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Big, complex puzzles get all the attention, but doesn’t the other end of the spectrum deserve a little love? Take the smallest jigsaw puzzle in the world, for example. It’s not that complicated to put together, but only if you’ve got a magnifying glass and one hell of a fine touch. Created by researchers at…
Everyone knows it’s important to water the garden, but what about watering the furniture? Normally, that might just be proof of insanity, but if you plant a few of these of these customizable chairs, it’s just the first step to growing a nice crop of outdoor stools. Designed by Itay Kirshenbaum, “Betzavta” is a design…
You know that sad feeling you get when a headache’s coming on while watching a 3D movie and you remember that you can’t actually take the glasses off for a few seconds of relief because the ghosted 2D image is even harder to watch? That could be a thing of the past as researchers from…
Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim opened over the weekend and it did not disappoint. While the monsters versus robots flick didn’t top the box office, it was all any nerd could talk about. What more could you really ask for from a movie of this ilk? I can’t think of anything else I would have…
Whether work has you always traveling, or you’re just tired of reading Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie to your kids every single night, the Sparkup will take over your bedtime story reading duties if you’re not available, or just don’t want to do it. Using a camera-equipped accessory that clips onto the back cover…
Olive Seon built this terrifying Lego Mothra (モスラ), showcased in all her lepidopteran glory. She’s featured using her signature ability, entrapping her enemies with silken spray. Mothra is likely laying waste to New Kirk City here (in revenge for the kidnapping of secret fairies by evil, greedy American businessmen). This is a fantastic build, featuring…
An iWatch may still be a distant dream, but at least Microsoft fans have a glimmer of hope. According to “sources familiar with Micosoft’s Surface plans,” a translucent, aluminum smart watch could soon be hugging wrists everywhere. According to The Verge, the Surface team is busy engineering the wrist-worn tech, which was originally meant to…
It’s Monday morning and the work week ahead seems infinite. It’s not though, and you should be glad because infinity isn’t just long, it’s also confusing. Take for instance this quartet of infinite paradoxes that will blow your groggy mind. The folks over at Numberphile have taken to opportunity to explain and puzzle over some…
Travel was once the epitome of glamor. People dressed in their finest clothes to go to the airport. Ships and planes were things of luxury. In that era, the posters and brochures that advertised luxe journeys were just as lovely as the journeys themselves. The Boston Public Library’s Print Department has an extensive collection of…
Have you ever dreamed about flying high above an alien planet? European Space Agency has just presented this hypnotic video, which gives us a look from the viewpoint of the ESA’s imaging and mapping satellite, the Mars Express, when it flies above our planetary neighbour’s largest canyon, the largest in the entire Solar System. One…
Just in case you thought there weren’t enough monstrous phones on offer, rumor has it that HTC may be planning to roll out a 6-inch, 1080p version of its acclaimed One. Referred to as the One Max, Mobile Geeks reports that sources have revealed the phone could pack a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 chip, 2GB…
Forget your Raspberry Pi and all of those Android dongles: this quad-core, ARM-based box claims to offer up a PC-like experience for just $100. The Utilite, made by Compulab, will pack either a single, dual or quad-core Freescale i.MX6 Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, up to 4GB of RAM, an mSATA SSD, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI…
Marcus Daly is a Washington-based carpenter on a mission: to produce the most environmentally friendly handcrafted wooden caskets he can. This short film, by Dan McComb, reveals the beauty of his work. With over a million tonnes of steel—that’s enough to build the Golden Gate Bridge—already buried in US soil in the form of caskets,…
Apple’s had a turbulent time with Samsung, both in the courtroom and the marketplace—which in part helped inspire Cook and co’s recent move away from Sammy as a chip supplier. But according to a new report, Apple is hopping back into the silicon bed with South Korea’s finest. The Korea Economic Daily reports that Apple…
A few months ago, a rash of headlines suggested you’d be wearing an iWatch on your wrist by the end of the year. They were almost certainly wrong—and now a Financial Times report suggests we could be in for an even longer wait. The FT report explains that, according to sources, Apple has been aggressively…
In an act of rebellion, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich have pulled all their side project albums from Spotify and Rdio because “new artists get paid fuck all with this model… It’s an equation that just doesn’t work“. That’ll show ’em, eh?
Okay, so first of all this is a classic favorite. I know “It Wasn’t Me” because it was on Now That’s What I Call Music 6 and I really can’t over emphasize how well I know Now 6. Anyway, I recently saw the video for “It Wasn’t Me,” it’s unclear how, and I realized that…
There is something so fabulous about this idea. Even though it’s overpriced and probably aesthetically overwrought or something, the idea of wrapping gifts to look like raw meat is just beautiful. It brings the whole joke gift genre to a new level. Or makes people extra excited when their gift turns out to be awesome…
This working Lego microscope was built by Carl Merriman, a Lego artist who’s been building for over 27 years. It’s sleek, functional and even though you couldn’t use it to study Ebola or the T-Virus, it’s still a pretty sweet piece of kit. The build was inspired by Lego X-Pod sets (now discontinued): While trying…
If there’s one thing I know about Gizmodo readers and staff, it’s that we all have a bunch of excess money that’s stressing us out. What should we do with it? Where should we invest it? Tough questions. But even if the whole tech startup vs. blockbuster investing question doesn’t quite apply to you it’s…
