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There are more home-made Iron Man suits on the internet than Tony Stark has dollars in the bank. Some are even quite good, but none come as close to mimicking the real thing like this creation by an Instructables-user calling himself Honus. While we don’t yet get a clear shot of the suit fully-assembled and…
Despite America’s ongoing love affair with automobiles, a rapidly growing number of commuters across the country are turning to their two-wheeled transports for both health and economic reasons. This renewed affection has not, however, been extended to their battery-packing cousins, the pedelectric e-bike. This makes no sense. I mean, we’re talking about America here. We’re…
This photo was taken at about 10am this morning as workers started to put together the framework of the flooring for Gizmodo’s very own Home of the Future. The Basics Dates: 05/17/2014–05/21/2014 Location: 268 Mulberry Street, near Houston Street in SoHo. Nearest subway: Broadway-Lafayette. Hours: 11:00 am to late. The Gizmodo gang will be working…
It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft started a bold charge into future. A new touch-friendly operating system, a transforming, first party tablet-computer, a game console designed not just to play games but to take over your TV. But now, Microsoft is in full retreat, and we’re at risk of losing all the great stuff that…
When your software company is called Robotoki, it only makes sense that your offices would be adorned with random robo-memorabilia. But the company’s brand new conference table, which sits atop the severed hand from some giant imaginary mech, goes beyond the call of duty. Designed and built byTom Spina Designs, the table looks like a…
Espresso is a subtle, elegant beverage. So it’s only natural that the equipment used to brew it is as beautiful as the dark elixir itself. Such is the case with the Strietman ES3—a lever operated device with copper and wood parts that you mount on the wall. While most modern espresso machines use an electric…
Director Jim Casey put together this video showing the evolution of visual effects—in chronological order—from 1878 to 2014. It’s impressive, considering the tools they had at that time, how great some of the century-old effects still look. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Did you buy a whole year of Xbox Live Gold just to watch HBO Go on your Xbox? Then you were probably miffed to find out that it’ll soon be free to do exactly that. The good news is that you can get a refund. The bad news is that you have to remember to…
Here’s the alternate ending for Tyrion’s speech at the end of The Laws of Gods and Men—the sixth episode of Game of Thrones. Warning: Don’t watch if you haven’t seen this episode. I’m sure George RR Martin would approve. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
What good is having the right tools for the job if you’ve got no where to do the work? Milwaukee has realized that having a handy place to use your tools is just as important as an easy way to transport them, so the company has added a compact workbench to the lid of its…
Thanks to what is either the biggest episode of I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant ever or an entirely different kind of accident, the folks over at Shutterfly have had a very busy morning. And you would, too, if you’d just congratulated hundreds of strangers on their nonexistent babies. Earlier today, Shutterfly users started complaining…
Odds are, you probably have some kind of streaming box hooked up to your main TV, but today’s a great opportunity to outfit the rest of the screens in your house. Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a $37 Roku LT, or you can opt for a fully loaded Roku 3 from Newegg for $72.…
If the recent White House Correspondents Dinner has shown us anything, it’s that politicians are the true masters of comedy in American society. Case in point: a recent joke proposal by a D.C. politician to install “hoverboard lanes” in the nation’s capital. You know… like bike lanes. Only they’re for hoverboards. Because hoverboards are going…
The first thing you notice is how loud it is—a shrill, almost metallic buzz that fills your head. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s largest and most secure data centers, Timo Arnall shows us that the “cloud” is not ethereal, but big, hulking and incredibly loud. Internet Machine is a six-minute, multi-screen film…
Imagine a future where autonomous robots make life or death decisions based not just on data, but a preprogrammed moral code. This is not the plot of a dystopian novel. It’s the directive of a new Pentagon program that will scare your socks off. Over the next five years, the Office of Naval Research is…
During the Okeanos Explorer expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, sidesonar pinged something interesting 1,900 meters below on the ocean floor. Expecting a shipwreck, the team sent a remotely operated vehicle to explore. Instead, they found a pair of asphalt volcanoes! The Deep Discoverer investigated a suspected shipwreck that wasn’t. Image credit: NOAA The remotely…
This new kind of polymer has a self-healing mechanism that can patch up to almost 0.4 inches of diameter—one centimeter. This type of material has been around for a while already, so far was only capable of healing very small defects. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
This is really amazing and beautiful: Chocolate etched with rainbow holograms using a technique that doesn’t use additives of any kind, but rathercarves specific microstructures into the chocolate’s surface that defract light—much the same way that the security holograms on credit cards work. Developed by Swiss design company, Morphotonix, working with a German chocolate mould…
We’re already well-acquainted with BioLite’s ingenious brand of biofuel-burning (and gadget-charging) camp stoves. The startup’s newest offering, though, takes the original CampStove and turns it into a grillmaster’s group-friendly dream. Launching today on Kickstarter, BaseCamp functions on the same basic principal as the original; using nothing but firewood, you get to charge your devices, power…
If an upcoming flight stopover has you visiting Philadelphia’s International Airport, you might want to head over to Terminal A-West before the end of October this year. Because instead of killing time reading a magazine, you can stare in awe at this impressive 48,000-piece animated art installation made from K’NEX. The building toy never quite…
