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Why We Always Want to Push the Big Red Button

Whatever you do, don’t press that button. It’s a trope that’s spanned pop culture for generations—and the real world, too. But where did this Big Red Button come from? And why does sick curiosity compel us to mash it down? The Cold War Button During the Cold War, the infamous red button never to be…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Our Children of Men Moment

We often use old sci-fi movies as reference points for our own hopes and fears about our present reality. That computer interface is so Minority Report, we might say. That food is something out of Soylent Green. That building is so Jetsons. It’s imperfect, but it’s a shorthand to talk about the way that the…

Tech News Matt Novak

A Water-Cooled Gaming Laptop is Sublime Overclocked Overkill

If the Philips AmbiLux TV stole my heart withits audacious projected immersive lightingtech, the batshit-crazy ASUS ROG GX700 water-cooled gaming laptop has had the same effect for me but in a laptop. This thing is an absolute beast. Let me reiterate that top-line spec–this is a water-cooled gaming laptop. A world-first by ASUS—in an actual…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Stare This Talking Yoda In the Eyes and You’ll Never Be Able To Look Away

We’re not seeing a lot of new Yoda toys this Force Friday, and that’s probably because we all remember the character dying during The Return of the Jedi. There is one, though, and with its intense set of animated eyes it will stare deep, and uncomfortably, into your soul. But leaving you feeling chilled and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Star Wars Crap That Makes Me Want to Cut My Hand Off With A Lightsaber

Happy Force Friday! Today’s the official day that new Star Wars merchandise begins spewing forth from Lucasfilm and Disney. Too bad there are so many horrible The Force Awakens products floating around like Imperial garbage in a Death Star trash compactor. Have you seen a Force-disturbing Star Wars product that should be expedited to the…

Tech News Alissa Walker

A Remote Control Walking AT-AT Is the Perfect Zero-Maintenance Pet

Who wants to be bothered walking a dog, changing a cat’s kitty litter, or cleaning a fish tank when all this remote control walking AT-AT needs is an occasional new set of nine batteries? It’s the perfect pet, and is guaranteed to never go crazy during a thunderstorm. At $130 it isn’t quite as cheap…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Futuristic See-Through Fridge Is Finally Going to Be a Real Thing

Haier’s been teasing its Smart Window Refrigerator for a couple of years now, but it will finally hit stores in Europe and Asia next year. It’s a crazy invention. You walk up to the fridge, and motion sensor-powered lights illuminate the inside of the inside which you can see through the translucent door. The Wi-Fi-enabled…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The striking launch of a satellite

Here’s a wonderful photo from the US Navy showing their launch of a Mobile User Objective System communications satellite. The US Navy says the picture shows “a 5-meter payload fairing lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41”. I say the picture looks like it perfectly captures the idea of shooting for the stars. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Best Star Wars Loot From Force Friday

OHHHHH hell yeah. Star Wars toys galore. Welp. May the Force be with your credit card. Our resident toy nerd Andrew Liszewski is sleeping off a long day of amazing coverage over on Toyland, but here are the very finest posts from the Force Friday haul. Pottery Barn’s Millennium Falcon Star Wars Bed Nerf’s Chewbacca’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Real Death Star Was Far Less Complicated Than This Perplexus Maze

It’s almost impossible to grasp how much design and engineering would be required to build a space station the size of a moon. But it’s probably still easier than navigating a tiny metal ball through the twists, ramps, and other obstacles inside this Death Star Perplexus maze. At $40 this Death Star version of the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Two Teens Arrested for Sexting Each Other

Imagine getting arrested for flirting or foreplay. That’sthe nightmare scenariofor two North Carolina teens, who got slapped with felony charges for having a consensual sexually explicit SMS exchange. It all started when local police looked through the male teen’s phone for evidence involving a statutory rape case they are investigating (he is not the suspect,…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Video: A portrait of a chef opening a restaurant

Life and Thyme continues its excellent video series about food and chefs by taking a look at Chef Timothy Hollingsworth and his upcoming Otium restaurant. In this chapter, we see Hollingsworth take a visit to the fish market and cook a splendid looking dish while talking about what food and more importantly, passion means to…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Foggy Morning Adds Surrealism to the Wonder of Spaceflight

