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Here’s a 3D-Printed, Self-Driving Mini Car

I present to you the engineering equivalent of peanut butter and jelly: A self-driving vehicle that was 3D-printed. A prototype is currently being tested, and in the future, it could shuttle jet-lagged passengers across terminals or hungover college kids across the quad. Researchers at the University of Michigan announced the vehicular jackalope yesterday: SmartCarts, custom…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

You’re Going to Want This Designer-Curated Guide for Your City

It’s hard to get good advice when you’re visiting a new city. Yelp is anarchy; books are out of date as soon as they’re published. Most travel apps are horribly designed. So these designer-made neighborhood guides are an especially welcome resource. A few weeks ago, a promising new guide to New York City was released…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Self-Balancing Zoomer Dino Gets a Jurassic World Facelift

There’s a good reason Spin Master’s Zoomer Dino took home ‘Toy of the Year’ honors for 2014. It’s not only as close as you can get to owning a life-like pet dinosaur, it’s also able to balance on two wheels like the insanely-expensive Segway. And now that Jurassic World is dominating the box office, it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Jumping Robot Is Extremely Cute… And Very Difficult to Destroy

Robots: They shake hands with politicians, perform surgery, and review movies. They’re also getting pretty good at moving around without hurting themselves, as a new report in Sciencedemonstrates. The study, A 3D-Printed, Functionally Graded Soft Robot Powered by Combustion, which was highlighted by Harvard Gazette Magazine today, was authored by a group of microrobotics engineers…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Spectacular lightning strike hits while fireworks explode

Not to be outdone by fireworks on the 4th of July, Mother Nature threw down a rather impressive lightning strike to light up the sky and remind everyone who’s boss. Matthew Pennington took slow motion footage of the fireworks show in Brandon, Florida and you can see the electric spike of lightning spread all across…

Sploid Casey Chan

These Guys Turned the Lego Batmobile Into a Life-size Soapbox Racer

Every year across the globe Red Bull holds various events requiring competitors to build and race their own contraptions. This weekend in the UK the Red Bull Soapbox Race will get under way, but why bother even holding the event when this team that built a giant version of the Lego Batmobile has already clearly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What Happens to Sperm Once They’re Inside a Woman?

A sperm’s journey from vagina to egg is only 15 centimeters long, but it’s a race with attrition. There are approximately 200 million sperm in each human ejaculation, but only about 2 million sperm make it into the cervix. The rest are killed by the acidic fluids inside the vagina or lost in “flowback”—which is…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Philips’ New Lights Are Glowing Versions Of Elsa, Olaf, and Spider-Man

When you’re trying to build brand loyalty, it’s best to snag consumers when they’re still kids. So Philips is teaming up with Disney to expand its lighting line with a series of glowing characters called SoftPals that kids can use as night lights right in bed with them. Made from silicone so they’re soft, squeezable,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How Much Energy Does the Internet Use? And Other Science Explainers

If you love a good explainer, you’ll love SciShow, a prolific YouTube channel (nearly 700 videos) that tackle science and technology questions in bite-sized primers, usually around three minutes long. Here are a few to jumpstart your cocktail party small talk for this weekend. Redheads make up only 1-2% of the population but get 99%…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

A Lego-Friendly Prosthetic Arm Lets Kids Build Their Own Attachments

Hoping to build the confidence of children living with a missing limb, Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar, of Umeå University in Sweden, has designed a prosthetic arm that’s compatible with Lego so kids can swap its gripping attachment for their own custom creations. The arm functions very similar to traditional prosthetics, but it features a twist-and-lock…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Map of Just the World’s Time Zones

Time zones can be confusing things. But this map, which looks like it could be a piece of modern art, strips them back to their essence: this is how the world looks if the only thing you can see is the time zone boundaries. Created by Branden Rishel it’s largely a bit of fun—but it’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Musician Collapses Wearing All His Clothes to Beat Budget Airline Fees

Musician James McElvar used a sitcom-style idea to beat easyJet’s baggage restrictions, taking all of his clothes out of his bag and wearing them to avoid a fee to check his case – only to collapse on the flight from heat exhaustion. McElvar apparently ended up wearing 12 layers in all, comprising of 6 T-shirts,…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

