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Our 10 Favorite Outdoor Destinations Of The Year

Adventure travel in the outdoors on a tech blog? Hey, we do occasionally use a camera. Whatever, IndefinitelyWild went to some pretty cool places during our first seven months; here’s our favorites. Hana The girlfriend and I spent a week bumming around Maui’s bejungled eastern side, sleeping on a secret beach, getting our food from…

Tech News Wes Siler Dec 30

The First Blimp in Washington DC’s New Missile Shield Is Aloft

After years of anticipation, the United States Army has finally floated the first of two football field-sized blimps that will serve as a missile shield for Washington DC. The tethered, helium-filled aerostat is equipped with anti-missile and anti-drone radar to protect the capital from attacks. It also looks like a cartoon. There’s nothing cartoonish about…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 30

The Boxtrolls‘ Timelapse End Credits Show How Much Work Stop-Motion Is

When you sit back and watch a stop-motion movie, it’s easy to forget that each tiny movement is controlled by an animator’s hands. But this hilariously philosophical sequence from The Boxtrolls’ end credits shows the animator at work, reminding us how much he moves so that the puppets can move. Note the changes in the…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 30

A Dangerous Nemesis Star May Visit Our Solar System Many Years From Now

A stellar orange dwarf has a 90% chance of passing through the outer reaches of our solar system no earlier than a quarter of a million years from now. Sure, that’s a long way off, but this unwelcome guest could perturb the Oort cloud, flinging dangerous comets towards Earth. Top image: Comet Siding Spring coming…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 30

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2014

This was a crazy good year for books. There was mind-expanding science fiction —including William Gibson’s return to the future! — along with thrilling fantasy, and a number of brilliant category-defying books. Here are the 22 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2014. Top image: Grimm Tales: Thousandfurs, by Shaun Tan, from Spectrum 21,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Dec 30

The Android Apps That Collect the Most Data on You

Apps often need permission to access other stuff on your phone to work. What is less obvious is the breadth of information collected, and why it gets scooped up. Vocativ put together a list of common permissions from popular Android apps, calling it a “barometer of what app makers think they can get away with.”…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs Dec 30

The 7 Most Important Gadgets of 2014

Another year has gone by, bringing us one unit of time closer to a world of hoverboards and holodecks and Fifth Element haircuts. In that time we saw a lot of gadgets—perhaps too many—but good or bad, only a select few really mattered. Here’s a selection of the most important gadgets that showed up in…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff Dec 30

VH1’s Time-Traveling Series Is Made Entirely Of I Love The ’90s Jokes

VH1’s new scripted TV series Hindsight appears to be made entirely out of old I Love the ’90s jokes, and we’re TOTALLY OKAY with that. Time-traveling back into your past body with your future brain is a tried-and-true trope that delivers both joy and nostalgia. And if that means dusting off a few Ace of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 30

Samsung’s Launching a VR Streaming Service for Its Face-Phone Headset

One of the biggest problems with Gear VR at launch is the general lack of stuff to do. Samsung is now trying to fix that content conundrum with Milk VR, a free video streaming service designed specifically with the company’s latest face wearable in mind. Launching as a technical preview, Milk VR aspires to be…

Gadgets Darren Orf Dec 30

Skip the Gnomes and Put a Giant Charging Triceratops In Your Garden

Kids obviously love dinosaurs, but here’s a secret: most adults do too. It’s just that as you grow older it becomes less socially acceptable to wear T-rex PJs to bed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t indulge your dino love elsewhere. In fact, what garden wouldn’t be instantly improved with a 20-foot long Triceratops guarding…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 30

Use Google Inbox To Snooze Emails From Your Friends or Family

Relatives are great, aren’t they? But do you really need to see their emails popping into your inbox every hour? Wouldn’t it be better if you only heard from them once a day? Or even once a week? Google’s new Inbox platform makes this simple to achieve, and you can apply the same approach to…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 30

Hey, Remember When People Used To Eat Arsenic As A Health Supplement?

