http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/small-soldiers-is-a-much-better-movie-without-the-visual-effects/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/small-soldiers-is-a-much-better-movie-without-the-visual-effects/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:30 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174966 Remember Small Soldiers? It was a movie where action figures were enhanced with military technology to make them more interactive, but ultimately resulted in them coming to life. Even though it cast both Spinal Tap and actors from The Dirty Dozen as voice talent, the film was remarkably forgettable. To the point where watching this [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/small-soldiers-is-a-much-better-movie-without-the-visual-effects/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/artists-are-3d-printing-a-room-that-looks-like-an-alien-cathedral/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/artists-are-3d-printing-a-room-that-looks-like-an-alien-cathedral/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:30:35 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174984 Who cares about plastic 3D-printed models of your head when an amazing, ornate room is being 3D printed out of sandstone? Digital Grotesque, as the project is called, looks like it was ripped from the frames of a sci-fi film. Designers Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer recently previewed a 1:3 scale model of the room [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/artists-are-3d-printing-a-room-that-looks-like-an-alien-cathedral/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/sometimes-having-a-small-car-is-so-much-better/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/sometimes-having-a-small-car-is-so-much-better/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:04 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174961 Don’t you just hate it when you get stuck in traffic? You watch the motorbikes whizz through the gaps between the cars turning green with envy. But if you had a car like the Fiat Cinquecento you could do the same, just like this absolutely insane Russian. Yeah, don’t do this. You’ll cause an accident, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/sometimes-having-a-small-car-is-so-much-better/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/hidden-ios-7-settings-reveal-what-apple-is-working-on/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/hidden-ios-7-settings-reveal-what-apple-is-working-on/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:30:17 +0000 Peter Ha http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174967 Buried deep within the first beta release of iOS 7 are a handful of neat and potentially useful features. The hidden enhancements were dug up by Hamza Sood and offer a smidgen of insight into what we might expect in later versions of iOS or even when the latest version ships to the public this [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/hidden-ios-7-settings-reveal-what-apple-is-working-on/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-high-speed-tracking-camera-could-snap-the-flashs-family-portrait/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-high-speed-tracking-camera-could-snap-the-flashs-family-portrait/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:43 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174919 Convincing kids to sit still long enough to take their picture either takes a small army of distracting stuffed animals, or the University of Tokyo’s new high-speed camera tracking system which guarantees your subject is always in frame. Instead of moving the glass elements in a lens, or the camera’s sensor which can only compensate [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-high-speed-tracking-camera-could-snap-the-flashs-family-portrait/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-the-hell-does-a-quantum-computer-work/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-the-hell-does-a-quantum-computer-work/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:15:20 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174869 You’ve probably heard people — including us — banging on about quantum computers for long ol’ time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately this video is here to help. It goes straight from the basic of how quantum bit — a qubit — can carry more information than a [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-the-hell-does-a-quantum-computer-work/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/totally-psycho-1960s-military-prototypes-that-should-never-have-left-the-drawing-board/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/totally-psycho-1960s-military-prototypes-that-should-never-have-left-the-drawing-board/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:40 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174666 If the music‘s anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the ’60s — and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-insane ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its ‘crack’ team of engineers, and they’re both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome. The designs were [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/totally-psycho-1960s-military-prototypes-that-should-never-have-left-the-drawing-board/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-to-be-an-absolute-dick-and-prank-people-with-star-wars/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-to-be-an-absolute-dick-and-prank-people-with-star-wars/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:15:46 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174851 Want to prank people with the power of the Force? Get in a lift and wave your hand like a Jedi while a buddy hits the button from outside. I’m sure it’ll work. Just be prepared for the other people in the lift to death grip you post prank — frankly, they’d be well within [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/how-to-be-an-absolute-dick-and-prank-people-with-star-wars/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/a-lethal-slingshot-that-shoots-metal-oreos/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/a-lethal-slingshot-that-shoots-metal-oreos/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:30:11 +0000 Lily Newman http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174542 A few months ago Joerg (I feel like we’re on a first name basis with him at this point, right?) got the idea to try and shoot biscuits out of a pump-action slingshot. It was a fun time, but not as deadly as he would have liked. So round two of the biscuit challenge involves [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/a-lethal-slingshot-that-shoots-metal-oreos/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-fake-telekinesis-make-mind-controlled-water/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-fake-telekinesis-make-mind-controlled-water/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:00:08 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174436 Telekinesis isn’t real, but you can fake it if you really put your mind to it. Conceptual artist Lisa Park did just that and surrounded herself with vibrating pools of her own brainwaves. But her final trick, total brain silence, turned out to be just a little too hard to fake. For her performance art [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-fake-telekinesis-make-mind-controlled-water/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-flowers-dipped-in-liquid-nitrogen-get-smashed-in-slow-motion/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-flowers-dipped-in-liquid-nitrogen-get-smashed-in-slow-motion/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:00:36 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174335 If you’re a human, you’ve probably always been fascinated with liquid nitrogen. The freezing temperature. The sweet smoking effect. Hell, even the container that held liquid nitrogen was cool. And if you combine liquid nitrogen with slow motion, things get even better. Watch flowers and fruit get dipped into liquid nitrogen and then smashed into [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-flowers-dipped-in-liquid-nitrogen-get-smashed-in-slow-motion/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/so-what-would-happen-if-superman-punched-you/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/so-what-would-happen-if-superman-punched-you/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:00:02 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174334 Man of Steel is out and if you want to get your eyes pummelled with insane fight sequences, I suggest you watch it. But what if Superman actually wanted to pummel your face instead? What would a punch by Superman feel like? A lot worse than even getting punched by Mike Tyson. If Superman’s fist [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/so-what-would-happen-if-superman-punched-you/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/why-is-there-a-limit-to-human-strength/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/why-is-there-a-limit-to-human-strength/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:22 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=173983 Want to be swole as hell? You can bulk up all you want, but once you get to a certain point, muscle growth is out of your hands. ASAP Science explains that our level of strength is basically pre-determined by our genetics. Our muscles are under the watchful eye of a protein called myostatin, which [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/why-is-there-a-limit-to-human-strength/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-christmas-lights-recreate-star-treks-beam-me-up-scotty-effect/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-christmas-lights-recreate-star-treks-beam-me-up-scotty-effect/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:00:07 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174055 Even non-Star Trek fans have dreamed about teleporting away to space by just saying Beam Me Up, Scotty. And though it’s unlikely to ever happen in our lifetimes (prove me wrong smart people!), the special effects maestro Shanks FX has cooked up a slick way to recreate the Star Trek teleportation effect with Christmas lights. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watch-christmas-lights-recreate-star-treks-beam-me-up-scotty-effect/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watching-samsung-torture-galaxy-s4s-is-weirdly-satisfying/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watching-samsung-torture-galaxy-s4s-is-weirdly-satisfying/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:00:58 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=173990 No matter how careful you try to be, you’re going to do some damage to your phone. Accidents happen, especially when you try to avoid them. So to emulate your tender, loving care, Samsung took its Galaxy S4 through hell and back before it got to shelves. Somebody has to prepare that phone for you, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/watching-samsung-torture-galaxy-s4s-is-weirdly-satisfying/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-slow-mo-test-tube-explosion-barks-like-a-guard-dog-of-fire/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-slow-mo-test-tube-explosion-barks-like-a-guard-dog-of-fire/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:00:25 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=173964 It’s one thing when a dog barks; it’s another one entirely when a giant pipe full of fire does it. And it’s even better in slow motion. “The Barking Dog” is a pretty standard science experiement you might have seen in a chem class. All you do is light up a giant test tube full [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-slow-mo-test-tube-explosion-barks-like-a-guard-dog-of-fire/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/five-pisstaking-videos-to-sum-up-the-console-wars/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/five-pisstaking-videos-to-sum-up-the-console-wars/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:27 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=173217 According to the acknowledged font of all internet knowledge, Reddit, Sony has won the console war. We’re not so sure; but in any case, post-E3 feels like a good time to take a moment, recover, and examine the past few months’ console war via the medium of YouTube sarcasm.   Back in January, Sony had [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/five-pisstaking-videos-to-sum-up-the-console-wars/feed/ 27 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-potato-bazooka-delivers-the-worlds-most-fearsome-frozen-food/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-potato-bazooka-delivers-the-worlds-most-fearsome-frozen-food/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:00:56 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=172380 Any mischief-maker worth his property damage knows a thing or two about using spud-based projectile weaponry. Our good pal Joerg Sprave is no different, though his weapon of choice uses wood and rubber bands instead of PVC and hairspray. As if the Potato Bazooka wasn’t a sweet enough attraction just launching tubers into walls and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-potato-bazooka-delivers-the-worlds-most-fearsome-frozen-food/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/here-are-all-the-oh-so-fun-fake-websites-from-arrested-development/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/here-are-all-the-oh-so-fun-fake-websites-from-arrested-development/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:45:42 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=172383 Maybe you didn’t enjoy the newest season of Arrested Development on Netflix? Maybe you wanted to watch it in chronological order? Maybe you thought the actors became too different, like Maeby’s Mum? Maybe you missed the old episodes? Whatever it may be, you’ll definitely enjoy this supercut of all the fake websites that popped up [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/here-are-all-the-oh-so-fun-fake-websites-from-arrested-development/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/inside-the-weird-mathematical-mystery-of-0/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/inside-the-weird-mathematical-mystery-of-0/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:00:26 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=172446 When you’re a kid, you learn that you can’t divide by zero. But the more you learn, the more you find out there are some interesting nuances around the edges of that rule. Likewise you may remember learning that 0! (zero factorial) is 1. “It just is.” But why is it? Numberphile explains. Like so [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/inside-the-weird-mathematical-mystery-of-0/feed/ 10