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These Iconic L.L. Bean Boots Are Your Gizmodo’s-Unofficial-Shoe Deal of the Day

Update 5:05 PM: It’s since come to my attention that not only are these the official Unofficial Shoe of Gizmodo, but also like, half the staff has a pair. Today you’ll pay less than any of us paid for our Bean Boots. [L.L. Bean] Update 7:08 PM: It looks like this deal will expire at…

Guillermo del Toro over-analyzes the Pacific Rim trailer

MTV sat down with Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro to reveal the secrets of the new Pacific Rim trailer. Some things ranged from the interesting (the Kaiju have toxic blood) to the odd (it takes two pilots to drive each Jaeger, with each controlling one side) to the adorable (this is del Toro’s attempt…

What Really Happens When You Use Those Fancy Star Wars Cookie Cutters

Super detailed cookie cutters are cool. Cookies are awesome. What could possibly go wrong? This. No matter how intricate your fancy William Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters may be, it seems you will be doomed to barely recognizable, vaguely brain-like monstrosities, as discovered by an unnamed Geekologie reader. Sure they might still be tasty, but…

Fun Site Gives You Random Images of Anything at Any Size You Want

Need, or just happen to want, random pictures of random things? Probably for placeholder images while building a website, but also maybe just for fun? Check out Lorempixel. It does those things. Lorempixel is a play on the placeholder text that starts lorem ipsum, and all the variants, like Bacon Ipsum. The placeholder idea isn’t…

21 Awesome and Rare Gifts You’ll Never Find at the Mall

You know the face. That obviously-disappointed-but-smiling-to-be-polite face that people make every time they open a present from you. Time to step up your game and start giving gifts that people actually want. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 21 of the most incredible, sock-rocking vintage gifts that you can buy. US Military TV 7 A…

What you need to know about e-cigarettes

As tobacco use continues its inexorable fall from grace, a growing number of people are turning to electronic cigarettes. These nifty electrical inhalers are being seen — and sometimes even marketed — as a “healthier” alternative to smoking tobacco. But are they really a viable alternative to cigarettes, or just a passing fad? What is…

There Are Some Technologies We Should Not Have, and Guns Are One of Them

More than a dozen children were just murdered in Connecticut. It’s time to take steps toward preventing this sort of tragedy. The Second Amendment was written when all Americans could remember being occupied by a foreign power. That was 220 years ago; the British are not coming. Red Dawn is not real. Give up your…

Download Some Free Pixelated Gift Wrap and Do the Holidays Right (Cheap, Nerdy, and Easy)

Having trouble finding the perfect holiday wrapping paper that says “hey, I actually put some thought into this gift this year”? Over on MiniEco Kate Lilley has provided a lovely set of non-traditional pixelated designs that you can download for free, and print off on your company’s laserjet. Technically the designs are actually cross-stitch patterns,…

10 of the Most Insane Death-Defying Stunts from Science Fiction Movies

Science fiction and fantasy movies are full of amazing visuals — but the coolest thing about any SF film is usually that there’s a real live human being in the middle of all that overwhelming strangeness. We want to see ourselves, in all our human frailty, juxtaposed with the danger and mystery of fantasy —…

David Cronenberg explains why his sequel to The Fly got swatted

Last year David Cronenberg revealed that he had penned a sequel to The Fly. But swiftly after this news was released Fox pulled the plug on Cronenberg’s project. And now we know why. https://gizmodo.com/david-cronenberg-has-penned-a-sequel-to-the-fly-so-wh-5846345 https://gizmodo.com/fox-officially-pulls-the-plug-on-cronenbergs-sequel-to-5861631 In an interview with The Playlist, the director revealed his plans for the sequel. “It wasn’t really a remake, it…

Snapchat Now Automatically Sets Your Sexy Video Messages to Self-Destruct in 10 Seconds or Less Too

The safe sexting app that automatically deletes pictures you send to friends a few seconds after they view it has added something that could get a lot raunchier: videos. Yep, Snapchat does video now. You can record a video up to 10 seconds long and send it to your Snapchat friends. They can only watch…

The USSR’s First Supersonic Bomber Failed Harder than Soviet Communism

In the early 1960s, when ICBMs were still in their developmental infancy, the Soviet Union figured its best option for delivering a nuclear strike was to build an intercontinental supersonic bomber. Fortunately, they only got the second half right. The Tu-22 “Blinder” was the first supersonic bomber ever produced by the USSR and was built…

Walmart’s Got a $127 iPhone 5 and Other Crazy Cheap Deals

Looking to move up a rung on the iPhone ladder this Christmas? Just hold on for a couple of days, and you might be able to do it for ridiculously cheap. Walmart’s going to run some promotions like a 16GB iPhone 5 for just $127 and other related insanity. In addition to that iPhone 5…

Hey last-minute shoppers, good news: Apple just brought back the ability to gift apps from your iOS devices.

Sitegeist Serves Up All Your Neighborhood’s Not-So-Secret Secrets

Wherever you are, there’s a swirling storm of interesting data churning invisibly behind the scenes. The new Sitegeist app developed by the Sunlight Foundation will dig up the best parts of that info for you and let you in on local factoids you never knew you wanted to know. It’s a simple idea really. Based…

A fourth ’90s TMNT movie would’ve featured a “badass” fifth turtle, KISS Shredder and April O’Neil’s nipples

Although the ’90s live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise ended after a brief dalliance with Vanilla Ice and teaching samurai how to make pizza, a fourth movie was planned at one point. It was going to be a “grittier, less kid-friendly affair,” and thus co-creator Kevin Eastman was hired to do some concept art, which…

The Hobbit is a lot better once you realize it’s a war movie

The Hobbit has officially joined the ranks of franchises like Star Wars that are so eagerly anticipated that they suffocate under the weight of audience expectations. So far, critical responses to The Hobbit have been terrible, and I think at least fifty percent of the hate is coming from people’s outrage that this movie isn’t…

Resilient Gifts For the Accident-Prone

Everybody knows someone who’s a walking disaster. Hand over a tablet and, oh hey, here’s a new port in the middle of the screen. Let ’em near the TV and, congrats, now you’ve got a piece of modern art. You might not be able to save all gadgets from the klutzes in your lives—or even…

What Computer Accessories Do You Really Need?

Gawker’s Better State of Living Conversation series is brought to you with the support of State FarmTM. Today, tech expert Vanessa Rae is live in the comments to answer your questions about choosing the perfect accessories for your computer. Hi, everyone! I’ve been scouring the market for the perfect holiday tech-themed gifts, and am back…

The lasting mystery of the Hawthorne Effect

The Hawthorne Effect is cited by both business experts and psychology experts, but rarely in the same way. Some say it’s real, some that it’s real but misinterpreted, and then others that it doesn’t exist and never has. It all started with an attempt to increase productivity at a factory in the 1920s, and we’ve…