Probably not, unless you’re well over 100 years old. In the 1800s, arsenic began being marketed as a health supplement, even though it had been a known poison for thousands of years. So why were people suddenly eating it on purpose? The Arsenic Eaters Styria, in the southeast of Austria, is a nice place to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 30

Hackers Uploaded a Worm to South Korean Nuclear Plants

Here’s a scary thing that happened: South Korean authorities found evidence that a worm was recently removed from devices connected to nuclear power facilities. The news comes a little over a week after the country’s nuclear plant operator received warnings on Twitter that its network had been compromised. Thankfully, the reactor controls were not infected.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 30

Meet The Pediatricians Who Assist Anti-Vaxxers

Last month, a school in Michigan temporarily closed as whooping cough began spreading among the 1,200 students. It’s the latest example of the public health risks caused by low vaccination rates — a growing national problem made worse by anti-vaxxer parents who are able to get help from sympathetic pediatricians. Image: CDC. Most states require…

io9 Mark Strauss Dec 30

Stunning Proof That The Helicarriers In Captain America 2 Weren’t Real

I don’t want to blow your mind, but did you know that giant, flying SHIELD helicarriers in the popular Marvel movie weren’t actually built, launched into the air, destroyed, and then crashed into Washington DC? It’s true! As it turns out, these massive airships were in fact made by something call com-pyoo-turs! I kid, of…

io9 Rob Bricken Dec 30

Our Favorite Gizmodo Posts of 2014

We posted many thousands (!) of stories in this past year, but these are the ones that stuck with us. Some are dumb, some are serious, two are about cults. And each of them of them is worth another look. Here are the Gizmodo staff’s picks for the best things we posted in 2014, in…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff Dec 30

What Would People Be Most Surprised To Learn About Your Job?

In every field of expertise, there’s information that’s common knowledge inside of the field and anything but to the rest of us. Today, we want to know about the information from (or about) your job that would most surprise people to learn. Maybe you want to clear up some misconceptions about your job, or maybe…

io9 Ria Misra Dec 30

This Bluetooth Speaker With 50 Hours of Battery Life Can’t Die

Portable Bluetooth speakers have liberated our music from wires, but they are only awesome technology if they are not dead. To that end, Ecoxgear has two new products it’s showing off. One has 50+ hours of battery life, the other has a built-in solar panel that’ll keep it charged. These speakers cannot die. The Ecoxgear…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 30

Incredible Images Show A Python Devouring An Entire Wallaby

A park ranger in Australia’s Nitmiluk national park recently stumbled upon an extraordinary scene: an 8-foot long olive python swallowing an entire agile wallaby joey. All images: Paul O’Neill/Parks and Wildlife Commission NT. As reported in The Guardian, Ranger Paul O’Neill arrived at the scene shortly after the python killed the wallaby. The snake was…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 30

This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga

He can roll around, hobble along on two feet, and apparently even fly at one point in his astromech career, but as far as robots go, R2-D2 never seemed that articulated. At least until the folks at Kaiyodo inducted the droid into their Revoltech line, which is known for having some of the most posable…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 30

Our 10 Favorite Outdoor Destinations Of The Year

The First Blimp in Washington DC’s New Missile Shield Is Aloft

The Boxtrolls‘ Timelapse End Credits Show How Much Work Stop-Motion Is

A Dangerous Nemesis Star May Visit Our Solar System Many Years From Now

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2014

The Android Apps That Collect the Most Data on You

The 7 Most Important Gadgets of 2014

VH1’s Time-Traveling Series Is Made Entirely Of I Love The ’90s Jokes

Samsung’s Launching a VR Streaming Service for Its Face-Phone Headset

Skip the Gnomes and Put a Giant Charging Triceratops In Your Garden

Use Google Inbox To Snooze Emails From Your Friends or Family

Hey, Remember When People Used To Eat Arsenic As A Health Supplement?

Hackers Uploaded a Worm to South Korean Nuclear Plants

Meet The Pediatricians Who Assist Anti-Vaxxers

Stunning Proof That The Helicarriers In Captain America 2 Weren’t Real

Our Favorite Gizmodo Posts of 2014

What Would People Be Most Surprised To Learn About Your Job?

This Bluetooth Speaker With 50 Hours of Battery Life Can’t Die

Incredible Images Show A Python Devouring An Entire Wallaby

This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga

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