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A Sensor-Packed Teddy Bear That Keeps an Eye On Your Baby

A stuffed animal can give a child some much needed comfort, but the Tedi promises to do the same for new parents. On the outside it looks like your run-of-the-mill plush toy, but on the inside it’s packed full of sensors that report various aspects of a child’s status and progress to a smartphone, allowing…

Astronomers Fooled by the Largest Optical Illusion in the Universe

For years, astronomers thought that a galaxy floating 100 million light-years away was a single celestial object, a perfectly on-edge spiral galaxy with a colossal jet streaming away from it. But it’s all just an optical illusion — and a rather massive one at that. In a statement released by NASA yesterday, the space agency…

It’s Time for a Gif Party! And All Your Gifs Are Invited

It’s Friday and that means that you — and all of your gifs that have been waiting so patiently throughout the week — are invited to a gif party. Why? Because you guys are awesome. So send in your favorite gifs and let’s gif this party started! (Note: Gifs are encouraged but gif-puns will be…

Lego graphics card can only do 8-bit graphics and 64-bit nerdgasms

You make pretty much anything you want with Lego, including a graphics card. And when Lego and computer parts collide, it’s like a double nerdgasm sandwich with cheese. It totally looks like the real thing. Genius work by Nick V. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the most awesome…

Travel Back to the Nonexistent Past With a Functional Google BBS

Back in the day, the internet was hard. There weren’t search engines or pretty HTML5 websites. There weren’t address bars or social networks. You had to dial up other computers and make connections yourself. At least that’s what they tell me. My earliest internet memories involve AOL, but for those real internet pioneers, this fully-functioning…

Plenty of Moto X price cuts lately, and here’s one more: Verizon will give you a white or black X for free with a two-year contract. Just punch in the coupon code vzwdeal on checkout. Color customization still costs $50 though. [Verizon via TalkAndroid]

Bad Robot just tweeted the first official production picture from Star Wars: Episode VII, featuring director J.J. Abrams meeting R2-D2 in person, and it’s the first real, tangible proof that this sequel is really happening. Anyone else feel it’s weirdly surreal to see the two of them together?

Rejoice with these stellar animations from Dark Universe

There’s no better way to start a Friday than watching some of the amazing animations from Dark Universe—the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden planetarium show. Bonus: Neil deGrasse Tyson reads a poem. https://amnh.kinja.com/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer-with-neil-tyson-1464452745

A Sleek Wireless Thermostat You Might Actually Want To Frame

Better known for the company’s hardware that reports the weather outside, Netatmo has teamed up with Philippe Starck to create a new device that gives you complete control over the climate inside your home from your smartphone. And unlike similar wireless thermostats from Honeywell and Nest, Starck has ensured that Netatmo’s offering doesn’t overcomplicate things.…

Everything you need to know about MAVEN, NASA’s next Mars mission

MAVEN, NASA’s next spacecraft launching to the Red Planet in barely three days time on November 18th, seeks to unlock one of the greatest Martian mysteries: Where did all the water go? Above: Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians prepare the MAVEN spacecraft for encapsulation…

Artist Discovers Unseen Color Photos of JFK’s Final Moments

After sitting forgotten in storage for more than 45 years, the daughter of an amateur photographer has uncovered a set of remarkable images taken mere minutes before President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The photos, which now appear in TIME and LightBox, were taken by H. Warner King, a Dallas Jewelry wholesaler and amateur…

Harness Thor’s Mighty Mjölnir Hammer To Charge Your Gadgets

With seemingly unlimited celestial power, it only makes sense that Thor should share a little bit of the Mjölnir Hammer’s capabilities with humanity when he’s not battling Loki or alien invaders. After all, a dead smartphone can be just as catastrophic to some people as the world ending. And while it might not be Thor’s…

Which Guardian of the Galaxy might be heading to Jurassic World?

Almost Human is thinking about robo-rights. There are new pictures of the Governor from Sunday’s Walking Dead. Monroe’s parents have been cast in Grimm. And we finally know who Stevie Nicks will be playing on American Horror Story. Spoilers ahead! Jurassic World It looks like producers are trying get Chris Pratt to star in the…

12 Temples of American Finance Gone to Waste

In 19th and early 20th century America, fledging banks depended on conveying stability and trust to their customers. That usually meant architecture—and the construction of pint-sized Greek and Roman monuments in towns all over the country. “Money was more local,” explains photographer Michael Vahrenwald, whose series The People’s Trust captures these structures in their present-day…

Bloomberg: Samsung’s Planning a Three-Sided Wraparound Display Phone

If your phone is lacking one thing, it’s a display that covers multiple sides of its boring little rectangular frame. At least, that’s according to Samsung, because Bloomberg is reporting that the company has plans to produce a phone with a curved OLED screen which wraps around three of its sides. The idea is similar…

Doctors Aren’t Actually Bound by the Hippocratic Oath

A binding agreement, as much a social contract as Social Security or Medicare, the traditional Hippocratic Oath holds those who swear to it to a strict code of professional and personal conduct. Contrary to popular belief, though, most doctors never take this oath—and, actually, most of us are probably glad they never do. Original Hippocratic…

What Earth Would Be Like if Humans Had Never Existed

It’s one of those things you’ve probably idly wondered but never really lent masses of thought: what the hell would the planet be like if humans had never existed? Fortunately, this video tries to explain. It’s hard enough to imagine what the world was like before humans, let alone how it may’ve turned out if…

This Is What the Hottest Place on Earth Looks Like

You’re looking at a satellite image of the Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran. If you think it looks a bit weird, that’ because it is: it’s widely regarded as the hottest place on Earth. The highest land surface temperature ever recorded—from space, by satellites—was in the Lut Desert back in 2005. It reached…

PS4 Teardown: Beautiful Outside, Tidy Inside

The PS4 has landed and it’s great—but what lurks beneath its slick, slanted frame? Fortunately that’s not something you need to keep wondering, because iFixit has gone and torn the console down so we can all see the guts within. https://gizmodo.com/ps4-review-the-future-is-finally-here-1463432248 In fact, iFixit is carrying out the teardown out live, overnight—that’s how excited they…

What Your Email Signature Says About You

What you type in your email says a lot about the kind of person you are—but what you add at the bottom of every message can be just as revealing. Your email signature can speak volumes about your personality. Sent from your mobile device? Gosh, you must be so busy! Long legal disclaimer? Boy, your…