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Create Interactive 360° Panoramic Video With Ease

Have you ever watched a video and wanted so badly to view the scene from a different perspective? Maybe you wanted to see what was happening behind the person filming. Eye Mirror is an upcoming camera accessory that should let you pan 360° within a video as it’s playing. It looks surprisingly simple, and it…

Awesome guy blows movie marketing budget to help typhoon survivors

So 20th Century Fox contacted professional video maker and friend of Gizmodo Casey Neistat to make a video for them about Ben Stiller’s upcoming movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Cool, that kind of stuff happens all the time to him. But instead of using the money to make a movie about the movie,…

A 5-Minute Journey Down a Manhole in New York

“It’s dead quiet, and you feel like you’re the last man on earth. That’s incredibly rare in New York,” says urban explorer Steve Duncan. Filmmaker Jon Kasbe followed Duncan—who many of you might recognize from 2011’s Undercity—down a sewer for the short film, A Beautiful Waste, released in July. As they make their way through…

What’s the most justified betrayal in science fiction or fantasy?

Nobody likes a turncoat — but sometimes there’s a really good reason. Sometimes you have to kidnap your best friend’s baby, or give away your friends’ plans to the enemy, because it’s for the best. Who has the absolute best justification for betraying his or her friends? Please include a picture or clip of this…

​Scientists engineer worms to live the equivalent of 500 human years

In an experiment that even caught the researchers by surprise, nematode worms had their lifespans increased by — get this — five times. By tweaking two longevity-related genes, the researchers created an unexpected feedback effect that radically amplified lifespan. The technique could eventually be used to treat age-related disorders in humans. Scientists at the Buck…

Your Tight Pants Almost Ruined Paper Money

For over a century, every last bit of paper money that’s circulated around the United States has come from just one single supplier, Crane & Co. But as The Washington Post found out, that century of loyalty was almost for naught when the 90s came along and brought with it a new menace to American…

A Film Camera You Assemble Yourself Lets You Add Light Leaks

An intricate device like a camera doesn’t seem like an obvious build-it-yourself project. But when there’s a will there’s a way, and one way is Last Camera. It’s a 35mm film camera you put together for some real-life Instagrammy, analog fun. This little black box comes with 2 interchangeable lenses, a 22mm and 45mm. It…

Check Out These Pigmented Fish, Like Creatures Made from Neon Lights

Because it never gets boring to look inside creatures, living or dead, here’s Cleared: a photo series by Adam Summers that straddles the super-narrow divide between science and art, showing deceased fish in various states of transparency to expose their complex insides. https://gizmodo.com/ges-new-fast-ct-scanner-captures-insane-images-in-a-he-1482904872 The project was created by Summers, associate director of the Comparative Vertebrate…

Is Alfonso Cuarón’s TV show Believe going to let us down?

One of 2014’s most highly anticipated new TV shows is experiencing a truck-load of problems. J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe just dumped its showrunrer and went on a production hiatus. That makes two showrunner exits on this series. What is going on? Deadline is reporting that that Executive Producer Dave Erickson is out as…

San Francisco’s tech companies are bringing it down, L.A.’s having trouble growing up, plus sexy cabbies, vertical cemeteries, Bloomberg’s next act, and much, much more in this week’s Urban Reads. Michael Bloomberg is starting an urban think tank and taking most of his City Hall team with him [New York Times] The 60-year-old theory that…

Make your own scientifically-accurate Earth ornaments!

Building on this instructional from Maker Mama, datavisualization expert John Nelson has created a template you can use to craft your very own paper globe ornaments out of satellite imagery from NASA’s Visible Earth team (the same imagery used to create this animation of a breathing Earth). https://gizmodo.com/this-gorgeous-world-map-depicts-all-of-earths-hurricane-5937261 https://gizmodo.com/the-earth-breathes-and-it-is-beautiful-953552239 According to Nelson, you’ll need a…

​What will happen after animals are legally recognized as persons?

The first real attempt to see chimps legally recognized as persons may have failed, but it’s an historic case that undoubtedly represents the first of many to come. It’ll only be a matter of time before chimps and other animals are no longer seen as mere property, but rather as subjects worthy of legal protections.…

England’s Architect Provocateurs Have Broken Up

Well, this is a bummer. FAT—the UK collective that’s built some of the most annoyingly brilliant buildings of the past two decades—is no more. Haven’t heard of FAT? Let us explain. FAT—it stands for Fashion Architecture Taste—is Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland, and Sam Jacob, three British architects who created their own studio in the early…

A Simple Metal Ring Keeps Your MagSafe In Line

As wonderful as Apple’s MagSafe connector is at preventing your laptop from accidentally getting yanked off a desk, it’s far from perfect. Try actually using your laptop on your lap, or in bed, and you’ll find your power cord disconnecting more often than not. A problem that’s far from dire, but one that is thankfully…

Shooting a gun with Google Glass looks frighteningly like a video game

Here’s what it looks like to fire a weapon. Oh? You’re not impressed? Right. I understand. Because every first person shooter video game that kids play these days looks exactly like this. Hell, to be honest, the video games might look even more realistic than real life (if that makes any sense). YouTube user cheekflapperer…

This man had his hand surgically attached to his ankle

Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident, but surgeons couldn’t re-attach it right away. His arm needed time to heal. But his hand was in desperate need of a blood supply – so surgeons attached it to arteries in his left ankle. Warning: Graphic hankle imagery below the fold. Hand-reattachment surgery of this…

Spider-Man’s greatest foe isn’t Green Goblin or Venom, it’s this

Spider-Man has fought some of the toughest villains in the Marvel universe, often at the same time. But they’re one force he can’t stand up against, as revealed in this action-packed, but emotionally charged video. Okay, it’s just a dumb joke, but it’s perfectly executed. The way Spidey looks around embarrassed after he drops the…

Terrifying Facts About the World’s Deepest Gold Mine

Oh, the things humans will do to get their grubby hands on gold—a metal mostly prized for its ornamental use, hoarded in bank vaults and jewelry boxes, though we’ve arbitrarily decided it’s worth, uh, its weight in gold.* The deepest gold mine in the world is Mponeng, a 2.5-mile hole in the ground in South…

The Best Books of 2013

Gizmodo’s “Best Books of 2013” list has just been posted and includes three contributions from your humble blogger of all things retrofuture. Included on my list is the new Nikola Tesla biography by W. Bernard Carlson. It really is the best Tesla biography ever written and avoids the hero worship that has unfortunately tainted most…

The Mysterious Origins of Cat Domestication in China

Researchers studying a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in China have discovered that wildcats first came to ancient villages to feed on rodents, which were stealing farmers’ grains. The research shows, for the first time, how the process of cat domestication started. Pathways of Domestication Over the years, there have been a number of different thoughts as…