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Peter Jackson wants to direct a Doctor Who episode. His fee? One Dalek.

Peter Jackson isn’t too busy filming the rest of the third Hobbit movie to think about his next career move — and the LOTR mastermind really wants to direct an episode of the time-traveling soap comedy Doctor Who. He doesn’t even want any money for it. Jackson tells Entertainment Weekly he’s serious about wanting to…

I Want To Cover Every Single Wall In This Electroluminescent Paint (Updated)

Taking those electroluminescent wires to a whole new level, a company called Darkside Scientific has created a sprayable paint called LumiLor that casts a uniform fluorescent glow whenever a current is applied. So it can be used to cover irregularly shaped objects with ease, and as Boing Boing points out, it has the potential to…

Watch the child who lived in the Amityville Horror house recall his scariest nights

The Lutz family may have made up the entire Amityville Horror haunting to sell books and make money, but their son certainly believes that evil still lurks in the home. Check out an exclusive clip from the documentary My Amityville Horror, which chronicles Daniel Lutz’s childhood experiences. Seriously, can you imagine being raised by paranormal…

21 Wonders From the Future of Decor

The Architectural Digest Show—running from Friday through Sunday in NYC—will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy range hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the…

Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Creators Who Started Out Writing Comedy

When you write about other worlds and strange discoveries, you need a quick wit. And an ear for clever dialogue, that keeps the story buzzing along. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of science fiction and fantasy’s greatest creators started out in comedy, including sitcoms. Here are a dozen of our favorite…

Scosche’s CoverCharge Doubles the USB Ports On Your iPad Charger

If you travel with an iPad you really have no choice but to bring along its bulky wall wart for charging. But thanks to Scosche’s new CoverCharge, you can now at least leave your phone’s charging cube at home to save some space. The CoverCharge simply slides onto the iPad’s power adapter, connecting to its…

The Mushroom That’s Only Poisonous If You’re Also Drinking

Ever eaten the inky cap mushroom? If you’re chewing some right now, that’s fine. Just don’t drink for a while. This mushroom doesn’t harm sober people, but it brings down the wrath of god on drinkers. Inky cap mushrooms are rather pretty things that grow well in places occupied by humans. They take to lawns,…

US government holds hearings on what to do about asteroid defense

Earlier this week, the US House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on asteroid defense. With the Russian asteroid strike fresh in the public’s mind, it was a good time to discuss how prepared we are for the next incoming space rock. The panel discussed everything from how we should track potentially dangerous…

Your afternoon catharsis: wet animals shaking in slow motion – for science!

Andrew Dickerson studies how wet animals shake to become dry animals. Last year, in fact, he published the results of a study that examined the wet-shakes of 33 different animals, including some intriguing findings relating shake-frequency and overall animal size. When we wrote about Dickerson’s research last August, we included a video with high speed…

A Cheap Nexus 7 Is Your Deal of the Day

Today, 1 Sale a Day is selling a refurbished Nexus 7 tablet for $140 with free shipping. This is a solid deal, but there are some things you should consider before you buy: First, the Nexus 7 on sale is a refurb. And there’s no information as to who refurbished it. It will come in…

Apple Just Fixed a Huge Security Hole with Two-Step Verification

Apple just added two-factor authentication for iCloud and all your Apple accounts. It’s a huge deal for security, and are a welcome boon to a security process that had proven full of holes that were frustrating to fix. You can enable it at the Apple ID page. https://gizmodo.com/apples-hacker-fix-nuke-your-itunes-account-refuse-to-5942187 Two-step authentication sends a security code to…

Take a tour of Tom Cruise’s sweet spaceship from Oblivion

There’s a little less than a month until Tom Cruise’s scifi epic Wall-E Oblivion hits theaters, and to whet your appetite a little, director Joe Kosinski has released this small featurette on the “Bubbleship,” the unique ship Cruise’ drone repairman flies around Earth. It’s a neat look at the ship itself — which has a…

6 Reasons Google Keep Can’t Replace Evernote

Since Google launched Keep yesterday, the question on everyone’s mind has been, “how is will this measure up to Evernote?” Well don’t think the newcomer is going to suddenly oust the elephant in the room as the best service for interweb jotting. It’s just way too barebones. https://gizmodo.com/googles-note-taking-service-keep-is-live-and-its-wonde-5991578 Google Keep is lightweight-fast almost to a…

North Korea blows up the U.S. Capitol building in this latest batshit crazy propaganda video

North Korea, in a hilariously absurd act of chest pounding fury, has released a four-minute propaganda clip depicting the White House under attack. Entitled, “Firestorms Will Rain on the Headquarters of War,” the video is yet another example of the disturbing — and seemingly inexplicable — rhetoric that’s suddenly pouring out of Pyongyang. The video…

This off-road robot could help revolutionize the exploration of other planets

You’re looking at the future of space exploration: a robot who can move fast though slippery, sandy terrain. With the help of new experimental techniques, robots inspired by the one above could one day be used for search-and-rescue missions, or exploring the surface of Mars, with unprecedented speed and mobility. This robot is the spawn…

Google continues its CRAZY KILLING SPREE by putting down Frommers, which it bought last summer. Slide over, Reader.

Unzipping Antique Gadgets Shows Off Glorious Guts

If only it were so easy as unzipping the case off of a camera to see its amazing insides. It’s not, but Chinese art student Hu Shaoming reworked a bunch of old gadgets with zippers so you can peer at their innards. The antique devices are currently on display at Guangzhou Art Academy. It features…

Are you ready for a Game of Thrones prequel TV series?

While HBO wonders what the hell they’re going to do if (or when, more likely) their hit show catches up to the books, the network is already thinking about more Game of Thrones TV — author George R. R. Martin says the network is considering a prequel series, possibly based on his Dunk and Egg…

This Lamp’s Dimmer Switch Is a Scale

If fiddling with a dimmer switch isn’t an exacting enough science for you when it comes to tweaking the lighting in a room, Junji Kawabe designed his light=weight lamp to be controlled by gravity. So the heavier an object you place on its scale, the brighter it shines. So with a set of calibrated weights,…

Watch the best part of Oz The Great and Powerful right here

Even though Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful was bungled from its first shrieking baboon, it did have style. Oz was undeniably gorgeous, and design trickery and innovation shone brightly during the title sequence, which Disney has released to the masses for your ogling pleasure. Watch it here, so you don’t have to waste…