Here are the jewels that’ll adorn the feet of the world’s greatest basketball player LeBron James for the upcoming basketball season. They look like they’re brilliantly cut like a diamond. They look like something Iron Man might wear in his future. They also look like something an outer space alien version of The Thing would…
There’s plenty of science fiction that looks like people involved with it were tipsy or impaired — but this might be the first space action movie that was written, directed and acted by drunk people. Star Drunk, people: the movie that is its own drinking game. As quoted by Laughing Squid: Star Drunk is an…
You don’t even need to buy a Roomba lawn mower, all you need to do to rid yourself from the chore of mowing lawns is to make the lawn mower mow itself. How? Be like this guy who strapped his self-propelled lawn mower with rope to a stake in the middle of the yard. The…
We have to wait nearly two years to see Henry Cavill’s Superman take on Ben Affleck’s Batman on the big screen — but you can read the screenplay for another Superman/Batman movie right now. Top image: Charles Logan on DeviantArt Below is a ScribD embed of the script for Batman Vs. Superman: Asylum, as written…
Here’s a fun idea to get your revenge on telemarketers: a man turned his landline into a hotline, earning $465 in the process. But here’s a better idea: disconnect your landline already and don’t pick any cellphone calls from anyone who isn’t in your address book. http://gawker.com/man-gets-upper-hand-on-telemarketers-by-turning-landlin-1216908284
The twentieth century Soviet space program will always be remembered as one of the greatest in the world. And these posters reveal that it also came with one of the world’s most beautifully-designed propaganda campaigns, too. Above: Homeland, your mission is accomplished! Science and Communism Are Inseparable, 1959 (via LiveAuctioneers) Praise to the Brave Sons…
When Google’s army of Street View vehicles takes to the streets, there’s no telling what those wandering eyes will see. Still it’s hard to believe that a Google Street View camera captured a space shuttle flying over the New Jersey Turnpike towards New York City. We’ve seen our share of spectacular flyover images, but nothing…
The free-range crime simulation known as Grand Theft Auto V will give you 15 radio stations—all full of licensed songs—hosted by famous DJs, so you can sing along in your stolen car while driving from killing someone to robbing from someone else. https://kotaku.com/good-lord-the-gta-v-soundtrack-is-going-to-be-amazing-1217367806
While this generally goes unsaid, the internet has become a huge crutch—but more than that, we’re pretty much blind without it. What do you do when you need to convert meters to feet? Hit a few buttons on your keyboard and bam, Google tells you all you need to know. But the thing is, you’re…
The voice of the Joker (Mark Hamill) and voice of Harley Quinn (Tara Strong) recorded this super adorable vine. It is perfect, and we’ve watched it 500 times. More Joker-Harley vines please!
After a too-long hiatus, we’re happy to announce that Gizmodo’s Photoshop Contest has returned. And what better occasion to inspire its revival than the brand new cat Monopoly token sitting our desk, just begging to be put in outrageous situations. We reviewed this slap in the face to your childhood earlier in the day here,…
Sometimes you grow to love a character — or at least get used to him or her having a particular personality. And then… all of a sudden, this once-familiar character has a completely different personality, in between movies or seasons of a TV show. What’s the most baffling personality shift of all time? Please include…
When Buckminster Fuller died, he was buried under a gravestone with a very peculiar inscription: CALL ME TRIMTAB. Fuller had uttered those words to a Playboy reporter in 1972 (this kind of thing happened a lot in the 70s) to describe the kind of effect he wanted to have on the world. But what did…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.” If that line makes you giggle, feel free to rush out and purchase Charles Stross’s newest novel Neptune’s Brood, a comedy of banking and manners with some chase scenes and explosions thrown in…
Yesterday Apple TV added Vevo, Disney, Disney XD, and Smithsonian apps. Today, in another over-the-air update, it got ESPN’s entire lineup of apps, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and more.
Ridley Scott is leaving the far future for the distant past, with an epic based on the Old Testament. And why not? The future is dark and full of terrible albino ab monsters. Wait until you hear who’s starring in his Moses movie, Exodus. THR is reporting that Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton have been…
Betaworks, the company that resurrected Digg and bought Instapaper, didn’t waste any time giving Instapaper a makeover. A beautiful redesign of the Instapaper site just went live. https://gizmodo.com/instapaper-was-just-bought-by-the-same-company-that-bou-5995402 Changes to the mobile apps are coming soon, but for now the difference is with the main desktop version. The changes to the formerly barebones site are…
They’re a cheap and easy way to add some extra sleeping space to your apartment, but futons are a sure sign that you’re either in college, just graduated from college, or can’t stop reliving college. If you’re looking for a slightly more sophisticated way to accommodate guests, like an adult, this incredibly comfy-looking Figo lounger…
A team from the University of Newcastle is perfecting a method of capturing carbon emissions and transforming them into carbonate rock bricks. They’re just part of a wave of efforts by scientists who hope to tame carbon in order to shape a greener future. While there are many carbon capture innovations at work, this carbonate…
Porn spoofs of science fiction, fantasy and superheroes have saved the adult movie industry from financial ruin in recent years. But they’ve been around for as long as X-rated movies have existed. Here’s our completely NSFW guide to the porn parodies of your favorite movies and TV shows. Top image: Batman XXX. Note: Because this…
