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Zurich Installed 4,500 Street Sensors to Count Every Car in the City

Congestion pricing—the implementation of high tolls to keep cars out of congested downtown areas—is one of the most effective ways to reduce traffic and emissions. Zurich’s plan goes above and beyond that, using a network of sensors to track the number of cars that enter its downtown and prevent more cars from entering until congestion…

Alternate Iron Man 3 Storyboards Reveal Happy Hogan Could Have Died

Things don’t turn out so well for Jon Favreau’s character Happy Hogan in this slightly different version of his meeting with an Extremis-powered henchman in Iron Man 3. In fact, the third installment of the Iron Man franchise could have proved fatal to Happy. These storyboards, drawn by Daniel Sweetman, are very similar to the…

Saturn moon looks like a wasp nest and it may freak some people out

Check out this stunningly crispy photo of Saturn moon’s Hyperion—taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Apparently it is inhabited by alien wasps the size of cars or at least it looks like a wasp nest to me. So gross!* New analysis of Cassini’s data reveal that, if there are giant alien wasps, they are producing electrons.…

iMac with Retina Display Eyes-On: It’s Gorgeous, Of Course

The Apple iMac with Retina display looks brilliant. I mean, of course it does: There are just too many freaking pixels here (and too much of Apple’s reputation for excellence) for it to be anything but stellar. https://gizmodo.com/imac-with-retina-display-my-god-its-full-of-pixels-1647138818 If you ask me, it’s pretty jaw-dropping. I stared slack-jawed at the owl in the picture above…

In an unusual move, psychologists have published a paperexplaining that they failed. Specifically, they could not duplicate the results of an earlier experiment on how humans form memories. Many in the scientific community applaud the move, and say there should be more papers about failure to reproduce results.

The iPad Mini 3 Is a Terrible Deal and You Shouldn’t Buy It

The iPad mini 3 is a pretty good small tablet. I know this because it is almost the exact same device as last year’s retina iPad mini, a device that I reviewed and enjoyed. If you’re going to buy an iPad mini, buy that one. It costs $100 less. The only reason to buy an…

Medicom’s new Catwoman figure is in desperate need of a Chiropractor

Medicom’s range of ‘MAFEX’ toys based on the Dark Knight trilogy are well known for their hyper-articulation – but the latest figure in the series looks like the hyper-articulation is doing her no favours. Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman figure was revealed today as part of DC’s latest previews catalogues for comic stores, and whilst the figure…

The Food Crisis Is Coming — Are You Ready for It?

A geography professor who specializes in food security and an artist have teamed up to create one of the most interesting dystopian comics we’ve seen in a while. Welcome to the world of #foodcrisis, set in a famine-plagued future that is all too believable. Evan Fraser works at the University of Guelph in Canada, researching…

A GoPro Takes You Flying Through a Pneumatic Tube System

Once it’s swallowed up by a series of pneumatic tubes, the canister embarks on a dark, shadowy journey unseen by the human eye. But now we have GoPros, and now we can see exactly what the inside of a pneumatic tube system looks like. It’s easy to think of pneumatic tubes as a fussy old,…

A Fully Loaded iMac With Retina Will Cost You $4,400

Thinking of buying a pretty new iMac with Retina display? That’ll cost you. Thinking of buying the most tricked out, pumped up new iMac with Retina display that you possibly can. That’ll really cost you—$4,400 to be exact. That’s a lot of money, but it’s really not that bad. It’s definitely not as bad as…

How to Make A Genre Show, Part 3 – Writing the Script

I’m a former Syfy exec who left the network to make a new TV show call Z Nation that airs Fridays at 10/9c on Syfy and Space Channel. I’m a co-creator/writer/co-executive producer on the series and thought it’d be interesting to share with fans how the series got made from conception to air: In the…

iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 Hands-On: One Of These Tablets Feels Awesome

Say hello to the iPad Air 2, the Apple tablet that’s thinner than a pencil shaved down to size by a laser. I just held one at Apple’s event, and I have to say: oh gosh is it thin and light and gorgeous. Enough so, in fact, to completely overshadow the new iPad mini. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-air-2-everything-you-need-to-know-1647091065…

Flashbacks Are Confirmed For Game Of Thrones Season 5

We suspected it, but showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have finally confirmed that flashbacks to the past of Westeros will be a part of the show’s fifth season. The duo ‘fessed up during a Q&A in Spain, where they’re filming the upcoming season’s Dorne scenes. Courtesy of the site Los Siete Reinos, the duo…

​Why Dogs Howl

We like to joke that no one will ever dare break into our house. Wiley, our dog, sits on the front porch and howls about ten times a day, loud enough that you can easily hear it up to six blocks away. But why does he do it? Why do dogs howl? Wiley’s been a…

This Glass Sculpture Is Like Watching Beautiful CGI in Real Life

“Emulsifier” is a captivating anamorphic sculpture created by Thomas Medicus. The Innsbrook-based artist hand painted 160 strips of glass and arranged them on a rotating base. As the sculpture turns, the painted rods align to reveal one of four transient motifs. More fun with anamorphosis here and here. https://gizmodo.com/this-anamorphic-optical-illusion-is-the-most-mind-bendi-5964614 https://gizmodo.com/these-large-scale-anamorphic-illusions-are-absolutely-s-458286472 [Thomas Medicus via Colossal]

This is what happens when you mix bowling and crazy British black humor

This music video—by UK-based director Sam Pilling—takes us to the most bizarre bowling tournament I’ve seen in my life. It doesn’t say how the rules actually work, but it seems like the official ball has to be a severed human head. Don’t worry, there is nothing gore here, just some British dark humor at its…

Here’s What This Quadcopter Did After Losing Contact With Its Operator

Some quadcopters have this cool feature where upon losing contact with its operator they go into an automated Return To Home mode. But as this tragically comic video by Every Angle Films shows, the feature isn’t always helpful — especially when a pesky mountain gets in the way. The team from EAF shot about a…

The Mac Mini Is Back with Speedy New Guts

It’s been a long time, but the Mac Mini just got an update. It now has Intel’s Haswell processor which brings more computing power, better integrated graphics, and improved power efficiency. And now it starts at just $500. The new Mac Mini starts shipping today, but it has one more feature aside from the new…

iMac With Retina 5K Display: My God, It’s Full of Pixels

The new iMac with Retina display will make your desktop radiate in high-resolution glory. This is the most amazing iMac Apple has ever made. The new iMac with Retina display has a 14.7 million pixels on a 27-inch display in 5210 x 2880. They’re calling it a Retina 5K Display. That’s way more pixels than…

The iPad Mini 3 Is Just the iPad Mini 2 With Touch ID

Last year’s update turned the iPad Mini into the tablet we deserved. And this time around they’ve given us—er, pretty much the exact same thing as last year. But hey—Touch ID! And goldpagne. Don’t forget goldpagne. Design It’s official—goldpagne has finally come to iPad land. But besides taking its color cues directly from the new…