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My Goodness, These Book of Life Clips Are Gorgeous

There is absolutely no doubt in our minds that Jorge R. Gutierrez’s animated movie Book Of Life will be stunning. The images and trailer alone have given us so much to look forward to, and now there are clips—gorgeous, cheeky clips of the wonderful world of the dead. Take a look. https://gizmodo.com/the-book-of-life-trailer-is-so-beautiful-it-will-give-y-1583328068

Here’s What Wonder Woman’s Origin In Batman V. Superman Will Be

BvS producer Charles Roven accidentally revealed the origin of the new DC cinematic universe’s Wonder Woman. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but just in case some folks consider it a spoiler for Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, I’ll put it after the jump. The movie Wonder Woman will very unsurprisingly…

Epic 26-year road trip is a great love story with a heartbreaking ending

Gunther Holtorf spent the last 26 years on a road trip around the globe with Christine, a total stranger who met him in Africa after he published ad asking for a companion in a German magazine. His journey includes 177 countries, 549,000 miles (884,000 kilometers) and loads of pictures taken from his old Leica. According…

Ryobi’s New Accessories Turn Your Smartphone Into a Toolbox

It may never be able to slice through a two-by-four or mix cement, but your smartphone can still be a useful tool on a construction site with Ryobi’s new Phone Works accessories, which grant your device new capabilities while taking advantage of its large display. The collection includes eight accessories in all that are designed…

You can ogle, and maybe buy, some of these amazing Movie props this week

Holy crap. The Prop store are holding an auction in London this Thursday on over 300 movie props – and there’s a lot to love. Ripley’s Flamethrower? Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator 2 outfit? Leeloo’s Braces? A Death Star Turbolaser!? SOMEBODY HIDE MY WALLET BEFORE I DO SOMETHING REALLY STUPID. We’ve mentioned the Prop Store on Toybox…

The Hindenburg Wasn’t The First Experimental Airship To Explode

We think we got the first hydrogen-based airship disaster caught on tape. In fact, the first horrific explosion of an airship came over a century before the Hindenburg, and it combined a military test ship disaster with a tragic love story. The First Airships Air balloons are now the stuff of festivals and the eccentric…

Skype’s New Group Video Messaging App Takes a Late Cue from Snapchat

Skype Qik is a solid video messaging app that’d be a guaranteed hit if Skype could go back in time and release it a few years ago. Skype Qik lets you take 42-second videos and send them to friends off your contact list, creating an impromptu video message relay that disappears after two weeks. There…

This Moderately Immoral Study Shows How We Misidentify Our Emotions

In today’s experiments, one of the most common tricks that experimental psychologists play is giving people placebos instead of drugs. In the past, it was pretty much the reverse. Doctors would call people in, tell them they’d get an innocuous substance, and then inject them with something a thousand times more powerful. https://gizmodo.com/bramitol-the-fictional-drug-that-still-turns-people-in-1641445929 In 1962,…

What Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady might have looked like in the TMNT film

Although this year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie only dealt with Shredder, it looks like some point a plethora of villains from the Turtles past were going to show up – including the loveably goofy henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady from the TMNT cartoon! UPDATE: Images removed at the request of Aaron Sims Co. This concept…

August Smart Lock Review: A Great Lock that Moves With You

Smart locks, along with intelligent lights, are the standard bearers for today’s home automation movement with some of the biggest names in security—looking at you Schlage and Kwikset — offering internet-connected locks. But a San Francisco-based upstart may have just beaten these industry titans at their own game. [Update 2/13/15: While one Gizmodo writer loved…

It’s Marvel Vs. Game Of Thrones On io9’s Halloween Costume Show!

It’s only week one of io9’s Halloween costume show, and already the competition is fierce. Will it be paper-maché Groot, a pitch-perfect take on the Hound, an Iron Man made of repurposed auto body repair parts, or someone else entirely to run away with the title of this week’s favorite? Check out some of the…

Is This Concept Art From The Teenage Mutant Ninja Alien-Turtle Movie?!

Artist Tsvetomir Georgiev just released a bevy of unused villain concept art for the Michael Bay-produced TMNT movie, seemingly back from the first draft when the Turtles were going to be aliens. Which means this may be the first look at “Schrader,” the soldier-Shredder William Fichter was supposed to play. Supposedly the early draft of…

12 Awesome Star Wars Posters, From Collector’s Items to Concept Art

The franchise needs no introduction now, but a long time ago in this very galaxy, even Star Wars had to entice an audience into the theater. A new book called Star Wars Art: Posters collects some of the most iconic—and stylistically diverse—broadsides from A New Hope through Revenge of the Sith, plus a bit of…

Good morning, Shanghai

This beautiful time-lapse takes us to a tour of Shanghai, one of the most futuristic looking cities in the world. After watching the video, Shanghai climbed to the top of my list of cities to visit before I turn 40. This is part of a series in which we are featuring beautiful time-lapses of cities…

What’s The Fate of The Walking Dead‘s New Villain?

More Star Wars concept art sheds light on another possible character. A producer explains how Ben Affleck’s Batman differs from all the rest. J. Michael Straczynski promises to change the face of television with Sense8. And another Gotham Easter egg is revealed! Spoilers now! Top image: Walking Dead Star Wars Welcome back to the land…

Smartwatches Fulfill Their True Destiny With a Game Boy Emulator

Google and Apple can pitch them as productivity tools all they want, but the real reason anyone would strap a smartwatch to their wrist is as a more covert way to kill time and avoid boredom. So it’s good to know that when your Twitter and Facebook feeds run dry, you can always boot up…

How the T-Shirt Was Invented

The t-shirt is arguably the most popular outer garment in the entire world. Coming in a range of styles, colors and sizes there is quite literally a t-shirt for everyone. But where did this iconic garment come from and how did it become so popular? Relatively speaking, the t-shirt is a fairly new addition to…

They are impressive puzzle-solvers, have seemingly distinct personalities, use tools — and they are also food. Over at The New Yorker, they’re taking a deep dive on whether the high (if alien) intelligence of octopuses makes their continued presence on our menus a troubling proposition.

A Windows Flaw Let Russian Hackers Spy on NATO, EU and More

Reuters is reporting that Russian hackers were able to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union and the Ukraine, as well as private companies, thanks to a security flaw in Windows. Security firm iSight Partners claims that Russian hackers have been attempting to gain information relating to the Ukraine crisis. However, in August…

Guy transforms big chunk of wood into a salad bowl in hypnotizing video

It could be that piece of wood spinning endlessly or the fact that it’s hard to take your eyes off someone doing his job so skillfully, I don’t know. But watching David Earle turning a big piece of elm wood into a perfect salad bowl is truly an hypnotizing experience. SPLOID is a new blog…