassic Park t-shirt is the only thing we want in our wardrobe. Seriously, goodbye dress shirts, goodbye sweaters, just give us seven…

Google’s Launching a Special Store Just for Project Ara Hardware

Everybody’s favorite modular phone project, Google’s Ara, is about to get little bit more interesting. Recently, the company quietly announced that it would be launching a hardware store for developers to sell their own Ara components. It’ll be a little bit like the Play Store, except with hot-swappable hardware instead of apps. This app store…

Dolores Umbridge Returns In A New Harry Potter Halloween Story

Looks like J.K. Rowling is planning on giving everyone a treat this Halloween. The author has announced on Pottermore.com that she will release a new short story that will detail the life of everyone’s least favorite Hogwarts teacher, Dolores Umbridge. Given how many Hogwarts teachers were outright servants of Voldemort, that’s saying something. According to…

The gorgeous alphabet of Alex Persani

I’m a sucker for good typography and lettering and when I saw this gorgeous and playful alphabet by French designer Alex Persani, my jaw dropped. Alex Persani is a graphic designer and art director based in Paris, France. You can follow him on Facebook, Twitter or check his work on Behance. This is part of…

How Close Are We to a Quicksilver Film? And More Age of Ultron Details!

James Spader explains why Ultron’s humor is what attracted him to the part. Ridley Scott’s The Martian is attracting the best cast we’ve seen in a while. Adam McKay’s itching to return to the Marvel universe. Check out a FitzSimmons-heavy Agents of SHIELD clip. Plus possible details about Universal’s new Mummy film. Spoilers now! Top…

Fight for the Inquisition in style with this Dragon Age armor Hoodie

The idea of armoring up a hoodie isn’t a new one by any means, but Bioware’s latest women’s hoodie turns to the world of Thedas for inspiration – and by the Maker, it’s pretty neat. https://gizmodo.com/the-perfect-hoodie-for-your-next-attempt-to-take-the-ir-5932061 The hoodie adapts the armor worn by Cassandra Pentaghast (a female sword and board tank, instantly ensuring that she…

The 5 Coolest New Parks and Public Spaces In the U.S.

Urban Land Institute has announced its Open Space Awards, celebrating five exceptional new parks and public spaces across the U.S. But what’s even more exciting is what these green spaces replaced: A freeway, a mall, a truck-loading facility, a rail yard, and a cemetery. The criteria for ULI’s Open Space Awards are not just aesthetic…

The Queen Just Sent Her First Tweet

Pray silence…for the Queen’s first tweet. 88-year old Elizabeth II sent a message from the royal @BritishMonarchy account this morning to mark the grand opening of the Science Museum’s new Information Age Gallery. Bless. This post originally appeared on Gizmodo UK, which is gobbling up the news in a different timezone.

I.Q. 83, Arthur Herzog’s Ode to the Stupidity Plague, Will Be a Movie

It’s taken 20 years to finally get some steam, but Charlie Kaufman’s been hired to do an entirely new draft and the plan is for Steve Carell to star. And you have to admit: Carell can totally pull off a man becoming progressively less intelligent. Andrew Lazar first brought the project to DreamWorks 20 years…

These stunning trailers for an animation short left me craving for more

I really like these two trailers from Tant de Forêts—a short film by France-based directors Burcu Sankur and Geoffrey Godet. The animation starts simple and colorful but all of a sudden, that happy world turns dark and intriguing. Enough to leave me craving to watch the entire thing. The film is based on an homonymous…