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Modern miracle stuff graphene has been used by developers to print circuits on clothing, creating a genuinely wearable form of tech that doesn’t rely on bulky watches, AR glasses or sewing computers into your flesh. Given that graphene’s USP is that it manages to work despite only being one atom thick, it creates a form…
Good news, fitness freaks: Nike’s Move app, which brings Fuelband functionality to the iPhone 5s using its M7 motion-sensing co-processor, is now available in the App Store.
Two independent sources— Evleaks and Verge—are reporting that Nokia is in the process of preparing a second, smaller Windows-based Lumia tablet, which might be available next year. https://gizmodo.com/lumia-2520-nokia-is-making-a-10-inch-tablet-now-too-1449587263 According to both sources, the project is currently codenamed the Illusionist. The tablet would, apparently, ship with Windows RT 8.1, a Qualcomm processor and an 8-inch screen.The…
LG recently launched the G Flex, a banana-shaped phone which makes use of a curved OLED screen, and it turns out that it’s true to it’s name: it seems to bend really rather a lot. https://gizmodo.com/did-lg-accidentally-announce-the-curved-screen-g-flex-1453192362 Engadget has gotten hold of a video which shows someone applying a reasonable amount of downwards pressure on the…
Good news if you’re taking an American Airlines flight any time soon: it’s just become the latest airline to allowpersonal electronics use throughout entire flights.
Have you ever been working on something, a special project or something outside the realm of normal day-to-day work stuff, and you find yourself totally stuck? As in, you have absolutely no idea what to do next? Google wants to help. Google Helpouts is a crowd-sourced, online help system that helps people work their way…
A pint-sized Howard Hughes wannabe takes to the skies in his very own papercraft Spruce Goose in this adorable animated short from InkyMind.
This terrifying two-plane crash somehow miraculously resulted in no fatalities. It’s insane that people could survive after two planes hit each other in mid-air. It’s almost impossible that everyone could survive from the fireball and ensuing chaos after the crash. But they did. Thank God. NBC News revealed that the crash was a result of…
Even at the top echelons of professional photography, the lumbering DSLR is becoming a bore. Smaller shooters with big camera specs are the trend, and with that mandate in mind, Nikon’s releasing the Df. The new DSLR—yes, DSLR, not the full-framed mirrorless monster of rumors—inherits its key guts from Nikon’s flagship D4 in a package…
It’s sort of unbelievable but these sculptures are all made from aluminum wire. When you look at the artwork up close, you can see each line of wire coming together to form the body of a human but when you’re looking from far away it totally looks like people frozen in carbonite. My Modern Met…
This picture from World War I seems to perfectly capture the chaos of war. There are soldiers marching forward, there are airplanes flying above, there are bombs, there are clouds of smoke. But it’s not ‘real’. It’s real in the sense that these things happened and that these things were photographed during WWI but the…
This ridiculously awesome man made version of Thor’s hammer Mjölnir is so impressive that even our most Thor-like human Chris Hemsworth would have trouble swinging it around. Though it’s not quite the weight of 300 billion elephants, it’s the closest thing to Mjölnir on Earth. That’s because it’s made from 10 separate pieces of steel…
Kids are just the best. And dads who love their kids make them even better. Leon is a boy who was born without fingers on one of his hands. Instead of making him think he was different, his father Paul McCarthy made him believe he was special. In fact, McCarthy made a prosthetic hand with…
Finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease has defied medical researchers for decades now, but a team of scientists just gave us new reason to hope. They’ve discovered a way to zap away the bad proteins that cause diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Creutzfeldt-Jakob (a.k.a. mad cow) disease—with lasers. https://gizmodo.com/goddammit-we-still-cant-cure-alzheimers-disease-496899123 It’s so simple, it’s incredible. The…
Keiichi Matsuda is excited about this invention and I can’t blame him: A solid table that reproduces a virtual version of anything that you put under its sensors—in realtime. You can see how it reproduces the hands moving in the clip above, but there’s more: Created by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and his students at the…
Sick of all those times when a screw comes loose on your favorite frames and there’s not an itty-bitty repair kit in sight? Feast your eyes on the Alessi’s new Kompas collection, a series of stylish glasses that hinge with no-fuss magnetic inserts, eliminating the need for spare parts or tightening over time. Though it’s…
In China, the air is so filthy and the smog is so crushing that beautiful blue skies can only exist when they’re shown on giant video screens. The picture was taken at Tiananmen Square by Feng Li for Getty and the fake blue sky against the backdrop of the real toxic air makes this so…
The craft of making ceramics is often thought of as a hands-on affair (thanks Demi and Patrick). But this device puts a new spin—or pour, really—on the process. Great Things to People, a Santiago, Chile-based creative studio, developed the Catenary Pottery Printer (CPP) to produce earthenware using an organic process. Its wooden frame supports a…
Today’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is gorgeous:the Empire State Building against this morning’s partial lunar eclipse. Stunning photo by Chris Cook.
After Hurricane Sandy decimated the subway system last year, officials pledged to install new devices to help halt the rising tides—including flood gates and, more intriguingly, a device called a “tunnel plug.” https://gizmodo.com/this-giant-tube-stopper-will-plug-flooded-subways-and-c-5897003 During a “Sandy Resilience Tour” last week, the MTA unveiled a working prototype of the plug, which was installed over the summer…
