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This week in our time capsule news round-up we have 100-year-old papers that look like they were printed just yesterday, a Girl Scout capsule that won’t be opened until the year 2214, and some artifacts in Florida from the ancient Age of Videotape. Girl Scouts bury 200-year time capsule at birthplace of founder In 1912,…
Following the popularity of those battle bots from a few years ago, it only makes sense that someone, somewhere, would pit quadcopters against each other in a battle to the death—or at least first crash. Sure, these events might have been cooked up to promote an extra-tough quadcopter airframe that’s being funded through Kickstarter, but…
Have you ever dreamed about living in your favorite movie? Maybe you want to float through space chatting with HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or kick it with crazy Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Well, now you can get one step closer with these posters of classic movie interiors. The retro-inspired poster series, dubbed…
I don’t know about you, but my home bar is a mess. It’s two shelves utterly stuffed with bottles any way they’ll fit, with no rhyme or reason behind it. Rarely do I have any concept of how much I have left of what; I have to check every bottle and hope there’s enough to…
Well, this sounds promising. A team from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research say they can efficiently harvest enough electricity from low frequency vibrations to power small electronic devices. The process works thanks to aluminum nitrate, one of several materials that naturally accumulates an electric charge in response to mechanical stress. That property is…
I really wantedthese cereal tea bags to be real because I would love to buy them (and I’m to lazy to make them myself.) Of course, I can always buy Momofuku’s delicious cereal milk and add it to my real tea. It tastes like the leftover milk in a sugary cereal bowl—delicious. SPLOID is a…
There’s an old saying that you get more bees with honey than with vinegar. It’s true—to a degree. Sometimes if you want to get your way, it’s worth giving whining a try. This approach is often works when it comes to things like disputes with your phone carrier or cable company, places that tend to…
It looks like those super fast UHS SD cards for recording 4K video on the new Panasonic GH4 won’t be crazy expensive. Kingston has their’s on Amazon listed at $130 for 64GB.
The Northeast has been buckling under this year’s winter weather, in partbecause we’re running out of road salt. We here at Gizmodo wanted to see what we were dealing with ourselves, so we visited three of the biggest salt sheds NYC’s five boroughs have to offer. Sunset Park On the water, at the very end…
Mayfair, Kelvin, Earlybird—it really won’t make a difference. Because when it comes to these absolutely wonderful selfies taken as early 1909, all of our carefully selected Instagram filters will never begin to compare. Posted in response to a call on Quora for “the best selfies,” the below photos depict Joseph Byron, Quora user Tom Byron’s…
There are about 6,000 Olympians in Sochi and only around 300 medals up for grabs. Do the math; this isn’t YMCA soccer and not everyone’s taking home an award. But win or lose, these renown athletes still give good Instagram. Here’s who you should be following in Sochi now that the games have finally begun:…
Acoustic panels, however cool looking, are usually designed to remain out of sight. But a new company called Baux is changing that with a series of functional geometric tiles that do double duty as a pretty brilliant wall decoration. Baux is made up of a quintet of Scando design dudes (also of Form Us With…
A perfectly timed and strangely beautiful photo by US Army Pfc. Nathaniel Newkirk during a mortar firing exercise at Camp Roberts, California. It’s something that could have been painted by Caravaggio. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
So, you think you know Manhattan and New York City, do you? Well, multimedia artist Peter Wegner is about to show you a completely unexpected side of your city. His series, Buildings Made Of Sky, turns you upside down to show you the hidden “skyscrapers” all around you. Wegner, who was born in South Dakota…
Why is DARPA’s terrifying humanoid robot having such a good time twirling sparklers around like its flying on ecstasy? Because 56 years ago, the Advanced Research Projects Agency was born. (It only got the “Defense” in its name later) Happy birthday DARPA! Just, uh, please don’t give Atlas a wish. Bad idea.
NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble have discovered a new galaxy, one right on the edge of the observable Universe. It’s so young that is only 650 million years old, which is nothing in cosmological terms (our universe is 13.8 billion years old.) If confirmed, it will be the farthest galaxy we’ve ever seen. Its name is…
If you’ve ever wanted the image quality and optical zoom of a dedicated camera, but didn’t want to lose smartphone features like editing and sharing, Samsung made the perfect camera for you. Check out Gizmodo’s review if you’re curious, and then get it for nearly $100 off street price from eBay. Samsung Galaxy Camera |…
PillCam, the tiny pill-size camera you swallow instead of a normal colonoscopy, is now approved by the U.S. FDA. Here’s the view your doctor will see. It’s gross—but totally fascinating. While it might make you squirm to watch the folds and sphincters of the digestive system whiz by, there’s a very real need for this…
The Jetsons was one of the most important cartoons of all time, having helped shape the way that we talk about the future here in the 21st century. The show predicted many of the technologies we have today. And this week, Americans can check another crazy Jetsonian prediction off the list. After nine long years,…
The Large Hadron Collider certainly lives up to its name: the underground behemoth is nearly 17 miles in circumference. Oh, and it also helped scientists discover the Higgs Boson, no big deal. But those crazy scientists always want more, which is why CERN, the particle physics group behind LHC, wants to build it a big…
