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Watch a Hot Air Balloon Wedding Crash

If rain on your wedding day is a bad sign than what is having your wedding ceremony interrupted because your hot air balloon crashed? That’s what happened to poor Jonathan and Kerin Narcisse, who exchanged their vows in a hot air balloon, and then had a strong gust of wind slam their hot air balloon…

T-Mobile Is Giving Away Free Data When You Buy Certain Netbooks and Tablets

You know what sucks about buying 4G enabled netbooks and tablets? Suddenly you have another monthly bill to deal with. It adds up, making the gadget cost a lot more in the long run than the initial sticker price. T-Mobile’s 4G Connect effectively kills that. Now, when you buy certain netbooks or tablets, you’re going…

Quite Possibly the Most Revolting Severed Penis Scene Ever Filmed [NSFW]

Piranha 3D had one of the greatest severed penis scenes in science fiction movie history — so how does the sequel, Piranha 3DD, follow that? With something so horrible and wrong, you may require several years of therapy after watching the above video. It’s NSFW! https://gizmodo.com/the-ten-greatest-severed-penis-scenes-in-science-fictio-5622801 Seriously. Years of therapy. Or possibly just watching a…

What the Hell Is Facecake? (It’s an Awesome Augmented Reality Shopping App)

I really love to shop, but I always feel bad about pestering the salesperson for different sizes or colors of a pair of pants or something. But Facecake eliminates that issue—and makes it so you never have to ask another human being if a pair of jeans make you look fat. Using Kinect, you can…

ZBoard Electric Skateboard Hands On: Holy Crap Fun

When we first saw the ZBoard, an electric skateboard with weight-sensor controls, we hoped it would be the first powered skateboard that could actually ride, well, like a skateboard. We tested it out today and it’s exactly that: a fun ass skateboard that can move on its own. https://gizmodo.com/the-electric-skateboard-built-to-actually-ride-like-a-s-5887181 The ZBoard works like this: you…

This Wireless Blender Is Your First Step to a Cord-Free Kitchen

Magnets can do more than just heat your meals—they can power the rest of your cooking gadgets as well. https://gizmodo.com/how-induction-cooktops-make-meals-with-magnets-5955643 The Haier Cordless Blender is the first such device to part ways with power outlets. Instead, you install a power transmitter (read: induction coil) in your kitchen counter top and place the blender on that.…

T-Mobile now has a No-Contract Unlimited Plan for $70 a month. That’s unlimited voice, data, and text. Very sweet deal.

Flexible E Ink Tablets Will Probably Be Neat Someday, But Not Right Now

Tablets are getting thinner and thinner, and the end result is bound to be tablets that are paper thin. We’re almost there—but there’s still a question of exactly how handy that’ll really be. A flexible, paper-thin E Ink display, Plastic Logic’s “Paper Tab”—developed in partnership with Intel and Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada—is a glance…

Learn the ABC’s of Architecture

Here’s a cute little animation video that’ll teach you the ABC’s of architecture. Like, literally. Its an alphabetical list of the most important architects along with their most famous buildings. Can you guess who was under W? Here’s the full list: Alvar AAlto – Säynätsalo Town hall – Finland Luis Barragán – Satellite Towers –…

Hyper’s Pico Battery Pack Is a Phone Charging Threesome

Always be charging. That’s what we do at CES. But there isn’t always an outlet around, which is why Hyper’s Pico charger is so awesome—it juices up three smartphones at the same time. The 3000 mAh pack goes on sale in March through HyperShop.com for $70. It comes with retractable lightning and microUSB cables, along…

LG Curved 3D OLED Hands-On: An Imax For Your House

LG just made the first curved 3D OLED screen. I just saw a crazy setup of three of these 55-inch beauties aligned side-by-side into a perfect cinematic curve. The effect is very dramatic. This could be the whole reason 3D and curved OLED exist. As we saw with the huge curved OLED that Samsung showed…

A simple biotechnology that could prove once and for all whether fracking is safe

You’ve probably heard about the controversy over fracking, a method of pulling oil out of shales. Fracking involves pumping water deep into the ground to create fractures in rocks — in a best-case scenario, these fractures allow hydrocarbons to well up naturally. The problem is that you can’t always control how the rocks fracture, and…

Once Upon A Time uses powerful magic to mean-girl Regina

So this past weekend marked the return of Once Upon A Time. The show had made a lot of noise before the holiday season about how everything would change, now that Cora and Hook were in the real world. But instead of showing terrified fairytale creatures heading for high ground in the wake of Cora’s…

Meet Piston: Valve and Xi3’s Steam Box Love-Child

The Steam Box (or Steam Boxes, more likely) has been a long time coming, and today, the Xi3’s Piston is leading the charge. While the details about Piston specifically are few and far between, we got a look at her and boy is she pretty. https://kotaku.com/gabe-newell-living-room-pcs-will-compete-with-next-gen-5966860 The first of what will probably be many, Piston…

Is Stephen Hawking ‘more machine now than man’?

There’s a great piece over at Wired by anthropologist Hélène Mialet about Stephen Hawking and the various ways he’s learned to adapt to — and even transcend — his severe physical limitations. While it would be tempting to merely discuss his infrared activated voice synthesizer and robotic wheelchair, Mialet points out that there’s more to…

Your First Glimpse of the Nightmarish Fates of Superman and Batman, in Swamp Thing #16!

Acclaimed writer Scott Snyder’s run on Swamp Thing has all come down to this. Swamp Thing #16, released tomorrow, features the conclusion of the “Rotworld” storyline — and you won’t believe how jacked up Superman and Batman have gotten. Check out an exclusive sneak peek of Swamp Thing’s darkest hour, below. Here’s how DC describes…

Rococopunk is not only sillier than Steampunk, it’s also more punk

Where has Rococopunk been all my life? This obstinately silly new trend imagines a world where “the Rococo period never ended, and it had a lovechild with Sid Vicious,” according to WonderHowTo’s Austin Sirkin. The face makeup looks like something out of Liquid Sky and the costumes have a wonderfully decadant pallette. Nobody is ever…

This video captures some insane neutron star blasting action

Here you can see an extremely rare video that shows a neutron star in the process of doing exactly what these super-violent pulsars do best: shoot a jet of particles out at an extremely high speed. A release from NASA’s Chandra Observatory explains: This movie . . . shows a fast moving jet of particles…

New video of Machine Perception Lab’s creepy robot baby shows that it is indeed creepy

We’ve known about Machine Perception Lab‘s super-realistic robot baby for quite some time now, but we’ve never actually seen it in action — at least until now. As this new video shows, roboticists appear to be getting perilously close to crossing the uncanny valley — while scaring the crap out of the good children of…

Directr: A Video Making App That Calls the Shots

With the volume of high-quality videos flooding every corner of social media these days, it’s easy for the less artistically inclined among us to feel a little left out. And sure, video-editing apps that streamline the process aren’t new, but nothing will drop a seamless end product into your digital lap quite as quickly and,…