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This Robot Performs Less Intrusive Brain Surgery Through Your Cheek

The thought of a robot burrowing its way through your cheek to access your brain certainly sounds unsettling. But for conditions that require access to areas like the hippocampus located on the underside, it’s actually far less invasive than cutting open the skull on top and having to drill through the entire brain to reach…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Is What Happens in Slow-Mo When You Shoot Liquid Drops With Lasers

Lasers? Fun. Slow motion? Beautiful. Shooting things with lasers and recording what happens in slow motion? That’ll be what happens in this beautiful video. The headline may sound like it over-promsies but actually it… doesn’t, really. This video shows how shooting small droplets of liquid with incredibly short laser pulses can create all kinds of…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

One of Saturn’s Moons Could Have a Subterranean Sea

NASA scientists have been taking a closer look at Saturn’s moon Mimas thanks to Cassini’s roving eyes, and they’ve made an interesting discovery: it could have an ocean of water beneath its surface. The researchers have noticed that the moon has a more pronounced wobble than they thought as it orbits Saturn. Comparing the observed…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

These Pumpkin Decorations Scare the Crap Out of Me

LOOK INTO THE EYES OF SPIDER-PUMPKIN AND DESPAIR. This happened to me while I was browsing the Target website for some Halloween decorations. So I obviously googled for more of these unholy spawn of a Jack-O’-Lantern and Mrs. Potato Head, and there are just too many. But there’s something about the Hulk‘s chestplate and no…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Human stupidity gone viral makes for brilliant organ donor ads

Belgium-based ad agency Duval-Guillaume has a new clever campaign using human life-risking stupidity gone viral to raise awareness about organ donation. I can imagine the concept working perfectly with those daredevil videos we sometimes post in Sploid. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Twitter: Inserting Strangers’ Tweets Into Your Timeline Is Now a Feature

Twitter has published a blog post explaining that recommended tweets are no longer a test—they’re here to stay in your timeline. The social network has been injecting the tweets from people you don’t follow into your feed for a while now. But the news confirms that this is no longer just an experiment, it’s a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Android is Getting StreetPass-Style Local Multiplayer Ability

Asynchronous multiplayer gaming is all the rage these days. Whether it’s taking on your pal’s ghost-car times in Forza, or the more-interesting “ambient” multiplayer of the Nintendo 3DS’s StreetPass system (letting you progress in games and trade items merely by being in proximity to someone who also has one of Nintendo’s handhelds), the idea that…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Concept Art Reveals the Sleeker Rhino Amazing Spider-Man 2 Could’ve Had

Amazing Spider-Man 2 introducer Paul Giamatti’s Rhino with the promise of seeing him more in Sinister Six/Amazing Spider-Man 2. In that iteration, his armor was a giant one-man-tank thing, put together out of surplus Cold War military gear. But earlier versions of the character, revealed in this concept art by Steffen Reichstadt, hews closer to…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

This Is How Christian Bale as Steve Jobs Could Turn Out

The rumor mill is pretty certain that Christian Bale will be playing Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin’s new Apple movie. This is the direction in which Conan thinks the former Batman will take the role. https://gizmodo.com/report-christian-bale-will-play-steve-jobs-1646903670 When you think about it, a Steve Jobs movie is quite a lot like a superhero movie: lots of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Cathedral Is Filled With Smartphone-Powered Laser Beams

Step into France’s Saint-Eustache cathedral, and—unlike most places of worship—you won’t be asked to turn your cellphone off. Instead, you’ll be told to send a text message to the building, which is then converted into part of a laser show. Called Shooting Thoughts, the installation byFilipe Vilas-Boas uses test messages to trigger mapped laser beams.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Man spends two years building amazing megacity in Minecraft

This is madness. What you are looking at is not a screenshot of Simcity. It is a megalopolis made entirely in Minecraft using 4.5 million blocks over the course of two years on an Xbox 360 (!) Its name is Titan City and yes, it’s completely insane, especially when you get up close: The city…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The iPhone 6 Finally Made It to China

It’s taken Apple a little while to take its latest phone to China. But, as a Wall Street Journal correspondent points out, now it’s there, reaction to its arrival seems to be “decidedly low-key.” Just 100 or so fanboys waited in line outside the Beijing Apple store this morning, ready to pick up their pre-ordered…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Meet the Artist Who Invents the Machines of Steampunkish Fairies

