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Over the past three years, we’ve tested over a dozen sous vide setups to find the best for your kitchen. We like the Anova Precision Cooker (Wi-Fi Edition) the best because it’s reliable, works with almost any container, and has a decent app that you will actually want to use. If you don’t need the…
For the past four years, Tommy Edison has vlogged his experience as a blind man in a world full of people who can see. Some of these videos are revelatory, like when he explains how the blind use money, or what his dreams are like. Today he decided to find out what riding a rollercoaster…
Mark’s Zuckerberg’s plans for world domination are well underway…and they might include his own backyard. The Facebook billionaire and reported pesky neighbor appears to be turning his Palo Alto estate into a fully-formed compound by razing four neighboring homes and building four smaller structures—including one that could be a damn doomsday bunker. According to planning…
In what appears to be a valiant effort to turn the show Black Mirror into reality, Google France has created an escape room in which participants must use Google apps to get out. AdWeek reports that the room, called Première Pièce, mimics a traditional escape room by locking people in a physical space and requiring…
Most of us have a steady stream of visitors to our houses—friends, family, landlords, pizza delivery guys, Airbnb travelers—and many of them are going to want access to your wi-fi at some point. The normal process would be to hand over the passcode printed on the back of your router, but there’s actually a much…
Just because you live in a cramped downtown apartment doesn’t mean you don’t want to entertain. So here’s a brilliant way to keep some extra seating around, without wasting precious floor space once all your guests have left. Designer Jongha Choi’s From 2D to 3D furniture collection is fully functional when unfolded to third dimensional…
Brian May is many things: Lead guitarist of Queen, lover of badgers, and astrophysicist. Now, add VR guru to the list—because he’s just announced his very own version of Google Cardboard. Pocket Lint reports that his new piece of red plastic—known as the Owl Stereoscope—gives credit to the Victorian scientists who first dabbled with 3D…
A week after selling off its feature phone division, Microsoft has announced that it’s also “streamlining” its smartphone hardware business, cutting 1,850 jobs in the process. In a statement, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, explained that: “We are focusing our phone efforts where we have differentiation — with enterprises that value security, manageability and our…
The so-called spidercam has changed the way we watch sports, allowing camera operators to shoot footage while moving vertically and horizontally above where the action happens. And now they’re being disguised as… airplanes? This particular camera was spotted at the 2016 French Open in Paris, just yesterday. It’s clearly an advertising stunt, but I can’t…
Now you see it, now you don’t. Street artist JR’s latest work has seen him shroud the large pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris with material that, at a glance, makes it look like the structure has disappeared altogether. The trompe-l’œil trick is, of course, often used to hide building works from view on busy…
The butterfly is in a much heavier weight class compared to the ant. But when you have a bite like this ant, it doesn’t even matter. Watch as the butterfly pokes its proboscis around until it irritates the ant enough for the ant to fight back by locking its jaws on the long, straw-like feeding…
To cap off their freshman year at the Naval Academy, hundreds of plebes try to scale the greased down Herndon Monument to replace the hat on top of the 21-foot tall obelisk. It’s a fun tradition that teaches teamwork and caps off a hard year—but it looks oh so ridiculous to see so many shirtless…
Et tu, Trudeau? For some reason politicians love shaking hands with robots. Here at Gizmodo we’ve caught politicians of every stripe pressing the flesh with our future robot overlords. There’s George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and don’t even get me started on Angela Merkel. But now the internet’s favorite politician…
The growing popularity of so-called “vocal fry,” particularly among young women, is either a hot new trend or the bane of cultured discourse, depending on who you ask. But when it comes to popular music, vocal fry actually enhances expressiveness. That’s the conclusion of John Nix, a professor of voice at the University of Texas,…
To make this list—which I’m absolutely sure will be totally definitive, with no need for anyone to ever debate it, right?—critics from around the world were polled by the BBC to name the greatest American movies in film history. I’ll save you some surprises: Citizen Kane was first, The Godfather was second. Hitchcock and Spielberg…
Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology recently captured a beautiful lightning storm using a new high speed camera. The lightning in this video was recorded at 7,000 frames per second (fps), with the playback speed adjusted to 700 frames per second. Researcher Ningyu Liu from the Geospace Physics Lab captured the footage on May…
Despite competition from tablets boasting full-color LCD displays, devices that use black and white electronic paper, like Amazon’s Kindle, have remained popular. And now that E Ink has created the first full-color electronic paper, e-readers have found yet another way to remain relevant. The company’s new Advanced Color ePaper—or ACeP, for short—isn’t the first electronic…
Calcium alginate is incredible stuff. It has the ability to surround liquids with a springy membrane so they can hold a shape and be handled like solids. The process is called spherification, and gets a lot of use in upscale, molecular gastronomy-type restaurants. One start-up is even trying replace water bottles using similar methods. But…
Less than a week after hearing about Google’s voice-controlled home assistant, The Information says that Apple has a similar inclination. The Cupertino company will reportedly open up the Siri API to third-party developers in the near future and will eventually make its own Amazon Echo rival. Like the Echo, Apple’s hardware variant will be equipped…
Recently, a group of forward-looking thinkers compiled a list of catastrophes that could kill off 10 percent or more of the human population within five years. This Gizmodo video explains how it could actually happen. The UK-based Global Priorities Project released its report back in April, and it defined global catastrophic risks as “events or…
