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What Happens When You Drop a Red Hot Nickel Ball Onto Aerogel

Red hot nickel ball of fire meet your toughest opponent yet: aerogel. In fact, aerogel is such an amazing material and excellent insulator that the eternal flame of the nickel ball does absolutely nothing to it. Like, seriously. It affects the aerogel as much as the normal air around it (or in it too?). But…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apple Patent Could Bring TouchID to iPads and Macs

The next generation of MacBook laptops and iPad tablets could be opened with a scan of a fingerprint (or nipple-print, or toe-print , or sausage-print), as Apple’s TouchID patent looks ready to cover a wider range of the Cupertino firm’s products. Patently Apple has uncovered the filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Impressive image shows America’s newest aircraft carrier about to float

The first time you see an American nuclear super-carrier in person, you can’t believe the size. It’s simply astonishing. It must be even more impressive if you see it like this, fully naked in a dry dock about to be flooded. Expand it to see it at full resolution. https://gizmodo.com/the-bow-size-of-the-navys-new-nuclear-supercarrier-defi-5913348 It happened on October 11,…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Fujifilm XQ1: Fuji’s New Tiny Cam Packs Tons of Power in Your Pocket

When Fujifilm announced its beautiful pocket camera, the XF1, last year we were genuinely psyched, which made the camera’s disappointing handling even more of a bummer. With the XQ1, Fuji has fixed some of the XF1’s annoyances and packed in the same hot image sensor that’s on the badass X20. Now we’re talking. https://gizmodo.com/fujifilm-xf1-review-clever-design-that-will-drive-you-5965614 Fujifilm…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Baron

Sometimes, even the most earnest attempts at positive self realization don’t work out quite the way we hope. Like when you are trying to impress your co-workers but end up crab walking in a leather uni-suit and fright wig while screaming, “I waltz through the valley of death, swatting wankers as I go!”

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Stan Lee Explains Why 3D Movies Suck

It’s not that 3D movies aren’t worth watching because some totally are (see: Gravity). It’s that Hollywood loves to shove it down our throat as something new and fancy and some sort of advanced technology and trendy and bullcrap like that. It’s not! Most of the times, 3D movies are made just to squeeze more…

Movies Casey Chan

This Next Generation Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Is the Future

Conveyor belt sushi restaurants are usually only worth going to once in your life. The sushi is hardly ever amazing since it spins on the belt over and over again while the dishes you actually want might be snatched ahead of you so you never get to eat it. Not to mention plates stacking on…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Nexus 5 Accidentally Pops Up Early on Google Play for $350

Google’s worst kept secret and possibly best upcoming Android phone has just unofficially revealed itself in the most official way possible… inside the actual Google Play Store. https://gizmodo.com/did-google-accidentally-leak-the-next-nexus-phone-1247836161 That’s right, the Nexus 5 is listed as “starting at $349” for the 16GB version and looks exactly like how we expected it to look like. One…

Tech News Casey Chan

This skull may have just rewritten the book on human evolution

It’s a discovery that could change our understanding of early humans. An incredibly well-preserved, 1.8-million-year-old skull from Dmanisi, Georgia suggests the evolutionary tree of the genus Homo may have fewer branches than previously believed. A detailed analysis of the skull (above, in situ, and at left, fully excavated), appears in the latest issue of Science.…

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Watch People Freak Out When They See Ghosts Inside an iPhone Camera

This prank is such pure evil genius that you can’t help but laugh. And feel bad because you’d get freaked out too. Funny man Jack Vale scared the creepy crawly goosebumps out of people by asking strangers to take his picture with his iPhone. Why’s that scary? Because Vale had pre-recorded a fake ‘ghost’ (or…

Tech News Casey Chan

On The Tomorrow People, daddy issues are a secret weapon

Last night’s Tomorrow People went through some crazy plot gyrations to keep the “Stephen working for both Ultra and the mutants” storyline afloat. But it was superfun, you have to love how the two storylines — Stephen’s father and suspicion at Ultra — dovetail, in the clip above. Sure, a lot of it doesn’t entirely…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Comment of the Day: Hybrid Mutant Shark Edition

