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The curious story of why the Jedis are called Jedis

May 21, 11:18PM

The curious story of why the Jedis are called Jedis

If you're a cinema fan you may know part of this story but, if you aren't, this video is a throughout summary of how American westerns influenced the samurais of Akira Kurosawa—and how the samurais of Akira Kurosawa influenced that galactic western known as Star Wars.

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Shooting Challenge: Skin

May 21, 10:00PM

Shooting Challenge: Skin

It's the best leather coat you will ever own. It's your skin. And smooth or wrinkled, it tells the story of your life .

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This Is the Closest We've Ever Come to Recreating Shark Skin

May 21, 9:40PM

This Is the Closest We've Ever Come to Recreating Shark Skin

Shark skin is famously sleek and dragless, the envy of swimsuit designers. Perhaps less famous is what shark skin's oddly rough surface looks like up close: an eerie matrix of microscopic tooth-like scales. Now, scientists are 3D printing artificial shark skin in hopes of unlocking its swimming secrets.

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It's 6pm—Do You Know Where Your Drone Is?

May 21, 9:26PM

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Using Explosives to Put Out Wildfires Is Actually a Great Idea

May 21, 9:21PM

Using Explosives to Put Out Wildfires Is Actually a Great Idea

Picture this: a drought-fueled wildfire is heading for Los Angeles, and fast. Millions of lives are at stake, and water can't stop it. When suddenly, a helicopter—armed with what can only be described as a giant cannon—flies straight for flames and BOOM. There's an explosion, and the fire's gone.

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Playing With This Wooden Puzzle Will Chill You Out Immediately

May 21, 9:00PM

Playing With This Wooden Puzzle Will Chill You Out Immediately

We've had a super busy, incredibly fun, and totally nutzo week at the Home of the Future: non-stop cool events , spinning chairs , telepresence robots , and lots (and lots) of high-tech Sixpoint HopTech beer .

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A Coloring Book For Those Who've Mastered Staying Inside the Lines

May 21, 9:00PM

A Coloring Book For Those Who've Mastered Staying Inside the Lines

Remember how your parents and grade school teachers kept chiding you to make sure you only colored within the lines? And you wondered why it was so important? Well, here's your answer. Peter Deligdisch's Between The Lines is a coloring book for experts that will put all of your colored pencil and crayon skills to the ultimate test.

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Gawker Chaperone Says Horny Dads Weren't the Reason Teen Was Booted From Prom | Jalopnik The Ten Mos

May 21, 9:00PM

Gawker Chaperone Says Horny Dads Weren't the Reason Teen Was Booted From Prom | Jalopnik The Ten Most Complex Cars Ever Made | Jezebel Why Ladies Love Charlie Day | Kotaku There's A Super Teeny Tiny Chance You Could Be In The New Star Wars | Kinja Popular Posts

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Why exactly does the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet matter?

May 21, 8:40PM

Why exactly does the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet matter? (Hint: look at that image.) What's the secret to seamless driving in Google's automated car? Why are we racing slime molds? Catch up in this week's Landscape Reads!

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Designing Future Objects for the Home with Extrapolation Factory

May 21, 8:20PM

Designing Future Objects for the Home with Extrapolation Factory

The New York-based design duo behind Extrapolation Factory hosted a pop-up workshop yesterday afternoon in our own pop-up space here—everything popping up!— at the Gizmodo Home of the Future in New York City, where a group of twenty or so participants put together visions of the domestic objects of tomorrow.

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Nest Is Recalling Over 400k Protect Smoke Alarms

May 21, 8:05PM

Nest Is Recalling Over 400k Protect Smoke Alarms

A little more than a month after Nest announced it would halt the sale of its Protect smoke and CO alarm , the company has announced the official recall of every alarm sold thusfar. A report filed on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website announced the recall.

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Finding, Treating, and Beating the Most Survivable Forms of Cancer

May 21, 8:00PM

Finding, Treating, and Beating the Most Survivable Forms of Cancer

Being diagnosed with cancer is often compared to being kicked in the gut—by a Clydesdale. But if caught soon enough, many of the disease's 200 iterations offer more than even survival rates, five years down the line. It's by no means a clean bill of health, mind you, but there several forms of cancer that modern science has beaten back

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This is what Game of Thrones would look like if it were a Disney movie

May 21, 7:46PM

This is what Game of Thrones would look like if it were a Disney movie

Fantastic work by Brazilian animators Fernando Mendonça and Anderson Mahanski, recreating the Game of Thrones universe as if it were designed by Disney artists. Their interpretation is spot on.

