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Teleportation is perhaps the dreamiest sci-fi invention ever imagined so it’s no surprise that when a Star Trek-style Transporter pops up in a middle of a mall and promises real life teleportation, a crowd forms to ooh and ahh and secretly hope that it’s real (no matter how unreal it is). Illusionist Scott Penrose created…
This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200 billion cubic meters of fresh water. UNESCO and the Kenyan…
This is something that I’ve never seen: The precise and explosive moment in which a Soyuz capsule hits the ground. The fire you’re seeing is caused by rockets firing up to soften the landing on the Siberian steppe’s hard ground. https://gizmodo.com/astronauts-arrive-home-in-a-brilliant-ball-of-fire-1293983205
Following the announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, we asked you to insert these tiny wearable computers into the most iconic and absurd scenes in history you could think of. The results are spectacular. In the end, though, there can only be one winner, so congratulations ejhman—your pro job on Napoleon took the cake. Not only…
What the hell, Apple? You fix the Calendar number 1 position but you let this one pass? Uneven margins? Really? Are you actively trying to give us an aneurism? I give up. Do whatever you want. Fuck you and fuck your fantasy grid. https://gizmodo.com/victory-apple-has-fixed-the-number-1-in-ios-7s-calenda-992376970 https://whitenoise.kinja.com/i-wonder-what-jesus-has-to-say-1290614443
Magnum Photos, the 66-year-old photography organization and darkroom printer in New York, has handled more famous photos than you or I will ever get to even look at. Magnum’s master printer, Pablo Inirio, was editing with tried and true darkroom chemicals long before Photoshop was a twinkle in Adobe’s eye. And now, we can see…
If you somehow managed to magically avoid all hints at what happens during Game of Thrones’ now-infamous Red Wedding scene, stop reading now. Because one man hooked himself up to an Arduino and PulseSensor to track his heart rate during the episode, and spoilers abound (kind of maybe if you have really good eyesight). —SPOILERS…
We all forgot when we grew up. Prisms are amazing. Here are a few reminders, compliments of this week’s Shooting Challenge. WINNER: The Dog On The Hill The passerby dog at the top of the hill was very interested, or so I like to think, in the 30-year old Cokin prism filter I was moving…
Navigating a new campus is all part of the nostalgic movie montage that is freshman year of college. The changing leaves! The quaint Gothic architecture! The… drone tour guide? That’s the concept behind Skycall, a playful prototype that’s designed to help visiting Harvard students find their way around MIT’s notoriously confusing campus—which has been called…
Compared to digital watches that let us keep tabs on time down to the second, the $125 ‘Till watch takes a more laid back approach. It features a traditional analog watch face, but the hours are obscured by a rotating mask, and the occasional mentions of minutes are partnered with vague references to the time.…
You don’t have to imagine what happens when 15 self-entitled imbeciles paid $2,666 each to rent a luxury summer home in East Hampton, Long Island, to party for the entire summer. Here’s what happened, according to a letter sent by the landlord, forwarded by one of said imbeciles to Jezebel. The idiot doesn’t even deny…
With more colorful and fingerprint-savvy devices on the way, Apple is reportedly slashing the prices on the soon-to-be discontinued iPhone 5. With a contract, you can get the old iPhone 5 for $99 for 16GB, $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB for the next week or so. Without a contract, the device will cost $549,…
TomTom (the GPS so nice they named it twice) has decided to get into the crowded-but-plenty-of-room-for-improvement running watch game. The company has been making GPS devices for cars for years, so you’d think it’d be able to make a pretty good running watch. And, for the most part, it has. What Is It? It’s a…
iPhone 5C preorders start Friday at 3AM ET and you’re in the market for a new iPhone. It’s decision time. But do you stay up for the 5C? Or do you wait for the 20th for the 5S? What capacity? What color? What carrier? Well we’ve got an answer that should fit the vast majority…
Dean Monogenis does not design houses, but he should. His paintings of outlandish homes on impossible sites capture the imagination in a way that real-life architecture rarely does. My only question: When can I move in? Monogenis became interested in architecture after the loss of the World Trade Center and the race to rebuild. “When…
4.5 billion years summarized in just ten photos that explain the geological history of Earth. Beautiful scenery cause by extreme violence and the patient action of the elements. https://gizmodo.com/earths-deep-geological-history-revealed-in-10-strikin-1290830007
This video looks absolutely computer-generated, as though it were made by some super-advanced particle engine. But this is actual, real-world video footage, showing a fine power called Lycopodium reacting to vibrations from speakers placed directly below it. Amazing! Cymatics was produced and directed by German artist Susi Sie, who tapped CypherAudio for the music. The…
The iPhone has a fingerprint scanner now. Great. It will make your iPhone more convenient (or a pain in the ass) to unlock. But unlocking is sort of beside the point when it comes theft. The truth is, Apple didn’t give the iPhone 5S the one feature that could actually help get a stolen phone…
Upgrade your home theater for a discount today with a great receiver that has the Lifehacker reader recommendation behind it. $650 gets you this Onkyo 7.2ch A/V Receiver complete with Internet Radio, Cloud Music Services, the ability to be controlled by your smartphone, 3D, HD audio, and more. [Amazon] Please join us in voting on…
Automakers have a long history of deploying ridiculous architectural feats to sell cars—from Volkswagen’s gleaming parking towers to Lamborghini’s crazy light show at Autostadt. But all that pales in comparison to the installations on display at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Among the most elaborate pavilions on view? The sensational ceiling at Audi’s pavilion, which…
