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If only one past Doctor could appear in Doctor Who’s anniversary special, which would you prefer?

The rumor mill is going crazy about which past Doctors, if any, are going to appear in Doctor Who’s big anniversary special this November. And you should just get used to it — the rumor-mongering is only going to get wilder in the next few months. But suppose just one of the living past Doctors…

Here’s What To Do With Your Crap Old iPhone Cables

You know what I have a lot of? Old iPhone cables. You know what I don’t have a lot of? Old iPhones. So here are some cheap(er) adapters so your bogus cords are actually useful. They’re $27 on Amazon, so you’re saving $2 off the price you’d pay Apple. Plus you can get free shipping…

Dubious Sith Rumor: J.J. Abrams Will Direct Next Star Wars

Even though God in Heaven has prohibited man from directing both Star Trek and Star Wars at the same time—lest he be sent into a pit of tar and screaming—we’ve got (anonymous) two reports saying J.J. Abrams will make Star Wars VII. Seriously. This doesn’t make sense! And yet The Wrap and Deadline both say…

Ordering Pizza Online in the Retrofuture

“Internet introverts are socially dysfunctional; they write online, talk online, view the world from online, order books and pizza online.” Ordering pizza… online? Who ever dreamt of such crazy a thing? This warning about our increasingly isolated and dysfunctional lives reads like it could’ve been written today. But it actually comes from the May 3,…

This Isn’t a Microphone

You just had to do a double-take because this adorable orb by OYO totally looks like a little mic, doesn’t it? Surprise! It’s actually a $30 speaker that fits in your pocket. Ballo comes in 11 different colors, each of which has a built-in rechargeable battery and a 3.5mm jack. The band in the middle…

The strangely true connection between Scientology, the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Occult Sorcery

One of the weirdest historical confluences you can imagine took place in Pasadena, California, in the 1940s. There, a darkly handsome young man and chemistry autodidact named Jack Parsons had just made a bundle of money by inventing solid rocket fuel and selling it to the military. He was part of a group of explosion-obsessed…

What Blank Tapes Did You Use?

A decade ago, even after CD burners were ubiquitous, mixtapes were still the jam. It really mattered what kind of tapes you used. If you went cheap, it meant you didn’t care about what was recorded on them. Shame on you. Maxell UR 90 or 120 minute tapes were suitable for most applications. They were…

Tigers brutally maul snowmen, look adorable in the process

Siberian tigers — aka Amur tigers — are the largest cats alive on Earth. My favorite Siberian tiger description comes from nature journalist John Vaillant, who once characterized them as creatures that possess “the agility and appetite of the cat and the mass of an industrial refrigerator.” The video below shows what happened when four…

AT&T sold a record 10.2M smartphones last quarter and a whopping 8.6M iPhones were activated.

The Most Perfect Lego Recreation of the Original Macintosh Humanly Possible

You’ve seen out good friend Power Pig’s work around Giz before, but he’s totally outdone himself here. This is his Mona Lisa. (PUN. THAT WAS A PUN.) It’s an absolutely perfect recreation of the original Mac, exactly as it was pictured in that first ad. For reference, here’s the original Mac’s ad, down below. Totally…

Can You Guess What the First Ever Computer Art Was? (Porn. It Was Porn)

The 1950s computer was not for the everyman, unless, of course, that everyman had a government-defense budget to work with. Well in 1956, as it so happens, there was one man-about-town who had the opportunity to work with a $238 million military computer. And what did this industrious artist do with the unprecedented power at…

Can Apple’s Stock Recover Without Steve Jobs?

Apple’s stock is going down like a plane in flames sinking 12 percent on its biggest fall since the 2008 Wall Street crash. That’s $60 dollars per share just after they announced one of its best quarters in history… but still under analysts’ expectations, who think the company is slowing down because its markets are…

This is how far we’ve driven on other worlds

Here’s a freshly-updated infographic by SPACE.com’s Karl Tate, illustrating the distances driven by various rovers on the Moon and Mars. Tate assembled a similar infographic back in August 2012 (see below), just a few days before NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the suface of the Red Planet. The one-ton, six-wheel drive, nuclear-powered super lab is…

Beautiful Creatures clips still have us confused on this whole magical “Caster” thing

We love young adult fantasy novels. And we love it even more when these YA novels become movies, especially giant franchise sensations that inspire baffeling merchandise and hairstyles. But can the convoluted-seeming novel Beautiful Creatures translate to the screen? https://gizmodo.com/the-most-disturbing-twilight-products-of-all-time-5960554 We’re still confused about the rules distinguishing a “Caster” from a witch. Or is the…

Woz On What’s Wrong With Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie (Update 2)

The first scene from iJOBS—the biopic on Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher—may be pretty decent, but it never happened. Not even close, according to Steve Wozniak, who says they “never had such interaction and roles.” https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-jobs-the-steve-jobs-movie-starring-ashto-5978671 Woz had this to say in a Gizmodo comment: https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-jobs-the-steve-jobs-movie-starring-ashto-5978671 Not close…we never had such interaction and roles…I’m not…

The guy who put zombies in the Star Wars universe is sending Darth Maul behind bars

Joe Schreiber’s zombieriffic Death Troopers and its sequel, Red Harvest, were among the most interesting things to happen to Star Wars lately. Now the horror writer is returning to the Star Wars universe — and we’ve got the exclusive reveal right here. http://io9.com/5390471/turns-out-theres-something-darker-than-the-dark-side This time around, Schreiber’s trading zombies for a classic “infiltrating a prison…

Simple Science Lets This Gorgeous Dive Watch Track Your Depth

Oris’ new Aquis Depth Gauge might not be the first watch to let a diver track the depth of their underwater excursions, but it takes a unique approach to that functionality. Instead of relying on electronics and sensors that can add bulk to a watch, the Aquis Depth Gauge features a thicker sapphire crystal with…

Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Navigation

We humans like to think that that we’re the only ones who figured out how to navigate using the stars. But as biologists from South Africa and Sweden recently discovered, the crafty dung beetle does it, too. This poop-obsessed insect uses the star-filled streak of the Milky Way to orient itself along a straight line…

Our Favorite Noise Canceling Headphones Are Your Deal of the Day

Back in September when Mario Aguilar set out to find the best noise canceling headphone, he preferred the Audio-Technica ATH-ANC9 over competition from AKG, Sony, and Bose. As he opined: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-noise-canceling-headphones-5944636 The ANC9s have three different levels of noise-canceling like the Sonys do — the only difference is that it, in this case, it really…

Christian Bale calls a young cancer patient just to talk about Batman

WARNING: If you are capable of having emotions, the above video will likely make you cry. It’s of 8-year-old leukemia sufferer Zach Guillot, who just happened to receive a lengthy phone call from actor Christian Bale, who wanted to discuss Zach’s favorite superhero, Batman, with him. They compare Bat-costumes, discuss what makes Batman so special,…