Could You Charge an iPhone with the Electricity in Your Brain?
We crunch the numbers to see just how much noggin juice is needed to get a phone fully powered up.
While the bread and butter of Gizmodo UK is in the bits and bytes of technology, we have a lot of fun in the off-topic areas, with many of the stories being filed in the WTF category. Bookmark this page for the sillier stories, from ridiculous examples of body-art, to... sausages made of skittles?
We crunch the numbers to see just how much noggin juice is needed to get a phone fully powered up.
Check out how well her graph matches the heart rates in Figure 1 of the classic 1956 paper Physiological Responses During Coitus.
Today the largest and best preserved T. Rex fossil ever discovered, turns 25—or at the very least, 65,500,025 (but she doesn’t look a day over 60.5 million if you ask me.)
The ever-growing tech allows us to fabricate objects we never could with traditional manufacturing. Here are some of the incredible things we can print now, which were nearly impossible to make before.
And amazingly 'one day' could be as soon as a decade away.
But no Futurama-style dream adverts just yet.
Harnessing decades of data means computers can predict a day's climate to a surprising extent.
He dedicated a whole 102 pages of his sex education book to warnings of the dangers of self love.
We know less about the deep ocean than we do about the surface of Mars. But if we want to really understand how humans are impacting the Earth, we need to start looking down deep into the muck.
Harmful acidification is turning Earth's oceans into aquatic graveyards.
Filters aren’t just for Instagram anymore: the Cassini orbiter snapped this wide-angle shot of Saturn using an infrared filter to help scientists get a better look at clouds in the gas giant’s atmosphere. Read more >>
This is what social media is made for.
As long as both participants are adults, it’s legal, and a study suggests that it may also be part of lots of committed relationships.
Here’s the surprising truth about the overlooked material that built the modern world.
Sound ridiculous but it is true – as shown of in The Backyard Scientist's latest video.
Why not give your children a firm grounding in Earth science with these sheets? They rock!
