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This Curved LG G Flex Phone Sure Looks Beautifully Bent Up

Here’s a closer look at LG’s upcoming curved banana phone, known as the G Flex. You can see the curved OLED display curl up like the Galaxy Nexus once did but at an angle that’s slightly more dramatic. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-lgs-new-curved-phone-1444678491 The pictures, were given to The Verge by journalist Federico Ini, and they supposedly show off…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Pitch Videos

Take your favorite TV spot. Cut out all of the post-production effects, professional actors, props, CGI, and anything even resembling a budget. What do you have? This collection of unintentionally hilarious clips from director Tony Benna.

Spitfire spits fire. Beautiful image of a Spitfire TE311 performing a hot start, taken by RAF Senior Aircraftman Graham Taylor, from the 2013 RAF Photographic Competition Awards.

Everything Apple Didn’t Announce at Yesterday’s iPad Event

Two new iPads! Better MacBook Pros! The finishing touches on the cylindrical Mac Pro. OS X Mavericks for free. iLife. iWork. Apple announced a ton of stuff during its iPad event. Stuff that’ll dent your wallet. Stuff that’ll make your life better. Stuff that’ll keep you happy. But what about all the stuff Apple didn’t…

What Do You Guys Think of the New iPad Air and iPad Mini?

A new iPad Air. It’s significantly lighter, skinnier, easier to hold and faster all the way around. The iPad mini now finally comes with a retina display. And it has the same A7 processor that powers the iPhone 5S and iPad Air. Aside from screen size, their guts are practically identical. What do you guys…

Everybody needs a sleazy scifi t-shirt sometimes

Looking for the perfect sleazy geek tee to wear on your next sexy away mission? We’ve got you (mostly) covered. Because we all want someone who is totally rational by day, and a howling uniform-ripper by night. Yum! These babies are $27 over at Human.

Behold the incredible, gorgeous future of energy production

You’re looking at an astonishingly huge and gorgeous solar energy plant that’s being built by Brightsource Energy, an American firm, in the Negev desert. It looks like something out of Star Trek, but it’s actually from Earth’s near future. According to Inhabitat: The Ashalim power plant will be located in the Negev desert near Kibbutz…

Comment of the Day: Afrofuturism Edition

In today’s comments, we parsed out the procedure for the perfect selfie, chose the historical figures we wished would just stay in the past, and looked at the global reach of afrofuturism. Today, we hosted a Q&A with the author of Afrofuturism, Ytasha Womack. In response to a question from commenter mxyzptlk, Womack told us…

Amazing and Inspirational Women’s Costumes to “Take Back Halloween”

It seems like lately the Halloween stores are full of “sassy” costumes or sexy spins on random staples (yep that’s a “sexy” Michael Myers outfit). Hey, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but what about championing the real heroes every once in a while? Writer and activist Suzanne Scoggins is helping “Take Back Halloween”…

Ancient tattoos may have been used as medicine

We know that many ancient peoples practiced tattooing, based on the body art we see represented in figurines and wall carvings. But these tattoos found on the skin of the mummified 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman reveal that body art wasn’t just ceremonial. Over at Archaeology magazine, there’s a fantastic article on ancient tattoos,…

What do Death’s daughter, revenge and a dead rabbit have in common?

They’re all in Pretty Deadly, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios’ new Western-horror-fantasy comic from Image. A butterfly and a dead rabbit relate the story of Death’s daughter’s quest for vengeance, and it’s weirder, more brutal and simply more amazing than I can describe here. That and more, in this week’s comics! New Issues Dark…

Facebook Changes Its Mind Again: It’s Now Re-Banning Decapitation Videos

After flipping to ban brutal, gruesome decapitation videos six months ago and then flopping to allow such videos to appear in the ‘book yesterday, Facebook has flipped again (or is it re-flopped?) in less than 24 hours and will reinstate its previous ban on such decapitation videos. It’s an ugly tug of war between free…

A Stick-On Speaker That Uses Your Windows To Silence Noises Outside

That suspiciously cheap apartment you just moved into? Turns out to be right next to a deafening hourly commuter train—and since you signed a one year lease, you’re looking at either twelve months wearing noise cancelling headphones. Or desperately hoping Rudolf Stefanich’s Sono noise cancelling window device comes to fruition. We’ve probably all seen those…

Utterly Bitchen Car Dashboards Inspired By Spaceships

Let’s be honest — when you’re driving, you’re pretending that you’re at the helm of a starship. The digital dashboards in these cars will help keep that illusion alive. Aston Martin Lagonda Series 2 (1976-1985) with LED dashboards, touch pad controls and gas plasma displays (via Retrorides) Citroën Karin, a concept car from 1980 (via…

This image shows the first matter ever created by the Big Bang

This extraordinary image shows something never seen before: a proto-galaxy feeding on the first stuff ever, violently making stars from the pristine hydrogen produced by the Big Bang itself, shortly after the Universe began to exist. It’s like having a glimpse into the beginning of everything. Discovered by Dr Neil Crighton and his colleagues from…

James Gunn’s Transcendental feels like a lost Golden Age classic

Cracking open James Gunn’s latest novel, Transcendental, is like finding a lost manuscript from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. And while reading it, I enjoyed the retro-stylings — but couldn’t help but think this is the kind of thing science fiction has left behind for a reason. Gunn’s novels features a mixed group of…

This Matrix-style rig creates ‘bullet time’ GIFs with 130 smartphones

In an effort to show off its powerful Snapdragon 600 processors, Qualcomm recently constructed a 540-degree bullet time photo booth using 130 HTC One smartphones. And then they let the residents of Venice Beach go to town with it. The company has set up a page on its website to post GIFs made with its…

Would You Pay $75,000 to Ride This Spectacular Balloon to Space?

Space tourism sounds exciting and unforgettable and all, but with a single trip costing as much as a small house, it’s simply out of reach for the average person. A company called Paragon Space Development Corp is hoping to change that with a new, more affordable ticket to space. It’ll cost as much as a…

Here’s Benedict Cumberbatch doing mo-cap as The Hobbit‘s Smaug

The most exciting thing about this December’s new Hobbit film is the appearance of Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug, the fearsome dragon. And these behind-the-scenes photos of Cumberbatch doing motion-capture show just how much he put into the role. These photos of Cumberbatch doing mo-cap were posted on Flickr by user Tolkienerd. Check out more at…

Step Aside, Street Lamps: These Ordinary Paths Glow On Their Own

Charging off-grid street lamps with solar power is a positive step towards reducing energy consumption. But what if our sun-baked public walkways also glowed in the dark? https://gizmodo.com/self-contained-solar-powered-streetlights-stay-complete-1446549431 A UK-based company has patented a spray-on substance that gives plain old pavement an after-hours glimmer. Pro-Teq developed the product, Starpath, as a way to reduce energy…