November 30, 1982: A foggy morning before the inaugural flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger offered no hint to the troubles that would plague the mission. On top of an over two-month launch delay, a malfunction placed the shuttle in a too-low orbit for the first shuttle-based spacewalk and satellite deployment. Space Shuttle Challenger pierced…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The Steve Jobs Documentary Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Remember when Steve Jobs abandoned his daughter and refused to pay child support despite being worth millions of dollars? Alex Gibney’s new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which hits theaters, iTunes, and VOD on Friday September 4th, is at once a study of the late visionary’s unrelenting optimism about the power of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Kylo Ren Lightsaber Chopsticks Look Impossibly Uncomfortable To Hold

It might look cool in all the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teasers and trailers, but the tri-blade design of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber just doesn’t work elsewhere. Take these novelty chopsticks, for example, that look like the most uncomfortable thing you could ever try to hold in your hand. They probably work just fine for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Isotope Reactor Basically Looks Like a Sci-Fi Weapon in These Photos

The so called High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee was refueled a few weeks ago, and the lab posted great images of the process. And what images! The luminescent blue glow, caused by a phenomenon called Cherenkov radiation, was caught on camera, making the reactor looking like a…

Tech News Attila Nagy

How movies cleverly tilt the camera angle to influence what we see and feel

The Dutch angle is a film technique where the camera is tilted a bit so that the shot looks purposely off, what’s happening in the shot is not parallel to the frame, it’s at an angle instead. The Dutch angle heightens tension and is disorientating and can make us uneasy (to match the character’s uneasiness).…

Sploid Casey Chan

NYC Teacher Who Crashed a Drone at the US Open Last Night Has Been Arrested

It’s time to add “international tennis match” to the list of places where drones have taken high-profile spills. Thursday night, an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into an empty seating area at a match during the US Open tennis tournament in New York. The pilot, a 26-year-old NYC teacher, was arrested Friday morning. ESPN is reporting…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

A Death Star Bean Bag Chair Is the Ultimate Comfort In Your Living Room

Did it really take this long for a product designer to connect the dots between a spherical bean bag chair and the spherical Death Star? Why haven’t Death Star bean bag chairs existed since The Empire Strikes Back when the Lucasfilm marketing machine was in full swing? At 31-inches across it should be large enough…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Make Your iPad Kid-Friendly

If you spend any time around young children you’ll know what a soothing and calming influence a tablet can be, but it’s potentially a pretty dangerous one too—there’s plenty of unwholesome content out there on the internet and app store for your little friend to accidentally stumble across. Here are the best ways to make…

Gadgets David Nield

Why We Always Want to Push the Big Red Button

The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Our Children of Men Moment

A Water-Cooled Gaming Laptop is Sublime Overclocked Overkill

Stare This Talking Yoda In the Eyes and You’ll Never Be Able To Look Away

New Star Wars Crap That Makes Me Want to Cut My Hand Off With A Lightsaber

A Remote Control Walking AT-AT Is the Perfect Zero-Maintenance Pet

This Futuristic See-Through Fridge Is Finally Going to Be a Real Thing

The striking launch of a satellite

The Best Star Wars Loot From Force Friday

The Real Death Star Was Far Less Complicated Than This Perplexus Maze

Two Teens Arrested for Sexting Each Other

Video: A portrait of a chef opening a restaurant

A Foggy Morning Adds Surrealism to the Wonder of Spaceflight

The Steve Jobs Documentary Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Kylo Ren Lightsaber Chopsticks Look Impossibly Uncomfortable To Hold

Isotope Reactor Basically Looks Like a Sci-Fi Weapon in These Photos

How movies cleverly tilt the camera angle to influence what we see and feel

NYC Teacher Who Crashed a Drone at the US Open Last Night Has Been Arrested

A Death Star Bean Bag Chair Is the Ultimate Comfort In Your Living Room

How to Make Your iPad Kid-Friendly

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