Science

A Rocket That’ll Take Pictures Along Its Voyage For You

If you’ve always wanted to see the view from a skyward rocket, but lack the physical and mental prowess to be an astronaut, there are ways to get a really crappy approximation of the experience. One is by launching one of these Estes Astrovision Digital Video Rockets. It’s got a camera in the tip that…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 31

Video of NASA Testing its New Rocket Engine in the Mojave Desert

This is NASA’s new rocket engine, the liquid-methane-powered 5M15, being tested in the Mojave desert. It runs on methane for a few reasons: “It’s cheaper, it requires much less insulation and it exists on several planets NASA hopes to travel to.” Yes, this is the rocket that’ll take our grandkids to Mars. You’re gonna want…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Aug 27

Apparently, We All Exist Only in a Computer Simulation in the Future. Bummer.

According to Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, the chances are pretty good that we’re currently existing not in the “real world,” but instead are a vast computer simulation created by a future, further advanced version of ourselves. Yeah, crazy, I know. Basically, he argues that because computing power will advance to the point where a system…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 14

Physicists Figure Out How To Cause Levitation; Hoverboards Imminent

If there was a cooler movie prop in my childhood than the hoverboard from Back to the Future, Part II, I don’t know what it was. That hoverboard made me really, really want to be living in the year 2015. And while as I got older my pragmatism and cynicism lead me to believe we…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 6

Anti-Shyness Nasal Spray to Finally Get You Out of Your Parents’ Basement

Scientists in London have developed a nasal spray that will help you get rid of your crippling shyness. The drug releases the hormone oxytocin into the brain, increasing self-confidence and lowering anxiousness. It’s undergoing clinical tests right now, but scientists hope to have it out to the masses in just a few years. There’s no…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 16

Wheelchairs Could Be Tongue-Controlled – Just Like My Favourite Button

Tongue-controlled wheelchairs could be in the offing by the end of the year, thanks to a US company. Think-A-Move is using a device made by a couple of engineers from Southern Illinois University, which consists of a simple earpiece that determines how a person is moving their tongue, thanks to a person’s Eustachian tube, which…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 2

Plastic Blood Could Save Lives in Disaster and War Zones

Scientists at Sheffield University in Britain have developed synthetic blood that could be used to save lives in emergencies. The artificial substance is easier to transport than the real thing, and it keeps for longer as it does not need to be stored in a cool place. Just like hemoglobin, the fake blood is made…

Health Ad Dugdale May 11

Rainbow Maker Does as Described

Maybe I am just smarter than the average bear, but this rainbow- making device could net quite the profit. You place the device in a window with sun shining in and a rotating Swarovski crystal will split the light into the rainbow spectrum. Then simply find the end of the rainbow and the pot of…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Apr 16

Why Britain is Losing Influence in the World: Bacon Equation

It’s a good thing there aren’t serious problems out there to be solved by science, otherwise the investigation into the equation for the perfect bacon sandwich would seem like a frivolous waste of time. But because every major disease has been cured and there’s no need for technological innovations, scientists in Britain have dedicated their…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 11

Nanogenerator Magically Cranks Out Watts From the Environment

We’re thinking this nanotechnology thing is catching on big-time. First someone figured out how to use the technology to keep panties fresh and odor-free, and now brilliant scientists have been developing small generators that might just be able to someday do away with batteries. They’re first trying to develop a way to power those devices…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 6

Experts: You Suck at Multi-Tasking, Hardcore

Think you’re awesome at handling 15 AIM conversations, listening to The RZA while watching Robocop, emailing pictures to your mom and working on a project at the office? Wrong. You suck so bad that you’re costing the economy $650 billion a year according to analyst Jonathan B. Spira. Here at Giz, we know not to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 25

Drug Developed that Erases Specific Memories

Researchers have created a drug that wipes out a single, specific memory in rats. They trained the rats to be scared of a specific tone, as they always got shocked when they heard it, but after given the drug they ceased to be afraid of the sound. Great! Boy, I can’t wait until every time…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 14

