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The First Wireless, Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Will Help Us Move Things With Our Minds On the Go

Researchers at Brown University have made the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable brain-computer interface. Humans might be next in line for testing of the device, after 13 months of successful trials in monkeys and pigs. Made out of hermetically sealed titanium, the new BCI doesn’t have to be attached to a computer, so the wearer doesn’t…

Canon Built An Image Sensor That Sees In the Dark

The one thing we always wish our cameras did better is take better pictures in low light. It looks like Canon is attacking the problem guns a’blazing, because its new 35mm image sensor spits in the face of darkness. Before we say more, you should know that this technology isn’t likely to turn up in…

How Your Smartphone Will Get Lytro-Like Superpowers

As neat as they are, the Lytro camera’s re-focusing tricks aren’t going to convince most of us to replace our highly pocketable cameraphones. So a California company called DigitalOptics has found a way to give us the best of both worlds with a new ultra-thin sensor that promises Lytro-like tricks. Instead of employing clever ‘light…

Are floating airships the future of aviation?

Memories of the Hindenburg and its nightmarishly igneous end have, for decades now, haunted the airship industry. Floating aircraft are regarded by many as unsafe, and by more still as impractical. But at least one company is attempting to do away with these perceptions, while breathing life back into the deflating enterprise of dirigible aircraft.…

Google Has a Hip-Hop Sensation Working in Its New York Office, and This Is His Google Song

Andrew Fink is a New York-based Google drone by day, and an unsigned hip-hop artist from Baltimore by night. Today is his 25th birthday, and he just collapsed that Jekyll and Hyde existence into a music video. “Welcome to Google” is filmed in the company’s offices, but the rhymes are all Fink’s. We’re speechless. I…

Why the Holocaust was even worse than we thought

As if we needed any more reminders as to the extent of Nazi brutality during the Second World War, a new study is showing that there’s still lots to learn about the Holocaust. In a project that took nearly 13 years to complete, historians Geoffrey Megargee and Martin Dean have catalogued some 42,500 Nazi ghettos…

A Giant iPhone Will Look Stunning

If you shut your eyes and listen closely, you’ll hear the clop-clop of the inevitable: an iPhone that keeps getting bigger and bigger. And as much as we generally hate phablets, if an iPhone Plus looked like this, we’d melt. Gizmodo reader Martin Hajek put together these gorgeous renders for Nowhereelese.fr, which imagine the iPhone…

Intelligent Tires Will Automatically Weigh Your Vehicle So You Never Overpack Again

Continental already sells tires packed with monitors that keep tabs on air pressure, automatically letting you know when it gets too low. But the company is planning to expand that technology with improved tire sensors that will actually be able to calculate and report the current load weight of your vehicle so you don’t exceed…

BioLite CampStove: Charges Your Phone and Warms Your Tush, By Burning Twigs

Stoves have come a long way since the humble primus: turbo flames, jet boilers and ultra-light portables are just some of the options around. But now there’s the BioLite, a stove that burns twigs and charges your phone all at once. I know, it should erect your tent for you too. What Is It? It’s…

Rick finally meets someone crazier than he is in the best Walking Dead episode ever

Last week I mentioned that The Walking Dead is a deeply flawed show. I stand by that — I enjoy the show, but it’s despite lack of characterization and ridiculously straightforward dialogue (let me put it this way; I’m hard-pressed to think of a more popular show whose characters audiences merely tolerate, not enjoy). I…

Incredible algorithm reveals invisible motion in everyday video

Researchers at MIT working at “the intersection of vision and graphics” have created a computer program that offers its users a stunning new way of looking at the world. The intriguing technique, which uses an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, can be used to monitor everthing from breathing in a sleeping infant,…

Sonos Playbar Review: Everything Wireless Should Be This Easy

Sound bars don’t immediately benefit from Wi-Fi connectivity the way music systems do, because you usually use them with your TV, and your TV isn’t something you need to put in your pocket and walk around with. But that doesn’t mean that Sonos’ wireless music features don’t benefit from its first sound bar. Just the…

Got a Galaxy Note II? Ne’er-do-wells can use this trick to peek past your lockscreen for a second, but not much else.

An Even Better Oreo Separating Machine Blasts Hot Creme In Your Mouth

The world thought it had seen it all when physicist David Neevel’s Oreo-separating machine was revealed. But, Nabisco’s Cookie vs. Creme campaign is inspiring inventors from all over the country to come up with their own machines. Including Barry Kudrowitz and Bill Fienup, a pair of toy scientists from Minnesota who created a convenient auto-feeding…

This d20 engagement ring is a critical hit

When Babelglyph wanted to propose to her girlfriend, she decided to celebrate their mutual love of Dungeons & Dragons and craft what is almost assuredly the first d20-themed engagement ring ever made. The result is the Ring of Matrimonial Awesomeness you see above, created by a professional jeweler from Babelglyph’s designs. You’ll note that the…

Rethinking the New Yahoo Homepage

When was the last time you ever checked out Yahoo.com? It’s been a while, right? I’m sure by now you’ve at least typed that url in once to check out the new homepage design. How long did you stay and check it out? Probably not long at all. You see, Yahoo! needs to do a…

Are popular scientists becoming modern day preachers?

There’s a really grumbly post over at The Guardian by Eliane Glaser in which she complains about all the flowery and hyperbolic language being used by so many high profile scientists today. But more than that, Glaser is claiming that these popularizers of science, many of whom are avowed atheists, are using the tropes of…

How soon will we learn Doctor Who‘s greatest secret? Plus the Latest X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy Casting News!

Shane Black ponders whether Iron Man 3 is the end of an era. Ed Harris discusses his role in the post-apocalyptic train movie Snowpiercer. Greg Nicotero reveals how The Walking Dead will evolve in season four. Plus interviews with the stars of Oz the Great and Powerful and Once Upon a Time! Spoilers from here…

This Is Not a Painting

This beautiful orange swirl looks like it could be an oil painting—but it is in fact a low pressure system currently floating above the Southern Ocean, just west of Australia. The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra Satellite just yesterday. The orange hues are actually false color—MODIS detects…

No, the iWatch Isn’t Definitely Coming This Year

There are headlines this morning, in abundance, that an Apple iWatch will be coming in 2013. They are declarative. They are definitive. They are wrong. The iWatch might be coming this year, or might come in 2015, or it might not come at all. And nothing in this Bloomberg report changes that. Here’s what Bloomberg…