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Sony Xperia Tablet Z Hands On: Thin, Light, and Not Quite There

We’ve known about Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z for the last month or so. It promised incredible lightness, thinness, speed, and beauty. Guess what? It deliveres. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-new-xperia-tablet-an-android-slate-slimmer-than-5977556 The Xperia Tablet Z is a 10.1-inch tablet that will launch with Android 4.2 (the most recent Jelly Bean update). It boasts a redesigned 1,920×1,200 screen, Qualcomm’s beastly quad-core…

Huawei Claims It Has the World’s Fastest 4G Phone—But Who Really Cares?

Huawei could add a waffle-maker to its Ascend P2, and I doubt even that would be enough to pull people over to its side of the phone stores. Unlike the Ascend D2 unveiled at CES, there’s no 3,000mAh battery lurking here (you’ll have to “make do” with a 2420 one), but there’s a CAT 4LTE…

Samsung officials have confirmed that the Galaxy S IV be launched at a March 14th event in New York. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-galaxy-s-iv-is-definitely-being-announced-o-5985135

Kirk travels back in time to save the Oscars—and just won’t leave

William Shatner invaded Seth MacFarlane’s opening Oscars sketch to add a science fiction plot line to the Academy Awards. Captain James T. Kirk (suspiciously wearing his admiral’s uniform and sounding less like Shatner doing Kirk than Shatner doing grumpy Shatner) traveled back in time to prevent MacFarlane from being the worst Oscar host ever, showing…

New YouTube App Code Shows Pay-To-View Is on the Way

Remember those rumors that YouTube was working on rolling out some paid subscription channels? According to Android Police, code in the recently updated YouTube app shows that Pay-To-View is in the works. It’s just a matter of when. https://gizmodo.com/report-youtube-may-start-making-you-pay-for-content-5979851 The code pretty much speaks for itself: < string name="paid_channel_subscribe_message">You can only subscribe to this paid…

Lanternshark is part shark, part lightsaber, all awesome

Measuring only about a foot and a half long, the lanternshark may seem distinctly less impressive than its larger shark cousins. But this diminutive fish has mastered the art of bioluminescence, concealing themselves from prey while challenging any potential predators. Because they are deep-sea fish, it’s not surprising that lanternsharks have bioluminescent abilities, but they…

Survive In Style With This Foldable Emergency Crossbow Slingshot

If you’re going to prepare for a disaster, you might as well cover all the contingencies, and that’s exactly what Joerg Spave has done. With a coating of rubber. Chances are slim you’d find yourself hunting game in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, but in theory, this crossbow slingshot would be the way to go. And in…

Fruit flies bathe their young in alcohol to keep them healthy

Reaffirming that age-old maxim that alcohol is the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems, fruit flies have devised an ingenious strategy to protect their unborn young from parasites. They simply lay their eggs in alcohol, and somehow that solves everything. The researcher who decided to expand that “somehow” into, you know, an…

This Is Firefox OS in Action

Firefox OS won’t be coming to the U.S. until 2014, and chances are that its rather budget approach is not for you, dear gadget-obsessed Gizmodo reader. But Firefox OS burst onto the scene today at Mobile World Congress with announcements of new, upcoming handsets, and a global roll-out plan. It’s poised to bring smartphone goodness…

Journalism Students Are Learning To Operate Drones For…Journalism?

In an attempt to keep pace with rapidly evolving technology, the journalism schools at the University of Missouri and University of Nebraska both offer classes on drone reporting, in spite of the fact that this practice is currently illegal for professional journalists. https://gizmodo.com/all-burritos-should-be-delivered-by-a-bomber-like-this-5966901 Domestic drone regulations are changing quickly. For example the Missouri state government…

Drag and Drop to Your iPhone the Easy Way With This Pseudo AirDrop App

Your iPhone is on your desk right in front of your Mac and all you want to do is drag one picture from one to the other. It doesn’t take a herculean effort, but it can take just enough to make you seethe. InstaShare can help by adding a little AirDrop-like action to your whole…

On Clone Wars, fugitive Ahsoka gets a little help from the Dark Side

Wanted for murder and unable to lean on Anakin for help, Ahsoka’s options are looking grim on this week’s Clone Wars. But while the Jedi and the Clone Troopers are hunting her down, Ahsoka finds herself with two allies—one from the Light Side of the Force and one from the Dark. But she may be…

Octopus Suckers Are Moving Off Of Tentacles And Onto Robots

Octopus tentacles are pretty great looking, and they’re functional, too. Everyone wants a piece of this creepily awesome natural design. But the coolest part of an octopus tentacle, its suction cups, has been difficult to replicate in robotic models. https://gizmodo.com/is-a-prosthetic-tentacle-better-than-a-prosthetic-arm-5709418 A group of scientists has made progress, though, developing a type of robotic sucker that…

Lovely medical illustration of the human skull painted directly on a human head

Professional airbrush and bodypaint artist Lisa Berczel painted this bit of medical makeup for the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show in Los Angeles. Aside from some medical grade paper tape near the eye and brow blocking, this is all paint. Berczel has also done her share of (NSFW) pop culture painting, including on a glittery…

Benchmarks Are In: Nvidia’s Tegra 4 Really Cooks

When Nvida announced the Tegra 4 back at CES, they laid down the claim it was the world’s fastest mobile processor. Now Nvidia’s got some prototype devices at Mobile World Congress, the benchmarks are coming in and there’s no questioning it. The Tegra 4 is a total speed-demon. A generation better than the Tegra 3…

Images of a massive, futuristic Megacity glittering in the night

Artist Yang Yongliang studied traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy at the Shanghai Fine Arts Institute, and his digitally manipulated images blend traditional landscapes with sometimes surreal and sometimes futuristic images. In his series The Moonlight, he transports China’s rolling hills into the hyper-urbanized future, where they house a sprawling megalopolis that shimmers at night. Many…

Samsung’s HomeSync Android Box Brings a Whopping 1TB of Storage to Your TV

Set top boxes aren’t exactly mobile tech, but Samsung has unveiled its new one at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The HomeSync aims to work with your mobile devices and serve has a hefty little Android-powered box for all your media. A 1TB box. Running Android Jelly Bean (version unspecified) the HomeSync will let users…

Crowdfund a Batman documentary, 3D printing pens, and a WWII setting for Lovecraftian RPGs

If you’ve always wished you could draw objects in 3D, there’s a pen that uses basic 3D-printing technology to let you draw wire art-style objects, and it’s looking for a little crowdfunding. So is a documentary on the power of the Batman story, an RPG setting that places cosmic horrors in WWII, the print volume…

HP Slate 7 Hands On: A Better Way to Do Android

This is the good HP. We knew that HP had been planning on making some new Android hardware, but the Slate 7 is still a pleasant surprise. Because it’s good. The Slate 7 is built on almost-stock Android. “Almost” means that a few things are added—Beats audio and, sigh, in-app PRINTING (THANKS HP REALLY WANTED…

Physicist proposes to his physicist girlfriend in the form of an academic paper

Redditor bogus_wheel received a one-page proposal from her beau filled with romance and data points. What this fake academic lacks in citations, it more than makes up for in pure geeky sweetness. Here’s hoping that the projected data proves, if anything, conservative. My boyfriend of 7 years and I are both physicists. Here’s how he…