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This Wonder Woman movie trailer is too good to be true (literally)

Female Super Hero Fan Film from Jesse V. Johnson on Vimeo. And it isn’t true, unfortunately. This is a fan-made trailer directed by stuntman Jesse V. Johnson, showcasing a Wonder Woman movie where WW (played by Nina Bergman) kicks a great deal of Nazi ass. It’s pretty great, and not just because it doesn’t end…

Scientists Figured Out Where That Russian Meteor Came From

On February 15th, a meteor shook Russia as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere above the Urals. Now, scientists believe they know where in the universe it came from. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 Using as much data they could lay their hands on—from extensive dash-cam coverage, to CCTV footage, to a lucky observation made by the Meteosat-9 weather satellite—Jorge…

Iron Man 3 will present a villain unlike any seen before. Plus more Amazing Spider-Man 2 set photos!

Just how many time travel paradoxes will there be in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Plus the Godzilla cast gets even more wonderfully ludicrous. Nicholas Hoult offers some Mad Max: Fury Road updates. The Wolverine director James Mangold keeps on tweeting. Russell Crowe discusses Man of Steel. Plus new details on the Fantastic Four reboot!…

Strap This Vibrating Compass To Your Ankle and Always Know True North

As you battle your way into the great outdoors on a hike or camping excursion, you need both hands free for pushing away branches, or fighting off wildlife—not handling a compass. So to guarantee you’re still headed in the right direction, this vibrating compass will always keep you aware of true north, without requiring you…

Leap Motion’s Sick 3D Gesture Control Hardware Will Only Cost $80

Leap Motion’s amazing-looking gesture control debuted last May, and it’s had developers crawling all over it ever since. Now, the company is finally getting ready to sell it to you—and it’ll only cost $80. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-best-gesture-control-system-ever-5911894 According to Leap Motion, the new technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market, capable of…

If you see a new Google Settings app appear on your Android unannounced, don’t fret: it just lets you tweak Google apps.

Are Some Household Gadgets Getting Too Complex?

A lot of gadgets are packed with features through necessity. But are household gadgets—like toasters, kettles and washing machines—getting needlessly complex for no good reason? Washing machines have more setting than I can ever begin to understand. Toasters have settings for bakery items I’ve never heard of. And kettles even offer up different ways to…

Samsung Wallet Is Apple’s Passbook, on Android

Samsung has just announced its new Wallet mobile payment app at the Mobile World Congress and… and it looks a hell of a lot like Apple’s Passbook. By now you know the drill: the app lets users store things like event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards, and coupons in one central location on their phone.…

Apple has announced that Passbook ticketing will be available in 13 Major League Baseball stadiums this coming season.

How Physicists Separate Oreo Cookies

Separating Oreos is a serious business—especially for physicist David Neevel. In this video he explains how he designed and built perhaps the world’s most intricate machine for separating cookie from cream. It’s worth pointing out that the video is as much—if not more of!—an amusing parody of the absurd and grandiose personal vanity projects that…

The Good Ol’ Fashioned Way to Calculate Exposure Time

Forget auto-exposure, or even light meters. Back in the day this booklet and some mental arithmetic was all that was required to achieve the perfect exposure when taking photographs. The Exposure Time Tables pocket reference book by Zeiss Ikon was the go-to guide for working out how to snap your shot. As Peta Pixel explains:…

The Pentagon has decided to allow employees to use Apple and Google devices from 2014. Bad news, BlackBerry!

The World’s Smallest Arm Chip Is Going To Be Inside You

Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicon claims to be the world’s smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2 x 2 x 0.5 millimeters, it’s so small that it will likely end up inside… you. It packs a modest 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, paired with 32KB of flash memory and 4KB of RAM. That might…

The six strikes anti-piracy scheme has kicked off: torrenters, brace yourselves for strongly worded letters. https://gizmodo.com/that-six-strikes-anti-piracy-plan-could-be-rolling-out-5986511

The final episode of Black Mirror gives you Big Brother for the social media age

Last night marked the final episode in the second series of Black Mirror, the ultra-dark UK show that explores the future of media. This series, like the first, was a set of three short stories (we reviewed the first episode here), each set in the near future. Though this second series was more uneven than…

This Amazing Digital Clock Is Made Up of 288 Different Analog Clocks

Because digital clocks are way easier to tell time but analog clocks are way classier, design studio Humans Since 1982 decided to combine the best of both worlds and make a digital clock from 288 different analog clocks. It’s brain meltingly delicious to see each analog clock turn its hands to form a digital clock.…

You Can Download Adobe Photoshop Touch for Your iPhone or Android Phone Now

If you’ve been waiting the cold long year to get Photoshop on your iPhone or Android Phone, the wait is finally over. Photoshop Touch for iPhone and Android is now available for $5. The phone version of Photoshop Touch has pretty much the same features as the tablet version that launched last year—it’s just been…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Comeback

Why the chicken crossed the road is of no importance. The real question is how did it find the money for a suit and train ticket? Find out in this intriguing animated short from Jelena Oroz. Update: Yes, in retrospect, embedding the correct video would probably have helped the narrative. To be fair though, New…

Cassette Tapes Actually Make for Good Art Pieces

I don’t remember the last time I saw a cassette tape in real life. Seriously, it’s been years. But when I see these cassette tapes refashioned as pieces of art, I’m happy. I love seeing old media being used in a way it was never meant to be (and the only way it could be…

NASA Explains What Exploded Over Russia

Here is the definitive video from NASA about what happened over Russia earlier this month. It’s interesting because though we had pegged the asteroid 2012 DA14 to pass us by, we never saw the Russian meteorite coming because telescopes couldn’t see it since it flew from the direction of the sun. So what happened? To…