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Blessed with the calming voice of a warm blanket on a cold night, Morgan Freeman is basically the best narrator for nearly every documentary and most life situations. I could listen him talk about anything and it would feel important. But what about Morgan Freeman on helium? How’s that sound? Hilarious. It’s an ad for…
Sometimes when you have a lot of dogs, they don’t all get the exercise they need. Not these dogs though, they get to use these sweet dog treadmills at their outdoor dog gym. So even though there’s a lot of dogs, they all get to be active. Well, most of them. The dog on the…
“Let’s just pop back to last Tuesday,” she says. “Oh don’t worry about stepping on that lizard,” she says. “It can’t be that important.” It can’t be that important huh? WELL LOOK AT ME NOW! Bleeding, terrified, being hunted by my future-past self while trying to reconstruct a quantum timeline without tearing the universe a…
Disquiet Junto Project 0125: Yellow Disquiet Blues Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants…
When the colonial administrators of New Spain founded Los Angeles in 1781, they granted the pueblo four square leagues of land—a grant that defined the city’s limits when it incorporated under American law in 1850. For decades, Los Angeles confined itself much to its original borders. Then, in the 1890s, it suddenly engorged itself on…
It’s like that horrifying scene in World War Z when zombies are just on top of each other. It’s like a mosh pit that never ends for all of eternity. It’s a human traffic jam with absolutely no room to breathe. It’s the subway system in Sao Paulo after a bus strike. And the World…
We’re excited for the new, compact 2015 Jeep Renegade. But, will it go off-road? We called up Jeep’s chief engineer and asked. He gave us exclusive, never-before-seen specs and details. The Renegade is an all-new Jeep, based on the parent company’s new “Small Wide” platform, also used by the Fiat 500L. It’s scheduled to go…
Here are the most spectacular and destructive atomic detonations in history. Most of them are in crispy HD thanks to the folks of Atom Central, one of my favorite sites. Looking at their terrifying beauty, I can’t understand why we wasted so much in these absurd devices of mass extermination. I made the GIF above…
China is currently undergoing a huge boom in museums—299 new ones have opened in the last year alone. And just like the US’s own 20th century museum boom, which inspired cascades of forgeries, China’s is bringing out the fakes: The government has shuttered one museum where a third of the 8,000 artifacts were fake. According…
“Space age outfits in silver vinyl by Pierre Cardin, on display at Fashion Week in Paris, 26th January 1968.” [Getty Images] Not quite as cool as the 1939 version, in this humble bloggist’s opinion.
We have such a vigilant orbital watch program that when a meteor a few meters in diameter pinged Mars, we spotted the crater within 24 hours. We’re living in the future, people. Unless this is the past, because NASA announced the discovery in Latin. Project scientist Bruce Cantor spotted a crater 50 meters in diameter…
It’s Bike Month here at Gizmodo, and we’ve been celebrating with stories covering locks and e-bikes, chats with bike lawyers and bike clothing brands, and looks at vintage cycling posters and outlandish bike designs. Now we want to see how you ride: Show us your bike! I ride a PUBLIC C-7 in a color I…
With mixology and DIY designer beverages on the rise, it’s no wonder that users want more control. Enter BKON’s new Craft Brewer, an impressive piece of machinery that infuses liquids in a perfect vacuum. Gizmodo recently got a hands-on demo at the iconic Counter Culture in Soho—and this thing can brew. The Craft Brewer allows…
When you look at this still-shot from Highschool of the Dead, what are you meant to look at? If your answer is anything other than giant boobs (or the red circle around them, wise guy), you’re wrong and probably could use an eye exam. Now ask yourself what the purpose of this shot is. Your…
NASA collected thousands of self-portraits on Earth Day this year to make a massive “Global Selfie.” Although the name makes my skin crawl, the end effect is neat. Of course my favourite contributing photographs are all fictional characters. The individual photos are blended with actual satellite data from the same day, using images from the…
DARPA has finally demonstrated one of its most promising inventions: An augmented-reality HUD system that will give soldiers the same advantage of a jet fighter pilot. It displays battlefield data over the soldier’s environment, identifying friendly and enemy forces on land and air in real time. The system is nothing like Google Glass, which projects…
If you’d rather bring your faithful companion with you on a camping trip than have them stuck in a kennel for a week, you’re probably going to want them to be as comfortable as you are. And if they’re too big to share your sleeping bag, the Noblecamper gives them their own cozy place to…
Shooting video with a DSLR can be a pain when it comes to your audio setup. Zoom has been a mainstay of external audio devices targeted at DSLR filmmakers with the H4N and last year’s beefed-up—but expensive—H6. The new H5 presents an in-between solution at an affordable price. https://gizmodo.com/zoom-h6-the-essential-dslr-audio-tool-gets-an-update-5994723 The $270 H5 is similar to…
Google has just enabled no-click voice search in its latest Chrome update. Now anybody can search without typing. Just open a new Chrome tab and say “OK Google” (after enabling the feature in the Privacy settings). Once this catches on, you won’t look nearly like such a lunatic.
NBC’s Brian Williams has just landed an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden in Russia. That’s great—the NSA, let’s talk about it. But there is another pressing question to consider first: Why are Williams and Snowden looking at us like that? Before we get down to serious business—the interview itself will air as a primetime special…
