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What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

What if the evil stepsisters had perfectly sized feet? What if Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was ten minutes long? What if Cruella de Vil evaded the authorities and those animal hoarding charges? Such scenarios have been realized by Justin McTwisp in this series of portraits of Disney films gone tremendously awry. Will there…

The Ultimate Guide to October’s Science Fiction and Fantasy!

October is set to overwhelm you with science fictional greatness. Walking Dead and American Horror Story are back! There’s a brand new Culture novel by Iain M. Banks, and the start of a new series by Jacqueline Carey. Plus Larry Niven and Gregory Benford, together at last! Movies include Cloud Atlas and Paranormal Activity 4.…

The Next James Bond Movie Has Some Serious Underwater Kickass

Skyfall, the next James Bond movie, is going to have some serious underwater fights. They have been filmed in the only underwater stage in the planet, a 20-by-10-meter pool that is almost 20 feet deep and contains 317,006 gallons (1.2 million liters) of water. The whole mechanics on how they prepare and film theses scenes—using…

The 12 Best Gadgets You Didn’t Buy

Somewhere in an alternate universe, the Earth 2 version of me is typing this article on a brand new Commodore Amiga sipping from a can of Crystal Pepsi when his Palm Pre 4 buzzes with a new CU-SeeMe video call. Unfortunately, in this universe, the best products don’t always win. My infant son is going…

Why Prout’s Hypothesis Is One of the Greatest Near-Misses in Science

Ever hear the terms “fat,” “protein,” and “carbohydrate”? That’s because of William Prout. Born in 1785, he was the first person in history to figure out the basic components of foodstuffs. A brilliant chemist, he’s still best known for having one of the nearest misses in all of science. Probably he shouldn’t have named the…

Victorian Lost imagines a mutton-chopped Ben Linus

What if instead of traveling back in time to 1977, the cast of Lost traveled back to the 1800s? What if Ben had mutton chops, Evil Locke started the Civil War, and the smoke monster is actually Queen Victoria? And then they all died of cholera. Best ending Lost ending ever! Neil Richards over at…

In 1965 Ford Wanted Everyone To Steer With Their Wrists: What Could Be Safer?

In 1965 Ford’s forward-thinking engineers actually proposed that drivers should steer using just their wrists. The company’s radical Wrist-Twist system promised a more comfortable ride, a better view of the road and dashboard instruments, and a guaranteed two thousand percent increase in vehicular accidents. Steering with the unique parallel set of tiny wheels does look…

This Fantastic Grimlock Hoodie Makes the 80s Totally Worth It

If you grew up in the 1980s on a steady diet of cartoons, you probably spent many mornings captivated by the Transformers. And while Optimus Prime might have been the noble leader of the Autobots, he would never be as universally loved as the show’s real star—Grimlock—who’s now immortalized forever in this fantastic hoodie. With…

9 Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future

We like to think that many of our fantastic dreams of the future — from space colonization to artificial intelligence and human enhancement — are fairly recent conceptions. But nothing could be further from the truth. Futurist visionaries have been speculating about these possibilities for centuries. And now, as we head into an era of…

This student film feels like a Moebius comic come to life

This is Eclipse, a short film from students at Paris’ Gobelins School of Image, which previously brought us that lovely short about a magical, geography-jumping house. https://gizmodo.com/a-sweet-animated-short-about-a-man-whose-house-teleport-5943577 This concept piece by Théo Guignard, Noé Lecombre and Hugo Moreno reminds us of the comic work of Moebius, right down to the stippling, stark cosmic landscapes, and…

Gameloft’s New iOS Wireless Controller Is a Portable iCade

ThinkGeek’s adorable iCade is genius. It turns your iPad into a little arcade! Asteroids forever! If it has a drawback, it’s that, well, it kind of destroys the iPad’s portability. Meet the Bluetooth Duo Gamer controller, which sheds the cabinet for a dock that’ll fit in your backpack. https://kotaku.com/im-a-little-in-love-with-my-new-ipad-arcade-machine-5805374 The Duo Gamer looks familiar, like…

Here’s the Annoying New Way Facebook Makes Money Off Your Life

Facebook really needs to start making more money, or its stock will soon be worth about as much as a shopping bag full of mulch. How do they do that? Ads! New ads. But these new ads involve your life. Facebook spilled the beans on its new stab at ad cash in a public blog…

This House Is Not Actually Made Out of Marshmallows

This building looks like it could be home to the Stay Puft marshmallow man. In reality, it’s the recently remodeled visitors’ center of the Synagogue de Delme Contemporary Art Centre, a gallery in France. Dubbed Gue(ho)st House as a nod to the Marcel Duchamp-invented phrase, “A Guest + a host = a ghost,” it served…

Amazon is now giving sellers loans now with interest rates as high as 13 percent. What happened to going to the bank?

A Serious Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Your Twitter Account

Do you have a highly coveted Twitter handle? You should probably change your password. One user, Daniel Dennis Jones,—who formerly went by @blanket—has uncovered a very serious flaw that lets hackers crack your account and put it up for sale. On Saturday, Twitter customer service notified Jones that his password had been changed. Alarming, because…

Ikea Photoshops Women Out of Saudi Arabia Catalog

Ikea prints 208 million catalogs in 43 countries every year. They are all the same, except in Saudi Arabia, where women have been Photoshopped out because their photos “show too much skin,” according to the Islamic Kingdom’s laws. And it’s not the only thing that gets altered. A woman who is having dinner with her…

This Easter, celebrate with face-hugger-impregnated bunnies

If mixing monsters from the mind of H.R. Giger with a beloved Christian holiday is wrong, WE DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT. Oh, and if you find the image up top offensive, you definitely, definitely don’t want to click this. Seriously. You’ve been warned. Do you know the artist behind this unholy mashup? Let us…

This Week’s TV: The One Show You Absolutely Must Watch This Fall

What does television have in store for you this week? The season premiere of Supernatural, with a brand new direction! The 100th episode of Adventure Time! MythBusters fact-checks James Cameron! Bullying in space and nudity at the mall! The Anti-Monitor and Red Hulk! Disco Medusa! But most of all, we’re calling it — one show…

19 Gadgets With Happy and Sad Faces

We like to anthropomorphize the objects in our lives, assigning our tools and tech personalities of their own. But some just go ahead and do it for you. The gadgets you are about to see wear their hearts on their sleeves. HAPPY: That wide-eyed innocence. “Everybody is going to want me,” thinks the Sony HDR-TD10e…

How to make friends and eat people (and win some Walking Dead swag)

As you’re probably well aware, The Walking Dead is crawling out of its summer grave and back onto TV for a new skin-peeling, shotgun-blasting, mind-blowing season. In celebration, we’re hosting a little contest on Instagram. Basically, we’re asking you, our lovely, gore-loving readers, to don your best zombie drag, hit the streets, and harass your…