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The F-35A Became a Full-Fledged Weapons System Yesterday

The F-35A Lightning II took a big step towards entering active service in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base in California yesterday. For the first time, this fifth-gen fighter jet performed a live fire weapons test, successfully engaging and deploying an air-to-air missile against an unmanned target. Look at that bad boy go. According…

Amazon Has The Moto X For 50 Bucks

Following a recent across the board price drop to $100, Amazon is taking another 40 dollars off the price of the Moto X for AT&T subscribers, and $50 off for Verizon users. This the best Android phone for most people, and even if you’re enamored by today’s reveal of the Nexus 5, this is quite…

You Can Grab $250 Off a New MacBook Pro at Best Buy This Weekend

Friday and Saturday, Best Buy is chopping $250 off the base-model MacBook Pro, and $100 off every MacBook Air — with additional discounts for trade-ins. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-2013-macbook-pro-is-faster-and-lighter-1448869926 Specifically, the 13.3″, 8GB MacBook Pro goes down to $1250, a pretty decent savings on a model that rarely sees any kind of discount. And the across-the-board MacBook Air…

Gavin Hood breaks down the Mind Games from Ender’s Game

Yes the Mind Games are in the movie! We spoke with Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood on creating the wild Mind Game challenges that hero Ender Wiggin has to pass and what was the most conceptually difficult idea from the book that he was tasked with creating. Hint: it wasn’t the Battle Room. Let’s talk…

Dead girls take over a woman’s house in this creepy webcomic fairytale

If you’re looking for a sad and chilling story to read this Halloween, Emily Carroll’s webcomic story Out of Skin delivers a fantastically terrible dose of body horror. A woman comes across a pit filled with dead girls who refuse to stay hidden beneath the ground. If you haven’t read them before, I highly recommend…

From Abington to Yorkleigh: What to Name Your Subdivision in 1949

Did you grow up in a place called Colonial Terrace? Lawndale? Hawthorne Grove? Then you might want to thank Stanley L. McMichael. In his 1949 book Real Estate Subdivisions, the real estate guru took all the guesswork out of naming new suburban streets, providing a supersafe and hypersanitized vanilla list of options for future subdivision…

Marvel at 2013’s best microscopic photography

The world of the incredibly small is also the world of the incredibly cool. Check out the winners of this year’s Small World Photomicrography Competition. All images via Small World Nikon Nikon’s Small World competition is one of the leading forums for showcasing the insanely beautiful and bizarre worlds that only light microscopes can reveal.…

Swarms of Drones Will Be Mapping the World All By Themselves in No Time

You’re probably used to hearing about drones as these scary, deadly things causing chaos in Pakistan, but the scientific community is actually pretty pumped up about the technology. Why wouldn’t they be? Drones can makes 3D maps of mountains. https://gizmodo.com/a-swarm-of-drones-3d-mapped-the-matterhorn-in-stunning-1445555177 The National Science Foundation recently invested in technology that makes it easier than ever to…

Nine two-sentence horror stories scarier than any Hollywood movie

Not so long ago, Reddit users gathered around a digital fire to tell horror stories using only two sentences. The experiment demonstrated that the power of suggestion is infinitely more powerful than the explicitness of modern Hollywood gore. Here are the top 10: I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check…

Show Us Your Most Spooktacular Halloween Costumes

Tonight millions of kid kids and grownup kids will dress up as all kinds of things. I for, one, am going with a group of friends as Muppets with a disco twist. What are you dressing up as? Halloween hasn’t stopped being fun even though we aren’t trick-or-treating anymore. Even if you’re just throwing on…

These were the GIFs of the Victorian Age

Modern GIFs may make the Internet a more animated place, but they’re no match for the sublime weirdness of 19th-century animations. While some are graceful mini-movies of people and animals, others seem pulled from some truly surreal nightmares. Everything you wanted to know about phenakistoscope, zoetrope, and praxinoscope Who’s Knocking At The Door, a French…

Seven insane minutes of people explaining how ’80s toys are satanic

Dear fellow children of the ’80s — remember how we all turned into Satanists? If only we had listened to author Phil Phillips and Pastor Gary Greenwald back then, two men who realized the demonic agenda in everything from He-Man to the Smurfs. Someone assembled this video of their greatest hits, and it is mesmerizing.…

Photoshop Contest: What Else Is Hiding in New York City’s Tunnels?

You may have read about the lost cow tunnels of New York City yesterday. And if you haven’t, you should! It’s a great story—and the subject of this week’s photo challenge. https://gizmodo.com/the-lost-cow-tunnels-of-new-york-city-1455215193 Now that everyone’s caught up, you know that New York City may or may not be home to an elaborate network of underground…

World’s biggest ball pit is a sea filled with one million balls of fun

If you’re wondering where heaven on Earth is, it’s in China. Surprising, I know. But it’s undeniable after you see this ginormous pink and green ball pit found at the Kerry Hotel in Shanghai. It’s the world’s largest ball pit and stretches over 80 feet long and 40 feet wide. The pit is filled with…

Cramming For Anatomy Is Easier When Your Book Turns Into a Skeleton

Because unfortunately movie versions of medical textbooks are all too rare, if you’re cramming for an upcoming exam on the human skeletal system and the last thing you want to do is spend the night reading, this wonderful $32 tome can be turned into an almost six-foot tall paper skeleton. Nothing beats hands-on experience as…

Could Tomorrow People just be the Mark Pellegrino show? Please??

Check out the above video to see just how much of an MVP Mark Pellegrino was in last night’s Tomorrow People. He’s a father figure to the young John Young, an uncle to Stephen, a deadbeat brother-in-law to Stephen’s mom, and the boss of Ultra’s kill squad. And he just makes it all so… great.…

Got a Galaxy Nexus? No KitKat 4.4 for you. Sorry. That seems dumb and weird since KitKat is supposed to be tricked out for low-spec phones, but it seems to be the case.

Where Monsters Come From, or Bad Paleontology

Ancient myths of dragons, titans, and giants—inhuman creatures battling it out on an alien earth before mankind—are easy enough to find. Seemingly every culture has them. What’s perhaps more surprising is that many of these tales of deformed and monstrous beings, whether terrifying dragons or beneficent heroes armed for battle, often resulted from a misunderstanding…

What video game would make a fantastic movie?

We would trade many of the films out today for one epic video game movie adaptation. There are so many amazing stories waiting to be retold on the big screen sitting in bargain bins at Best Buy. So many—but which video game would make the greatest movie? Personally, I would love to see The Force…

It’s Easy To Clean Under This Levitating Bed

Scientists claim there are no black holes close enough to harm our solar system. But they’re clearly not acknowledging the black holes that exist under every bed, sucking in and trapping dropped items, random clothing, and seemingly every last speck of dust in a room. There’s a solution, though, in the form of Letti Bolzan’s…