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Have you ever seen clouds in the middle of a room and wondered why?

Last year we introduced you to Berndnaut Smilde, a Dutch artist who has made a name for himself by suspending real clouds in the most unusual spaces. In this video, Smilde waxes metaphysical about the inspiration behind his work. https://gizmodo.com/artist-suspends-real-clouds-in-the-middle-of-the-room-5892356 Via The Avant/Guarde Diaries: A few onlookers hold their collective breath as Berndnaut Smilde pushes…

Xbox One at E3 2013: Games, More Games and the Price

We know what the Xbox One looks like. We know how powerful the new Kinect is. We know how the new controller feels. We know what the guts are. Hell, we even know what we’re going to complain about with the Xbox One already. What we don’t know? How the games will look. Or how…

This Instagram for Doctors Lets You See Medicine’s Most Bizarre Cases

There are not—nor will there ever be—any filters in Figure 1, a new iOS photo-sharing app that approximates the fruit of an unholy union between Instagram and the Discovery Health Channel. Instead, clarity is key, since the app supplies users with a steady photo stream of very real, very not-for-the-faint-of-heart medical oddities and diseases. The…

The end of the world isn’t as likely as humans fighting back

Scenarios for the future that involve a horrifying end for humanity might make for exciting reading, but they’re the most unlikely of scenarios — and incredibly unhelpful in creating a better tomorrow. Dystopias make for boring futurism. While it’s certainly true that one can tell a compelling dramatic story about the end of the world,…

This Week’s TV: True Blood is back. Plus who wanted a Pac-Man cartoon?

Betty White is playing God, the actual supreme being, on TV this week. Plus our favorite supernatural drama, Zero Hour, is back! So is True Blood! And most of all, we’re wondering who on Earth thought a cartoon based on the Pac-Man video game was a good plan. Top image: True Blood. Today: Adventure Time…

Watch Microsoft’s Xbox One E3 Keynote Right Here, Right Now

In just a short while, Microsoft is going to take the lid off of its remaining Xbox One secrets. While we’ve already gotten an in-depth look at the hardware, there’s no telling what kind of game and Xbox Live goodies are in store. Fortunately, you can watch it all unfold right here, starting at 12:30…

Meet the passengers of Snowpiercer‘s last train on Earth

Director Bong June-Ho has been pretty quiet about his post-apocalyptic train movie Snowpiercer, but here’s nine posters that reveal the movie’s extremely talented cast — and those lucky(?) remaining humans who travel the frozen planet on the movie’s titular locomotive. Clearly, whatever the train has in “keeping humans alive” it lacks in soap. [Via Twitch]

What is wind?

And where the hell does it come from, anyway? As Joe Hanson points out in the latest episode of “It’s Okay to Be Smart,” wind can be as destructive as it is beautiful – but it’s not often we stop to think about the origins of this powerful, planet-shaping force. https://gizmodo.com/six-decades-of-u-s-tornadoes-visualized-in-one-stunnin-5915324 https://gizmodo.com/a-mesmerizing-real-time-map-of-us-wind-patterns-5897402 https://gizmodo.com/high-resolution-images-of-mars-reveal-a-stunning-wind-5879398

No, this is not what our stupid faces will look like in 100,000 years

An artist has partnered with a computational geneticist to illustrate what our faces might look like in the far future. Apparently we’re all going to become anime characters. All images Nickolay Lamm. This picture is starting to create a bit of a stir on the internet — and not in a good way. The duo…

Extreme close-up of the Winter Solider gives good crazy eyes

We’ve seen distant pictures of the Winter Soldier running around in a gas mask on the set of Captain America 2, but nothing like this. Behold the bizarro eyes of Captain America’s brand new baddie. Spoiler! https://gizmodo.com/its-the-first-look-at-captain-america-2s-winter-soldi-510652630 Discovered by Redditor Rongxin here is your first up close and crazy amazing look at Sebastion Stan’s eventual…

Dealzmodo: Five Picks From Herman Miller’s Summer Sale

Herman Miller may be best known today for its high-end, technical desk chairs, like the Aeron and the Embody, but they also make iconic modern furniture designed by legends like Eames and Noguchi—classic stuff, that will look as good in 50 years as it did 50 years ago. All of it is on sale right…

An Interactive Map That Collects the Wisdom of NYC’s Cycling Masses

Though the ridiculous media fuss about CitiBike—and its all-powerful bike lobby backers—intensified this weekend, there was also one bright spot: The New York Times unveiled an interactive map that lets users add their own tips and warnings to fellow riders. The map invites cyclists to add ten-word blurbs to a map of the city. They…

What does a heart’s sine function look like?

In high school, you probably learned that trigonometric functions – like sine, cosine and tangent –can be derived, geometrically, from a circle (hence why trig functions are also known as “circular” functions). But what happens if you use a square to derive these functions, instead? Or a triangle? Or a heart? The animation featured here…

Good news AT&T iPhone owners, you’re getting a push-to-talk app, a first for the iPhone in the US! Whether non-corporate customers will be privy to the app is anyone’s guess. The AP has clarified its original story and now says the app will not work unless it’s been properly integrated by both AT&T and its…

The 100 Meter Scroll Turns Browsing Into an Olympic Sport

The Olympics are known for introducing new and experimental events that reflect the region where they’re being held. So if it ever finds itself in and around Silicon Valley, perhaps this surprisingly fun 100 meter scrolling game—which has you literally scrolling down for some 328 feet while you race the clock—could become an official Olympic…

This Game of Thrones cover features Jon Snow on the bongos

Honestly, this wonderful cover of the Game of Thrones theme song, performed by the talented Cosplay Piano crew, is a lovely interpretation of the music with a lot more time and effort put into the video than most. But I’d be lying if I said I posted this for any other reason than that I…

This Could Be an Early Build of Intel’s Mobile OS UI

Ars Technica has screenshots of what it says is Intel’s UI overlay for use on mobile handsets in the future. If real, these early shots of the skin, codenamed “Obsidian”, represent the earliest look at Intel’s vision for the Linux-backed Tizen OS, as well as for what we should be looking for on future Android…

Watch the first-ever footage of a live 8-foot long oarfish

Scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico have finally managed to capture footage of a rare and mysterious serpentine-like creature called the oarfish. It’s our first glimpse of this camera-shy fish in its natural habitat. The oarfish (Regalecus glesne), which can reach upwards of 56 feet (17m) in length, has previously only been seen washed…

But Will This Quadcopter Restaurant Waiter Remember Your Nut Allergy?

Sushi restaurants have always seemed to be on the cutting edge of food delivery technology. First it was conveyor belts parading an endless array of dishes past your table, and now YO! Sushi, a restaurant chain in the UK, is introducing a pair of quadcopter waiters to deliver patrons’ food. Whether or not the quadcopters…

How stereotypes really do cloud your mind

We think that getting more information about a situation helps us make more accurate predictions. There are times, though, when some well-chosen information can wreck our rationality. All we need is a good stereotype. This phenomenon was first explored in Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Heuristics are mental rules of thumb, little tricks and…