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Lamps Made From Real Bread Must Smell Delicious

There’s no incense, air freshener, or scented candle on earth that smells as good as freshly baked bread. So turning a loaf into a warm glowing lamp that probably smells amazing is worthy of some kind of award, right?. If not the Nobel Prize, then definitely your hard earned money. The Pampshade lamps look incredibly…

This Week in Time Capsules: “Feel Old Yet?” Edition

This week’s time capsule news round-up includes a new capsule in Dubai for the 2020 World’s Fair, a capsule from the 1990s that will probably make you feel old, and a recent discovery in Wyoming that proves you should always check behind the cornerstone. Construction Crew in Wyoming Surprised to Discover 1965 Time Capsule A…

Our Favorite Android, iOS and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Friday’s here, and unless you’re in the southeast corner of the U.S. where it’s nice and warm, you’re probably staring at a weather report full of wintry gloom and frozen precipitation of every hellish variety. Charge up your phone, download these cool new apps, and hope the power doesn’t go out. Multi Platform Updates Double…

Watch Music Turn Into A 3D-Printed Augmented Reality Sculpture

Hearing sound isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Seeing sound. Interaction designer Lukazs Karluk put an audio clip through a gauntlet of digital and physical transformations, resulting in an augmented reality tabletop sculpture. HoloDecks started with a single song. Karluk used an openFrameworks-enabled custom application to visualize the track into the shape of a disc—a…

Adding magnets to everything you own could be so useful and fun

Sugru is a clay-like synthetic wondermaterial that can be easily shaped with your hands and hardens completely after 24 hours. You can use it to fix and modify anything. It’s really cool in itself, but awesome when you combine it with powerful magnets. I haven’t tried their magnet kit yet, but I just fixed a…

Concrete-Printing Bees And Other Living 3D Printers

Gizmodo’s 3D Printing Week, a collaborative project with GE that comes to a close this evening, would only be partially complete without a look at the use of animals as living 3D printers. They are sentient printheads, we might say: biological sources of material, whether it’s silk and honey or plastic and even, as we’ll…

All the fake movies that we really want to see

From re-imagining James Bonds’ retirement plan (to make and market his own line of artisan sorbets, naturally) to finally giving us the Robocop reboot that we really want to see, these fake movie posters are all perfect. Settle in with some popcorn and wait for the release dates to come rolling out. Top image and…

Google TV may be dead, but according to reports from The Information, Nexus TV is on the way as early as Q1 2014. Complete with a touchpad remote! We’ll just have to wait and see, but maybe just make the Chromecast a little better in the meantime, eh Google? [The Information]

BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer Review: Drunk Tracking With Your Phone

Person A: “Man, I was so wasted last night…” Person B: “Oh really? Well, exactly how wasted were you? What hard data do you have to back up this outrageous statement, sir? I demand satisfaction!” With BACtrack’s new Mobile Breathalyzer, you can finally gain the upper-hand in this unlikely, imaginary argument. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve…

Was the early universe a better environment for life to evolve?

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has just published a paper about how life might have flourished when our 13.8-billion-year-old universe was a mere 15 million years old. Back then, the whole universe was warmer — which means liquid water could exist even on planets that were distant from their stars. Writes Loeb in the abstract for…

These Are the First Ever Images of a Heart Injected With Liquid Metal

It may surprise you that, despite our seemingly vast knowledge of the human body, we’re still decently in the dark when it comes to the smaller portions of the cardiovascular system. Even more surprising, the answer to that problem isn’t lying in more powerful microscopes. It’s in a heart pumping pure, shiny liquid metal. Until…

Therapy, Vampire Diaries-Style!

Is this clip the most ludicrous thing you’ve ever seen, or just one of the most ludicrous things? It’s Stefan’s therapy session from last night’s Vampire Diaries, and it’s Exhibit A for why I still love this show. Spoilers ahead… So last night’s episode was about both Salvatore brothers confronting their past traumas, and in…

First scientific paper to be released in Elvish, Dwarvish and English

University of Bristol climate scientist Dan Lunt, writing under the name Radagast the Brown, released a paper today where he used powerful supercomputers to model the climate of Middle Earth. So of course he had to release it in Dwarvish, Elvish and English. He made some fascinating scientific observations, too. Lunt, who works in the…

Transform This Coffee Table Into a Classy Place To Dine In Seconds

For better or for worse, most of us have phased out meals at the dinner table in favor of dining in front of the TV. But on those rare occasions when guests visit and you don’t want them thinking you’re a slob, this lovely wooden coffee table from Duffy London quickly transforms into a small…

Robotic Companion Gifts For Those Who Prefer Artificial Friends

Maintaining human relationships can be such hard work sometimes. And if you know someone who’s decided to cut ties with their fellow man and completely avoid all that emotional drama, here are some robotic gift suggestions that guarantee they won’t be lonely as a result. After all, robots don’t really have birthdays to forget, do…

Now Disney Owns Indiana Jones, Too

After Disney swallowed up Marvel and consumed Lucasfilm, we thought they’d be prying the Indiana Jones franchise from Paramount’s cold dead hands. But not so — Paramount has signed over the rights. Congratulations Disney, you now own everything we love. Variety is reporting that this new deal gives Disney distribution and marketing rights to all…

HIV Reappears in Two Patients Thought to Be Cured

The two male patients seemingly cured of HIV thanks to bone marrow transplants have both begun to show signs of the virus again, according to researchers in Boston. Dr. Timothy Henrich of Brigham and Women’s hospital presented the disappointing news yesterday at an AIDS research conference in Florida, saying that both patients had resumed HIV…

Silkworms Fed Dyed Mulberry Leaves To Produce Colored Silk

Fact: Snails fed colored paper will poop colored squiggles. Now, silkworms are getting in on the technicolor action: a recent report shows that, after eating mulberry leaves treated with fabric dye, regular larvae will produce cotton-candy-tinted fibers. They’re like biological 3D printers for producing colored silk. The findings, published in the ACS Sustainable Chemistry &…

Was the Canon 5D the Digital Camera that Broke Film’s Back?

It seems like ages ago when most pros were still shooting film, but actually it wasn’t that far back in time. In 2005, Canon released the EOS 5D—a full-frame DSLR that many think turned the tide for skeptical photogs still doubting what digital could do. The B&H Insights blog has a brief history of why…

This is insane. These clothes are all made of chocolate.

You can wear chocolate shoes, a chocolate dress, and (of course) a chocolate bustier. Also, don’t forget that fashionable shift made with Smarties. Here are our favorite chocolate fashions. Mira Mednik models an outfit made of chocolate designed by Martin Howard, Brasserie 8 1/2 pastry chef, during the Chocolate Show New York Fashion Show in…