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How the Railroad Wiped Out Passenger Pigeons (and Nearly Bison, Too)
Jan 09, 6:00PM
The advent of the railroad collapsed our notions of time and space, and it carved out entire industries whole—we of the 21st century have only the internet for comparison. It also swallowed entire species: The story of how railroads drove the passenger pigeon to extinction—and bison to the brink of it—is a story of how a technological system can radically transform an entire landscape in just a few years.
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How Many Earths Would We Need to Live As Far Apart As Alaskans Do?
Jan 09, 5:40PM
I've always been interested in the distribution of the human population across the globe. It's far from an even spread—this map shows where people are most squished in (dark colors) and where they're spread out (light colors):
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The 4 Most Amazing Electric Shock Stories According to a 1923 Contest
Jan 09, 5:00PM
People love stories of near-fatal accidents. And back in the 1920s — when home electricity was really starting to become mainstream — there were more than enough death defying electric shock stories to go around.
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A Droid Apart: Motorola's Rick Osterloh on Google, Moto, and More
Jan 09, 5:00PM
The last five years have been full of reinvention for Motorola; it's gone from being kind of a dinosaur, to launching the super-popular Droid line, to being swallowed up by Google, to making some of the best, easiest-to-use smartphones out there. It's been quite a roller-coaster.
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Israel's National Missile Shield Could Shoot Satellites Out of Orbit
Jan 09, 4:40PM
Israel doesn't get on too well with its Arab neighbors, and the threat of annihilation by ballistic missile is always present. To defend itself against this potential threat, Israel has built an Iron Dome-like defense system that covers the entire nation. But if this system can exo-atmospherically neutralize incoming ICBM's, what's to keep it from shooting passing satellites clean out of the sky?
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How Star Trek's Architects Built the San Francisco of the Future
Jan 09, 4:20PM
For architecture nerds, the best part about Star Trek: Into Darkness is undeniably the phantasmagoric depiction of a 23rd-century San Francisco. Towering skyscrapers lined the horizon and flying vehicles weaved between them. It was all so beautiful—until a starship crashed into Earth and wiped out half the city.
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You Might Actually Be Able to Afford a 4K Monitor Soon
Jan 09, 4:00PM
These days, any mention of 4K immediately conjures up images of crystal-clear definition—-and absurdly exorbitant price tags. Well, that's quickly changing. Dell's new UltraSharp 28-inch 4K screen can be yours for less than $700 when it ships later this month, and it's not alone.
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Gorgeous Photos Capture Smoke Bombs and Pyrotechnics As They Explode
Jan 09, 3:41PM
We all know how it feels. A flame hits the fuse, and sparks spray into the cool nighttime air. Your jaw goes slack and your eyes wide when you hear the boom and smell the smoke. Well, this is how that feeling looks.
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Watch OmniCorp Unveil Robocop at Its CES Keynote In 2027
Jan 09, 3:24PM
Remember OmniCorp, the sinister mega-corporation that built Robocop and his unstable robo-cousins? With the advent of surveillance drones and mechanical police officers, that scenario doesn't seem that far-fetched anymore. Which makes this video of OmniCorp introducing RoboCop at a CES keynote 13 years in the future even more fun.
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Five Reasons Why Alfred Hitchcock Was an Unsung Architectural Genius
Jan 09, 3:10PM
From the wall of apartments in Rear Window to the Golden Gate Bridge in Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock was nothing short of obsessed with architecture and space. Hitchcock exploited both to create incredible psychological tension in his films—our friends at Architizer take a look at his architectural legacy, below.
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Will Your Novel Be a Best Seller? Ask This Super Accurate Algorithm
Jan 09, 3:00PM
It's tough for humans to predict how well a book will sell until after it's published—it's something of a gamble. But now, a new algorithm can tell if a book will be a commercial success or not long before it hits the shelves—with a staggering 84 percent accuracy.
