Fads

As a woman in her 20s with an Instagram account, I’ve witnessed the explosive rise and destigmatization of medical spa treatments. From the influencer I ran track with in high school posting promos for lip blushing and fillers, to constantly discussing buying a Groupon for Baby Botox with my friend Emily, these treatments have become a part of regular conversation in a way they haven’t in the past. The underlying medical spa industry has grown rapidly alongside its new popularity, too. Medical…

Screenshot: NHK NewsA metal sphere, which many are calling Godzilla’s egg, washed up on the shore of Enshu beach in Hamamatsu, Japan. Authorities responded to the scene where a woman reported that she had stumbled upon the sphere while out for her morning walk.A man told NHK News that he didn’t understand why it was getting so much attention, saying he had spotted the metal sphere (measuring 1.5 meters/4.9 feet in diameter) more than a month earlier. “It’s been there for a month,” he told the outlet, adding, “I tried to…

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We tried on the holiday Clippy sweater. It was fine!Image: Microsoft‘Tis the season to bust out the box of holiday-themed sweaters. I have about five that I cycle through every year, and each represents a different side of me. This year, I’m showing off my nerdy side with Microsoft’s Holiday Clippy sweater, which the company sent over to promote its existence. It’s a fine sweater, but Clippy was pretty annoying when it wasaround, and I’ve already impressed everyone that would have gotten the joke.Suffice it to say, I’m…

Heavy Metal is leaning heavily into its old IPs for its upcoming plans for licensed movies and TV shows.Screenshot: Heavy Metal/YouTubeInstead of doing any one thing to bring themselves back into the sci-fi cultural limelight, the heads behind the storied counterculture comic magazine Heavy Metal are taking a shotgun approach to regaining their legacy, including movies, a revamped launch schedule and—because why the hell not—NFTs.During a Thursday New York Comic-Con panel, the storied magazine announced it was looking to…

Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoWhile kids are still slowly finding their way back into the classroom this month, teachers are likely also remembering how disruptive leading a room full of kids can be—and yes, I’m lumping in college-aged kids, too, because I know when I started university, I was constantly finding ways to hold on to childhood (and, in many ways, I still do).Anyway, I call myself the queen of desk toys here at Gizmodo,because my workstation is surrounded by things to play with. And when I came across this…

When Tae Bo was all the rage in the late 1990s, Amanda Biers Melcher dove in head first. Living in LA, she says she’s tried “all of the workouts” — cardio barre, Bikram yoga when it was the (literally) hot thing, etc. But there was something special about the martial arts-inspired cardio fitness craze. Biers Melcher was part of star instructor Billy Blanks’ “cult-like following” who worked out at a Sherman Oaks studio — now a Chipotle — alongside A-listers like Brooke Shields, Reese Witherspoon, and Magic Johnson,…

Image: Unsplash (Montatip Lilitsanong) and Pokémon CompanyI have been called many things for this list. A monster. A war criminal. Emotionally stunted. Cursed. A few of those things may be true, but the fact remains that I would eat a Fidough after it had been fried up like a funnel cake and dusted in powdered sugar. I do not regret my decision, but I do regret telling my editor, who has asked me to record my criminal acts to the blogosphere for posterity. Image: Unsplash (Montatip Lilitsanong) and Pokémon CompanyI…

SmarterChild is a chatbot near and dear to my heart. Although it’s not the original one to surface, it was the first I had an interaction with that freaked out my teenage brain to the extent that I remember asking myself, “Is this real?”SmarterChild was a bot developed to work with the instant messaging programs at the time, including AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger, and what was previously known as MSN Messenger. The company behind SmarterChild, called ActiveBuddy, launched the chatbot in 2000. I vividly…

Image: Studio Gallop/ToeiSad news as Kazuki Takahashi, the manga-ka behind the hit series Yu-Gi-Oh and its even more popular CCG, has died in what seems to be a tragic accident at the age of 60.NBC News reports “Kazuki’s body was discovered about 1,000 feet off shore” the coast of Okinawa, Japan. He was identified after local police found a nearby rental car that had been rented under his name. When found, Kazuki was wearing snorkeling equipment, and seemed to have been attacked by an unknown marine animal. according to…