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An Ingenious Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Engineer Built a Remote-Control Plane

Link might be the video game equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jun 27

‘Everything Is a Story’ Inside Wyrmwood Gaming’s Narcissistic Funhouse

A culture of unprofessionalism and disrespect at Wyrmwood Gaming goes beyond allegations of sexual assault.

Games Linda Codega Mar 28

Lifelike Robotic Hand Is a Bit Too Close to Terminator for Our Liking

Called ILDA, the hand can use scissors, crush cans, and grasp delicate objects.

Tech News George Dvorsky Dec 14

Wooden Hand-Cranked Instrument Runs on 2,000 Marbles

After two years of prototyping, tweaking, and building, Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan finally debuted his enormous musical marble machine. The melody is primarily carried by a vibraphone whose bars are hit by falling marbles, but it also includes small percussion and cymbals, as well as a bass guitar neck. It even has…

Tech News Avery Ellis Mar 2

I Did Not Expect the End of This Rube Goldberg Machine to Be Like This

Rube Goldberg machines are always fun because you get to see everything happen in a linear fashion and yet still don’t know what the grand finale is. It’s like you kind of, sort of see where it’s going but still remain excited on the next step of the machine. This Rube Goldberg machine by Arrow…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 10

This is the kind of awesome machine you would find in Iron Man’s garage

DMG MORI has combined laser deposition welding and precision material removal in this amazing machine. Watching this thing move to build different parts and components feels like an special effect from Tony Stark’s machine shop. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Feb 23

I wish this crazy explosive tempura cooking machine were real

When I first saw this video I thought someone invented an insanely fast machine to cook delicious shrimps in just a few seconds. Thinking it through, I soon realized it was impossible. It’s from a fake cooking show made to advertise the Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Dec 1

This is the largest movable machine in the world

Behold the largest movable machine in the world: The Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 is more than half a kilometer long. At 1647 feet long and 13,600 tons, it’s much larger than the Empire State Building, a Nimitz-class super carrier or the Bagger 288, the previous record holder. Top photo by A. Gutwein Used to carry…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 26

12 Low-Budget Robot Movies That Are Better Than Transformers

This weekend, we’ll all be watching giant robots turn into trucks and dinosaurs, and it’ll be like fireworks for your brain. But robots can do more than just throw down — they can make us question the nature of existence. Here are 12 mindblowing indie movies about robots that you could watch instead of Transformers.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 25

The Machine‘s Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.

The Machine, in select theaters today, is a harrowing low-budget movie about what happens when the military tries to develop its own artificial intelligence. We spoke to writer/director Caradog W. James about his research on real-life military experiments, and the worst thing that could possibly happen with A.I. The Machine is a really beautiful film,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 25

This Clip Shows Why People Are Comparing The Machine To Blade Runner

The British cyberpunk thriller The Machine has gotten pretty upbeat reviews, with Kim Newman calling it “brimming with ideas” and other reviewers comparing it to Blade Runner. And now here’s an exclusive clip from the film, in which you can see a hint of those big ideas for yourself. We showed you the trailer for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 1

Why Doctor Who‘s Greatest Challenge Could End In Heartbreak

There are more photos and details from the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Plus Agents of SHIELD already has plans for seasons two and three. And new details from Under the Skin and The Machine. Plus watch more Game of Thrones trailers, and a Walking Dead finale clip. Spoilers right now! Top image: Doctor…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Mar 25

Upcoming Genre Movies That Aren’t Sequels, Remakes or Reboots

Sometimes it seems like every movie is either a sequel or a reboot. They remade Robocop and Godzilla. They’re releasing sequels to the reboots of Spider-Man and Planet of the Apes. But there are still tons of original films in the pipeline. Here are over 50 forthcoming movies that aren’t sequels, remakes or prequels. Note:…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 24

This cyberpunk thriller about deadly robots looks slick as hell

Check out the first trailer for the British thriller The Machine, about two researchers who develop an intelligent gynoid — only to have the British government try to turn her into a weapon. And you know how well that usually turns out. And yes, that’s Arrow’s Caity Lotz as the robot as well as one…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 7

I can’t believe this awesome wire bending machine is real

Seriously. Watching this awesome machine bend wires in different shapes puts my brain into deep hipnotoad mode. The manufacturer claims it is the fastest wire bending machine in the world. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it’s unreal. How the hell does this thing work? SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Feb 24

Genius machine sorts Skittles and M&M’s by color so you don’t have to

Here’s a question I’m not sure I want to know the answer for: if Skittles and M&M’s came in individual packets for each flavor, would I combine them and eat them like how I do now (in a pile shoved into my mouth) or would I keep the flavors separate and enjoy them on their…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 24

Bot Cameras, Lidar Eyes, and the Driverless Racetrack of the Future

Gizmodo’s coverage of the DARPA Robotics Challenge continues with day two at the Homestead Speedway south of Miami. The weekend has arrived and the crowds are here with their kids, cheering on the bots. Some of our readers have complained that watching this thing over the live feed is kind of like watching paint dry.…

Tech News Michael Belfiore Dec 21

The most useless machine on Earth gets an upgrade

When Wired posted its list of “The World’s Most Annoying Technologies” a few weeks back, “The Most Useless Machine” (a box with a toggle switch, which, when flipped, causes a mechanical nubbin to emerge from inside the box, flip the switch back, then retreat back inside the box) didn’t even get an honorable mention. Perhaps…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 2

I Want this Lego M&M Sorting Machine Right Now

People, I don’t know about you, but I always wanted a quick way to separate the blue M&Ms from the rest. This is perfect for that: a Lego Mindstorms machine that uses its color sensors to sort M&Ms by color. Reader Jan “Nxe1engineer” Gerritsen just sent me this message with the video above: Here is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 10

Pigeon-painting machine turns the rats of the sky into colorful works of art

Pigeons just don’t get the same love that canaries, blue jays, and chickadees get. To rehabilitate the images of these vermin birds, artists Julian Charriere and Julius Von Bismarck decided to give them a makeover, creating a machine that draps pigeons and dyes them a wide variety of colors. The project was conceived for the…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 8

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An Ingenious Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Engineer Built a Remote-Control Plane

‘Everything Is a Story’ Inside Wyrmwood Gaming’s Narcissistic Funhouse

Lifelike Robotic Hand Is a Bit Too Close to Terminator for Our Liking

Wooden Hand-Cranked Instrument Runs on 2,000 Marbles

I Did Not Expect the End of This Rube Goldberg Machine to Be Like This

This is the kind of awesome machine you would find in Iron Man’s garage

I wish this crazy explosive tempura cooking machine were real

This is the largest movable machine in the world

12 Low-Budget Robot Movies That Are Better Than Transformers

The Machine‘s Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.

This Clip Shows Why People Are Comparing The Machine To Blade Runner

Why Doctor Who‘s Greatest Challenge Could End In Heartbreak

Upcoming Genre Movies That Aren’t Sequels, Remakes or Reboots

This cyberpunk thriller about deadly robots looks slick as hell

I can’t believe this awesome wire bending machine is real

Genius machine sorts Skittles and M&M’s by color so you don’t have to

Bot Cameras, Lidar Eyes, and the Driverless Racetrack of the Future

The most useless machine on Earth gets an upgrade

I Want this Lego M&M Sorting Machine Right Now

Pigeon-painting machine turns the rats of the sky into colorful works of art

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

OpenAI Says Elon Musk Is ‘Injecting Chaos’ with Recent Legal Maneuver

Google Displayed Polymarket Bets as News ‘In Error,’ Google Says

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See the Next ‘Hunger Games’ in This Trip Down Memory Lane

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