The XKCD Phone 3: So Good They Made Another One

Following the huge success of the XKCD Phone 1 andXKCD Phone 2, Randall Munroe has announced the XKCD Phone 3. Featuring wireless discharging, fingerprint randomizer, a magnetic stripe and more, Munroe promises that “if you’re not completely satisfied with the phone after 30 days, we will return you to your home at no cost.” It’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Gmail Now Uses Artificial Neural Networks to Sniff Out Spam

Gmail’s spam filters have always been pretty good, but now they’re getting a shot in the arm. Google’s rolling out its artificial neural network technology, currently used in the likes of its Search and Now apps, to help reduce the weight of unwanted email even further. The filters that Google has used in the past…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Mass Recall of Avalanche-Rescuing Airbags, Thanks to Static Electricity

Avalanches make backcountry skiing one of the most dangerous ways to get your selfies, something that Black Diamond’s Jetforce airbags promised to change cheaply and simply with an innovative design that got rave reviews. But unfortunately, the designers forgot one tiny detail, leading Black Diamond to issue a recall. Airbag backpacks save skiers from avalanches…

Tech News Chris Mills

It’s So Dry Even America’s Old Growth Rainforests Are on Fire

The season of terrible drought and fire keeps getting worse. In the past few weeks, hundreds of patches of forest in the Canadian and Alaskan boreal have gone up in flames. Now, one of America’s last remaining old growth forests—the Queets rainforest in Olympic National Park, Washington—is also burning. Currently covering over 1,200 acres, Paradise…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Here’s What a Record Painted With Conductive Ink Sounds Like

Conductive paint is incredibly cool—it lets you create a circuit on virtually any material, from human bodies to a concrete wall. But a record? That’s new. Feild Craddock and Shruti KNR, two researchers at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, uploaded a video explaining how they used the paint to create music. They started with…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

“Very Strong” El Niño Is Coming: But Will It End the Drought?

NOAA’s El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) discussion center released its latest predictions today and, well, are you ready for some El Niño? Because wet weather is almost totally certainly coming to the Western US. The question is, how much? Warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the Pacific create an El Niño event, which began to…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Martian Surface is Looking Pretty Rad in Rainbow

Everybody’s been waving their rainbow flag recently, so it was only a matter of time before Mars got in on the fun. Admittedly, this image was painted in rainbow colors to highlight elevation changes. But I’d like to think that the progressive Martian societies of the future would agree with the color scheme. The images…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories of The Apple Genius Bar

We want to hear from both sides of the bar. We know it’s not easy to work at an Apple Store, facing an endless line of customers, some of whom act hugely entitled. The infamous “Lady Goes Crazy At An Apple Store” video is the third autofill result if you start typing “woman screaming” into…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Here’s a 3D-Printed, Self-Driving Mini Car

You’re Going to Want This Designer-Curated Guide for Your City

The Self-Balancing Zoomer Dino Gets a Jurassic World Facelift

This Jumping Robot Is Extremely Cute… And Very Difficult to Destroy

Spectacular lightning strike hits while fireworks explode

These Guys Turned the Lego Batmobile Into a Life-size Soapbox Racer

What Happens to Sperm Once They’re Inside a Woman?

Philips’ New Lights Are Glowing Versions Of Elsa, Olaf, and Spider-Man

How Much Energy Does the Internet Use? And Other Science Explainers

A Lego-Friendly Prosthetic Arm Lets Kids Build Their Own Attachments

A Map of Just the World’s Time Zones

Musician Collapses Wearing All His Clothes to Beat Budget Airline Fees

The XKCD Phone 3: So Good They Made Another One

Gmail Now Uses Artificial Neural Networks to Sniff Out Spam

Mass Recall of Avalanche-Rescuing Airbags, Thanks to Static Electricity

It’s So Dry Even America’s Old Growth Rainforests Are on Fire

Here’s What a Record Painted With Conductive Ink Sounds Like

“Very Strong” El Niño Is Coming: But Will It End the Drought?

The Martian Surface is Looking Pretty Rad in Rainbow

Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories of The Apple Genius Bar

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