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Plasma-Cutting Steel Underwater Is a Wondrous Phase of Shipbuilding

Thanks to this explanatory video full of really cool time lapse footages, we can take a look inside BAE Systems’ shipbuilding halls in Scotland, where the new offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy are being built as part of a £348 million contract, or about $530 million. The first big step in constructing such…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Web Trumps Pits Site Against Site in a Card Game That Doesn’t Need Internet Access

Based on a popular card game called Top Trumps created back in 1968, Web Trumps pits popular websites against each other in a card game that lets you see how your favorite site stacks up to the competition. The game includes 32 uniquely designed cards representing 32 different web apps and companies. Each card also…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Slow Motion Video Reveals the Rapid-Fire Dance of Courting Songbirds

For the first time ever, scientists have documented the elaborate tap dancing courtship displays of cordon-bleu songbirds. Invisible to the naked eye, these birds execute their rapid-fire steps in as little as 20 milliseconds. Normally, male songbirds sing to attract females. But as a new study by an international team of researchers shows, both sexes…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Meet the People Who Dream of Building a Space Elevator

In his 1979 novel Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke described an impossibly tall tower that would ferry humans from the Earth’s surface into orbit. Nearly forty years later, space elevators still have the ring of science fiction. But against all odds, a small community of engineers is pushing the idea closer to reality. SKY…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Watch a lightning bolt strike a car (Updated)

Boom. I remember hearing that being inside a car when it gets struck by lightning is a pretty safe place to be (as long as you don’t touch anything). Something about the bolt dissipating into the ground (the rubber tires thing is a myth). I’m not so sure about that now because the force of…

Sploid Casey Chan

Time Passes As an Ever-Changing Rainbow On This Chromatic LED Clock

ThinkGeek has made a very strong case to put a clock on your desk, even though everything from your smartphone to your laptop already has one built-in. It’s packed 60 color-changing LEDs into a spinning rainbow that makes every grueling conference call feel like a rave. But the Chromatic isn’t just about fancy colors—lots of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Are Fresh Vegetables Really More Expensive Than Frozen or Canned?

Fresh vegetables have a reputation for being a little more pricey than their frozen or canned counterparts. Here’s why it’s not really deserved—but why it will probably still seem like it is anyway. The USDA recently put together this nice little seasonal chart looking at the different price ranges you can expect some of your…

Tech News Ria Misra

Use Automate to Supercharge Android’s Abilities

There are already plenty of automation tools around on Android, giving you deep hooks into how the OS runs, but a new utility called Automate has caught our attention. Like similar apps, it’s based around triggers that then result in actions, and you can build up what it calls ‘Flows’ simply by tapping and dragging.…

Gadgets David Nield

Witness the first horizontal spiral loop ever done on a skateboard

Man, Tony Hawk is 47 years old and he’s still setting the bar for skateboard tricks. Here’s the first ever horizontal loop ever skated on skateboard—as in, Hawk is spiraling parallel to the ground—and it’s crazy. Just seeing him fail and eat it and crash and do horrible things to his body and still get…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Gruesome History of the Galapagos Islands’ Nietzsche-Fueled Homesteader Death Showdown

The Galapagos Islands are best known for their giant tortoises, but they’re also the site of one of the most bizarre homesteading misadventures ever, complete with proto-hippies, a polyamorous baroness, potentially poisoned boiled chicken, births in pirate caves, and unsolved deaths that look a lot like murder. Floreana, a small island in the Galapagos archipelago,…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Nerdy Paper Lanterns For Those Who Prefer Star Wars or Treks

Paper lanterns are the cardboard furniture of the lighting world. They’re light, they’re cheap, and they’re incredibly fragile. But there’s even more reason to take good care of these paper lanterns from ThinkGeek: they look like tiny versions of the Borg Cube and the Death Star when switched off. At $40 each, the 24-inch wide…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Building’s Swooping Curves Were Fabricated By a Robot

An architecture firm called Studio RAP has built what it claims is the“first robotically fabricated building in the Netherlands,” using automated milling techniques to craft a unique, swooping structure. The 130-square-metre building was put together inside a giant disused machine hall. The team used 3D modelling program Rhino to create the plans for the 2235-panel…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

