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5 Fantastic Air Fresheners to Save You From Your Stench

Sometimes your stuff gets smelly. Whether it’s because you’re smelly or just a victim of some wayward stench, it sucks, and it’s a problem worth fixing. You, dear Giz readers, responded to my desperate call for solutions, and here a few of the stand outs y’all came up with. https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-best-air-freshener-1111389678 Forget Febreze. Here’s what’s going…

The Hunger Games finale Mockingjay casts a Game of Thrones star!

One of last year’s Best Actor nominees might voice Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy. (No, not Daniel Day-Lewis, sadly.) Edgar Wright offers final thoughts on The World’s End and new thoughts on Ant-Man. Steven Moffat discusses Matt Smith’s final Doctor Who episode. Plus hints galore from the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. showrunners. Spoilers away!…

Take a Nostalgia Trip With These Beautiful Wooden Gliders

Remember those awesome polystyrene toy planes that used to come in paper sleeves? They were the coolest, right? Well, now you’re all grown up, how about a grown-up equivalent—in the shapes of these gorgeous wooden gliders. Fortunately, Matthew Tait has put together a new set of toy planes called Turbo Flyer. Handmade from balsa and…

Why Your Next Smartphone Might Be Full of Wax

It might not just be your ears that are stuffed with wax for long—because researchers from the University of Michigan want to pack your phone full of the stuff, too. In the process of trying to make processors more efficient, they’ve hit on an intriguing idea: cover the chip in a mesh of wax which,…

Google’s Word Definitions Just Got Way More Useful

While Google’s word definitions may literally be a little odd at times, the “define word” search command is incredibly convenient—and it’s now got a whole lot more useful, too. https://gizmodo.com/googles-definition-of-literally-is-not-the-literal-def-1143090535 An update to the search tool means that the define command now throws up a nice table of data about the word in question, not…

Samsung has been denied a new trial over the long-standing dispute of Apple’s ‘bounce back’ scrolling patent. Finally!

This Is the World’s Most Precise Clock

Need the time? How about to the closest hundred trillionth of a second? No problem! Because this, officially now the world’s most precise clock, can tell the time more precisely than any other device ever has. Fuelled by the rather exotic element ytterbium, the clock is stable to one part in a quintillion. Like the…

How Flavors Are Linked, Visualized

If you’ve ever wondered why certain foods taste great together—tomato and basil or, hell, peanut butter and jelly—then wonder no longer. This amazing visualization from Scientific American shows how flavors are linked, and explains why certain combinations work so well. In the fully interactive visualization, each blue dot is a food which sits in one…

Xerox is finally rolling out an update for those rogue copiers that mix up numbers.

Don’t Text and Drive Because You Might Crash into a Manure Truck

So we might have found Biff Tannen. A guy in Wisconsin was texting and driving a Ford Mustang convertible when BAM… he crashed into a tractor pulling a trailer “full of liquid manure”. Yikes, that might actually be worse than Biff’s fate in Back to the Future. Police said that the crash occurred on Highway…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: Holy Sh*ep

Be careful what you wish for, otherwise your three-hour tour could become a three-course meal.

What Guns Look Like Point Blank

This is what it looks like when a gun is pointing at you. It’s a terrifying view that I hope nobody ever has to see. With photographs captured by Peter Andrew, Simon Duffy and Derek Blais, the ongoing photo series Point Blank shows what different types of guns—Glocks, Desert Eagles, Uzis, etc.—look like up close.…

Watch a Hot Ball of Nickel Scorch Little Gummy Bears to Goop

When you drop a burning ball of nickel onto the world’s largest gummy bear, the synthetic gummy bear surprisingly wins. There’s just too much gummy! But if you put that same burning ball of nickel onto normal sized gummy bears? No contest. Those little tasty fellers get destroyed and smoked and scorched and juiced and…

Ben Affleck will play an older Batman fighting the young Superman

The odds of Batman Vs. Superman being an interesting film just went up somewhat. Because Batman, who apparently will be kicking Superman’s ass judging from the speech we heard at Comic-Con, will be played by Argo director Ben Affleck. Top image: Affleck in the Daredevil mask, which sort of looks like a Bat-cowl if you…

SpaceX rocket exploded in the air during a test launch

Well, that’s not supposed to happen. A SpaceX rocket exploded during a test flight in Texas earlier today. This was the second test for the three engine version of SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket. There were no injuries. SpaceX told USA Today that, “an anomaly was detected in the vehicle and the flight termination system…

Report: Amazon Is Testing Its Own Wireless Network

According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon has tested its own wireless network. As in a network that people would use to connect to the Internet. As in axing the middle man and essentially becoming a carrier or ISP on its own. As in potentially using a ‘Amazon Wireless’-type service to get on the Internet from…

Iron Man becomes a guided missile, in stunning new concept art

We’ve seen a ton of Iron Man 3 concept art before — but we didn’t see the concepts from suit designer extraordinaire Phil Saunders… until now. Saunders finally released some designs for Tony Stark’s cutting-edge armors, and they are glorious. One interesting piece of information that Saunders released, along with his early designs for Extremis…

How NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Would Work

It’s not quite Armageddon but NASA revealed a concept video animation detailing how NASA would find, capture, re-direct and study a near-Earth asteroid. In the animation by NASA, you can see a crew of astronauts taking off on the Orion spacecraft and using the Moon to swing onto the captured asteroid. In NASA’s plans, Orion…

Remember a few months ago when Pandora announced that it would impose a 40-hour listening cap on mobile users who don’t pay for a subscription? Well, it’s going away September 1st—just days before Apple’s iTunes Radio is expected to go live. Coincidence?

Classic monster cereals coming back for Halloween!

The food we consume as a child has a huge influence on how we eat throughout adult life. Monster-branded corn-syrup-infused puffs of starch and sweetener can start a youngster down a path of overeating, diabetes, heart disease and early death. But still, people miss their “Fruit Brute,” which is returning for Halloween! https://gizmodo.com/the-triumphant-return-of-the-most-terrifying-cereals-of-1185520573