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Graphene Ink Will Let Us Print Circuits on Pretty Much Anything

Modern miracle stuff graphene has been used by developers to print circuits on clothing, creating a genuinely wearable form of tech that doesn’t rely on bulky watches, AR glasses or sewing computers into your flesh. Given that graphene’s USP is that it manages to work despite only being one atom thick, it creates a form…

Good news, fitness freaks: Nike’s Move app, which brings Fuelband functionality to the iPhone 5s using its M7 motion-sensing co-processor, is now available in the App Store.

This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

You’re looking at the Upsala Glacier on the Argentine side of the North Patagonian Icefield—or at least, some of it. Because this photo shows that the glacier is rapidly retreating as a result of climate change. Photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, you can see the glacier on the right which is…

Rumor: Nokia Is Readying an 8-Inch Lumia Tablet for 2014

Two independent sources— Evleaks and Verge—are reporting that Nokia is in the process of preparing a second, smaller Windows-based Lumia tablet, which might be available next year. https://gizmodo.com/lumia-2520-nokia-is-making-a-10-inch-tablet-now-too-1449587263 According to both sources, the project is currently codenamed the Illusionist. The tablet would, apparently, ship with Windows RT 8.1, a Qualcomm processor and an 8-inch screen.The…

Watch LG’s G Flex Smartphone Bend an Alarming Amount

LG recently launched the G Flex, a banana-shaped phone which makes use of a curved OLED screen, and it turns out that it’s true to it’s name: it seems to bend really rather a lot. https://gizmodo.com/did-lg-accidentally-announce-the-curved-screen-g-flex-1453192362 Engadget has gotten hold of a video which shows someone applying a reasonable amount of downwards pressure on the…

Good news if you’re taking an American Airlines flight any time soon: it’s just become the latest airline to allowpersonal electronics use throughout entire flights.

Google Helpouts Is Here to Help You With Basically Anything

Have you ever been working on something, a special project or something outside the realm of normal day-to-day work stuff, and you find yourself totally stuck? As in, you have absolutely no idea what to do next? Google wants to help. Google Helpouts is a crowd-sourced, online help system that helps people work their way…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Paper Plane

A pint-sized Howard Hughes wannabe takes to the skies in his very own papercraft Spruce Goose in this adorable animated short from InkyMind.

Amazing video of people jumping off two planes colliding in mid-air

This terrifying two-plane crash somehow miraculously resulted in no fatalities. It’s insane that people could survive after two planes hit each other in mid-air. It’s almost impossible that everyone could survive from the fireball and ensuing chaos after the crash. But they did. Thank God. NBC News revealed that the crash was a result of…

Nikon Df: A DSLR Monster With a Slimmed Down, Old-School Streak

Even at the top echelons of professional photography, the lumbering DSLR is becoming a bore. Smaller shooters with big camera specs are the trend, and with that mandate in mind, Nikon’s releasing the Df. The new DSLR—yes, DSLR, not the full-framed mirrorless monster of rumors—inherits its key guts from Nikon’s flagship D4 in a package…

Once‘s Little Mermaid episode was not really about the Little Mermaid

After a whole season of teasing out their special Little Mermaid episode, Once Upon A Time premieres an episode that wasn’t really about the Little Mermaid. Sigh. Spoilers ahead… I am incredibly disappointed in Once Upon A Time this week. Epically disappointed. Ariel is an important character. She is a beloved icon of the princess…

These wire sculptures actually look like people frozen in carbonite

It’s sort of unbelievable but these sculptures are all made from aluminum wire. When you look at the artwork up close, you can see each line of wire coming together to form the body of a human but when you’re looking from far away it totally looks like people frozen in carbonite. My Modern Met…

This composite photograph from WWI is better than most Photoshops

This picture from World War I seems to perfectly capture the chaos of war. There are soldiers marching forward, there are airplanes flying above, there are bombs, there are clouds of smoke. But it’s not ‘real’. It’s real in the sense that these things happened and that these things were photographed during WWI but the…

An awesome guy made an insane Thor hammer that smashes everything

This ridiculously awesome man made version of Thor’s hammer Mjölnir is so impressive that even our most Thor-like human Chris Hemsworth would have trouble swinging it around. Though it’s not quite the weight of 300 billion elephants, it’s the closest thing to Mjölnir on Earth. That’s because it’s made from 10 separate pieces of steel…

Loving father built a prosthetic hand for his son with a 3D printer

Kids are just the best. And dads who love their kids make them even better. Leon is a boy who was born without fingers on one of his hands. Instead of making him think he was different, his father Paul McCarthy made him believe he was special. In fact, McCarthy made a prosthetic hand with…

This picture has everything you could ever want, including dolphins

I think artist Steve Crisp tore this picture right out of my 11-year-old heart. It has literally everything a fantasy geek could want: shiny dolphins, a castle hewn from magical rock, and a bikini-clad, sword-wielding lady on top of a pegasus. I challenge you to find anything more awesome. When I saw this picture at…

Comment of the Day: Lessons in Death Star Management

Today, we scanned the skies for Earth 2, learned about a DIY science kit for cockroach mind control (or cybugs, as commenter Anarwen cleverly dubbed them), and uncovered the mysteries of the Death Star by looking exactly where you’d expect them to be: in the owner’s manual. In response to this post, which gave us…

Behold the HORRIFYING robot baby that was too creepy for Twilight

Ever wonder, “Hey, why was the spawn of Twilight lovers Bella and Edward such a hideous CG monster troll?” Well, guess what? It could have been much, much worse. Behold the animatronic monster so hideous it scared the cast of Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2, and had to be cut from the film. Watch director…

A rapid-fire account of WWII as it was fought on America’s homefront

Last week we showed you CrashCourse‘s animated video about the United States’ contribution to World War II. They’ve now released part two, an account of what transpired on America’s homefront. https://gizmodo.com/an-amazingly-quick-lesson-on-americas-contribution-to-1455206599 The episode is described thusly: You’ll learn about how the war changed the country as a whole, and changed how Americans thought about their…

Sam Jackson’s TV hair is the best thing about the new RoboCop movie

So far the best thing we’ve seen from the new RoboCop reboot is Sam Jackson’s sweet, sweet TV hair. Seriously, this side cast of actors is more exciting than an actual cyborg cop. Thanks to the RoboCop Facebook page, we now have a new collection of RoboCop images heralding the coming of a brand new…