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The most spectacular and destructive atomic bombs in history

Here are the most spectacular and destructive atomic detonations in history. Most of them are in crispy HD thanks to the folks of Atom Central, one of my favorite sites. Looking at their terrifying beauty, I can’t understand why we wasted so much in these absurd devices of mass extermination. I made the GIF above…

China Shuts Down Museum Showing Thousands of Fake Artifacts

China is currently undergoing a huge boom in museums—299 new ones have opened in the last year alone. And just like the US’s own 20th century museum boom, which inspired cascades of forgeries, China’s is bringing out the fakes: The government has shuttered one museum where a third of the 8,000 artifacts were fake. According…

“Space age outfits in silver vinyl by Pierre Cardin, on display at Fashion Week in Paris, 26th January 1968.” [Getty Images] Not quite as cool as the 1939 version, in this humble bloggist’s opinion.

Mars Gets a New Crater, We Find it Within a Day

We have such a vigilant orbital watch program that when a meteor a few meters in diameter pinged Mars, we spotted the crater within 24 hours. We’re living in the future, people. Unless this is the past, because NASA announced the discovery in Latin. Project scientist Bruce Cantor spotted a crater 50 meters in diameter…

This Undulating Penis Wall Isn’t A D&D Monster, But It Should Be

I mean look at it. Look at it. There’s no way some deranged wizard doesn’t have a few of these things secretly hiding around his magic tower, waiting to attack unwary adventurers (or at least seriously freak them out). Alas, the Undulating Penis Wall is not some magical chimera, but an art project by NYU…

What Kind of Bike Do You Ride?

It’s Bike Month here at Gizmodo, and we’ve been celebrating with stories covering locks and e-bikes, chats with bike lawyers and bike clothing brands, and looks at vintage cycling posters and outlandish bike designs. Now we want to see how you ride: Show us your bike! I ride a PUBLIC C-7 in a color I…

Holy Shit, You Guys Are Really Going To Like Edge of Tomorrow

We were always slightly excited for Tom Cruise’s Groundhog Day-meets-Starship Troopers movie Edge of Tomorrow, but we had no idea it was this good! We’ve seen Edge of Tomorrow and it is spectacular fun. Here’s our (practically spoiler-free) first impressions. The Premise Based of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need Is Kill, if you’ve seen…

This Vacuum Brewer Infuses Your Tea (or Booze) With Almost Anything

With mixology and DIY designer beverages on the rise, it’s no wonder that users want more control. Enter BKON’s new Craft Brewer, an impressive piece of machinery that infuses liquids in a perfect vacuum. Gizmodo recently got a hands-on demo at the iconic Counter Culture in Soho—and this thing can brew. The Craft Brewer allows…

Ecchi Fan Service Is A Sexist Relic That Needs To Go Away

When you look at this still-shot from Highschool of the Dead, what are you meant to look at? If your answer is anything other than giant boobs (or the red circle around them, wise guy), you’re wrong and probably could use an eye exam. Now ask yourself what the purpose of this shot is. Your…

A Global Portrait Mosaiced from Self Portraits

NASA collected thousands of self-portraits on Earth Day this year to make a massive “Global Selfie.” Although the name makes my skin crawl, the end effect is neat. Of course my favourite contributing photographs are all fictional characters. The individual photos are blended with actual satellite data from the same day, using images from the…

This DARPA invention gives soldiers Terminator vision

DARPA has finally demonstrated one of its most promising inventions: An augmented-reality HUD system that will give soldiers the same advantage of a jet fighter pilot. It displays battlefield data over the soldier’s environment, identifying friendly and enemy forces on land and air in real time. The system is nothing like Google Glass, which projects…

A Sleeping Bag Designed Just For Man’s Best Friend

If you’d rather bring your faithful companion with you on a camping trip than have them stuck in a kennel for a week, you’re probably going to want them to be as comfortable as you are. And if they’re too big to share your sleeping bag, the Noblecamper gives them their own cozy place to…

Are Black Holes All Shaped Like Doughnuts?

A new study puts the unified model of black holes, a.k.a the doughnut model, on trial and concludes that black holes are (disappointingly) perhaps not all shaped like a box of glazed donuts flung into the air. So what are they shaped like? Black holes appear to have several different kinds of shapes. The unified…

Chelyabinsk Meteorite Was Struck By An Asteroid Before Hitting Earth

Scientists studying the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite have concluded that the object was separated from its parent body after being struck by an asteroid — an impact that ultimately caused it to head towards Earth. Scarily, its sister objects could still be out there. When Chelyabinsk arrived on February 13, 2013, it quickly became…

The First Science Fiction Movie Made in Cuba. Omega 3, now in postproduction, is an “anti-utopian” film, set in a post-apocalyptic late 21st century, which director Eduardo del Llano says has an aesthetic similar to The Matrix and Blade Runner.

Zoom H5: The Perfect DSLR Audio Sidekick With a Scaled Back Price

Shooting video with a DSLR can be a pain when it comes to your audio setup. Zoom has been a mainstay of external audio devices targeted at DSLR filmmakers with the H4N and last year’s beefed-up—but expensive—H6. The new H5 presents an in-between solution at an affordable price. https://gizmodo.com/zoom-h6-the-essential-dslr-audio-tool-gets-an-update-5994723 The $270 H5 is similar to…

You Could Literally Kill Someone With This Lego SHIELD Helicarrier

Granted, you’d have to drop it on them from a third floor window or something. But still, if this 22,000-piece, 7-foot-long masterpiece fell on someone’s head, they would die. But they could die knowing they were murdered by one of the greatest fan-made Lego sets in existence. It was built by ysomt for Lego Ideas…

The Most Outrageous Fashions of Star Trek: TNG Seasons 4 Through 7

Star Trek: The Next Generation kept boldly going to some pretty amazing places, fashion-wise, after its first few wild seasons. We never again saw quite so many bonkers glued-on costumes, but there was still a lot of WTF. Here’s our tribute to TNG seasons four through seven. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-impressive-costumes-from-star-trek-tngs-firs-1507531721 Definitely click “Expand” to make these babies…

Google has just enabled no-click voice search in its latest Chrome update. Now anybody can search without typing. Just open a new Chrome tab and say “OK Google” (after enabling the feature in the Privacy settings). Once this catches on, you won’t look nearly like such a lunatic.

Possibly the Worst Misuse of Neuroscience Ever

Of all the terrible ways that insights from neuroscience have been twisted for use in unrelated areas, this might be the worst. According to one self-help author, you can “fix your financial impulses in 45 days” by pumping up the dopamine in your brain. Science! In an article on Ready for Zero which is recycling…