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This Week in Time Capsules: Optimistic Girl Scouts Bury 200-Year Tube

This week in our time capsule news round-up we have 100-year-old papers that look like they were printed just yesterday, a Girl Scout capsule that won’t be opened until the year 2214, and some artifacts in Florida from the ancient Age of Videotape. Girl Scouts bury 200-year time capsule at birthplace of founder In 1912,…

Game of Drones: Yes, Quadcopter Fight Clubs Exist

Following the popularity of those battle bots from a few years ago, it only makes sense that someone, somewhere, would pit quadcopters against each other in a battle to the death—or at least first crash. Sure, these events might have been cooked up to promote an extra-tough quadcopter airframe that’s being funded through Kickstarter, but…

These Retro-Cool Posters Let You Put Classic Movie Sets On Your Walls

Have you ever dreamed about living in your favorite movie? Maybe you want to float through space chatting with HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or kick it with crazy Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Well, now you can get one step closer with these posters of classic movie interiors. The retro-inspired poster series, dubbed…

When the gate to the next dimension opened, it spread across the Earth

The summoners had expected a glowing crack in the sky, or perhaps a whirlpool swirling in the bay. They did not expect the doorway to the other world to come with roots that would plunge into the foundations of New Atlantis, feeding on the shock and despair of its inhabitants. A landscape concept by Ashok…

Reimagining the Home Bar of the Future

I don’t know about you, but my home bar is a mess. It’s two shelves utterly stuffed with bottles any way they’ll fit, with no rhyme or reason behind it. Rarely do I have any concept of how much I have left of what; I have to check every bottle and hope there’s enough to…

Scientists Say They Can Provide Infinite Power by Harnessing Vibrations

Well, this sounds promising. A team from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research say they can efficiently harvest enough electricity from low frequency vibrations to power small electronic devices. The process works thanks to aluminum nitrate, one of several materials that naturally accumulates an electric charge in response to mechanical stress. That property is…

The Kepler Space Telescope has lived to see another day – and planet!

It would appear that news of Kepler’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. The planet-hunting space telescope, which suffered a major malfunction last May, is back online — and it’s already managed to observe another planet. The planet, a hot-Jupiter called WASP-28b, was already known to scientists. But it’s solid evidence that Kepler, after some important…

Sadly, cereal tea isn’t a real product but, happily, cereal milk is

I really wantedthese cereal tea bags to be real because I would love to buy them (and I’m to lazy to make them myself.) Of course, I can always buy Momofuku’s delicious cereal milk and add it to my real tea. It tastes like the leftover milk in a sugary cereal bowl—delicious. SPLOID is a…

Classic works of art brought gorgeously to life

Britain’s Tate Gallery is bringing its art collection to life — through the magic of GIFs. Top image: James Kerr aka Scorpion Dagger‘s remix of John Brett,Lady With A Dove: Madame Loeser1864. As part of its charmingly-named 1840s GIF Party, taking place tonight, the Tate has opened up its collection to be remixed into GIFs.…

When In Doubt, Complain

There’s an old saying that you get more bees with honey than with vinegar. It’s true—to a degree. Sometimes if you want to get your way, it’s worth giving whining a try. This approach is often works when it comes to things like disputes with your phone carrier or cable company, places that tend to…

It looks like those super fast UHS SD cards for recording 4K video on the new Panasonic GH4 won’t be crazy expensive. Kingston has their’s on Amazon listed at $130 for 64GB.

A Peek Inside the Super-Sheds Where NYC Stores Its Mountains of Salt

The Northeast has been buckling under this year’s winter weather, in partbecause we’re running out of road salt. We here at Gizmodo wanted to see what we were dealing with ourselves, so we visited three of the biggest salt sheds NYC’s five boroughs have to offer. Sunset Park On the water, at the very end…

This prehistoric carnivore had teeth like steak knives

Before dinosaurs walked the Earth, there was a meat-loving beast called Dimetrodon, which researchers just determined had the first known serrated “steak knife” teeth. Dimetrodon lived at what are now the southwestern United States and parts of Europe between 298 million and 272 million years ago. (The first dinosaurs evolved from other animals some 40…

The massive new Re:Action toyline revealed, now with pics!

We had known Funko was planning a new toyline called Re:Action, and we knew it included Firefly, Buffy and other cult favorite franchises. What we didn’t know is what would be released first. As it turns out? Sixty figures are coming in July, including toys from Goonies, Pulp Fiction and more! Before you read the…

These Century-Old Selfies Make Instagram Look Like a Joke

Mayfair, Kelvin, Earlybird—it really won’t make a difference. Because when it comes to these absolutely wonderful selfies taken as early 1909, all of our carefully selected Instagram filters will never begin to compare. Posted in response to a call on Quora for “the best selfies,” the below photos depict Joseph Byron, Quora user Tom Byron’s…

Redshirts is getting its own TV series

John Scalzi’s beloved novel Redshirts is heading over to FX to be adapted into a TV series! Wonderful. Deadline is reporting that Scalzi’s novel, centered around the expendable members of the Starship Intrepid crew, is being adapted for an FX series by producers Jon Shestack (Dan In Real Life), Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the…

The 19 Sochi Olympians You Should Follow on Instagram

There are about 6,000 Olympians in Sochi and only around 300 medals up for grabs. Do the math; this isn’t YMCA soccer and not everyone’s taking home an award. But win or lose, these renown athletes still give good Instagram. Here’s who you should be following in Sochi now that the games have finally begun:…

These Modular Panels Absorb Sound, Regulate Heat, and Look Sharp

Acoustic panels, however cool looking, are usually designed to remain out of sight. But a new company called Baux is changing that with a series of functional geometric tiles that do double duty as a pretty brilliant wall decoration. Baux is made up of a quintet of Scando design dudes (also of Form Us With…

Firing mortar at night can result in a beautiful tree of fire

A perfectly timed and strangely beautiful photo by US Army Pfc. Nathaniel Newkirk during a mortar firing exercise at Camp Roberts, California. It’s something that could have been painted by Caravaggio. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

I can’t stop watching this door open & close

Add this to the list of things we never knew existed but now desperately need: The Evolution Door, a “flip-panel” invention by Austrian designer Klemens Torggler. This is not Torggler’s only alternative-door solution; his website actually lists several models. They’re all based on rotating squares, but some systems incorporate rods, while others make use of…