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There’s Now a 3D Printer That Can Replace Human Cartilage

Somehow 3D printing has gotten even more amazing. Scientists over at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created a hybrid 3D printer that can create implantable human cartilage. There are already 3D printers that can create skin for healing wounds, but this particular machine—called a 3D bio-printer—is unique because it marries two techniques,…

The Governor finally gets evil on The Walking Dead

Everybody has questions on last night’s The Walking Dead! Rick wants to know what Michonne’s deal is! Merle wants to know where his brother and Rick are! Milton wants to know if zombies keep any memories after their death! A very sound sleeper living in the woods wants to know who the fuck just broke…

A robot overlord’s most dangerous quality is not necessarily malevolence

Philosophy profesor Huw Price has cofounded a project with astrophysicist Martin Rees that will seek to push the risks that technology could one day pose to humans “forward in the respectable scientific community.” Via The Associated Press: Philosophers and scientists at Britain’s Cambridge University think the question deserves serious study. A proposed Center for the…

Calling all Google TV Owners Past and Present

Hey, are you an early and/or current Google TV adopter/user? Want to talk about it? Whether you love/loved/hate/hated it, we have some questions for you, so raise your virtual hand!

Check Out These Amazing North Korean Spy Weapons: A Killer Flashlight and Deadly Pens

North Korea hates Park Sang-hak, a former citizen and now South Korea resident and activist against the brutal regime of the Kim Jongs. They hate him so much that they sent a killer agent to eliminate him using these James Bond-ish weapons. Talking to CNN, a South Korea government official showed the apparently innocent objects…

Take That, Duct Tape: Scotch Tape Turned Into Tiny Robotic Claw

It’s not going to replace the claw that snatches prizes in the machine at your local arcade. But this tiny scotch tape gripper could one day provide a cheap and low-tech way for autonomous vehicles to snatch samples. And you thought duct tape was the king of adhesives. The claw was created by doctoral student…

Dealzmodo Presents The Top 6 Least Crappy Cyber Monday Sales

Today is the biggest online shopping day of the year, but not every deal is as good as it looks—in fact, most 50%-off-type deals are sporting inflated prices. So you don’t have to spend all day parsing lists of cheap electronics, here are five six deals on stuff you actually want for prices are actually…

You Can Download Your Whole Archive of Tweets By the End of the Year

From the first sandwich you ever described in 140-character form to the last joke you tweeted that disappointingly fell flat—by the end of 2012, you should be able to download every tweet you’ve ever twittered, according to CEO Dick Costolo. Costolo made the announcement at a recent talk at the University of Michigan, and it…

You can own these Russian Star Wars posters, advertising a cat-faced Vader and Greedo sex party

These batty Russian Star Wars posters — created before anyone had a clue was Star Wars was — really about are the stuff nightmares are made of. You’ve got a cat-faced Vader with lightsaber hair, a crying Jabba planet, a robot, space cowboy and something that is called the “Cantina Band” but honestly looks like…

19 science fiction movies that could change your life

There are plenty of classic SF movies you should see, from James Whale’s Frankenstein to George Lucas’ Star Wars: A New Hope. And there are plenty of beloved SF movies like Steven Spielberg’s E.T. But what about science fiction movies that challenge your preconceptions about reality and force you to rethink your place in the…

Dr. Kellogg’s 15 Most Absurd Medical Contraptions

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, though most famous for his invention of the corn flake, also ran a very successful holistic sanitarium where the ill and infirmed would subject themselves to his unique medical practices. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 15 of the strangest restorative devices to ever come out of Battle Creek, MI. After…

Facebook Took Down This Picture Because It Thinks Elbows Are Boobs

Elbows and boobs. Both are great in their own special ways, but they are definitely not the same thing. You and I might know that well enough, but it seems that Facebook has a little more trouble with the distinction. That’s why they took down this elbowlicious picture. The picture—which appears risque at a glance,…

Elon Musk Wants to Build a Town on Mars the Size of Phuket

Elon Musk is brilliant but also a pretty nuts. He has his eye on a piece of real estate on Mars for a colony that would accomodate around 80,000 people. Considering NASA just landed the Curiosity Rover, we might be putting the cart before the horse here. This colony is still pretty far off from…

Was the Bogus ICOA Press Release Actually a Clever Stock Scam?

Earlier today, a press release was floating around that claimed Google had bought Wi-Fi hotspot company ICOA for $400 million dollars. It was bogus but a lot of us bought it. So what gives? Why would someone do this? Probably to make a killing on stocks. https://gizmodo.com/google-just-bought-400-million-worth-of-public-wi-fi-h-5963272 Buzzfeed points out that ICOA stock was trading…

Facebook Will Always Own You

Bad news: the “copyright notice” you’ve been reading (and sharing, ugh) is completely bogus and a waste of everyone’s time. Facebook owns the photos, videos, and statuses you upload, and that’s not going to change just because you say so. https://gizmodo.com/that-facebook-copyright-notice-is-worthless-5963210 But here’s something you can do that might actually make a difference. When you…

Facebook Gifts finally adds something you actually want to give: iTunes digital gift cards. [CNET]

This Robo-Griller Can Flip 360 Burgers an Hour

The most expensive part of that flimsy burger from your local fast food joint isn’t what you put in your mouth; it’s the human hands that put it together. But this robotic burger-maker that preps, grills, and assembles your Royale with Cheese—automatically—may soon replace human line cooks altogether while saving the fast food industry billions.…

How NASA might build its very first warp drive

A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the…

Why Not Just Feed Babies Like Gerbils?

Babies require a lot of attention, and odds are your social life has taken quite a hit since your new arrival. But why waste money on a baby sitter, or impose on family, when this crib-mounted bottle can take care of feedings while you’re having a night out on the town? The Crib Dribbler is…

This video of an anaconda regurgitating a cow is the most repulsively satisfying thing you’ll see today

Watching this video is a little like peeling off a blackhead-laden nose strip, picking away at sloughs of sunburnt skin, or popping a particularly tumid zit. It’s unequivocally disgusting, but also gratifying in the sort of way that makes you wonder if there might be something wrong with you. (I spent this entire video shouting…