Discovery Biosphere Terrarium Lets Kids Play God

This biosphere from Discovery can supposedly teach kids important things about nature and the environment and all of that crap, but isn’t it more important that this biosphere allows children to play god with an assortment of insects living inside the biosphere. Making it rain, controlling the temperature and humidity, poking and prodding with tweezers…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 23

Plasma Light Bulb: Fun By Itself, Even Better With Dope

For just $10 you can endlessly entertain babies or your friends on bad acid trips with the plasma light bulb. (Kinda like the LightCast LED light show gadget.) The bulb plugs into any fixture and then its plasma beams go all willy nilly, responding to your each and every touch. Now, I’m not a scientist,…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Feb 19

Beer Goggles Explained, Calculated

Researchers at Manchester University commissioned by Bausch & Lomb have discovered the actual formula to beer goggles, as seen on the left. Not as simple as previously thought, the beer goggles effect depends on how much alcohol you’ve consumed, yes, but also depends on factors like how smoky the room is, how well lit the…

Gadgets Jason Chen Feb 7

Scientists Working to Turn Sugar to Gas Without Use of Your Intestines

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put a healthy chunk of change behind some scientists who are working to figure out a way to turn sugar into diesel fuel. Ethanol can already be made by combining yeast and sugar (mmm, ethanol), but they think they can mess with some of those microbes to have…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 1

Yet Another Study: Cellphones Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

Despite what previous studies have shown, cellphones may indeed be dangerous to your health. A British researcher says that while short term cellphone use (less than 10 years) is safe, the long term effects haven’t been looked at closely enough to say one way or another. In fact, the researcher says that cellphones could be…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 22

Poll Follow-up: This is Why We Didn’t Go to Prom

So yesterday we asked you guys how you handle your passion for gadgets with the ladies and why it is that (most) girls aren’t as in to tech as guys are. We used the latest in scientific poll-related technology, and between that and the comments we got some rather interesting results. https://gizmodo.com/poll-how-do-we-keep-the-species-going-219929 First of all,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Dec 7

Poll: How Do We Keep the Species Going?

It’s pretty well known that gadgets and technology are topics followed almost exclusively by dudes. The Giz has a 90% male readership, for example. Why is that? What’s with the sausage party? Lord knows we didn’t ask for this. In any case, that’s the way it is and it’s something we’ve gotta live with. But…

Tech News Adam Frucci Dec 6

T-Shirt Turns Air Guitar Riffs Into Actual Sounds: The World Weeps

Odds are that everyone has rocked out to the sweet sounds of an air guitar on at least one occasion and now scientists have invented a t-shirt that transforms your air riffs into real ones. The t-shirt interprets the movements of the wearer’s arms (one picks and the other creates cords) and wirelessly sends the…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Nov 13

A Rocket That’ll Take Pictures Along Its Voyage For You

Video of NASA Testing its New Rocket Engine in the Mojave Desert

Apparently, We All Exist Only in a Computer Simulation in the Future. Bummer.

Physicists Figure Out How To Cause Levitation; Hoverboards Imminent

Anti-Shyness Nasal Spray to Finally Get You Out of Your Parents’ Basement

Wheelchairs Could Be Tongue-Controlled – Just Like My Favourite Button

Plastic Blood Could Save Lives in Disaster and War Zones

Rainbow Maker Does as Described

Why Britain is Losing Influence in the World: Bacon Equation

Nanogenerator Magically Cranks Out Watts From the Environment

Experts: You Suck at Multi-Tasking, Hardcore

Drug Developed that Erases Specific Memories

Discovery Biosphere Terrarium Lets Kids Play God

Plasma Light Bulb: Fun By Itself, Even Better With Dope

Beer Goggles Explained, Calculated

Scientists Working to Turn Sugar to Gas Without Use of Your Intestines

Yet Another Study: Cellphones Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

Poll Follow-up: This is Why We Didn’t Go to Prom

Poll: How Do We Keep the Species Going?

T-Shirt Turns Air Guitar Riffs Into Actual Sounds: The World Weeps

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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