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Your Fingerprints Can Now Reveal Your Raging Coke Habit

Occasional tokers and functioning cokeheads beware. The latest in narc technology will now come in the form of a device that can tell if you’re stoned just by your fingerprints. In minutes! The method is being developed by researchers at Intelligent Fingerprinting, led by one Paul Yates. They found that the by-products of your drug…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 25

Tons of futuristic gadgets that will enhance the Total Recall remake

How do you go about topping Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall? Len Wiseman, who’s directing the remake, has a few ideas — such as introducing a few new futuristic gadgets to the updated flick. The reboot director shared a few futuristic gizmos he’ll be inserting into Colin Farrell’s Total Recall — and explained why he’s happy…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 25

America’s Chief Cyber Defense Warrior Abruptly Resigns

Randy Vickers, Director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), is outta there. With neither warning nor explanation, Vickers resigned from defending government and private sector networks from attack, Information Week reports. Which does explain his exit. This summer has seen one of the most vivid and inexorable hacking sprees in recent memory—maybe ever.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

Intrepid Imbecile Lodges Himself in Storm Drain Chasing Lost Phone

Jared was just minding his own business, when he claims he was attacked by a roving gang, who pummeled the shit out of him and threw his phone down a storm drain. So he went in after it. One of the pivotal questions in this marvelously reported dispatch is, of course, Jared, were you drunk?…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

The Large Hadron Collider is tantalizingly close to finding the Higgs Boson

Once again, there’s excitement in the physics community about the possible discovery of the Higgs boson. But this time, it’s multiple discoveries…both experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have detected some intriguing possibilities, as has Fermilab’s Tevatron. What’s going on? The Higgs boson, just to review, is the only subatomic particle from the Standard Model…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 25

Soulra XL: The 8-Hour Solar Sound System

San Francisco’s climate isn’t exactly ideal for solar-powered gadgets, in that the appearance of the sun is a rare and fleeting occasion. But the output, battery life, and sound clarity you get from the sun-sucking Eton Soulra XL boombox are surprisingly decent. Like You don’t have to worry about finding an outlet or putting down…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola Jul 25

Help Try To Save a Missing Gizmodo Reader’s Life

Yesterday, husband, surfer, and Gizmodo reader Daniel Bobis went missing off the coast of Sumatra. His family is trying to organize a search team, but without a crucial helicopter looking overhead, their chances will be slight. Let’s help them out. The Bobis family is asking that you contact the US embassy in Indonesia to ask…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

MacBook Air 2011 Meta-Review: Critics Love the MacBook Killer

Reviews are already up for Apple’s newest thin kingslayer—and they’re good! Very good. We’ve rounded up the bits you need to read below. Laptop Mag (11-inch) It’s cool and pretty quiet…When you bump up the brightness to 100 percent, you almost forget that you’re looking at an 11.6-inch screen…The laptop notched a very good 60…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

Watch 3,500 Strangers Silently Follow Instructions from the Same MP3

Over 3,500 people marched along Manhattan’s Hudson River recently, converging from two separate starting points on Nelson Rockefeller Park. And then? Then they had a massive glowstick dance party. That’s right: it’s another Improv Everywhere MP3 Experiment. How did the merry pranksters spice things up for this year’s revelry? The experiment took late in the…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 25

Griffin StompBox: Make Your iPad Go Wah-Wah

GarageBand on the iPad is pretty great, but it’s kind of hard—and really unwieldy—to cram all of the necessary controls onto an iPad screen. Griffin’s new StompBox foot controller for iOS makes things easier. The StompBox provides virtual guitar effects using a pedalboard, so you can use your iOS device as a programmable effects board…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 25

10 Creepy, Sexy Fairy Tales That Should Be Films

If there’s one thing we learned this past week at Comic-Con, it’s that Hollywood is obsessed with fairy tales. They’re magical, they’ve got instant recognition… and they’re public domain. But Hollywood keeps hitting on the same five stories. With all due respect to both Emma Watson and Guillermo del Toro, the absolute last thing we…

Movies Kelly Faircloth Jul 25

An All-Plastic Bike That’s Super-Strong and Super-Ugly

The Frii, created, by Dror Peleg, truly is the bastard child of an exercise bike and my childhood big wheel. But what set its apart is its “flat-tire proof” tires, shorter fork, and ribbed body for extra strength. Peleg designed this Frankenstein bike using recycled plastics and injection molding technology, all with strength and customizability…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 25

