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In case you didn’t think electric vehicles were cooler than their gas-guzzling counterparts, well, think again. They quite literally are, according to science. Electric car skeptics often point out that the vehicles are made using energy from the same fossil-fuel burning power plants as traditional cars, which….sort of defeats the purpose, right? Not entirely. A…
If you live in a city, you’ve probably experienced stepping onto a crowded train platform and feeling like a fish in a school, with everyone trying to swim the same direction. That’s a pretty accurate image, according to this new visualization of commuters on the London Tube. The video below, created by coder Will Gallia,…
If you’re a Potter fan who would’ve liked to see more impossible, Burrow-like homes in the movies, then you’ll love the fantasy world of German designer Matthias Jung, whose surreal houses look like they ought to be kept hidden from our Muggle eyes. Jung’s creations, which he calls small “architectural poems,” are actually collages of…
If all the talk of weak battery life has left you lukewarm about the idea of a smartwatch, or if you’re interested but still prefer the look of an analog timepiece, you’ll want to keep an eye on Vector, the company that swooped onto the smartwatch scene out of nowhere this week. http://www.vectorwatch.com/ At this…
Although I’ve enjoyed the past few episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal a lot more than anything from the show’s first half, it would be hard to acknowledge that anything has really actively been done by the dwindling Sailor Senshi. But not this week: It’s time to get things done! Sort of. Yes, character agency is…
This dead simple drum machine that runs in your browser is so much fun. The HTML5 Drum Machine borrows its aesthetics from classic beat boxes like the TR-808 Rhythm Composer. It’s got five different sound banks: Hip hop, electro, house, techno, and acoustic. Each bank has 13 different sounds for which you can tweak the…
A perfect recipe to enjoy the weekend: just watch these videos of today’s solar eclipse over and over again from different locations across our planet and even around the universe. We’ve collected videos from space, from a place that looks like Hoth on Earth and so many more. Even if you missed it earlier, you’ll…
This week on Giz, we filmed the destruction of e-waste, explored the neuroscience of virtual reality and the curious cult of gadget destruction porn, and called out the troubling consequence of police body cameras. Here’s a taste of our favorite stories. The Secret Lives of the Tiny People In Architectural Renderings Selling a big urban…
Remember when everyone freaked about CISPA, the cybersecurity bill with scary privacy implications? CISA, a similarly-named cybersecurity bill, is here to take its place. Even after adding fifteen amendments, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is a dangerous piece of legislation. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was the only Senate Intelligence Committee member to vote against CISA,…
This soldier is running off the back of a CH-47F Chinook helicopter during a simulated combat dive mission on the Hawaiian shoreline. Even if it’s hard work, I’d like to be him — and leave behind these screens, and keyboards, and Interwebz. [Lance Cpl. Brittney Vella/U.S. Marine Corps/DoD])
Last week at this time it was sunny. Now it’s snowing outside. At the end of March. This week, amiright? All I want to do is think about the movies I’ll be mainlining this weekend. Good riddance, week. This weekend, I’m planning to sleep, sleep some more, then host a mini-Marvel movie marathon (for myself)…
Google Fiber is about to change the way TV ads look for subscribers in Kansas City. And it has the potential to upend the entire TV industry in the very near future. In the next few weeks Google will roll out a small but revolutionary TV ad-tracking program, tipped early today at Adweek. The program…
With the headline-capturing success of Serial and The Jinx, it’s the perfect moment for Errol Morris — whose 1988 doc The Thin Blue Line helped overturn a wrongfully convicted man’s life sentence — to re-enter the true crime genre via a six-part documentary series for Netflix. Morris, who won an Oscar for The Fog of…
Egg freezing is about as hot as a women’s reproductive topic can get. But it’s also extremely rare: Only about 2000 humans currently populating the planet can thank this method for their existence. It’s a number that’s surprisingly low for a procedure that’s being so heavily hyped by HR departments and fertility specialists alike. Put…
Recently, Star Wars action figure fans were all flustered by the shocking news that a highly anticipated Princess Leia figure had suddenly vanished from preorders and distribution lists. For once however, this wasn’t another example of Hasbro’s ongoing female Star Wars figure problem. For those not up to date in the weird, wonderful world of…
Putting things together can sometimes make you feel accomplished but there are a lot more times where it gets real tedious, real fast. That’s why I enjoy these magic self-assembling videos. Frank Howarth shows an entire table saw assembling itself in this stop-motion video and it makes me wish this could happen in real life.…
Picking your own food in the wild produces no easier or tastier result than it does with berries. And there’s more than you might think out there, both in terms of sheer volume and types. Here’s how to find the good ones. Hopefully we all know that there’s plants and berries and stuff out there…
Do not click on the link in the next paragraph if you are using Chrome on a Mac. Or you can, but it will immediately cause the tab that the link opens in to crash. The page contains a special string of 13 characters, which make Chrome for Mac go haywire. This link actually points…
For some reason a life-sized stuffed version of Darth Vader or Obi-Wan Kenobi just doesn’t seem as appealing as these life-sized plush versions of Yoda and Wicket the Ewok. But that’s probably because one is an adorable Muppet, and the other looks essentially like a cuddly walking teddy bear. Both will be available from Takara…
The pop-up city is an idea that dug its way into our collective brain a century ago as the first steel buildings rose—a dream that’s as common in cartoons as it is in urban planning. And for the first time in history, it’s technically possible. In China, a company called Broad Sustainable Building Co has…