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Turn an NYC Subway Map Into an Augmented Reality Adventure

May 21, 7:20PM

Turn an NYC Subway Map Into an Augmented Reality Adventure

Riding through New York City's subway can be a surprisingly solitary pursuit. Waiting on the platform is even worse. That's why creative technologist William Lindmeier built Tunnel Vision, an augmented reality app that uses the subway map as a canvas for displaying public data about the city's residents.

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The Tiniest Buildings of the Year

May 21, 7:00PM

The Tiniest Buildings of the Year

The rest of the world may think of the US as a nation full of oversized people living in oversized houses, but the AIA Chicago wants to change the perception that American architecture is always too big. Its Small Projects Award (tagline: Not Everyone Needs a Skyscraper) focuses on something most other award programs neglect: Tiny buildings.

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First glimpse of one of the sets and creatures from Star Wars VII

May 21, 6:31PM

First glimpse of one of the sets and creatures from Star Wars VII

This video released today shows director J.J. Abrams on the set of Star Wars VII in Abu Dhabi, where he has just announced a competition to win a chance to travel to London and appear in the new film.

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Here's the official logo for the new Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice

May 21, 6:26PM

Here's the official logo for the new Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice

The new Batman v. Superman movie is called Dawn of Justice and here is the official logo. The title is obviously playing upon the announced Justice League movie follow-up, so we can assume that the initial brawl between the two characters will end (fairly) well.

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Are Colorized Photos Rewriting History?

May 21, 6:00PM

Are Colorized Photos Rewriting History?

There's been an explosion in the number of colorized photos lately. People find old black-and-white photos online, and meticulously add color to give us a new perspective on history. But recently one colorized image caught my eye after it was tweeted by the notoriously inaccurate HistoryInPics. It's a stunningly colorful view of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1940. But the photo is a lie.

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Ikea's Selling an Electric Bike To Help Get All Those Boxes Home

May 21, 6:00PM

Ikea's Selling an Electric Bike To Help Get All Those Boxes Home

As far as large corporations go, Ikea genuinely strives to be as environmentally responsible as it can. It stopped selling incandescent bulbs in its stores ages ago, there's not a plastic bag to be found, it's wholeheartedly embraced solar power for its buildings and many products, and soon it will be officially selling an Ikea-branded electric bike.

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​Build Your Own First Aid Kit, It Might Save Your Life

May 21, 5:56PM

​Build Your Own First Aid Kit, It Might Save Your Life

Commercially available first aid kits suck. But, it's cheap and easy to build your own, creating something that might just save your life. Here's how.

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A Real PS4 Discount, $100 Chromebook, Ice Balls, Battlestar Galactica

May 21, 5:45PM

A Real PS4 Discount, $100 Chromebook, Ice Balls, Battlestar Galactica

The Xbox One has seen its fair share of deals, but here's one of your first chances to get a PS4 on sale. We don't expect this one to last long. [PlayStation 4 Console, $370]

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Quantum Positioning Could Be a Radically New Sub Navigation System

May 21, 5:40PM

Quantum Positioning Could Be a Radically New Sub Navigation System

We take GPS so much for granted on land that it's easy to forget where GPS doesn't work—like deep underwater, where only strange sea creatures and submarines roam. Enter the bizarre new world of quantum positioning, where supercooled atoms could be the future of navigation.

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Extremely scary video of car driving right across a forest fire

May 21, 5:24PM

Extremely scary video of car driving right across a forest fire

This incredible Russian dash cam footage shows a car driving through a forest fire while the drivers wonder if they are going to die or not. Around the minute 1 mark it looks like they are crossing hell itself. Fortunately they managed to scape alive from this mayhem.

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Hackers Broke Into a Public Utility Control Room By Guessing a Password

May 21, 5:15PM

Hackers Broke Into a Public Utility Control Room By Guessing a Password

In a rare gesture of transparency, the Department of Homeland Security just announced that hackers recently targeted and compromised a public utility's control system. They didn't say exactly where, but it happened inside United States borders. And it doesn't sound like it was even that hard.

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How to Pour Wine Without Ever Removing the Cork

May 21, 5:10PM

How to Pour Wine Without Ever Removing the Cork

By now you've heard a lot about the gadgets and tools at Gizmodo's Home of the Future—but here's one more that knocked our future-socks off: Coravin's Wine Access System 1000, which uses argon gas to extract wine out of a bottle without actually popping the cork.

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