Both Instagram and VSCO have new GIF apps out---so which one deserves your download? We tested them by recording lightsabers, drones, and cute dogs, of course!

It turns out emotions are complex (surprise!), and sometimes words just can’t do justice in expressing them. Cove, a new app, helps translate feelings into music.

It was already partially assembled, but it still took more than three hours to put together this Star Wars Lego Death Star. See how it all came together.

It took 3,449 pieces to put together this Star Wars Lego Death Star. Watch it get destroyed in seconds with a baseball bat!

Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops. Neither is making movies. In preparation for Star Wars: Episode VII, WIRED’s Editor in Chief Scott Dadich sat down with J.J. Abrams to discuss his trajectory from awestruck super fan to the director of The Force Awakens. Also this month: Transforming the Pentagon with Silicon Valley, how India’s decision on energy can affect the entire planet, the amazing products to give and get this holiday season, plus more.

In order to cast a light on a global issue like climate change, the team behind the new film Racing Extinction turned a standard Tesla Model S into a “mobile projection vehicle.” See what mods they made, and follow along at www.facebook.com/racingextinction

From the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch to the Star Wars Sphero BB-8 toy, Youtuber MKBHD gives a few gadgets a spin to help you figure out what to put on your wish list this holiday season.

As Star Wars fans have grown up, so have their lightsabers. Forget cheap plastic toys, these sabers are bespoke laser blades that light up, buzz, and are made for Jedi dueling.

What's Darth Vader's death count? How many Lego sets has the franchise sold? Which nation accepts Star Wars collectable coins as real currency? Find out everything you didn’t know about the epic franchise, as told by Star Wars action figures.

No foreign data while traveling abroad? No problem. From navigating map apps in offline mode, to saving digital copies of your important travel documents, this episode of Good As Gold has you covered. Use these tips from travel vlogger Peter Bragiel (pdrop) to survive abroad when your data doesn’t follow you.

It's not all twinkly lights, wrapped presents, and Yule logs. Uncover the darker side of Christmas from the 83 million trees that get chopped down to the $616.9 billion spent in November and December.

Designer Behnaz Farahi's 3-D printed vest can say "back off" without ever uttering a word thanks to eye-tracking controlled movement.

The Witch follows a Puritan family in 17th century New England as they try to build a life on the edge of a forest believed to be occupied by—yes‐witches.

The plane maker has a prototype bathroom that uses ultraviolet light to zap 99.99 percent of germs in just three seconds.

The Concorde jet could go Mach 2 but it was so loud that it was banned from flying over land. Now NASA engineers think they have a design that could muffle the boom and might usher in the two-and-half hour New York to LA flight.

In light of the current open application for new astronauts, Brent Rose heads out to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to meet with real astronauts and try out real training facilities–let's see if he has what it takes to make it to space.

Got a vacation coming up this spring? WIRED has all the best apps you'll need for a fuss-free trip.

In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it.

The cute little iPhone SE offers the components of the bigger iPhone 6S with a 4-inch screen and a form factor in line with the iPhone 5s.

"Big things getting smaller" was the overarching theme for Apple's latest announcements. The company just launched a 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro.

Vaping is smoking's hottest new trend--just ask Leonardo DiCarpio who was caught puffing on one at the Golden Globes. The industry claims this is a safe alternative to cigarettes, but how much do we really know about the health effects of vaping? From The Vape Shop to USC's Health and Science campus, Brent Rose explores this new trend and searches for answers.

WhatsApp just made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small. WIRED's senior staff writer, Cade Metz, breaks down exactly why this is a big deal.

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.

Behind the scenes of Reuben Wu's 'Lux Noctis' photographs made with the Phase One camera and Fiilix's new drone-mounted AL250 LED light.

It’s been reported that porn will be one of the biggest content offerings driving demand for VR. But what actually goes into making the porn experience full dimensional and real for the viewer? Brent Rose goes on set of a VR porn production shoot to find out how porn is evolving with new technology. Special thanks to KinkVR.com

Former Stig, Ben Collins, goes head to head against Wired’s Transportation Editor Alex Davies in a go kart duel.

Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.

There are apps to help you convert measurements from tablespoons to cups, apps that help you balance out your noodle-to-sauce ratio, recipe apps that can offer suggestions of what you should cook tonight based on what's hiding in your fridge. And of course, if you like to cook but hate to shop, there are apps that will have uncooked ingredients delivered to you. All you have to do is bring the heat.

If you're a hiker and a beer fanatic this $50 starter kit from Pat's Backcountry Beverages could make your day. Clever engineering and technology make brews light enough for even extended backpacking trips. Cheers! TIRED Beer concentrates and the carbonator make brews that can be good, but they aren't great. Then again, you might not care after a long day of hiking.

The frogfish is a vicious hunter that swallows its victims whole, but it doesn’t really bite its prey. By rapidly expanding its mouth to 10 times its normal volume, the predator creates a vacuum that sucks victims in.

Google wants to give you a way of using an app without actually downloading it. It's called Instant Apps and Google says it'll be available in a few months.

Brent Rose tries out a new “Mixed Reality” software developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The software allows virtual elements to be merged with the user’s actual environment, creating a world in which real and virtual objects can interact. Brent stress tests the HoloLens and shows us how much the new tech can really do.

Magic Leap, the mixed-reality company, is joining forces with Lucasfilm’s most forward-looking division: xLab.

Armed with 20 gallons of liquid nitrogen, Brent Rose super freezes objects the Internet has never seen frozen and uses a Phantom high-speed camera to record their destruction in super slo-motion.

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects in Central Intelligence used to de-age The Rock and Kevin Hart into high school, teenaged versions of themselves. Weta digital puts the The Rock’s face onto Vine star Sione’s body for an amazing locker room shower dance scene you won’t want to miss.

Few things get grillers more riled up than arguing about gas versus charcoal. Let us and our friends at Chefsteps settle this debate once and for all.

May I introduce you to the rotifer, a magical microscopic critter that uses a buzz saw to suck its victims into its face.

You might think that you can only get soft serve at the ice cream parlor—not true! Let us and our friends at ChefSteps prove that all it takes is some dry ice and a little science to make your own ice cream at home.

Lactose intolerant folks rejoice! You can make a latte without milk. All you need is a bit of science and some xanthan gum.

Scientists in California are breeding and releasing mosquitos into Zika hotspots. While it may seem like they're making matters worse, they are actually releasing a kind of biological trojan horse.

The river dolphin is good at two things: having a giant head and being able to turn that head. That last bit is indeed a skill. We promise.

The pressure cooker. It sounds, well, terrifying. But not only is it a perfectly safe way to cook if you’re not screwing around, thanks to the laws of physics, it’s a perfectly speedy way to cook too.

We’re willing to bet your wearable doesn’t come with the power of the Force? Sphero’s launching a special edition of the BB-8 toy that'll allow you to control the little droid with hand gestures.

It may look like a monkey, with its prehensile tail and predilection for chewing with its mouth open—but don't be fooled.

GoPro's new 4K cameras, the Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session, aim to deliver the best GoPro experience yet. Brent Rose takes them through their paces, and compares the Hero5 to Garmin's impressive Virb Ultra 30.

Like WIRED, our 44th president is a relentless optimist. President Barack Obama focuses on the future and the next hurdles that humanity will need to overcome to move forward.

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss how artificial intelligence might up-end economies and how societies can adapt.

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama discusses what he’d like to see technology solve in government with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss where the center of artificial intelligence research is and where it might be.

WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama, WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito discuss ethical concerns around artificial intelligence used in self-driving cars.