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What Are You Doing About Light Bulbs These Days?

There are the LED lightbulbs you know you should buy, and then there are the insane 10 for $10 sales that try to lure you back to the incandescent days. But between everlasting light bulbs, app-controlled light bulbs and light bulbs that do the dishes and see into the future, it’s pretty clear that change…

What do you want to see in a female superhero movie?

With the success of the Marvel Universe movies and talk of expanding Man of Steel into a full slate of Justice League movies, it’s high time we saw a female superhero dominate the screen. Which female superhero would you like to see star in her own film? And what kind of story would you like…

Matt Smith offers his video thanks for his time on Doctor Who

Matt Smith announced his departure from Doctor Who via an official statement, but here he offers something a bit more personal to the fans and crew. https://gizmodo.com/farewell-eleven-matt-smith-is-leaving-doctor-who-510860053 After a long day of shooting How To Catch A Monster, the freshly shorn Smith took some time to quietly thank everyone, his fellow cast members, the crew,…

World War Z has already earned $66 million in North America and $111.8 million worldwide this weekend, making it the biggest debut of Brad Pitt’s career. So it’s no surprise that Paramount is already planning a sequel. It seems the zombie apocalypse will have to go on a bit longer.

Okay, Yeah The Surface Of Venus Looks Really Hot

It’s kind of hard to scope things out on Venus because the surface probes we send get obliterated pretty quickly by the heat. Pictures of Venus’ surface do exist, though, and this one shows “large circular domes” that look pretty darn hot. The domes are thought to be magma erupting through vents, in a process…

Would you want a phone’s Bluetooth in your glove instead of your ear?

Did you ever watch Inspector Gadget and wish you could talk on your phone simply by sticking out your thumb and pinky finger? Designer Sean Miles of Designworks suggests that gloves are the perfect place to keep your phone’s wireless microphone and receiver. Miles talks to the BBC’s Dougal Shaw in the video above about…

A Weather App That Suggests The Best Times To Do Things

If there are weather apps, calendar apps and to do list apps, there should be an app that spits out an optimal schedule for you to follow. What’s the point of jogging in the rain and then doing laundry when the sun comes out? Or maybe you like to run in the rain because it…

12th-century latrine still holds parasites from the crusaders’ feces

The medieval crusaders may be long gone, but some of them left behind something a bit personal. In a ruined castle in Cyprus, researchers discovered a latrine that still contained the fecal parasites of the European invaders. After King Richard I of England invaded Cyprus in 1191, he ordered the castle Saranda Kolones built on…

Instead of Monsters University we could have had a Monsters Inc sequel

Before Monsters University was a collegiate twinkle in Pixar’s eye, Disney considered a Monsters Inc. sequel featuring not just Mike and Sulley, but Boo as well. In 2004, Disney started Circle 7 animation, a studio designed to create sequels to Disney-owned Pixar films. When relations between Pixar and Disney were less than sunny, Circle 7…

The guinea pig that proved we have an internal combustion engine

Technically, it was Antoine Lavoisier that proved we have an internal combustion engine, but let’s give the guinea pig credit. It nearly froze in Lavoisier’s special calorimeter to prove something new about biophysics. In 1774, Joseph Priestley managed to get a hold of a pure sample of the gas we now call oxygen. At last,…

Fruits And Vegetables Are More Aware Than You Think

You might not think that spinach knows what’s up, but the produce in your fridge is still alive and aware. Which is creepy. But kind of awesome. According to new research, fruits and vegetables still have circadian rhythms up to a week after being harvested. And they respond to light patterns by producing chemical compounds…

Hank and Dean Venture dress up as X-Men’s Cyclops and Havok

Normally, Hank Venture doesn’t dress as any superhero other than Batman, but he’s making an exception in this piece by Josh Gowdy. See what other mashed-up hijinks Team Venture is getting up to. We’re not the only ones who are beyond thrilled that The Venture Bros. is finally back on the air. Venture mashups are…

Snowden Is In Moscow, Has Ticket to Havana For Tomorrow

Russian media claims that NSA surveillance scandal whistleblower Edward Snowden is now in Moscow and has a ticket to Havana on Aeroflot flight #180 departing tomorrow at 2PM. His final destination is not clear yet. Wikipedia claims is Ecuador.

X-ray images of women in corsets show skeletons in a bind

With the 1908 volume of his treatise Le Corset, Dr. Ludovic O’Followell hoped to make clear the detrimental effects the then-current corset designs had on women’s health. To that end, he took X-ray images of women in their binding underthings. According to the Public Domain Review, O’Followell wasn’t looking to ban corsets entirely, but was…

Position These Lamps To Shine A Light On Corruption, Or Just Anything

Some spaces are awkward. Dark corners or cavernous closets that could really use some light. And tap lights don’t always cut it in terms of brightness or aesthetic quality. But Australian designer Flynn Talbot is working on the situation. His aluminum and steel lights, called Latitude, can go anywhere and point in any direction. The…

The Heartbreaking Last Words of an Iraq War Veteran

Before committing suicide, Operation Iraqi Freedom’s veteran Daniel Somers wrote a letter to his family. Like many other veterans, Somers suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other war-related conditions. These are his last words.

There Are 146 Babies’ Named After Game of Thrones’ Heroine Khaleesi

In the fantasy series Games of Thrones, Khaleesi is a noble title equivalent to queen in the Dothraki race, given by marriage to Daenerys Targaryen (the blonde in the image.) In America, as Kinja user Golddiggersof2033 painfully found out, it’s now the very real name of 146 very unfortunate babies.

A Saturday’s Work at Gizmodo in Mouse Movement

While you folks are doing your Saturday thing and maybe checking out ol’ Giz now and then, somebody’s gotta write it. That somebody is me, and this is what it looks like. From a cursor’s-eye perspective anyway. You may have seen these kind of visualzations before; they’re the product of an awesome little program called…

Ween: Where’d the Cheese Go?

Earlier today I found myself searching for my keys and—lo and behold—a certain song popped into my head. And what a wonderful tune it is. Both versions. Ween’s no stranger to weirdness for it’s own sake, but in this case, there’s a little story behind it. In short: Ween was commissioned to make music for…

Will Smith won’t be back for the Independence Day sequel

Who will punch our aliens now? Independence Day director Roland Emmerich says that Will Smith is “too expensive” to appear in the sequel. Just yesterday, we were saying that it might be nice to see Smith sock an alien or two again, but in an interview with the NY Daily News, Emmerich says that Smith…