This is the largest urban zip-line ride in the world—and it must b e the most insane too. Watch these guys zip down a 10, 000-foot line placed on top of a 700-foot building in Panama City. Then—half way through it and as if this weren’t scary enough on its own—they let go and dive with their parachutes. Madness. Read more…
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Mad guys ride the largest and most insane urban zip-line in the world
Most people are familiar with DJI as the manufacturers of the Phantom series, one of the most popular consumer drones on the market. The company is continuing to expand its horizons into the pro market with the new Spreading Wings S900 . This professional-grade drone not only looks cool. It also sort of works like a Transformer . Read more…
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DJI’s New Heavy-Load Drone Comes With Retractable Landing Gear
Exhaustive analysis into the price of Lego bricks has revealed that parents of children who like both Lego and trains are getting the metaphorical brick in the sole of the foot treatment—with train sets bucking the trend and costing more than their less thrilling equivalents. Read more…
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Lego Trains are the Worst Value Sets in Per-Brick Pricing
Welcome to Reading List , Gizmodo’s weekend collection of the best writing from around the web. Today we’ve got pieces from The Daily Dot, Motherboard, Medium, and more! Read more…
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How a Stoned Teen’s Wikipedia Hoax Is Still Fooling Scholars and Experts
Until yesterday, everyone in the international community was laughing at this engine and its inventor, Roger Sawyer. It’s called the EmDrive and everyone said it was impossible because it went against the laws of physics. But the fact is that the quantum vacuum plasma thruster works in the lab and scientists can’t explain why. Read more…
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NASA: New "impossible" engine works, could change space travel forever
These days, almost everything you watch on TV and in theaters is shot digitally. But because Hollywood still needs film sometimes, the the biggest motion picture companies in the world are banding together to keep the lights on in Kodak’s Rochester motion picture film plant. Read more…
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How Hollywood Just Saved Motion Picture Film From Death
Danish researchers just created the Usain Bolt of networks. A team from the Technical University of Denmark used a single multi-core optical fiber to transfer 43 terabits per second, making it the world’s fastest fiber network . I’d say it makes Google Fiber look like 1996 AOL dial-up from a decrepit rural phone line, but that comparison is too kind to Google Fiber. Read more…
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The World’s Fastest Network Lets You Download a Movie In .2 Milliseconds
Earth is an unforgiving place. Volcanoes erupt, rivers erode, continents break up—it’s a small miracle every time a millions-of-years-old creature is found fossilized in rock. By comparison, the moon is dead and lifeless; astronaut footprints will be preserved forever in moon dust. So it’s the moon that could hold the secrets to life on ancient Earth. Read more…
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The Moon Might Be Littered With Fossils From Ancient Earth
Instagram’s new messaging app Bolt has launched in Singapore, New Zealand, and South Africa. Read more…
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Instagram’s Snapchat Rival, Bolt, Just Launched In 3 Non-US Countries
If humanity hopes to realize its dreams of exploring the stars, we’re going to need to find ways to recreate life on Earth aboard a spaceship. Simply stockpiling enough vital supplies isn’t going to cut it, which is what led Julian Melchiorri , a student at the Royal College of Art, to create an artificial biological leaf that produces oxygen just like the ones on our home planet do. Read more…
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The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen