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A Googler Shows Off How We Should Really Be Using Glass

Google Glass are only just now being delivered, so we’re starting to see the very first videos taken with them. But this pleasant clip of a viola through Glass is our favorite use yet. Sure, the clip was put together by a guy who works at Google (the same one who made the NYC subway…

New AMC Show: “Blade Runner Meets BSG.” Yes Please!

Holy crap, this sounds promising. AMC wants a new genre show to serve as a companion piece to The Walking Dead, and according to Deadline, they’re developing Ballistic City, described as “Blade Runner meets Battlestar Galactica.” Crime on a generation ship! The pilot would be directed and executive produced by Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy, Oblivion)…

This Transforming Chair Is Your Space Saving Camping Trip Champ

You have limited space when you go camping, so it’s not like you’re packing the entire living room. So to consolidate the essentials, say hello to this clever transforming chair. Made of duck canvas, white oak, and reinforced brass, the little guy can bear up to 350 pounds. It’s $185, but it’s basically three pieces…

First Zombieland TV series trailer is funny but still feels wrong

The very first trailer for Zombieland’s TV series takes place in the same post-apocalyptic world as the movie, and it even has the same collection of life-saving rules the characters follow. However, the original band of survivors has been recast and it feels… off. While very funny, it’s strange to see new faces in place…

Lovely Pastel Furniture That Looks Like Aerogel

As Salone del Mobile wrapped up in Milan last week, plenty of attendees commented that the best stuff at the show was found on the fringes—the Salone’s proverbial seedy underbelly, if you will. Here’s a prime example: Haze, a series by Korean designer Wonmin Park, which was apparently on view in a basement under one…

What do you think should be your state’s official microorganism?

Oregon wants to make brewer’s yeast its official state microbe. Also known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the unicellular organism is perhaps best known for its use in brewing beer. This, of course, begs the question: what would your official state microbe be?

Wasps In Super Slow Motion Are 4,700 FPS of Freaky

It’s a general rule that everything is better in slow motion, but at 4,700 frames a second, wasps just go from “creepy” to “still creepy.” The footage you see above is actually a .8 second clip by Cinematographer Alan Teitel that’s been slowed down over 100 times to show the individual flapping of each insectoid…

TomTom’s New GPS Watches Are Easily Controlled With a Large Cyclops-Like Button

A couple of years ago TomTom partnered with Nike for what was one of the first GPS sport watches that didn’t look like some monstrous fitness accessory strapped to your wrist. But now the company is parting ways with the swoosh and releasing a set of TomTom-branded watches called the Runner and Multi-Sport for those…

New Lone Ranger trailer actually has a few funny moments

The crew behind Pirates of the Caribbean is also responsible for the new Lone Ranger movie — so it’s probably not surprising that the supernatural cowboy movie is kind of a send-up. The first two trailers made the film look like kind of a serious action movie, but thankfully this new one has some silly.…

Merrell Road Glove 2 Review: Further Barefoot Refinement

Last year’s Road Glove, with its spacious toe-box and foot-hugging upper, was our favorite minimal shoe for running. So, with the release of the Road Glove 2, we just had to see if the sequel was more Godfather II or Major League II. https://gizmodo.com/merrell-barefoot-road-glove-lightning-review-minimalis-5910799 What Is It? A shoe made for minimalist running on pavement.…

There’s More Than One Way to Sleep

Sleep remains one of biology’s most confounding mysteries. We are just beginning to understand how it evolved, but defining this strange state of consciousness is incredibly difficult — especially because there are so many ways to experience it. Humans obviously love sleep. Like all mammals, we literally can’t live without it. But when did our…

Every Library Should Come With This Built-In Slide

It’s no secret how the recently built Panorama House, which stretches along the hilltop like a beautiful, stone accordion, got its name. But while the outside is lovely to behold, it’s what’s hiding within that really caught our attention: an awesome library-slide crossbreed in a stadium seating body. Moon Hoon, the South Korean architect who…

Google has just announced that Provo, Utah, will become its third “Google Fiber City.”

Director Shane Carruth explains the ending of Upstream Color

Did you walk out of the theater scratching your head after watching Upstream Color, the new movie from Primer director Shane Carruth? If so, then Carruth may have some answers for you. Warning: Major spoilers ahead. Really. We mean it. This article is really only intended for people who’ve seen the movie already. Since it’s…

Pinch To Zoom Is Literal On This Elastic Touchscreen Display

We spend a lot of our time running our greasy little fingers over all kinds of touchscreens, but they just sit there unmoving as untouchable blocks of colors dart around beneath the surface. The Obake display isn’t quite so lifeless, and it’s just begging to be poked and prodded. Designed by MIT Media Lab’s Dhairya…

10 Visions of the Los Angeles That Could Have Been

Los Angeles isn’t generally famous for its innovative urban design. But there have been many attempts to transform the city into a modern metropolis through visionary architecture and transportation projects. In their exhibition Never Built: Los Angeles, the Architecture and Design Museum is showing off the coolest of what LA could have become. Frank Lloyd…

You Might Never Upload Your Brain Into a Computer

Many futurists predict that one day we’ll upload our minds into computers, where we’ll romp around in virtual reality environments. That’s possible — but there are still a number of thorny issues to consider. Here are eight reasons why your brain may never be digitized. Indeed, this isn’t just idle speculation. Many important thinkers have…

The iPad Keyboard Case You Want Is Your Deal of the Day

The iPad is not designed to be used with a keyboard. But that hasn’t stopped moms, businesspeople, and tactile enthusiasts from using one anyway. If you know someone who likes their iPad big and bulky, don’t try to convince them that the touchscreen is good enough. They’ve already made up their mind. What you can…

Burn It Down (Then Take a Seat)

Most people who set fire to their work tend to be pretty much, uh, over it. For Kaspar Hamacher, it’s just the start of a new piece. Hamacher, a 32-year-old Belgian furniture maker, describes his process of design-by-conflagration as “sculpting with the elements.” In 2010, after finding Brussels way too cosmopolitan for his tastes, Hamacher…

MSN wants to relaunch Heroes, because it hates happiness

Yes, Heroes is coming back, at least if MSN has its way. The Microsoft Network, which is trying to create original programming for Xbox Live, is in talks with NBC to bring back the superhero show, which had one good season and three godawful seasons that were horrific punishments from a cruel and uncaring god.…