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Nintendo’s latest all-star brawler Super Smash Bros. hit the 3DS this past Friday – so what better way to celebrate than with this speedy retelling of The Avengers with some of Nintendo’s finest? James Farr‘s short (you might remember him for doing something very similar for the Star Wars films) breezes through the movie’s plot…
The Oculus Rift is an amazing virtual reality device and we can use it to pretend to be anywhere. We can simulate soaring through the clouds! The Rift can help you live inside your wildest dreams… and apparently that includes staring at a schoolgirl like a lecherous creep while her skirt lifts up in the…
We’re pretty much settled on birds being dinosaurs, but what would happen if we genetically engineered chickens to be a bit more like the dinosaurs of old? If Twitter’s volunteer paleontological illustrators have it right, the chickensaurus would the essence of horror. The entire concept of a chickensaurus is fundamentally ridiculous — as Trish (@Babbletrish)…
Pinching bubble wrap. Getting something stuck on your teeth out after trying for minutes. Watching pop tartsbeing made. And spring coils.And pretzels.And caligraphy. There are many strangely satisfying things in the world. Seeing a nuclear submarine breaking through arctic ice is one of them. Enjoy: Here’s another clip from a older video: SPLOID is a…
Behold the island of Alcatraz as re-imagined by film director and concept designer Bastiaan Koch for his near-future thriller Follow the Camera. Instead of a prison, it’s now the luxurious fortress-home of Steven, a powerful tech mogul. Given San Francisco’s current situation, this is totally believable. Bastiaan sent us these renders after wrapping up the…
You know that crippling feeling of doubt you get when your friend doesn’t get the funny YouTube video you’re watching? It’s your brain warning you that you’re playing a dangerous game. One with potentially deadly consequences. For the rest of this week’s top comedy videos, head on over to Splitsider. Now for the news: We…
There are few things I love in life more than Steve McQueen movies. And there’s nothing else out there that sounds like analog synthesizer music. So when my Giz coworker Andrew Liszewski turned me on to this TRS-80 music video combining the two, I couldn’t take my eyes or ears off it. The footage, for…
We all know the frustration of tearing open a huge, tantalizing bag of chips or nachos or Funyons or whatever and realizing the bag’s 2/3rds air. Two South Korean college students just proved how empty our snack vessels are, by paddling a raft made of unopened potato chip bags across a river. As our Kotaku…
Georgia Tech researchers have come up with an app that turns Google Glass into a real-time closed-captioning display for the hearing-impaired, using the voice recognition in the user’s Glass-paired smartphone. Now this is a face-computer use we can get behind. Captioning on Glassuses a Glass wearer’s smartphone as a remote microphone. The Glass wearer simply…
Michael Bay’s Transformers films have received a lot of stick over the years – but what happens when Transformers toys themselves take a look at them? A pretty funny few minutes, actually. Using Hasbro’s KRE-O construction toys, this 3 minute sojourn back into the Transformers films is surprisingly unafraid of taking the piss out of…
From Chris Brinlee Jr. on Indefinitely Wild: They say that if you don’t like the weather in Iceland, wait five minutes and it’ll change. Multiply that by mountains, glaciers and volcanoes and you’ve got a recipe for adventure. Or a close encounter of the near death kind.
It was a big week here at Gizmodo! We brought you a review of the most badass Nerf gun ever created, a ride on the new Uber for private airplanes, and a guest post from Steve Wozniak about a beloved friend and computer innovator who needs your help. And so much more! The Quest to…
Oh my. Lego has announced a new Star Wars set, and it’s a beauty – a brand new ‘Ultimate Collector Series’ version of Boba Fett’s infamous ship Slave I. You might as well just open your wallet right now, honestly. This is the first rendition of the Fett Family’s preferred method of transport since 2010,…
They say that if you don’t like the weather in Iceland, wait five minutes and it’ll change. Multiply that by mountains, glaciers and volcanoes and you’ve got a recipe for adventure. Or a close encounter of the near death kind. “Winter is coming,” they said. “They” being every local we spoke to in Iceland. “We’re…
If you want protection from privacy intrusions by private UAV pilots, don’t go all Annie Oakley on your neighbor’s quadcopter like this guy; that’s super illegal in most American cities. Instead, try these simple means of dissuasion. You’ll definitely look like a bit of a loon, but that’s just the price of freedom. And/or paranoia.…
After a four-month pause to scan the ocean floor, search ships will once again launch in the Indian Ocean to look for wreckage from the lost MH 370 flight. The first of three ship, the GO Phoenix, will reach the search field on Sunday, the AP reports. The search was paused so that scientists could…
One of my frequent criticisms of Sailor Moon Crystal so far is that some characters have largely felt way too passive to the tepidly paced plot progression – but not this week, when the Sailor Senshi take on a Brainwashing Blockbusters. It takes a while to get going, but shit gets done, and it is…
When NASA awarded crew transport contracts to Boeing CST-100 and the SpaceX Dragon v2, a lot of you asked, “What about Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser?” Sierra Nevada is asking the same question, filing a legal challenge claiming their craft was ranked equally proficient and a hefty $900 million cheaper than Boeing. Dream Chaser at dawn…
What does crocodile dung and weasel testicles and pig intestines and fizzy cola and moonshine mixed with ground beaver testicles have in common with each other? They were all used ascontraceptives throughout history. Some were inserted into a woman’s body, others were eaten and a few were just worn. Weird, right? EngenderHealth made this visually…
Many people are freaking out about ebola, but the fact is that there’s no reason to panic because it spreads too slowly. Way slower than other infectious diseases. The graphic above shows it clearly: While a measles patient can infect a maximum of 18 people on average, an ebola patient can only infect two. That’s…
