Would I rather a security drone that blasts laser rockets? Who wouldn't! But one that makes its home in a little mailbox-shaped house ain't half bad either. More »

An unmanned Global Hawk recon drone will join a team of aircraft—all equipped with advanced weather instrumentation—to observe the 2010 storm season closer than ever before. More »

"As a cartoonist-inventor, I sometimes cannot resist the temptation to illustrate a concept even while knowing it is crazy, stupid or at least poorly conceived" says Steven M. Johnson. Looking at these toilet concepts, I'm happy his will is weak. More »

Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle round and hear the harrowing tale of London's ghost train of death. More »

"Traditional prison," writes Graeme Wood in this month's Atlantic, "has become more or less synonymous with failed prison." One radical solution: scale back traditional prisons in favor of sophisticated monitoring devices. And it's actually not as radical as it sounds. More »

Living on a submarine would probably get pretty miserable pretty quickly. But this wacky camera concept brings the best part of submarine life—the periscope!—to all your landlocked photographic adventures. More »

Granting us a view of our dystopian future, tinkerer Randy Sarafan combined engineering ingenuity and what looks like extreme depression to make "The Most Useful Machine," an automated channel surfing aid. One step closer to being completely immobile! More »

Did you know that you can easily add a bit of Gizmodo to your Facebook? You'll get all the best stories and discussions right in your Facebook feed. All you need to click that "like" button on our Facebook page. More »

Like the iPhone version, the new Photoshop Express for iPad is a basic image editing program that can publish your photos in your own Adobe-based online gallery or through Facebook. It's nice and fast. Unfortunately, it has problems. More »

BitTorrent etiquette dictates that once you've downloaded files, you also seed them to help others' downloads go quickly. If you need to move or rename your download, everything's thrown off. Reader Jake Champion explains how to seed after moving or renaming files. More »

When we shared with you Apple's acquisition of Liquid Technologies' supermaterial, we noted that liquid metal is already in use across a variety of industries, from sports to aerospace. Or, you might find it on the wristwatch you have now. More »

Captain Christian Balan shows holding a spool of Cat-5 cable, eager to play tech support. If he can get the computers running in this relatively-prosperous town of 4000 people, maybe the platoon will get some tips about local insurgent activity. More »

The Expendables, in theaters today, delivers old school, ass-kicking action movie action with an entire constellation of the genre's stars. We talked to one member of the Expendables crew, Terry Crews, about the movie, iPhone apps, and plenty more. More »

RIM has posted a set of guidelines on its website that specify how countries like India can monitor its services. The rules state that they will not grant access beyond what's legally required by local governments and any monitoring would need to be "technology and vendor neutral." No changes (such as backdoors for a country) will be made to the nature of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. [Blackberry via Electronista] More »

Oracle, the company who acquired Sun Microsystems, the Java programming language and related technology in a nice package deal, accused Google of patent and copyright infringement in relation to those technologies. Based on its response, Google isn't happy: More »

From Buenos Aires to Buffalo, over 1,500 of you met yesterday to talk gadgets. You sent in dozens of photos on #GizDay, Twitter, and Facebook. In New York, Gizmodo staff, friends, and some lucky readers ate some Gizmodo burgers. More »

The September issue of Foto Digital prematurely printed specs about the Nikon D3100, which will launch around August 19. The leaked details include its 14 megapixel CMOS sensor, brand new EXPEED 2 image processor, and improved 1080p video support. More »

Odds are high that you've seen Chuck "No Pattern" Anderson's work before. He's illustrated everything from the Windows 7 home screen to album covers to magazine art. Chuck's latest project: making Gizmodo posts look better than ever. More »

Rumor is that there's a new batch of Sony Readers coming soon: The PRS-350 and the PRS-650. They are described as being under 10mm thick and all-around better than previous models. More »

Apologies if you suffer from arachnophobia, and did not expect a picture of a tarantula to ever appear on Gizmodo. Sky seemingly thinks the only way to cure a fear of spiders is to show them some—in 3DTV. More »