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This Game Boy Flask Gives You the Courage Mario and Link Never Could

All the unlimited lives, ammo, and health in the world won’t make it easier to deal with your boss at that meeting you’ve got later today. But you know what will? Some straight-up liquid courage. And that’s why this Gamebooze is infinitely more useful to a gainfully employed adult than a Game Boy. For just…

Even Cheaper Than Usual Storage, Dumb DSLR To Smart DSLR, Apps [Deals]

Storage, get your storage here, now at lower than usual discount prices. Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 3TB USB3 External Hard Drive ($100) | Microsoft Seagate Backup Plus for Mac 4TB USB 3.0 Mac & PC Storage Model ($150) | NewEgg | Use promo code EMCYTZT4742 Eye-Fi Pro X2 16GB ($70) | Groupon If you’ve ever wished…

It’s doubtful this survival jacket will get you through the apocalypse

For preppers who think they have it all, check out this sweet jacket designed by Marie-Elsa Batteux Flahault. For a single item of survival clothing, it’s got pretty much everything you’ll need for when shit hits the fan. Just don’t expect it to be effective. This jacket is part of Batteux Flahault’s graduate project, “WE…

The Scariest Part of the Latest NSA Revelation Is This Goofy Post-It

The Washington Post reports that, according to new documents leaked by PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA has been secretly tapping into the main communication links connecting both Yahoo’s and Google’s data servers. And you can see it all scribbled—smiley-face included—right here. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsas-been-trying-to-hack-into-tors-anonymous-inte-1441153819 The project (which the agency operated in addition to PRISM, not as…

Explore infinite worlds in an alien computer in RPG The Strange

Beneath our visible reality is a powerful alien network that forms a series of pocket universes, each with its own physical laws and bizarre denizens. It’s called The Strange, and this new tabletop RPG from Monte Cook Games will take you there. Fresh off the success of Numenera, Monte Cook Games has begun development of…

Don’t Worry About This Kayak Flipping: It Transforms Into a Submarine

The long sleek body of a kayak makes it highly efficient at slicing through the water, but for unexperienced paddlers it also makes it easier to flip than a canoe. And that can be a terrifying experience, unless you’re on the water in Olivier Feuillette’s Subo which transforms from a kayak to a fully sealed…

California Woman Gets Charged for Wearing Google Glass While Driving

Well, it was bound to happen. A Google Glass-wearer was ticketed in San Diego last night for “driving with a monitor visible” — the same law that prevents people from watching TV in their cars. But there are exceptions for GPS and satellite radio devices, so we can’t help but wonder if the cop did…

Asian Banks Drop $1 Billion On Long-Stalled Tower Over Central Park

A new $1 billion financing package from a group of Asian banks is breathing life into a stalled plan to build the 1,050-foot-tall MoMA Expansion Tower on West 53rd Street. The building at was designed more than seven years ago by French architect Jean Nouvel—who imagined a shard-like steel framework of cross-bracing that terminates in…

How insanely low can you fly an airliner? This crazy

This is madness: watch this crazy pilot celebrate 100 years of Argentinian civil aviation with the longest and lowest flyby I’ve ever seen. That plane is a 94-foot wingspan Boeing 737-500 capable of carrying 132 passengers. This is even crazier than my previous favorite low pass: That’s a Portuguese Airbus A310 doing an extremely low…

This Is Your Brain on Candy

It’s that time of year again: The pumpkins are carved, the costumes are all laid out with care, and taking candy from strangers is not only allowed, it’s encouraged. But, with all the focus on the tastebuds, just what happens in your brain when you’re eating candy? The Secret Ingredient is Sugar (Also, Dopamine) When…

An Iranian Oil Tanker Hacked Its Own Tracking System to Avoid Detection

Lately, we’ve seen how hackers can cause havoc on the high seas, but the shenanigans have been limited to security researchers for the most part. They wanted to prove that it was possible to do things like take over a ship’s navigation system so that it doesn’t happen in real life. Welp, too late for…

How a cognitive bias made people think their neighbors were spies

We all have cognitive biases. Most often, these biases stick us with nothing more than bad cellphone service or a little gambling debt. Occasionally, though, they cause us to accuse our neighbors of espionage. The reason why is called the Clustering Illusion. Randomness isn’t obvious, and there’s a way to demonstrate that. An interesting exercise,…

Facebook Is Testing Software That Tracks Your Cursor’s Every Move

When most people hear that Facebook upgrades are on the way, they’re probably not hoping for more tracking software. But according to a new Wall Street Journal report, that’s exactly what they’re going to get. Facebook’s analytics chief Ken Rudin recently opened up to The Journal about how the social network plans to track user…

Before TV, Kids Would Flock to Midnight Ghost Shows

Throughout the 1930s and ‘40s, Americans flocked to their local movie theaters to be scared out of their wits. Sure, they loved the classic movies of the time like Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy. But it was the terrifying and humorous stage shows—known generically as the Midnight Ghost Show—that really packed the theaters to capacity.…

DC Comics Is Moving to California

DC Comics is leaving the home it’s known for almost 80 years. DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson announced DC Comics would be moving from New York City to join its digital and administrative office in Burbank, California, in a letter sent to her employees yesterday. Here’s the letter DC employees received: Dear DCE Team, As…

This Sensorless Flying Robot Is Like a Drunken Speeder Bike Orb

After putting its rovers on Mars, Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn’t always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL are taking the same technology-on-the-cheap approach with a low-cost autonomous flying drone that simply bumps and crashes into everything in its path instead of relying on expensive sensors and…

Google wants the government to keep its mysterious barges a secret

What’s Google hiding in their mysterious barges near San Francisco, Portland, and Maine, surrounded by chain-link fences and 24-hour armed guards? Why did they gag government officials with non-disclosure agreements? And how can a private company do that, anyway? The questions pile up. https://gizmodo.com/an-up-close-look-at-the-east-coast-google-mystery-barge-1454795416

Cool-Running Coal Truck Could Save More Lives Than a Dozen Canaries

Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business. Even with modern safety equipment protecting workers from black lung, plenty of other dangers await them underground. Like, say, mixing easily ignited coal dust with hot machine surfaces. That’s why GE has invented a mine-car engine that keeps its cool to prevent setting off a raging inferno. Coal…

One year ago today, much of New York City and the surrounding region was without power, its basements and transit tunnels flooded with seawater from the tidal surge and relentless rainfall of Hurricane Sandy, its suburbs caged in by fallen trees. Gawker’s own Lower Manhattan servers were inundated and we were working on a bare-bones…

The Argument For and Against Kicking Werewolves in the Testicles

So it’s almost Halloween for you guys? Cool. I kind of remember Halloween. Here in post-apocalyptic America, you know what we call the day when people dress up in weird costumes and then track down happy, innocent families and demand some kind of “treat” by threatening them? We call it “every goddamn day of the…