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Nike’s Roving Laser Bus Created Soccer Fields Out of Thin Air

When you’re a kid, all you need is a handful of backpacks and crumpled up coats to turn an empty playground into a soccer field. But to promote its new soccer shoes designed for street use, Nike worked with ad agency DoubleYou in Madrid, Spain, to come up with a better way to create an…

The Man of Steel Easter Egg That May Set Up the Sequel

Anthony Mackie reveals his approach to his Captain America: The Winter Soldier character, while Idris Elba says Heimdall the Gatekeeper has a story in Thor: The Dark World. Pacific Rim screenwriter Travis Beacham explains how the tie-in graphic novel fits in. Plus hints about Under The Dome from the show’s stars. Spoilers now! Top image…

Reclaim Your Privacy With Glowing Glasses That Foil Facial Recognition

In a time when it seems like the privacy we all enjoyed was just a smokescreen, it’s nice to know there’s at least one way to fight back against all the systems designed to keep track of our comings and goings. Developed by Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, these glasses include eleven LEDs that blast…

The Science of Fire Breathing

It looks dangerous—because it is—but there’s more to fire breathing than meets the eye. In order to do it safely, you need to think about the science involved, and this video explains why. It’s not just a case of spitting out some fuel: you need to consider the volatility of the fuel, the oxygen in…

Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft’s Surface RT

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is planning to give its Surface RT tablet an overhaul using chips from Qualcomm. According to “people with knowledge of the company’s plans” some new versions of the tablet will used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor—rather than Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip which currently drives the device. Once source, however, suggested that Nvidia…

A Disturbed John McAfee Teaches You to Uninstall His Software (NSFW)

John McAfee is one weird guy, and this video only serves to bolster that reputation. Uploaded to YouTube last night, it’s a hilarious—and entirely NSFW—video which sees the man himself teach you how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus. The thing is full of bad language, misogyny partial nudity, drug references… all the kinds of things you’d…

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Benchmarks: This Thing Has a Face-Melting GPU

While most high-end Android phones currently sport Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600, there’s another chip announced earlier this year waiting to hit the scene: the Snapdragon 800. Now, the first benchmarks of that new chip are in—and its GPU promises to smoke the competition. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-new-crazy-fast-snapdragon-800-and-600-processo-5974003 AnandTech has a raft of numbers comparing the Snapdragon 800’s CPU and…

This Watch Will Tell You If You’re Too Drunk to Drive

Drunk driving is obviously super dumb, but it can sometimes be difficult to tell what kind of effect a beer has had on your body. Fortunately, Tokyoflash’s latest watch straps a breathalyzer to your wrist so you can keep a check on things. Blow into the sensor housed on the side of the watch and…

Ten international privacy authorities—spanning Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and more—have sent a letter to Google asking for it to address privacy concerns over Glass. A letter; yeah, that’ll work.

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: LSD ABC

This awesome educational short from animators Laura Sicouri and Kadavre Exquis is equal parts School House Rock and Magical Mystery Tour.

There’s Something Comforting About A Peanut-Shaped Nursery School

People say that peanuts are healthy. They’re a super food or something. But the peanut is apparently good for other things too, like inspiring design. The Japanese architect Hiroshi Ueda overlapped two circles to create the peanut concept for this building, completed last year. And it seems only fitting that the peanut house a nursery…

Science Happens In Places That Are Beautiful By Accident

Those spikey deals look pretty menacing. It wouldn’t be a bad guess to think that they’re abstract art meant to invoke a Medieval torture aesthetic. But that’s way off. The infinitely repeating barbs are part of the anechoic chambers at the Technical University of Denmark. Basically they absorb sound and electromagnetic waves so scientists can…

Scientists Invent Real Luke Skywalker Artificial Hand

A team of scientists from Case Western University working for DARPA—the Pentagon’s advance research program—have created a real world artificial hand like the one doctors put on Luke Skywalker in the movie Star Wars. It’s not as flexible yet, but amputees can actually feel things. https://gizmodo.com/science-has-built-luke-skywalkers-robotic-hand-touch-a-514136302

Maybe those Doctor Who missing episodes rumors are true after all?

Holy crap. The rumor that a startling 90 episodes of lost Doctor Who material had been recovered seemed too good to be true. So we weren’t entirely surprised when it was shot down. But now, the world’s biggest expert on missing episodes is saying it’s true after all. Could our dreams be real? A bit…

The Lego Movie Trailer Is Here And It Sure Is Quippy

In summer 2012 the news broke that a feature-length Lego movie was actually happening and slated for 2014 release. And it’s all true! The first trailer shows Lego figures and indicates a chosen-one-saves-the-world-type plot. Plus a lot of superhero mentions. https://gizmodo.com/a-lego-movie-is-happening-movie-stars-sign-up-to-play-5938720 There are piles of bricks and falling bricks and Lego build references everywhere. And…

Cubs Fan Creates Amazingly Detailed Model of Wrigley Field Using Lego

As the Field of Dreams saying goes, “If you build it, they will come,” and sure enough, the “Big Leagues, Little Bricks” exhibit at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is attracting Lego enthusiasts and die-hard baseball fans in droves. Over 222,000 Lego bricks went into creating the exhibit that’s on display now through Labor…

Could The LEGO Movie be the greatest film of all time?

No clue when we’ll see a big-screen Justice League movie — but we’re seeing Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman on the big screen next year. Along with one of the Mutant Ninja Turtles and some NBA All Stars. Check out this astounding trailer! The LEGO Movie has pretty much everybody in it, and it’s directed…

Warehouse 13 still has the ability to punch you in the gut

Last night’s episode of Warehouse 13 seemed like a nice, friendly pair of artifact-hunts, in the suburbs and in New York City. Until it turned kind of dark and a little bit weird, as this show proved that it still has the ability to knock you upside the head. There were a few intense, startling…

Kanye West: Blood on the Leaves

Whatever you think of Kanye West, the release of his sixth album is a big deal. I’m totally biased, I’ve already listened to the album probably two dozen times, and “Blood on the Leaves” is an early favorite. The song samples Nina Simone’s “Strange Fruit” and horns from TNGHT’s “RU Ready.” It’s a dark, twisted…

This Floating Fortress is Also a Farm

When you’re well-defended, there is time to put aside the sword and blaster for the pleasures of agrarian life. That is how the tiered Cold Fort, built from a bio-tower at the center of a forbidding ring of waterfalls, became the green city of Mist. Its fruits and shaded walkways were as legendary as its…