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Concept Traffic Light Shows How Much Time Is Left Through A Sand Glass

You ever find yourself stuck at a traffic light that’ll just never turn green? Doesn’t it feel like forever? If traffic lights used this this concept LED Sand Glass, you’ll know exactly how much time is left. Here’s how it works: It’s an incredibly simple idea: LED lights trickle down in a virtual sand glass…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 20

The weird evolutionary story of cranberries

This Thanksgiving, take your cranberry sauce with a dollop of irony. You’re eating cranberries mostly because cranberries stopped trying to get mammals to eat them. Although there are a few plants that migrate, the vast majority of them are stuck in one place. This saves on energy, but has many disadvantages. One of those disadvantages…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 20

Study Says Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick

Wi-Fi, sweet deliverer of information and porn, may be killing trees. A study by a Dutch university suggests that Wi-Fi radiation causes weird abnormalities in trees. This is disturbing, as we love both Wi-Fi and trees. The dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn commissioned the study five years ago to figure out why their…

io9 Adrian Chen Nov 20

Here’s A List of US Airports Currently Using Full Body Scanners

According to the TSA, there are currently 385 full body scanners in 68 different US airports. Check to see if your local airport is using these scanners to sneak a peak at your goodies. • Albuquerque International Sunport Airport • Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport • Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport • Boston Logan International •…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan Nov 20

Star Wars characters rendered with the Force of typography

Advertising agency H-57 Creative Station have worked a little letterpress magic to render characters from Star Wars with nothing more than typographical symbols. They’re perfect for those times when you need a formal Vader-themed invitation. [via Neatorama]

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 20

Happy 25th Birthday to Windows 1.0: The Bland Bust that Started it All

Windows 95? A somewhat hazy memory at this point (whether you miss it or not). But Windows 1.0? One point oh? Mostly forgotten. But bring it up again, and all the problems and primitiveness of it might surprise you. Windows 1.0 was two years late—shipping, finally, on November 20th, 1985. Bill Gates had announced it,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 20

The best Harry Potter fan videos, comedy sketches, and other viral oddities

Given that the entire planet’s been in throes of Pottermania for over a decade, the internet’s churned out tons of funny (and profoundly bizarre) video tributes to J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard. Here are some of the best. The 8-Bit Harry Potter Interactive YouTube Game Harry’s incessant adventures have left him delinquent in his studies, and…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Nov 20

Gizmodo University: Atari Punk Console Edition

Gizmodo University concludes its Discover Electronics Online series with the construction of an Atari Punk Console. Impress your friends and intimidate your enemies with Lo-Fi sound effects! And did we mention? We’ve got Certificates of Achievement! Certificates for everybody!* Welcome to the final class in our Discover Electronics Online course. Today, we’re going to put…

Tech News Gizmodo University Nov 20

Five webcomics to read while xkcd is on hiatus

Due to a family illness, Randall Munroe announced that we won’t be seeing regular installments of his popular webcomic xkcd. We wish Munroe and his family the best, but in the meantime, what’s a math-loving webcomic reader to do? Last week, Munroe announced that he will be focusing on his family for the next few…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Nov 20

Non-conformist aliens wanted

It occurred to me the other day that many fictional alien species conform to a small number of body plans: humanoid, insectoid, feline, robot, and reptilian. There’s a huge amount of creativity in appearances and cultures, admittedly, but most races out there fit one of those body plans. The Wikipedia list of fictional aliens is…

io9 Anassa Rhenisch -- Science In My Fiction Nov 20

New “Troll Hunter” footage pits man against Scandinavian myth

We’ve been excited for the Norwegian mockumentary Troll Hunter for a while now, and this new making-of featurette showcases the CGI behind a jeep versus troll battle. https://gizmodo.com/norways-massive-troll-cover-up-exposed-5625010 It’s unclear when the film is getting a release outside of Norway, but here’s some making-of shots to tide you over for the time being (via Bloody…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Nov 20

The annals of weather warfare

Did you know there was an abandoned Nazi weather station on the coast of present-day Canada? Until 1981, almost nobody did. My morning began with the fascinating story of Kurt, a forgotten Nazi weather station installed on the coast of Labrador during World War II that was only rediscovered in 1981. From a long article…

io9 Geoff Manaugh -- BLDGBLOG Nov 20

Predator teams up with the Ninja Turtles in deranged Russian children’s books

In a series of beautifully ugly (and tenuously legal) Russian kids’ books, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet “Space Hunter,” a crab-faced alien with dreadlocks. They fight at first, but the creatures later reconcile and enjoy poorly drawn pizza together. Here are some illustrations from the Turtles’ team-up with the Predator, plus some sundry pictures…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 20

Bankrupt Blockbuster Spending Millions on National Ad Campaign Bashing Netflix … Again?

