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Judge rules that Todd McFarlane owes Neil Gaiman back pay for Spawn characters

In 1992, Neil Gaiman created Medieval Spawn and Angela, a warrior angel, for Todd McFarlane’s up-and-coming Spawn comic. Years later, the characters “Dark Ages Spawn” and “Tiffany and Domina” debuted in Spawn. McFarlane must now pay Gaiman for these derivatives. The legal foibles between McFarlane and Gaiman are nothing new. In 2002, Gaiman won co-ownership…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

Ball lightning: a shocking (and totally inexplicable) phenomenon

It skitters across the ground, floats in the air, is cold to the touch, and leaves scorch marks. It’s been scientifically explained, or hey, it might be a total hallucination. It’s ball lightning! Ball lightning is the name given to a group of phenomena that have not been completely explained, or even agreed upon. Of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 31

Practice Abstinence With This $434,000 Motion-Controlled Video Game

Click to viewThe University of Central Florida has developed a full-body motion-control video game that promotes abstinence. It lets tween girls control avatars that are placed in social situations that may lead to making out and, gasp, sex. In order to play the game, teen girls will wear motion capture suits that track their actions…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 31

Rising numbers of radioactive wild boars plague German forests

It’s been 25 years since Chernobyl fallout contaminated flora and fauna in Europe, but German hunting officials are still dealing with rising numbers of radioactive wild boars. But why? This burgeoning boar population munches on radiation-absorbing truffles and mushrooms, and because of an overall increase in wild boars, the number of radioactive boars has gone…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 31

This Guy and His Partner Play Good Cop, Super Terrifying Robot Bad Cop

This is artist Jamie Martin’s Cybernetic Autonomous Remote Barricade police robot, equipped with armor, impulse cannons, and smoke screens. If that sounds like a bad idea, Martin’s one step ahead of you; he made this video of it going rogue: Martin did all of the design, modeling and animation for the C.R.A.B. and imagined this…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 31

What if Law & Order was a science fiction show?

Comic shop and gallery Meltdown Comics is currently hosting the show “These are Their Stories,” featuring art based on one-line descriptions of Law & Order episodes. And some of the artists’ interpretations have been positively scifi. Artist Brandon Bird — whose paintings feature everything form Christopher Walken to Magneto to Benjamin Sisko — curates the…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 31

Strained Graphene Creates Pseudo-Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Any Before Seen

Putting the right kind of strain on a patch of graphene can make super-strong pseudo-magnetic fields, a new study says. The finding sheds new light on the properties of electromagnetism, not to mention the odd properties of graphene. When graphene is stretched to form “nanobubbles,” the stress causes electrons to behave as if they were…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - Pop Sci Jul 31

Bring The Stig Home With Top Gear’s Stig-Copter

All we know is, he’s called The Stig. And that now we can race through the air with an RC mini-helicopter styled after the mysterious Top Gear cast member’s iconic helmet. This indoor mini-copter has an aluminum frame and a built in gyro that rights the toy if it crash lands, and you’ll get about…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Jul 31

This Pixar Luxo Jr Lookalike Lamp Was Made With a Bicycle Chain

Take the Pixar Luxo Jr Lamp and then remix it with a recycled bicycle chain and what do you get? An incredibly cute lookalike lamp that can be bent and shaped in multiple directions. The B-chain Lamp, as designer Cho Hyung Suk is calling it, uses a bicycle chain as its arm. That allows the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 30

Dry Off Your Wet Umbrella In Styrofoam Grass

There has to be a better way of drying a wet umbrella than just shaking it silly. This Lawn for Rain concept—where you slide a wet umbrella into the styrofoam grass—might be it. Those green styrofoam faux-grass fingers strain out the umbrella by soaking out the rainwater. What’s especially thoughtful of Lawn for Rain is…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 30

The Mysterious Box That Refused To Leave Amazon’s Warehouse

I’ve learned nothing during the three minutes that I spent watching this video except that someone’s order just plain refused to be a good little box and leave Amazon’s warehouse. I’d just really love to know what’s inside. Any guesses? I’m thinking it’s a gigantic slinky. The original video was removed from YouTube, but here’s…