Samantha Bryan first started making fairies because of a project assigned to her at school. Eventually. she became curious about the the everyday life of her fairies, incorporating research into Victorian inventions into that idea. The result are these decidedly less sparkling and ephemeral fairies. http://vimeo.com/channels/staff… The film above comes from R&A Collaborations, and reveals…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Firefox Hello Does Account-Free Video Chat

Parent-calling-avoiders of the world have never had it worse: Skype, Hangouts and FaceTime are all stellar and free programs that mean that you’ve got basically no reason for ignoring forgetting your parents’ wedding anniversary. But Firefox wants to add to that list, with a video-calling client that doesn’t even need an account. Firefox Hello is…

Tech News Chris Mills

A Bicycle Pulley System Is A Surprisingly Practical Storage Solution

Ever since I moved into my apartment, I’ve been trying to convince my roommates that what we need is a pulley system to pull our bikes up onto the balcony. And ever since we moved in, my roommates have been telling me that it’s a terrible idea that will unquestionably end with someone being mutilated…

Tech News Chris Mills

Did Ghost In the Shell Swap Out a Suicide Squad Member For an Avenger?

Buried in an article on Warner Bros.’ casting choices for their Suicide Squad movie is the news that DreamWorks has reportedly gone after Scarlett Johansson to star in their live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. Originally, The Wolf of Wall Street’s Margot Robbie was in talks to star in the film. Those talks apparently…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Nexus 9 Scores Better Than 2012 Mac Pro In One Benchmark

The Nexus 9 won’t officially ship until November 3rd, but that hasn’t stopped one sneaking onto the official Geekbench rankings. With its ridiculous-sounding dual-64-bit CPU, it was always destined to be fast; but according to this, it’s on par with a professional-level Mac Pro from a couple years ago in at least one minor way.…

Tech News Chris Mills

The destructive low-cost precision of the Excalibur artillery shell

“Raytheon is testing a new laser-guided 155mm artillery shell which adds laser-designation to GPS guidance in order to provide more targeting options and better pinpoint targets on-the-move,” reports DoD Buzz. It’s called the Excalibur S. Unlike expensive missiles, which require sophisticated avionics and propulsion systems, this is a comparatively cheap artillery shell which, instead of…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Lego haunted house is spoooooky!

Halloween is coming up and the halls of Lego builders are starting to throw up MOCs based on this frightful holiday. This build by Travis (Legohaulic) is one of my favorites. This diorama is a little bit campy and a little bit creepy, just how I like them. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with…

Tech News Michael Schulte

Scientists Find Way To Reuse Cigarette Ash As A Water Filter

Among the long, long list of reasons why we shouldn’t smoke lies cigarette ash: it’s a fairly unsavory chemical cocktail that also happens to be a major eyesore around any popular smoking spot. But thanks to a team of chemists, we could use that same cocktail of horrific chemical to make water clean. Go science!…

Tech News Chris Mills

This Robot Performs Less Intrusive Brain Surgery Through Your Cheek

This Is What Happens in Slow-Mo When You Shoot Liquid Drops With Lasers

One of Saturn’s Moons Could Have a Subterranean Sea

These Pumpkin Decorations Scare the Crap Out of Me

Human stupidity gone viral makes for brilliant organ donor ads

Twitter: Inserting Strangers’ Tweets Into Your Timeline Is Now a Feature

Android is Getting StreetPass-Style Local Multiplayer Ability

Concept Art Reveals the Sleeker Rhino Amazing Spider-Man 2 Could’ve Had

This Is How Christian Bale as Steve Jobs Could Turn Out

This Cathedral Is Filled With Smartphone-Powered Laser Beams

Man spends two years building amazing megacity in Minecraft

The iPhone 6 Finally Made It to China

Meet the Artist Who Invents the Machines of Steampunkish Fairies

Firefox Hello Does Account-Free Video Chat

A Bicycle Pulley System Is A Surprisingly Practical Storage Solution

Did Ghost In the Shell Swap Out a Suicide Squad Member For an Avenger?

Nexus 9 Scores Better Than 2012 Mac Pro In One Benchmark

The destructive low-cost precision of the Excalibur artillery shell

This Lego haunted house is spoooooky!

Scientists Find Way To Reuse Cigarette Ash As A Water Filter

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