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Mophie’s New iPhone 5 JuicePack Has a Very Slightly Larger Battery

Mophie’s new JuicePack Air has an even more powerful battery than the Helium, its last charging case for the iPhone 5. This time around, you’re getting a 1700 mAh battery, as opposed to a 1500. https://gizmodo.com/mophie-juice-pack-helium-for-iphone-5-review-wherein-j-5983560 The Helium is $80, but the new Air is $100, so basically you’re paying $20 for 200 mAh more.…

The Amazing Spider-Man‘s costume just got an upgrade

The first pic of Andrew Garfield’s new duds in the Amazing Spider-Man 2 were revealed today, and while the changes are simple, they’re also definitely better. Gone is the rubber, bumpy texture of the original, which made it look like Peter Parker had sown the entire thing out of basketballs; now the texture is much…

Silicone Storage Bags Will Make You Wish Every Meal Was Leftovers

Storage containers for leftovers and other foods are usually designed to be cheap and disposable. But it turns out there’s a better way. Silicone once again makes our lives easier with these reusable, sealable storage bags that are safe to microwave, boil, or steam. So instead of having to transfer last night’s meatloaf into a…

Mastercard’s MasterPass Turns Your Phone Into Your Own Personal Checkout Lane

MasterCard is no stranger to high-tech purchasing. Its existing PayPass Wallet already lets you tap your credit card on NFC terminals. But the new MasterPass service takes it all to another level, letting you do things like scan barcodes and buy items with your phone, right on the spot. MasterPass isn’t an app, but rather…

10 Greatest Science Fiction Board Games of All Time

Board games are great way to prove your intellectual superiority to your friends. But aren’t they even better when they involve a sprawling science fiction premise? It’s no fun to wave fake money in your friend’s faces at the end of Monopoly when what you could be doing is waving the most powerful starship. If…

Robot, meet your maker: animatronics expert Mark Setrakian on building robo-gladiators for Syfy

Imagine eight-foot tall, human-controlled robots throwing fists like boxers in a no-holds-barred bout for mechanical supremacy. That’s the idea behind Syfy’s new show Robot Combat League, premiering February 26 at 10/9c. But how did these fighting machines come to be? To find out, I spoke with Mark Setrakian, the roboticist behind the show who has…

Could This Smart Armband Take The Cameras Out of Gesture Control?

Gesture control is a tough nut to crack. Microsoft’s Kinect has proven that. But there are bright spots—like Leap Motion—that promise a futuristic world of hands-off finesse. Add Thalmic Lab’s muscle-sensing Bluetooth arm band “MYO” to that list. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-best-gesture-control-system-ever-5911894 Instead of watching your hands and arms directly—like current solutions do—the MYO sits on your bicep,…

This is probably the most disgusting thing you’ll watch this week, but it’s also absolutely fascinating

Fair warning: this video is graphic right off the bat. Probably NSFW, unless you’re a butcher or a taxidermist (intestines, bile, and blood abound). But, if you’ve got the stomach for it, this is really captivating stuff. Watch it if you can. Seriously. The video above is one of the more recent installments in an…

What’s a Starquake? The World’s Tiniest Telescopes Launch Today to Find Out

Despite being among the brightest and easily identified clusters in the night sky, the trio of stars in Orion’s Belt are actually among the least studied in astronomy. That’s partly because the huge, far-seeing telescopes typically sent into space are designed to spot only the dimmest, most distant stars. But Orion’s Belt will finally get…

A Facebook Privacy Flaw Gave a Hacker Access to Every Single Account

You probably don’t know Nir Goldshlager, but up until recently, he sure could have known you. That’s because Nir discovered a major privacy flaw in Facebook’s OAuth, the system developers use to access all sorts of information every time you hit that innocent, little “allow” button. Nir gained access to virtually anyone’s entire Facebook account.…

In Reality, Nebulae Offer No Place for Spaceships to Hide

In the Battlestar: Galactica universe, nebulas are a nifty spot to hide from the Cylons that are plotting to kill humanity. There’s just one problem with the hypothesis, though: These diffuse areas of gas in our universe are actually very faint, even if you get close up. Probably too faint for a hiding spot. Prequel…

Pollution Might Shrink Your Penis, Say Otters

Otter dicks are shrinking thanks to pollution, and you should definitely freak out, because the trend might affect humans, too. A new study from the Cardiff University Otter Project and the Chemicals, Health, and Environmental Monitoring Trust (CHEM) found that otter penis bones are getting smaller. What researchers haven’t yet determined is if endocrine disrupting…

Andrea gets a less-than-happy reunion with Rick in The Walking Dead

Holy hell, it’s one of those rare Walking Dead episodes where things don’t explode, and people don’t get shot at or eaten, but instead characters talk to each other, and shit can still be considered to have happened! This week’s episode was all about relationships and history between characters, and it was still pretty good…

The Problem With Apps Is Smartphones

We love our music apps, and the smartphones that made it commonplace to carry around advanced, diverse music functionality, rather than relying on a “dumb” iPod or waiting until you get back to your computer to try the cool stuff. However, phones are getting in the way of apps. Case in point: You’re listening to…

The camera that captured the first millisecond of a nuclear bomb blast

These are photographs of the first few milliseconds of nuclear explosions. They lead scientists to several new discoveries as to how nuclear bombs worked. But how do you capture the first millisecond of a nuclear bomb? With several rapatronic cameras, a Kerr cell, and a little physics. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, every…

Intel’s mobile platform is finally catching up to its PC’s with the new 22nm Bay Trail chip due out later this year.

Try as she might, 2-year-old Kayla just can’t reach the moon

Poor Kayla. No matter how hard she tries the moon just sits there — tauntingly — just beyond her reach. It’s a daily ritual that her father decided to finally capture on video, much to our benefit. This video, which was published to YouTube on Friday, has already attracted close to a half-million hits, and…

Asus Padfone Hands On: A Sleek Two-For-One Device That Makes You Pay for Both

If it were sold without its tablet dock, you might give the Padfone phone a second look all on its own. It’s really pretty, after using it for a few minutes, it’s just as powerful and smooth as any other flagship Android phone coming out, like the Optimus G Pro or the HTC One. The…

DC would like you to know Robin is gonna die this week in Batman, Inc.

My apologies for the lack of a spoiler warning, but DC has gone out of its way to let comics fans know that, if they pick up Grant Morrison’s Batman, Inc. #8 this Wednesday, they will read about the death of Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne’s assassin-trained son and the current Robin. The news was announced…

Panasonic’s New Sensor Captures 3D Images With a Single Lens

Using similar techniques that enable the Nintendo 3DS to display 3D images without the need for special glasses, Panasonic has developed a new image sensor that can capture 3D stills and videos without the need for multiple lenses. Using lenticular lenses and a layer composed of digital micro lenses to further focus the light hitting…