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The Mississippi River Is A Land-Making Machine: Dredgefest 2014
Jan 09, 2:40PM
For the last four years, the Dredge Research Collaborative has been looking at dredging and erosion control as a form of often unacknowledged landscape architecture. Part of their work is a series of festivals they're calling DredgeFest that celebrate and examine the role that dredging plays in landscaping. Their next event is in Louisiana. Gizmodo asked them to explain why.
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15 Heart-Stopping Skywalks That Will Turn Your Legs To Jelly
Jan 09, 2:00PM
A few weeks ago, we showed you a terrifying Alpine tourist attraction called "Step Into the Void." It's a glass cage that hangs more than 3,300 feet above the mountains. But the Void is hardly the first heart-stopping skywalk—in fact, these are dozens out there that are just as scary.
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A Brief History of Aphrodisiacs
Jan 09, 1:30PM
Throughout history people have been trying to solve the problem of not getting any or just not getting enough. The following are some of the all-natural historical cures for the sexy-time doldrums.
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The Universe Can Now Be Measured to 1% Accuracy
Jan 09, 12:57PM
The Universe is so big that it can be difficult to accurately measure the huge distances between things in it. But no longer, because now a team of researchers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey can measure distances between galaxies with 1 percent accuracy.
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How to Make Cheese Using Your Own Bacteria
Jan 09, 12:21PM
We already know it's possible to make cheese using human bacteria. But the good news is that it's perfectly straightforward to make yourself, in the comfort of your own home! Here's how.
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This Is the World's Fastest Thin-Film Organic Transistor
Jan 09, 11:37AM
It might look like there's not much to it, but you're looking the world's fastest thin-film organic transistor—and it could revolutionize the displays we spend our days looking at.
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Where the hell did they put the camera in this awesome ski jump video?
Jan 09, 10:48AM
Ski jumping is pretty cool when you watch it from the outside, but check out this short of Anders Jacobsen training in Lillehammer, Norway, filmed with a camera hanging right in front of his face. The perspective in this real-time video is pretty awesome. But where the hell is the camera?
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SwiftKey Is Embedding Itself in Your Dash
Jan 09, 10:45AM
Popular Android predictive keyboard SwiftKey is about to pop up in a whole different series of devices, with the text entry system set to appear in the Clarion AX1 Android-based car entertainment system. It'll allow passengers and distracted drivers to access the web and send messages in usual SwiftKey style.
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How Many Humans Would a T-Rex Need to Eat Every Day to Survive?
Jan 09, 10:10AM
If Jurassic Park taught us anything, it's that humans are easy prey for T-Rex. But just how many human beings would such a dino need to chow down on every day just to survive?
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Valve Wants to Create Standardized, Affordable VR Controllers
Jan 09, 9:20AM
Virtual Reality can be great, but it's expensive and highly proprietary. That might soon change, though, because Valve apparently wants to create an affordable and standardized system for in-game VR control.
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Bloomberg: Samsung Galaxy S5 Due April, Maybe With Eye-Scan Security
Jan 09, 8:42AM
If you're holding out for the next Android superphone, you may only have a few months to wait. Samsung has spoken out about its upcoming devices in a long interview with Bloomberg, and it plans to have the S5 out by April.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Dangers of Flossing
Jan 09, 5:00AM
Remember kids, if your gums are bleeding when you finish flossing, you're either pushing too hard or not hard enough.
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WWE Has Its Own Network Now, And It's an All You Can Suplex Buffet
Jan 09, 2:38AM
At an event at CES, WWE Chairman and frequent in-ring bad guy Vince McMahon announced that his cadre of professional wrestlers were getting their very own digital network. And it's only (no really, only) 10 bucks a month.
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This Toothbrush Is a Vibrator You Stick In Your Mouth
Jan 09, 2:03AM
Swedish company Foreo's got a silicone toothbrush called Issa. It vibrates like your Sonicare, and comes in woozy pastel colors. Let's not kid ourselves: this is a sex toy disguised as a dental revolution.
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