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Phone Calls Are Back in Gmail

Google announced today on the Gmail blog that it’s bringing back the ability to make phone calls from Gmail, and added the capability to Hangouts and Google+. Like Hangout, phone calls will have Google Effects like applause and laughter (though we’re not sure how it will implement party hats or beards), and sessions can include…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

What Is Your Favorite Android Launcher?

The most hardcorest of Android users will root their phones and start from scratch with new ROMs. But, uh, that’s more complicated than what the average user wants to go through just to squeeze slightly better performance out of their phone. Luckily, there is an easier way! An application launcher is an easier way to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

App of the Day: Congress, an App That Tracks Congress

Good name for an app that tracks the activity of Congress, huh? But what is “Congress”? con·gress n. 1. A formal assembly of representatives, as of various nations, to discuss problems. 2. The national legislative body of a nation, especially a republic. 3. Congress a. The national legislative body of the United States, consisting of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Seedbot Makes Your Lawn Lush Without a Lick of Gardening

In some neighborhoods a lush green lawn is as much a status symbol the house it’s in front of. It demonstrates the homeowner’s hard work and dedication to maintaining every last blade of grass. And that’s what makes the Seedbot even more awesome: It’s a simpler shortcut to all that praise and adoration from the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Apple Wants to Redesign Your Car’s Dashboard

While all the fanboys were freaking out over a font change in iOS 7 on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple patent that could dramatically reshape how the inside of your car looks (and works) in a few years. Crediting Canadian Tim Pryor as inventor, the patent takes on the sweeping…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Brilliantly Compact Foosball Tables Made From Airplane Food Trolleys

After spending the vast majority of your college years mastering foosball in the lounge, life as a young professional can be difficult when you realize your cramped apartment barely has room for a bed, let alone a foosball table. The folks at Bordbar can help, though. They turn old food and bar trolleys from airliners…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

All my favorite characters on Under the Dome are sure to die

One of the things I love/hate about Under the Dome is that I get the feeling it’s one of those shows where my favorite characters — the geeky guy, the gothy girl, the snarky engineer and snippy journalist — are all doomed. Maybe they won’t die, but this show has me on the edge of…

Television Annalee Newitz

NYC Nikola Tesla Exhibit Opens Tomorrow, In Time For His 157th Birthday

A new exhibit dedicated to the work of Nikola Tesla opens tomorrow at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. Called Tesla’s Wonderful World of Electricity, this homage to the late inventor was assembled with help from the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. Why tomorrow? Because July 10th is Tesla’s birthday, and is…

Tech News Matt Novak

Boozy Snapshots of American Life Under Prohibition

From 1919 to 1933, the United States was a dry nation. It was illegal to make, sell, or consume alcohol. In this collection of images, you’ll see what daily life was like in a country where police poured millions of gallons of booze into the gutters — and everyone else surreptitiously drank it in bizarre,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Clip makes Christian Slater’s Stranded look like The Thing meets Moon

Are you ready to get creeped the fuck out? Christian Slater and his tiny crew of redshirts are trapped in a moonbase… with an alien life form that could be anybody. Yep, Stranded really does look like Moon meets The Thing. With a dash of Doctor Who’s “Waters of Mars.” The clip above is exclusive…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dropbox Just Changed Everything About How You Use Apps

Way back when, Steve Jobs told Dropbox that it was a feature, not a product. Which was enough at the time. Except now, Dropbox’s reach stretches wide enough, and its influence is great enough, that it just leveled up. It’s not just syncing your files and folders anymore. It’s trying to sync literally everything on…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Best iPhone 5 Cases to Fit Any Need

Not all of us are iPhone nudists. Some of us prefer to clothe our gadgets in a case. But there are probably more cases out there than there are actual iPhones, and we all have unique priorities, whether it be screen protection, style, or saving money. Here are the best iPhone 5 cases that live…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Mars Rover 2020: NASA’s Heroic Plan to Bring a Chunk of Mars to Earth

