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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Yellow Submarine

They sure don’t make trailers like this anymore. Or even movies, for that matter. I blame the Blue Meanies. This original theatrical trailer for the Beatles’ 1968 psychedelic classic, Yellow Submarine, was released to celebrate the release of the Blu-ray and 4k remastered versions of the film. You can find the Blu-ray version for $22…

The Complete Visual History of Wolverine’s Suit

Oh, that yellow spandex with beautiful blue trunks. As classic as that suit was, I have no beef with Wolverine’s badassery tossing that away in the movies (plus, with a body like Hugh Jackman’s…). But still, it’s nice to see the Wolverine we all loved as a child again. Here’s the full history of all…

Every Lego Fan Needs These Red Brick Slippers

One of the most painful feelings in the entire world is when you accidentally step onto a Lego brick with your bare foot. AGH the shooting needle of plastic is a horrific reminder of how big a weakling your feet are. No worries though. For true Lego fanatics, they can turn to Lego brick house…

We Saw the First Ten Minutes of Terry Gilliam’s New Masterpiece

Terry Gilliam is the director of science fiction classics Brazil and 12 Monkeys, and he debuted the first ten minutes of his latest weird vision, The Zero Theorem, at Comic-Con this afternoon. It stars Christoph Waltz, looks like a cross between Blade Runner and Sesame Street, and will blow your mind. Though Gilliam couldn’t be…

You Won’t Believe What Happens When You Light These Chemicals on Fire

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mixed Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) and Ammonium chromate (NH4)2CrO4 together and then lit it on fire? NO?! What’s wrong with you? It’s unbelievably hellish and impossibly alien combined with one burning force of what the horrifically kraken insane. The video starts off innocently enough with just ordinary…

How Much Food Do We Waste Every Year?

We’re wasteful people. Maybe not you and maybe not me but definitely “we”. Some of us try to live as consciously as possible but it hardly matters when the rest of us are inconsiderate and lazy. The United States wastes about $165 billion in food every year. Half of the food produced in the US…

You Won’t Need a PIN When You Pay for Everything with Your Face

Imagine a world where your debit card stays in your pocket at all times, and you never have to touch cash. This is a place where you don’t have to remember your wallet, or even phone, when you run down to the corner store. It’s a future well off in the distance, to be sure,…

GOP anti-Obamacare ad tries to capitalize on your love of Sharknado

The GOP is hoping your manifest adoration for Syfy’s Sharknado will make you not want to have guaranteed health insurance. Hence this “Obamacarenado” ad, which says health coverage will slice your arm off, spraying blood everywhere. So did it work? Have your political views changed completely, because you realize subsidized health coverage is like a…

Origami for iOS and Android: A Better Way to Share With Family

No one wants their parents on their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media site they might be busy embarrassing themselves on. They surely don’t want to see pictures of you on the verge of consciousness every night and you certainly don’t want them posting embarrassing things in a public forum. Origami keeps things…

Harrison Ford says Han Solo wouldn’t join the army in Ender’s Game

During the panel for Ender’s Game, someone asked Harrison Ford if Han Solo would be a good soldier in Hyrum Graff’s army — meaning the character he plays in the new movie. Ford said no, and here’s why. Ford told the audience: “Han Solo wouldn’t be good as a soldier in anybody’s army. He’s what…

San Diego Comic Con started today, which means a week full of nerd news, nerd toys, and nerd costumes. Here’s the best stuff from the show floor, from our friends at io9.

This Vest Claims To Regulate Your Body Temperature

In our ongoing coverage of things that claim to regulate one’s body temperature, I present to you the Nike Aeroloft 800 Vest. It’s $180. Like the Helly Hansen H2 Flow, Nike’s Aeroloft relies on a series of laser-cut holes and strategically placed chambers of down filling that allows for the dissipation of one’s body heat…

Ikea Resurrects the Little Table That Inspired Ikea as You Know It

Ikea is coming full circle square. This week, the company announced the return of Lövet, the humble table that inadvertently sparked the flatpack revolution in 1956 when, in a fit of desperation, a young designer chopped off its legs in order to cram it into his car. You see, for its first ten years of…

The Cool Pacific Rim End Titles You Never Saw

Pacific Rim had cool end titles, featuring some nifty robot imagery over a song where Rza raps the movie’s entire plot. But the credits could have been even more awe-inspiring. Imaginary Forces, which designed the sequence, have shared some concept art for neat-looking end-titles that were rejected. In an interview with Art of the Title,…

First (tiny) look at X-Men: Days of Future Past‘s Bishop and more

The time-traveling mutant has finally arrived! Here’s the first look at Bishop (upper-lefthand corner), played by Omar Sy — it’s admittedly a pretty small picture, but you can still tell they took his dreadlocked hair and eye-mark right out of the comics. As for the others (going clockwise from Bishop), that’s Colossus, Professor X, Havok,…

Hailee Steinfeld’s nerdy nail art just made our day

Clearly, Hailee Steinfeld knows how to do Comic-Con right. The Ender’s Game actress showed up to this years con with all sorts of delightful fan art on her nails. We spy comic book “Pows,” Lichtenstein inspired eyes, and oh heck yeah — her thumbs are the Dragon and Salamander army sigils from Ender’s Game. This…

Microsoft had to eat $900 million last quarter in unsold Surface RT tablets, which might help explain that $150 price drop the other week. We’ll be listening in on the earnings call later to day for any more details and to try to pinpoint exactly how many things Steve Ballmer smashed when he heard the…

What Are Your Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts?

At Giz, we spend our days all clickity-clackity on our keyboards, and we’re pretty sure a lot of you sit at desks all day, too. Like us, you’ve probably got some favored keyboard shortcuts that changed your life when you discovered them. We want you to share it with us. What are the best keyboard…

We’re Way Behind Schedule For Curing the Common Cold

Despite all of the wonderful advances we’ve seen in modern medicine over the last century, we still have yet to crack a stubborn little virus: the common cold. What a letdown. The February, 1962 issue of Reader’s Digest included an article by Robert O’Brien titled “Forty Years From Now.” The piece looks at all the…

The report that could have made our world an alternate timeline

Just before the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, a report went out to people at the highest levels of power. It predicted an arms race, a policy of mutually assured destruction, and it recommended that we keep the bomb secret. What if we had? This report was given by physicist and now-Nobel-Laureate…