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Batman turns 75 this year, and over that time he’s defeated so many baddies, even Alfred probably has trouble keeping track of them all. ZAP! Here’s a pulp-inspired chart from Pop Chart Lab that chronicles (nearly) every crim banished from the streets of Gotham. This uber-detailed chart breaks down major and minor villains alike by…
The sun is big. Really, really big. It’s so big, every feature on it is mind-boggling huge. Last week it spun out a massive prominence arcing out into space so ginormous that a mischievous fireproof Titan could’ve used it as a hoop to dunk the Earth in a game of cosmic basketball. How big was…
PayPal Chief Executive Officer Peter Thiel, left, and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 20, 2000. [Associated Press] Factually is Gizmodo’s new blog of fun facts, interesting photos, and weird trivia. Join us on Twitter and Facebook.
Ever wonder how cruise ships are built? Well, Royal Caribbean just released a new video that sheds a little bit of light onto the process, specifically how the cabins are manufactured. It’s surprisingly similar to how your Ford got built. The short video takes you inside the factory of Meyer Werft, a German shipyard founded…
What’s this? A piece of Star Wars-themed decor that doesn’t look like a grade eight craft project? There’s a chance that folks who’ve never even seen Star Wars might actually want this Death Star rug in their living room, since its asymmetrical design doesn’t scream ‘science fiction movie prop’. Totem has certainly done a wonderful…
You can almost hear the pitch meeting echoing through the Hollywood Hills: “It’s like Anchorman, meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.” And frankly, that sounds like a damn good way to spend an hour and a half. So let’s hope the upcoming movie Space Station 76 lives up to the completely unfounded expectations I’ve created for…
Correctly used, condoms do a damn good job of preventing STDs (and pregnancy!). But nobody’s gonna say no to an improvement that ups those odds. Say, a condom coated in antiviral gel that kills up t0 99.9% of HIV, genital herpes, and human papillomavirus. Australia just said yes, and hopefully the U.S. isn’t far behind.…
This isn’t a trailer for the next Tom Clancy movie. These are real U.S. Navy SEALs showing how they get into enemy territory from the sea. They get deployed in a mini-sub launched from a nuclear submarine. Then they get out as they approach the shore at night, ready to complete their mission. SPLOID is…
The movie Sex Tape hinges on its lead couple finding it impossible to remove their raunchy homemade porno from the apparently unfathomable depths of iCloud. Their predicament is appealingly modern, if not all that realistic (as GQ proved). It got me thinking, though: How hard is it to remove a sexually explicit video you’ve made…
In an eerie real life version of Max Brooks’ World War Z, China announced it was quarantining a town of 30,000 people after a “Bubonic Plague” outbreak. That doesn’t fool us, what zombie apocalypse plans will you be activating now? http://news.yahoo.com/china-seals-off-city-man-dies-bubonic-plague-102913198.html;_ylt=AwrBJSATQc5TDC0AyIjQtDMD Rightfully considered the best book ever written on subject, World War Z begins with…
If you have ever sweated through a summer in the city, you can thank those skyscrapers all around. Tall buildings trap heat that create urban heat islands. But what if you could create a building that cools the city instead? A building skin made of a series of tubes with evaporating rainwater can do just…
Tiny, light and infinitely transportable, this affordable little kit might save your life in an emergency. Here’s how to build your own mini survival kit and how to use the stuff in it. https://gizmodo.com/now-that-its-upon-us-what-are-your-zombie-apocalypse-s-1609136450 Why Altoids? The tins are universally available, well made and designed to keep the stuff inside them intact and safe from…
The Skully AR-1 is the first helmet to include a heads-up display. It could change how we ride motorcycles forever. Below, you can read Indefinitely Wild‘s exclusive trial run. http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/ https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-worlds-first-hud-motorcycle-helmet-1608590926
You may have seen this hilarious image floating around recently with the caption: “Googler leaves to join Bing at Microsoft. Here’s the cake his co-workers gave him.” Travis is leaving Google for Bing! What a traitor! But unfortunately, it’s a bit too good to be true. Travis, the person who got a job working on…
I opened the Facebook chat with my Tinder coach expecting to walk away with a hilarious story. It’s a coach for Tinder; how could it be anything but? But one hour, $50, and five extensively researched photos later, I had only one thought: Holy shit, that was depressing. Only about a month old, TinderUs has…
If deep down you just know that science was too quick to adopt the notion that the universe doesn’t revolve around the earth, with this Ptolemaic watch on your wrist you’ll be reassured we’re not just some random spec in the galaxy whenever you glance down to check the time. Your devotion to defunct ancient…
A few weeks ago, we looked at a photo essay on Mir Mine, a nearly mile-wide mine in Eastern Siberia that’s one of the largest man-made holes on Earth’s surface. It made us wonder: Where the largest hole ever made by humans? As it turns out, it’s right here in the United States. The land…
While the most we’ve seen of Apple’s smartwatch is a patent, Xiaomi (a company often referred to as the “Chinese Apple”) just announced a new line of $13 (!) wearables. And even better—they actually look like something you’d want to wear. The Mi Band line may not have a display, but it does pack in…
Like with nuclear war, a water balloon fight isn’t about pinpoint accuracy. What’s most important is raining down as much soakage on your opponent as quickly as possible. Which means that the Bunch O Balloons, which promises to let you make 100 throw-ready water balloons every minute, could be the most important addition to your…
Rich people rejoice, Samsung’s huge 105-inch curved 4K television finally has an actual price you can instruct your accountant to write on a check. That number is $119,999.99. For the sake of simplicity let’s just call that $120,000. So what do you get for $120,000? A totally beautiful television, obvs. We first laid eyes on…
