Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki has a whimsical style and plot complexity all his own. But what if his masterpieces followed the anime tropes we know so well? Whoa Ponyo, you sure look, uh, different. Check out the rest of this week’s top comedy videos over on SplitSider. Now for the news! Both of Dan Harmon’s … Continued
Ryan Gosling’s Lost River (formerly How to Catch a Monster) is being publicized as a dark fantasy movie with some pretty big-name stars, including Christina Hendricks and Matt Smith. Here are the first two images from the film, including one of a woman (presumably Hendricks) standing before a rather ominous-looking door. The other image features… … Continued
Wanna get some real beer snob cred? With Egtved Girl’s Brew, you can sneer at your friends’ beers and their “founded in the 1800s” claims to authenticity. Because this beer’s recipe is 3,300 years old. Now that’s a legit brew. Yes, Egtved Girl’s Brew is made from a recipe that dates all the way back … Continued
Here it is, folks – fresh from its WonderCon debut, our very first glimpse of actual footage from Star Wars: Rebels! Executive Producer Dave Filoni and Vanessa Marshall, who voices Hera in the video above, debuted the clip earlier this afternoon: Hera, captain of the Ghost, pilots her starship during a battle with two TIE … Continued
The internet is a fire hydrant of content. Keeping track of the pages you enjoy is a pain. A team of UK design students has a conceptual solution: Amoeba, an electronic monocle that files away the pages you find most interesting, as measured by your biofeedback response. It’s the emotion-tracking Google Glass you always wanted! … Continued
The nominees for the 2014 Hugo Awards have been announced! This year’s nominating ballot saw a record-shattering 1,923 valid nominations. The winners will be announced on Sunday, August 17, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony at Loncon 3. Hit the jump for the full list! Today’s shortlist announcement was streamed live from the UK to various … Continued
LED lighting is great. The right bulb gives the same warm incandescent glow you love from a fraction of the energy. But there’s a downside: while LEDs make cities look awesome, the most common type of LED lighting dims the ultraviolet trick laundry detergents use to make white clothes look whiter. The future is bright, … Continued
A teenager peed into one of Portland, Oregon’s drinking water reservoirs – a 38-million gallon repository of good, potable H2O – and now the city intends to drain it. This is a very, very dumb idea. Above: Mt. Tabour Reservoir #1, the body of water into which the teenager peed. Photo Credit: viper007bond via DeviantART … Continued
Just what counts as a penis? A debate over what to call the genitals of an unusual group of cave insects has broader implications, because it gets right at the heart of science and science communication: what’s the relationship between the labels we use in science and the way those labels are understood by our … Continued
We expect killer action and dystopian insanity from Continuum, the Canadian time-travel adventure show. But we don’t usually expect to get punched in the heart, the way we did by this scene — which also features a love triangle The CW would never dream of having. Spoilers ahead… So in last night’s Continuum (in the … Continued
The world’s largest wind turbine is off the coast of Scotland. Construction started in 2012, with pieces assembled in the winter of 2013. Now the prototype is churning out enough power to supply 4,800 homes. The turbine is big enough that it makes sense to use elephants as the basic unit of weight. (Plus, I’m … Continued
Tennessee lawmakers tried to make Nashville’s buses illegal, a dude pissed in a reservoir and Portland has to flush 38 million gallons of water, and—let’s say it all together—the rent is too damn high. This is your weekly look at What’s Ruining Our Cities. Tennessee’s senate almost ruined Nashville’s transit Earlier this week, transportation advocates … Continued
Heartbleed, the gaping flaw that left the internet’s security gate wide open for more than two years, is causing headaches for yet another site: the beleagured Healthcare.gov. The government says the site has not been compromised, but officials have reset all user passwords “out of an abundance of caution.” Heartbleed’s not done causing heartburn yet. … Continued
Every year, the WonderCon cosplayers keep astonishing us, both with their attention to detail and with their creativity. You keep thinking you’ve seen it all — and then you see what people have come up with this year, and it’s a brand new delight all over again. Here’s our favorite cosplay from WonderCon day one. … Continued
Here’s our clearest look yet at the big beastie, from the waist up. It’s a brief glimpse, but a glimpse, nonetheless. Here’s that closing shot again, this time with the exposure levels adjusted for a bit more light. Just look at the details in Godzilla’s body: Word has it we’ll see even more footage from … Continued
Well it was another busy week here at Gizmodo. On top of Utopia Week, our week-long look at past, present, and future visions of a perfect society, we brought you reviews of new phones, cameras, and smartwatches, a hard look at beginning a life without Facebook, and a behind-the-scenes look at Jim Henson’s phenomenal workshop. … Continued
We are living in the future. Need proof? Now from the comfort of your computer, you can experience a first-person view of excavating and packing a dinosaur nest for further study. In August 2013, a team of palaeontologists from the American Museum of Natural History paired up with the Mongolian Academy of Science to go … Continued
You thought SpaceX’s Grasshopper was impressive? Grasshopper was just the beginning. Behold, the first flight test of the company’s Falcon 9 Reusable Launch Vehicle. SpaceX currently uses a non-reusable version of the Falcon 9 to launch its Dragon capsules into low-Earth orbit, on commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station. In fact, the company … Continued
