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How 3D Printing Is Making Better Movie Monsters

Cinematic special effects have come a long way since Jason and the Argonauts. What once required dedicated and labor-intensive filming sessions can now easily be generated in near-lifelike quality by modern CGI. But Luma Pictures, an animation studio responsible for some of the biggest blockbuster movie effects of the last decade, has come full circle…

Sam Raimi Announces He’s Working On An Evil Dead TV Series

Tucked away in the Last of Us movie panel, like a demon under the floorboard of a cabin in the woods, director Sam Raimi revealed he and his brother Ted are attempting to turn his iconic horror movie franchise Evil Dead into a TV series… with Bruce Campbell involved. There are no other details whatsoever.…

The Lunar Surface As You’ve Never Seen It Before

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has created this stunning, high-resolution portrait of the Moon’s south pole by combining, for the first time, gravity data from the GRAIL mission with topographic imagery taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. As NASA explains: If the Moon were a perfectly smooth sphere of uniform density, the gravity map would be…

These Scarves Are Printed With the Outlines of Cities Aglow at Night

We’ve all seen the glowing fingerprints of cities after dark: Manhattan as an orderly grid, London a sprawling mess bisected by the winding Thames, the ring of Paris’s arrondissements. The patterns are recognizable but abstract, just right on a silk scarf that lets you subtly broadcast your city allegiances. The new collection, “Cities by Night,”…

This New Walking Dead Season 5 Trailer Goes Seriously Dark

The Walking Dead just premiered the Season 5 trailer and it starts off with a bang — a “lining the whole cast up to die” kind of bang. Wow. But that’s not all; looks this year will feature a lot of “on the road” traveling and a lot less staying in one place and dying…

Declassified: The Government’s Secret Plan For a Military Moon Base

More than 50 years ago, before man had ever stepped foot on the moon, the U.S. government hatched a plan whose ambitions were exceeded only by its total unfeasibility: A secret, self-sustaining, Soviet-shaming military moon base. The delightfully extensive 1960 study, dubbed Project Horizon, was just released earlier this week by The National Security Archive.…

Batman Gets Weird When Artists Redesign His Cape and Cowl

The Cape/Cowl/Create art show at SDCC celebrated the 75th anniversary of Batman by giving him a makeover. A collection of artists were tasked with remaking the iconic cowl and cape, and we kind of love what came out. If you’re at San Diego Comic-Con the “Cape/Cowl/Create” exhibition will be open for the rest of the…

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015: Full Deck-Building, But At What Cost?

The latest installment of the video game version of Magic: the Gathering, Duels of the Planeswalkers, gives players the one thing we’ve always wanted – the ability to build our own decks from scratch. But the addition of “premium boosters” that cost extra money might completely outweigh it. DotP 2015 is a $10 game that…

Bad Cell Phone Calls Could Actually Be Tracked to Detect Rainfall

Despite the many wonders of our modern cell phones, using them to call a real live human can kind of suck. The sound is fuzzy, the calls drop randomly, and a simple rainstorm can make it all even worse. But there is surprising upside to all this: we can monitor the quality of cell phone…

How much does it cost to eat a steak? Over at Science Friday, they’re taking on that question not in terms of dollars but in terms of land and water use. Beef stacks up highest by far among animal proteins in resource consumption, using up 28 times the amount of land than poultry does.

Game Of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams May Star In The Last Of Us Movie

Neil Druckmann, writer and director of the post-apocalyptic video game The Last of Us, and Sam Raimi, who is producing the film adaptation, came to Comic-Con to talk about the movie. And while it’s not written in stone yet, they said Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams may be playing Ellie. Druckmann said during the…

What Do You Want Gizmodo To Do More Of?

Gizmodo began as a compendium of gadgets; page after page of strictly hardware and gear. But in the decade since, the ways society talks about and interacts with technology have evolved. This site has, too. And as we continue to, I’d like to know what you want to see us doing more of—or less—along the…

Lucy Tells the Greatest Superhero Origin Story Ever

Set five minutes into the future, Lucy is about the birth of a new kind of superhero. With Scarlett Johansson playing our eponymous ninja with mental superpowers, there’s a lot of fantastic action here. But sadly, the movie makes some major mistakes, too. Let’s start with the good stuff. Director Luc Besson is a genius…

A Trip On the Hybrid Crane-Boats That Pull Wreckage from NYC Harbor

The US Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for keeping debris out of New York’s Harbor, whether it’s dead whales, helicopters, driftwood, or floating docks. Without the Corps the harbor and the outlying beaches of the Rockaways and the Jersey Shore would be filled with massive pieces of debris and ships would risk being critically…

The Webb Telescope’s New Sunshield Is SPF 1,000,000

When the Webb telescope flies into space, it’s going to need to pack some serious sun protection. Just how strong will it be? To keep the telescope cool on its trip, scientists have constructed this sunshield, which they say has an effective SPF of 1,000,000. The sunshield just cleared its first successful lab test, when…

A Multi-Function Clip That Hides a Toolbox In Your Hair

A Leatherman multi-tool hanging off your belt is a great way to stay prepared for emergencies, but it means you look like someone with a Leatherman hanging off their belt—and that part’s not so great. This innocuous hair clip is a better alternative. It manages to replicate the functionality of quite a few tools, but…

Everything You Need To Know About The Amazing Batman ’66 Blu-Ray/DVDs

Holy long-awaited cult-favorite show that until recently was stuck in a legal nightmare! The campy, outstanding 1966 Batman TV series will finally be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 11th, and we’ve got the details on all the extra features and the goodies included in the complete series set. First of all, both the…

The WarGames Remake Will Feature New Adversaries

Not only were we lucky enough to catch Project Almanac last night at Comic-Con, but we also got a few minutes with director Dean Israelite, too. Almanac’s a solid first feature so it should come as no surprise that the guy’s got a pretty cool project lined up next: a new version of the 1983…

“Women Needed to Help American Men Win This War,” poster from the munitions company Hercules Powder Company circa 1942, illustrated by Mel Hopla. [Getty Images]

Unlocking Your Phone Is About To Be Legal Again

Looking to overturn a longstanding Library of Congress decision to Fort Knox your gadgets to a specific carrier, the “Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act” (S.517) just hurdled its second major obstacle on its way to becoming a law. Now, the bill only needs the POTUS’ signature and smartphones will be able travel among…