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Gizmodo has teamed up with Brooklyn’s Sixpoint Brewery to create a limited-edition IPA called Hop Tech 431, brewed especially for the Home of the Future. Last week, we looked at the story behind HBC 431, the mysterious and experimental hop we’ve chosen to brew with. Today, we’re exploring exactly what goes into designing the recipe…
Over on Gizmodo’s photography blog, Reframe, Michael Hession profiles Vilde Rolfsen, a photographer who shoots subjects that look like expansive landscapes but are actually very, very small. In fact, you probably have several dozen of them stuffed in one of your kitchen cabinets.
In addition to the obvious—meatballs, for most of us—there are many joys inherent in an afternoon pilgrimage to an Ikea showroom, not least of which is sitting on, reclining over, picking up, and/or putting down every damn thing you wander past in the cheery furniture labyrinth. Now the Swedish superstore wants to open a museum—does…
Well this is kind of a bizarre story. Illich Guardiola, a 41 year-old voice actor (who has voiced numerous characters for English translations of popular anime) and drama teacher at the Houston Family Arts Center, is now married to his 16 year-old student after police caught wind of their illegal relationship. Everything started coming to…
Bloomberg is reporting that AT&T is gearing up to buy DirecTV for $50 billion. Per Bloomberg: Under the plan being discussed, DirecTV management will continue to run the company as a unit of AT&T and DirecTV Chief Executive Officer Mike White plans to retire after 2015, said the people, asking not to be named because…
Trash is annoying. It builds up mountainous landfills, fills the ocean with junk, litters space, and pollutes the atmosphere. So, why not just chuck it into a volcano? An expedition tried that in Erta Ale Volcano, tossing 30 kilograms of organic waste into the lava lake. …which then erupted. Whoops. Erta Ale Volcano in the…
If the thought of putting anything green in your mouth leaves you gagging, this adorable and remarkably life-like lettuce umbrella might help slowly acclimate you to accepting vegetables into your life. And it probably goes without saying that it will keep you dry as well. Available for just under $50 from a Japanese website called…
This is the new Marine One, its first official images. After much speculation, Sikorsky got the contract to build the helicopter that the Marines will use to carry the President of the United States, a variation of their S-92 helicopter. Sikorsky is getting $1.24 billion to produce six VH-92—as it will be denominated—for development and…
How do you catch a logger in the dense, remote rainforest? For a long time, the answer has been satellites, which may sound high-tech, but actually means you’re looking at photos of deforested land days after the loggers have made their getaway. A nonprofit called Rainforest Connectionwants to turn old smartphones into solar-powered bugs that…
This year’s Kentucky Derby was certainly exciting for its mint-julep-soaked spectators. But our future-minded ancestors might have considered it a bit old fashioned. Why? None of the jockeys were robots. The March 1945 issue of Radio-Craft magazine imagined a future where human jockeys would all be replaced by radio-operated robots. The jockey-bots would be outfitted…
Examining rap lyrics to measure quality of life in Compton. An ambitious housing plan from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. How Boston is changing thanks to one architecture firm. Why Atlanta is putting all its money on the BeltLine. Plus, Bike Month! All in this week’s Urban Reads! Why does all the rap and…
There’s a train speeding down the tracks towards five innocent people who will never get away in time. You can save them by pulling a switch, but it’ll kill another person on a different track. It’s a thought experiment people have debated for ages, but it’s about to become a real dilemma when we program…
Rumor has it that following the still unconfirmed acquisition of Beats by Apple, the audio company’s co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine will take senior executive roles at Apple. Which is obvious, but still kind of crazy, because of the phrase: “Dr. Dre, Apple executive.”
When she was a design student, Khyati Trehan embarked on an ambitious project to highlight history’s 26 most influential inventors with a unique alphabet. Remarkably, each letter of the special typeface is drawn with a world-changing invention while also name-checking the inventor. The letter “E,” for instance, is represented by the phonograph invented by Edison.…
You might think you are looking at an ice cave in some remote location, or the interior of a living organism. But these photographs by Vilde Rolfsen are actually of something you may encounter every single day—the plastic bag. Rolfsen uses bags found on the street and sculpts them with the aid of tinted lights…
It’s almost time for the Gizmodo Home of the Future, highlighting our favorite forward-looking products from design, technology, and beyond. From May 17 to 21 you’ll be able to stop by the New York City space to browse the home or pull up a seat in our co-working lounge, and we’re also hosting events every…
Wooden gadget accessories appeal to a certain kind of dweebus—I am that dweebus. And Oregon’s Grove has been among the best for years. Now they’re making iPad cases. Are they worth it? What Is It? It’s a “wooden” iPad mini case from Grove, the same people who have made some of my very favorite iPhone…
Alex Chacon has been traveling around the world for 600 days. With his GoPro attached to a monopod, he shot one of those vacation videos that make you rethink your whole existence. But don’t get him wrong. Alex is not having one of those no-way-I’m-moving-from-my-hammock type of holidays, he is actually a motorcycle explorer, photographer…
As part of the site’s ongoing Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Made series, MSN has a video about Mexico’s Richart Sowa, a former carpenter who became interested in ecological engineering and left his job to spend over six years building a manmade island made from mostly recycled materials. Over 150,000 plastic bottles bundled into mesh sacks…
Retro-geeks and artists alike were abuzz last month with the news that the Andy Warhol Museum had recovered digital works of art created by Warhol himself some thirty years ago on a Commodore Amiga computer. A new documentary produced by the Carnegie Museum of Art traces the process of digital archeology that revealed these works…
