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8 Gadgets With the Dumbest Names

What’s in a name? In technology, names don’t necessarily dictate if a smartphone is great, a camera is amazing, or a game console is worth the investment, but man, there are some really bad ones out there. When I asked you all what were some of the more laughable monikers you’ve ever heard, you served…

The Hottest And Coldest Temperatures Allowed By Conventional Physics

You’ve probably heard of absolute zero, but what do you call the opposite end of the temperature spectrum? This visualization from the BBC starts with absolute zero and ends with “absolute hot” (the temperature “above which conventional physics breaks down”). Between the two, you’ll find thermal milemarkers for things like the eruption temperature of volcanic…

Samsung Could Make More Windows Phones in 2015

The last time Samsung made a Windows Phone it was the Windows 8 Samsung ATIV SE, a Verizon Wireless exclusive back in the spring of last year. Samsung hasn’t even bothered with an out-of-the-box 8.1 device since. But the smartphone maker is interested in making more Windows Phone handsets. Only that pesky Android royalties legal…

Image Comics’ 2015 Lineup Looks Excellent

Image Comics held its fifth annual Image Expo in San Francisco this week, where it unveiled the 18 new titles in its 2015 launch lineup. This year’s highlights include new projects from Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Y: The Last Man) and Image Comics founder Todd McFarlane (Spawn). The Hollywood Reporter has the full list of…

Men Who Post Lots of Selfies Show Signs of Psychopathy, Says Study 

A study surveying the social media habits of 800 men confirmed with science what we’ve always known in our hearts—if you constantly take a bunch of selfies and post them online, you might have some mild psychological issues. A research project, conducted at the Ohio State University, straddles the line between “no duh” and “well,…

Marvel Are Now Streaming Two Episodes Of The Japanese Spider-Man Show

Hot off Takuya Yamashiro’s spectacular entrance into the ongoing Spider-Verse comics event, Marvel are celebrating the finest Live-action adaptation of Spidey by streaming the first and seventh episodes of the series online. Watch them, and bask in the absurdity that is Supaidaman! https://gizmodo.com/spider-mans-giant-robot-just-became-official-marvel-com-1678509168 It’s not the first time Marvel has made episodes available ( they…

NFC Payments May Finally Be Heading To Restaurants

Mobile payments are great and all, and Apple Pay has certainly helped things along, but there are still lots of barriers in place before smartphones become the ubiquitous way of pay. Verifone is looking to breakdown some of those walls with its new mobile point of sale (mPOS) payment terminal. Called the PAYWare Mobile e355…

Wet Hot American Summer Is The Latest Classic To Get A Netflix Reboot

After Netflix’s reboot of Arrested Development went down pretty damn well, its sights have turned to the next obvious candidate for the same treatment: cult satire classic Wet Hot American Summer. In case you haven’t seen the 2001 masterpiece before (in which case, you’ve got a GREAT Saturday night ahead), I won’t ruin the ‘plot’:…

These are the most amazing aerial photos of New York ever, period

It’s always exciting to receive a message from a master like Vincent Laforet telling you about his new photos. This time he has outdone himself (once again!) so I had to share it right away. Never in my life I’ve seen New York from this perspective and with this stunning quality—so perfect it feels unreal.…

John Mayer: Free Fallin’

I’m not normally an emotions sorta person when it comes to music — sure, I listen to stuff basically 24/7, but normally to block out distractions (or because Taylor Swift is hella catchy). There’s not many songs I’ve listened to on repeat because the emotions get to me, but John Mayer’s cover of Free Fallin’…

Check Out The Gigantic Snow Sculptures Made By Three Brothers

Think your family tradition of making a snowman with your sibling is cute? Artistic, even, because you stuck a carrot in there, or pushed a couple eyes in? Unfortunately, the Bartz brothers have a Christmas tradition that’ll show you just how pathetic you really are. Every year for the past four, the three brothers Bartz…

The World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle, Solved

It’s 33,600 pieces, and yes, it is gigantic. Redditor manne0708 submitted the photos to imgur earlier today. She says it took about 450 active hours, over the course of two and a half months, to solve. manne0708 has been answering questions about the puzzle on Reddit for the past several hours, so head there for…

Bud Lite Is Building A Life-Size Pacman Arena For The Super Bowl

Every year, we get to watch a series of commericals interspersed with occasional shots of people running into each other. But for this year’s Super Bowl commercial, Bud Lite has upped the ante: it’s built a life-size Pac-Man game. As I4U have noticed, a few photos of the maze have been surfacing on Twitter and…

Take A Stroll Through Hobbiton In This Beautiful Gallery

Whenever the lush hills of the Shire come into view in The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit movies, it’s almost impossible not to be filled with a desire to be whisked away to the peaceful land of Hobbits. Turns out you can go – and as these photos show, it looks as good…

How To Spot Comet Lovejoy With The Naked Eye

Comet Q2 Lovejoy passed closest to Earth on January 7th and has been putting on a great show this past week. Glowing at magnitude +4 with a bluish coma nearly as big as the Full Moon, the comet’s easy to see with the naked eye from the right location if you know exactly where to…

Holy Hell, I Had No Idea The LEGO Movie Was So Hard To Make

If you’ve watched The LEGO Movie, you were probably too busy laughing/reminiscing to actually think about the work that went into production. That’s a shame, because as this behind-the-scenes clip shows, it takes a lot of effort to make little plastic men talk. The film is made partly with stop-motion animation, using real bricks, and…

Thanks to “high import duties” and “challenges in the local business environment”, Nintendo will no longer be selling consoles or games in Brazil. Sorry, local Mario fans: looks like you’ll have to cross (any) border to get your fix.

‘Surviving Together Is All That Matters’ In New Walking Dead Trailer

The teaser for the second half of The Walking Dead Season Five is all about togetherness. Also violence! Isn’t camaraderie the sweetest? The Walking Dead returns Sunday, February 8th at 9/8c.

Star Wars Spinoff Movie Loses Scriptwriter Gary Whitta

We were excited to hear that Gary Whitta would be producing a screenplay for the standalone Star Wars film, to be directed by Godzilla’s Gareth Edwards. But now, Whitta has left the collaboration and is reportedly moving on to his next, unknown project. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-star-wars-spin-off-movie-could-be-a-space-hei-1662647773 THR has the scoop: One of the projects on his docket…

A Trailer For The Interview, as Directed By Kim Jong-Un

The Interview, the most talked-about crap movie of 2014, was not very flattering to North Korea’s leader. Actually, it showed his head going pop. But what would happen if the film were directed by the DPRK’s glorious leader, rather than those American fascists? This YouTube video, which comes to us courtesy of an anonymous YouTube…