In today’s comments, we envied the polite small-talk abilities of the marmoset, looked up at the heavens with a mixture of awe and suspicion, and learned one more reason to fear the deep: hybrid sharks. In response to this post, exposing a potential yeti as just a pretender to the throne ancient polar-brown bear hybrid,…

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Diplo feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex: Set It Off

An exciting thing happened in the world of dinosaur bones this week: News broke that a rare Diplodocus longus skeleton will go to the auction block next month. This must have thrilled everybody’s favorite beat jockey, Diplo, who took his name from the dinosaur. You see, Diplo (née Thomas Wesley Pentz) was fascinated with dinosaurs…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This is how small and ignorant we are—and how much we have to explore

As of October 13, 2013, humans have discovered almost one thousand exo-planets, worlds outside our solar system. 998 planets in 759 planetary systems, most of them giant gas worlds. It seems like a lot, but it’s nothing. Just look at the tiny space we have covered so far. That space has a lot more planets…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This retro adventure game version of the The Shining is so good

I love CineFix retro game versions of movies. Their 1990s Maniac Mansion style remake of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is begging for a real version for iPad. I want to play it. Badly. https://kotaku.com/if-lucasarts-made-a-game-about-the-shining-1447095703

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Bike Your Way To Adventure With These Sweet City Cycling Guides

Rapha has been a one-stop-shop for all kinds of cool bike accessories since launching its first collection in 2004; in addition to the stylish wearables, they’ve got a small batch of prints and publications dedicated to the joy of road climbs and racing. Now, they’re adding leisure travel to the mix with an eight volume…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

Modern Classics Get Retro with the Best Premakes Ever

Sometimes you’ve got to send a modern movie or TV series back in time to remake it before it’s ever born! That’s what happens in these premakes, which take contemporary movies and shows, and turn them into old-fashioned fare. Logan’s Run (1976) in the style of the ’30s Audio from Logan’s Run theatrical trailer (1976),…

Movies Vincze Miklós

NASA’s budget is less than the total cost of the government shutdown

NBC News has a list of nine things that costs less than the final bill of the government shutdown, estimated at $24 billion. Two of them: the 2014 budget of NASA ($17.7 billion) and running the International Space Station for almost eight years (cost per year: $3 billion). High five, Washington clowns.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Could an Ignition-Activated “Car Mode” Keep Drivers From Texting?

Texting while driving accounts for more and more accidents every year, but there’s no clear solution in sight (unless you think these new SMS rest stops will work). New York designer Joey Cofone is proposing another idea: An iOS “Car Mode,” akin to airplane mode, that would prevent you from texting while your car is…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Precise measurements reveal that this is the world’s fluffiest bunny

OK, so we didn’t do a scientific study or anything, but this Angora rabbit is one of the fluffiest creatures you’ll ever see. It’s also been bred by humans for its long fur for a really long time. The Angora originates from Turkey and is considered the oldest domesticated rabbit. It became popular with French…

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What Happens When You Drop a Red Hot Nickel Ball Onto Aerogel

Apple Patent Could Bring TouchID to iPads and Macs

Impressive image shows America’s newest aircraft carrier about to float

Fujifilm XQ1: Fuji’s New Tiny Cam Packs Tons of Power in Your Pocket

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Baron

Stan Lee Explains Why 3D Movies Suck

This Next Generation Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Is the Future

The Nexus 5 Accidentally Pops Up Early on Google Play for $350

This skull may have just rewritten the book on human evolution

Watch People Freak Out When They See Ghosts Inside an iPhone Camera

On The Tomorrow People, daddy issues are a secret weapon

Comment of the Day: Hybrid Mutant Shark Edition

Diplo feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex: Set It Off

This is how small and ignorant we are—and how much we have to explore

This retro adventure game version of the The Shining is so good

Bike Your Way To Adventure With These Sweet City Cycling Guides

Modern Classics Get Retro with the Best Premakes Ever

NASA’s budget is less than the total cost of the government shutdown

Could an Ignition-Activated “Car Mode” Keep Drivers From Texting?

Precise measurements reveal that this is the world’s fluffiest bunny

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