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Exclusive Photos of the San Francisco Zoo’s New Red Panda

We’ve got exclusive early access to some new photos of the San Francisco’s Zoo’s newest resident, a 10-month-old male red panda. Get ready to make travel arrangements to get yourself to SF, pronto. He’ll be formally introduced to the world on Saturday May 10 at 10am (or 9am for zoo members). The naming rights went…

Guy makes real life version of Jon Snow’s sword from Game of Thrones

Though it’s not forged from Valyrian steel, master swordsmith Tony Swatton made a pretty perfect real life version of Jon Snow’s Longclaw sword from Game of Thrones. The sword’s pommel has a nice ivory replica of Ghost, the hilt is exquisitely knotted and the blade is as ginormous and intimidating as it should be. Swatton…

IBM’s Watson Can Now Debate Its Opponents

Since defeating the world’s greatest Jeopardy players, IBM’s Watson has been busy at work in the healthcare industry. But now, the artificially intelligent computer has undergone a fairly substantive upgrade — one that enables it not just to extract information, but to “understand” and reason from it as well. Last week at the Milken Institute…

Watch Bruce Wayne’s Parents Die In The First Full-Length Gotham Trailer

Here it is — your first look at Gotham, the new Batman prequel TV series. A 45-second version of this aired during 24: Die Another Day, but now here’s the full two-minute trailer. Including glimpses at the Young Riddler, Young Catwoman, Young Penguin… and Young Batman. First thoughts — this looks pretty fun. The best…

Crazy Aladdin Question Demonstrates How Theorizing Can Go Wrong

Did you know there’s a theory out there that postulates Aladdin takes place in a future, post-apocalyptic world? Frederator’s “Cartoon Conspiracy” takes a look at all the evidence in the above video and, rightly so, dismisses it as silly. It’s not the first time something like this has happened, though. The Internet is full of…

Who Painted This 300-Year-Old Guidebook to Every Imaginable Color?

More than two centuries before Pantone divided the visible spectrum into six-digit color codes, a mysterious Dutch artist crafted this extraordinary guide to painting in watercolor. Hundreds of subtly varying colors were mixed by hand for this one-of-a-kind, encyclopedic volume. As Colossal has pointed out, the 800-page book resembles a comprehensive Pantone’s color guide from…

Daytime Fireball Near Toronto

Startled Canadians witnessed a bright fireball on Sunday afternoon, a daytime arrival from the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower. Even better, it was caught on video by dashboard cameras, and photographed by quick-reflexed observers. Extracted from a video posted by Sam Singh of a fireball near Toronto at 4:17 pm on Sunday. The CBC reports…

In Defense of Insanely Expensive Pencils

Writing instruments contain a weird, almost alchemical power. To anyone who hasn’t experienced it, this will sound like a crazy idea—but for some of us, pencils are almost like magic wands, containing powers that can either help or hinder your process. The German company Rotring has been capitalizing upon that feeling since 1928, when the…

A Sport So Futuristic, They Had To Call It… Futuresport!

Welcome to Dean Cain week, when we’ll be posting a new Dean Cain clip, every single day! Today’s outing is Futuresport, a1998 TV movie (with a surprising amount of cussing and nudity on the DVD) about the most futuristic sport ever: Futuresport! Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Andromeda scribe Robert Hewitt Wolfe, this movie…

Vortices Trailing Guadalupe

For Cinco de Mayo, take a peek south of the border at this beautiful von Karman vortex street trailing behind Guadalupe Islands. The sharply-peaking volcanic island pokes 1.3 kilometers above the waves, prodding the wind to produces turbulence in the cloud deck. The volcano acts as a rock in a stream, blocking wind and inducing…

Barchan Dunes Action Pic!

Check out this neat timelapse of winds whipping the sand making up the barchan dunes on Mars.

Google Now has got a fancy new trick. If you walk past a store that caries a product you’ve been researching online, it’ll let you know. Talk about instant shipping. Hopefully it’s just a little more spot-on than those targeted ads that are always showing you the thing you just bought.

Little-Known Stephen King Book Gets A Movie Deal

It’s good to be the King. Back in March, horror author Stephen King released a little ebook titled Bad Little Kid, specifically for his German and French fans. So it was, naturally, released in German and French. But clearly someone translated it, because Bad Little Kid is getting a movie deal. THR is reporting that…

Appliances Chiseled From Marble Are Surprisingly Elegant

Marble isn’t the first material you think of when it comes to home appliances. But the Milan-based design house Clique, which presented their its collection at its hometown’s design week last month, have turned the staid material into something surprisingly pleasant. Take the Cimmy ultrasonic humidifier—it uses opposing marble hues to give its steam the…

Sex of the Future: High-Tech Pillow Talk | May 20, 8-10pm

Technology continues to change our daily lives, but what’s it doing to our lives after dark? As part of the Gizmodo Home of the Future, join us for a peek beneath the sheets, co-hosted with our friends at Jezebel. From the dating app revolution and a new generation of sex toys to the reinvention of…

The Last 30 Seconds of Once Upon A Time Changed Everything!

Last night’s Once Upon A Time seemingly tied up all the loose strings, UNTIL THIS HAPPENED! Spoilers ahead. So basically this is the second-to-last episode of a massive, two-hour finale, which you would not know going into this episode, because this delightful faux-finale does what I didn’t think was possible: it tied up the wildly…

Home of the Future: An Extrapolation Factory Workshop | May 20, 12-3pm

How do we envision the home of tomorrow? As part of the Gizmodo Home of the Future, join Elliott P. Montgomery and Chris Woebken of Extrapolation Factory to discuss and develop speculative designs for the domestic future. Attendees will learn futuring practices to create props, narratives, and visualizations, and use narrative to explore the aesthetic…

UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake

No one’s perfect, least of all UPS. But as far as mistakes go, this is just about as bad—and expensive—as it gets. Thanks to one hell of a mixup, Reddit user Seventy_Seven just got a $400,000 unmanned aerial vehicle delivered straight to his doorstep. Talk about service. Apparently, the rather expensive piece of federal property…

DARPA Wants To Teach Military Drones The Meaning Of Teamwork

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has recently announced that it wants to create drone squadrons that will have the ability to work together during combat and surveillance missions. The new project, posted as a solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities website, seeks to make drones more effective and less dependent on human operators…

Fashion of the Future: Beyond Wearables | May 19, 7-10pm

It’s almost the future—what are we going to wear? As part of the Gizmodo Home of the Future, join fashionistas and futurists alike for an exploration of the future of fashion with forward-thinking industry leaders and creatives. Designers, local fashion brands, photographers, and other New York notables will present their ideas and next-level collections, followed…