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The humidity is high and the party is rocking at Dragon Con in Atlanta. Here's a sample of the fantastic cosplay we saw while wandering the hotel floors and crowded streets on Saturday.

Lifting heavy items can strain your back but not if you have the myLIFTER. It gives you the power to lift and lower items that weigh upto 100 pounds. Additional installation is required to get the device up and running. ...

If you had any lingering doubts that BlackBerry's days as a hardware-first company are over, they've just been eliminated. BlackBerry has acquired Good Technology for $425 million, giving it one of the better-known names...

Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great science and technology stories, assembled by Gizmodo, just for you. This week, we'll ponder the incredible age of the Earth, walk the streets of Atlantic City, search...

Every now and then, smartphone makers try building devices with secondary, ticker-like displays in the hopes of reeling you in with more at-a-glance info -- witness Samsung's Continuum or Galaxy Note Edge. And it's LG's ...

Puerto Rico is overrun with green iguanas, and they're wreaking havoc on the island's ecosystem and its economy.

A short walk from the sounds and screens of Sony's heaving IFA booth, a handful of the company's employees have a small stand of their very own. On it, they're showcasing the Wena Wrist, a smartwatch side-project the sma...

After last week's misadventure with a couple of components, it's time to get back on track with finishing out the arms for the Stormtrooper. This week, we're finishing up the arms.

Astrophysicists at Caltech say they've detected the oldest, most distant galaxy known so far. It's 13.2 billion years old -- just over half a billion years younger than the universe itself -- and the discovery may change...

All week, the internet has been on fire over Google's bold decision to transform its logo by axing those pesky and decidedly old-fashioned serifs. Guess what? Telephone companies figured that out decades ago.

Personal companion robots have been around for ages, but they've never really been able to live up to our expectations. Everybody wants Rosie from The Jetsons, but we seem to always wind up with Paulie's Robot from Rocky...

Polar bears are the furry poster children for the impact of warming Arctic seas, but new research says they may be able adapt and survive the loss of Arctic sea ice by foraging on land.

The Star Wars universe is loaded with hundreds of planets. Now, design agency nlcud has put together an interactive map that'll allow you to explore the galaxy, planet by planet.

If a massive comet struck the Earth, the oceans would boil and the air would catch fire (don't worry, this isn't about to happen ). But to alien astronomers studying our planet from afar, humanity's brutal demise would l...

Do you still wish you could be an astronaut after watching the lung-flattening launches and bone-crunching landings ? Has the eyeball-oscillating gimbal failed to dampen your spirits? What if we told you that coffee, the...

Nostalgia is a weird, powerful thing. It's the force of nature that resurrected Captain EO at Walt Disney World and turned a children's cartoon about living robot cars into a blockbuster movie franchise. For me, it's als...

Panasonic will be bringing a new Technics turntable to the market soon - until then, here's its guts. Inside the first (of many) Technics turntables for the modern world is a new Direct Drive motor, ushering out the firs...

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It's no coincidence that the China's capital city had clear, sunny skies for the country's huge military parade last week, or that Beijing's dense smog returned the very next day. The Chinese government took extreme meas...

This week on the After Math, we're all about the benjamins. Between four major corporations shelling out $413 million over an employee anti-poaching scheme, the feds spending $133 million to protect victims of the OPM br...

A new teaser for The Martian has hit the web, and in it, Matt Damon's Mark Whatney lists off all the ways that the Red Planet can kill him: suffocation, implosion, starvation, etc.

The cardinal rule of technology is simple: It must never, ever, under any circumstances, be boring. The engine that motivates consumers to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on a device that's not essential to f...