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The Most Astonishing Miracles Of Bridge Engineering

Bridges are the lifeblood of cities. They bring people and goods into towns, sustaining the vital center. But bridges are also a major engineering feat, and towering works of beauty. Here are some of the world’s most inspirational bridges. Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest, Hungary The first permanent bridge across the Danube in Budapest connects the…

This Tiny Roku-Equipped Projector Is Your Deal of the Day

Today’s Amazon Gold Box deal is worth checking out. It’s 3M’s experimental Roku streaming projector for $170. There aren’t many gadgets like this one—the idea is to pair a small, portable projector with a Roku Streaming Stick and then you’ll be able to watch Netflix or Hulu wherever and whenever you want. The actual experience…

Europa Report: At Last, a Space Thriller Worth Taking Seriously

Europa Report is hands down the most painstakingly accurate space movie we’ve seen in ages. You want some semblance of realism in the story of a three-year journey to Jupiter’s Moon Europa? AND a gripping narrative, you got it. Here’s out first impressions, along with an exclusive look at the brand new poster. Europa Report…

Say Goodbye to Creative Suite: Adobe CS Is Now Creative Cloud

At Adobe’s annual MAX conference today, the company announced a major overhaul of the ten-year-old Creative Suite, which will now be known as Creative Cloud. From now on, you won’t buy CS6 or CS7—you’ll buy a $50 per month subscription to CC (happily, the first year will only cost $30 for anyone with a CS3…

Suddenly, rainbow legs!

Presenting the visible spectrum, depicted in the form of a bunch of disembodied lower limbs. The installation was created by Netherlands-based artist John Breed, and incorporated 145 shoes and legs in total. According to COLOSSAL’s Christopher Jobson, the piece was featured last year, in conjunction with German shoe salon Breuninger. For more images of this…

Intel’s Silvermont CPUs Herald a Serious Push into Mobile

Intel’s Atom cores have caught a lot of guff, mainly thanks to bad memories of the netbook days. But its latest incarnation, the new Silvermont CPU architecture, is low-powered and packs a performance punch, positioning Intel to make a big push into mobile. The 22-nanometer System-on-a-Chip platform boasts a three times performance increase over the…

M3X Triton Lightning Review: A Svelt Tactical LED Flashlight

D-batteries haven’t been in your stereo since the late 1980s, so why are they still in your flashlight? It’s the 21st century, our batteries are smaller and our bulbs are brighter. So stop lugging around that unwieldy hunk of aluminum (no matter how tough it makes you feel) and pick up this 1000-lumen submersible spotlight.…

Well it looks like The Onion’s Twitter feed got hacked today by the Syrian Electronic Army, although the only dead give-away when a satirical site like that gets hacked is that their fake news stop being funny. Sounds like it’s finally time for Twitter to start using that two-factor authentication system.

Scientists combine bird and swine flus to create mutant airborne virus

Researchers in China have created a batch of designer viruses by selectively combining genes from the H5N1 bird flu virus with those of the H1N1 swine flu strain. This reassortment process — which can happen naturally in nature — resulted in several hybridized strains that were able spread through the air and infect mammals. There…

The 10 Most Useful LEGO Bricks

These are the exciting bricks that open up whole new possibilities in LEGO building. In my experience, the most useful bricks are those that change the direction of the studs or give fine detailing to models. It seems like no matter how many of these bricks I have, they’re never enough. Warren Elsmore has been…

The Absolute Cutest Dog Cosplay of All Time

This is amazing. British fans proved that they’re still completely bonkers, with this parade of canine cosplay. Including a Superman dog, a Darth Vader dog… and a totally adorable dog cosplaying as K-9, the robot dog from Doctor Who. (Awwwwww.) These photos come via Jordan Mansfield at Getty Images, who writes: “Enthusiasts gathered at the…

Ride Along With an Icebreaker’s Two Month Journey In Just Five Minutes

You wouldn’t think that anyone would ever refer to Antarctica as being beautiful, would you? After all, it’s just a massive expanse of ice and snow, right? Well, somehow marine scientist Cassandra Brooks found a way to make it stunning with this gorgeous two-month time-lapse captured aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer. In just five…

This week’s DVDs double your pleasure with two new Fringe sets

So we all know in the parallel universe, Fringe wasn’t canceled and the final season isn’t coming out today, right? Stupid parallel universe. You already have giant airships, why couldn’t you at least have given us more Fringe? • Fringe: The Complete Fifth Season The Fringe team heads to the Observer-ruled future in this final…

Criminals Can Now Make Unregistered Guns With One Mouse Click

This can make the entire gun control debate pointless: student/inventor Cody Wilson has successfully designed and tested a pistol that can be easily downloaded through the internet and made into reality using a cheap 3D plastic printer by anyone. One push of a button and bang, you are done. It’s called The Liberator and it…

The Most Crowded Part of the Whole World Fits in This One Small Circle

East Asia is a crowded place. The crazy-cramped architecture of locales like Hong Kong gives you an idea. But this image posted to Reddit by valeriepieris puts that population consolidation in a whole new light. And for the most part, it seems pretty accurate. Of course, it’s all a bit more complicated than this visualization…

The Secrets of Star Trek Into Darkness‘ Future Cities

One of the most striking things in Star Trek Into Darkness is its depictions of the future versions of London and San Francisco, centuries from now. The film’s designers and visual effects people didn’t just create brand new cityscapes from scratch, they re-engineered the existing spaces, as our exclusive interview excerpt shows. Issue #45 of…

Concept Art shows off Darren Aronofsky’s Batman movie that never was

Batman: Year One was supposed to be Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky’s, big superhero project. Unfortunately the project got scrapped in favor of Nolan’s Batman Begins. But new concept art shows the Lincoln Continental Batmobile that never was. UPDATED. Why did this movie die out? Perhaps because the script (penned by Paul Dini) re-wrote the…

Miller Lite Redesigns the Longneck for the First Time in 40 Years

With the help of design firm 4sight, Miller Lite is changing the look of its iconic glass bottle for the first time in 40 years. On the left is your old faithful longneck. On the right is what you’ll be imbibing at bars and restaurants this summer. The new bottle is more modern, has broader…

You can now 3D-print a fully operational handgun

A plastic gun made on a 3D printer has been successfully fired. What’s more, its developer has released the blueprints online, meaning anyone with the right 3D printer can create a gun of their own, right in their living room. Say hello to the dark side of the maker movement. This past weekend (May 4),…

The Real-Life Tony Starks Behind Iron Man 3‘s Amazing Armor

For as advanced and as lifelike as CGI effects have become over the last decade, physical props are still the bedrock of modern special effects—especially in movies about a guy in a robotic suit. Gizmodo recently sat down with two of Iron Man 3’s effects masters, Shane Patrick Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan of Legacy Effects,…