New Lego Palace Cinema Is Gizmodo’s Desired Lego Set of the Month

Watch Astrid—Lego designer by day and awesome dancer and fencer by night—show and explain the newest set in the awesome Lego Creator Modular Building series: the 10232 Palace Cinema. Why? Because 1) it’s our desired Lego set of the month, 2) she’s one of its authors, and 3) she has an awesome Danish accent. More »

Making Artificial Eyes Is 50-Percent Fascinating, 50-Percent Surprising, 100-Percent Gross

There’s something about teeth and eyes out of their sockets that gives me the creeps. That’s why this video of a medical laboratory that has been making artificial eyes since World War I is kind of gross—but also fascinating. And quite surprising. I couldn’t have imagined that they make the veins with red thread, for example. A good watch. More »

Racing Trains, Giving Shelter, and Hermit Kingdom Kush

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Cadavers in Love, Richard Feynman on Pseudo Science, and Proof that Both Sides of the Drug Debate Are F*cking Nuts

Shack Man Rain Spirit

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Damn This Lunar Rover Video Is Fun

Watch as Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke have a blast driving the lunar rover around the moon. According to NASA, the 16mm film became known as the “lunar rover Grand Prix”. Make sure to expand to full screen and turn on the HD option. [NASA via Kottke] More »

Scoring ‘Scripts, Fighting Words, and How to Tincturate Weed Shake

Cannabis to Stay on Schedule One

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Animals on Drugs, Elliot Smith’s Lost Sessions, and Prohibitionsists Unclear on the Concept

10 Animals That Get High

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John Hodgman on Writing, Zefrank on Zehorses, and a Winnebago on Norwegian Highways

True Facts about Sea Horses

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Please Lego, You Must Make This A-Team Van

The Lego Back to the Future set went official last year. Now it’s time for another classic from the 80s: the A-Team van. Unlike the Back to the Future set, this one is a fully functional, remote controlled Technic model—which is even better. i love when a set comes together. Please Vimal Patel, submit this to Cuusoo ASAP. [YouTube via Brothers Brick] More »

The Next Kinect Will Turn Everyone Into a Jedi—Everywhere!

The video wants to make me rip my eyes off with the edge of my Xbox gamepad, but it heralds an immediate future that fires a clusterstorm of nerdgasms inside my sci-fi-damaged brain. It shows what Capri, the next 3D sensor by the makers of Microsoft Kinect, is bringing to us: extreme precision, fast motion tracking that gadget makers would be able to embed everywhere, from your tablet, laptop and TV to elevators, robots and appliances. It basically enables a future in which you are some kind of Jedi or wizard, casually waving your hand at things to make them work. More »