Enjoy this beautiful image of the space shuttle Atlantis, ready for today's 2:26pm EST launch, because you are not going to see it many more times: Sadly, it is Atlantis' second to last launch. You can watch it live here:
Click on the small playback button—and sit through the 30 second...
In the clip you're about to see, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-il lock lips to the theme song of an erotic video game. That's sort of the punchline. Here's how we got there:
"My Boyfriend Is the President" is a risque video game (or eroge) out of Japan. Of course, the game has its own trailer...
This nature photography by Chris Jordan isn't for the faint of heart. The series of decomposing bird carcasses faithfully documents the impact of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on albatross chicks in the Midway Atoll.
His collection of 30 hauntingly similar shots show what adult birds are...
Unfortunately, the number this giant Palm Pre tells you to dial in to Heroes isn't real, meaning you can't call up and explain how badly Heroes sucks and that Zachary Quinto deserves better. Also, Hiro should die. [NBC via Engadget]
It's not a bar of soap, and it is an actual, electronic gadget. But what does it do?
Turns out this is a design for a radio. Yes, a normal FM radio, except you control the volume and tuner by rolling the radio itself either forward and backward or side to side, like a mouse. It's only a...
Is this the entrance to Jason Chen's secret lair where the Gizmodo magic happens? Maybe a place to lock up anyone with swine flu? What on earth requires a HAL 9000 to keep guard? Ah! The floor has the answer.
As the shiny, shiny floor decoration reveals, a Taser factory needs all that...
In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, "What's the deal with local dimming LCDs?" In the words of one Toshiba rep, "it finally allows us to compete with plasma."
On the left, the recently announced Toshiba ZV650, a locally dimmed LED LCD. On the right, Toshiba's last gen, CCFL LCD display (click...
New police radar? An amphibious Segway? The unholy offspring from a Rascal scooter and a Tetris block?
You're looking at the Slow Car concept from Jurgen Bey, one of the Netherlands' most respected high-end home furniture designers. He's taken the humble office cube, and slapped it on a 25mph...
The LA fires have actually exploded to double the 152 miles they cover in this photo taken Sunday morning by NASA's Terra satellite. I imagine this is sort of what LA will look like from space mid-apocalypse. [NASA via BoingBoing]
Sometimes shooting in the open water just doesn't make sense: You need sets, lighting, equipment and crew; you need proximity to the airport, and your lead actress' home in London. You need Pinewood Studios' 320,000-gallon underwater stage.
Space on the stage is limited and the subjects are...
This guy doesn't look like your average gadget shopper...unless he's shopping in Walmart. We'll I'll be dammed—he is shopping in Walmart! I know this because the site People of Walmart told me so. Hilarous. Sad. Disturbing...check it out. [POW]
You could see this piece as a play on M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands. Or you could regard it as yet another practical application of owning robotic appendages with surgical accuracy and one-button pain repression. [Shane Willis via reddit via CrunchGear]
Forty-two. It takes forty-two Brompton folding bikes to fill a parking space. One of the world's great mysteries is finally solved. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
Wired Science has picked the best science visualization videos of 2009. And from there, I've picked my three favorite ones. Note to self: Don't go to Los Angeles or anywhere near the San Andreas fault.
Here's a simulation of the Big One, a 7.8 earthquake on Southern California. It...
A crew member walks passed a horde of robotic dinosaurs, the stars of Walking with Dinosaurs, a show playing at the O2 Arena in London this month. And they look hungry. (Click image for pop-out) [CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images]