NASA is making grand plans to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth. Today, the space agency announced the goals for the unnamed rover—pictured in an artist’s rendering above—that will be sent to the red planet in 2020. This is going to be incredible. The broadly stated goals for the Mars 2020 mission include…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

GoPro Proves That Fetch Is Way Less Fun When You’re the Stick

Dogs and GoPro cameras are a perfect match, but for all the footage we’ve seen of our furry friends cavorting and chasing twigs, we’ve never actually seen things from the stick’s perspective. And it turns out, it doesn’t actually look too fun. Sure, Chicken the dog having a joyous time romping around the beach in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen gets one more shot as a TV show

We love Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic series. However, we were less in love with the live-action movie version. But, that’s all in the past now. Fox wants to start fresh with a TV series just for the literary heroes. THR is reporting that Michael Green (who worked on Kings…

Television Meredith Woerner

Old Cancer-Sick Fan Rejected at Legoland Because He Didn’t Bring a Kid

This is 63-year-old John St-Onge, a man who became a devoted Lego fan playing with his children many decades ago. Sick with cancer and diabetes, John and his now-adult daughter Nicole went to fulfill a dream: to visit Legoland Discovery Center in Toronto. He was denied entry. Updated. Legoland employees told them that he couldn’t…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

3D-Printing Liquid Metal Could Make the T-1000 Terminator a Reality

If 3D printing is truly going to revolutionize how we produce everything from cars, to computers, to weapons, it’s going to have to move past the current limitations of plastic as a printing material. And what better place to start than a next-generation 3D printer that extrudes liquid metal? That’s exactly what researchers at North…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A $170 Chromebook Is Your Deal Of The Day

For your ultracheap, ultraportable computing pleasure, Best Buy is offering a certified refurbished 11.6″ Samsung Chromebook, and we don’t expect it to last at that price. As a Gizmodo reader, you already know whether the Chromebook has a place in your life. At this price, you may even want to grab one just to play…

Tech News Shane Roberts

The Rainmakers: How Human Beings Control the Weather

Humans have been trying to control the weather since the day we traded in our spears for shovels. Cultures from every corner of the globe have worshipped rain-granting deities, and our sci-fi villains have been obsessed with flood and drought. But in the modern era, we no longer have use for the old water gods.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Could open-source GMOs bring down Monsanto at last?

Frederick Kaufman has penned a provocative article for Slate’s Future Tense column in which he makes the case for open-source genetically modified foods. “It will help fight climate change,” he says, “and stick one in Monsanto’s eye.” What’s more, it’s an approach that still favors scientific advancement. Kaufman says that GMOs have increased agriculture’s dependance…

io9 George Dvorsky

Phone Calls Are Back in Gmail

What Is Your Favorite Android Launcher?

App of the Day: Congress, an App That Tracks Congress

Seedbot Makes Your Lawn Lush Without a Lick of Gardening

Apple Wants to Redesign Your Car’s Dashboard

Brilliantly Compact Foosball Tables Made From Airplane Food Trolleys

All my favorite characters on Under the Dome are sure to die

NYC Nikola Tesla Exhibit Opens Tomorrow, In Time For His 157th Birthday

Boozy Snapshots of American Life Under Prohibition

Clip makes Christian Slater’s Stranded look like The Thing meets Moon

Dropbox Just Changed Everything About How You Use Apps

The Best iPhone 5 Cases to Fit Any Need

Mars Rover 2020: NASA’s Heroic Plan to Bring a Chunk of Mars to Earth

GoPro Proves That Fetch Is Way Less Fun When You’re the Stick

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen gets one more shot as a TV show

Old Cancer-Sick Fan Rejected at Legoland Because He Didn’t Bring a Kid

3D-Printing Liquid Metal Could Make the T-1000 Terminator a Reality

A $170 Chromebook Is Your Deal Of The Day

The Rainmakers: How Human Beings Control the Weather

Could open-source GMOs bring down Monsanto at last?

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