Recently bankrupted Blockbuster is jumping back in the game with a $15 to $20 million TV ad campaign. Reuters reports that Blockbuster is once again trying to raise awareness that it has new releases 28 days before Netflix and Redbox. But wait, wait! Haven’t we heard this before? Of course! Blockbuster’s been boasting of this…

Tech News Austin Carr - Fast Company Nov 20

Netflix: Plan vs Reality

We sign up for Netflix plans with grand plans. We will watch movies the day they arrive. We will mail movies back as soon as we’ve finished watching them. But is that really what we wind up doing? [Shoebox]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan Nov 20

How many times can you relive a train explosion?

Duncan Jones, director of Moon, has just released the first trailer for his new film, Source Code. In it, Jake Gyllenhaal has to relive the last 8 minutes of another man’s life over and over. This flick looks like a strange cross between Groundhog Day and Speed – which could be awesome, or could be…

Movies Annalee Newitz Nov 19

Every Single Mural in the World Should Be of Colossal Cats Shooting Lasers

Art—impossible to define? Maybe. Shocking, city-leveling awesomeness—impossible to define? No. Not after seeing this San Francisco mural, which shatters any concept of either art or awesomeness you might have, melding them together into one fantastic rainbow apocalypse. LASERS! Are they battling each other? Are they battling mankind? So many questions remain unanswered, and so I…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 19

Is Android an Ugly Platform?

The path to Android for a “very successful iOS game development shop” might be “skipping the Android Market entirely” in favor of deals to be bundled on select handsets, according to John Gruber. Is the Android ecosystem that ugly? What that developer’s considering is pretty wild, if you think about it. The consensus is that…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 19

5 Amazing Ways to Use These Incredible Fizzing Bacon Tablets

Dropped into water, these effervescent bacon tablets will explode in a shower of fizz and delicious bacon flavor. Think Alka-Seltzer, but bacon flavored. It’s a tiny, bubbly miracle. And we’ve already come up with 5 amazing ways to use them. 1. Ultimate hangover cure. The soothing power of Alka-Seltzer and bacon, combined in one porky,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 19

A Young Steve Jobs Extols the Virtues of California

In 1985, Playboy talked to an enthusiastic 29-year-old Steve Jobs. In that lengthy interview, the entirety of which has been recently reposted online, Jobs touches on many topics, including the allure of California in the 1960s. Namely: Dylan and LSD. Yup. Playboy: Was Wozniak obsessed at certain periods? Jobs: [Laughs] Yes, but not just with…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Nov 19

Concept Traffic Light Shows How Much Time Is Left Through A Sand Glass

The weird evolutionary story of cranberries

Study Says Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick

Here’s A List of US Airports Currently Using Full Body Scanners

Star Wars characters rendered with the Force of typography

Happy 25th Birthday to Windows 1.0: The Bland Bust that Started it All

The best Harry Potter fan videos, comedy sketches, and other viral oddities

Gizmodo University: Atari Punk Console Edition

Five webcomics to read while xkcd is on hiatus

Non-conformist aliens wanted

New “Troll Hunter” footage pits man against Scandinavian myth

The annals of weather warfare

Predator teams up with the Ninja Turtles in deranged Russian children’s books

Bankrupt Blockbuster Spending Millions on National Ad Campaign Bashing Netflix … Again?

Netflix: Plan vs Reality

How many times can you relive a train explosion?

Every Single Mural in the World Should Be of Colossal Cats Shooting Lasers

Is Android an Ugly Platform?

5 Amazing Ways to Use These Incredible Fizzing Bacon Tablets

A Young Steve Jobs Extols the Virtues of California

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