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This Kid Took Apart a Microwave to Create an Insane (and Stupid) Weapon

So don’t take a microwave apart. Don’t. Take. A microwave. Apart. Don’t do it. Don’t! But if you were curious about what would happen if you did, these idiots have you covered. It’s as awesome as it is stupid! It is very awesome and very stupid. According to Kreosan, the crazy microwave-stick’s creators (and Darwin…

The Onion Profiles a New Kindle That Brags About Your Taste in Books

Bookworms who’ve balked at upgrading to an e-reader have a long list of reasons why they won’t give up their paper copies. But there’s only one real reason why anyone would carry around a book anymore: It lets them show off what they’re reading in public. And as The Onion reveals, that’s what led Amazon…

What is climate change doing to our food supply? The datasets you need to answer that question are now all publicly available at the government’s new Food Resilience data website, which has everything from food desert mapping tools, data from the last ag census, crop prediction models, and more.

A Winged Cat Helps Explain The Principle Of Evolutionary Trade-Offs

You can’t have it all. It’s a cliché, but it’s also a powerful principle in biology. Now, a set of new computer models reveal how evolutionary compromises (“trade-offs”) drive the diversity of life. “Biologists have long known that when species compete for limited resources such as food, they are pressured to diversify,” explains Chris Adami,…

6 F@nTa$ti) Photos of Glitch Art

GL II I I I I TCH. Sometimes a glitch is a catastrophe, yes, but sometimes these mistakes are beautiful. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you explored the photographic celebrations of the glitch. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-glitch-art-1605738665 The Sky Is Broken This Morning I’m not sure which is worse — waking up one morning and discovering that sky…

The Game-Changing Discovery of Synthetic Urine

Urine doesn’t look particularly spectacular when it’s sprinkled over a toilet seat, but in the 19th century, it was proof that organic life was truly special. Until a scientist came along and destroyed everyone’s pee-based delusions of grandeur. Every day you are flushing away gold. Urea, a common ingredient in urine, has a thousand and…

Watch the Surprisingly Creepy Process of Making Blood Red Paper

You’ve got your remote cabins in the woods; your freaky laboratories; your Saw-like cellars; but the best setting for a horror movie just might be a 130-year-old paper manufacturing plant in London. This short vid shows a shadowed, moody take on how G. F. Smith produces sheets in a single hue in its Colorplan line.…

The Queen Of The Greek Gods Seeks Therapy, With Uma Thurman As Hera

Uma Thurman stars as Hera in this short film about the Greek gods living out mundane lives in the modern world. Things turn around for the Queen of Olympus when she decides to see a therapist. Henco J wrote and directred Mundane Goddess as part of Jameson First Shot, which gives filmmakers a chance to…

​Performance Food: Bison Liver Pate

Want a pre-workout snack that gives you a visceral energy boost and is packed full of protein, vitamins, minerals and healthy fats? It might sound fancy, but Bison Liver Pate is cheap and easy to make. And damn good. I guess the first thing you need to understand about this recipe is the whole high…

9 Well-Meaning Public Health Policies That Went Terribly Wrong

Public health policies can be near-miraculous things. They destroyed polio, and gave us all clean drinking water and strong teeth. But there are occasions when public health policies, when combined with human nature, go terribly wrong. Here are nine of the biggest disasters that resulted. Photo by Michael Theis 9. Warning That Anti-Depressants May Lead…

A Robovac That Watches the Ceiling To Keep Track of Where It’s Cleaned

In the robot world, vacuums don’t rank very high on the intelligence scale. They’re usually programmed to aimlessly wander around and clean until they run out of power, and hopefully by that point they’ve randomly hit every inch of your floors. With the Scout RX1, Miele takes a better approach by using a camera pointed…

Deals: Tiny-but-Powerful Speaker, LG G3, Gaming Gear, Hunger Games

The Ultimate Ears MINI BOOM offers shockingly robust sound in a tiny, tastefully-designed package. This model took home the Wirecutter’s pick for best portable speaker, and Amazon is currently selling it for the lowest price they’ve ever offered. [Ultimate Ears Mini Boom, $79] The LG G3 is the new king of the Android hill ,…

Deals: Ghostbusters Remastered in 4K, The Hunger Games for $2, Pacific Rim

Ghostbusters fans of varying degrees have two options for getting these classics remastered in 4K. preorder Ghostbusters 1 & II 4K Remaster ($20) | Amazon preorder Ghostbusters 1 & II 4K Remaster Limited Edition Gift Set with Slimer Figurine ($100) | Family Video | Use code SHIPFREE If you’ve never actually managed to read The…

Fighter jet pilot takes badass selfie worthy of a sci-fi nightmare

Cool selfie of an Eurofighter Typhoon jet fighter pilot looking all badass and futuristic, like snapshot from some future Halo game cutscene. I wish I had the high resolution to print this out on a large fine metal paper. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

These Incredible Clocks Were Built By a Single Designer Over 35 Years

In the 1980s, as giant technology companies competed to create electronics that arrived in the most compact, grey boxes possible, a young designer named Daniel Weil was doing the exact opposite: Eviscerating the electronic guts of gadgets, from radios to clocks, exposing them to the consumer the most elegant way imaginable. And 35 years later,…

What Would An Eclipse Look Like From Right Next To The Sun?

Just what does a solar observatory in orbit see when the moon moves right between it and the sun? These pictures of a partial eclipse of the sun, from way, way up close, answer that question. Images: NASA / SDO It’s called a lunar transit, and it happens when the moon overlaps, but doesn’t completely…

Cocoa farmers trying chocolate for the first time is a must watch

You would think that chocolate is universal. Something that is everywhere, that everyone can enjoy. It’s not. There are people who have never tried it, even the farmers who break their backs to harvest cocoa beans for a few cents in the Ivory Coast. Watch their faces light up when they eat it for the…

Get Lost In A Brand-New Trailer For The Maze Runner

Get it? Maze? Get lost? Oh, fine. This second trailer for the movie based on the best-selling post-apocalyptic YA novels reveals a bit more about the mysterious world of the maze, more of lead character Thomas’ interactions with his fellow lost boys (including Jojen Reed), and a few more of the maze’s secrets. I mean,…

Why Russia Was Studying Space Lizard Sex In the First Place

For a brief moment, the internet was captivated by the thought of geckos copulating madly in a lost Russian satellite. Russia has since regained control of its lizard-sex orbiter, but the whole episode has gifted us an opportunity to consider a topic of extremely legitimate scientific interest. Namely, lizard sex in space. The formerly lost…

All Blood Donation Centers Should Be This Shade of Red

Every once in a while form meets function in such a wonderful way that an architectural pun is born. It’s hard to find a better example than the Blood Center in Raciborz, Poland. Let’s just say they don’t have to worry about a spill staining the carpet. This blood-colored building is home to a whole…