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Smart is all about being compact and efficient, so when the company teamed up with audio provider JBL, it naturally wanted to see how much sound it could squeeze into one of its little hatchbacks. The resultant ‘smart forgigs,’ which boasts 5720 watts of amplification, is a mobile concert hall guaranteed to give any struggling…
Everyone wants something on Sailor Moon Crystal. The Black Moon want power. Usagi wants to go home with her friends. Tuxedo Mask wants to protect Chibi Usa. I want to move on from the endless exposition and get to the action. But as hard as Sailor Moon Crystal tries this week, not everyone gets what…
Earlier this week, we heard reports that we’re on the verge of running out of internet, specifically, out of IPv4 addresses. Now, it seems, we may be hitting another, more serious internet wall: The cables. That’s right. The tubes themselves can’t spit out our data much faster. The fiber-optic cables that transmit the internet’s data…
Two new and fantastic things we’ve kicked off at Gizmodo: we launched our podcast “Meanwhile In the Future” with a premier episode about artificial wombs, and a new diagonal, “Throb,” all about science and sex. This week was also Action Hero Week, which meant we got to nerd out about all the tech making humans…
It starts like a fog machine, deploying its vaporous mist into the air—until the cloud it emits holds its exquisite shape and silently hovers mid-room for hours. This is the drama and allure of Nimbus, the physics-defying work of Dutch sculptor Berndnaut Smilde. A video crew from NeueHouse captured the artist in action while preparing…
It’s Action Hero Week on Gizmodo and IO9 right now; a fun look at at the the tough guys we all like to watch in movies and on TV. But you don’t have to watch that stuff and look on in envy, you can be one of those heroes. Here’s how. The Will To Act…
But not just any one. You’d need the iType Smartwatch, a crowdfunded Android wearable coming this July for $235. I’m always skeptical of Kickstarter projects, and smartwatches, and honestly I’m just kind of a skeptical guy! So when the keyboard actually worked, I was pretty surprised. How the heck does anyone tap on all these…
One of the biggest challenges for scientists studying the anatomy and physiology of genitalia is the fact that much of the real functional action happens deep inside females. It’s hard to see what’s going on in there. That’s why I love studies that rise to the challenge of giving us a peek inside. In a…
That’s it. GTA V is such an amazing world that it can be used to create anything. Let’s make movies and full seasons of TV shows using just GTA V graphics because this is just stunning. Here is a Breaking Bad tribute done completely with GTA V and it sums up a decent amount of…
When we think of dangerous jobs, most of us think about firefighters or ice road truckers. But Bloomberg crunched the Department of Labor’s newly-released stats, and came up with a few disturbing and surprising facts about who really has the most dangerous gig. Which professions have the highest fatality rates? Fishers top the list, followed…
Is it really Friday? You promise? What a week. Road warriors of Gizmodo, start your engines. Everyone I know is talking about Mad Max: Fury Road with glowing, ecstatic praise that verges on hysterics. My feeds are full of superlatives and people saying they feel the way they did when Raiders of the Lost Ark…
The end is here. The pinnacle has been reached. Gimmicky hamburger buns no longer need to exist. Stop creating. Because nothing will ever top The Vulgar Chef’s French Fry Burger Bomb because it makes a bun out of french fries, the hamburger’s natural mouth slush and womb co-inhabitant. Instead of taking a bite out of…
Coffee pods generally produce pretty awful coffee. However, a burgeoning number of companies now sell coffee pods that come with a dose of THC! So now these coffee pods produce awful coffee that also gets you high. https://gizmodo.com/stop-buying-coffee-pods-1703073159 Obviously, the home of weed-powered coffee pods is Seattle. One spot is Uncle Ike’s pot shop, where…
There’s been a lot of confusion about Windows 10 recently: first Microsoft said it would be a free upgrade. Then, it suggested even pirates could upgrade to genuine versions of Windows. That’s not actually true. Microsoft’s Terry Myerson took to the Windows blog to try and clear things up. Here’s the deal: if Windows can’t…
I do not like vodka. Let me start there. In fact I’ve previously written that a vodka soda is the world’s most dangerous drink because you will fall asleep and choke while drinking it’s so fecking boring. So, when I walked into the Woody Creek vodka distillery near Aspen, Colorado, it was not without a…
I’ve never been able to hear well. As a child, I was in and out of the hospital as doctors struggled to treat chronic ear infections that left me in throbbing pain and, eventually, relative silence. By the time I went to college, I had only one half-functioning ear drum and no hope of regaining…
This is God’s work. Or at the very least, the work of a Grand Maester. Joeltronics made this very useful graph that shows which episode of Game of Thrones the TV show corresponds to which chapter and which book in the A Song of Ice and Fire books (aka the Game of Thrones books). That…
Guess what’s finally built and undergoing extensive testing at Six Flags’ Fiesta Texas amusement park in San Antonio? The park’s brand new Batman coaster that was teased last year with 4D thrills courtesy of seats that are free to rotate 360-degrees during your vomit-filled ride. Last year we were only treated to animations of what…
Cryptocurrency expert and guy who continually denies he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, Nick Szabo, is probably Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, according to the New York Times. “I’m not Satoshi,” Szabo told reporter Nathaniel Popper. He probably is, though. Popper outlines the evidence for the “Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto” consensus that’s currently brewing: Szabo created a Bitcoin…
He may have had to wait for all the main Avengers to get their toys first, but finally, here he is: Behold, The Vision, in the plastic/synthezoid flesh! Hot Toys’ latest Age of Ultron figure is so pretty, it’ll prove that even an android a wallet can cry as you fork over the cash for…
