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Can you really be allergic to exercise? Yes – and it sounds awful.

Does your skin get really itchy when you run, bike, or lift weights? If it does, you could suffer from a physical allergy that causes you to itch when you exercise. Greatest allergy ever? Sure, maybe – unless you’ve got the version that makes it miserable to even climb stairs. Top photo by Ed Yourdon…

These homes are the best thief traps I can imagine

Nothing like a good trap loaded with luscious cheese to trap a rat. Like these fake homes full of electronic goodies to attract burglars—and then catch them in the act using hidden cameras. A simple and clever police trick that apparently works great. https://gizmodo.com/fully-furnished-fake-houses-in-uk-run-solely-to-trap-bu-1429599161

Black Kirby and Janelle Monae: The New Cutting Edge of Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism, the movement that puts people of African descent at the center of futuristic and science-fictional ideals, has gotten a new avatar in the form of singer Janelle Monae. But there’s also a new book coming out, two new art shows, an Octavia Butler graphic novel, and much, much more. A terrific article in Ebony…

NI’s New Maschine Studio: A Big-Ass Controller for Your Beats

Native Instruments just released version 2.0 of its beat production software Maschine, and alongside it, Maschine Studio, a hot new hardware controller. As its name implies, this is some serious music machinery. The key advantage to the Maschine ecosystem, as with other Native Instruments products, is that it’s a focused approach. Unlike humungous digital production…

You must make all you old Facebook posts private: here’s how

Facebook has made all your old post searchable. All of them. Which means you must go and lock them all. It’s easy, just follow this guide. Or you just can delete your account and start again… or never come back. https://gizmodo.com/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook-5530178 https://gizmodo.com/how-to-lock-down-facebook-privacy-now-that-old-posts-ar-1431103763

The World’s Biggest Telescope Is Finally Online

With the arrival of the 54th—and final—12-meter wide radio telescope, the single largest astronomical project humanity has ever under taken can finally begin peering into the heavens at full strength. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a massive radio telescope array, will provide an unprecedented view of interstellar space where giant gas clouds slowly form…

Microsoft Is Making New Surface Tablets in All Kinds of Aspect Ratios

Microsoft’s line of Surface tablets aren’t bad products—they’re just not compelling enough to break through with an audience outside of Windows fanboys. With a bit of experimentation, though, Surface could find its niche. And it seems like that’s exactly what Microsoft has in mind. At an in-store preview of the new Surface tablets in Seattle,…

Deals: Speck Cases and Covers, X-Files, Free Steve Jobs Kindle Book

Regardless of your choice of device, Speck has you covered, literally, and today we’ve got you covered with you a great deal on their products. Hit up Groupon and buy $50 of Speck credit for only $25, and then use it on whatever case or cover you like, whether it’s for a Macbook Air, iPhone…

The 14 Most Ridiculous Mutants from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Turtles are not alone. Countless animals — and people — have encountered the Mutagen ooze over the series’ shows, comics and toylines; sometimes they turn into normal anthropomorphic animals with reasonable goals and sometimes they become exotic creatures who lose their minds and devote their lives to esoteric themes. And sometimes they get weirder…

Do you have a Star Trek t-shirt design you’ve been dying to create? Now you can enter the ThinkGeek and HerUniverse contest for best Star Trek tee design — winners get cash, and the design will be turned into a gorgeous tee! More details about the contest on ThinkGeek.

Ask A Geophysicist Anything You Want About Earthquakes

What will happen to the island created by the earthquake last week? How accurate are earthquake portrayals in pop culture? What should you do to prepare for an earthquake? Today, we have an expert here to answer your questions about the inner workings and effects of earthquakes. https://gizmodo.com/7-7-magnitude-quake-in-pakistan-just-created-a-new-isla-1377964003 John Bellini has been a geophysicist with…

Happy Birthday (and RIP) to Disney World’s Best Ride Ever

On October 1, 1983 the greatest ride to ever appear at Walt Disney World opened to the public. They called it Horizons. It wasn’t a thrill-packed roller coaster like Space Mountain. And it didn’t have the middle-brow gravitas of something educational like the Hall of Presidents. But it was the best ride that Disney has…

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Display: How Much Better Is It?

The OLED display on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the best-performing mobile OLED display to date in every way. But its most impressive achievement? It’s the brightest mobile display we’ve ever tested. The Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy S Smartphones are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display…

Things Could Be Better for NASA on Its 55th Birthday

On October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration became operational for the first time. Today, the agency celebrates its 55th birthday by being largely non-operational thanks to a federal government shutdown that’s left all but about 600 of its workers furloughed. https://gizmodo.com/government-shutdown-could-delay-a-650-million-nasa-mis-1433554228 It’s a particular shame because NASA does have a lot to…

Sleepy Hollow Is a Shirtless Nightmare This Week

Sleepy Hollow has been on a two-week speed date with the Headless Horseman, Sheriff Abbie Mills, resurrectee Ichabod Crane, his remarkably sturdy coat, witches, and George Washington’s New International Expository Bible. This week, it delivered a brisk dream-horror episode that managed to get everybody’s shirts off. (Don’t worry, the Horseman showed up in the apparently…

The true story of Sir Jeffery Hudson, the real-life Tyrion Lannister

Born in 1619 to a prominent butcher, Sir Jeffery Hudson became a valued member of Charles I’s court in England — this despite being a dwarf who measured under three feet tall. And remarkably, his life contained some indisputable Game of Thrones-like action and intrigue. Writing in History Today, C. Northcote Parkinson describes the life…

Amazing Concept Art Shows How We Fixed the World By 2050

There’s tons of bleak, dystopian science fiction about our terrible near future — so instead, author Jonathon Porritt decided to write an upbeat novel about how we dragged the world back from the edge of disaster. Check out a book trailer that’s also an uplifting documentary from 2050. Porritt is the author of The World…

S.H.I.E.L.D.’s success revives talk of a live-action Star Wars Show

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series premiered to insane numbers. Everyone was watching, and because of this massive TV success, Disney is allegedly rethinking the axing of the live-action Star Wars show. Clearly, there’s money to be made here. Blue Sky is reporting that even thought Disney put the kibosh on Luscasfilm’s plans for a…

Nokia’s Actually Researching How To Charge Phones With Lightning

If there ever was a corporate stunt that deserved a ‘do not try this at home’ warning, this is it. Working with scientists from the University of Southampton—translation: people who know what they’re doing—Nokia has successfully charged a Lumia 925 using lightning generated in a laboratory. All of a sudden that knock-off smartphone charger you’ve…

Scientists Just Discovered a Key Plastic Ingredient–In Space

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft just detected propylene on Saturn’s moon Titan. You might recognize the name of the chemical as part of polypropylene, the material that the food storage containers in your cupboard are probably made of. It’s the first time that the plastic ingredient has ever been observed anywhere other than Earth. Besides being a…