Commerce Rosa Golijan Jul 30

Make Your Hammer Feel Useful Even When It’s Not Hammering

Finally there’s a tool box for people who just want their tools to look pretty. This concept by Tim Oelker incorporates your hammer into its design and gives the rest of your tools form-fitting homes. If you actually know how to use tools and your hammer spends more time in use than in a box,…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck Jul 30

Add Some Gizmodo to Your Facebook

Did you know that you can easily add a dash of Gizmodo to your Facebook? You’ll get all the best stories and discussions right in your Facebook feed. All you need to click that “like” button on our Facebook page. Actually, we’re making it even easier for you. You can just click the like button…

Social Media Rosa Golijan Jul 30

Minimalist Drawing Lamp Focuses Light Where You Need It

The Drawing Lamp, by designer Thomas Feichtner, is a barebones light source that can be leaned closer to your desk for a more focused glow. Feichtner describes the Drawing Lamp, which he designed for himself, as “reduced to the basics.” Designers like Feichtner often need focused lighting when sketching by hand, and the svelte Drawing…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 30

Thank You/Damn You Sys Admins!

National sys admin day is a good day to remember the complicated relationships we’ve all had with them. I remember being a sys admin intern, rolling out new machines with new images to consultants, and sometimes getting yelled at for not doing things quickly enough for them. But mostly, I remember having to do tech…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 30

DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg

Someday humans and computers will meld together to create cyborgs. But instead of waiting for it, Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. Magnusson has hacked a pair of head-mounted display glasses and combined it with a homebrewed…

Tech News Priya Ganapati - Wired Jul 30

Meet QingTing, the Chinese Company that Copies Apple’s Products and Website

What did Picasso say again? Oh right. Good artists copy, great artists steal. By that logic, QingTing must be the greatest artist ever. [QingTing via giz-china]

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 30

The Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb to 1998

This video, by artist Isao Hashimoto, charts every nuclear detonation from the US’s tests in 1945 to the modern era. Even if you’re versed in history, it still offers a perspective that’s tough to entirely grasp in numbers alone. The pacing, mixed with an Atari-esque soundtrack is both distancing and hypnotic. As more and more…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 30

Architecture Concepts That Incorporate Nature

The Beckton Dickinson Campus Center by RMJM in New Jersey blurs the boundaries between roof and lawn. [Arch Daily] The Hof residence, which is located less than 100km from the Arctic Circle, reused the displaced grass from the field it was built on as the roof. [Arch Daily] The famous Marina Bay Sands resort in…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Jul 30

The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD

This reissue of The Goonies includes a board game and a treasure map on the box as well as some other junk. I’d get it, but I already own the DVD, and chunk ain’t getting any prettier in high def. [Amazon via Uncrate]

Movies Brian Lam Jul 30

Judge rules that Todd McFarlane owes Neil Gaiman back pay for Spawn characters

Ball lightning: a shocking (and totally inexplicable) phenomenon

Practice Abstinence With This $434,000 Motion-Controlled Video Game

Rising numbers of radioactive wild boars plague German forests

This Guy and His Partner Play Good Cop, Super Terrifying Robot Bad Cop

What if Law & Order was a science fiction show?

Strained Graphene Creates Pseudo-Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Any Before Seen

Bring The Stig Home With Top Gear’s Stig-Copter

This Pixar Luxo Jr Lookalike Lamp Was Made With a Bicycle Chain

Dry Off Your Wet Umbrella In Styrofoam Grass

The Mysterious Box That Refused To Leave Amazon’s Warehouse

Make Your Hammer Feel Useful Even When It’s Not Hammering

Add Some Gizmodo to Your Facebook

Minimalist Drawing Lamp Focuses Light Where You Need It

Thank You/Damn You Sys Admins!

DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg

Meet QingTing, the Chinese Company that Copies Apple’s Products and Website

The Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb to 1998

Architecture Concepts That Incorporate Nature

The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD

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