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Mondo’s first two Game of Thrones posters are brilliant

We’ve been on the edge of our seats since Mondo first announced they’d be releasing Game of Thrones prints; between the awesomeness of the show and Mondo’s incredible artists, we knew they’d be something special. Shockingly, we were right — check out the first two: By Killian Eng By Jock These posters and the six…

MakerBot’s Desktop 3D Scanner Is a Real-Life Star Trek Replicator

Once a tool designed exclusively for trained technicians, 3D printers are now almost as easy to use as your desktop inkjet—except when it comes to designing and prepping the requisite 3D models. That step still requires an expertise with 3D modeling software, and is a barrier to 3D printing that MakerBot hopes to remove with…

Angry Birds For Free For The First Time Ever Is Your Deal of the Day

You probably already have a copy of the original Angry Birds hanging out on your Apple ID or Google Play account. Not only has the game become synonymous with mobile gaming, but when Apple released data back in 2012 it was the most downloaded paid iPhone app of all time. Now it’s free. Yup, the…

DirecTV just released an Android Tablet app—two whole years after it released an iPad app. Better late than never?

This Biobattery Is Powered by the People

Implantable medical devices have come a long way since doctors installed world’s first pacemaker in Arne Larsson’s chest in 1958 but they’ve always been hamstrung by a reliance external power sources. However, a new zinc-air battery chemistry developed by Institute of Physical Chemistry in Poland could eventually provide its host’s implants with an unlimited power…

How Jurassic Park’s FX Team Brought Those Spitting Dinos To Life

The original Jurassic Park came out 20 years ago, and while the FX industry has shifted more towards computer-generated effects since its release, it’s still awesome to see how some of the film’s practical effects were realized. And while the spitting Dilophosaurus wasn’t exactly the star of the movie, listening to Rick Galinson explain how…

This Awful Netflix Tattoo Comes With a Free Year of Service and Lifetime of Shame

You think you love Netflix? You don’t, at least not compared to @TheRealMyron. He loves it so much he had (a horrendous interpretation of) its logo tattooed onto his arm. And as a reward for his fanboyism, he got a comparatively impermanent year of free Netflix. Myron here didn’t get the tattoo for the free…

The shortest remake of The Matrix is also the cutest

Would you like to watch The Matrix, but only have 60 seconds to spare? Well, today is your lucky day because IA4 Studios has produced this adorably animated remake of the Wachowskis’ hit movie, which packs absolutely everything from the film into a single glorious minute. I imagine these guys could remake Reloaded and Revolutions…

AT&T: ‘We Will Unlock Your Phone’

In a blog post, AT&T clarified its policy on unlocking devices, saying it will release your phone as long as you have fulfilled the terms of your contract and as long as they have the unlock code. How generous: you are free to wander the wild world of carriers once your contract is up. The…

How does the Anthropic Principle change the meaning of the universe?

One of the more extraordinary things about the universe is that it has produced beings who can observe it — namely, us. Its laws and constants are so precise that, if they were even slightly modified, no human would be here to see it. Many cosmologists and philosophers have wondered if we should read anything…

How to Get the Best Exclusive Features on Any Android Smartphone

A Samsung Galaxy phone won’t go to sleep as long as you’re staring at the screen. An LG Optimus handset lets you run apps in tiny windows on top of the desktop, while Motorola RAZR devices can perform key tasks according to a schedule. Some call the proliferation of custom features Android fragmentation, but I…

Is This Google’s First Third Party App for Glass?

Yesterday the NewScientist put out a report that Google was funding the development of an app called InSight for Glass, which would recognize people based on their clothing and not their actual faces. After some head-scratching about why anyone would need such an app—and I scratched a lot of people’s heads about this—it turns out…

First look at Disney’s new Avengers Assemble cartoon

Disney has just released the first poster for Avengers Assemble. I hate to admit it, since I’m still insanely bitter it’s replacing the magnificent Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes, but the character models do look pretty great. And the new official synopsis also sounds pretty awesome: “Marvel’s Avengers Assemble” reunites the most popular super hero team…

Oz the Great and Powerful Should Have Been a B-Movie

In between making the disastrous Spider-man 3 and Oz the Great and Powerful, director Sam Raimi made what The Middleman once called “a zombie palate cleanser”: the masterfully nuts B-movie Drag Me to Hell. As you watch the plodding action in Oz unfold, you’ll find yourself wishing it had a bit more of the anything-goes…

All the Google I/O Easter Eggs (And How I Found Them)

If you go to the Google I/O 2013 homepage and punch in IIIOOIII on your keyboard, the I/O logo changes into an new logo formed by cats. There are 12 of these easter eggs in all, and Zak El Fassi figured them all out. Here they are, plus an explanation of how he solved a…

How the World’s Biggest Clock Tried to Change the Center of Time

For the multitudes of cultural differences that exist throughout human civilization, we do share a single, universal goal: to build stuff bigger and better than the schmucks next door. Every single one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was created as a chest-thumping, neighbor-shaming testament to its builder’s awesomeness. That proud tradition continues…

Facebook’s Most Overlooked Design Change

Facebook showed us its new News Feed yesterday. It’s as pretty as anyone could have hoped, and a wonderful update to the design. But lost in the big images and new feeds was a pretty major change that actually started weeks ago: The first thing you look at on Facebook’s page has moved. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-news-feed-the-biggest-change-in-years-5989228 Move…

This Aliens-inspired “advertisement” is so awesome it hurts

Remember the P-5000 Work Loader? The hulking mechanized exoskeleton that Ellen Ripley uses to rip the xenomorph queen a new one in Aliens? Sure you do. Well, this is what an advertisement for the P-5000 would look like, were we all ill-fated enough to live in the world of Weyland Corp. The illustration was created…

Flexible Flat-Pack Furniture That Actually Looks Pretty Comfy

What you gain in convenience when opting for flat-pack furniture from stores like Ikea, you lose in comfort. But with a clever enough design, it turns out that your flat-pack seating can actually look comfortable and inviting—as South Africa-based Wintec’s Stratflex line demonstrates. At first glance it’s hard to believe these contoured curvaceous pieces actually…

A star that looks older than the universe itself

About a century ago, astronomers discovered a fast-moving star formally known as HD 140283. Initial estimates of its age placed it a perplexing 16 billion years old — a serious problem considering that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. But a recent analysis of this so-called Methuselah Star has re-dated it to 14.5 billion…