Stare into the black eyes of Bradley Cooper’s Lucifer from Paradise Lost

Legendary Pictures has released concept art of Lucifer from Alex Proyas’ live action version of Paradise Lost who will be played by Bradley Cooper. Also, take a look at the burned horses, hordes of angels from another movie, The Seventh Son. Based on John Milton’s poem, this film will follow, “Lucifer and Michael, God’s greatest…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 25

Boeing’s Millennium Falcon Can Float Using Pulse Jets

Boeing is working on a new flat plane that would be able to take off and land vertically using dozens of new pulse jets they call Pulse-Ejector-Thrust-Augmentors. Of course, these things were originally created by Nazis. While a primitive working pulse jet was patented by Russian engineer V.V. Karavodin, it was German engineers Georg Madelung…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 25

Amazon and Barnes & Noble Give Up on In-App Purchases For iOS

Looks like Amazon and Barnes & Noble are finally bending to Apple’s new rules regarding in-app purchases. Both the Kindle and Nook apps have been quietly updated to remove the links to their respective ebookstores. https://gizmodo.com/apple-frees-publishers-and-users-from-app-stores-dracon-5810251 This comes shortly after Kobo, Inc. and the Wall Street Journal both announced they would no longer sell ebooks…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 25

The Definitive Goodbye Space Shuttle Desktop Wallpaper

Boeing and NASA have released this beautiful photo of Atlantis by Bill Ingalls, just after it touched down at the Kennedy Space Center, just before dawn on July 21, 2011. You can download the 1920 x 1080 version here. OK, let’s sing one last goodbye, Elton. Sigh. [Boeing]

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jul 25

This Week’s TV: ThunderCats slice your television set with glowing swords of awesome!

Television has many thrills in store for you this week — but chief among them is the return of Lion-O in the Cartoon Network’s new ThunderCats series! But he’s not alone: There’s also a bitchin new Wolverine anime series. And in Syfy’s latest original TV movie, Danny Glover stars in a reimagining of Moby Dick…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 25

A Peek Behind Avatar Kinect’s Wireframe Curtain: How Xbox Turns You Into a Virtual Blinking, Winking Chatterbox

Avatar Kinect, your not-quite-creepy smirking, winking virtual self, is launching today in Kinect Fun Labs. It tracks your eyebrows, mouth, and other points on your face to translate your real-world expressions into their polygonal equivalent. This is how it works. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-kinect-now-your-avatar-smiles-smirks-and-talks-5726091 The Kinect sensor doesn’t provide quite enough fidelity to say, actually match your blinks…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 25

A Web Browser For Your…Graphing Calculator?

Did anyone ever use a graphing calculator to actually, like, calculate graphs? All I remember is playing Tetris and some Drugwars game. Kids these days have something crazier: Gossamer. It’s a web browser for graphing calculators. Gossamer works with TI-83+ and TI-84+SE calculators and lets you see websites in a cramped, pixelated, black and white…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 25

The 1.4-Gigapixel Camera Standing Between Us and Armageddon

First step in preventing Armageddon: Spot the asteroid before it obliterates all life on earth. The PS1 Telescope sits atop a Hawaiian mountain with a 1.4-gigapixel digital camera to ensure we get the Ben Affleck-approved ending, not Deep Impact. The PS1 telescope is the first of four Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System),…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 25

Your Fingerprints Can Now Reveal Your Raging Coke Habit

Tons of futuristic gadgets that will enhance the Total Recall remake

America’s Chief Cyber Defense Warrior Abruptly Resigns

Intrepid Imbecile Lodges Himself in Storm Drain Chasing Lost Phone

The Large Hadron Collider is tantalizingly close to finding the Higgs Boson

Soulra XL: The 8-Hour Solar Sound System

Help Try To Save a Missing Gizmodo Reader’s Life

MacBook Air 2011 Meta-Review: Critics Love the MacBook Killer

Watch 3,500 Strangers Silently Follow Instructions from the Same MP3

Griffin StompBox: Make Your iPad Go Wah-Wah

10 Creepy, Sexy Fairy Tales That Should Be Films

An All-Plastic Bike That’s Super-Strong and Super-Ugly

Stare into the black eyes of Bradley Cooper’s Lucifer from Paradise Lost

Boeing’s Millennium Falcon Can Float Using Pulse Jets

Amazon and Barnes & Noble Give Up on In-App Purchases For iOS

The Definitive Goodbye Space Shuttle Desktop Wallpaper

This Week’s TV: ThunderCats slice your television set with glowing swords of awesome!

A Peek Behind Avatar Kinect’s Wireframe Curtain: How Xbox Turns You Into a Virtual Blinking, Winking Chatterbox

A Web Browser For Your…Graphing Calculator?

The 1.4-Gigapixel Camera Standing Between Us and Armageddon

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