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Here are the 2015 Sploid Short Film Festival Finalists

Here it is. We’ve taken everything into consideration and made our selections for finalists for the Sploid Short Film Festival. It’s a combination of films that will make you laugh and smile and cry and wonder a little bit about the future. Judging the finalists will be an esteemed panel of jurists involved in the…

Sploid Casey Chan

This “Bubble Curtain” Will Protect San Francisco’s Marine Life From the Bay Bridge Demolition

One of the largest remaining chunks of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is coming down tomorrow, as engineers continue to dismantle the aging piece of infrastructure. But how to protect the fish and other wildlife in the area as it gets taken down? By blowing bubbles. The implosion of the large pier, named E3, has been…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Your Poker Face Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against This BS-Busting Machine Algorithm

Think you’re a good liar? Well, soon, the jig might be up: Researchers have developed new technology that reads subtle facial expressions to sniff out bullshit better than humans can. Machines that can read human facial expressions aren’t new. But machines are getting a lot better at reading human microexpressions. “Microexpressions” are what psychologists call…

Artificial Intelligence Bryan Lufkin

This Penicillin Is Medicinal, Too, But the Boozy Kind

I had to make a tough call the other day when serving drinks on a cold November evening. Every cocktail I considered was fruity and frivolous—not appropriate for dinner guests huddling in depressing post-time-change darkness. Then I remembered: Liquid antibiotics. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week, and it’s time for Happy…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Older People May Have Trouble Staying Athletic, But Not for the Reason You Think

If you wanted to spend two weeks cycling through Denmark, you’ve just missed a good chance. A research team at the University of Copenhagen arranged just a 2700 kilometer cycling trip, to study how older people respond to exercise. The scientists measured the metabolism of the bikers and found a problem, although not necessarily the…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

The British Columbian Wilderness and the Baddest Water Filter Ever Built

300 miles north of Vancouver lies the Great Bear Rainforest. It’s a huge, rugged, chunk of land with ample diversity of scenery, and the best part is that it is very, very sparsely populated. Think Yellowstone minus the tourists. In a nutshell, you want to go to there. I had a series of places I…

Tech News Brent Rose

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Now booting up your weekend… It’s Friday in the land of Gizmodo, driven home by the fact that all of the top stories right now feature distractingly watchable videos from our friends at Sploid: Terrifying car bomb shockwave caught on video The 7 funniest movies of all time Here are all of the world’s biggest…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

First Interstellar Weather Forecast: Gusty as Hell

Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and I’m sad to report that interstellar camping trips maaaay not be so much fun after all. On planet HD 189733b, at least, the winds are blowing at a breathtaking 5,400 miles per hour. That’s the…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Spinal Cord Injuries Lead to a Very Odd (But Serious) Risk

People who get serious spinal cord injuries have to adjust to a lot. That may be why, in the first year after their injuries, they are at serious risk for a potentially fatal condition called autonomic dysreflexia. Autonomic dysreflexia shows that the body can take itself down if its signals are ignored. Nerves will try…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Sex Isn’t As Risky As You Think It Is

People are crap at estimating risk. They’re scared of flying, for example, even though it’s far less likely that their metal sky-bird will crash and burn than their car will get crushed by a truck on the way to the airport. Combine that with a tendency to get judgey about sex, and you’ll find attitudes…

Tech News Diane Kelly

What Is The Farthest Human-Made Object?

The farthest human-made object is also the fastest human-made object, Voyager 1. Cast into space on September 5, 1977, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mounted on a Titan IIIE/Centaur launch vehicle, Voyager 1 is now the farthest human-made object from Earth. It takes light about 16 Hours and 10 minutes to…

Tech News Brian Roemmele - QUORA

The 7 funniest movies of all time

The Writers Guild of America put out a list of what they think the 101 funniest screenplays are and it’s filled with all time classics and favorites and movies that are watchable over and over again. We put together a video showing scenes from the top seven on the list and it definitely makes us…

