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90-Year-Old Woman Tries Out Oculus Rift VR Headset, Is Adorable

The more we hear about Oculus Rift, the more excited we get about it. The virtual reality headset probably won’t hit shelves til 2014, but developer’s kits started shipping earlier this month. Here, YouTube user Paul Rivot lets his 90-year-old grandma take the setup out for a spin. First stop: Tuscany. We can’t even handle…

Shake This Curvaceous Spice Grinder For Perfectly Pulverized Seasonings

If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin—or shake—on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. The…

After Earth trailer shows the monstrous new wildlife on future Earth

Get a good luck at the gigantic creatures Will Smith’s son will have to fight in M. Night Shyamalan’s post-apocalyptic adventure After Earth. Set on Earth… after… something. Jaden Smith and Will play distant, disapproving father and futuristic, wild child son. Together they get stranded in the most dangerous planet in the universe , i.e.…

This Power Glove Oven Mitt Guarantees You’re a Wizard In the Kitchen

Taking inspiration from one of Nintendo’s most useless peripherals, the Power Mitt is an awesome riff on the Power Glove that promises to turn anyone into a wizard in the kitchen—with or without the help of Fred Savage. For $15 it can withstand the scorching temperatures of fire flowers, or piping hot baking sheets. And…

A major step towards transplantable lab-grown organs

For the first time in medical history, biologists have transplanted a functional lab-grown kidney into a live animal. Ever since scientists started dabbling with stem cells — those super-adaptable “pluripotent” cells that can transform into virtually any other kind of cell — there’s been hope that we’ll eventually figure out how to grow fully functional…

Check out Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as undead cops in RIPD

Ryan Reynolds is trying his hand at another comic book movie, this time Dark Horse’s R.I.P.D. about a cop (Reynolds) who gets murdered, and then joins the police’s Rest in Peace Department to catch his own killer. Entertainment Weekly has the pic, while Cinema Blend has the oddly muted movie poster. I haven’t read Peter…

Behold, the brain from space!

Well, technically it’s a brain photographed from space. Astronaut Chris Hadfield, current Commander of the International Space Station, snapped the photograph while orbiting over South America. http://io9.com/5989277/words-to-live-by-chris-hadfields-advice-to-aspiring-astronauts “I have no idea what this Brazilian outcrop looks like on the ground,” Hadfield tweeted, along with the picture (the latest in a long string of beautiful photographs…

Reconcile Your LHC Shutdown Sadness With a Higgs Boson Watch

Are you having a hard time dealing with the Large Hadron Collider’s two-year maintenance shutdown? Do you miss waking up every morning to the potential of another big particle discovery in the news? Then strap this awesomely animated Higgs Boson watch to your wrist as a reminder that in no time the LHC will be…

Hearing the World’s Tallest Building Creak in a Storm Is Terrifying

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind’s love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It’s very shiny! And in a bad storm, it sounds like it’s about to fall apart. Gizmodo friend (and Dubai documenter) Gerald Donovan says the city was hit with an enormous storm…

Tremble at the sight of Mantis, a 2-ton walking machine

For those of you wondering what it might be like to walk around like Doctor Octopus, this British-built hexapod could be exactly what you’re looking for. Called the Mantis Walking Machine, it was designed by Matt Denton and his team at Micromagic Systems. It took over four years to develop, but it’s the largest all-terrain…

Turn a Printed Page Into a Touchscreen With This Brilliant Concept

Realizing that the oft-promised ‘paperless office’ may never actually come to fruition, researchers at Fujitsu are working on a backup plan that gives printed documents similar tablet-like touchscreen functionality. Using a tabletop projector, webcam, and other sensors, the system can precisely detect finger movements and motion in 3D, allowing a user to interact with a…

The Latest on Captain America 2, Guardians of Galaxy, and Avengers 2!

Screenwriter David S. Goyer explains what exactly Man of Steel and Batman Begins have in common. Doctor Who star Jenna-Louise Coleman shares why the Doctor’s best friend doesn’t like Clara. Michael Bay offers a three-word summary of Transformers 4. Plus Eli Roth exposes his Netflix horror show Hemlock Grove! Spoilers ahead! Top image from Guardians…

This Lab-Grown Kidney Can Keep Rats—And Maybe Even You—Alive

For the first time ever, a whole lab-grown kidney has been successfully transplanted into a rat, where it allowed the creature to process urine like a really kidney would—and it could someday save your life. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston took kidneys from donor rats and washed away the…

Why Does the Earth Have Rain Forests and Deserts?

You’d think with all the tumultuous weather and winds the Earth experiences, the planet would be covered in a fairly even mix of green space. But it’s not. Some parts are covered in fertile rain forests, while others are barren deserts. And it’s all because of a weather effect known as Hadley Cells. Named after…

Four of the Five Highest-Paid Execs in the US Work for Apple

If you already feel a little hard done by when it comes to your pay check, brace yourself. Bloomberg reports that four of the five best-paid executives across the whole of the US are employed by Apple—and just wait until you hear how much they earn. They each, apparently, receive a base salary of $805,400.…

How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal

A very ingenious new kind of high-tech scam has been going down in China, where clever thieves are returning fake iPhone components to Apple and claiming they’re broken official parts, receiving genuine Apple-made pieces in return. And making a nice profit in the process. The scam, reported by TechWeb, sees people involved in the mobile…

Dish has kicked off a $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint—to try and derail a purchase by Japanese carrier Softbank.

This Desk-Bed Makes Snoozing at Work a Cinch

The mid-afternoon lull is a common problem. But if you often find yourself dribbling upon your keyboard during a short power nap at work, maybe you need something like this convertible desk, designed for specifically for snoozing, in your life. A concept by Studio NL, it provides enough room for you to stretch out and…

Technology Has Sure Moved On in the Last 20 Years

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how much technology has changed over the last few decades. Fortunately, Redditor ImTheGuyWhoLoveGems decided to remind us all—and, boy, should we be happy about the progress. ImTheGuyWhoLoveGems assembled a selection of gadgets from 1993 that have now all in 2013 been ably replaced by a single smartphone. There are…

WSJ: Microsoft Is Designing a Touch-Enabled Watch

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is working with suppliers to develop a new touch-enabled watch device, which sees it jumping on the same rumored bandwagon as Apple and Samsung. https://gizmodo.com/the-nicest-apple-iwatch-concept-yet-5990104 Citing executives from Microsoft’s suppliers, the Journal reports that Asian manufacturers have been shipping components to Ballmer and co so that the…