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A retractable, jawed proboscis. A lithe, slippery body. A tiny dumbbell with slow blinking eyes. Meet the Tully monster, an actual sea creature that seems to have sprung to life out of a drug-induced fever dream involving vibrators and surgical tools. At long last, scientists think they know what kind of creature it is. Measuring…
Apple had big plans for its Apple Watch before it launched last year but had to scrap many of its more forward-thinking features, including an electrocardiogram sensor or EKG. But one company, AliveCor, wants to add the feature retroactively with its own strap. It’s called Kardia. Like many of AliveCor’s iPhone cases, the strap uses…
Barbie, you may have set impossible standards for young women across America, but this is not the fate you deserved. What do we know about Hydraulic Press Channel? We know this mysterious YouTuber lives somewhere in (or was born in) Eastern Europe. We know he loves metal. We know he has ready access to a…
In the midst of your early morning stupor, it can be difficult to drag your mind out of sleeping and accurately operate your phone (see our previous tips). If you’re reaching out for your Android phone in the dark and with bleary eyes, then you can use the physical hardware buttons instead. It’s thanks to…
For many fans of artificial intelligence, the stellar performance of Google’s AlphaGo machine over human world champion Lee Sedol was a historic milestone. For some in South Korea, however—where the game, known as Baduk, has deep roots—the victories are a little more unsettling. The New Scientist reports that AlphaGo’s 4-1 domination of Sedol has produced…
Poor Hawkguy. Dude gets a shiny new Hot Toys figure for Civil War, and is promptly upstaged by the coolest little bonus accessory possible: a bonus arrow carrying an Ant-Man-shaped payload. Sure, the 1:6 scale figure of Clint Barton himself—dressed in his new uniform from the upcoming Captain America film—is very nice in and of…
Traffic sucks. It makes driving frustratingly unpredictable, but a new feature in the Waze app aims to kill all that guesswork. It’s called Planned Drives. Plug in the time and date of your event—that big job interview you have downtown—and Waze tells you the best time to leave your house. As the day of the…
From April 22 to 24, Gizmodo is teaming up with Smithsonian magazine and a bunch of other partners to host a weekend straight out of the future. And we want you to join us. The fourth annual “The Future Is Here” festival will be held in Washington, D.C., and includes speakers and presentations from a…
I woke up this morning to the internet buzzing about a new White House Twitter handle: @SCOTUSnom. Was the Supreme Court starting a food blog? But then I realized the new account was actually built as a kind of social media defense for President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, Merrick Garland. For those who haven’t been…
Wasabi, strawberry cheesecake, green tea, dark chocolate, sweet potato. What do these flavors have in common? They’re all KitKat varieties exclusive to Japan. But how did the crispy, break-associated candy get so popular overseas? As Abroadin Japan explains, Nestlé saw huge sales of KitKats every January—the exact time Japanese student take their university entrance exams…
There’s no better way to settle an argument than a round of rock-paper-scissors. But while you might think you have fool-proof set of tactics, a new study reveals why many of us suck so hard at the game. Fundamentally, rock-paper-scissors is a game of pure chance. If you forget about the psychology of the game,…
Remember packing up your original Nintendo Entertainment System when your family visited relatives for a few days? You couldn’t possibly be expected to go a few days without Punch-Out!!, but it would have been a lot easier if you had an NES built into a backpack. It’s just too bad this one doesn’t actually play…
Uber has done something good, which will make the service more convenient. Uber already has an option to split fare between riders, but if you want to straight-up pay for someone else’s ride, you’ve had to use some clever tricks, like entering your friend’s location and having them pretend to be you, which is awkward.…
Plastic flatware might be cheap, but it’s also annoying to reuse and terrible for the environment when you throw it out. So Narayana Peesapaty set out to make utensils you can eat. He calls them Bakeys. Bakeys are made from a mix of millet, rice, and wheat flours and, as the name implies, baked dry.…
The future looks dark for coal miner Peabody. America’s biggest provider of the fossil fuel has admitted that it may have to seek bankruptcy protection. Bloomberg reports that the company thinks it may not be able to continue to operate in its current form. The news is contained in a filing submitted to the US…
Love it or loathe it, taking pictures of food to post on social networks is very much a thing. But what are the most popular types of #foodporn around the world? That’s exactly what a trio of researchers from Qatar Computing Research Institute and Queen Mary University of London wondered. They wanted to find out…
This London bus looks a lot like every other London bus. But beneath its bright red exterior lurks an all-electric powertrain that makes it the first ever double-deck bus to be powered by electrons alone. The new buses are designed to travel 180 miles on a single charge, which should mean they can cruise London’s…
Cutting large lumps of aerospace-grade metals can be hard work. So GE has developed a tool called Blue Arc which uses a high-speed beam of electrons to cut through titanium alloy 15 times faster than other techniques. The problem with working with exotic new metals is that they’re tougher than the metals that can be…
A team of scientists has created the world’s thinnest ever folds in a sheet of graphene, taking origami to the atomic scale. Folding a piece of paper is easy and, in theory, the same rules hold for a sheet of graphene. But putting a crisp fold into a one atom-thick sheet of graphene is troublesome,…
An immersive experience is the name of the game in virtual reality, but how far are you actually willing to go? Samsung thinks making you feel seasick by electrocuting your inner ear is a good idea, and actually, it might be onto something. The Entrim 4D headphones are a project cooked up by Samsung’s C-Lab,…