Sploid Casey Chan

You Can Finally Buy That Beautiful Handheld Wooden Video Game Emulator

A few months ago designer Love Hultén had us all lusting over his portable wooden gaming console called the Pixel Vision that reminded us of the folding Game Boy Advance SP. And in response to all of the positive and envious feedback he got, he’s decided to put it into production and sell it via…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

These Cities Could Be America’s Next High-Speed Rail Hotspots

Faster trains are finally coming to the United States, in cities like Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, and Las Vegas. Where will they appear next? While countries like Japan, China, Germany, France, and others have been running trains that regularly reach around 200 miles an hour for decades, the U.S. has been notoriously slow to adapt…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Reminisce About Your Christmas Lists of Yore With the 1990 JCPenney Catalog

Those of you who grew up with the internet might find it hard to believe that assembling your Christmas wish list didn’t always involve compiling a long list of Amazon links. Many of us had to rely solely on catalogs when younger to guarantee we got exactly what we wanted under the tree. Those giant…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Get Apple TV’s New Screensavers On Any Windows PC or Mac

If you’ve grabbed one of those shiny fourth-generation Apple TVs then no doubt you’ll be enjoying the looping video wallpapers that come with them—professionally shot clips of famous vistas that change with the time of day. For those without an Apple TV but with a desktop or laptop, there is a way to get the…

Gadgets David Nield

The Wait Is Over, Thank God, VapersCupid.com (Where Vapers Find Love) Is Now Open

No more, no more, no more will the vaping community be relegated to searching for love on ordinary dating sites populated with #vapelife virgins who don’t even know how to prime. Vapers were ignored by the makers of niche web-based dating services for too long—until a brave vaper named Octavian seized vape dating as his…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Embrace This Wooden Hugging Machine and It Hugs Right Back

Sometimes all the coffee and chocolate in the world isn’t as effective a pick-me-up as a simple hug can be. That has to be what inspired Petri Eskelinen to design and build this wonderfully complicated wooden hugging machine that hugs you right back when it’s embraced. The user simply needs to stand on a platform,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Cockroach Can Bite Five Times Stronger Than a Human

The cockroach is a resilient little beast, and it turns out they also have the proverbial jaws of death. They can bite with a force 50 times stronger than their own body weight, and with five times more force than a human being. That’s the conclusion of a new paper in the journal PLOS ONE…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Hologram Pop Star Hatsune Miku “Announces” 2016 US and Canada Tour

If you’re a fan of virtual musicians with computer-generated bodies and voices, and you live in North America, then do I have news for you. Hatsune Miku, Japan’s “virtual pop star,” is coming to the US and Canada next year for a seven-city, synth-filled tour—her first tour in this neck of the woods. Miku herself…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Here are the 2015 Sploid Short Film Festival Finalists

This “Bubble Curtain” Will Protect San Francisco’s Marine Life From the Bay Bridge Demolition

Your Poker Face Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against This BS-Busting Machine Algorithm

This Penicillin Is Medicinal, Too, But the Boozy Kind

Older People May Have Trouble Staying Athletic, But Not for the Reason You Think

The British Columbian Wilderness and the Baddest Water Filter Ever Built

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

First Interstellar Weather Forecast: Gusty as Hell

Spinal Cord Injuries Lead to a Very Odd (But Serious) Risk

Sex Isn’t As Risky As You Think It Is

What Is The Farthest Human-Made Object?

The 7 funniest movies of all time

You Can Finally Buy That Beautiful Handheld Wooden Video Game Emulator

These Cities Could Be America’s Next High-Speed Rail Hotspots

Reminisce About Your Christmas Lists of Yore With the 1990 JCPenney Catalog

Get Apple TV’s New Screensavers On Any Windows PC or Mac

The Wait Is Over, Thank God, VapersCupid.com (Where Vapers Find Love) Is Now Open

Embrace This Wooden Hugging Machine and It Hugs Right Back

A Cockroach Can Bite Five Times Stronger Than a Human

Hologram Pop Star Hatsune Miku “Announces” 2016 US and Canada Tour

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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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