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elBulli’s Cooking App Is Perfect

Adrià en Casa is the cooking app by the most famous chef in the world, Ferran Adrià, the co-owner of elBulli—the best restaurant in the world that sadly is no more. It is the distillation of decades of experience and cooking technique into a clever app with a perfect design. I’m on a two month…

The Greening of the Arctic

Temperatures in the north are starting to resemble those much further south. A new study suggests it’s time to get ready for the arctic to bloom. Last week we reported on an extensive new study showing that today’s global temperatures are warmer than any point in at least the last 4,000 years. Now, a separate…

Rein in Your Gazillion Browser Tabs With This Handy Chrome Extension

Tabs, tabs, tabs. They somehow grow like a virus in your browser window. The more squeeze in, the more you STRESS OUT. OneTab offers a simple solution. Install the OneTab extension for Chrome, and all you have to do is click the icon and all your space-taking, memory-sucking tabs will collapse into a simple list.…

Doctor Who‘s most wanted lost episode finally comes back to life

Who-ligans know that the First Doctor’s final serial, “The Tenth Planet,” is missing its fourth and final installment, one of those Doctor Who episodes lost in the midsts of time (or BBC’s vaults). Which is probably why it’s one of the first episodes that;s been fully reanimated by Planet 55 Studios — of which you…

11 Kickass Ways Normal People Will Use Google Glass

Much of the hype around Google Glass to date has focused on skydiving, BMX biking, and being a totally effective stalker. Those far-flung, limited-use applications don’t seem worth the hefty $1500 on. But what about the totally practical ways that us normal people could actually use them? Turns out—especially after Google’s quick Glass demo last…

Star Trek 3 could be out for the big 50th anniversary

J.J. Abrams’ first Trek movie was released in 2009, and the sequel is only coming out this summer. And now that Hollywood’s foremost nerd director has taken on the next Star Wars movie, there’s no telling when we might see another Trek. Until now! Producer Bryan Burk says the third movie might come out a…

Florida’s ‘red tide’ is killing manatees in record numbers

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is calling on Florida residents to be on the lookout for manatees who may be incapacitated by a particularly nasty algal bloom that’s propogating through the state’s southwest coast. This “red tide” bloom event has already claimed 174 manatees so far this year — the highest number of algal…

Check out crystals synthesized by bird crap

In the late 1970s, a team of researchers doing a geological survey of Australia found a kind of crystal that they’d never seen before. They grabbed some and studied it, and eventually named it moolooite. Then they found out it was made by bird crap. These researchers were taking a geological survey of Mooloo Downs…

The time a billionaire bought his son a starring role in a Superman comic

What do you get the comic book fan who has everything? A starring role in an issue of Superman, obviously. British billionaire Godfrey Bradman did just this — he commissioned DC Comics to create a special issue of Superman for his son’s Bar Mitzvah. How did the billionaire real estate magnate convince DC Comics to…

BitTorrent’s P2P Streaming Takes the Lag Out of Live Video

Livestreams are great and all, but they’re all subject to a terrible reality: the more people who want to watch, the more likely it is the stream goes down. BitTorrent’s P2P streaming service BitTorrent Live stands to change all that by actually drawing strength from the crowd, and it’s here to start shaking up the…

Whoops! That $15 Ereader Is Actually $70

Have you been eagerly awaiting the arrival of txtr’s $13 ereader and rationalizing its lack of fancy features with the fact that it’ll cost next to nothing? Too bad, suckers! https://gizmodo.com/this-ereader-will-cost-less-than-15-5950457 The German company has announced that its oddly named Beagle ereader will actually be retailing in the US for a hearty $70. You’re essentially…

Adding Spinning Dials To a Rubik’s Cube Is Downright Evil

Unless you’re some kind of prodigy who can solve one while juggling, making pancakes, and whistling Dixie, the Rubik’s cube is already difficult enough. So why on earth would someone go and add a numbered, spinning dial to each side? That’s just sadistic. You could argue that Brando’s $80 Roulette Wheel IQ Cube is actually…

The Nicest Apple iWatch Concept Yet

We’ve been hearing about a mythical Apple “iWatch” for a while now, to varying degrees of credibility, but this one from the April issue of MacUser magazine is probably the prettiest—and most plausibly Apple—interpretation we’ve seen. The design was cooked up by designer Martin Hajek—who’s done some spot-on renders for Gizmodo in the past—in close…

Ben Heck Ends the Console Wars By Cramming Them All Into One Box

Hacker, modder, and DIYer extraordinaire Ben Heck has seemingly done the impossible with his latest project. For years a fierce battle has raged between proponents of the big three gaming consoles, but to finally bring peace and civility to gaming forums across the land, Heck created an all-in-one console that combines a PS3, an Xbox…

Gwen Stacy and Mary-Jane Watson meet in new Amazing Spider-Man 2 set photos!

Robert Downey, Jr. explains why Pepper Potts is putting on armor in Iron Man 3. Bryan Singer and Shawn Ashmore drop new X-Men hints. Another prestigious actor might join Godzilla. Plus Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time, Arrow, and more! It’s all spoilers from here on out! Top image from Iron Man 3. Iron…

Could This Gesture Control Be Even Better Than Leap Motion?

Gesture control might just be one of the most exciting battlegrounds in tech right now. First there was Kinect, then the awesome Leap Motion—and now German company PMD Technologies claims to be able to beat them both. https://gizmodo.com/leap-motions-sick-3d-gesture-control-hardware-will-only-5987240 PMD has been around for a decade, but this video suggests it’s coming of age. Its device,…

Just Because You Can Stretch a $400,000 Aventador Doesn’t Mean You Should

A British luxury car rental company is looking to make a bigger name for itself by creating what could be the world’s first Lamborghini Aventador stretch limo. For the moment Cars For Stars’ bold creation is only in the concept stages, but with a deep-pocketed sponsor the company is optimistic about making it a reality.…

Automatic Is a Little Piece of Hardware That Tells You How You’re Driving

There’s an outlet located under your steering wheel in your car that connects to your vehicle’s onboard diagnostic computer. You probably don’t think about unless you’re taking your ride to be serviced. But you can take advantage of a bunch of data it tracks with a new piece of hardware called Automatic. It has the…

You can snag a PS Vita 3G for $200 in selected Sony stores across the US—though you need to sign up to a contract.

This Is What Happens When You Ask Nerds to Tell Jokes

As an experiment, New York Times media columnist David Carr decided to gather a bunch of geeks at SXSW and ask them to tell jokes. This video is the result. It’s left to you to decide how funny it is. [Vimeo via BoingBoing]