London’s Next-Gen Commuter Trains Will Feature 4G, Wi-Fi and AC as Standard

Transport for London has released renders of what the London’s new Crossrail trains will look like, providing a glimpse of what a British commute of the future might looks like. Designed in Britain by Bombardier in Derby, the trains will offer full walk-through carriages, air conditioning and Wi-Fi and 4G as standard. Fully accessible for…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Kenya’s Suffering a 3-Day, 30-Mile Traffic Jam

Be grateful you’re not on the road from Mombasa to Nairobi in Kenya—because the route is suffering a traffic jam that’s reported to have lasted three days, stretching as far as 30 miles. It’s not a huge surprise: the road is the arterial route for supplies shipped into Mombassa to reach the rest of Kenya,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch This: Why Futurists and Engineers are Building a Clock to Last 10,000 Years

On a mountain in West Texas, a team of inventors, futurists and engineers led by Danny Hillis is busy building a clock that will last for 10,000 years. But… why? This video, shot by Public Record, probes the team behind the project and discovers a love of long-term thinking, a desire to slow down—and an…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

David Bowie’s New Video Is 10 Minutes of Sci-Fi Creep

The music video for David Bowie’s latest, Blackstar, premiered in NYC earlier today. It needed a full theatrical release, because it’s a 10-minute trip through an impossibly weird sci-fi cult. Quintessential Bowie, basically. The full Blackstar album is slated for January 8th.

Tech News Chris Mills

The First Android Wear Watch With a Cell Connection Has Been Pulled From Stores

The LG Watch Urbane 2 was notable among many other Android Wearables because of what’s inside: a cellular radio. But due to an unidentified ‘quality issue’, LG is pulling the watch from stores, offering refunds, and cancelling the worldwide rollout. https://gizmodo.com/the-lg-watch-urbane-2-is-android-wears-first-lte-smartw-1734011464 The Watch Urbane 2 went on sale through AT&T last week, and was meant…

Tech News Chris Mills

The Next Cheap Android Phone Comes From…Pepsi?

It’s pretty easy to find a random Chinese Android phone to slap your brand on these days. So easy, in fact, that Pepsi is having a go. Made by the Shenzhen Scooby Communication Equipment Co, the Pepsi P1 doesn’t actually look half-bad. There’s a 1080p screen, aluminum unibody design, 2GB of RAM, and even a…

Tech News Chris Mills

What Should We Call the Monster El Niño?

This week, we learned that the 2015 El Niño may end up being most powerful on record, eclipsing three other major El Niño years over the past century. So….why doesn’t this beast of a weather phenomenon have a goddamn name yet? We’ve thrown out a lot of monikers for the hot blob that’s been stewing…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Time Capsule For The Year 2957 Discovered at MIT

As we’ve seen time and again, most time capsules are incredibly boring. But MIT recently discovered a time capsule filled with some amazing materials from 1957 inside. It’s not supposed to be opened until the year 2957, and thankfully MIT is honoring that wish. The time capsule was buried in 1957 under the direction of…

Tech News Matt Novak

Plasma-Cutting Steel Underwater Is a Wondrous Phase of Shipbuilding

Web Trumps Pits Site Against Site in a Card Game That Doesn’t Need Internet Access

Slow Motion Video Reveals the Rapid-Fire Dance of Courting Songbirds

Meet the People Who Dream of Building a Space Elevator

Watch a lightning bolt strike a car (Updated)

Time Passes As an Ever-Changing Rainbow On This Chromatic LED Clock

Are Fresh Vegetables Really More Expensive Than Frozen or Canned?

Use Automate to Supercharge Android’s Abilities

Witness the first horizontal spiral loop ever done on a skateboard

The Gruesome History of the Galapagos Islands’ Nietzsche-Fueled Homesteader Death Showdown

Nerdy Paper Lanterns For Those Who Prefer Star Wars or Treks

This Building’s Swooping Curves Were Fabricated By a Robot

London’s Next-Gen Commuter Trains Will Feature 4G, Wi-Fi and AC as Standard

Kenya’s Suffering a 3-Day, 30-Mile Traffic Jam

Watch This: Why Futurists and Engineers are Building a Clock to Last 10,000 Years

David Bowie’s New Video Is 10 Minutes of Sci-Fi Creep

The First Android Wear Watch With a Cell Connection Has Been Pulled From Stores

The Next Cheap Android Phone Comes From…Pepsi?

What Should We Call the Monster El Niño?

Time Capsule For The Year 2957 Discovered at MIT

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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