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A Glowing Borg Cube Keychain Is Worth a Pocket Full Of Pain

There’s no pretending here, this adorable little light-up Borg Cube keychain flashlight is a Star Trek collectible first, and a functional way to find your way around in the dark a distant second. Only the baggiest of pants would be able to comfortably accommodate this keychain without painfully jabbing into the wearer’s leg. But at…

Washington DC’s Very Own High Line Will Clean Its Dirty River Water

The Anacostia River that runs through Washington DC has historically been known as, well, not the cleanest river in the country. A new elevated park straddling the river plans to filter the dirty water with a waterfall feature (apparently projected with Frederick Douglass’s face). It’s the winning design announced today for the city’s upcoming elevated…

Believe It Or Not, The Latest Literary-Vs-Genre Book Debate Is Progress

At first blush, it sounds like the same old story — a literary author writes a novel set in the post-apocalyptic future, and then complains when people describe it as science fiction. But actually, Emily St. John Mandel’s debate with the Washington Post’s Ron Charles represents a bit of progress. Top image: Nathan Burton Design…

Show Your Loyalty To the Best Decepticon With This Soundwave Tee

Some kids loved Megatron, others Starscream, and there was always a small faction who thought Devastator was the best Decepticon—but they were all wrong. On so many levels Soundwave was not only the best Decepticon, but the best Transformer to come out of the 1980s cartoon and toy line. And now you can proudly show…

A spider crawled inside this man’s body for three days (updated)

An Australia man’s vacation to Bali took a dark turn last week after he discovered a painful red line forming above his belly button. At first, doctors told 21-year-old Dylan Thomas that it was just an insect bite. Then the line started to grow and the horror was obvious: It was a spider burrowed into…

New Book Will Reveal What’s Happened In Twin Peaks In The Last 25 Years

The new season of Twin Peaks will pick up 25 years after the show left off, but what happened to the denizens of Washington’s weirdest town in the interim? An upcoming book by Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost will reveal all—or at least as much as Twin Peaks ever reveals. https://gizmodo.com/its-official-twin-peaks-will-return-1642888056 The Wrap is reporting…

So Where’s That Retina MacBook Air?

The MacBook Air is a positively wonderful computer. One of the best! Its design and build-quality are unrivaled and oft-imitated. It pioneered the ultra-super-slim space. But by today’s standards its screen is seriously lacking. And there doesn’t seem to be much relief in sight. A Retina MacBook Air has been on virtually every Mac-fan’s wishlist…

The iPad Air 2 Has Its Own SIM So You Change Carriers Whenever You Want

Want an iPad Air 2 on LTE but don’t want to tie lock yourself into an iPad-lifelong relationship with a single carrier? You are in luck. The iPad Air 2 comes with its own SIM card so you can play the field. At least the part of the field that doesn’t include Verizon. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-air-2-everything-you-need-to-know-1647091065 As…

Zurich Installed 4,500 Street Sensors to Count Every Car in the City

Congestion pricing—the implementation of high tolls to keep cars out of congested downtown areas—is one of the most effective ways to reduce traffic and emissions. Zurich’s plan goes above and beyond that, using a network of sensors to track the number of cars that enter its downtown and prevent more cars from entering until congestion…

Alternate Iron Man 3 Storyboards Reveal Happy Hogan Could Have Died

Things don’t turn out so well for Jon Favreau’s character Happy Hogan in this slightly different version of his meeting with an Extremis-powered henchman in Iron Man 3. In fact, the third installment of the Iron Man franchise could have proved fatal to Happy. These storyboards, drawn by Daniel Sweetman, are very similar to the…

Saturn moon looks like a wasp nest and it may freak some people out

Check out this stunningly crispy photo of Saturn moon’s Hyperion—taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Apparently it is inhabited by alien wasps the size of cars or at least it looks like a wasp nest to me. So gross!* New analysis of Cassini’s data reveal that, if there are giant alien wasps, they are producing electrons.…

iMac with Retina Display Eyes-On: It’s Gorgeous, Of Course

The Apple iMac with Retina display looks brilliant. I mean, of course it does: There are just too many freaking pixels here (and too much of Apple’s reputation for excellence) for it to be anything but stellar. https://gizmodo.com/imac-with-retina-display-my-god-its-full-of-pixels-1647138818 If you ask me, it’s pretty jaw-dropping. I stared slack-jawed at the owl in the picture above…

In an unusual move, psychologists have published a paperexplaining that they failed. Specifically, they could not duplicate the results of an earlier experiment on how humans form memories. Many in the scientific community applaud the move, and say there should be more papers about failure to reproduce results.

The iPad Mini 3 Is a Terrible Deal and You Shouldn’t Buy It

The iPad mini 3 is a pretty good small tablet. I know this because it is almost the exact same device as last year’s retina iPad mini, a device that I reviewed and enjoyed. If you’re going to buy an iPad mini, buy that one. It costs $100 less. The only reason to buy an…

Medicom’s new Catwoman figure is in desperate need of a Chiropractor

Medicom’s range of ‘MAFEX’ toys based on the Dark Knight trilogy are well known for their hyper-articulation – but the latest figure in the series looks like the hyper-articulation is doing her no favours. Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman figure was revealed today as part of DC’s latest previews catalogues for comic stores, and whilst the figure…

The Food Crisis Is Coming — Are You Ready for It?

A geography professor who specializes in food security and an artist have teamed up to create one of the most interesting dystopian comics we’ve seen in a while. Welcome to the world of #foodcrisis, set in a famine-plagued future that is all too believable. Evan Fraser works at the University of Guelph in Canada, researching…

A GoPro Takes You Flying Through a Pneumatic Tube System

Once it’s swallowed up by a series of pneumatic tubes, the canister embarks on a dark, shadowy journey unseen by the human eye. But now we have GoPros, and now we can see exactly what the inside of a pneumatic tube system looks like. It’s easy to think of pneumatic tubes as a fussy old,…

A Fully Loaded iMac With Retina Will Cost You $4,400

Thinking of buying a pretty new iMac with Retina display? That’ll cost you. Thinking of buying the most tricked out, pumped up new iMac with Retina display that you possibly can. That’ll really cost you—$4,400 to be exact. That’s a lot of money, but it’s really not that bad. It’s definitely not as bad as…

How to Make A Genre Show, Part 3 – Writing the Script

I’m a former Syfy exec who left the network to make a new TV show call Z Nation that airs Fridays at 10/9c on Syfy and Space Channel. I’m a co-creator/writer/co-executive producer on the series and thought it’d be interesting to share with fans how the series got made from conception to air: In the…

iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 Hands-On: One Of These Tablets Feels Awesome

Say hello to the iPad Air 2, the Apple tablet that’s thinner than a pencil shaved down to size by a laser. I just held one at Apple’s event, and I have to say: oh gosh is it thin and light and gorgeous. Enough so, in fact, to completely overshadow the new iPad mini. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-air-2-everything-you-need-to-know-1647091065…